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Coca-Cola has broken the £1bn retail sales barrier in the UK, showing a strong performance during the recession.
It is the first time ever that the combined sales of the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coke Zero brands have broken through the £1bn barrier.
The 'MyCoke' portfolio which includes Coca-Cola, Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Zero showed a 4.7% year-on-year sales increase to £1.01bn.
Coke says it has a "strong emphasis on promoting optimism and happiness" which has seen the brands benefit despite the tough economic climate and falling consumer confidence.
Sanjay Guha, president of Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland, says: "These figures show that when times are tough, quality and trust matter even more to consumers – and how our optimistic Open Happiness campaign has struck a chord in tough times."
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From basketball games to tennis matches, to track and field events, athletes depend on the ability of the ankle to control balance, vertical propulsion, and forward and lateral movement. Surprisingly, ankle injuries are the most frequent sport-related injuries, accounting for an estimated 30% of all such injuries. They represent as high as 45% of all injuries in men's basketball, and 38% of injuries for women. Achilles Tendinitis leads that list.
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Here's a little about the book:
HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems.
A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario―a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty and healing. And she believes the pathway there can only be found at the end of pleasure.
On the heels of tragedy, Martin Lovegrove moves his family to Halcyon. A couple of months, he tells himself, to retreat from the chaos and grind. He soon begins to suspect there is something beneath Halcyon's perfect veneer, and sets out to discover the truth―however terrible it might be―behind the island and its mysterious founder, Mother Moon.
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Welcome to Roxbury Valley Trap Club
Welcome to Roxbury Valley Trap Club, known for its winter trap league, chicken bbqs, family atmosphere and as a friendly place for new shooters. Facilities are open to the public on Sundays (except holiday Sundays and the members-only Fun Day in September).
Every Sunday, open trap (and winter league) shooting starts at 9 a.m. and generally ends early afternoon. Breakfast is served between 7:30-10:30 a.m. We have one trap house, so squads are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Three merchandise shoots/chicken bbqs are held each year. The usual chicken shoot procedures are followed in our merchandise shoots, and we manage to work in occasional backups (hunt-n-cover) and a few Annie Oakleys. Chicken dinners are served from 11:30 a.m. until sold out; take-outs are available.
Roxbury offers two winter trap leagues. Early league starts the first Sunday in December, lasting eight weeks. Following a one-week break/makeup, the second-half winter league runs the next eight weeks, ending in early April.
Teams are created by matching shooters' performances over three weeks such that all teams have identical scores to build on over the remaining five weeks. Individual and team awards are made for each half of the league, and overall high-guns are recognized for men, women and juniors.
Open shooting is offered every Sunday except during scheduled special events.
Scheduled in mid-September, a club championship, 50-bird event and special auction is open to members only.
A Hunter Safety event is normally scheduled mid-summer. Check the Events page for dates or contact us for more information.
The club began as an unused go-cart course in the early 70s with five shooters, a Coleman stove to cook bacon and eggs, and a hand trap to throw birds. RVTC has continually held Sunday open shooting and league trap since it was incorporated in 1975.


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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
AV Monographs
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Drawing Buildings and Data
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Coffee table books have bad press, but these two volumes deserve attention.
Drawing Architecture
gathers almost 300 drawings, from a Sumerian sanctuary floor plan engraved over 4,000 years ago on the sculpture of the architect-king Gudea to H&deM's Elbphilharmonie. The author, Helen Thomas, a British architect who after teaching in London and collaborating in the drawing archives of the RIBA and the V&A became a researcher at ETH Zurich, offers an informative, intelligent write-up on each of the drawings, two-thirds of which are 20th- and 21st-century and include all the leading modern masters, among them the Fuller who illustrates the cover with a geodesic sphere. The presentation, however, is not chronological (although a useful timeline is included at the end of the book), but juxtaposes drawings of different periods to stimulate the reader's imagination; an exercise that proves convincing when Kahn is put in dialogue with Palladio, or Moneo with Choisy, but is harder to grasp in other cases.
Equally dazzling in the visual aspect is
The Minard System,
a publication of the statistical graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard, a French civil engineer who after retiring in 1851 from a distinguished career serving the State devoted the almost two decades that remained of his life to the visualization of data, producing 61 extraordinary drawings preserved in his alma mater, the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. These are now presented by Sandra Rendgen, a Berlin-based editor and author whose interest in the graphic representation of statistics was manifested in her two previous books,
Information Graphics
Understanding the World
. We were already familiar with some of Minard's mythical drawings – such as the one of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps and Napoleon's Russian campaign, reproduced on the cover – through the classic books of Edward Tufte, a Yale professor who has been a pioneer in the field of data visualization, but a complete collection of Minard's graphics is a bibliographic gem.
Architects and engineers seem to use different visual languages, but many drawings of the former obey exacting technical and structural laws, while those by Minard deserve to be admired like works of art. The Sumerian who in an exact diagram depicted a sanctuary with walls reinforced by buttresses and narrow entrances protected by towers gives an exemplary lesson on the wisdom of merging artistic appeal and technical precision.
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Phaidon, Londres, 2018
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Princeton Arch. Press, NY, 2018
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Price: US $57,500.00
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1983 Ferrari 308 GTSi Quattrovalvole Starting Bid: $57,500.00 Vin: ZFFMA13AXD0045303 Mileage: 38,265 Color: Silver with Black Boxer Trim Interior: Red Leather You are bidding on a Low Mileage One owner California Titled 1983 Ferrari 308 GTSi Fuel injected Quatrovalvole. Rare color combination of Silver with Black Boxer Trim and Red Leather interior and a FACTORY Euro front spoiler. Includes tool and jack kits, riginal owners manual and pouch and an Alpine FM/AM/CD radio. Comes with four (4) brand new Michelin TRX 220/55-VR 390 Blackwall Tires installed on 10/28/15. Vehicle was recently serviced (10/26/15) replacing timing belts and tensioner pulleys, eplacing fuel distributor, ew fuel pump, leaning all fuel lines and replacing all injectors. Vehicle runs very strong and shifts smoothly. Body has no major dings or scratches; however, he driver's seat shows wear and there is a ding on the rear rubber bumper as shown in the pictures. The Front Euro Spoiler has chips from the road and a slight crack in it. Door weather stripping is in need of replacement.
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Senior Director, Head of Cross-Border Russia
- Moscow, Russia
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Company Description
Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 65,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access
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The Senior Director, Head of Russia Cross-Border Business will be a key member of Visa CEMEA Cross-Border business unit leadership team, and a key leader in Russia. The individual will have the overall responsibility of growing Cross-Border business in the country, both in-bound (acquired) from other markets as well as out-bound (issued) to other markets. The individual needs to be a strong leader who is proficient in building an effective strategy, able to expertly translate strategy into tactical execution, and adept at collaborating and building support of cross functional teams, inside and outside the region.
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- Own the responsibility for Cross-Border performance in Russia by focusing on achieving Cross-Border business targets, both in-bound (acquired) from other markets as well as out-bound (issued) to other markets.
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Teeth that are crooked, crowded or that protrude affect the way you look. The way your teeth fit together can affect your bite and be more difficult to clean. If you are not happy with the way your teeth look or work, orthodontics treatment may help.
