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Geyje Norling
Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Tawang (India)
More than 600 years ago a Tibetan monk arrived at Tawang area in Arunachal Pradesh building many monasteries, among them Guchula Gompa. It was constructed by Tibetan monks who lived there during more than 300 years. Although the living conditions were very hard and the poverty was very high in this region, the monks continued their studies and practices.
Since about 200 years ago most of monks living there moved to others monasteries due to the material difficulties to continue living in the monastery, remaining in it others persons coming from close villages who also were practioners of Tibetan Buddhism.
In 1985 Venerable Gelong Rinchen Tsering (pictured) installed himself in the monastery giving it a boost. During these years, and due to his great compassion and kindness, his activity, both as a Dharma master, healer, astrologer and carpenter was endless and of great benefit for all the inhabitants of the different villages. He gave many teachings about Tibetan Buddhism, healings and astrologie. The Venerable giving rise little by little to the monastery due to the arrival of monks and village people.d
In 1990 Venerable Gelong asked the H.E Gyalsey Rinpoche, abbot of Tawang monastery, to give a new name to Guchula Gompa. H.E Gyalsey Rinpoche named the monastery Geyje Norling Monastery.
In 1999 Venerable Gelong Rinchen initiated a plan to reinvigorate the monastery and become a place for study and practice as well as to provide for the studies necessities of the neighboring villages. His students, among them Venerable Tulku Lama Pho (Lama Jampa Chojor), H.E. Venerable Lotok Tulku Jangchub Pelsang Khunkhap, Venerable Geshe Lharampa Lobsang Tendar, took on the responsibility to carry out their master's plans. They consulted about the plan to rebuild the old installations of the monastery with H.H. the Dalai Lama, who granted his support. Also the authorities of Arunachal Pradesh were consulted and they gave their approval and the permission to carry out the plans giving the name Geyje Norling Monastery Welfare Society. Also, they are planning to build a school for the monks and village people. So they can be sustained in their basic needs and be able to continue their studies and in this way to sustain the Dharma lineage so beneficial to all living beings.
In 2009, after consulting with H.H. The Dalai Lama, the old building was refurbished and Momang Gompa was combined with Geyje Norling. However, ongoing maintenance and supplies are needed. If you want to contribute, please click here.
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WEB EXTRA: "The Fountain"
By Paul Contos November 20, 2006
Part of a quest to find career revitalization, The Fountain is the story of a once acclaimed director trying to return to relevance in the film world after an extended hiatus. Darren Aronofsky's new film is the story of a man trying to save his wife from different forms of spreading infection jumping in context […]
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By Paul Contos May 4, 2006
It may be somewhat difficult to believe now, but at one point, The Strokes were considered rock music's saviors. It's a fact that has become even more unfathomable now. New York City's most admired and privileged sons appeared to have reached a plateau after the release of their highly-anticipated second album in 2003, "Room on […]
R.I.P. O.D.B.
By Paul Contos February 9, 2006
The past few years have been peppered with the bizarre and unexpected reunions of many musical groups, both important and otherwise. Not to be overshadowed is the reconvening of the very Wu that started it all. The East Coast rap amalgam returns on a grave note after the death of one of the most distinctive […]
Interview with "Palindromes" director Todd Solondz
By Paul Contos April 28, 2005
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Na?ve, madam?
