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Photovoltaic (PV) technologies which play a role in PV market are divided into basic two types: wafer-based (1st generation PV) and thin-film cell (2nd generation PV). To the first category belong mainly crystalline silicon (c-Si) cells (both mono- and multi-crystalline). In 2015 around 90% of the solar market belonged to crystalline silicon. To the 2nd generation solar cells belongs thin film amorphous silicon (a-Si) or a combination of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon (a-Si/μc-Si), compound semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe), compound semiconductor made of copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIS or CIGS) and III–V materials. The PV market for thin film technology is dominated by CdTe and CIGS solar cells. Thin film solar cells' share for all thin film technologies was only 10% in 2015. New emerging technologies, called 3rd generation solar cells, remain the subject of extensive R&D studies but have not been used in the PV market, so far.
In this review the best laboratory 1st and 2nd generation solar cells that were recently achieved are described. The scheme of the layer structure and energy band diagrams will be analyzed in order to explain the boost of their efficiency with reference to the earlier standard designs.
In this work we report on fabrication of quantum wires and quantum point contacts from the modulation doped CdMgTe/Cd(Mn)Te structures, with the application of a high-resolution electron-beam lithography. We emphasize on methods which were not yet utilized for these substrate materials. In particular, we describe the so-called shallow-etching approach, which allows for the fabrication of quantum constrictions of a physical width down to 100 nm, which are characterized by the smoother confining potential as compared to the deep-etched devices. For that purpose, a single-line exposure mode of electron-beam lithography has been used. We demonstrate also, how to combine the etching of separating grooves with the thermal evaporation of metal side-gates into a single post-processing stage of a quantum point contact fabrication.
This article is an expanded version of the scientific reports presented at the International Conference on Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronics and Biosensors 2016 ICSeNOB2016, May 22–25, 2016, Rzeszow, Poland.
We propose real time phase measurements in liquid crystals cells using Young's interferometer constructed with a new principle with possibility to control the distance between two point sources. The optical interference optical pattern is detected by a bicell photo-detector in a back Fourier focal plane. A phase modulation controlled by a monopixel liquid crystals' cell placed in a reference arm of interferometer is observed as a dynamic shift of the fringes' pattern in spatial domain. Concept of signals' demodulation in the Fourier focal plane will be described using a new approach to the demodulation signals. In this work we evaluate the demodulation condition of our setup and we present measurements of a dynamic phase response for nematic liquid crystals and antiferroelectric liquid crystals cells.
Recent years, the design of photonic crystal (PC) based optical devices is receiving keen interest in research and scientific community. In this paper, two dimensional (2D) PC based eight channel demultiplexer is proposed and designed and the functional characteristics of demultiplexer namely resonant wavelength, transmission efficiency, quality factor, spectral width, channel spacing and crosstalk are investigated. The demultiplexer is designed to drop the wavelength centred at 1537.6 nm, 1538.5 nm, 1539.4 nm, 1540.4 nm, 1541.2 nm, 1541.9 nm, 1542.6 nm and 1543.1 nm. The proposed demultiplexer is primarily composed of bus waveguide, drop waveguide and quasi square ring resonator. The quasi square ring resonator and square ring micro cavity (inner rods) are playing a vital role for a desired channel selection. The operating range of the devices is identified through a photonic band gap (PBG) which is obtained using a plane wave expansion (PWE) method. The functional characteristics of the proposed demultiplexer are attained using a 2D finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The proposed device offers low crosstalk and high transmission efficiency with ultra-compact size, hence, it is highly desirable for DWDM applications.
We present the results of a numerical analysis of a two-dimensional photonic crystal with line defect for a laser gas sensor working in a slow light regime. The geometrical parameters of photonic crystals with three different line defects were numerically analyzed: a missing row of holes, a row of holes with changed diameter and air channel. Antireflection sections were also analyzed. The simulations were carried out by MEEP and MPB programs, with the aim to get the values of a group refractive index, transmission and a light-gas overlap as high as possible. The effective refractive index method was used to reduce the simulation time and required computing power. We also described numerical simulation details such as required conditions to work in the slow light regime and the analyzed parameters values' dependency of the simulation resolution that may influence the accuracy of the results.
Composition effect on electro-optic (EO) properties of a LiNbO3 (LN) single-crystal has been investigated in a Li2O-content range of 47.0–49.95 mol%. Some non-congruent LN crystals with different Li2O-contents were prepared by performing Li-deficient or Li-rich vapour transport equilibration treatments on as-grown congruent LN crystals. Unclamped EO coefficients γ13 and γ33 of these samples were measured by a Mach–Zehnder interferometric method. The measurements show that in the Li-deficient regime both γ13 and γ33 increase by ∼8% as Li2O-content decreases from the congruent 48.6 mol% to the 47.0 mol% in the Li-deficient regime. The feature is desired for the EO application of the Li-deficient crystal. In the near-stoichiometric regime, both γ13 and γ33 reveal a non-monotonic dependence. As the Li2O-content increases from the 48.6 mol%, the EO coefficient decreases. Around Li2O-content 49.5 mol%, a minimum is reached. After that, the EO coefficient recovers slowly. At the stoichiometric composition, it recovers to a value close to that at the congruent point. Comparison shows that different crystal growth methods give rise to different defect structure features and hence different composition effects.
Clean and cheap device, namely dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated using a natural dye extracted from Sambucus ebulus. We prepared five sample solutions with various pH in the extraction process to improve power conversion efficiency. The UV–visible absorption investigation of sample solutions and on photoanode show the dyes from J-type aggregation on a photoanode substrate. Redox properties of all sample solutions certify thermodynamically a charge transfer from excited state to conduction band TiO2. The optical properties of various dye solutions were investigated and results showed darkness and bluish tint effect of dye solutions extracted in basic environment rather than those extracted in acidic condition. Moreover, in comparison to the basic condition, the dye solutions extracted in acidic environment were more saturated and colorimetrically less different from that one which extracted in neutral condition. Photophysical and photoelectrochemical performance of natural extraction dyes have been studied in dye-sensitized solar cell devices. The results show the rather high conversion efficiency of 0.57%, 1.15%, 1.02%, 0.35% and 0.15% of each individual dye extraction, respectively.
The paper presents the idea to improve the performance of thin film photovoltaic cells by a light capture enhancement through the introduction of down shifting energy converters. Luminescent down shifting layers convert high-energy photons (UV light) into low-energy ones (visible light), which are more efficient in a photovoltaic conversion. For this purpose, the application of a thin layer composed of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles deposited onto a thin film solar cell is proposed. The paper presents both experimental and theoretical results of this approach. Conducted investigations include an analysis of ZnO nanoparticle layers, deposited in two independent technology methods. The results showed that ZnO nanoparticles have a great potential of application as down converting layers and can be implemented to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells, especially in the field of thin film PV structures. The proposed new deposition method can potentially be used in some industrial photovoltaic applications.
