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[Series] Stillbirths: ending preventable deaths by 2030
Efforts to achieve the new worldwide goals for maternal and child survival will also prevent stillbirth and improve health and developmental outcomes. However, the number of annual stillbirths remains unchanged since 2011 and is unacceptably high: an estimated 2·6 million in 2015. Failure to consistently include global targets or indicators for stillbirth in post-2015 initiatives shows that stillbirths are hidden in the worldwide agenda. This Series paper summarises findings from previous papers in this Series, presents new analyses, and proposes specific criteria for successful integration of stillbirths into post-2015 initiatives for women's and children's health.

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377,000 students. 1,300 schools. In 1960, AIR launched Project Talent, the largest and most comprehensive study of high school students ever conducted in the United States. Now, as the original study participants move into retirement, Project Talent has become a promising resource for understanding the aging process.
Created by AIR's founder, John Flanagan, and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the study assessed a broad cross-section of the American high school population. Students participated in a two-day battery of tests and questionnaires covering aptitude, abilities, interests, and individual and family characteristics. Until 1974, the study followed these students, collecting new data at one, five, and eleven years after their expected high school graduation date.
The purpose of the study was to (1) create a national inventory of human resources and talent, (2) better understand the processes by which young people choose and advance their careers, and (3) discern which experiences and influences are the most important in preparing students for their future.
Today, Project Talent is being developed as a resource on aging and the life course and offers the ability to study special populations including twins, veterans, and racial/ethnic groups. The existing data are being used to address questions about early life predictors of mortality and resilience, and sources of variation in intellectual abilities and achievements associated with schools, families, and biological mechanisms. A pilot study conducted in 2011-12 demonstrated the feasibility of locating and engaging the original participants whose last point of contact may have been more than 50 years ago.
AIR's work on Project Talent has included the following:
- Launching a major study of Project Talent's twins and their siblings in order to develop the country's first nationally-representative twins and siblings database (see below for more information)
- Modernizing the Project Talent data and data documentation and working to make the data more accessible to researchers
- Locating, tracking, and reengaging study participants
- Designing sampling and data collection plans and analyzing the impact of methodological procedures
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
J ~ Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming...
61 comments:
What I need to do is just keep visiting, just keep visiting!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Swimming is fun. I can agree with that !! MY post today is Just another thing tooReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM
That was a sweet little movie. Poor Dory often didn't know WHERE she was swimming to but she did Keep On Swimming for sure.ReplyDelete
I heard that there's going to be a movie called Finding Dory in a couple of years? Not sure if that's true.ReplyDelete
I am swimming, but I notice that my comments have dropped off, overall bloggers on the list are slacking or a letter or two behind, and I've lost one follower.
- AnonymousApril 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Just keep writing,ReplyDelete
That's a good attitude, and one that's essential once you're out of your depth. Grin. I'm swimming effortlessly.ReplyDelete
what happened to my j post... ahhh someone most deleted in...ReplyDelete
Just seems to be a popular J word today! :) Happy J Day!ReplyDelete
You're so right! Then why do we fret?ReplyDelete
Keep the momentum going. Just keep vising, just keep reading, just keep encouraging...ReplyDelete
I'm always using that little quote from Dory. It gets stuck in your head like bad elevator music. :)ReplyDelete
Just Keep Swimming. Great attitude!ReplyDelete
Writer In Transit
There has been many times where myself or a writer friend quoted Dory's swimming line as encouragement to keep going.ReplyDelete
Patricia Lynne
I didn't get my J post up until around 9 a.m. this morning. However, I prefer writing my posts as the challenge goes on. My brain works better that way. Pre-writing them didn't work for me.ReplyDelete
One of my favourites too!ReplyDelete
I'm swimming away, happily.
Oh I love Finding Nemo! This post made me smile, and it's inspiring too. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for staying on top of things, Tina. You're a star!ReplyDelete
An A to Z Co-Host
Tossing It Out
Love that line! We were talking about this just the other day. wonderful.ReplyDelete
Still here, still working my way through the list of blogs! It's quite the workout, but I am loving every blog I see so far. :)ReplyDelete
Here is today's entry from me!
Lovely post, I love both the movies that you mentioned. I like Dory's motto of Just Keep Swimming that's what we should do in Life, Just keep Moving Forward, no matter how much the currents try to keep us behind.ReplyDelete
DAMN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . I cant swim.ReplyDelete
I love Dory! She does have a great attitude.ReplyDelete
I think someone else commented that they needed to "just keep visiting, keep visiting…" and I am totally in that mindset at this point. :-)
Lyre at Lyre's Musings
Love it! Thanks, Tina:)ReplyDelete
Now I have that ear worm in my head for the rest of the day!ReplyDelete
Tim Brannan
The Other Side and The Witch
Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword
The Freedom of Nonbelief
Swimming is fine. Writing is fine. My visiting has been pretty pathetic. I'll try to catch up this weekend!ReplyDelete
I love that movie, but now that quote will be stuck in my head all day.....ReplyDelete
Now this will be stuck in my head all day... However, I love Finding Nemo and Dory! Such a great performance by Ellen DeGeneres!ReplyDelete
Great encouragement!ReplyDelete
I mentally quote Dory to myself all the time! It's definitely a great push!ReplyDelete
This is a great post! I liked reading this very much since it describes my writing situation.ReplyDelete
Dory is very smart for a fish with no memory. Can't wait for Finding Dory to come out!ReplyDelete
Shawn at http://laughingatlife232.blogspot.com/p/laughing-store.html
I love How to Train your Dragon, but have yet to discover why the Vikings have Scottish accents. I only ever watched Finding Nemo once, enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
I've really never understood why that movie is so popular. It's ok, but I just can't get all excited about it the way it seems all my friends can.ReplyDelete
But Just Keep Swimming is a good motto.
Must...keep...swimming...No matter what...ReplyDelete
Jessica at Scary-Simple-Smitten
Yes! Dory is the ultimate optimist.ReplyDelete
I'm enjoying the swim and being in the deep end thanks! But good to get yr encouragement!ReplyDelete
Susan Scott's soul stuff on http://www.gardenofedenblog.com
My gravitar seems wrongReplyDelete
Does it drive you as crazy as it drives me that the "Viking" people in How to Train your Dragon have Scottish accents?ReplyDelete
Ugh. Someone touched my iPad of the links page and my highlights are gone. Sigh... I lost my place of where I was reading. I've been to almost 100.i might be able to figure out where I was from a comment on mine I'm hoping.ReplyDelete
History Sleuth's Writings A to Z
You must be looking forward to the Finding Dory movie...two years from now!ReplyDelete
I'm swimming as fast as I can! Fortunately I scheduled all the posts for April ahead of time. Yay!ReplyDelete
Just keep swimming! No one wrote a J-post? I believe that. I didn't write a K-post for tomorrow and am violently ill, completely unsure if I'll be able to get one ready. Deep breaths!ReplyDelete
I use that line all the time. And you're right, part of the reason it's so inspirational is Dory's attitude.ReplyDelete
I'm swimming as fast as I can and staying strong! Enjoying the challenge but frustrated by the lack of comments.....I have been commenting on so many blogs, trying to make my way through the whole list and commenting on regular blogs I enjoy too but I'm not getting the love back :(ReplyDelete
I'm swimming so slowly I must be stuck in an eddy. And it may not be apparent by my URL, but "behind" is my middle name. I am having fun though and am completely inspired despite the lack of visitors to my site. I may be writing for myself, but the feedback has been really good. ;) Jennifer a.k.a. Urban Gypsy Girl/ReplyDelete
When I taught my kids to ride bicycles, I'd say over and over, "Just keep pedaling, just keep pedaling ..."ReplyDelete
Forward motion . . . that is the key . . .ReplyDelete
Yes. Good. Keep pressing on and keep the posts coming!ReplyDelete
I'll also attempt to ignore the fact that the majority of my traffic comes from spam sites -_-
Cath from Dramatics and Words
What I really need is just keep commenting just keep commenting. Ack!ReplyDelete
My friend and I said that all the time when we walked the Portland Marathon together. Helped us finish! Here's my J post...Titled: Just StopReplyDelete
I'm loving the challenge so far, and I love creating posts for my new blog!ReplyDelete
#atozchallenge, Kristen's blog: kristenhead.blogspot.com
Good advice. Imagine how far Dory could have gotten if she'd known where she was going.ReplyDelete
Kathy @ Swagger Writers
I found K more difficult to do, that 'J' !!ReplyDelete
But I am 'just keeping on posting ' :)
Yes, that 'just keep swimming' is a great admonition. The time is flying by, and though it does take quite a lot of time, I have found it to be so much fun meeting people of a wide range of interests and perspectives. I realized this morning how quickly it was going by and how, yes, we are almost half way. Amazing! You co-hosts are doing a terrific job as well keeping up with this blog. Thank you. God bless, Maria from Delight Directed LivingReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 12, 2013 at 9:02 PM
Its keeping me busy but I am learning some new cool stuff. Thanks for stopping by and legitimizing me :)ReplyDelete
That's it in a nutshell, isn't it? Beautiful metaphor for life. Visiting from A-Z. Cheers!ReplyDelete
I love this post. So perfect. I've been struggling with not quitting the challenge myself. But I'm still here.ReplyDelete
Nice one Tina, good on you for posting at short notice. I love Dory's advice too.ReplyDelete
Hi Tina .. great jump in - well done .. and the realisation about the "non-J" post .. poor old J ..ReplyDelete
Cheers ... and I think I might have seen Finding Nemo .. but when I next do .. I'll check out for Dory all the time!
Just on Monday now .. cheers Hilary
Agreed; I'm 10 days behind thanks to a lack of Internet, but there's no point worrying about that now.ReplyDelete
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
Jamie @ Mithril Wisdom
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i am thrilled to announce that i am accepting the invitation to join these two brave & beautiful women...
...as the social media manager for The Art Journaler!
may we live a lifestyle that develops eyes to see and ears to hear and may we document our discoveries in a field manual so as not to forget the beauty.
mandy and teresa, thank you for believing in my abilities & dreams. i am thrilled to be helping you see your dreams flourish!
you can connect with The Art Journaler on facebook, twitter, and pinterest.
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: It's been a while since my last post to this
: forum so let's initiate 2018 with some good
: news. Speaking form my prospective it looks
: like this year is going to rain in carriers.
: First one, HMS Eagle 1954 is already in
: production and, fingers crossed for no major
: snafus, should be available within few
: weeks. Her final configuration as well as
: Ark Royal will follow suit later this year.
: And then at least 4 big ones, each in
: different configuration, with first already
: in design stage. We are taking Cold War era
: ESSEX class. This is one significant
: undertaking and I wouldn't be surprised if
: it extends well into 2019 before all 4
: models are released.
: Of course we shouldn't forget there are
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More than 70 families from Kampong Speu province's Phnom Sruoch district will face eviction today after the provincial court gave nearly two hectares of their land to representatives from petrol conglomerate Sokimex.
Yan Saron, a representative of 73 families from Village 3 in Treng Trayoeng commune, said yesterday that provincial prosecutor Khut Sopheang ordered them to remove their houses from 1.8 hectares of land between March 2 and 15, and give the land to Sokimex representative Chim Savong.
"I bought the land, [I did] not grab the land illegally," he said, adding that villagers had lived in the area near Treng Trayoeng market for more than 20 years.
Yan Saron said the court case began in 2000, but people were not informed that they had lost the case.
"We will not remove and we will send a letter to the Ministry of Justice to ask for pending the eviction."
Yan Saron said that the land was a "good location" and the evictions were because Sokimex wanted to build a petrol station.
Phnom Sruoch district governor Tep Mean said that he was unaware of the dispute and the provincial court had not informed him of the case.
"Why did no one send documents to me? If there is chaos … what will the authorities do?, " he said.
Tep Mean said that the land had no owner prior to 1986, but "later it belonged to Sokimex gasoline company which have legal documents."
Neither Sokimex representative Chim Savong nor provincial prosecutor Khut Sopheang could be reached for comment by The Post.