Pegged with such adjectives as "misanthropic" and "morose," director Todd Solondz might be perceived as a disturbed individual. Like most things, there are layers to understanding his purpose as a filmmaker. In such instances, one might glance at Solondz's new film "Palindromes" (Wellspring) with a misconceived notion of the man who birthed it. Solondz presents […]
"Sideways" and Behind: An interview with writer/director Alexander Payne
By Paul Contos October 28, 2004
Riding the critical acclaim of "About Schmidt," director and co-writer Alexander Payne took the cynical road through Southern California's wine country in his new film "Sideways." Starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, this venture demonstrated that he is more than a satirist but one also drenched in pinot noir expertise. Hatchet: Where did the […]
Bushwhackers
By Paul Contos September 16, 2004
In a country filled with such great political skeptics, it is not unusual to find humor in the concept of trust in politics at any level of power. Corporate control over American politics continues to regulate what most Americans are told is relevant to legislative forums. As one of today's most overlooked writer/directors, John Sayles […]
Secret Machines, Blonde Redhead at the Black Cat
A dreary, rainy evening opened with the blinding light of heaven in the form of a Dallas-turned-New York band known as the Secret Machines. Three shaggy-haired men reeking of early-'90s brashness took the stage in front of three spotlights that were pointed straight into their audience, causing many to avert their eyes. But this only […]
The Secret Revealed
Against the back wall of the Black Cat, I sat down with Josh Garza, the drummer from rock group The Secret Machines, just before his performance with the Blonde Redhead. Sipping on his triple shot of Bombay Sapphire, Garza set the tone for the intense show I was about to witness. Hatchet: When did the […]
Spring bling!
First, let's just get the irony of the situation out of the way: a chart-topping college dropout headlined a University-sponsored concert on the quad last Saturday. Moving right along, it's possible to look at this year's Spring Fling and see the play list from an eccentric mix CD someone made for you. Numerous musical genres […] | {
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Q: Is this a known result? I heard the following result and I am wondering if anyone can verify its correctness and also provide a source to cite.
If the Lagrangian $L(x,\lambda)$ is convex in $x$ at the optimal Lagrange multiplier $\lambda^*$, that is, $L(x,\lambda^*)$ is convex in $x$, then the KKT conditions are necessary and sufficient for optimality.
A: You at least need differentiability for existence of KKT. But if you focus on sufficiency, you can say this:
Sufficiency:
Suppose your problem is to minimize $f(x)$ over a convex set $X$ and subject to $g_k(x)\leq 0$ for all $k \in \{1, \ldots, K\}$ (call this Probelm P1). Define:
$$ L(x, \lambda) = f(x) + \sum_{k=1}^K\lambda_k g_k(x) $$
Assume that $\lambda^*$ is a vector with nonnegative components. Assume that $L(x,\lambda^*)$ is a convex function over $x \in X$. Assume we have a vector $x^* \in X$ for which the following "KKT conditions" hold:
\begin{align}
&\nabla f(x^*) + \sum_{k=1}^K \lambda_k^* \nabla g_k(x^*) = 0 \\
& g_k(x^*) \leq 0 \: \: \forall k \in \{1, \ldots, K\} \\
&\lambda_k^* \geq 0 \: \: \forall k \in \{1, \ldots, K\} \\
&\lambda_k^*g_k(x^*) = 0 \: \: \forall k \in \{1, \ldots, K\}
\end{align}
We want to show that $x^*$ is an optimal solution to the problem P1. The above assumptions show that $x^*$ satisfies the constraints (namely, $x^* \in X$ and $g_k(x^*) \leq 0$ for all $k \in \{1, \ldots, K\}$). The derivative assumptions also show that $x^*$ is a point of zero-derivative for the function $L(x, \lambda^*)$. Since this function is convex in $x$, $x^*$ must minimize $L(x,\lambda^*)$ over all $x \in X$. Thus, for all $x \in X$ we have:
$$ L(x^*,\lambda^*) \leq L(x,\lambda^*) $$
That is, for all $x \in X$:
$$ f(x^*) + \underbrace{\sum_{k=1}^K\lambda_k^*g_k(x^*)}_{zero} \leq f(x) + \sum_{k=1}^K\lambda_k^*g_k(x) $$
Thus, if $x$ is a vector in $X$ that satisfies the constraints $g_k(x) \leq 0$ for all $k$, then $\sum_{k=1}^K\lambda_k^*g_k(x) \leq 0$ (recall that $\lambda_k^*\geq 0$ for all $k$) and the above inequality reduces to $f(x^*) \leq f(x)$, meaning that $x^*$ is an optimal solution to problem P1.
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School resumption may spike COVID-19 cases, medical practitioners warn
By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
Health practitioners have expressed concerns over the Federal Government's decision to allow school resume across the country, warning that it could increase the spread of COVID-19.