Q. What is Orthodontics Treatment?
Orthodontics treatment straightens your teeth so they look and work better. It may even make your face look better, and help your jaw muscles function properly. Orthodontics treatment uses braces or other appliances to put gentle pressure on your teeth and eventually move them into the right position.
Your dentist may do basic orthodontics treatment or refer you to an orthodontist - a dental specialist with two to three years of extra university training in this area.
Why you may need orthodontics
A number of factors may affect the size and position of your teeth and jaws. Problems like crooked teeth may "run in your family." You may have a habit that affected your teeth, such as thumb-sucking. You may have lost a tooth [or teeth], and the teeth that are left may have moved or shifted. No matter what the cause, your dentist or orthodontist can treat:
It's important to treat these problems because teeth that are crowded, crooked or protruding can make you unhappy with your appearance. You may be shy and unwilling to smile because of your teeth.
Teeth that are misaligned affect your bite. This misalignment can make it hard to chew some foods and may cause some teeth to wear down. It can also cause muscle tension and pain.
Crowded and crooked teeth are harder to clean. Cavities and gum disease may develop as a result. Teeth that stick out are more easily chipped or broken. Some orthodontic problems should start to be treated before all the adult [or permanent] teeth come in. Your dentist or orthodontists can do a screening to find out if your child will have any orthodontic problems.
An orthodontic screening by the age of seven can help your dentist or orthodontist treat [or intercept] a problem as it is developing. This type of screening is called interceptive orthodontics.
Q. How Orthodontics is Done?
There are a number of methods for treating orthodontics problems. Your dentist or orthodontist will determine which method will work best for you.
1. Braces
The dentist or orthodontist will often use braces for orthodontic treatment. There are four parts to braces:
Most of the time, brackets, bands and archwires are made of metal, but brackets and elastics can also be clear, tooth-coloured or multi-coloured.
Your dentist or orthodontist may suggest other treatments before, during or after braces are put on the teeth. Other ways to solve your orthodontics problem that do not include braces may be suggested.
2. Headgear
Headgear is used to guide the direction of tooth movement and/or jaw growth in someone who is still growing. Headgear may be worn before braces are applied, or during any part of orthodontic treatment. There are different types of headgear. The patient inserts the headgear and in most cases, wears it during the evening and at night. Your orthodontist or dentist will show you how to insert headgear, and tell you how long to wear it each day.
3. Removable appliances
Removable appliances are not as precise as braces, but they can move a tooth or a group of teeth and are fitted by a dentist or orthodontist. They can be worn:
4. Retainers
Retainers keep teeth in the right place once braces have been removed. Retainers can be attached to the teeth or they may be removable. Your orthodontist or dentist will tell you if you have to wear your retainer all the time or for part of each day.
5. Oral surgery
Tooth removal may be needed if teeth are crowded, or if a tooth [or teeth] is badly out of position.
Jaw surgery [or orthognathic surgery] may be needed when there are major differences in the size or position of the upper and lower jaws. It helps the upper and lower jaws line up. If your orthodontist thinks you will need jaw surgery, he or she will refer you to an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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If an adoptee trusts you, really trusts you, consider yourself the exception to the rule.
For myself, and many other adoptees, trust does not come easily, or it is given so quickly that trust turns into betrayal. It may seem as though this sentence contradicts itself, but it is so true.
Adoptees have been betrayed from the beginning of their lives. The attachment to mother that "should" have been there from the beginning, is often taken away so quickly and so completely, that it makes trusting feel very dangerous for the adopted person
Removal from the mother creates a separation trauma. The separation trauma creates a feeling of abandonment. The feeling of abandonment creates a sense of loss. Loss creates a sense of rejection. Rejection creates a deep feeling of mistrust. Mistrust creates a fear of intimacy or letting anyone close enough to the adoptee heart. The adoptee heart becomes fearful of the intent of any other person who tries to be close. This fear creates a sense of control and finally, the sense of control creates a confusion about identity. All of this looks something like……..this……
Many adoptees have a need to control aspects of their lives. For example, I like to have control in my work space. I like my office neat. I like all my supplies and toys where I can easily get to them, (I am a play therapist) and I like to clean up at the end of each day. I don't mind when my client's make a mess or if they put things away incorrectly, because, I get to have control and put things where I know they actually go. I have control in my office, and I like it this way. This is one way I know that, no matter what, I can have things the way I like them, for me.
But, when I feel I need control in other areas of my life, it is a sign that I am looking for safety. I had a conversation with 2 colleagues that I trust this past week. I asked them both about "adoptee control issues." One, who is not an adoptee said, "Needing control is about seeking safety." The other, who is an adoptee said, "the feeling of need to control is more relational, it is about seeking trust."
Whoa – what? When I am in a spiraling brain place and needing control, could it actually be that I need to be able to TRUST another human being? Or that I need to feel safe?
I have spent a lot of time thinking on this topic, and I feel that BOTH answers are correct for adoptees.
- safety – Adoptees have been abandoned by their mothers. How can we ever be completely safe when the one person who was to keep us safe left our lives?
- trust – Adoptees have been abandoned by their mothers. How can we ever be able to completely trust another person if she left us so easily?
Do you see a connection between these two very important human needs?
So how can adoptees gain safety and trust in life? How can someone who loves an adoptee help them feel safe and have trust?
For the adoptee – work at finding your authentic self. What do you love? What opinions are yours alone? What is your sense of style? What do you adore? What do you dislike? Give yourself permission to disagree with others, and not just on line, but in 'real life.' Figure out, as best you can, who YOU are, and embrace your authentic self. I really feel that when we know ourselves, really, really well, we can slowly let others into our lives. It is an amazing moment when I have allowed my fear to take a backseat to my desire to connect and, much to my delight, I can look into another person's eyes and see myself reflected back because I have figured out parts and bits of who I am as a person.
You are not only an adoptee, you are a courageous man or woman who has survived to this point in your life. You are a seeker. You are a learner. You are strong. (trust me, I can see it in you even as you read these words) Try not to put your entire identity in the adoptee basket, because, that will weigh you down. It is part of who you are, not all of who you are. Allow yourself to be yourself. Be open. Be honest and tell someone when you are needing space, or a break or to put yourself in time out or to have a 'me' day or to "introvert on your own." All is safe and all will refill your bucket so you can connect.
For adoptive parents – help your child find their interests, their skills and their differences in your and their non family of origins. Help them develop the way they develop and not try to fit a square peg into a round hole. Allow them some autonomy. Allow them to explore the world, and be their safety net. Tell them about what you know of their origins. Don't be shaming or condescending about their first parents or family. Never put their family of origin down or refer to them in a negative light, as this will tell the child that they too must be "no good," or "defective." Be supportive, not smothering. Adopted children need different parenting and they need to be validated in ways that are meaningful about who they are as individual human beings. Also, read The Primal Wound so you will understand your adopted child more deeply.
