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DAERA using flawed science to measure ammonia emissions
Thursday, 4 January, 2018
The Ulster Farmers' Union says getting a true picture of ammonia emissions in Northern Ireland remains one of the biggest challenges for the agri-food industry and must be addressed urgently. The comments were made following the publication of a report on ammonia emissions by an expert working group.
UFU president, Barclay Bell, says NIEA and DAERA have a lot to answer for when it comes to the approach taken to tackle ammonia emissions. "The report largely vindicates our views that department have got it wrong when it comes to mapping ammonia emissions in Northern Ireland. We cannot understand how they have arrived at the decisions they have. There has been a complete lack of transparency and communication with industry has been poor. It is no secret that a number of planning applications and Tier 2 Farm Business Improvement Scheme applications are being held up as a result of issues with ammonia.
"We have been critical of the way DAERA and NIEA have dealt with the issue. We want them to clarify and explain why the measuring of ammonia emissions is different here than in the rest of the UK. We believe the science they are using in Northern Ireland is flawed and that a more robust evidence baseline is needed."
The UFU is considering the report in full but believes it clearly shows that there are still many unknowns in relation to ammonia issues in Northern Ireland and more research is needed. "Farmers are the custodians of the countryside. We recognise the importance of protecting the environment and have demonstrated a commitment to tackling water quality issues and greenhouse gas emissions through a partnership approach. DAERA and NIEA need to recognise the actions farmers have already taken. A meaningful partnership approach between the government and industry would go a long way in helping to tackle this serious issue."


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tack room
a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.
Origin of tack room
First recorded in 1955–60
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for tack room
Historical Examples of tack room
Why couldn't you tell him a hard-luck story and get to sleep in his tack-room nights?
Old Man Curry, owner of race horses, looked out of his tack-room door at a streaming sky and gave thanks for the rain.
I knows him well 'nough to wish yo' hadn't 'vited him to do his floppin' in yo' tack-room!
After an interval they returned to the tack-room, the Bald-faced Kid shaking his head commiseratingly.
Old Man Curry combed his beard reflectively and gazed through the tack-room door into the dusk of the summer evening.
tack room
a room in a stable building in which bridles, saddles, etc are kept
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A lot of great things come out of Australia; good looking men, the best accents and tans you wish you could achieve in the States. And of course, Air Supply.
Coming out strong in '75, this dynamic duo is as iconic as the O.G. PB&J. They put their hearts out on the line and were rewarded with enough groupies to last a lifetime. Their songs "Even the Nights Are Better" and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" stole the throbbing, aching hearts of teen girls everywhere. Shakespeare might be known for his romance, but these two blow him out of the water with their lyrics. Making history in 2013, Air Supply was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association's Hall of Fame, basically the same thing as The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the States.
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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Instruments and other Music topics.
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If you didn't already know, Danelectro offers a series of guitars. They are pretty nice and most are fairly inexpensive. (price range: anywhere from $300.00-$450.00) They originated the Baritone guitar which is tuned a 5th lower than the normal guitar. It almost sounds like a bass. Nothing has ever sounded quite like it.
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PhD student Kristen McCarter and her supervisor Sean Halpin have co-authored a protocol paper just published in BMJ Open. The paper outlines a systematic review looking at the screening and referral processes for patients with cancer who are experiencing distress. Between 35% and 40% of patients with cancer experience distress at some stage during their illness. Despite this, distress is often unrecognised in patients with cancer by clinicians. Distress may affect functioning, capacity to cope, treatment compliance, quality of life and survival of patients with cancer, and increase the treatment burden to the medical team and healthcare system. Addressing distress in cancer populations is, therefore, an important health priority.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Distress Management, and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance manual, Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer recommend routine screening for psychosocial distress and subsequent assessment or referral to appropriate services by those responsible for the care of patients with cancer. Despite evidence-based guideline recommendations, screening and referral of patients with cancer for psychosocial distress is not routinely conducted by clinicians responsible for the clinical management of patients with cancer. While previous reviews of interventions have examined the effects of common distress screening tools, for example, the Distress Thermometer on patients with cancer outcomes such as quality of life or depression, or the impact of patient-reported outcome measures to improve identification of distressed patients and improve treatment decisions, we are not aware of any previous systematic review of interventions to improve clinician provision of screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer per se. In the absence of reviews particularly aimed at interventions to increase screening and referral for distress in patients with cancer, the primary aims of this review are to determine the impact of interventions to improve clinician provision of screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer for distress.
McCarter K, Britton B, Baker A, Halpin S, Beck A, Carter G, Wratten C, Bauer J, Booth D, Forbes E, Wolfenden L. Interventions to improve screening and appropriate referral of patients with cancer for distress: systematic review protocol. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008277. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015- 008277
link to the paper: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e008277.full?sid=10976dd4-cf5b-4abf-afa7-d26b11bfdf6f


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Why are data protection laws important?
Tutanota encrypts your entire mailbox end-to-end so that no-one but yourself has access to your private mails. Tutanota protects your personal data to the maximum because we believe in everybody's right to privacy. As there is no law against whispering into someone's ear to hold a private conversation, in our opinion the same must be true for an online conversation. Tutanota's automatic end-to-end encryption allows you to do just that: Hold a private conversation online.
Due to the encryption in Tutanota no one can access your data, not even we can access your encrypted data. However, we do have access to metadata - sender and recipient of an email, date of emails sent. So even though we have very little data, it is important to know what German authorities can and cannot ask for and under what circumstances.
Mass surveillance vs. individual investigation
In democratic societies such as Germany, the law must allow the authorities to investigate criminals while at the same time protect citizens' right to privacy and freedom of speech. However in recent years, we regularly hear calls from politicians - also German politicians - to limit citizens' right to privacy for increased state surveillance powers to counter terrorism. Even though mass surveillance has been proven useless to fight terror, there are still politicians claiming to know better.
Fortunately there are also many institutions, particularly in Germany as we have experienced the injustice of living under all-round surveillance in East Germany, who do understand the necessity of privacy in a democratic society and its impact on freedom of speech.
German constitution guarantees right to privacy
Firstly, the right to privacy is guaranteed by the German constitution and, thus, regularly being defended by the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany. For instance, in 2008 German politicians introduced a data retention law. The Federal Constitutional Court declared this law as unconstitutional in 2010. In 2015, a new data retention law was introduced. The law explicitly states that the German data retention does not include email communication. Politicians hope that by excluding emails from the data retention law it will not be declared unconstitutional this time. The Federal Constitutional Court has yet to decide about this. However, the data retention law is not being enforced because of a court ruling that the law violates EU law.