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This week ,as you would all know was Book Week – and today was our big celebration of costume, song, creativity, drama and action. A big thanks to Mrs. Bergin who put the day together – it was a lot of fun. Here are some pics from our day.
Today – Tuesday -23rd August – Gerard – shared his STORY with us his experiences living with a disability. He was born with Spina -Bifida and has learned not only to overcome this and shine throughout his entire 21 years. HE HAS LEARNT TO SAY "YES I CAN!!!!"
He hopes to participate in the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. His story was inspirational.
Student Thoughts
Elva – I thought that it was interesting that you can do lots and lots of things.
Sam – I thought it was really good that he could share his knowledge and experiences.
Today a few members of our class started using CS-First to help us learn more about coding using Scratch. CS-First has videos and ideas to help us learn.
Because the Olympics are on in Rio at the moment, we chose the Sports Theme and created Victory dances. That means we programmed our sprites to spin and jump up and down.
Last Friday our students spend their day at the Melbourne Museum as a part of our Inquiry into our First People and First Fleet arrivals.
Here are some thoughts and discoveries from our students.
Mia – ' I learned that today in Australia there are 240 languages spoken by Aborigines.'
Alyssa – ' I learned that the aboriginals who lived in Melbourne got a possum skin for each year of their life.'
Elva – I though it was an amazing trip and I discovered that ….
Mr. Crowe – ' I found out that over 60,000 years this land we call Australia sustained the lives of around 1.5 billion people.'
Olivia – 'I discovered that the aboriginals found and wore possum skins and they also wondered why the White people came to their country.'
Today our class had some special time examining and coding ozobots. As we strive to explore the digital world of coding and programming.
What we found:
This term we have been investigating the'Story' of the Australia's first people and the impact the arrival of the first Fleet had upon them. – Here are some thoughts and discoveries.