There exists a problem with an in situ diagnostics of contamination of ethyl alcohol in a human being exhaled air. When ethyl alcohol in a mouth blowing (in a gaseous state) exists, the characteristic C–H stretch absorption bands in –CH3 and –CH2 – functional groups in ethanol (CH3–CH2–OH) appear at a wavelength of λ = 3.42 μm. To investigate the presence of ethyl alcohol in exhaled human air, the light beam of λ = 3.42 μm is passing through an air sample. If one alternately measures the intensity of the investigated beam and the reference, a percentage of ethanol in the air sample can be estimated using a sensitive nondispersive infrared (NDIR) system with a stable operating flow mass detector. To eliminate a mechanical chopper and noise generating stepper motors, a photonic chopper as a liquid crystal shutter for λ = 3.42 μm has been designed. For this purpose, an innovative infrared nematic liquid crystal mixture was intentionally prepared. The working mixture was obtained by a selective removal of CH bonds and its exchange by heavier polar substituents, what ensures a lack of absorption band of C–H bonds. The paper presents theory, concept and final experimental results of the infrared nematic liquid crystals mixture and the liquid crystal shutter for breathalyzer applications.
The problem of influence of mechanical vibrations on a measurement is well known and analyzed for ground conditions. However, the problem becomes quite essential and difficult to solve in space conditions. The influence of vibrations on accuracy of the measurement was observed on MIPAS – ENVISAT and in PFS Mars Express.
This paper presents an experimental and theoretical investigation on sensitivity to mechanical disturbances of the Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer PFS.
A theoretical analysis has been performed in order to highlight the expected effect of the vibration, then laboratory tests have been designed and carried out for instrument characterization.
The theoretical investigation has been confirmed by experimental tests.
The data were distorted by errors that reflect the influence of vibrations on the instrument and temperature instability of the reference source.
The considerations are a perfect example presenting the scale of vibrations problem and the instability of the reference source in assessing accuracy of the measurement in space.
Propagation of linearly polarized light beams in a nematic liquid crystal cell with distinguished regions of different molecular orientation has been analyzed. Specifically, combination of the planar/homogenic and homeotropic alignment, forming thus spatially limited regions characterized by a different LC molecular orientation, has been tested, as achieved by means of the photo-orientation and photo-polymerization processes, independently. An influence of molecular orientation on the light beam propagation has been checked for different directions of the linear polarization. Thanks to the molecular reorientation induced by the low frequency external electric field and also to the reorientational nonlinearity taking place in NLCs, propagation direction of the light beam can be additionally controlled by the electric bias and/or optical power, respectively. Proposed structural solutions and techniques, related to the photo-orientation and photo-polymerization processes described in this communication, give rise to the novel LC geometries and structures. The latter act as promising candidates for new practical photonic applications as they are expected to be of a particular importance for integrated optic elements and devices.
To study the influence of structural features of phthalocyanine (Pc) derivatives on their physico-chemical properties in bulk and thin films, 23 new phthalocyanines with different quantity and ratio of donor (alkyloxy-groups, in fragment "A") and acceptor (Cl-, in fragment "B") substituents in one molecule of the A3B, ABAB and AABB types with varied length of alkyloxy-substituents and their metal complexes were designed and synthesized. A comparative analysis of spectral, mesomorphic and photoelectric properties of these mix-substituted phthalocyanines of a "push–pull" type was performed. It was shown that non-peripheral substitution by alkyloxy-fragments in hetero-substituted Pcs (similar to homo-substituted Pc) leads to red-shifting of the Q-band into near-IR region. The intensity of photoluminescence, position of peaks and their splitting are strongly connected with chemical structure of Pcs and the type of solvent. In contrast to non-mesogenic octyloxy-Pc (A4) having alkyloxy-substituents in non-peripheral positions, 22 of 23 synthesized compounds possess columnar mesomorphism. The change of donor–acceptor ratio can influence the type of mesophase. A new approach to the creation of materials for optoelectronics is proposed and implemented, which includes design of compounds possessing vitrification from mesophase with maintenance of a columnar order, absorption in the near IR-region of the spectrum and good performance electrophysical characteristics simultaneously.
Quantum dots, due to their unique optical properties, constitute significant materials for many areas of nanotechnology and bionanotechnology. This work presents a review of researches dedicated to the interaction between quantum dots (QDs) with human serum albumin (HSA) and human cell culture as important for nanomedicine applications. The optical properties of bio-nanocomplexes formed by nanoparticles including colloidal QDs (e.g., CdTe, CdS, CdCoS) and albumin are displayed. The absorption spectra show that adding HSA to colloidal QDs leads to a gradual decrease of absorption and broadening of the exciton structure. The photoluminescence quenching results indicate that the quenching effect of QDs on HSA fluorescence depends on the size and temperature. The nature of quenching is rather static, resulting in forming QD-HSA complexes. The CdTe QD-HSA complexes show chemical stability in a PBS buffer. Furthermore, it is stable in cytoplasm and suitable for cell labeling, tracking, and other bioimaging applications.
Analysis is performed of the contemporary views on the effect of ion etching (ion-beam milling and reactive ion etching) on physical properties of HgCdTe and on the mechanisms of the processes responsible for modification of these properties under the etching. Possibilities are discussed that ion etching opens for defect studies in HgCdTe, including detecting electrically neutral tellurium nanocomplexes, determining background donor concentration in the material of various origins, and understanding the mechanism of arsenic incorporation in molecular-beam epitaxy-grown films.
Opto-Electronics Review - Editorial Board
L. R. JAROSZEWICZ, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Deputy Editor-in Chief:
P. MARTYNIUK, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Board of Co-editors:
Optical Design and Applications
V.O. ANGELSKY, Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Image Processing
M. JÓŹWIK, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
T. ANTOSIEWICZ, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices. Semiconductor Lasers
M. DEMS, Łódź Technical University, Łódź, Poland
Optoelectronics Materials
D. DOROSZ, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland
Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems
T.P. GOTSZALK, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland
Infrared Physics and Technology
M. KOPYTKO, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Technology and Fabrication of Optoelectronic Devices
J. MUSZALSKI, Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Photonic Crystals
K. PANAJOTOV, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Laser Physics, Technology and Applications
J. ŚWIDERSKI, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Optical Sensors and Applications
M. ŚMIETANA, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
A. IWAN, Military Institute of Engineer Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Biomedical Optics and Photonics
A. LIEBERT, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw, Poland
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M. HENINI, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
B. JASKORZYNSKA, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
M. KIMATA, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan
R. KLETTE, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
S. KRISHNA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
H.C. LIU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
J. MISIEWICZ, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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Opto-Electronics Review was established in 1992 for the publication of scientific papers concerning optoelectronics and photonics materials, system and signal processing. This journal covers the whole field of theory, experimental verification, techniques and instrumentation and brings together, within one journal, contributions from a wide range of disciplines. Papers covering novel topics extending the frontiers in optoelectronics and photonics are very encourage. The main goal of this magazine is promotion of papers presented by European scientific teams, especially those submitted by important team from Central and Eastern Europe. However, contributions from other parts of the world are by no means excluded.