Legal situation in Germany
In Germany there are several laws that force companies like Tutanota to protect their users' data from illegal access. Data privacy regulations in the European Union (EU) are among the strictest in the world, and among all European member states, Germany has one of the strongest policies: the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz).
This law protects users of Internet services. It puts the user in charge of what should be done with their data: Companies (=we) are not allowed to collect any personal information without express permission from an individual (=you), (i.e. name, date of birth, IP address). In Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor.
It is also noteworthy that the previous German Federal Data Protection Act already covered a lot of aspects of the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect on May 25th 2018. This regulation requires that companies protect personal information they handle. Sending out personal information such as a private home address, bank details, or CVs of applicants could lead to fines under GDPR. It is recommended to protect mails containing personal information with proper end-to-end encryption.
Find out here how Tutanota can help you to make your company use GDPR compliant emails with built-in automatic encryption.
However, there are laws that allow authorities like the police forces to ask for data of suspects of a crime. There are three different kinds of data the authorities can ask for.
1. Inventory data
Personal data such as name, address and payment data are inventory data. In Germany, email service providers have an exceptional status when it comes to the storage of inventory data. Unlike telecommunications companies, email providers are not obliged to store inventory data (§ 111 TKG).
Thus, Tutanota can not be forced to collect and store inventory data. This is why we are able to not ask for any identifiable information upon registration so that you can use our secure mail service anonymously with a free account.
German law even explicitly calls on operators of data processing systems (§ 3a of the German Federal Data Protection Act) to avoid storing personal data whenever possible. § 3a of the Federal Data Protection Act – Data avoidance and data minimization:
"The collection, processing and use of personal data and the selection and design of data processing systems must follow the goal of collecting, processing and using as little personal data as possible. In particular, personal data are to be made anonymous or pseudonymous to the extent that this is possible according to the intended purpose."
When Can Inventory Data Be Requested?
If the data is available to a German mail provider, §113 TKG rules that the provider has to make the data accessible to German authorities if they deliver a request. Several authorities are allowed to ask for inventory data. Legitimate reasons for such requests are the persecution of criminal offences or the defense of public safety or order.
2. Traffic data
Traffic data consists of
- email addresses of sender and recipient
- IP addresses of mail servers
- size of delivered data
- start and end of connection
Email providers are only allowed to store these so called log-files for seven days and only for the following two purposes:
- for detecting, isolating and eliminating technical errors (§ 100, para. 1 TKG), for example, when sending or receiving emails,
- for detecting misuse of the system (§ 100, para. 3 TKG), e.g. by spammers.
Basically, traffic data refers to all data which is generated during a telecommunication process. Just like content data, traffic data is subject to the secrecy of telecommunications: A judge has to order that traffic data of an individual account has to be released to the authorities. Such a request is only issued when there is suspicion of a serious crime.
German law also does not permit traffic data to be stored solely for the purpose of law enforcement, thus, there is no data retention law for email providers in Germany. The authorities can only request data that is being stored for operational reasons. They are not allowed to ask us to collect additional traffic data.
According to the law, at Tutanota we only store the logs of the mail servers for seven days. This means we do not store individual ip addresses of the sender and the recipient, but only the ip addresses of the sending and receiving mail servers. This enables you to use Tutanota anonymously to protect your right to privacy when communicating online.
3. Content data
This term refers to your mails: subject, body and attachments. In Tutanota all mails are end-to-end encrypted and only you hold the decryption keys. So even when presented with a German court order, we can only pass on encrypted data.
When Can Content and Traffic Data Be Requested?
Content and traffic data can only be requested by a German judge (§ 94, para. 2 of the StPO, § 98, para. 1, sent. 1 or para. 2, sent. 1 of the StPO) if a German court finds that there is a reasonable cause to suspect that an email account user has been committing a serious crime, that is for example bribery, dissemination, purchase and possession of pornographic writings involving children and juveniles or commercial handling of stolen goods. The law specifies that in case of imminent danger, the public prosecution also has this right. Supporting forces of the public prosecution are not authorized to request content data.
Monitoring of Content and Traffic Data (TKÜ)
The German judge can either issue a seizure of a mailbox or a monitoring of the mailbox (TKÜ), or both. A seizure order under criminal law (§ 94, para. 2 of the StPO, § 98, para. 1, sent. 1 or para. 2, sent. 1 of the StPO) refers to the encrypted mailbox content. An order for monitoring a mailbox (TKÜ) refers to all emails received and sent from the relevant mailbox starting with the time of the order.
Beyond legality: Vault7 and Germany
The vault7 leaks revealed what has long been suspected by the security community: The CIA copies and stores the entire Internet traffic to use it for surveillance and spying purposes. This form of mass surveillance has been executed from the US-consulate in Frankfurt. What the CIA did is illegal under German law.
The CIA most likely picked Frankfurt for their attacks because this is where the DE-CIX internet exchange point is located. Through here all Internet traffic for Europe and its surroundings, including non-EU states is routed. This means that all internet traffic from the European continent, the Middle East and Africa is routed through Frankfurt making it a high-profile target to the CIA.
End-to-end encryption stops mass surveillance
If anything, Vault7 has proven how important end-to-end encryption is. It is very easy for secret services - not just the CIA - and malicious attackers to get access to not-encrypted internet traffic, copy it and scan it for important information. But when the data that is routed through Frankfurt, for example, is end-to-end encrypted, they copy only gibberish - data that they can not scan, can not use and can not abuse. Vault7 once again taught us that encryption is the top-notch choice when taking measures to protect your privacy.
Privacy is a basic human right and we at Tutanota fight to protect your privacy with encryption. We successfully defend your private communication against mass surveillance and illegal access by state agencies and attackers alike.
In addition, in Germany there is no law that could force us to submit to a gag order or to implement a backdoor.
For transparency reasons we want you to know the following: The content of your emails is protected with strong end-to-end encryption and will always stay private. However, German authorities have the ability to request traffic data and (if available) inventory data of individual accounts of suspected criminals.
You can find details on this in our Transparency Report.


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Digital Media Specialist, Office of Communications
Report to:
Assistant Director for Video Production
The digital media specialist is responsible for filming, editing and uploading videos created by the communications office. The job holder assists in all aspects of video production from the creative concept to the online dissemination of videos.