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3 for 5 for 25 yards
and 1 int. passing in the first half was not the entire story.
By Bill Smith
Smith got the start on Saturday night against the Vikes and had most of the
1st string to work with.
While the line was still missing the top 2 LT's the rest of the line was
the "expected" starters. Smith had the
rookie 2nd round steal Ray Rice as the RB. The starting TE Todd Heap was also AOL.
First Possession
The Vikes
are one of the most difficult teams to run on because of their outstanding
front 7. On Smith's second play, he
changed the call at the line when he saw a run blitz. The play broke for 42 yards and put the ball
on the Vikes 25. Two plays later when
the D realized that the Ravens were focusing on the run, he faked to Rice and
ran a naked bootleg. He picked up 10
yards down to the 5. He was only
prevented from scoring by a great open field tackle by fellow ex-Buckeye Winfield. 2 plays later, Rice scored to tie the game at
7 all.
Second Possession
On the second
possession, Smith put a screen pass right on time in the hands of Rice for an 8
yard gain. His next pass was on a third
and 13 situation. He put the ball where
only his receiver could catch it but a big hit by the Vikes S Griffin prevented
the catch and the first down. When the
OC called the next pass, the Vikes D line got into the backfield at the same
time as the ball got to Smith. But
rather than getting sacked or throwing the ball away, he ducked away from a
tackle and ran for 18 yards and a first down.
His next pass was on a 3rd and 21 yards to gain. The Vikes put in 74 cornerbacks to prevent
anything deep. Smith took the quick
slant and picked up 10 but the Ravens had to punt.
Final Possession
The last
possession of the quarter started with only 1:40 left on the clock. On 1st and 10 FROM THE 40. His first pass was another quick slant. The OC had gone to that pattern once too
often. It was well covered and the pass
was slightly behind the receiver. It got
picked and returned deep into Raven's territory. In an attempt to make a tackle, Smith
compounded his error by trying to roll block a defender. The personal fowl called on Smith put the
ball at the 10.
Overall the
Ravens D could not get off the field.
The Vikes converted 11 of 19 3rd down attempts for a 57%
success rate. That is far too high. The Vikes held the ball and scored on every
possession in the first half.
Smith only
got to throw the ball 5 times in the half.
Granted, some times he was pressured and ran out of the pocket to avoid
a sack. He was also sacked twice. The two things that really hurt his cause to
start were the interception which was an inaccurate pass and the fact that he
had to call 2 timeouts because the team was not lined up properly. The Ravens were trying to feature the run
with their second string RB and third string LT against the best run defense in
the league last year. Not a good
offensive game plan.
Even so,
Smith did fairly well. He ran 3 times
for 35 net yards and setup one TD. In
the first half, Smith scored 13 scouting points for a B- grade.
Bill Smith is a
former coach of several semi-pro teams and has scouted talent. He is a senior writer for http://BrutusReport.com. He has
also published several novels on http://ebooks-library.com/index.cfm and edits http://fryingpanpolitics.blog.com


text: Los Angeles: After Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris, another star couple -- singer Zayn Malik and supermodel Gigi Hadid -- has reportedly called it quits. Hadid and Malik have broken up after dating for roughly seven months, reports eonline.com. While the reason behind their split remains unknown at the moment, a source has claimed that the couple has gone through some rough patches. "During her birthday they were fighting," an insider said, adding that they weren't doing well then, and have "broken up and got back together a few times". However, another source has claimed that there may be a reconciliation in the near future. "Zayn and Gigi did break up, but they can likely get back together tomorrow. It is all very unclear what is going on between them now. They been having some issues lately that involved communication and getting along," the insider said. "Gigi is really sad about this, though, and in a way would like to work it out. It is more about that constant contact with Zayn that she misses and they did get very close," added the source.


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Medicare-age black men with breast cancer were three times more likely to die from the disease than white men (hazard ratio 3.29, 95% confidence interval 1.10 to 9.86), said Dawn L. Hershman, M.D., M.S., of Columbia University, and colleagues.
These findings parallel those of previous studies among women, which have shown higher breast cancer mortality rates for black women at all ages, they wrote in a study published online March 16 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
"Racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes between black and white women have been attributed to advanced stage at diagnosis, negative HR [hormone receptor] status, higher tumor grade, reduced access to health care, and other socioeconomic factors," they added.
"Similar factors may contribute to the poor outcomes we observed among black men with breast cancer," they continued.
The researchers used data from the linked Medicare and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. The analysis included 510 men ages 65 and older with early stage, histologically confirmed breast cancer diagnosed between 1991 and 2002.
The study included a relatively small sample of black patients (455 white, 34 black).
Nearly all patients underwent mastectomy (94%) while the remaining 6% underwent lumpectomy. About 28% received adjuvant chemotherapy, and 29% received radiation therapy.
During the average 58.5 months of follow-up, 242 men died. There were 39 breast-cancer-specific deaths among white patients (12.7%) and eight among black patients (30.8%).
Among the findings, the researchers reported:
- Black men were more likely to have later-stage disease (P=0.0404) and larger tumors (P=0.0108) than white men,
- Black men tended to be less likely to have hormone receptor-positive disease (56% versus 72%, P=0.1223),
- Five-year survival was about 90% among white patients but 66% among black patients,
- Men who underwent mastectomy had 56% lower overall mortality (hazard ratio 0.44, 95% CI 0.26 to 0.74) and 89% lower disease-specific mortality compared with lumpectomy (HR 0.11, 95% CI 0.03 to 0.38), and
- Black men were 48% less likely to be referred to a medical oncologist and 56% less likely to receive chemotherapy than white men, though neither difference was significant (P=0.1808 and P=0.5430, respectively).
On the basis of the findings, the researchers concluded that part of the racial disparity in survival may be due to differences in treatment.
The study could not look at how many patients received hormonal therapy because oral therapies were not billed by Medicare for inclusion in the database.
However, there was a numeric difference in chemotherapy treatment and hormone receptor status between the races, which the authors said, "may not have reached statistical significance because our sample included only 34 black men."
"Given the high prevalence of hormone receptor positivity in male breast cancers, these patients may derive more benefit from adjuvant hormonal therapy than from chemotherapy," Dr. Hershman and colleagues wrote.
"Given their adverse staging and hormone status, black men should have been more likely than white men to receive chemotherapy," they added. "Undertreatment may, therefore, account for the racial disparity in breast cancer-specific survival among men."
Further studies with larger populations will be needed to explain clinical and biological factors contributing to racial disparities in male breast cancer, they said.
Because male breast cancer is rare at less than 1% of cancers in men, obtaining large sample sizes has been a challenge. Most previous studies have been small, single center, retrospective series.
|The study was supported by a National Cancer Institute-funded postdoctoral fellowship to one of the researchers, an American Cancer Society grant, an American Cancer Society Award, and an award from the National Cancer Institute. The researchers reported no potential conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Journal of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Crew KD, et al "Racial Disparities in Treatment and Survival of Male Breast Cancer" J Clin Oncol 2007;25:1089-1098.