The health practitioners, the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Prof. Babatunde Lawal Salako and President National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Adeniji Abdrafiu urged the government to be careful on how it managed school's reopening to prevent a spike in COVID-19 cases, especially among children.
It could be recalled that the Federal Government had, in July, released guidelines ahead of the August 4 schools' resumption.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, in a Press release had directed that students should be made to stay two metres apart.
The 52-page document also indicated that where the two-metre rule could not be applied due to some factors, other risk mitigation strategies may be adopted.
The document also recommended that schools and places of learning should be fumigated and disinfected among ahead of pupils' return.
However, Prof. Salako believed that the reason Nigeria has not experienced a surge in cases of children infection was because of the school closure.
"Even during the holiday, we know they still mingle with people. It is something we need to look at. But from my observation, we haven't seen much cases of children (from 12 years below) with COVID-19 being reported in Nigeria. The majority of the cases are mainly adults," he said.
He noted that asking students to resume ahead of their West African Senior School Certificate Examination is probably the Federal Government's way of testing the water to feel its depth.
"What we are doing in Nigeria is to see what the wave of the infection is like. Though there is a need to double up our preparation for a possible increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and try as much as possible to upscale non-pharmaceutical interventions among children and schools to prevent the spread of infections.
"That is the best we can do for now. If all schools resume and we observe that there is a gradual increase in the number of infections among the children, that may be a reason to revert the decision. We need to see evidence for us to take such decision or otherwise," he said.
President of NANNM, Abdrafiu equally stated that there is a need to be worried about the decision to reopen schools, noting that the federal government should have a rethink.
"We need to give the decision to resume a serious consideration. For instance, I was in a public place today where I saw a family of three having fun. While the man and his wife were cautious not to touch too many things, the little girl was all over the place touching everything in sight.
"Rest assured that when children get to school, for the mere fact that they have missed each other and lost contact for a long period, the issue of no hug and social distancing will be flouted," he said.
He, however, urged teachers and school administrators to work extra hard to adhere to the stipulated guidelines.
"Every one of us should be ready to continue preaching the messages of social distancing and use of face masks as well as thorough hand washing exercise to cut the chain of transmission," he said.
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Hello , my bucket list friends ! I'm always amazed towards the end of the year at how fast everything has gone by but we still have a little bit of 2018 left ! I thought that it would be fun to tell you about some of the products I'm enjoying right now at the end of 2018. Let's get to it !
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By Joshua Berlinger, Adam Renton, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Aditi Sangal, Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya and Melissa Mahtani, CNN
Updated 12:00 a.m. ET, September 1, 2021
What we're covering
Afghanistan began its first day in nearly two decades without US troops on the ground as America's longest war came to an end.
Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States from the tarmac of Kabul's airport overnight and videos showed them inspecting US military hardware left behind.
US officials acknowledged they were not able to get everyone out and vowed that diplomatic efforts to evacuate those remaining would continue.
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Pentagon: Gear left behind in Afghanistan was demilitarized and made unfit to use
Following the complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, images from the airport in Kabul showed members of the Taliban making their way through an abandoned hanger strewn with equipment, including helicopters, that the US left behind.
However, the equipment was demilitarized and made unusable before troops left, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said.
"They can inspect all they want. They can look at them, they can walk around, but they can't fly them. They can't operate them. We made sure to demilitarize, to make unusable, all the gear that is at the airport — all the aircraft, all the ground vehicles. The only thing that we left operable are a couple of fire trucks and forklifts so that the airport itself can remain more operational going forward," Kirby told CNN.
Since the departure of the last US troops from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is relieved about safely evacuating 123,000 people out of the country, but concerned about those who were left behind, he added.
"Although we don't think the numbers are large, we are obviously concerned about our friends, allies and fellow American citizens that are still there," he said, adding that the US government will remain mindful of its commitment to those citizens that remain behind.
"Though the military mission has ended, the United States commitment to them has not," he said.
In the meantime, the threat in Afghanistan "remains high."
"Obviously, we are concerned about the potential for Taliban retribution going forward," he said Tuesday. "We certainly are mindful of the threat ISIS-K continues to pose inside Afghanistan."