For partners, loves and spouses of adopted people – you may need to reassure your person that you are staying. If you don't plan to stay, don't lie and say you will, because this will cause more harm than you can ever imagine. If your person seems to push you away, they are, and it is most likely because they are adopted and needing control. This is when you remain patient and connected. Make time to talk, reassure, remind how important they are to you and to look them in their eyes. Eye connection is very hard for some adoptees, but it is also the way the brain can be settled and reassured that it can connect. Not long, romantic looks, but some brief, kind eyes can really help settle the anxiety of the need to push away and run away. Some adoptees will test and test. (this is my special skill) and to see if you will "REALLY" stay. Emotional leaving is hard on adoptees, too. We are the experts at doing this and when it is done TO us, it is so painfully confusing.
If all this seems hard, you are right. If being adopted seems hard, you are right.
If having meaningful connections in life, knowing your authentic self and staying present even when you want to run away sounds hard, you are right. AND, IT IS TOTALLY WORTH THE EFFORT.
There are some great books out there about attachment:
For relationships and partners:
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love
For Parents
The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis
For adoptees:
Coming Home to Self – by Nancy Verrier
The best thing about being human is finding other humans that we can love and be loved by in return. Connection is everything. Small steps. Give a little. Gain the trust. Give a bit more. Offer your own heart love. You can do this, I have faith in you.


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Are you as angry as I am about what is happening in Gulf of Mexico as a result of a major business execution failure?
This morning, I read that the Gulf of Mexico is being contaminated by 210,000 gallons of crude oil spewing forth each and every day creating an environmental and economic disaster that will be felt for years to come.
Everyone is pointing the finger at some other entity to try to deflect liability and blame for this disaster. Here's what I believe:
1. Anyone involved in off-shore drilling should be exercising the highest level of care and using the best protocols to ensure something like this can't happen. News reports suggest that this isn't happening here in the U.S. Now, we see what can happen.
2. BP has said that what happened wasn't foreseeable. I beg to differ (a much kinder way of expressing what I really wanted to say). While the industry has a very good record, those involved in managing programs have to look at potential risks and risk mitigations. BP has clearly been caught flat-footed as it tries to invent approaches to stop the spillage.
3. The U.S. government (who is charged with oversight) was asleep at the wheel, perhaps due to lobbying efforts and too close a relationship with the parties involved. We see this over and over.
4. There is a $10 billion liability cap established by Congress. That won't begin to cover the cost of the clean-up nor will it cover the economic losses that will be suffered by the hotel and restaurant industries or those involved in fishing the waters. Did BP knowingly look at this risk as merely "a cost of doing business?" Why should the taxpayers pick up the difference?
5. Our legal system will ensure that this process is drawn out for as many years as possible creating hardship and suffering for thousands and thousands of people negatively impacted by this.
6. Wildlife will suffer horrible deaths due to this contamination.
7. Hurricane season is approaching and has the potential to spread crude oil contamination over the major portions of the U.S., not just along our shores.
This "accident" didn't have to happen. It happened because of short-cuts taken. No regulatory agency signed off on the short-cuts—they were implemented on the spot with no oversight.
We expect our government regulators and those who operate under their purview to apply the highest standard of care. We aren't getting what we need or deserve.
I want to know:
- What is going to happen now to look at best practices across the globe for drilling operations to ensure they meet or exceed the best standards and protocols known today?
- What aggressive priorities will be set to put technologies and approaches in place that mitigate potential environmental and economic risk based on a risk profile for different types of off-shore drilling?
- What penalties will be put in place for non-compliance? Financial penalties? Shut-down operations until fixes are installed and fully operational?
- When is Congress going to fix the $10 billion liability cap? May 14, 2010, would be fine with me.
What do you think? What ideas do you have?
Dave Gardner is a management consultant, speaker and blogger who resides in Silicon Valley. His firm helps clients eliminate business execution issues that threaten profitable and sustainable growth. He can be reached through his website at www.gardnerandassoc.com


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UHC IS BACK!! Welcome everyone to day 3 of the UHC Team Survival. Today's episode is exciting but also super scary! in today's episode it's time to head into the nether! we are now focusing on trying to get blaze rods for the brewing stand! I won't spoil the fun enjoy the video and HIT that LIKE button for more!
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1. Want to become a good trader how can ATMA help me?
- Association of Technical Market Analysts is a professional body of Technical Analysts in India focusing on continued professional education and code of conduct.
- ATMA is formed to spread awareness about the use and application of Technical Analysis amongst the public and investment community in India and to facilitate free and fair exchange of ideas and wisdom in the field for whoever is interested.
- The main objective of the Association is to promote and educate the public about the use of Technical Analysis in making sound investment decisions.
- The Association holds regular meetings, at least once every month, providing a platform for recognized financial analysts and the learners to come together and discuss the new developments in the field, upgrading their own knowledge through exchange of information, materials and ideas.
- The discussion forums the ATMA network of recognized and committed market professionals will all be available at no additional costs, save for the annual society dues to all registered and approved members. These are powerful resources for learning from the experience, skills and mutual sharing of experienced Technical Analysts and market personages.
- There are several other benifits for members of ATMA. You can visit the following page to know about benefits: Membership Benefits
- Thus, to become a trader ATMA can facilitate massive resources and information which can help you to enhance your knowledge and invest wisely.
3. What are the Benefits of joining ATMA?
- ATMA conducts monthly meetings and weekly seminars where members learn, share and discuss their knowledge about market. The speakers are either CMT holders or have years of market experience.
- Apart from the meetings, ATMA also has discussion forums where members can discuss on daily basis. Live chat with experts of technical analysis, members can solve their query.
- In addition we have world's first E-library, where one has an access to top books useful for Technical analysis.
- Kindly visit the below link to know about benefits of being a member in detail:
4. How to become a member of ATMA?, Can you give me bank details?
To become a member of ATMA you need to visit our website, www.Atma.ac and click on Apply for Membership. Kindly follow the procedure and fill in the details.
You can opt for online as well as offline payment for membership
The membership charge which includes Annual Dues plus one-time non-refundable application fee plus taxes as applicable.
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Here is the link you can visit to know about membership: Membership Types
5. Please elaborate on ATMA membership details:
1. ATMA Affiliate Member Status
Affiliate status is available to anyone who is interested in learning technical analysis or wishes to take advantage of the various benefits of joining ATMA while pursuing to learn Technical Analysis. ATMA Affiliate Member Status - Rs. 6,325/- (including taxes)
2. ATMA Student Affiliate Member
Student Member status is for those who are enrolled as full-time students at accredited two to four year University or College Degree/Diploma programs and have a genuine interest in the field of technical analysis and in the Association. ATMA Student Affiliate Member - Rs. 3,435/- (including taxes)
3. ATMA Academic Affiliate Member
Academic Affiliate Member Status is for those who are teaching at full-time accredited two to four year University or College Degree / Diploma programs and have a genuine interest in the field of Technical Analysis and in the Association. ATMA Academic Affiliate Member - Rs. 3,435/- (including taxes)
4. ATMA Member Status
An applicant for Member Status must have been gainfully employed in a professional analytical or investment management capacity for a minimum period of five (5) years and must be regularly engaged in this capacity at the time of application. ATMA Member Status - Rs. 6,278/- (including taxes)
7. How do I access E-library?
To access our E-library, you need to become our member. Once you become our member, you will receive a PIN number which you will need while accessing it. All you need is an e-mail id as your user id and PIN number to access our E-library.