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Ranked Match
Ranked Match
Rank Match is the ultimate place where players battle it out to reach the top placements amount the competitive Hyper Universe community. While the matches function no differently than a Regular Match including the penalties for leaving the match or lobby, they hyper select phase begins after a drafting phase. Team leaders are able to ban hypers from play and each team takes turns picking hypers to play. Ranked matches provide similar rewards to regular matches along with a number of unique prizes. Ranked matchmaking is completely separate from regular match matching. Individual progress made within ranked matches are tracked and applied solely to this mode.
Differences between Ranked and Regular Play[edit | edit source]
- Players can only queue solo in Ranked play.
- Players cannot enter ranked play until account level 15 and with 12 hypers unlocked.
- Ranked match history and results are tracked independently of other modes and only affect ranked matchmaking and rewards.
- Ranked matches require teams to ban (remove) 4 hypers from being selected before hyper selection begins.
- Selected hypers are banned from selection from the other team (no mirror matches).
- Team alternate banning hypers and selecting hypers.
- All banned and selected hypers are visualized in the lobby for everyone to see.
- Player order on a team is arranged based on individual rank where the leader is the highest rank and so on.
Beginning your Ranked Career[edit | edit source]
To be eligible to play ranked matches, players need to achieve an account level of 15 and have unlocked 12 hypers. Hypers on free rotation are also calculated in number of unlocked hypers; this can lower the number of hypers a person might need to play ranked to a minimum of 6 hypers. While not required, it is recommended that the player understand as many of the elements of regular play (objectives, hyper skills, etc) as possible before queuing ranked. Similarly, players should be able to competently play at least 12 hypers due to hypers being banned in the draft lobby while being familiar with all hypers in the roster. As you beginning scoring within ranked mode, your position on a given team may change. From left to right, the team is placed from the player with the highest rank to the lowest. The player in the leftmost position is in control of banning hypers and is able to select their hyper before the others.
Ranked Lobby[edit | edit source]
There are three phases in the ranked lobby: ban, draft, and swap
Ban Phase[edit | edit source]
The Ban phase allows each team to remove 2 hypers from being selectable in the match. The player in the first position of each team is in control over what hyper gets banned, and the left team (Team A) selects their ban first. Afterwards, the right team (Team B) bans another hyper. After each team bans 2 hypers (4 in total), this phase progresses to the draft phase.
Draft Phase[edit | edit source]
In the Draft phase, each team selects their hypers. Team A selects first and the order progresses in a 1,2,2,2,1 fashion. Written another way, the draft phase progresses like this:
- Stage One: Team A picks one hyper
- Stage Two: Team B picks 2 hypers
- Stage Three: Team A picks 2 hypers
- Stage Four : Team B picks 2 hypers
- Stage Five: Team A picks 1 hyper
A hyper is selectable once. This means that if a hyper is banned or selected by either Team A or B, no other team may select that hyper for play. Once both teams have selected that 4 hyper roster, this phase transitions to the swap phase.
Swap Phase[edit | edit source]
In the swap phase, players are able to switch the hyper they have selected in the draft phase with another hyper their teammates selected. Once all of the Hypers have been selected for both teams you
will have a moment to try and switch Hypers between players on your own team. A box above the Hyper will pop up saying "Hyper Swap". If you click on this you will send a request to that player that will ask them if they would like to switch their Hyper with yours. If they confirm it then the two Hypers will be swapped. If they accept you will see a "Hyper Swap Completed" dialogue box. If they decline the swap you will see a "Your trade has been rejected" dialogue box. Use this time to adjust the time orientation as well as select the skin for your hyper.
Ranks in Ranked Mode[edit | edit source]
The current ranks are:

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~ plain black, leather school shoes (no trainers)
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Socks: Socks or tights should be worn and should be plain black, navy or dark grey.
Belts: if a belt is worn it should be plain black, navy or dark grey.
Outdoor Clothes: Denim, leather and brightly coloured jackets are not permitted in school.
Jewellery: Earrings, other than one pair of small studs are not allowed in school as they constitute a health and safety hazard. In the event of a child having her or his nose/eyebrow/lip/tongue/upper ear, etc. pierced, the stud must be removed during school hours. Plasters simply covering up these types of piercings will not be an acceptable alternative.
Make-up, Nails and Hairstyles: We consider it unnecessary for make-up to be worn at school. With this in mind, excessive self-tanning, foundation, highlighting, HD brows, false eyelashes, eye shadowing, blushers and lipsticks are not acceptable. Pupils are not permitted to wear any nail varnish and should not have nails of a length deemed unsafe. Nail Extensions, tips, acrylics, and gel nails are not acceptable. Pupils should not adopt 'extreme' hairstyles for example, bold unnatural colours or extremely short styles with shaved patterns. Long hair will need to be tied back in some lessons for health and safety reasons.
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Rage ~ The Wisdom Keeper of the Body
By Alison Dhuanna, UK Astrologer, 02/07/2017
As we lead into the Lunar Eclipse on the 10/11 February 2017 subconscious material is being released from the collective emotional body. The eclipses this year cross the Leo Aquarius axis. The Leo part of us asks to stand boldly in the light honouring ourselves. The Aquarius part asks us to learn to be in synergy with others. The Sabian Symbol for the Moon in this eclipse is 'In A Circus the Bareback Rider Displays Her Dangerous Skill'. The meaning is 'the audacity and perseverance required to control and play with the powerful energies of the vital realm in human existence'
This year Chiron, Neptune and Pallas Athena are transiting the South Node so many ancestral issues regarding the power of women will be erupting to the surface. One of these wounds I have been facing in myself and seeing in others around me is deep rage because of a violation of natural laws which occurred in womb time or during childhood. The following may be symptoms of such rage and this is not an all inclusive list:
- Addictions and behaviour which numbs feeling despite all your efforts to heal them
- Severe loss of energy
- Reacting very strongly when somebody violates your psychic or physical space, or tells you what to do
- Strong feelings such as revulsion or fear when faced with an invasive medical procedure
- Deep revulsion, fear and anger when seeing fracking or the DAPL pipeline issues, feeling your body is in resonance with violations of Earth Mother
- Memories surfacing of trauma giving birth to your children, feeling helpless or separated from your child
- Memories surfacing of violations in childhood or later in life such as abuse
- Feeling paralysed and possibly manifesting this physically
- Struggling to maintain connection with others
- Having a troubled relationship with food
- Feeling revulsion towards your body
- Never feeling satisfied or that you have or are enough
- Feeling unable to be intimate and present in a sexual relationship
- Compulsive behaviour with a deep need to control others and what is happening in your environment
In contemplating this we need to not get into guilt and blame; If Astrology teaches us anything it is that karmic patterns unfold and until we know, we don't know. We are swept along in great tides of collective issues and it takes strong will and support to turn things around. We are being presented with a portal of cosmic healing right now in which we may heal these deep traumas. It feels that it is a necessary part of the healing of the Warrior Woman archetype to heal there 'violation' traumas
I'm wanting this year to express how deeply the Goddess Asteroids affect human life. I had an Epiphany moment on the 1st January that these Goddess ways of being are the 'Exemplar Archetypes of the New Emerging Culture' for women and men. This was inspired by the Sabian Symbol of the New Moon. It is our future, our birth right to live as equals upon this beautiful Planet Earth. The Goddess Asteroids offer a detailed map of what is needed to be living the dream, the New Earth. I have created a free resource called 'Love the Body You're In' to illuminate how astrology can transform your life. You can sign up to be sent the videos and healing practices I have found work at http://schoolofastroshamanism.com/online-courses
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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds So broadening this discussion out, what is the social life of antibiotics? Well, the social life of antibiotics, in this context, is what social relations, whether they're meta, whether they're micro, shape what happens to them. So for example– and I'm going to go through some of these in the context of health– everything from the rituals of medicine, the problem of not knowing, of ignorance, of using antimicrobials as ultimately a means to be safe, from an individual's perspective, benevolence, caring for a person and seeing the use of these drugs as an act of benevolence, as a matter of manners or even consumerism, and, probably most challengingly, political will, or as an economic artefact of the way we choose to live.