However, Kirby does not foresee the need for military involvements to get the remaining citizens and allies out.
10:12 a.m. ET, August 31, 2021
What it's like to drive around Kabul on the first day without US troops on ground in 20 years
From CNN's Nathan Hodge
Remnants of US and international military presence are still visible in the center of Kabul on the first full day after the troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
In recent days, some of the T-walls have been removed. They are high concrete blast barriers that protected government offices and elite compounds but also created major traffic snarls.
But the fortified US embassy near Massoud Circle – a traffic roundabout that connects to the main airport road – is still behind high walls.
Taliban fighters are now manning the checkpoints around the entrance to the large diplomatic compound.
Signs that might have offended the Taliban have already been taken down after the collapse of the government.
But some large posters of Ahmad Shah Massoud – the legendary Tajik guerrilla fighter who fought against the Soviets – remain. His son, Ahmad Massoud, has vowed to continue the fight against the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley.
Interestingly, some posters of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also remain. Ghani fled Afghanistan as the Taliban marched on the capital just a few weeks ago.
Fighting resumes around Afghanistan's Panjshir valley, a pocket of Taliban resistance
From CNN's Nilly Kohzad, Saleem Mehsud and Nathan Hodge
Afghan resistance movement forces take part in a military training in Panjshir province on August 30. Sahel Arman/AFP/Getty Images
Fighting has restarted around the Panjshir valley, the last major pocket of resistance against Taliban rule in Afghanistan, according to both National Resistance Front and Taliban commanders.
Communication with the mountainous region has been sporadic, but a commander fighting against the Taliban told CNN that forces fighting the militant group had managed to repel a Taliban assault.
"In the Khawak Pass area that connects to Panjshir, heavy fighting is going on," the commander said. "We didn't have internet until just now. The resistance forces are in Puli Hisar and clashes continue. The Taliban have hundreds of casualties."
CNN was not immediately able to verify claims of casualties or gauge the scale of the fighting. In a video message on Monday, Maulvi Abdul Khaliq Fateh, a Taliban commander on the front line, dismissed earlier reports of fighting, saying they hoped for a negotiated solution. Later in the day, a Taliban source confirmed a resumption in fighting.
"There was a gentlemen's agreement that no side would attack but they tried to attack and enter Panjshir yesterday from the south and north," said Ali Nazary, spokesperson for the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF). "Fortunately, the NRF's forces repelled the attacks and set a few of their armored vehicles on fire. The Taliban forces that came from Gulbahar retreated to Charikar city."
The main Taliban spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Evacuating remaining Americans has "shifted" from military to diplomatic mission, Sullivan says
From CNN's Betsy Klein
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is pictured during a press briefing at the White House on August 23. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
National security adviser Jake Sullivan defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan that has left at least 100 Americans behind, emphasizing the Biden administration's commitment to getting those remaining people out of the country through diplomatic means.
"We continue our mission to get them out, it's just that it has shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission. And we have considerable leverage over the Taliban to ensure that any remaining American citizen will be able to get out," he said during an appearance on "Good Morning America" Tuesday, noting that between 5,500 and 6,000 Americans were evacuated.
The 100 who are left, he said, were contacted "repeatedly" during the evacuations to come to the airport or rally point.
But, he continued, "The small number that remain, we are committed to getting out and we will work through every available diplomatic means with the enormous leverage that we have and that the international community has to make that happen."
Pressed on criticism from Sen. Tom Cotton and others who say Biden left behind Americans and other vetted Afghan allies, Sullivan said Biden made decisions in the best interest of the US and noted he got "unanimous recommendations" from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, all of his civilian advisors, all of his commanders on the ground, and all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "that the best way to protect our forces and the best way to help those Americans was to transition this mission at the end of the day."
Those who are criticizing are not are not the ones who have to sit in the Situation Room and make the hard calls about the threats that we face and the objectives we're trying to obtain," Sullivan said.
Sullivan also would not rule out giving the Taliban aid in the future. He said that the US will continue to provide humanitarian assistance "directly" to the Afghan people, which, he said, would not flow through the Taliban but through international institutions like the World Health Organization and other nongovernmental organizations.