8. Do you have office in any of the city where you conduct Seminars/monthly meet-up?
We do have our Chapters in cities like Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Indore and Delhi, but there is no dedicated office in these cities. All the proceedings are done from Head office which is located in Mumbai itself. Our chapter heads arrange all meet-up's and inform members regarding the upcoming events and activities happening in their vicinity.
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To redeem your points minimum numbers of points to be collected are 9000. Once you have collected those, you can go to featured catalog which is a product gateway. There you can select a product and redeem your reward. Once you have redeemed, our team will get in touch with you and guide you to avail the reward.


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New Microneedle RF - High Intensity RF
Insulated needle
No tissue damage
From inside to surface
No downtime and risk
Highest effectivenessy
Adjustable pin-depth
All faces
All necks
Wrinkles, scars
Best alternative to laser fraxel
Rhytides and facial laxity
What is Microneedle RF?
"INFINI is a game changer when it comes to non-surgical skin tightening and wrinkle reduction… it delivers the energy precisely where you want it without worry of thermal damage surrounding tissue. You are able to maximize single treatment results by performing multiple passes. Plus, I love that I can treat my tanned patients."
[Flor Mayoral, M.D., USA]
Why INFINI? Insulated Microneedle
Insulated gold-coated needles:
49 needles
200 microns 34g
Insulated 10 x 10mm Spot
- Unique 7x7 array of insulated microneedles
- 200 micron diameter ~34g needle
- Insulated needle body
- Only the needle tip (300 µm) is the active electrode.
- Depth adjustable from 0.5 to 3.5 mm
- Bipolar RF generates precise electrothermal damage at preset depths in the dermis
- Insulated needle body means No thermal damage at the critical dermal/epidermal layer
Using insulated needle means:
- Thermal coagulation of deep dermis
- Control of depth, power and exposure time
- Protection of epidermis
- Social downtime
- Safer for all skin type
- High patient satisfaction
How it works - 3D Volumization
This is how the devices works for 3D volumization effects, it puts down a lot of coagulation zones during the procedure. You have 49 needles in multiple passes usually three passes per treatment. So the patient has multiple layers of coagulation zone with Infini. With multi layer zone, you can be down at dermis fat junction and for acne scaring patient, it can reach deep down to 3.5mm So typical settings for neck would be 2.5 mm then 1.5mm, 1 mm for 3D volumization. In the burn zone, the patient get a fractional tightening volumination and new collagen and elastin deposition There are the positive and negative insulated needles that are communicated with each other which is unique about Infini.
On very right size, you can see very deep penetration, 3.5mm, you might use this for acne scar. You can see the thermal coagulation zone
You can see that there is no epidermis injury until you get to the more superficial zone, 0.5 mm, which looks like fractional CO2 laser and this epidermis injury will be healed within 24 hours; That's why it is called social downtime because the downtime it has is very minimal and well be covered by makeup.
Infini Mechanism of Action
With Infini you can control the depth and on top of that you can also control the size of thermal coagulation zone. So you can put a deeper injury with smaller coagulation zone or bigger coagulation zone.
The beauty of Infini is that you can adjust depth, power, and pulse time. So through our studies, we were able to measure how much energy you needed and how to deliver it with lower power and longer pulse time deliver much larger coagulation zone.
Infini Features<
Enhanced Tip Uniformity
NBTC stain used with horizontal slice of tissue
Light blue zones are thermal injury zones
New 49 pin tip with improved evenness of RF energy output
1st Gen 49 pin tip
New Gen 49 pin tip
Non-insulated needles histology epidermal coagulation precautions
What is the SFR of Infini System?
How does the Infini SFR tip work?
- 1st step: Gently bring the SFR handpiece and tip into contact with the epidermis
- 2nd step: Channel 1 induces general volumetric heating of the superficial dermis
- 3rd step: Next, channel 2 delivers RF energy to achieve epidermal micropeeling, and working together, the dual channels create an electrothermal coagulation zone over a wide area
Dual Channel Electrodes
- The world's only tip with Dual Channel Electrodes sequentially delivers the RF energy for each channel.
- Maximization of the clinical effect with precise and safe delivery of RF energy.
References: Most advanced - safe easy - technology
- Jazon Pozner
- Joel Cohen
- Matteo Tretti Clementori and Mnnavalli


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Since 1845, NUI Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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NUI Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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At NUI Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
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NUI Galway is committed to community and the development of positive impacts on people's lives. Vision 2020 recognises that NUI Galway has a responsibility for sustainability in the community and is committed to promoting a spirit of corporate social responsibility by contributing to a healthier more sustainable and green environment. Vision 2020 calls for the development of a campus that is sustainable and efficient and provides a high-quality experience for all who study, work, live, play and visit.
NUI Galway is committed to creating pathways to exchange knowledge with the community. The Community Knowledge Initiative fosters sustainability community-university partnerships through core academic activities, including teaching, research and management that aim to promote greater civic engagement among students and staff.
NUI Galway will continue to promote active sustainability community engagement by developing a mutually beneficial, knowledge-based collaboration between the institution and its staff and students and the wider community on sustainability through a range of activities including: service learning/community-based learning, volunteering, outreach programmes, community-campus partnerships and access programmes.
Already, over 14,000 students take part in service learning each academic year through their participation with over 500 community partners. Service learning encourages students to learn about issues vital to society and instil in students a sense of social responsibility and civic awareness.
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The role of EPIC is to facilitate Community-Engaged Research and Knowledge exchange between NUI Galway and the wider community. EPIC can act as a point of contact for community, voluntary and statutory organisations who would like to access sustainability-related research and other collaborative opportunities with the university. It also acts as a key contact point for staff and students within the university who want information about sustainability-related research and public engagement opportunities with the wider community.
NUI Galway through the Sustainability Strategy will continue build on education, trust, inclusion and strong governance to successfully engage the community.


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Leighton Meester for Vera Wang
HollywoodNews.com: b'Gossip Girl' star Leighton Meester has been named as the new face of Vera Wang's perfume.
According to WWD.com, the actress was chosen by the designer to front the campaign for the scent because she believes the 24-year-old appeals to other women. Wang said: "Beauty, talent and spirit will inspire all the young women that I hope will enjoy this passionate, new young fragrance."
The advert for the perfume will be shot by Carter Smith this weekend in New York, and it will be available in department stores next summer. Stylish Leighton is also currently busy looking for a designer to team up with for her own fashion line.
Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information.
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Facebook's recent unveiling of Home, a software suite for Android phones (and soon tablets), offered more evidence that apps rule the mobile world.
Just a few years ago, usage of apps lagged Web browsing within that world. But we now spend more than 80 percent of our mobile time with apps, according to Flurry Analytics, comScore and NetMarketShare data.
That means news publishers need to prioritize app development when crafting their mobile strategies, as Tom Rosenstiel noted in a recent Poynter.org article summarizing comScore research. But when it comes to developing those apps, publishers have at least two options:
1. Native apps run alongside the browser. They're built with tools specific to the device's platform (usually Android or iOS), give a publisher prominent placement on a user's home screen, and benefit from a raft of sophisticated features.
2. Web apps run within the browser. They're built with a collection of advanced Web technologies — but, like native apps, emphasize utility over content. Though lacking the power of their native counterparts, Web apps can be equally capable for users and may be a more cost-effective alternative for publishers.