Principal Accountabilities:
Responsible for independently shooting, editing and publishing videos
Work closely with editorial teams to identify potential stories
Ensure all videos are uploaded online to appropriate channels
Understand and adapt to the demands of a deadline-based editorial team
Be able to follow a brief and also establish how to get the best performances out of different presenters
Ability to edit to tight turnaround time
Coordinate the acquisition and utilization of videos created by students and other members of the American University in Cairo (AUC) community
Minimum education requirement: BA required, preferably in mass communications, film, television journalism or a related field
Two to three years work experience in video production
Good experience with shooting videos according to pre-set storyboards or story lines
Experience with and knowledge of video editing software (Final Cut Studio Pro, Adobe After Effects, iMovie and Adobe Creative Suite), media codecs, streaming technology, encoding software and motion graphics
Good journalistic writing skills
Experience working in studios and on location
Strong online publishing skills (on websites, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.) and experience with social media
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What sort of a singer are you when no one is listening, when you are warbling away in the bathroom or kitchen?
Join Concentus and find out – the group which calls itself Eastbourne's friendliest choir is looking for new members to join.
Concentus is celebrating its 10th year of singing together, currently around 90 members strong, and performs its main concerts and many other events in both Eastbourne and Seaford.
Concentus member Lynn Large said: "We always manage to produce a varied and fun-packed programme with pieces both traditional and modern. We are particularly looking for menfolk to join the tenor and bass ranges but all-comers are welcome.
"Don't worry if you are rusty or are not able to read music. As long as you can hold a note and are open to learning then we would love you to consider joining us. Come along any Monday night (we start back on the 11th January) at 7.30pm at Upperton United Reformed Church on the corner of Upperton Road and Watts Lane. You are assured of a very warm welcome and you will be well looked after and helped to settle in. There is nothing to equal the joy of developing new friendships through the art of singing in community – come and see!
If you want more information then please visit our website www.concentus-sings.com or phone our friendly General Secretary; Evelyn on 01323 643358."


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Skier Lost Overnight
Written by Pete Carlson
We were having our annual winter shakedown hike and had just spent the night in Tamarack Valley. We were practicing avalanche line probing when we got the radio call at 9am that a day skier had not returned last night from a trip up the Tramway the day before. We started to get organized by having Glenn, Rob, Ray, and Frank head back to the upper Tramway to run base and find out more information. The rest of us started melting snow to refill all the water bottles so everyone would have 2-3 litters of water when we started searching. We all would be carrying 45-55 pound packs with all our winter gear.
It took a good 90 minutes before Glenn and crew got back to the upper Tramway and got all the information. It turned out that Evan had come up Sat morning and gone to San Jacinto Peak to ski back down again. So we sent team 1 to Wellman Divide and then they were to check down the trail to Saddle Junction for any signs of ski tracks headed down into the Wellman drainage. Team 2 was going to San Jacinto Peak and check the North Face and then down towards Little Round Valley. Team 3 was going to Round Valley and then the high trail to Hidden Lake again looking for ski tracks. The State Park was sending a team to Hidden Lake and then down to Willow Creek Crossing looking to tracks. We hoped to find some sign from one of the teams.
As all teams were out on assignment around 2:30pm when we got word that Evan had walked into Snow Creek Village area and a Sheriff Deputy was going to pick him up. We all waited until the Deputy confirmed that it was Evan. All teams then hiked back to the upper Tramway by 4:30pm and went down to have a meal in Palm Springs before heading home. We have since learned that Evan reached the Summit and it was very cloudy and he could not see much. He skied off the North Face by mistake and just kept going until the snow ran out. He then left his skis and continued down on foot. He spent the night under a boulder and in the morning continued down and across the Isthmus passed the water district buildings and down the road to Snow Creek Village.
RMRU Members Involved: Pete Carlson, Cameron Dickinson, Gary Farris, Glenn Henderson, Eric Holden, Tony Hughes, Kevin Kearn, Rob May, Frank Snider, and Ray Weden.
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Every asset, product, system, machine has now become smart and generates data. Sensors can monitor and manage almost any facet of a building environment from temperature, the usage and performance of utility assets, lighting, water, energy, parking, and more. The adoption of IoT in building management yields significant benefits including reduced maintenance costs, predictive maintenance, maximized operational and energy efficiency, greater occupant comfort, and improved security.
"Smart commercial buildings will be the highest user of Internet of Things (IoT) until 2017, after which smart homes will take the lead with just over 1 billion connected things in 2018."
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Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (Sprint)
Physical Features, Phone Calls and Internet
This is a very pretty phone, but at 5.1 by 2.7 by 0.4 inches (HWD) and 4.6 ounces, it's for people with big hands. The Epic 4G Touch uses the standard black-slab design; it's mostly made of plastic, but it's not cheap-feeling plastic. It's slim, with a textured back. The front is dominated by a gigantic 4.5-inch, 800-by-480 Super AMOLED Plus screen. This is technically lower-resolution than the Photon's 960-by-640 screen, but Super AMOLED Plus is a superior technology: blacks are deeper, colors richer, and lines lack the stippled effect you see on Motorola's PenTile screens. The big screen has another unexpected advantage: it makes touch targets a bit bigger, so it's easier to tap on links than on the Motorola Photon at its default zoom level.
The Epic Touch is a decent voice phone, but it doesn't stand out. Reception was average in my tests. The earpiece can get loud, but it's a bit muddy. The speakerphone is of medium volume and somewhat thready. Transmissions through the phone sounded tinny and scratchy, but at least background noise cancellation was solid. Battery life, on the other hand, was just spectacular; I got 8 hours, 48 minutes of talk time on the Epic Touch's whopping 1800 mAh battery.
The phone connected to our Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129.99, 4.5 stars) without a problem for voice, music, video and gaming audio. Voice dialing, though, is odd. Samsung swapped out the usual Android voice dialing for the much more powerful Vlingo app, which should let you dictate text messages and issue other commands by voice. I found Vlingo had a big problem recognizing the names of my friends and family, though, which was a downer.
A CDMA/WiMAX phone, the Epic Touch runs on Sprint's 3G and 4G networks. It isn't a world phone, although it will work in countries like India and China where Sprint has CDMA roaming agreements. Internet performance was on par with other Sprint phones that is, dependent on Clearwire's extremely shaky network. I got up to 6Mbps down with good coverage near my house, but couldn't top 2Mbps in our offices. The phone works as a tethered modem and a Wi-Fi hotspot, as well.
Processor and Apps
Like its cousin, the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S II ($699, 4.5 stars), the Epic 4G Touch uses Samsung's new 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor. The Exynos benchmarks better than any other processor we've seen so far. System benchmarks, browser benchmarks, you name it this thing is on fire. (The only exception is pure Flash benchmarks, where Nvidia's Tegra 2 comes out on top.)