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Good Morning.
The historic tradition of settling scores by a duel was discussed on social media yesterday following this hilarious statement from the Self-Righteous Kingdom of Sevconia.
You may be familiar with the background, but just in case you aren't, here are the key points…
Raith Rovers wrote to the SFA Compliance Officer about Ryan Hardie's early return from Scotland U19 duty to play for Sevco today, while their own Craig Wighton remained in Bulgaria.
Raith were "concerned that if there is any breach of Article 82.1 and Rules 56 & 57, this would – in these circumstances – result in an unfairness in terms of players available for selection for Saturday's match, which is to our disadvantage".
Now, I can't for the life of me think why anyone would ever want to query the rule-obeying credentials of an Ibrox club – especially in this Glorious Era of Real Rangers Men in the Blue Room.
But Raith have every right to ask the question if they have any doubts.
As it happens (and we haven't yet heard from the Compliance Officer) it would seem that Raith haven't got a leg to stand on.
Because the SFA apparently offered them the opportunity to have Wighton return home once permission had been granted to Hardie.
But in an hilarious turn, Sevco decided to throw their toys out of the pram and said that Raith's "spurious claim could have besmirched the honour of assistant manager David Weir by making specific reference to him".
Besmirched the honour!
Oh my! I don't normally think of Ibrox clubs as living in the 18th Century, but I am prepared to go with it on this occasion for comedy purposes.
And the statement doesn't stop there. It lays on the whining on with a trowel – which was presumably borrowed from their highly-paid gardener.
"The very thought that David Weir, who served his country with great distinction winning 69 caps, might have been trying to undermine an international side is preposterous."
It is always particularly hysterical when an Ibrox Club seeks to play the 'dignified behaviour' card.
Because no one outside Sevconia could possibly take it seriously.
But that doesn't stop them from doing it.
No matter. Having read and re-read the statement, The Clumpany assumes that it refers to the same David Weir who famously walked away from Scotland during the Bertie Vogts era?
Just checking…
And as if their angst-written observations aren't funny enough, Sevco have apparently written to the Raith chairman as they feel that "an apology to David is the very least Raith Rovers should be offering."
The very least?
What more do they want?
Raith to score a couple of own goals in the first minute of today's game?
The heads of Raith's board members on silver platters?
Pistols at dawn?
You have to admire the brass neck of the entity that claims to be the same 'club' as creditor-stiffing, rule-breaking Rangers raising the issue of 'honour' and demanding apologies.
As a fan of Scottish football I feel that the 'same club' has besmirched the honour of our game and country over and over again throughout its inglorious [*cough cough cough*] unbroken history.
So do excuse me if I join in the massed ranks of people across the United Kingdom and beyond who are pointing and laughing at this latest example of imagined superiority being played out in public.
I just hope that David Weir doesn't bring his Glencairn Crystal to any duel organised to settle the matter.
Dead Rangers gave it to him as a leaving present and it would be an awful shame if it got damaged, given that fans apparently paid for it after the liquidated 'club' failed to do so.
David Weir Leaving Gift Debt Now Paid
Besmirched Honour, eh?


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March - 2011, This is the top bar hive I constructed for this season of bee keeping. Unfortunately this year the hive beetles got the best of all of us. The package I installed in March grew and expanded nicely and due to a very dry summer and lack of feeding the population of the hive started to decrease. the decrease in population, hive beetles and a very strong neighboring hive robbing was more than this family could take.
The construction for the hive is very straight forward and I was able to use reclaimed fence materials for the main structure of the hive body. One of the most fascinating things about top bar beekeeping to me is the utilization of materials, with a typical Langstroth hive and hive bodies with frames as a bee keeper we must build and store all the frames and "boxes" for future growth with our colonies. With the top bar hive the bees simply expand horizontally. There are no extra pieces to add to the colony as they expand.
The bars labeled with a B note brood frames with a specific spacing for rearing brood and the other label if an H for honey stores. All the bees have to do is look at my notes on the top of the bar and they know what to put there... OK, that might be a little silly all of my bees are a Russian strain they cant read English anyway. All kidding aside there is a dimension that is more suitable as Dr. Langstrough determined for brood 1 1/4" and although 1 1/4" works for honey too the preferred dimension for Honey stores is 1 3/8".
The window adds a nice view port to inspect the interior of the colony without disturbing them.
March 2012, Follow up note - this was completed in 2011 this experiment at the moment was not a success. the top bar colony died of starvation about half way through the season and were also subject to robbing from a neighboring more agreessive hive. I am still a fan of theTBH however the overall management of the hive and the honey production from it is certainly less than traditional hive construction. If I have an opportunity to capture a swarm this year I will add it to this TBH and start again.


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This unit investigates asteroids, comets, and meteoroids, focusing on Vesta, a prominent asteroid in the asteroid belt. The unit of eleven lessons culminates in having students use engineering practices to design, build, and test devices that will... (View More) land on Vesta, collect and separate natural resources found there, and deliver a payload to a target. Teachers and students are also introduced to the Asteroid Mappers-Vesta Edition citizen science project that is part of the CosmoQuest online community. Lessons include background information for educators, reviews and assessments, and links to supplemental videos and websites. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core Standards are listed. (View Less)
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International Arbitration Guide 2012: British Virgin Islands
2012年 9月 3日
This article appeared in the 2012 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: International Arbitration; published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London. Click here to view the publication's website.
Arabella di Iorio and Victoria Lord recently participated in a Q&A focused on practical cross-border insight into international arbitration work. Their British Virgin Islands contribution formed part of the International Arbitration Guide for 2012.


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July 2015
Grimsby's Farmers Market
August 2015
Grimsby's Farmers Market
Taya getting her face painted.
Grimsby Animal Hospital Car Wash for the Farley Foundation
Every year Dr Cline and the staff run a car wash with all the proceeds going to support the Farley Foundation.
This year the event was held on September 2nd at the Kerman Ave Car wash. Thanks to all that came out to support!!
January 2016 Dr. Peters Award
Dr. Peters was thrilled to be nominated, and chosen to receive the prestigious 'Award of Merit' this week at the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association's Annual Veterinary Conference in downtown Toronto.
The OVMA Award of Merit recognizes individuals for their practice of, or help to veterinary medicine. It is awarded for distinguished public service to the veterinary profession in any form.
Dr. Peters is very active in the veterinary community, as president of the Niagara Peninsula Veterinary Association for the past 19 yrs, OVMA Director representing the Niagara Region since 2006, and as a 'peer medical record reviewer ' for the College of Veterinarians of Ontario.
She is currently the Head Coordinator of the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program in the Niagara Region which keeps her very busy organizing over 80 active handler/dog teams, and helping coordinate over 50 community events each year.
In the words of one of her nominators, " her love of medicine, animals and people is very obvious by her noteworthy public service. She is an exceptional example of a veterinarian and community member, and is a very deserving candidate for this prestigious award" .
Congratulations Dr. Peters!!