Both kinds of apps provide ways to help news consumers solve problems. But they offer different paths to those solutions, both in terms of the resources needed to create them and the channels available for distributing them…


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Speciality Food Hamper
Our speciality food hampers are an extremely popular gift, especially during the festive season.
Your food hamper will be made up with a variety of items from our unique range of speciality foods to the value of your choice.
Our £40 Speciality food hamper comes gift wrapped and is presented in a wicker basket.
Please see below an example list of items that would be included in a typical hamper:
Thorntons mint collection 282g
Pattersons petticoat tail 250g
Eva apple juice 750ml
S. D. Bells instant coffee 100g
S. D. Bells 80 tea bags
Nairns fine octcakes 218g
Epicure wild blossom honey 454g
Ferreo Rocher 37.5g
Walkers Dundee cake 350g
Cottage Delight strawberry jam 113g
Cottage Delight carmalised onion chutney 105g
Epicure prunes in juice 420g
Please note that this is just an example and these products are subject to change based on availability and preferences.
Established by James Francis McLister as a general merchant store selling groceries, hardware and seeds our family run store has been serving the local community of Ballycastle on the North Antrim Coast of Ireland since 1909.
Today, our family maintain this tradition by selling groceries along with a wide range of household products including Cookware, General Hardware, Pet Care Products, Tools, Gardening products and much more.
Having been in business for 109 years we have evolved and expanded whilst always maintaining our exceptionally high standards of customer services.


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Laptop won't boot after full disk image restore
My laptop will not boot. The error msg says:
"Reboot and select proper boot device..." so apparently it is not recognizing my hard drive as a boot device.
Here's what happened. My laptop had a motherboard failure, but the HDD seemed okay. I removed it and put it in a USB enclosure and performed a full disk image backup with Backupper onto an external drve.
I reinstalled the HDD in the laptop and sent it for repair. It came back with a new motherboard, and the original HDD reformatted to a factory Windows 10 install.
I backed that install up with Backupper, and then attempted to restore my original disk image. It appeared to complete okay. But...
When I tried booting, I got that message above. I checked the BIOS, and it lists the HDD as first boot device.
I have repeated the restore a few times, using a USB restore drive created from Backupper on another computer. (Specified to legacy BIOS.) I made sure to specify Universal Restore. I restored each partition separately, specifying Universal Restore each time, and making sure the main drive was C:. I still get "Reboot and select proper boot device."
The BIOS screeen still lists the HDD as the first boot device. "Launch CSM" is Enabled.
I hope someone can help. I am at wit's end. I am using the Professional version, by the way.
Did your backup include both the C: partition and the "System Reserved" partition? The SR partition contains the boot manager (see here https://www.lifewire.com/windows-boot-manager-bootmgr-2625813) compatible with the C: partion and I believe that both are required together. If you only backed up the C: drive then this might be the problem.
Is the HDD formatted as GPT after repair? In Legacy mode you need MBR, but in any case you need the same partition style as it was originally: BIOS/CSM=MBR, UEFI=GPT.
I restored each partition separately,
Didn't you make a disk or system backup? In that case restore in one go and don't use the Universal option.
Yes, I did a full disk image backup, which included the system partition, the recovery partition, one very small partition which I don't know what it is, and the C: drive. I don't know if it's MBR or GPT--the question was never presented to me--but my computer does have a BIOS setup. Does it matter that I made the backup image with the disk drive out of the laptop? I created the backup using default settings.
For the restore part, I guess I should give more detail. When I ran the first recovery procedure, I had a working Windows system reset to factory state by the repair shop. I installed AOMEI on that system and ran the recovery to go in one step. (That's what I tried to do, anyway. The interface is a little unclear. I didn't select individual partitions, anyway.) That completed and gave me the "Reboot and select proper boot device" error.
After that, I had no way to rerun it the same way, so the next thing I tried was pulling the drive and rerunning the recovery with the drive hooked up to another computer via USB. Same result.
Then, on the other computer, I made a recovery thumb drive. I tried EFI and it didn't work, so I tried again making it using the legacy setting. That worked, in the sense that it enabled me to get the AOMEI recovery app running. So I tried again.
I wasn't sure whether the "one go" method was even working, so I recovered each partition individually. There were never any options that I could see re MBR/GPT. I got the same result.
Regarding the Universal Restore option, I used that because the AOMEI instruction pages said it was necessary after a hardware change. (new motherboard)
I'll try again using System Restore option.
Ah, okay -- I have restarted it, set to go all at once. Now I see where you can click to select the entire drive as destination, and that it does identify both the source and the destination as GPT. I hope that's correct.
That restore also failed. I am now attempting to restore the factory-reset install that the laptop came back with. (It was also identified as being GPT.)
If you have, before and after the repair, an UEFI machine, where the original HDD was GPT, then your BIOS should not be set to BIOS/CSM/Legacy but set to EFI/UEFI.
Good grief. Was this all a question of BIOS setting? I don't see in my BIOS a choice between BIOS/CSM/Legacy and EFI/UEFI, though under the Enable CSM was a choice to enable some kind of controller involving UEFI. Enabling that did not work.
But... when I disabled the CSM option (that second thing went away), and I enabled Fast Boot, it booted into Windows! Partial success! I now have the factory-reset Windows restored successfully.
So... now that I know how to make that work, do I have the nerve to try the original restore of my latest Windows setup? I guess I'll try.
Thanks for that tip about the BIOS.
Does the Universal Restore option control anything except the system partition? I am currently waiting out the full restore (my C: drive has 258 on it and it's a lengthy procedure). This time around I left Universal Restore unchecked -- no, wait, I think the option didn't show up this time. If I have to retry with/without the Universal Restore, can I do just the system partition?
Well, that failed, and gave me a blue screen that said my PC needs to be repaired. After the full repair failed, I tried restoring just the system partition, first by asking for system restore, and then by asking for universal restore. Now I'm going to try restoring just the system partition from the factory reset backup. If that doesn't work, I see no alternative to going back to the factory reset and reinstalling all my programs and configurations from ground zero. Which is exactly what my backup of the disk image was intended to prevent.
I removed it and put it in a USB enclosure and performed a full disk image backup with Backupper onto an external drve.
—Backupper cannot detect system on USB, that's why the system cannot boot after restore.
Are you saying that there's no way to make a disc image from a drive that's outside the computer? Can't drives be cloned from USB?
Okay, with this information in mind, I went looking for an earlier disk image backup and found one from November. I restored that--and it worked! I have successfully returned my laptop to its state as of a few months ago, and I then restored all missing data by copying with File Explorer from the more recent backup. (Plus Dropbox, etc.)
So... I wish I had known about this limitation before beating my head for two days.
But now I am back up and running! Thanks to all who took time to help.
So a Disk backup made from a HDD with an OS on it, attached through USB, cannot boot after this backup is restored? I did not know that and I was surprised reading this. A Disk backup should be a Disk backup isn't it?
So I tested this.
I took an old HDD with Win8.1-X86 on it, connected with a USB cable to a PC and made a Disk backup. I Cleaned that HDD with Diskpart and Restored the backup I just made.