Skip to 1 minute and 11 seconds So I'm going to unpack the social life of antibiotics and those that use them and those that need them to actually explore what is happening, why, and how we might actually change that. Underpinning all of what I'm going to say in the forthcoming points is a key fallacy that drives the whole sector of attempts to address antimicrobial resistance. And that is the fallacy of behaviour change. Now, for a social scientist, we know that an individual's behaviour is structured by the whole range of forces that essentially put them in the position they're in. So behaviour is a product of context. This has not been accommodated in the context of antimicrobial stewardship, of the response to antimicrobial resistance.
Skip to 2 minutes and 19 seconds What we still do, or what a lot of people or a lot of systems do, is they construct antimicrobial misuse as about bad behaviour, rather than as about systems or as about social relationships. What I want to do as a social scientist, and what we have been doing over the last nearly decade, is saying, antimicrobial resistance and the solutions therein are actually embedded in the cultural fabric of modern societies and the way we're organised economically, socially, and politically. Antimicrobial resistance is essentially the outcome or the problem of values and culture, rather than individual behaviour. So let's move beyond individual behaviour and think about, OK, what does actually drive what people do, how people act?
Skip to 3 minutes and 16 seconds And how might we change as a result? Antimicrobial stewardship has been a central platform for addressing antimicrobial resistance. Optimise, be judicious in how you utilise our remaining antimicrobials. AMS programmes, or antimicrobial stewardship programmes, aim to help clinicians and organisations optimise the treatment of infections and reduce adverse events associated with antibiotics– so in theory, a very positive move. Stewardship, unfortunately, in how it's been implemented, nationally and internationally, has tended towards what social scientists would say is the valorisation of the individual. The very logics that I was talking about before– the idea that a person behaves in particular ways and, therefore, they are responsible– have permeated the antimicrobial stewardship agenda.
Skip to 4 minutes and 20 seconds What we essentially have is a model of stewardship in our institutions that are about surveillance, restriction, and correction. That is all about identifying people, identifying problems or bad decisions, and correcting those. And there lies a major problem in this field– the idea that identifying and correcting individual actions might actually solve this problem. Yet, it absolutely does not address the sociological dimensions of why we are here in the first place– the structural dynamics of what is occurring.
Skip to 5 minutes and 1 second This idea of stewardship, or this vision of stewardship, is somewhat of a hangover, if you like, from this kind of rational therapeutics model that gained traction post-1950s– the idea that we can sort of just say, here's what you should do - change - and that these actors would somehow go, oh, OK, that's what we're supposed to do. And therefore, we'll act differently. We know, as social scientists, that, in fact, this is not how people change. It is actually understanding or recognition of why they act the way they do and developing support processes accordingly that promotes change. What I'm essentially arguing is that we need to reframe the problem.
Skip to 5 minutes and 45 seconds Surveillance, restriction, and correction models of antimicrobial stewardship neglect a whole range of societal considerations. And the focus on individual behaviour change is deeply rooted in ideology. It denies the why of how we act, the structural limitations of what we're able to do. It constructs us as actors when, in fact, we can't necessarily act any other way. So what we can do is use a sociological perspective to say, OK, why do people continue to so-call act irrationally? And how might we actually address those institutionally, rather than just tell people what to do or how to behave differently? Another key issue in antimicrobial resistance, but also attempts to optimise, is the fact that institutions vary considerably over place, over locale.
Skip to 6 minutes and 51 seconds What we have, often, is a set of core institutions, often in metropolitan centres, major cities, who say, this is what we need to do. And what you then get is peripheral or marginal locations who actually aren't resourced in the same ways, who aren't experiencing, say, antimicrobial resistance as a core issue, who are experiencing other priorities, and who aren't necessarily going to take that well to being told, here's a national framework. This is what you need to do, and this is how you need to do it. So from a social science perspective, it's really important to think about core periphery relations in the context of antimicrobial resistance and in the context of antimicrobial stewardship.
Skip to 7 minutes and 45 seconds So given that, we, as part of this large study that we completed, went to a remote hospital. And we did interviews with clinicians there to talk to them about, what do you think of antimicrobial resistance? And what do you think about antimicrobial stewardship? Here's a response that one person gave me in an interview whilst doing fieldwork. I've worked in pools of pus. I've learned how to give antibiotics robustly. But the antimicrobial people, they'll come along, and they'll have a heart attack, won't they? They're wrong. I'm getting attacked continually. We'll get to see our adverse outcomes from not treating with antibiotics. To start nit-picking about the number of antibiotics, the dose of antibiotics, is just simply folly.
Skip to 8 minutes and 33 seconds I don't see how we can just say, as a profession, we're going to follow some trendy concept, and the resulting patient deaths are OK. Now, I view this quote and the many other stories that I got, spending time in this remote hospital, as evidence of the importance of understanding people's contexts, what they're facing, the challenges that they have managing external expectations versus local constraints.
Skip to 9 minutes and 7 seconds Highly vulnerable populations: they're working with essentially very limited resources. And yet, we come in saying, you need to wind back your antimicrobials. You need to do this, and you need to do that. And that simply will not work. We heard this story over and over again. And one of our take-home messages here, in terms of how to respond to antimicrobial resistance, is that if you don't understand and encompass people's context, you will never get them to change. I want to sum up this talk on the social life of antibiotics by reiterating the core point.