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During 2011, a year of pretty much unending rough waters, a number of interesting books nevertheless came into my life and. As I have done in years past, I wanted to share my thoughts about some of the more notable ones here.
Best regards and hopes for a 2012 with more love, peace, prosperity and life.
A Palace in the Old Village By Tahar Ben Jelloun
A moving and perceptive chronicle of the lives of a Moroccan immigrant and his family in modern France, Ben Jelloun's novel descends into surrealistic absurdity in its final pages but before doing so nevertheless gives us an important glimpse into the experience of the "new" French in their adopted country.
Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982-1983 by Virginia Garrard-Burnett
An important and exquisitely researched book that sheds light on one of the most violent periods of Guatemala's violent history, this work by University of Texas professor Virginia Garrard-Burnett examines the March 1982 to August 1983 rule of Efraín Ríos Montt. Ríos Montt, a former general, candidate in the 1974 Guatemalan elections (which he likely won but had stolen from him by the same military he had once served) and subsequent founder of Frente Republicano Guatemalteco, seized power from another military man, General Romeo Lucas García, who had presided over what Garrard-Burnett characterizes as "a rapid downward spiral of capricious violence and death." Those hoping for a break in the country's civil war, however, - which would only end with 1996 peace accords - were in for a rude awakening. Ríos Montt's anti-guerrilla campaign, centred largely on indigenous peasant communities, was "more methodical and less chaotic than Lucas García counterinsurgency, but it was also more deadly."
Ríos Montt's idiosyncratic populism at the time, propelled forward by his evangelical Christianity, revealed the general to be "anything but a puppet of the far right," notes Garrard-Burnett. "(He) believed himself to be a prophetic leader, brought by Providence to power at a particular moment in history in which he could lead the people of Guatemala against the forces of evil that besieged them on every side."
The result was cataclysm, and Garrard-Burnett expertly documents it in great detail here.
Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans by James Gill
A book about the often racially-charged origins of some of the major krewes of New Orleans' storied Mardi Gras (such as Comus, Rex and Momus), this book by a British-transplant living in New Orleans masterfully draws back the curtain on an aspect of the city's carnival revelry that many in its still-ossified economic structure would likely just as soon forget.
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco Goldman
A gripping account of the investigation into the April 1998 murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera, this book (written by the Guatemalan-American novelist Francisco Goldman) reads like a detective novel and reveals the corrupt linkages of Guatemala's criminal and military elements. A compelling picture of the struggles of committed individuals against a diffuse and often lethal enemy, it also contains disturbing suggestions about the activities of Guatemala's incoming president, former General Otto Pérez Molina.
Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 by William Ivy Hair
More a pogrom against the Africa-American population of New Orleans than a riot, this account by Ivy Hair tells the story of Robert Charles and, along with the work of historians like John Hope Franklin, serves as an important reminder to Americans of the brutal injustices inflicted on African-Americans after the Civil War, all in the name of scuttling the aims of Reconstruction in the American South.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge by Paul Preston
Another example of how a military leader viewed a civil war as a moral-religious crusade, this book by one of the best historians of Span's recent history makes one wonder how Spain's Francisco Franco escaped his proper place in the annals of history's great monsters alongside Hitler and Stalin.
The scale of the slaughter by Franco's forces - 3,000 killed in Zamora, 3,000 in Valladolid, 2,789 in Navarra, and on and on - still shocks, and Preston lays blame where it belongs, on the shoulders of such largely forgotten Francoist chieftains as General Juan Yague. Preston's deft exposure of Franc's "notion of a war of moral redemption by terror," makes one look forward with expectation to his forthcoming book, author of the much-anticipated forthcoming The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain.
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gérard Prunier
An expansive yet nuanced view of the first and second Congo wars, this book is an essential addition to scholarship on the region. Prunier, a longtime observer, analyst and resident of Central Africa, is also an unusually honest and self-critical academic, a fact that adds gravitas to his criticisms of African governments and the international community when dealing with the region's severe, but by no means intractable, problems.
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth by Erin Siegal
This debut book by journalist and photographer Erin Siegal has a mystery at its core: What happened to the two young daughters of an impoverished Guatemala woman named Mildred Alvarado, one of whom was literally snatched from her mother's womb? But the book — comprised of heavy-duty investigative reporting and compelling personal testimony — also examines another mystery: How could so many people in Guatemala and the United States turn a blind eye for so long to an industry that, far from being motivated by the altruistic urge to unite needy children with loving families, has become a world where adults dole out children like cards from a deck and view their young lives as little more than a commodity to be exploited? I reviewed it for the Miami Herald.
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason K. Stearns
An interesting book that very laudably seeks to bring the experiences of the Congolese themselves in their own voices to the forefront of an account of that country's ongoing conflicts. Perhaps a little soft for my taste in its assessments of the failings of the international community and non-governmental organizations operating in Central Africa, but all in all a highly worthwhile read that brings the reality of the conflict home via the eloquent voices of the Congolese who suffered its consequences
Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll
A serious and groundbreaking scholarly work that was unfortunately subject to rather vehemently libelous calumny when it first appeared in 1999, this book sees Stoll - probably the best American anthropologist working on Guatemala - examining both the specifics and broader historical context of the autobiography of perhaps the most famous living Guatemalan. On the way, much as he did with his excellent previous volume, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala, Stoll gives the reader of nuanced picture of the torturous position that Guatemala's indigenous population found itself in during that country's long civil war and raises some troubling questions about the veracity of Menchu's famous autobiography.
Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
A relic from the days when American cultural and political commentators actually had a brain, this collection of loosely-connected short stories casts a witty and darkly jaundiced eye on the upper-middle classes of a fictional bedroom community outside of New York, and within the city itself during the years between the great wars. Wilson, who had previously made his mark with his history of revolutionary thought in Europe, To the Finland Station, was as original and probing a mind as American letters has produced.
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Books in 2011: A Personal Selection
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Sam - Nedlands to Perth Airport, 56 dollars
Sam is a young taxi driver. He has got large sun glasses and longer black hair. Very aware of his style. When he picked me up he was so happy to get a long ride all the way to the airport. He said it was his lucky day. Now we have been driving for ten minutes and are now driving along a river.
"What do you mean that you do not know if this river is the same river as the one in the CBD? You are a taxi driver and must know the city inside out? "
I am smiling at Sam and he sighs.
"I don't know! I cannot focus on the stuff around me."
Sam is laughing
"I got so much stuff going on in my life. Life is shit"
"No come on, life is wonderful! What is bothering you?"
"Well, first of all I am in love with this girl. But she is getting married to another guy. But she does not want to marry him. "
"Wow. That is though. Why does she not want to marry him? Did her parents choose him? "
"Yes. And they are engaged. And everybody is expecting this to happen you know. "
"Do you still see her?"
"Yes I do." Big sigh. "If she was going to break up with this guy it will cause a lot of pain. Family, relatives, friends. Everybody is expecting this. And if she breaks up because of me I must marry her instead. "
"And are you prepared to marry her? "
"I am not ready yet. I am studying, I cannot support her now. "
"But does she not have a job? "
"Yes, she has got a good job"
"And she likes it?"
" Yes, she likes it."
"Hey Sam, take it easy. Just be patient, everything will be alright in the end. If you do not know what to do, just relax."
"Well, yeah, I dont know what to do... "
We continue talking about other stuff in his life that is "shit". But even though everything is bad Sam laughs a lot and is very easy going. I am sure that he will be fine. He also tells me that he used to live in Melbourne for a few years so I ask him about the differences between Melbourne and Perth
"Perth is much better! People in Melbourne are so rude. People in Perth are so nice. The weather in Melbourne sucks! The weather in Perth is great, everyday sun. Fantastic. "
We arrive at the airport and Sam drives away, happy with the longest drive of the day.