Inserted that HDD in the original laptop, booted and I got errors that it couldn't boot. Just like JeffC. I was stunned. I think everyone expects that this backup should boot when restored. It's a Disk backup!
There should be a warning in Aomei when making a Disk backup of a USB connected Disk. Something like: "Attention, you cannot boot from this Disk backup when restored..."
Then I tried to repair this non booting HDD with the Win8.1 installation DVD, Boot repair. That did not work. Neither with a Win10 DVD.
Next I installed Win8.1 again from the Installation DVD. This one booted of course and I got a working System partition and a fresh C: partition.
Then I restored only the C: partition from the backup overwriting the fresh installed C: partition. The result was a new System partition and the old C: partition.
And that combination booted just fine. So this could be a workaround for people experiencing boot problems.
Again Admin: there should be a warning. "Attention, you cannot boot from this Disk backup when restored..."
I wholeheartedly agree with the suggestion.
Re JohnnyboyGo's last method of restoring just the C: partition onto a working system, I thought about that, but worried that there might be a conflict between the system as of (for example) November, and whatever system files are on the C: drive in February. IOW, would there be conflicts having to do with Windows updates between the two?
@JeffC. I don't think there will be a conflict. AFAIK the Windows OS is concentrated in the C: partition, the System is only there for booting or additional manufacturers software outside the OS. I often restore a C: partition (from a system or disk backup) onto a system that already has a working OS, and put the restore on een or E: partition, making a multi boot system by adding the restored OS with EasyBCD to the bootmenu. Always worked fine.
These are my thoughts. They are not facts. It seems to me that the backup process isn't just backing up the disk but also the hardware configuration and environment it sits in. i.e. The motherboard, graphics card etc. So if the HDD is sitting in a caddy when the backup is done then that environment is nothing like the same as it being installed in the computer. When trying to restore to the disk when installed in the computer the restore process looks for the correct environment (the caddy) and, when it doesn't match, the restore operation fails. What think you?
the hardware configuration and environment it sits in. i.e. The motherboard, graphics card etc.
These things are all present in the OS partition (C:) of the HDD. If you connect a HDD through USB nothing changes in the content of the HDD.
If you insert the HDD in another computer, these settings are set again or reinstalled again. In most cases (maybe always) the HDD will boot just fine as long as GPT/MBR is the same and CPU-bits are compatible.
I have not tested yet, but there is also a Clone option in Aomei. I hope that a Disk Clone from USB1 to USB2 is an exact copy and will boot....
@Admin, tell me, will such a clone work?
Theoretically it will work, but you might encounter the driver issue(BSOD).
It is recommended to use the Backup and Restore, and remember to enable the Universal Restore.
I just tested it:
A 2,5" laptop HDD with Win8.1 on it connected to USB1
A 3,5" desktop HDD unallocated connected to USB2
Aomei 4.0.6 on Windows 10 FCU managing the USB ports
Cloned the entire disk from USB1 to USB2
Inserted the 3,5" HDD in a Desktop computer.
It booted just fine into Win8.1. Of course since the hardware has changed, Windows performed some settings, but that is a one time only operation of about 5 minutes.
So why is it that a clone from USB1 to USB2 does work but a backup on USB1 and followed by a restore on USB1 not?
I sure would like to know that, too.
Well, we will test the backup and restore of USB drives and see if we can improve this function.
@JohnnyboyGo I was having problems booting after doing a system restore so I did as you suggested, doing a fresh install of Windows then restoring only my C drive. I encountered the same BSOD as before, but whereas previously when I tried bootrec in CMD it returned " 'bootrec' is not recognized," this time it was a recognized command. So I ran the following commands:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot (this returned an "Access denied" error so I followed these instructions and ran bcdboot C:\windows /s V: /f UEFI, where V: was the letter assigned to Volume 2, my System volume)
bootrec.exe /scanos
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
After that, I was able to boot and access my restored C: drive. HOWEVER!!! My computer now seems to think I'm dual-booting, because whenever I turn on my PC I get prompted to select my OS from the following:
Windows 10
Windows 10, Boot from Volume 2
If I choose the former, I get the original BSOD! If I choose the latter, it boots fine, but I'd very much like to know why this is happening. I'd like to either be able to delete the first non-functional Windows 10 OS, or repair it then remove the option to boot from Volume 2.
I've checked Disk Management and I only have an OS partition (which is marked as "boot"), an EFI System partition, and a Recovery partition, nothing else. There's no other OS on any other partition, so it's not a true dual-boot; something is wrong.
Do you have any ideas on what's going on or how to fix this?
I have the exact same problem!!!
Luckily I am trying to replace an old but still working disk in bad shape before crashing, and I'm trying to restore a full system back up (yes, all partitions including that little weird one) to the new disk but failing. It just don't want to boot (see all problems and suggested and failed solutions as described above)! I was using this back up for my computer at work, but I really must consider changing my back up plan since it's obviously not working.
Like someone said; a back up should be a back up because, well, it is a back up, and it makes perfect sense. The only safe alternative seems to be to back up all the ever changing files (music, documents, pictures etc) and then clone an exact identical disk copy once or twice a week and boot it just to confirm the clone really works if you ever need it.
Finding out a back up doesn't work AFTER your hard drive has crashed is just too bloody late if you ask me.
This is an even bigger issue when upgrading a M.2 NVME SSD when you only have one M.2 slot. Admin, Please rectify this or at least come up with a tutorial to address this issue. Thank you


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The faculty was approached by SHAWCO from UCT
about joining them at Saturday morning clinics as they saw so many
patients in need of dental treatment and they do not have dental
The SHAWCO mobile clinic Two little characters
Our visit coincided with the monthly SHAWCO
paediatric clinic day at the Ubunye Early Childhood Development Centre
in DuNoon. It was a good opportunity to provide dental services and to
interact with the UCT students doing medicine, dietetics, physiotherapy
and occupational therapy. There even was an elective 5th year medical
student from Oxford University who showed great interest in our work.
We set up portable equipment in 3 classrooms
and made use of the 2 chairs in our mobile clinic as well. Ubunye has a
very nice enclosed area that we used as a waiting room. One classroom
was used for screening and anaesthetizing and the others for treatment.
This way we could see more patients, and keep a check on progress
during the day.
We were short of 5th year students as they
had an OSCE on 15th August but the two that did come did sterling work
screening and doing some of the more difficult treatment. The rest of
the student team was made up of five 4th year students and they
performed extremely well.
We had seven dentists with us – Prof AJ Louw,
Dr Costa Saridakis from private practice in Milnerton, and the two
registrars in Community Oral Health – Dr Khabiso Ramphoma and Dr Dirk
Smit. The Paediatric Dentistry division also came along in the persons
of Dr Fathima Peerbhay and Dr Alisha Naidoo and they were involved in
supervising the students as well as training the three teachers from
Ubunye on how to implement a toothbrushing programme at the school and
they provided all the necessary materials to the school.
We started at about 08:45 and called it a day
at 15:30 when the last patient had been seen. SHAWCO came a bit later
and left earlier as they had fewer patients.
Lunch was provided by the Dean, Prof Yusuf
Osman. The UCT students were most impressed that not only does our dean
come out and visit us, but he brings the lunch too!