Skip to 9 minutes and 47 seconds Use of antimicrobials is governed by a range of social factors, ranging from political will, ignorance, ritual, benevolence, manners, deference, fear, consumerism– which I haven't touched on here but is an incredibly important dynamic– and risk. If we don't look at antimicrobial resistance as a sociological problem, we will be entrenched in these social practises, but yet considering them to be a rational medical act. And that is a major costly and global problem. To conclude, social dynamics have a major influence on our capacity to enact antimicrobial stewardship and to even decelerate antimicrobial resistance. The social remains our best chance of protecting the existing drugs we have, but, most importantly, protecting any that we develop.
Skip to 11 minutes and 0 seconds If we don't change and address social dynamics, we will have the same problems, no matter how many drugs we develop in the future. Interventions that just count, that give us data about 'what' but don't give us any data about 'why', will be costly and ultimately construct those often most vulnerable as hot spots of bad prescribing or overuse, taking in no account of why that might be the case. Take-home message from a social science perspective– if you don't document why, you won't be able to promote change. I'm Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology from the University of Sydney, and thanks for listening to the social life of antibiotics.
What is the social life of antibiotics?
In this video, Professor Alex Broom continues to discuss the social life of antibiotics in the context of social science. This step focuses on:
- How antimicrobial resistance can be viewed as a consequence of individual behaviours – the behaviours of patients, the public and that of policy makers, healthcare providers and governments.
- How the current model of antimicrobial stewardship generally focuses on surveillance, restriction and correction approaches, and less so on addressing the drivers for why individuals behave the way they do. This includes why people sometimes don't do something even when they know they should and also why they may do something even when they know they should not.
- Whether tacit or explicit, culture matters in healthcare. It has the power to moderate behaviours and shape intervention outcomes.
- An example from social science research involving interviews with clinicians in a remote hospital to better understand their perspective on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance.
- We need a better understanding of culture, if we want to develop interventions which are successful and sustainable.
- This is particularly true in antimicrobial stewardship, where multiple teams share responsibility for the treatment of infections in individual patients.
Please see below for further reading related to this presentation.
If you would like to hear more from Professor Alex Broom on his work involving social science to better understand some context-specific drivers in action then please view the full video presentation here.
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Two projects shared top honors at the 2018 International Housewares Association's 25th annual Student Design Competition.
The first prize went to Arizona State University graduate Lauren Emmerson from Bend, OR, and senior Anastasia Miller from Boston and their Domi Care At Home Pap Test. First place also went to Carleton University senior Ben Kaufmann from Ottawa, Canada, with his BIO Water Distiller.
First place winners get a $2,500 cash prize as well an all-expense paid trip to Chicago for the 2018 International Home + Housewares Show, March 10 to 13.
Second-place honors went to Andrew Ferrier, a Carleton University senior from Ottawa, Canada, for his Botany Child-Proof Cannabis Container; and to Chicago native Caleb Blankenbaker, a University of Illinois at Chicago junior, for his Arome Coffee Bean Roaster.
Third-place honors went to Cody Moore, a Savannah College of Art & Design graduate from Salisbury, MD, for Sift Filtration Systems; and to Brandon Rodriguez, a Cleveland Institute of Art senior from Cleveland, for the Novus Home Brewing Beer System.
Honorable Mentions went to:
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- Brandon Rodriguez, Cleveland Institute of Art, Orbis Sustainable Air Circulator/Purifier
- Logan Gage, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Twist Jar Opener
- Shahd Zubier, Rochester Institute of Technology, Arc Children's Dinnerware
- Loren Chen, University of Notre Dame, Yuan Cookware
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Aug. 01
The Church Fathers on the Antichrist, Part 3 — What Holly Thinks
What did early Christians believe about the Antichrist and whether the Church will be persecuted by him? Part 3 of this four-part series looks at what Irenaeus had to say.
Aug. 01
What did early Christians believe about the Antichrist and whether the Church will be persecuted by him? Part 3 of this four-part series looks at what Irenaeus had to say.
Aug. 03
What did early Christians believe about the Antichrist and whether the Church will be persecuted by him? Part 4 of this four-part series looks at what Hippolytus had to say.
Aug. 06
"Despite Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to resign, the peace process continues on several tracks."
Aug. 06
Aug. 07
Christian and Muslim leaders from around the world attended a groundbreaking conference at Yale University, July 28-31, where they called for more interfaith dialogue based on their shared beliefs. Follow-up conferences are scheduled, including one at the Vatican in November.
Aug. 08
FP founder Herb Peters wondered if the pullout of U.S. forces in Iraq could cause a crisis in the Middle East, triggering the Antichrist's use of emergency powers in 2010. Now, President Bush is considering this very timeline to withdraw troops.
Aug. 09
So you think God is good? Get ready, you don't know the half of it.
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Aug. 10
Jerusalem Post columnist Herb Keinon said Israel is seeking to stay out of the Georgian-Russian flare-up because Israel doesn't want to cross Russia, who can provide powerful weapons to Israel's enemies. Yet, despite Israel's best efforts, Bible prophecy reveals that in the last days Russia will lead an invasion against Israel (Ezekiel 38 and 39).
Aug. 11
I'm often asked how I can believe that Christ, the Groom, would allow the Church, His beloved bride, to be persecuted by the Antichrist.
Aug. 12
In a rush to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians before he leaves office, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert presented an offer that included withdrawal from most of the West Bank, according to the Hebrew press. But the Palestinian Authority said it would reject the offer because it doesn't call for the establishment of a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Aug. 14
What does the face of evil look like? Watch this video produced by interns at the United Nations, and see how kind the young people look as they promote the Alliance of Civilizations initiative.
Aug. 16
The Olympic slogan of "faster, higher, stronger" may be inspirational for those who are at the peak of their strength, youth and success, but what hope is there for the rest of us?
Aug. 17
What is America's greatest moral failure? That was one of the questions pastor Rick Warren posed to presidential hopeful Barack Obama during the Saddleback Civil Forum on Saturday night.
Aug. 20
Many Christians wonder, Will the Antichrist's rule be the same worldwide? FP founder Herb Peters gave his opinion on this question in an article originally published in April 2007.
Aug. 20
"Moscow is expected to propose a revival of its Cold War era naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, which would give the Russian Navy its first foothold in the Mediterranean for two decades," according to a Times Online article. The stage is being set for a Russian-led invasion of Israel, prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39.
Aug. 21
The only hope for reaching a peace agreement is with the current Palestinian leadership, according to Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. Livni is the front runner in the Kadima election to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Her top opponent, Shaul Mofaz, opposes dividing Jerusalem to make peace.
Aug. 24
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive in the Middle East on Monday for another visit intended to spur the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Rice and Israeli officials will discuss Russia's desire to hold a Middle East peace conference in November, in light of Russia's recent aggression in Georgia. They'll also discuss the Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Aug. 25
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders hosted the first-ever interfaith gathering at a Democratic National Convention. The convention will include four "faith caucus" meetings and invocations and benedictions by spiritual leaders to open and close each night, including a benediction on Thursday night by evangelical megachurch pastor Joel Hunter.