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Hi folks, I've got a 1979 Puch Free Spirit:
I'm not new to riding, but I am new to wrenching. I've recently started tinkering with the moped to see if I could get some extra performance from it.
Two things that have been bothering me are:
Very dim lights, and
Not much speed/power.
I know it will never be a rocket, but on flat ground I can only get up to 26 mph. That's if I have a lot of flat road as it accelerates very slowly. Well, I'll make a thread about that later...
Anyway, I started riding in 2005, and I've since gone on to get my class 7 endorsement and a Honda Rebel. I'm planning to buy a Ural next year. The moped is a fun bike to get around town on though. I've thought of selling it a couple of times, but I can't really bring myself to do it. So instead, I'm going to fix it up, customize it, accessorize it, and probably break it a few times while I learn how it works.
I've already picked up a few ideas from reading past threads here. (I'm up to 2007. Only 70 more pages to go!) I can't fix my car to save my life, even though its an old 80 Honda Civic. But I've had some good and enjoyable results tinkering with the moped.


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In the five years since its launch, MEF's LatAm chapter has become a leading voice for the mobile content and commerce industry in the region. In 2010, it launched the Unified Code of Conduct for mobile content subscription services and advertising in Brazil which has been endorsed by all four of the major network carriers and the regulator Anatel. 49 members signed up to the code at launch and the code continues to evolve to support the development of the local market including looking at issues of anti-piracy, SMS brokering and consumer trust.
Headquartered in São Paulo its annual event takes place in May, MEF Connects Televiva Movel. In 2015, MEF LATAM has an increasing focusing on helping it's members connect to the start-up communities in different markets across Latin America and has local initiatives for both Mobile Mobile Money and Consumer Trust.
LatAm Team
Gabriela Fernandes – MEF LatAm General Manager
Gabriela joined MEF in September 2015 as the General Manager of the LatAm Chapter.
Prior to MEF Gabriela worked at Paymentwall Inc (Silicon Valley Mobile Payments Company) as the LATAM Business Development Manager and previously at Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten as the Mobile Marketing Manager. Therefore she has great marketing experience in mobile and eCommerce as well as a unique enthusiasm in developing and managing new projects.
Gabriela holds a Master of Science in International Relations from Northeastern University (Boston-USA)
MEF LatAm Board of Directors
Rafael Pellon – FAS Advogados
Rafael is a lawyer with 15 years of experience in the technology, internet, media and entertainment industries in Brazil and LATAM, having co-founded FAS Attorneys at Law, where he's a partner.
He worked actively on the creation of the MEF LATAM Chapter in 2010 and serving as Policies & Initiatives Director and later General Manager until 2014, where he helped drive the growth of the Chapter and oversaw the creation of MEF LATAM's Code of Conduct for Value Added Services.
Yuri Fiaschi – Infobip
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Yuri Fiaschi is in charge of Infobip in Brazil. Infobip is a giant in the mobile area, connecting more than 800 operators in more than 190 countries operating in several areas such as VAS, USSD, A2P, Messaging and Micro-Payment.
Yuri has over 17 years' experience in sales, business development and project management in companies such as IBM and Spring Mobile Solutions.
Yuri holds a degree of business administration and specialization for people management and sales management from Harvard.
Yuri was the decisive agent for the creation of the first m-health service in Brazil with some Carriers.
Julio Barrientos – Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Payments, Universal Windows Store
Julio Barrientos is currently Senior Program Manager in Microsoft in the Payment Operations Department. Born in Spain, Julio has more than 10 years' experience in LATAM after living in Chile, Colombia and now in Florida. Julio began his career in Telecommunications 18 years ago working for Value Added Services in Nokia Networks and Nokia Mobile Phones.
Julio was involved in the deployment of mobile carrier infrastructure from the early days of mobile data and also involved in the Smartphone introduction in LATAM as Senior Product Manager.
Currently Julio is leading all Operator Billing efforts for LATAM and also engaging with other alternate payment systems. Also Julio is currently taking an active role in Debit and Credit Card Bank engagement in Latam.
Warren Platt – Mobile Life
CEO & Founder
Warren is an industry veteran with over 20 + years` experience within the mobile industry with a focus in VAS and Mobile Entertainment for well over a decade.
As a pioneer within the Mobile Entertainment arena he participated in its growth from its early evolution by establishing services with mobile operators in over 20 countries on 5 continents. He has also developed and managed relationships with major media companies and brands and developed one of the world`s largest direct to consumer music and media portals.
A native of the UK residing in USA and having worked across Latin America for 15 years has given him a unique perspective on the market and a strong position to bring global ideas and concepts into the region with the ability to deliver them locally.
That ethos and his passion for Latin America and emerging markets is the foundation behind Mobile Life a leading Latin American Aggregator focused on bringing successful international service providers into the region. Mobile Life is also active in the Middle East and Indian markets.
Ricardo Souza – Movile
Business Director LatAm
Ricardo Souza is Business Director at Movile, where he is responsible for all the operations in Latin America. Movile is the industry leader in the development of mobile content and commerce platforms in Latin America. Applications, Messaging Solutions, MicroPayments and VAS are Movile´s main expertise.
Souza has over 10 years of experience in Mobile Marketing, business intelligence, marketing support, research and development of new businesses, and partnerships settlements.
Before becoming Business Director, Souza collaborated in the VAS marketing as product manager, distributing and monetizing high-end products and doing great deals with big partners around the world. He is passionate about people and his work, focused on delivering results, and is always moved by an innovative mindset.
Roberto Guenzburger – Oi
Mobility Products and Content Director
Roberto has led consumer marketing for telecom operators for more than 18 years and has been one of the leading voices in the segment in Brazil. As marketing director of América Móvil Brazil he led the team responsible for the creation and deployment of the Claro Brand in 2004, as well as the first launch of UMTS portfolio of products in Brazil, in 2008. At Oi since 2008, he was responsible for launching innovative products and services using UMTS and LTE network and is responsible for the mobility and content strategy within the consumer segment.
Since 1999 he has been deeply involved in the content and value added industry, launching new products and services with different content partners and different technologies. Since 2013 Roberto has also been professor of mobile marketing at the leading MBA institution in Brazil (FGV).
Fernando Luciano – Telefonica Vivo
Digital Services and Innovation Director
Fernando is responsible for managing the portfolio of Digital Services and Innovation for Telefonica Vivo B2C in Brazil. He is exploiting market opportunities to develop new services, create new revenue streams and ensure the innovation attribute with Vivo customers. Fernando leads an area that generates more than 2.5 billion reais year through 10 large business lines such as Entertainment, Security, Utilities, Interactivity Cross Carrier, Advertising, Education, Financial Services, Insurances, E-health and Personal iOT.
Fabiana Smolka – TIMWE Group
Head of B2C Services
Graduated in Marketing from UniverCidade in Rio de Janeiro; MBA in Business Administration from IBMEC; Post Graduated in Publicity and Institutional Communication from Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Post Graduated in Management and Strategic Marketing from Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fabiana has over 16 years of experience in VAS growing revenue and expanding market share by fostering business development initiatives. International experience in companies such as PayPal, TIM Brasil, PMovil and Telinfor S.A. Great understanding of the mPayment environment. Deep knowledge of Mobile Payment in-store, online payment and Value Added Service market in Latin America.
Brian Mullen – Twilio
VP Global Connectivity
Brian Mobile is Vice President of Global Connectivity at Twilio where he builds partnerships with the global telecommunications networks for voice, messaging, and data. Prior to Twilio Brian was Vice President of Business Development at Clear Wire and Director of Business Development at Amp'd Mobile. Like Twilio, both companies were innovators in mobile serving consumers with wireless broadband and alternative cellular service.
At Twilio Brian continues his passion for innovation. This time his focus is on expanding access to communication services for application developers. These communication services are exposed to developers through Twilio's cloud-based API set unlocking access to voice, SMS, IP Messaging, and video for startups, system integrators, and enterprise customers. Twilio is not your typical communications company. Our focus on the developer is unique. The result is economic growth for our telecom partners in core voice and messaging and an expanding ecosystem around IP messaging and video.
Fabio Matias – Zenvia Mobile
Business Director
Fabio Matias is Business Director at Zenvia Mobile, leader in enterprise mobility in Brazil simplifying the digital interaction between companies and consumers in a complex technology world.
He has worked with information technology since 1995 acting with business administration solutions and mobile solution projects as an executive and business partner. He has a passion for the mobile and communication solutions that really can improve and create value for customers and users.
Zenvia knows the way, the technologies and the behavior of mobile users to better assist them. In the market for over 12 years, serving thousands of companies from different segments, sending and receiving millions of messages every day.