The difference between the four major dual-core chipsets (from Samsung, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and TI) shows up mostly on benchmarks, though. On tasks like Web page load times and games, it's hard to tell the difference between a range of dual-core, 4G phones. Testing the Epic Touch against the Photon side by side, there wasn't a meaningful difference in Web page load times, and games were actually better on the Photon because high-end Tegra Zone games aren't available for the Epic Touch.
That's not to deride the Epic Touch's performance just to say that it's similar to other top-of-the-line phones. The Epic Touch runs Google Android 2.3.4 with Samsung's TouchWiz extensions, which are less bothersome than Motorola's social networking widgets. Add-on apps include Kies Air, which lets you view your phone's contacts, messages, and media through a PC's Web browser; Media Hub, a downloadable music and video store; photo and video editors; and Social Hub, a combination Facebook/Twitter client. The usual Sprint bloatware is on here too, including the Sprint ID theming client, Sprint Music, Sprint Radio and Sprint TV and Movies.
Everything I could throw at this phone ran copacetically. Netflix was smooth, as was the NOVA 2 HD first-person shooter. The Epic 4G Touch won't let you down with even the toughest apps.
Multimedia and Conclusions
The big, bright screen is ideal for video. The phone comes with 16GB of storage, and there's an empty MicroSD card slot under the back cover that takes cards up to 32GB. Videos in H.264, DIVX and XVID formats at up to 1080p resolution played well using the internal speaker or wired headphones; I saw just a bit of lost lip sync with a Bluetooth headset. Music, in all of our test formats, also sounded good.
The 8-megapixel camera is very fast, taking decent shots for a camera phone in 0.5 seconds or less in my tests. Test images were sharp with 1,700 lines of resolution, and had good white balance. But colors were a bit less saturated than in shots taken with the Motorola Photon's camera. The video camera mode captures 1080p HD videos at 24 frames per second indoors and 30 frames per second outdoors, and 720p videos at 30 frames per second indoors and out; as with most phones like this, I recommend sticking to the 720p mode. There's also a 2-megapixel camera on the front for self shots. That's higher quality than most front-facing cameras.
Docking options are a bit of a letdown. Rather than a true HDMI port, the Epic 4G Touch uses an MHL port to connect to TVs, requiring a hard-to-find adapter. My MHL adapter didn't work with this phone. The Photon also has Motorola's innovative webtop mode, which turns the phone into a desktop PC; the Epic 4G Touch has nothing similar.
The Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch has an intangible lusciousness to it. With its beautiful screen and top-of-the-line performance, it's going to fly off of shelves. This is one of the best Android phones on the market, so why doesn't the Epic 4G Touch get our Editors' Choice? The Motorola Photon is slightly better in our view, although we'd agree that's debatable. But the Photon is a world phone, it has webtop, it has a kickstand for easy video viewing, its camera has slightly better color saturation and its HDMI support is better.
Still, this is a terrific choice for Sprint users to have to make. Combined with Sprint's truly unlimited data plans, it gives Sprint customers two powerful Internet and multimedia phones that can easily hold their own with the best on other carriers.
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MarketResearchReports.Biz presents this most up-to-date research on "Global Automated Container Terminal Market 2017-2021"
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/24/2017 -- Automated container terminals use container handling equipment that requires no human interaction and can be operated using hardware, software, and terminal operating systems (TOS). The first container terminal with full automation features became operational two decades ago. The initial automated container terminal was in the Netherlands, (ECT Delta). The container terminals are built with automated stacking cranes (ASCs) and some terminals use automated guided vehicle (AGV).
In the modern global economy, marine container terminals play a critical role in the international supply chain. To improve efficiency and reliability, operators are turning to automation both in terms of hardware and software. Operating an automated container terminal requires the integration of multiple sophisticated hardware and software systems. APAC countries, such as Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and EMEA countries like Qatar, Morocco, Oman, Norway, and Sweden, are undergoing a wave of infrastructure development and construction activities. Countries from the Americas, such as US, Brazil, Argentina, and Canada, are in the process of expanding port terminals and looking to upgrade and switch on to automation, either fully or partially. greenfield and brownfield projects will encourage the growth of the container terminal industry in these countries, and may incentivize the scope of automation projects. Such automation will improve operations through modern instrumentation solutions. We note that implementing automation and related software solutions should boost demand for industrial automation solutions, such as terminal automation systems.
Technavios analysts forecast the global automated container terminal market to grow at a CAGR of 25%% during the period 2017-2021.
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The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global automated container terminal market for 2017-2021. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated from the sales of automated container terminal.
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Technavio's report, Global Automated Container Terminal Market 2017-2021, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
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Widened scope for greenfield and brownfield container terminal projects
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What is driving this market?
What are the challenges to market growth?
Who are the key vendors in this market space?
What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
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Pupils in Middlesbrough were given 60 seconds to make their directorial debut with a visit from a London film group.
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Everybody knows about the Starbucks example of location-based ads: you walk past a coffee shop, and it sends a coupon enticing you inside to your phone. Most sensible people realize it's not a great idea (see Russell's definitive fisking of the concept), but the idea lives on. Monday's NYT had a story about how clothing brand The North Face is starting a location-based ad program (powered by Placecast) that uses geofences to determine when to send messages to users who have opted in.
The article says that users who come within a half-mile of one of TNF's urban stores (or 1 mile of its suburban stores) will get sent some sort of come-hither message (like "The new spring running apparel has hit the stores! Check it out @ TNF Downtown Seattle."), and eventually, they'll send messages to people who visit certain hiking trails or ski slopes with weather conditions or other info. Placecast has evidently set up 1,000 geofenced areas across the US that will trigger messages from The North Face to users.
It's great that the system is opt-in; that answers one of the major criticisms of the Starbucks example. The geofencing is a slightly more advanced location technology; adding in areas other than the stores is definitely new. But do these additions make the overall concept any stronger?
That's not totally clear. Placecast says they won't send a user more than 3 messages per week, but it's the content of those messages that's more important than their frequency. If you go to downtown Seattle and get messages you aren't interested in from TNF every time you're near their store, how long will you stay opted in? What will be the effect on your perception of the brand? And further, what value does a "come into the store to see some new stuff we want to sell you" message offer to the recipient? Not much, I'd say — even less if it's not well-targeted.