But, going forward, aid to Afghanistan through the Taliban directly will be conditioned upon the Taliban's behavior, including whether the remaining Americans are able to safely evacuate.
"That will be about the Taliban's actions. It will be about whether they follow through on their commitments, their commitments to safe passage for Americans and Afghan allies, their commitment to not allow Afghanistan to be a base from which terrorists can attack the United States or any other country, their commitments with respect to upholding their international obligations. It's going to be up to them. And we will wait and see by their actions how we end up responding in terms of the economic and development assistance," he said.
US service members in Kabul airport attack were flown to medical center in Germany
From Atika Shubert and Claudia Otto at Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre, Germany
Right after the Kabul attack last week, 20 US service members were medevaced to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Germany, Col. Andrew Landers, Commander of the LRMC told media Tuesday.
The injured suffered a wide variety of injuries consistent with an explosion such as blast injuries and penetrating wounds but also a number of gunshot wounds, Landers said.
Some of the injured required medical intervention onboard and mid-flight the C-17 flights which evacuated them, the public affairs office said but would not give details on specific cases.
At least 10 Afghan civilians were also medevaced to LRMC, Landers said.
The 20 service members have now all been flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the US. All were stable and conscious, most were speaking and in relatively good spirits, according to Landers.
American University of Afghanistan students stranded in Kabul report "threats to life and safety"
The American University of Afghanistan is pictured in Kabul in March 2017. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
Hundreds of students, relatives and staff from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) are stuck in the country after evacuation attempts to reach Kabul's airport on Sunday were unsuccessful.
Ian Bickford, President of AUAF, who was able to get out of the country on an earlier flight, told CNN's New Day that the convoy at the weekend was "the last day of a two-week long effort to help our students relocate from Afghanistan to safe sites where they can continue their learning without fear."
Bickford said, "Sunday was, we thought, our best hope. We organized a convoy of more than a dozen buses. Something like 500 students, close to 600 students, family, staff, faculty boarded those buses with the sincere hope that they would be given permission to enter the airport, board flights, and begin their journey to a better life."
However, the college president said it became clear over the course of the day that the security situation at the airport was worsening, and "it was the best thing for us to ask our students to return home and stay safe."
Bickford said the university had been attempting to relocate 1,200 students, educators and staff out of Afghanistan but the number of the wider AUAF community was much greater.
He said the AUAF "represents the brightest light of the American engagement in the country" and highlighted how the college was targeted by gunmen in a shocking 2016 attack that killed 13 people.
"The future of our students, our faculty in the country, our staff in the country remains unclear. We don't know the level of persecution but it's very important that they're able to continue their studies so that they can bring their ambition, their optimism and their hope for Afghanistan back home, perhaps in the distant future, but still they're very hopeful that their country will resume some level of free and fair civil society," Bickford continued.
He said students had reported intimidating actions by the Taliban in recent days.
"Many report anything from harassing behavior, entering homes by the Taliban, asking who's there, what they do, including whether they're students at the American University of Afghanistan," Bickford added.
"Some have received calls from people adopting fraudulent identities, claiming to be representatives of the university asking for identifying information. And others have received direct threats to life and safety."
China pledges support to Afghanistan and calls on the US to "shoulder its responsibilities"
From CNN's Beijing bureau
China has promised to help support Afghanistan's peace and reconstruction process in accordance with the wishes of the country's people, according to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Wang Wenbin told a press conference on Tuesday that China has provided support and assistance to Afghanistan's economic and social development and improved people's livelihoods.
Wang said the US should work with the international community to provide much needed economic and humanitarian assistance to the country and "maintain the normal operation of government institutions, maintain social security and stability, curb currency depreciation and price rises and embark on the road to peaceful reconstruction as soon as possible."
Afghan refugees try to cross borders via land, overwhelming neighbors, after Kabul airport evacuations end
From CNN's Clarissa Ward at the Torkham border crossing, Pakistan
A Taliban fighter, left, and Pakistani paramilitary soldier stand guard on their respective sides of the border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, Pakistan, on August 21. Muhammad Sajjad/AP
The doors to evacuation via Kabul airport are now shut, but Afghans are still on the move, trying to get out of the country due to fear of social, political and economic instability.