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How to choose the right Boiler for you and your family.
We understand that choosing a boiler can be tricky: there are so many different types of central heating boilers and central heating systems on the market and they can vary dramatically in price and performance. Combination, condensing, gas or oil, choosing a boiler can be a daunting prospect when you don't really understand what you need or the terminology used when it comes to central heating systems and central heating boilers.
Choosing a boiler and central heating systems
To help you decide when choosing a boiler and central heating systems, here are some helpful hints which should make things a little easier:
- Size matters – it is important to find out what output a boiler would need for your home. This will include: how many radiators you have, the size of your house, how many bathrooms you have, the age of your home, the type of insulation in your home, whether you have double glazing, and how high your ceilings are.
- Have you made any energy efficiency changes to your home since the last boiler was installed, for example, insulation and draft proofing? If so, this will reduce your heating requirements.
- Do you plan to extend your home in the future? If you do, this also has to be taken into account as this will put new demands on central heating systems and central heating boilers.
- Government legislation states that all new boilers should be condensing models if it is possible to fit one. These are smaller and more energy efficient, saving you money in the long term, as well as benefiting the environment.
- If your home is not connected to a mains gas supply then oil central heating may be a better solution for you. It is a cheaper option than other fuels and bottled gas and is no less environmentally friendly than gas.
- A combination boiler would eradicate the need for a separate hot water tank and doing this could actually free up space in your home.
- Where do you want to position your boiler? Not all boilers can be hidden away in a cupboard so it is worth thinking about where you want to put it and finding out which model would best suit your needs.
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Aviation sector can absorb 120 billion dollar investment, says Manmohan SinghFebruary 12th, 2011 - 6:19 pm ICT by ANI
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday said that the aviation sector has the potential of absorbing an investment of 120 billion dollars, which turn could create employment, both directly and indirectly to tens of thousands of people.
Inaugurating the New International Terminal Building at Trivandrum Airport, Dr. Singh said: "The country's transport sector has witnessed unprecedented growth in the recent past."
"During the last seven years, domestic air traffic has tripled and international traffic has more than doubled. An exponential growth in passenger traffic is expected in this decade as well," he added.
He said the government fully understands the importance of the civil aviation sector to the Indian economy, particularly as it gets more and more integrated with the global economy.
"We have formulated various policies to give a boost to this important sector of our economy," he added.
Emphasising that airport infrastructure policy aims to increase airport capacity to stay ahead of demand, Dr. Singh said: " We wish to make our airport facilities user friendly and achieve high levels of customer satisfaction. We also seek to ensure the safety and security of airport operations and develop multi-modal transport linkages.
He further said aviation infrastructure was being modernized through joint ventures under the private-public partnership model.
"Two new green field airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore have been developed and have become operational through the joint venture route," he added.
Noting that aviation was earlier considered only for the affluent, he said:"With the growth of low-cost air travel, the airlines are now giving strong competition to the railways and many passengers who earlier used to travel only by trains today frequently use air flights".
Complimenting the Airports Authority of India, Dr. Singh said: "It is noteworthy that the entire investment of the new international terminal building at Thiruvananthapuram airport at a cost of Rs. 289 crores is being met through AAI's internal resources." (ANI)
- Aviation sector sees unprecedented growth: PM - Feb 12, 2011
- PM lays foundation stone for Tirupati international airport - Sep 01, 2010
- UAE plans Dubai International Airport expansion - Jul 07, 2011
- South Africa plans massive investment in railways - Aug 17, 2012
- Hyderabad airport handled 8.6 million passengers last year - Apr 12, 2012
- Foreign airlines to invest in civil aviation under Consideration: official - Mar 15, 2011
- India formulating new air cargo promotion policy - Mar 14, 2012
- Air India ground handling staff protest service terms - Jun 04, 2012
- Air India ground staff protest service terms (Lead) - Jun 04, 2012
- T-3 Terminal exemplifies India's resolve to bridge infrastructure deficit: Manmohan Singh - Jul 03, 2010
- New civil aviation policy in five months time: Official - Dec 14, 2011
- 'Civil aviation sector up 18.5 percent in seven years' - Mar 15, 2012
- Prime Minister pushes for infrastructure-led growth - Jun 06, 2012
- New Delhi to join jet-set club with mega hi-tech airport terminal - Jun 24, 2010
- India's domestic aviation sector worst performer globally - Aug 30, 2012
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It has been brought to my attention that a lot of people don't like using garlic simply because they have a hard time cleaning it. I personally find this a ridiculous excuse not to cook any food, but in the interests of helping spread good flavor, I thought I should post how I do it.
It really is quite simple. Separate the clove from the head. At the bottom of the clove, make a slice most of the way through. You can then use this as a handle and unwrap in one easy piece.
- Yes, I've seen the shake methods, and none of them work very well for me, whether metal bowls or mason jars.