Despite some students observing a fast, work
continued apace. The flow of patients coming for treatment continued
all morning, so there was not a huge crowd in the waiting room. By the
end of the day we had seen 89 patients, extracted 51 primary and 88
secondary teeth, filled 3 teeth, performed a scaling on 4 patients and
performed one other minor surgical procedure.
SHAWCO want us to join them again next month,
but we have other trips scheduled. However, we will return to Dunoon,
the need there is great, the facility infrastructure works well and the
collaboration with UCT is a first for us. Being a paediatric clinic,
there are lots of children there and so we need to take Oral Hygienists
with us next time – health promotion opportunities abound.
The Faculty of Dentistry returned to
Dunoon for another outreach clinic on Saturday 25 August 2012. This was
arranged in conjunction with UCT's SHAWCO paediatric clinic which is
held there at the same time. We used the facilities of Ubunye ECD
centre. A team of four 5th year, seven 4th year and three 3rd year
Dental students together with two 3rd year Oral Hygiene students and
five lecturers took part.
We departed from the Tygerberg campus soon
after 8 am and were ready to start treatment at 9am (thanks to the
equipment having been set up the day before). It was cold, windy and
wet but that didn't deter the patients who sought our help.
Fortunately, we used the enclosed play area as a waiting room and three
of the classrooms as surgeries as well as the mobile clinic parked just
As we had done on previous occasions, one
classroom was used as both the screening venue, using a portable chair
and light, as well as the sterilization department using our 2
autoclaves. Two other classrooms were used as "double surgeries" using
two portable chairs, light and suction units. Used instruments were
exchanged for sterile ones in the screening/sterilizing room, and the
next patient was seen. While all this was going on, the two chairs in
the mobile clinic were being used for fillings and scaling and
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Denali earned her "RA" Title this morning in San Jose with a score of 96 in a field of 15 dogs! Another second place finish.
Her RA ribbons look like a Christmas Celebration.
She was pretty happy with herself. This was the smile I saw in the ring today too!
Here's Denali, along with her friend, Lotus, and her "mom," Elissa. We train together and the girls seem to like having a friend with 5" legs when we go to shows.
Lotus, a lovely Tibetan Terrier, got her second RA leg today.
Denali just loves this competition. Seeing this happy face is the real award!
Next stop - a herding specialty show in Concord, CA featuring Rally and Obedience on March 6th! Hopefully our first Excellent leg! It is sponsored by a German Shepherd club, so we will be competing against a lot of dogs "with legs."


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The Cherries hitman bagged a hat-trick in the second string's 3-2 home win over the Canaries Under-21s on Thursday afternoon, having requested more game-time to sharpen himself up.
Afobe came off the bench during the Cherries' 0-0 draw against Leicester at the weekend and felt that he needed more action.
After the game, he told the Daily Echo, "Finishing is finishing, whether it's training, a reserves game or a first-team game.
"You always want to finish the chances you get. I had three chances and scored three so it was a clinical performance.
"The game was for fitness. I asked if I could get a run-out and they thought about it and said 'as long as you want to'.
"I knew that having chosen to play, I had to play properly. Sometimes in football, you see first-team players come down to this level and sack it off, but I knew I had to give 100 per cent.
"I'm just delighted that I got something out of it with the goals and 90 minutes."


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Albear, a Patriot of Construction
Any nation whose history is full of acts of violence diminishes relevance to figures or events that are removed from this kind of acts. If violence is also promoted as the paradigm of behavior, the concept ends up entrenching so deeply in the conscience of society that it establishes a false identification between war and history, between revolutions and patriotism, thus minimizing other forms of patriotism, and other ways of making history and promoting the culture.
In Cuba, the history of violence—conquest, colonization, pirate attacks, slavery, abolition struggles, separatists, independence support, annexation support, civil wars, racial crimes, state coups, gangsterism, terrorism, insurrection struggle, armed counterrevolution—conceal figures and events that, due to their dimensions, constitute the foundations and columns of the motherland and the nation. Colonel Francisco de Albear y Fernández de Lara, a giant of Cuban engineering, born in Havana on January 11, 1816, is one such example.
In 1835 he traveled to Spain to study at the Academy of Engineering. He returned to the island in 1845, loaded with the culture and prestige that enabled his appointment as Engineer for the Royal Board of Agricultural and Commercial Development of the Island of Cuba, from which post he undertook a vast engineering career.
From the renovated Saint Augustine Convent of Havana—his first job—to the construction of the Isabel II aqueduct, we can find in his work all the distinctive engineering projects of the period. It would be enough to mention the Trinidad Cavalry Headquarters, his acknowledgment of the Zaza river for canalization purposes, his study on the widening of docks in Cienfuegos, the Commerce Marketplace, the Botanic Garden and the School of Agronomy, the docks, platforms and cranes of the coast of Havana, most of the roads from the capital to neighboring regions, the installation of the first telegraph lines in Cuba, the design of the Havana street plan, the train and central road projects, among others.
In the topic of hydraulics: In spite of the Royal Trench—built between the last decades of the sixteenth-century to canal the waters from the Chorrera River; in spite of the Fernando VII Aqueduct built between 1832 and 1835 to conduct water through iron pipes; and in spite of the 895 cisterns and 2,976 wells in place, the supply of drinking water to the San Cristóbal village of Havana was still insufficient during the first half of the nineteenth-century.
Facing this crisis, General Concha, who was Captain General of the island at the time, entrusted a commission—headed by Albear—to come up with a solution. This event presented the illustrious engineer with the opportunity to develop his master work, which consisted in providing a modern aqueduct—which would raise the water from the phreatic surface and transfer it through underground pipes—to the capital city to solve its problem of scarcity and insalubrity of contaminated waters from cisterns, wells and older aqueducts.
Once the preliminary studies were concluded, Albear chose the Vento springs out of all the options, because they were situated at over 41 meters above the sea, and because of the feasibility of the collection, conduction, quantity and quality of their waters. Afterwards, he proceeded to do an exhaustive research on the transfer of the vital liquid to the Palatino deposits; he demonstrated the negative influence of solar light over the collected waters; he modified the geology of the terrain as to adapt it to the protection of the canal; and—through the use of meager mechanical means—he succeeded in making it travel underneath the Almendares River.
No similar project could be repeated until the mid-twentieth-century, when the tunnel under the Bay of Havana was built: both works are part of the Seven Wonders of Cuban Engineering of all times.
For his ensemble of magnificent projects, Francisco de Albear was awarded—first in Philadelphia and then in Paris—a Gold Medal and an Honorable Mention that reads: "In recognition of your work, which deserves extensive study even in its minimal details and which is considered a Master Work"; the Royal Development Board qualified him as the most famous of Cuban engineers. And to this distinguished eminence of engineering, Enrique José Varona dedicated these beautiful verses:
To make a foundation for faith where excess doubt is found,
To make light in the middle of the night,
To take nothingness and found the work,
That, Albear, is to be great… And great you are!