Aug. 26
With a new U.S. administration on the way, the United States will be unable to broker Middle East peace until at least the spring of 2009, according to an article published in the International Herald Tribune. Until then, the EU must fill the void — and the only person fit for the job is Javier Solana.
Aug. 28
The ecumenical movement reached new heights Thursday night, at the Democratic National Convention, when evangelical pastor Joel Hunter encouraged attendees to close the evening with a prayer to Jesus, Allah or Whoever.
Aug. 29
The Bible tells us that in the last days false prophets will increase. In this essay titled "How to Try the Spirits," the beloved American pastor A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) reveals seven ways to tell if a teaching or experience is of God.
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When the chips are down, we do everything we can to walk the line. But when things are good, we get slack. If you're heading into a time of blessing, there's one thing you'd better not forget.
Aug. 31
Israel— "Kadima leadership candidate Shaul Mofaz attacked his main competition in the September 17 primary on Sunday, accusing Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of dividing Jerusalem. Mofaz said he heard that Livni had made concessions on Jerusalem in the negotiations that she leads with the Palestinians."


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Aida Gonzalez Palomino
Market Analyst - Americas
Aida is the market analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa at SGS INSPIRE. She is an expert in energy and transport policy.
Aida is the market analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa for the INSPIRE Project. She is an expert in energy and transport policy.
Aida joined SGS INSPIRE in May 2019, as a market analyst responsible for the Americas region. She is an expert in energy related issues, mostly fuel quality, electricity, transport and environment, and brings 14 years of experience in consulting, policy development and market analysis in Europe and Latin America.
Prior to joining SGS INSPIRE, Aida was the energy policy director at the Spanish Photovoltaic Association, and advisor at the European Electricity Association, where she did policy development work for renewable electricity, advising governments and the industry. She was Manager for Latin America at Hart Energy, where she covered fuel quality regulation and biofuel markets. She also worked as a project manager for a German Photovoltaic company.
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Black Ops 4 Guide: How to Unlock New Characters in Blackout
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has officially released, and Treyarch's latest entry is certainly a bold move for the long-running series (one that is paying off for critics, including our own). Featuring three separate modes with classic multiplayer, a returning and expanded Zombies mode, and of course the new battle royale mode in Blackout. Each of these modes have their own unique progression system, with standard multiplayer and Zombies both using similar leveling systems to unlock in-game weapons and perks.
Blackout, on the other hand, requires a little more involvement from Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players to unlock characters, which is arguably the mode's biggest unlockable content (given that weapon unlock rewards would be pointless for a battle royale mode). Right off the bat, Blackout doesn't exactly do the best job of explaining how this is done and it could prove confusing for new players who haven't had time to research the intricate details associated with the mode.
Related: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Trophy List Completely Revealed
Luckily enough, those players can easily learn how to unlock available players now with this handy Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 guide. Keep in mind, for some characters it's not yet clear how they become available for unlocking, so this guide will only cover characters who can be unlocked at the time of this writing.
Standard Blackout Characters
While there are special characters from previous Call of Duty titles that have unique missions available in-game to unlock, perhaps it's best to start with the standard characters as they don't require complex missions to unlock. In fact, all players have to do is level up by gaining merits in-game and they will eventually unlock the following characters for play. For a list of the characters and their required level (called echelons in Blackout), just read below:
- Ranger – Echelon 20
- Frogman – Echelon 40
- Airborne – Echelon 60
- Seal – Echelon 80
- Battle Hardened – Prestige
Torque, a new addition to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and the franchise as a whole, is part of the specialist characters section and will require some work from players to unlock. The character unlock is part of the Note from Torque Challenge Mission (which can be found randomly in Supply Drops during a match), and its requirements are as follows (keep in mind, all challenges must be completed in-game during a single Blackout game):
- Must deploy 2 Razor Wires.
- Must deploy a Barricade.
- Must place in the top 15 of Blackout.
- Must have the Note from Torque in their inventory.
Ajax is another new character for the franchise and yet another specialist that will require certain steps in order to unlock him. In order to unlock, players must find the Broken Armor Plating Challenge, which can be looted randomly from fallen players. Here's the requirements:
- Loot three armour plates from fallen enemies.
- Finish the match with the armour plates in inventory.
The third entry in the specialist section of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode, Crash is again a new character in the series, but one that may take a little more work than the previous characters. To unlock Crash, players must complete the Poker Chip challenge, which can be found from Trauma cases. Other prerequisites include:
- Complete the match in the top 3.
- Complete the game with 15 healing items in inventory.
- Complete match with Poker Chip in inventory.
A returning character featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Battery will be a fun one to unlock for players who love to blow other players to smithereens. To unlock, players must first find Battery's War Machine Grenade Launcher. Once players have done that, they simply need to do the following:
- With the launcher equipped, kill a few unlucky players.
- Finish in the top 15.
Yet another character previously featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Firebreak should fulfill a player's inner pyro needs. To start, players must first find the Burned Doll item. After that, simply do this:
- Get a clean kill or sweep a downed player using any method that utilizes fire.
- Finish a round with the Burned Doll in inventory.
Recon is another Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 character that requires multiple steps to unlock. First off, characters will need to find the item 1 Ching Coins in supply drops or other supply boxes. With that done, other requirements include:
- Keep the 1 Ching Coins in player's inventory.
- Avoid collapse damage from the circle.
- Reach top 15 in Blackout.
Frank Woods
Fan favorite Call of Duty: Black Ops character Frank Woods has made his return in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode, and unlocking him could prove difficult depending on how lucky a player gets. Here's what players need to do:
- Find Wood's Bandana on the map.
- Ride a helicopter with the bandana in player's inventory.
Raul Menendez
Since fan favorite good guy Frank Woods made a return, it's only natural that well-regarded villain Raul Menendez should also make an appearance in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Unlocking Menendez will require a player to get up close and personal to enemy players, however. These are the requirements:
- Find the Locket item somewhere on in-game.
- Get a shotgun kill on another player.
- Get a melee kill on yet another player.
Shadow Man
This character will not require any special in-game challenges, but instead will require a player to have the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 season pass.
Once again, keep in mind that this list is not yet complete, as not all challenges have been uncovered due to the random nature of discovering needed items. This guide will be updated as more information about Blackout characters becomes available. In the meantime, players should be plenty busy unlocking the above characters thanks to the challenging nature of competing with 99 other players likely trying to achieve the same thing. Some may find this irksome, but it's certainly a unique way for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Treyarch to ensure it's not too easy for their fans to unlock characters quickly.


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Around the Erei mountains and the Dittaino Valley, in the Sicilian province of Enna, the springs are rainy and the summers humid. The rich variety of plants (sulla, vetch, rosemary, wild fennel and many others typical of the Mediterranean maquis) growing between 400 and 800 meters above sea level makes this one of the parts of the island with the highest number of sheep farms. The native Sicilian sheep breeds raised in these hills include Comisana, Pinzirita and Valle del Belice.