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HOUSTON (AP) Guard Julien Lewis, one of three players to leave the Texas Longhorns after last season, says he's transferring to Fresno State.
Lewis disclosed his intentions in an interview with KRIV-TV (http://bit.ly/19GwqU1) of Houston.
The Longhorns announced his release a little over a month ago. He'll have to sit out the season, but he'll have two years of eligibility left. Bulldogs head coach Rodney Terry is a former Longhorns assistant.
Lewis was the Longhorns' third-leading scorer last season, averaging 11.2 points in 21 starts. Texas is now without its top three scorers from last season.
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The Nike Zoom Streak LT 3 Racing Shoe is built with a new last and wider forefoot to increase toe spring. This update works with the midfoot shank to add even more response off multiple surfaces.
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Do you want to start your career at a leading energy company with lots of room to grow? If you're ready to work hard in an environment where you'll be challenged, respected, and encouraged to develop your skills and talents, an entry-level job at Xcel Energy is your first step.
Xcel Energy is looking to fill an Instrument Apprentice 1st Year position for the Tolk/Plant X locations.
Position SummaryJob duties will include, but not limited to, install, maintain, calibrate, test, troubleshoot, configuration and repair of power plant instrumentation, pneumatics, electronics, electrical and process control systems. Employee will assist in performing tests as required by plant operation, maintenance and plant management.
The employee will be required to actively participate in hands-on training, required classroom training and computer interactive training programs, as directed by management. The employee will also be required to successfully complete 4 year apprentice program and qualify for Instrument Journeyman. Travel to other locations may be required.
Environmental Exposure: Employee will work in and around energized/rotating equipment, confined spaces, vibrating equipment, heights, noise levels requiring ear protection, presence of chemical fumes, lead and dust requiring use of a respirator and work in a wide range of ambient temperatures, both hot and cold. The employee will work off of ladders and scaffolding, in elevated positions, and may be required to handle asbestos, lead and other hazardous materials. Employee must be able to walk, climb stairs and ladders throughout the plant. Work is often on gravel concrete and uneven surfaces.Minimum Requirements1) Must be at least 18 years old & High school diploma or GED
2) Must have successfully passed the Behavioral Assessment & Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Maintenance Positions Selection Systems (MASS) test
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We got back from Disneyland and this little cutie had about two days to get back to life as usual.
|Back to regularly scheduled bath times
|Back to sleeping on time and in our own crib
We picked up my parents on their first day in town and were able to drive over to Glendale to finally meet our new nephew Madden! Rory was a fan, and suddenly looked much, much older to me.
Madden looks just like baby Owen in my opinion. Seeing him in his squishy newborn goodness reminded me of visiting Brad and Jules during Thanksgiving break right after he was born. He would fall asleep on my chest while we watched shows and I was so obsessed with him.
|Rory, Grandpa, and Madden
Brad and Jules blessed Madden on Easter Sunday and it was so nice to get to spend that day with them. And thanks to Jules, it meant that we got some nice pictures of our family on Easter Sunday! Win win.
So feast your eyes and your heart on this little beauty killing it in her Easter outfit.
|The bows! The BOWS! I just can't even stand it.
|We went on walks to Freestone Park
|We live right next to it, and it is the most gorgeous park I've ever seen.
|You will see a lot of this hot pink sun hat this summer as Rory is taking her sweet sweet time to grow her hair. Plus it's adorable.
|We teethed HARD and got Rory low key addicted to Tylenol
|and hooked on her chew toy banana
|We wore lots of cute outfits
And I started a new part time job! I teach students in China to speak English over skype. I work from 4:30-6:30 am so the wake up adjustment has been a little crazy, but so far it is going really well! This is the professional selfie I had to take for my bio. It took a lot of work so I feel justified in posting it.
Rory found a new go-to sleeping position and it is hilarious. We are constantly watching her on the video monitor and if her bum is in the air then we know she is getting some great sleep!
We tried prunes for the first time. She wasn't a huge fan of the taste, but it got the job done if you know what I mean ;) (Poop, Rory. I'm talking about your poop.)
|Rory's last bath in her baby tub! Lots of milestones.
|Her first two teeth coming in!
|Rory showing off how she it getting better at sitting up. She also loves my water bottle. And she smiles like this now and it is hilarious.
|All dressed up for church. You can see her wispy hairs up top and I love them.
And that was our April!


text: by JOEL ROSE www.npr.org (PHOTO: An inmate at Rikers Island juvenile detention facility carries a plastic fork behind his back as he walks with other inmates. A recent report found that juvenile detainees are subjected to routine violence, both by other inmates and by correction officers.) For most of New York, Rikers Island is out of sight and out of mind. It's in the middle of the East River between Queens and the Bronx. There's only one unmarked bridge that leads on and off. But a recent report on violence by correction officers, or COs, was no surprise to those who've spent time there. "Couple of individuals that was close with I saw get [their] jaws broken by CO captains ... arms … [Read more...]


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Yes, the dead of Cybertron have risen many times. The reanimated form of Optimus Prime returned in the creepiest G1 episode, "Dark Awakening". Starscream and Wreckers leader Impactor shambled about in the UK comics. While not technically a zombie, the fused form of Ratchet and Megatron from Marvel's Transformers #70 was certainly one of the most disturbing images from that series.
Starscream. Who ever thought that the most back-stabbing and weasely Transformer of all time would have an immortal spark? After his death in "Transformers the Movie", Starscream returned to haunt the world of the living in the G1 episode "Starscream's Ghost" and his immortality would be carried on through to Beast Wars, Energon and Transformers Animated.
Everyone hates spiders, especially giant, maniacal, mechanical spiders. Tarantulas was especially creepy as a force to be reckoned with during the Beast Wars.
Blackarachnia started out as a female copy of Tarantulas, but quickly emerged from his shadow to become one of the most popular Transformers of the modern era. Blackarachnia has always walked the line between good and evil and continues to do so in Transformers Animated.
The Frankenstein-like Autobot X was created from spare parts by Sparkplug Witwicky. When Sparkplug's son, Spike, is critically injured, mad scientist Wheeljack tranfers Spike's mind into the hulking monstrosity, and the fun begins! Autobot X's first and only appearance was in the "classic" G1 episode "Autobot Spike". Autobot X even watched the movie "Frankenstein" during the episode. I guess the writers wanted to make sure the kiddies who were watching understood the analogy.
In the G1 episode "The Dweller in the Depths" we got to meet the Quintessons' early experiments, the Trans-Organics. The most powerful of these creatures was the Dweller, an energy leech who created "energy vampires" out of his victims. There certainly were quite a few horror movie type episodes in that crazy third season.
The character(s) Savage/Noble was a pretty unique addition to Beast Machines series. The werewolf-like Noble, who would transform into the dragon called Savage, was actually Megatron. Megatron's attempt to rid himself of his organic side (from Beast Wars) resulted in this strange creature. After Megatron's spark was freed from this form, the Noble creature still somehow lived, but was later killed while fighting Megatron.
Some of my favorite G1 toys were the Terrorcons...Hun-Gurrr, Rippersnapper, Cutthroat, Sinnertwin and Blot...who could combine into the monstrous Abominus. I think the Terrorcons can be considered dragons, although Blot's creature form defies explanation.
Of course the most famous Transformer dragon would have to be Transmetal 2 Megatron. After merging with the spark of his G1 namesake, and then taking a bath in hot lava, this new and improved Beast Wars Megatron eventually went on to conquer Cybertron.
Who can forget the Pretenders? (Yes, I know some of you want to.) The Decepticon Pretenders did have some pretty good monster shells, though. The first three were Skullgrin, a bone-faced minotaur; Bomb-Burst, a giant vampire bat creature; and Submarauder, an undersea gillman. Although they never appeared in the US cartoons, all three played a major role in the Japanese Masterforce series as Dauros, Blood and Gilmer respectively.
Another Decepticon Pretender of note is Bludgeon, master of Metallikato, a Cybertronian martial art. After a fine showing in the Marvel G1 comic, the skeleton-faced Bludgeon became a fan favorite.
Although my colleague Deinonychus recently covered the best Transformers dinosaurs, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the big daddy of them all, Trypticon. Able to give Godzilla himself a run for his money, Trypticon can not only crush a city, but transform into one as well.
That's the end! Remember, always trick-or-treat with a buddy, wear reflective clothing at night, and only eat wrapped candy. Oh, and if you're being chased by monsters, never, ever run into that old, abandoned house at the end of the street. That never works.