As a result, border crossings such as one with Pakistan are starting to fill up. Pakistan is now discouraging this movement, saying it cannot cope with the flow of more refugees.
Some 1.4 million Afghan refugees already live here in Pakistan, according to the UN, more than in any other country in the world. So this border is basically closed to Afghans.
That hasn't stopped people lining up and a large group has gathered.
Some of them are very sick. They're desperately hoping for medical attention. Pakistan authorities have been providing some dispensation on that front.
Earlier in August, the UN warned that Afghanistan could see its highest-ever documented civilian casualties in a single year, and urged neighboring countries to keep their borders open.
Afghans, already afraid of economic deterioration, are lining up outside banks, withdrawing money to ensure their finances are in order in case they needed to leave.
A lot of people are now choosing to move via land borders to Uzbekistan, to Pakistan, to Iran. But many of these neighboring countries are saying: we can't cope with this. That's why so many countries have a vested interest in trying to make the situation inside Afghanistan work.
In photos: The scene at Kabul airport this morning
A member of the Taliban walks out of an Afghan Air Force aircraft at Kabul airport on Tuesday, August 31. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
In the moments following the end of America's presence of nearly 20 years in Afghanistan, jubilant Taliban fighters were seen celebrating as they took over Kabul's airport. Videos showed Taliban fighters filling the night air with gunfire as they walked through a hanger operated by US troops just hours earlier.
As the sun rose on Tuesday morning, photographs from the airport showed members of the Taliban making their way through an abandoned hanger strewn with equipment the US left behind.
An Afghan Air Force A-29 attack aircraft is pictured inside a hangar at Kabul airport on Tuesday. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
In a press conference on the tarmac hours after the last US troops left the country, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the US withdrawal was a lesson to others.
"We have a message to any possible invader, that anyone who looks to Afghanistan with bad intention, they will face what the United States has faced today," Mujahid said.
The group also restated their pledge to engage with the world. Mujahid added, "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants to have good relations with the whole world on behalf of the nation. We want to have strong diplomatic relations with all, including the United States. We want to gradually re-establish good relations with the United States in the future."
Taliban fighters sit in the cockpit of an Afghan Air Force aircraft at Kabul airport. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
Members of the Taliban stand inside an Afghan Air Force aircraft at the airport. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
A Taliban fighter takes a picture of a damaged Afghan Air Forces MD 530 helicopter at Kabul airport. Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
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It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but it's for real: A giant new ship on order for Carnival Cruise Line will boast a deck-top roller coaster.
Carnival president Christine Duffy tells Us the line plans one of the attractions for the 5,200-passenger Carnival Mardi Gras, the first of a new series of giant vessels that will begin arriving in 2020. It'll be the first roller coaster on a cruise ship.
To be called BOLT: Ultimate Sea Coaster, the attraction will be 800 feet long and feature twists, turns and drops with riders reaching speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour.
"It will be a thrill ride," says Duffy, who rode a prototype of the attraction assembled by its manufacturer, Munich-based Maurer Rides. "We think it's a really cool innovation for Mardi Gras, which will have a lot of new guest features and experiences that we have not done before." The new attraction will be just the latest in a series of over-the-top amusements to debut on cruise ships in recent years. Two of Norwegian Cruise Line's newest ships, Norwegian Bliss and Norwegian Joy, boast go-cart racing tracks on their top decks. The newest series of Royal Caribbean vessels offer rides into the sky in glass capsules. The most recent series of Disney ships have "water coasters" up top.
Carnival itself offers a first-of-its-kind-at-sea pedaled "sky ride" on its two newest ships, Carnival Horizon and Carnival Vista.
Duffy says BOLT will be an all-electric roller coaster. While not nearly as long or fast as the biggest roller coasters on land, some of which extend thousands of feet and hit speeds over 100 miles per hour, it will feature a track that soars 187 feet above sea level. Riders will ride in vehicles that resemble motorcycles.