What seems to often be forgotten in the discussion around LBS advertising — especially models like this — is what they offer the recipient. Simply delivering better targeted ads is a benefit for marketers, and is not inherently one for customers, too. If a customer opts in to receive messages from a brand or retailer, they've got to offer something of value. That doesn't mean that every message has to be a hugely valuable coupon or be something else of tangible value, but they have to be worthwhile in some way.
Every message sent out has a negative value potential. That is, each time you contact a customer there's the potential that the message is hurting your relationship with them, rather than helping it. If you're setting up all these geofences that will trigger your messages, and thereby increasing the volume you're sending, it puts quite a burden on you to ensure that each message is meaningful and valuable. Location targeting doesn't help you get around this, regardless of how well it works.
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Is The Bible God's Unadulterated Word?
To Christians, the above question seems quite simple, most, if not all, will answer "yes" without hesitation. Then when asked "Is God perfect?", they will most likely all reply "yes" to this question as well. If my two assumptions above are correct, we have established two core beliefs which are common amongst the Christian population:
(1) The Bible is God's word
(2) God is perfect
The following discussion wishes to prove that The Bible contains many clear errors/mistakes/contradictions, thus cannot be the word of God, because God is perfect and would never make mistakes of any kind. Unfortunately, since there are so many different versions of The Bible, it was impossible to present examples of the specific passages from every version. In these cases, the 'King James Version' was used.
Clear Contradictions in The Bible
So God came to David, and told him, and said
unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or
wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or
that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer
I shall return to him that sent me.
So God came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
Jehoiachin was eight years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and
he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
Its thickness was a handbreadth; and its brim
was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two
thousand baths.
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
And Solomon had four thousand stalls
for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the
chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
As you can see, the above errors are concerned with numbers. These differences have been explained via scribal errors. However, this is irrelevant, since I am only concerned with what is written, not what was meant. Even If I agree, that all the number related errors were due to scribal mistakes, does this change the fact that the version of The Bible in existence today contains errors?The following is a list of discrepancies between statements, not involving numbers.
Who was the father of Joseph?
And Jacob begat Joseph the husband
of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.
What was created first, man or beast?
GEN 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon
the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
GEN 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
GEN 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Can children be killed for the sins of their fathers, or not?
Prepare slaughter for his children for
the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
nor fill the face of the world with cities.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
What was the last remark Jesus said?
Matt.27:46,50: "And about the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?"
that is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ...Jesus,
when he cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost."
Luke23:46: "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, "Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit:" and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."
John19:30: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished:" and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."
God CAN be seen:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts." (Ex. 33:23)
"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." (Ex. 33:11)
"For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Gen. 32:30)
God CANNOT be seen:
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live." (Ex. 33:20)
"Whom no man hath seen nor can see." (1 Tim. 6:16)
Does God tempt man or not?
Gen 22:1
James 1:13
"And it came to pass after these things,
that God did tempt Abraham."
"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man."
Did Michal have children or not?
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had
no child unto the day of her death.
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
Clear Scientific Errors in The Bible
Creation of the world: Genesis 1:1: The world
was created in 6 days, light was created on the first day but the sun and stars
(which produce light) were created on the 4th day.
This is scientifically incorrect.
Genesis 1:7 indicates on the first day water
was created everywhere and God separated the waters with firmament into heaven
and earth on Day 2.
This is scientifically incorrect. At the beginning, the whole world was a gaseous mass and was then divided and cooled off (big bang hypothesis).
Genesis 1:13 states God created vegetables on
the third day but the sun was created on the 4th day.
It is not scientifically acceptable to have vegetables survive on Earth without the sun.
In the Jewish calendar, the earth is estimated
to be about 5800 years old. This is based on the date that Prophet Adam came
to earth (Genesis 4:1) and the world was created.
This is not scientifically correct. The earth is estimated to be roughly 4.5 billion years old!
The story of the flood - Genesis 6:7/7:4. The
Bible indicates that the big flood 4000 years ago was universal and the whole
world was destroyed except for Prophet Noah and his arc.
This is historically incorrect. Other nations existed 4000 years ago and were not affected by the flood.
MAT 4:8 "Again, the devil taketh him
up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them"
Astronomical bodies are spherical, and you cannot see the entire exterior surface from any place. The kingdoms of Egypt, China, Greece, Crete, sections of Asia Minor, India, Maya (in Mexico), Carthage (North Africa), Rome (Italy), Korea, and other settlements from these kingdoms of the world were widely distributed.
This misguided statement may have been due to the writers of The Bible thinking the earth was a circle:
ISA 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
If we take a look back at the two beliefs we
established most, if not all, Christians hold:
(1) The Bible is God's word
(2) God is perfect
We can see that if the evidence I have presented in my discussion is correct, then there is a glaring contradiction between beliefs (1) & (2), because both (1) & (2) cannot be correct simultaneously (at the same time).
So, which one is correct?
Obviously, the whole concept of God is that God is all powerful, all knowing and perfect. So if you believe in God, its only logical that you would believe in a perfect God, one that does not make mistakes.
If your belief is one of a perfect God, then this only leaves one option: The Bible CANNOT be God's Word (because of the many mistakes it contains).
My discussion is not aimed at trying to disprove Christianity or The Bible, in fact, I would recommend others to study The Bible in conjunction with The Quran, in order to see the strong evidence which shows all three divine monotheist faiths (Judaism, Christianity & Islam) are interconnected quite remarkably. My aim was simply to dispel the mistaken belief that The Bible is error free/God's Word, and to support Islam's view that The Bible is a collection of interpretations of the followers of Jesus*, not his original teachings.
*Islam regards Jesus as one of the many prophets who delivered God's message, not the son of God/God etc.
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As always, all the information I have presented in my discussion is correct to the best of my knowledge only, and thus should not be taken as a fact.
"You shall not accept any information,
unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight,
and the brain, and you are responsible for using them." (The Quran,
Please check any references that I have taken
from The Bible from the following site (you can even check different versions
of The Bible)
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My fascination with science began around fifth grade. At first, I took particular interest in marine biology and meteorology. As I matured, I strayed from these topics and eventually landed in astronomy. In seventh grade, my mom took note of my interest and looked into events at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Luckily for me, they had a high school program that they accepted me into in eighth grade. I began to use telescopes remotely via software provided by my mentor at Yerkes, Vivian Hoette. Some of my early images were taken at the Stone Edge Observatory in Sonoma, California. These images later won me an award that came with a DSLR camera. After months of using telescopes, I became interested in landscape photography, specifically using my DSLR at night. I rented Adobe Lightroom 5, and practiced editing images that other people took. By the time I got my Canon 6D around September of 2013, I was all ready to go with nighttime photography. The first dark sky I imaged at was at Yerkes Observatory.