Since ancient times, their milk has been flavored with locally grown saffron and turned into Piacentinu, a sheep's milk cheese, named after the dialect word for "which is liked." Over the centuries, different anecdotes have attached themselves to the cheese. According to legend, in the 11th century, Ruggero I, Count of Altavilla, cured his wife Adelasia's depression by asking local cheesemakers to add a pinch of saffron to their sheep's cheese.
Produced in nine municipalities in the province of Enna, the cheese has a compact texture and a unique appearance. The use of saffron gives the cheese a distinctive yellow color, and the paste is studded with whole black peppercorns, which are soaked in hot water the evening before the cheese is made. The processing technique, which involves the addition of hot water to the curd and a careful use of salt, make this one of Sicily's least "aggressive" cheeses, with a more "European" style than many others from the island.
After being aged for around 60 days, Enna Piacentinu develops a delicate fragrance and aromatic flavor, with a gentle sweetness from the saffron.
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It's Thanksgiving Week! I've put together some of my favorite thanksgiving recipes that I've shared over the years here at Blackberry Babe. I hope that you have a wonderful holiday with friends and family, filled with great food!
Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes
I like to keep Thanksgiving appetizers simple, just providing a few things to snack on so folks don't ruin their appetite! I recommend providing a simple charcuterie tray and a dip, like this Easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip.
If you want to put in some extra effort, make this awesome Bacon Jam a few days beforehand and serve it with crackers! Or, you can always make this amazing Candied Bacon Baked Brie.
Thanksgiving Main Course Recipes
I am fairly traditional, and love to serve turkey at Thanksgiving. But, plain oven roasted turkey is not my preference! You should buy about one pound of turkey per person attending your Thanksgiving feast!
My favorite way to prepare a turkey is by frying it. This Deep Fried Cajun Turkey is my absolute favorite way to prepare my Thanksgiving turkey.
If you prepare to smoke your bird, I have a great tutorial here. Or, try this quick Oven Roasted Turkey topped with a Maple Bourbon Glaze!
(Make sure to save your Thanksgiving leftovers for this easy Cranberry Turkey Sliders!)
If turkey isn't your thing, you can still put together a special Thanksgiving main course! Here are my recommendations for non-turkey Thanksgiving Main Courses!
- Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Blackberry Merlot Sauce: A simple, affordable main with a seasonal sauce.
- Bacon Wrapped Beef Tenderloin with Balsamic Fig Sauce: The sauce on this beef tenderloin is a show stopper!
- Grilled Flank Steak with Caramelized Onion Sauce: This savory flank steak can be seared on the grill or in a large skillet!
Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes
For side dishes, plan on at least 4 options. I like to serve about a ½ cup per person for each side dish provided. You should plan on at least two vegetable side dishes and two starch side dishes.
Starchy Side Dishes for Thanksgiving
- Cheesy Corn Casserole
- Caramelized Onion and Bacon Mashed Potatoes
- Crispy Roasted Purple Potatoes with Shallots and Chives
- Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
- Mexican Corn Bake
- Jiffy Sweet Corn Spoon Bread
Vegetable Side Dishes for Friendsgiving:
- Cranberry Pecan Brussels Sprouts Salad
- Cabbage, Radish, and Apple Slaw
- Glazed Green Bean Bundles
- Kale Salad with Apples and Bacon
- Autumn Broccoli Salad
- Roasted Balsamic Brussels Sprouts
- Drunken Mushrooms
- Classic Green Bean Casserole
Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
Want something other than the traditional pumpkin pie for your Thanksgiving Dessert? Here are my favorite Thanksgiving dessert options on the site!
- Pecan Pie Cheesecake
- Pecan Pie Cobbler
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cake
- Easy Cranberry Buttermilk Pie
- Easy Caramel Apple Dump Cake
Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipes
I firmly believe that you should have a cocktail in hand while you're cooking for Thanksgiving! My two favorites are these Cranberry Moscow Mules, and this Caramel Apple Sangria.
If you want to start the day off right, these Cranberry Mimosas are perfect! I have even more Thanksgiving cocktail ideas here, in my post "10 Thanksgiving Cocktails to Truly Be Thankful For!"


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On vacation . . .
Picture me, right in the middle of that photo, for a week. I wish you were all going with me. See you when I get back!
By Carole
heather says
I wish I was going! It's beautiful.
Have a wonderful, relaxing time!
heather says
I wish I was going! It's beautiful.
Have a wonderful relaxing time!
margene says
Have a super good time and I'll try to put up with your bragging! What!? No laptop?
Michelle says
Liz says
This looks like Maine to me, where are you headed? Have a nice trip. 🙂
sandy says
MIss you already!
Cheryl says
Have fun!
Rachel H says
Have fun!
Kathy says
Have fun, chica!! Wish I was going too!!
Scout says
Wow. That's gorgeous.
Manise says
Have a fun-filled blog-free vacation on the Cape!
Allison says
Looks like you're going to have a relaxing east coast vacation! I'm sure you'll come back with some great pics to share.
Jess says
Have a great time! :o)
jillian says
Wow. Have fun!
maryse says
ooh pretty!
have fun! you're going to have beautiful weather this week.
Beautiful! Enjoy!
Chris says
Have a great time!!
Birdsong says
Oh, the beach… you have my yearning to fit in your suitcase. Have a wonderful, restful and fun vacation.
Kat says
Ahhhhh. (sigh of contentment)
Have a wonderful time.
elizabeth says
::jealous!!:: have a great time!
SpiderWomanKnits says
Have a great time 🙂
Karen says
Have a fun and relaxing vacation Carole! 🙂
Teyani says
spectacular. I'm imaginarily digging my toes in the sand, right alongside you.
Laurie says
That is 'feed the soul' scenery. Lucky girl. Have a wonderful time!
Joanne says
Looks amazing! Must be on the Cape? Have a lobstah for me. 🙂
Chris says
Oh, I bet you're having a wonderful time – even if I am picturing myself on the lounger next to you! 😉
grnydgrl says
Ooh–wrong coast, but reminds me of Oregon! Have fun.
Rachel says
Your wish that we were going with you pales in comparison to MY wish that I were going with you! That looks idyllic. Have a wonderful time!
Have a wonderful time. It's a beautiful place!
melanie says
holy crap. that's gorgeous!
Lisa says
It's turning into a great week weatherwise. Enjoy! Did you see, you won another contest!!
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Oh, I do wish I were there with you! What a beautiful place. Hope you enjoy it!


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The EB-5 visa category was developed by the United States Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors.
The underlying policies of the EB-5 investor visa were designed to benefit the U.S. economy in general, including economically disadvantaged communities, American workers, and attract foreign-national investors. The goal of the EB-5 investor visa program is to generate a "win-win" scenario for all parties involved or affected.