The ride will begin with a forward launch where riders can achieve race car-like levels of acceleration and culminate with a hair-pin turn around Mardi Gras' funnel.
In a twist, riders will be able to control their speed. Duffy says they'll be able to slow BOLT's vehicles to savor the views from the top of the attraction.
"We wanted to be able to give guests (the chance to have) that visual from the top of the ship," she says.
Duffy says Carnival's design team has worked closely with the ride's manufacturer and the ship's builder to ensure the attraction will be safe and reliable atop a cruise ship. The vessel is being built by the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland. Meyer Turku is one of the only shipyards in the world capable of building a cruise vessel as large as Mardi Gras.
At 180,000 tons, Mardi Gras will be the sixth-biggest cruise ship in the world at the time it debuts and by far the biggest vessel ever for Carnival. It's named after the first-ever Carnival ship, which sailed for the line from 1972 to 1993.
In a sign of just how much has changed in the cruise industry over the past four decades, the new Carnival ship will be more than six times larger than its namesake.
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Over the last year we have returned many times and food it: good!
I love the seafood kebab: it is fish, shrimp and scallops on a skewer made on the grill. Each time I order it the scallops are still very juicy, tender and not overdone! and the shrimps and fish are done... The guy at the grill really knows what he is doing!
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As creative hobbies go, drawing is one of the cheapest, most rewarding and simplest to start – so why not give it a go today?
Drawing is a favourite pastime of children all over the world but many of us give up the habit as we grow older. Reclaim some of the joy and creative thrill you enjoyed when you were small by picking up a pencil and getting back into drawing.
Don't be intimidated by the thought of getting started, the most important thing about drawing is to simply enjoy yourself. With plenty of practise, most people can become competent drawers but the most important part is often the process of creation, not necessarily the finished result.
Drawing is an excellent way to encourage your brain to think creatively. This means that simply spending a little time doodling can have far-reaching effects, such as improving your problem solving abilities and making it easier for you to process large amounts of information.
You don't have to be highly skilled to enjoy these benefits and even drawing simple shapes and easy compositions can be a wonderful way to learn. Keep a daily sketchbook and fill it with everything that inspires you, whether it's a pencil drawing of some flowers or a biro sketch of your favourite car. Read this lovely guide to making drawing a part of your life on Squidoo for some excellent inspiration.
One big advantage of taking up drawing compared to some other hobbies is the fact that you need very little in the way of materials. Initially, all you need is some blank paper and a pencil or pen. As you become more proficient and want to start experimenting with different drawing styles, you may want to expand your range to include chalks, charcoals, artist's pencils and special inks. Duey's Drawings is a site with an excellent guide to drawing materials, perfect for helping you stock up your pencil case.
The most important thing you can do to improve your drawing is to do it as often as possible. From doodling to pass the time to sitting down to embark on a big drawing project, the more you flex your creative muscles the stronger they will become. However, you'll also find there's plenty of help available if you'd like some extra guidance. Check local schools and community centres for drawing classes or have a look at Lori McNee's five favourite websites for learning how to draw.
Working on perfecting the art of drawing can also be very useful for other creative hobbies, such as painting, sewing or woodwork. Grasping the basic rules of sketching will make it easier for you to translate your ideas into a thing of beauty. Also, if you find your drawings are of a high standard, you may even be able to make money from them. Sit back and watch a fun slide share about using your drawing hobby to earn a little cash and see if you've got what it takes to boost your income. | {
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White won 3 awards at the CATS on sunday. Shona and Craig won Best Design and the show won Best Technical Production and also Best Show for Children and Young People. What a great result.
"GREAT theatre design does not just illuminate its text, it adds to it. Shona Reppe's design and costumes for Catherine Wheel's White went one step further again. She created a white world of such invention that it could have existed on its own. But then you would have missed each intricate new detail as the show developed, the discoveries in each birdbox, the hilarity of using a toilet pedestal mat as an apron. Lighting white can be hell and Craig Fleming's simple design ensured that the lighting waxed and waned with the passing of the day, Reppe's birdhouses lit up from the inside and a mirror-ball moon threw slivers of reflected light across the scene."