But Yerkes was not my first introduction to beautiful night skies. My dad had regularly brought me and my family up to a place in the Minocqua area of northern Wisconsin — a small town named Sayner, specifically. I always remembered how breathtaking the sky was there, and despite many visits, I was still amazed each time. My next trip was a few weeks after my Yerkes shot, during spring break. This was my first time with a camera in Sayner, and on the first morning I got lucky with the weather. The clouds cleared to make space for the rising Milky Way.
As the months went by and my experience increased, so did my picture quality. While working at Yerkes Observatory and taking part in numerous events there, I got out whenever possible to take night shots. Something about sharing the night sky we have here on Earth with those less aware fuels me to keep taking pictures. Then, over the week of July Fourth, good and bad things happened. My dad, sister, and I travel every year to a place called the Woodlands Resort on Plum Lake in Sayner. Here, the sky is awe-inspiring. I got the most amazing images and time-lapses out of the one night I had with my camera. But on the second night, disaster struck — my camera mysteriously broke. The screen no longer turned on and a shutter failure message was displayed.
The next image shared here is one that I took while my camera was broken. I was so disappointed that each night I went out and attempted to take pictures. I have hundreds of dark images since my camera shutter didn't fire, but one picture must have been meant to be. On July 2, about an hour after sunset, my camera took one image of the Milky Way reflecting over Plum Lake.
Strangely enough, my camera seemed to repair itself after that trip. The screen remained nonfunctional, but it was able to take pictures, and that's all that mattered to me. I continued to use a broken camera with no screen for months after that. I took numerous time-lapses and images and shared them with many people. In August, I visited Sayner one last time. Outside our cabin, we set off fireworks under the dark and clear night sky. I took many pictures of these fireworks, as I'd never seen any images of fireworks with a night sky in the background. This one picture details each aspect of a firework.
In December 2013, my dad had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He fought hard, and he did everything he could for me. In March of 2015, he ordered me a new camera and told me to pursue my talents and keep going with what I have. On April 1, he passed away peacefully. He helped me get to where I am now however he could.
Each picture shared here was taken when I was 14 years old. I am completely self-taught, and I think I would be a great example for anybody who wishes to accomplish things at a younger age than usual. I'm still snapping pictures whenever possible just to share them with family and the public.
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Friday, March 20, 2015
My Cute Dogs
8 comments:
- Sandra said...
I did not know you had two dogs, i only new about Horse dog... we get a lot of laughs each day out of both ours. when Baby sleeps upside down like this, we call that her dead roach postiion
- March 20, 2015 at 2:34 PM
- Ginny said...
So funny! Perhaps he was going to defend you with the paper towel roll! I did not know you had another dog, how many do you have two? What is the other one's name?
- March 20, 2015 at 3:02 PM
- Elephant's Child said...
Thank you for the smile.
Our cats growl at intruders - dogs/cats/people and then scuttle off to the safety of the wardrobe. At least horse dog stays out to protect you.
And a very happy Spring to you.
- March 20, 2015 at 5:00 PM
- Small Kucing said...
So long have not seem horse in the blog. Lol...my cat will hiss whn there is strange cats around
- March 20, 2015 at 9:28 PM
- Karen Mortensen said...
Love it.
- March 21, 2015 at 10:25 AM
- Betsy Adams said...
Dogs are just so much fun to be around and to watch. They do the craziest things.... Guess your 'horse'(dog) thought he did what he needed to do before he played with the paper towel roll... ha ha
- March 21, 2015 at 3:46 PM
- Karen said...
Dogs rule! Cute photos!
- March 24, 2015 at 1:06 AM
- Flying high in the sky.... said...
:) cute indeed!
- May 13, 2015 at 2:32 PM


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Our card for today, Thursday, September 15th, is taken from the Sacred Rebels Oracle – Shock of the New.
As we continue to move through these new energies and the full-moon lunar eclipse on Friday, we must be prepared to discover new things within ourselves and in the world at large. We may experience new thoughts and feelings, we may have new ideas and inspiration, we may see some strange things playing out on the world stage, people around us may be behaving differently, and so on. This newness may manifest in any number of ways too numerous to count. For those who are not aware of what is happening to them, many will literally go into shock and some will also literally lose their minds, or go crazy.
What we are being asked to do is to remember that everything that is happening within us and around us, is happening for a reason. The light is increasing and that means we will begin to see things that were previously hidden from us, this could be negative things that our world leaders have been up to that we had no idea about, it could mean new inventions coming to light, it could mean the disclosure that we are not alone in the universe and that aliens are even living among us, it could again be many things.
Related to the new energies is also the thinning of the veil, the veil that has separated us from the realms of spirit and from remembering who we truly are and where we have come from. We will begin to remember these things and it is very possible that we will begin to see things that have been around us all along, but our physical eyes could not see because we have only had the ability to see a very small part of the full spectrum of light. Perhaps some will hear things as well. Like I said, the possibilities are endless.
So as we go through these inner and outer changes, can we keep our heads and have faith that everything that happens is for the highest good of all? Can we stay out of fear and understand that we are becoming more of who we really are, who we were always meant to be? Can we hold onto our belief in the Light and not lose our minds? Can we be the lighthouses we are and help those around us find their way through these amazing and intense times? Because that is what we are being asked to do. We need to remain connected to our hearts at all times if we are going to come through this ascension process with our minds, bodies and souls intact. This is certainly a time that requires us to fasten our seatbelts and enjoy the ride!
Here is a Declaration of Intention taken from the Sacred Rebels Oracle Guidebook for today's card: "I am supported through the shock of the new, I accept the beauty in all that is foreign or strange to me as I know it is bringing me new gifts, wisdom, life experiences and creative inspiration. Through unconditional love, so be it."
Have a great day everyone! ~Namaste~
Love✲ ¸¸.•*¨¸.☆.¸*°˚ ˚
& Light ♫☯♪ ☼ Aurora & Star Twin
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GLANCE: Matt and Rockael
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I feel like I have a million special moments to share about this wedding but I'll save that for the full post. For now, just help me in congratulating this beautiful and kind couple who were married on the anniversary of their sixth year together.
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Sri Lanka enjoys many spectacular Buddhism festivals and public events
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Sri Lanka enjoys a host of public-holiday festivals and events during the year, most of which are based on Buddhist festivals, which revolve around the days of the full moon poya days.
On these occasions, Sri Lankan Buddhists traditionally make offerings at their local temple, and the most important festivals are celebrated with spectacular peraheras, or parades, with scores of fabulously dressed elephants accompanied by drummers and dancers.