At the time of his death, Albear possessed—deservingly so—the titles of Marquis of Saint Felix; Brigadier of the Royal Corps of Engineers; the Great Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegildo and the Order of Military Merit; Cavalier of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Fernando; Professor of the Special Academy of Engineers; Correspondent Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid; Member by Number and Credit of the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana; Partner of Merit of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Nation; Honorable Member and Correspondent of the British Society for the Development of Art and Industry; Founding Partner of the Geographical Society of Spain; Member of the Scientific Society of Brussels; and Member of the Society of the Working Classes of Mexico.
In recognition of his work, the aqueduct that was initially named after Isabel II was renamed after him, and the Havana City Hall erected a statue in his honor at Monserrate Street, between Obispo and O'Reilly, in Old Havana. However, the recognition of this eminent engineer as a patriot of construction and one of the forgers of Cuban culture, whose masterly work continues to supply a great part of the water we consume today in our dear Havana, is still pending.
Translated by T
January 28 2011
Let's Talk About Martí on His 158th Birthday
(Published in Cuba Daily, http://www.ddcuba.com, 28 January 2011)
The birthdays of figures who marked our history in past times and are observed today constitute an excellent opportunity to return to their ideas. This is the case of the 158th anniversary of José Martí's birthday, who, at this opportunity, coincides with the start of the changes that the government is introducing in the economy, but will have to be generalized to all social spheres.
José Julián Martí Pérez, son of a family with a limited education, thanks to his sensitivity and intelligence, to the love of his mother and uprightness of his father, and to his relationship with the director of the Boys' School of Havana, Rafael María de Mendive; he became a historian, poet, literate, orator, teacher, journalist, and the Cuban politician of the largest stature.
Nonetheless, despite the quantity of pages about him that have been written, his essential ideas are barely known. Having attributed the intellectual authorship of the Assault on the Moncada Barracks to him and placing him next to Marxism as the foundation of the process which led to a totalitarian system, he has provoked some Cubans — especially the youngest — to show rejection of this alteration of his person. From there, the importance of calling attention to simple, but racial, aspects of his work which remain valid for today's Cuban. With that end, I advance eight of those aspects.
- His humanism, putting man at the beginning and end of his libertarian work; to dream that with the first Law of the Republic there might be full human dignity, which is impossible without the freedoms that serve to sustain him. A humanism expressed in the love for one's neighbor that, like Jesus, he extended to his own enemies and whose best proof consists in that, despite the inhuman treatment he received in the Political Presidio, he never expressed hatred for Spain, or that when he was an enemy of American expansionism, he was also a fervent admirer of the culture of that country and its people. From that humanism emanated his ethic, which in its political action constituted a distinctive element expressed in his human dimension and in the correspondence between thought and action.
- His deep capacity for analysis, thanks to which he performed a critical study of the errors committed in the Ten Years' War and demonstrated that Spain didn't win that contest; rather that Cuba lost it. From that study he derived a system of principles that included: revolution as a form of evolution, the inclusion of all components in the analysis of social phenomena, the union of differing factors, and time in policy. In this system are the cement of a theory of revolution that includes the function of necessary war and the role of the Party.
- His iron-willed opposition to autocracy, which took him to refuse participation in the Gómez-Maceo Plan of 1884, of which he left perseverance to the General: "A people doesn't found itself, General, like one commands a camp"; an idea so simple as essential, whose consequence showed itself all throughout the Great War and remained reserved in his Campaign Diary, 14 days before his death: "… Maceo has another concept of governing, a junta of generals with command power, by their representatives – and a Secretary General: the Fatherland, then, and all her officers, who create and animate the army, as a secretary of the army". An idea that had been repeated time and again, as in April 1894, when he expressed: "A people is not the will of a single man, as pure as it may be… A people is a composition of many wills, vile or pure, frank or stormy, impeded by timidity or precipitated by ignorance[1]. Ideas that should be incorporated into today's textbooks.
- His conception of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC) as an organizing institution, controlling and creating of conscience to direct the war that the Republic had to carry out; not to dominate and prohibit the existence of different parties following victory, not to work for predominance, of any kind present or future; but by grouping, conforming to democratic methods, of all the living forces of the Fatherland; by brotherhood and common action of Cubans resident on the island and abroad[2]. For, as remained recognized in the Basis of the PRC, to found a new people and of sincere democracy, capable of overcoming, by the order of true work and the balance of social forces, the dangers of sudden freedom in a society composed for slavery[3]. And he insisted that it was an idea that Cuba had to carry, not just a person[4]. Thoughts completely foreign to the single-party system implanted in Cuba.
- His concept of the Republic, conceived as a form and station of destiny, different from War and of the Party, conceived as mediating links to arrive at it. A republic as a state of equal rights to everyone born in Cuba; a space for freedom of expression of thought, of many small businessmen, of social justice, which implied love and mutual pardon between the races, built without foreign assistance nor tyranny, so that every Cuban might be a fully free politician.
- His doctrine of Fatherland, of which he conceived as a "community of interests, unity of traditions, unity of ends, most kind and consoling of love and hope". An ambition condensed into the following words in "Wandering Teachers": "Mankind has to live in a state of peaceful enjoyment, natural and inevitable from freedom, as they live enjoying air and light" and "The independence of a people consists of the respect that public powers demonstrate to each of their children."
- His enmity for violence, despite having suffered much himself. In May of 1883, he wrote: "… Karl Marx studied the methods of putting the world on new bases, awakened the sleeping, and taught how to throw away broken props. But he walked quickly, and a little in the shadows, without seeing that they weren't born viable, not in the hearts of the people in history, nor in the heart of the woman at home, the children that haven't had a natural and laborious birth … They dream of music, dream again of the chorus; but we note that they aren't of peace."
- His rejection of State Socialism, of which he left evidence in "Future Slavery", where he proposed that "the poor, who are used to losing all to the State, will soon stop making any effort for their own subsistence"; "that when the actions of the State become so varied, active, and dominant, it will have to impose considerable charges on the working part of the nation in favor of the impoverished part"; that "as all public necessities come to be satisfied by the State, functionaries will acquire the enormous influence which naturally comes to those who distribute some right or benefit." And that "To be a slave to oneself, it will come to man to be the slave of the State. To be a slave of the State, as they call it now, one will have to be a slave of the functionaries. A slave is anyone who works for another who has dominion over him; and in that socialist system would dominate the community of mankind, to which the community will dedicate all its work."[5]
Just as people who are ignorant of their history are condemned to repeat once and again the errors of the past, and in Cuba political matters have regressed to the 19th Century, we have to be advised that Marti's political thought continues to be effective, for we are detained in a time in which he would have lived. The republic of all and for the benefit of all is a pending matter. Once the model of totalitarian socialism has failed — exclusive by its nature — Marti's thought, a combination of love, virtue, and civics constitutes a legacy we cannot depreciate.
Havana, 25 January 2011
[1]MARTÍ, JOSÉ. Selected Works in Three Volumes, Vol III, p. 359
[2] "Resolutions taken by Cuban emigration of Tampa and Key West in November of 1891". MARTÍ, JOSÉ. Selected Works in Three Volumes, Vol III, p 23.
[3]MARTÍ, JOSÉ. Selected Works in Three Volumes, Vol III, p. 26
[4]MARTÍ, JOSÉ. Selected Works in Three Volumes, Vol III, p. 192
[5]MARTÍ, JOSÉ. Complete Works. Vol 15, pp 388-392
Translated by: JT
January 31 2011