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However, the USCIS took this great idea and made it complicated. The EB-5 visa program has been very successful for both the American economy and foreign investors. It has created a lot of jobs and helped in low employment areas. Since 2008, this program has resulted in an estimated $22 billion in foreign direct investment into the U.S. economy and created about 276,000 jobs, according to the EB-5 trade group, Invest In the USA (IIUSA).
On July 24, 2019, USCIS published a final rule amending Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations governing the employment-based, fifth preference (EB-5) immigrant investor classification and associated regional centers. This final rule comes into effect on November 21, 2019.
The DHS has decided to try and take control of TEA designations. This means that instead of going to the Census Bureau or the state agency, DHS wants to make decisions on behalf of the states.
Central control over TEA designations will lengthen the process and make it less efficient. The states have benefited enormously from EB-5 investment projects and are fighting the decision to centralize TEA designations.
Targeted Employment Areas (TEAs) are rural or high unemployment areas that are usually designated by the state. The investment rate for those areas is being raised from $500k to $900k.
In all other areas, such as cities, with low unemployment rates, the minimum investment threshold for those projects is being raised from $1m to $1.8m
With DHS centralized control over TEA designations, there will inevitably be less of the lower investment properties available. The lower investment properties will go quickly. So, essentially, the investment amount will go from $500k to $1.8k for a lot of different investors and increase delays for certain countries.
The new law doesn't go into play until November 1, 2019. If you want to secure an EB-5 visa, now is the time before it gets a lot more expensive and complicated.
We help secure visas for many diverse projects. For example, in one case, a client bought a hotel/motel chain. Similarly, we help people that work through regional centers. For the regional centers, we partner with brokers to have them advise the client on the best investment projects.
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I have a few. The one that springs to mind was not being honest with a client about the fact my office was in my house. In the initial meeting I had to upsell myself against a couple of local agencies who had fancy premises. I knew they were the types of clients who needed to be woo'd by this, so I talked about my office with my head held high (I had just moved out of my actual office–working with mainly USA clients made my expensive office obsolete).
I remember working and then hearing a large car pull up on the driveway. I was feeling particularly poorly that day and suddenly saw it was the aforementioned client and his son. I jumped under my desk, neatly pulling my chair in, giving myself an inch of room. I could see through the cracks that they were pushing their hands up against the lounge window and talking to each other, very confused about my "office".
They eventually pulled away after dropping the cheque for the deposit through my letterbox.
Suffice to say, I didn't lie about my "home office" situation after that. It didn't crop up again though, as my office in my new house is one I would happily (and have) invited clients to.
My other mistake, although not really my mistake, was not educating a client that websites didn't automatically translate themselves depending on where you were in the world. The client rang me up (steaming angry) from France, asking why, when she accessed her website from the hotel computer, her website was in English.
That was one of my favourite (but absolutely bizarre) telephone calls, ever.
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British newspaper, 'The Guardian' and 'The Observer', a weekly, had released video footage of police involvement in 'human safaris' in the Andaman Islands. The videos were recently aired on the two Delhi-based channels.
The policeman had allegedly taken a bribe of 200 GBP to take tourists into the protected Jarawa reserve.
While Andaman and Nicobar police remained tight-lipped about the incident, administration sources told PTI that legal notice would be served on the two TV Channels regarding this matter as the footage was one-sided and they had not taken the version of administration or cross-checked with it.
The sources said the administration was "totally against Jarawa tourism" but ruled out closure of the Andaman Trunk (ATR) road ordered by the Supreme Court a decade ago to protect the Jarawa habitat. The road cuts through South Andaman where the Jarawa reserve is located, linking Port Blair with Diglipur in North Andaman.
The official said any decision on closure of the road, the lifeline of the Middle and North Andamans, would take time as it was a policy decision but said an alternative route via sea was being chalked out to bypass the Jarawa reserve.
A Supreme Court ruling in 2002 on the Shekhar Singh Commission report had ordered closure of the ATR road to protect the Jarawas. The scandal, first exposed by Survival International, an NGO in 2010, involves tourists using an illegal road to enter the reserve of the Jarawa tribe.
Tour companies and cab drivers 'attract' the Jarawa with biscuits and sweets, The Guardian and The Observer had said in their report pulished in January last year.
The video showed a group of Jarawa women being ordered to dance for tourists by a policeman, who had reportedly accepted a £200 bribe to take them into the reserve.
One tourist had previously described a similar trip to the newspapers. "The journey through tribal reserve was like a safari ride as we were going amidst dense tropical rainforest and looking for wild animals, Jarawa tribals, to be specific", he said.
Survival has called for tourists to boycott the road. Working with a local organization, SEARCH, Survival has distributed leaflets to tourists arriving at the Islands' airport warning of the dangers of using the road.
Survival's Director Stephen Corry said, "This story reeks of colonialism and the disgusting and degrading 'human zoos' of the past."
"Quite clearly, some people's attitudes towards tribal people haven't moved on a jot. The Jarawa are not circus ponies bound to dance at anyone's bidding," Cory said.
The lone Member of Parliament from the Islands, Bishnu Pada Ray told PTI that the video tapes were very old and government should take immediate action against this.
He said that ATR road should not be shut down because the ATR is the life line of Middle and North Andamans people.
He also said in the present scenario, the Jarawas wanted to come into mainstream and the government needed to "welcome and support the Jarawa community to join the mainstream on humanitarian ground."
Renowned environmentalist of Andaman, Samir Achariya, however, supported the Shekhar Singh Commission recommendation on closure of the ATR road for survival of primitive Jarawa tribe.
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British newspaper, 'The Guardian' and 'The Observer', a weekly, had released video footage of police involvement in 'human safaris' in the Andaman Islands. The videos were recently aired on the two Delhi-based channels.


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Role: Teenage/college-age Randall Pearson
Show: "This Is Us"
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Season: 4
Premiere Date: Tuesday, September 24, 9 p.m. ET
Niles Fitch has a poise and confidence that defy his mere 18 years of age. As the young adult version of Sterling K. Brown's Emmy-winning character Randall Pearson on "This Is Us," the Atlanta-born actor has a great training ground. Driven from a young age to act, Fitch takes his position seriously. During the NBC American Black Film Festival (ABFF) luncheon, Fitch shared his willingness to be a role model and why:
"There's nothing like being young and seeing how much your performance can have an impact on people. I believe it creates this hunger force…I don't feel any pressure because I want to inspire. So, for me, it's never been 'Oh, I'm afraid to be a role model.' … Like a year ago, this mom sent me a photo of her son who got a haircut and she was like 'oh he wanted a Niles Fitch haircut,' and that made me emotional because it was just crazy to me that I inspired that boy so much. … The only [young black boys] I saw was like the Fresh Prince [Will Smith] but none that were under 18. I don't even think there were black boys on TV like that. You know it was "Just Jordan" [on Nickelodeon starring comedian Lil' JJ, 2007–2008] growing up and "Cory in the House" [the Disney "That's So Raven" spinoff starring Kyle Massey]…so there were no [role models] for me [in dramatic roles,] but that just made me eager to be one."