The government also includes holidays for Islam, Hinduism and Christianity religions in the country's list of public holidays every year.
People often travel on poya days, so transport, public places such as beaches, bathing places and accommodation tends to be busy—plus there is a ban on the sale of alcohol, although tourist hotels and guest houses will usually serve for foreign tourists.
Here is a list of the years major festivals and events, courtesy of the Trip To Sri Lanka website:
caption id="attachment_5494" align="alignright" width="400"Duruthu Maha Perahera Kelani Perahera
Duruthu Poya Marks the first of the Buddha's three legendary visits to Sri Lanka, celebrated with a spectacular perahera at the Raja Maha Vihara in the Colombo suburb of Kelaniya. The Duruthu poya also marks the beginning of the three-month pilgrimage season to Adam's Peak.
Significance of Duruthu Pasalosvaka Poya
Thai Pongol Hindu festival, honoring the sun god Surya, Indra (the bringer of rains), and the cow, in no particular order. It's marked by ceremonies at Hindu temples, after which the first grains of the new paddy harvest are ceremonially cooked in milk in a special pot-the direction in which the liquid spills is thought to indicate good or bad luck in the coming year.
Navam Poya Commemorates the Buddha's announcement, at the age of 80, of his own impending death, celebrated with a major perahera at the Gangaramaya temple in Colombo. Although this dates only from 1979, it has already become one of the island's biggest festivals, featuring a procession of some fifty elephants.
Independence Day/ National Day primarily celebrates Sri Lanka's independence from British rule on 4 February 1948, but is a day to remember Sri Lanka's struggle for independence from various regimes. This is usually celebrated in Galle Face Green with parades, dances and games.
Maha Sivarathri (Feb/March) Hindu festival dedicated to Shiva, during which devotees perform a one-day fast and an all-night vigil.
Medin Poya Marks the Buddha's first visit to his father's palace following his enlightenment.
caption id="attachment_5495" align="alignright" width="400"New Year Food
Bak Poya Celebrates the Buddha's second visit to Sri Lanka.
Sinhala and Hindu New Year (April 13-14) Coinciding with the start of the southwest monsoon and the end of the harvest season, the Buddhist and Hindu new year is a family festival during which presents are exchanged and the traditional kiribath (rice cooked with milk and cut into diamond shapes) is prepared.
Businesses close, rituals are performed based on Auspicious times (Avurudu Nakath) prepared by Astrologers, new clothes are worn and horoscopes are cast. Usually April 13 is the New Year's Eve and April 14 is New Year's Day.
Good Friday An Easter Passion play is performed on the island of Duwa, near Negombo.
caption id="attachment_5496" align="alignright" width="400"Vesak Pandals in Colombo
May day or International Workers Day/ Labour day (1 May) The traditional May Day bank holiday. Main political parties hold rallies in Colombo and other parts of the island on this day.
Vesak Poya The most important of the Buddhist poyas, this is a three-fold celebration commemorating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, all three of which have happened on the day of the vesak poya.
In addition, the last of the Buddha's three visits to Sri Lanka is claimed to have been on a Vesak poya day. Vesak gives prominence to "Amisa Pooja" (Vesak decorations, Dansala, Pandals) and "Prathipatthi Pooja" (Religious activities) by way of observing both rituals and precepts. Lamps are lit in front of houses, and platforms decorated with scenes from the life of the Buddha (pandals) are erected throughout the country. Buses and cars are decorated with streamers, and free food (from rice and curry to Vesak sweetmeats) is distributed in roadside booths (dansala).
Meanwhile, devout Buddhists visit temples, meditate and fast. The day after the Vesak poya is also a public holiday.
Vesak also marks the end of the Adam's Peak pilgrimage season.
Poson Poya Second only in importance to Vesak, poson poya commemorates the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka by Mahinda, marked by mass pilgrimages to Anuradhapura, while thousands of white-robed pilgrims climb to the summit off Mihintale.
Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramazan Festival Day) – This is a Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan
caption id="attachment_5497" align="alignright" width="400"Kandy Esala Perahera
Esala Poya Celebrates the Buddha's first sermon and the arrival of the Tooth Relic in Sri Lanka. The lunar month of Esala is the season of festivals, marked by elephant peraheras at Kataragama, Dondra, Bellanwila (a southern Colombo suburb) and, most flamboyantly, the great Esala Perahera in Kandy (late July to early Aug), Sri Lanka's most extravagant festival.
Esala Perahara Kataragama (late July/early August) Festival at Kataragama (held at the same time as the Esala perahera) during which devotees fire-walk and indulge in various forms of ritual self-mutilation, piercing their skin with hooks and weights, and driving skewers through their cheeks and tongues.
Nikini Poya Marks the retreat of the Bhikkhus following the Buddha's death, commemorated by a period of fasting and of retreat for the monastic communities.
Vel (July/August) Colombo's most important Hindu festival, dedicated to Skanda/ Kataragama and featuring two exuberant processions during which the god's chariot and vel (spear) are carried across the city from the Pettah to temples in Wellawatta and Bambalapitiya.
During the Vel, the gilded chariot of Murugan (Skanda), the Hindu war god, is ceremonially hauled from the Kathiresan kovil to a kovil at Bambalapitiya.
Nallur Festival Held at the Nallur Temple in Jaffna in honour of Skanda, this is the biggest and longest festival in Sri Lanka, a mammoth 26-day affair, ending on Nikini poya.
Binara Poya Commemorates the Buddha's journey to heaven to preach to his mother and other deities.
Id-Ul-Alha (Hajjhi Festival Day), is a Muslim festival marking the beginning of pilgrimages to Mecca.
Dussehra (Sep/ Oct) Also known as Durga Puja, this Hindu festival honours Durga and also commemorates the day of Rama's victory over Ravana.
Vap Poya Marks the Buddha's return to earth and the end of the Buddhist period of fasting.
Deepavali (late Oct/ early Nov) The Hindu Festival of Lights (equivalent to north India's Diwali), commemorating the return from exile of Rama, hero of the Ramayana, with the lighting of lamps in Tamil households, symbolic of the triumph of good over evil, and the wearing of new clothes.
II Poya Commemorates the Buddha's ordination of sixty disciples.
caption id="attachment_5498" align="alignright" width="400"Tallest artificial Christmas tree in Colombo
Unduvap Poya Celebrates the arrival of the Bo tree sapling in Anuradhapura, brought by Ashoka's daughter, Sangamitta.
Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet's Birthday)
Christmas (25 December)
Christian New Year's Eve (31 December}.
Official Public Holidays in Sri Lanka
January 12 Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day
January 14 Tamil Thai Pongal Day
February 04 National Day
February 10 Navam Full Moon Poya Day
February 24 Mahasivarathri Day
March 12 Madin Full Moon Poya Day
April 10 Bak Full Moon Poya Day
April 13 Day prior to New Year Day
April 14 Sinhala & Tamil New Year Day
April 14 Good Friday
May 01 May Day
May 10 Vesak Full Moon Poya Day
May 11 Day Following Vesak Poya Day
June 8 Poson Full Moon Poya Day
June 26 Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramazan Festival Day)
July 8 Esala Full Moon Poya Day
August 7 Nikini Full Moon Poya Day
September 1 Id-Ul-Alha (Hadji Festival Day)
September 5 Binara Full Moon Poya Day
October 5 Vap Full Moon Poya Day
October 18 Deepavali Festival Day
November 3 Ill Full Moon Poya Day
December 1 Milad-Un-Nabi (Holy Prophet's Birthday)
December 3 Unduvap Full Moon Poya Day
December 25 Christmas Day


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Letter from the Producer Live XXVII has wrapped! Live from Kagoshima, director/producer Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida and global community producer Toshio Murouchi announced the title of Patch 3.2: "The Gears of Change" and a release date of February 23rd. The body of the letter delved into discussing the new content and features planned for the patch,
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Ease. Comfort. Affordability. Safe. Scenic. Walkable. Friendly. These are just a few of the words to describe the seamless event experience that awaits participants, officials and their family members for the 2013 USA Gymnastics Men's Junior Olympic National Championships. The Oregon Convention Center is centrally located near hotels and easily accessible by light rail.
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232
The MAX light rail system runs through the heart of Portland and stops 262 times per day at the convention center. And the Portland Streetcar extends its loop from the center of downtown to the convention center, Rose Garden arena and Lloyd Center shopping mall, just one more element of ease offered to those attending the 2013 Men's Junior Olympics.
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Outside the convention center, a wide array of restaurants, microbreweries, shops, visitor attractions and entertainment options fill downtown Portland – and each and every one of them has no sales tax! Many visitors spend their entire trip in Portland without a vehicle as MAX light rail connects Portland International Airport, downtown hotels, restaurants and the Oregon Convention Center.
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The Hilton Portland and Executive Tower in the heart of downtown will serve as the headquarters hotel, while the upscale Doubletree Hotel will accommodate judges. A shuttle from the Doubletree will be provided for judges, who will have the option of either taking a five-minute shuttle ride or walking eight minutes to the Oregon Convention Center. All seven hotels are conveniently located within either walking distance or a quick light rail ride. LEARN MORE about lodging.
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Dragon Evolution : You're definitely gonna hear these ones ROAR!
The amazing and POWERFUL dragons are now in the EVOLUTION series! Feeling like a real WARRIOR? Come meet these big guys that are so cool they will BURN everything UP!
In this evolution game, you'll have to prove yourself to be the DRAGON MASTER! Control all your nice beasts but get out of their way if they accidentally sneeze some fire – and make money out of it!
Drag and drop similar dragons to create new mysterious and mutant creatures
Use the MAGIC dragon poop coins to buy new creatures and make even more money
Alternatively, fiercely tap a dragon to make them poop and collect more coins!
Different levels and many different dragon types to discover
Watch out for the impostors that will get in your way!
Dragons can be funny: put on crazy HATS in your dragons and make them unique!
Make sure all your fire alarms are working and enjoy this amazing adventure!
Please note! This game is free to play, but it contains items that can be purchased for real money. Some features and extras mentioned in the description may also have to be purchased for real money.
Dragon Evolution user reviews :
This game is amazing. It's similar to that cookie clicking game that was popular a few years back, but this time it's mutant dragons taking over the world and universe. There are so many references to lovable dragons of various fictional series, and there are quite a few pun jokes in there. And I love puns. Rated 4 stars for gameplay because it does get repetitive, but the game overall is still amazing. I definitely recommend playing at least until you unlock all the Earth dragons
It never glitches it's a beautiful game ads aren't annoying I want this game to get a better future and your other nice games you have created as well I didn't know what to say in the start but… It's a good game for kids as well and the dragons way better than real life duck simulator graphs and I colored in some to amazing colors on the game well………..see you later
The game is finished well and so far, from a week of gameplay, no bugs. Unlike the early evolution games, you can color the dragons different colors and make them whatever design you like! It a great game to play if your bored, to pass time, or just because you like it! I recommend this if you like clicker games like the other evolution games!
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Trust consults on future arrangement of Minor Injuries service in Armagh and Dungannon
28/11/2011The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has launched a three month public consultation on the future organisation of the Minor Injuries Service in Armagh and Dungannon. The consultation, which begins on November 28th, is looking at how the service, currently provided in South Tyrone, Armagh Community and Mullinure Hospitals will be re-organised.
Trust Chief Executive, Mairead McAlinden, commenting on the consultation said: "The proposed changes in opening hours reflect how the service is currently used. For instance, less than 50 people each week use the Mullinure MIU, and we simply cannot sustain a service on such low numbers. We also want to ensure that patients have access to x-rays to support their diagnosis, which are not available in the Mullinure unit.
"The modernisation of the service will ensure that the Minor Injuries Service supports the Trust's two main Emergency Departments at Craigavon and Daisy Hill Hospitals, and that we are using our resources in the best way to provide services in keeping with the Trust's quality and safety standards."
The proposed future service model would be South Tyrone Hospital MIU opening 9am – 7pm, seven days a week and Armagh Community Hospital MIU opening 9am – 5pm, five days a week.
The Trust is running a pilot scheme from December 5th, 2011 until Friday, February 24th, 2012 when the Armagh Community Hospital will be open from 9am – 7pm, five days a week. Demand will be reviewed after the pilot scheme and if there has been high levels of use, this will be considered as part of the decision on the future of the service.
Mairead continued: "The service will be led by an Emergency Nurse Practitioner team, working within agreed clinical protocols and supported by Emergency Department consultants at Craigavon Area Hospital. This model already works extremely well at South Tyrone, and we are proposing to use the same model in Armagh Community Hospital."
"We welcome the public's views on these proposals, as we work towards making changes to the service in Spring next year."
Full consultation documents, and details for how to respond, are available on the Trust's website www.southerntrust.hscni.net or by phoning 028 3861 2510 or 028 3861 3979.