"WHITE'S technical artistry was not only a marvel to watch but was integral to the overall success of the production. From its sleight-of-hand tricks to its moving conclusion of seamlessly turning a white set into a massive celebration of colour, White's technical execution not only proved that small effects can have a large impact but that excellence in technical presentation is as important to the success of a production as any other component."
"GOOD theatre is good theatre – whatever age group it's intended for. White captivated pre-school tots with its ravishing transformation of an all-white world into a rainbow landscape. And if adults read the arrival of colour as a profound reflection on social values – well they too were totally smitten by the magical beauty of this show. How did they do it? It still remains a mystery – but it's a winner." | {
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Rob Gronkowski open to new deal, not focused on it
Getty Images Wide receiver Odell Beckham's new deal with the Giants has an average annual salary of $16.4 million per year, which is significantly more than any tight end is currently making in the NFL.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski was asked if he'd like to see tight ends get lumped in with their pass-catching brethren on the contract front.
Gronkowski said it "would be cool" if that's how things played out.
That seems unlikely to happen overnight, but it made for a natural segue into a question about whether Gronkowski would like to have something done to his contract.
It's been a topic of conversation throughout the offseason and Gronkowski said he's "always open for that," but said it wasn't something he's paying much attention to with the regular season right around the corner.
"It is what it is," Gronkowski said, via a transcript distributed by the team.
"That's not really my focus.
I got a long season ahead and just trying to focus on what I need to really do and just let everything else play out." Gronkowski has base salaries of $8 million this year and $9 million in 2019.
The Patriots added $5.5 million in incentives to his contract last year, but have not made any alterations ahead of this season.
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With contract settled, Odell Beckham wants to become "legendary"
Author: Josh Alper / Source: ProFootballTalk
Wide receiver Odell Beckham's new deal with the Giants has an average annual salary of $16.4 million per year, which is significantly more than any tight end is currently making in the NFL.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski was asked if he'd like to see tight ends get lumped in with their pass-catching brethren on the contract front. Gronkowski said it "would be cool" if that's how things played out.
That seems unlikely to happen overnight, but it made for a natural segue into a question about whether Gronkowski would like to have something done to his contract. It's been a topic of conversation throughout the offseason and Gronkowski said he's…
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Publication Date 19 Feb 2016
Publisher Ave Maria Press
Author(s) Michele Faehnle
Originating in the early twentieth century, the Divine Mercy devotion of St. Faustina Kowalska is one of the most celebrated of all Catholic devotions. In this, their first book, Catholic bloggers and speakers Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet break open the history, practices, and prayers associated with the devotion, guiding busy moms to receive God's message of Divine Mercy and pass it on to others through their words, deeds, and prayers.
In her famous Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina Kowalska recorded a series of visions of Jesus where he revealed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and promised that anything can be obtained with the prayer if it is compatible with his will. St. John Paul II formally established the Divine Mercy devotion and canonized Faustina in 2000. The Marians of the Immaculate Conception are dedicated to spreading the Divine Mercy devotion the foreword for this book was written by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC, author of Divine Mercy Explained and 33 Days to Morning Glory.
In Divine Mercy for Moms, Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet of the Columbus Catholic Women's Conference—one of the largest annual Catholic women's conferences in the country—draw upon their own experiences to introduce you to St. Faustina and her five essential elements of the Divine Mercy message: The image of the Merciful JesusThe Feast of Divine MercyThe Chaplet of Divine MercyThe House of MercySpreading the honor of Divine Mercy With heartwarming stories and practical advice, this book reveals that mercy is not just a gift to be received in the confessional but a spiritual resource that strengthens those who extend themselves in word, deed, and prayer. Designed for personal or group study, Divine Mercy for Moms celebrates the infinite mercy of God and the role of Mary, the Mother of Mercy, in the lives of all believers.
<i>Divine Mercy for Moms</i> was the winner of a 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: Family Life (Third Place).
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The Be Attitudes: Ten Paths to Holiness Retreat will be held at St. Jerome's in Waco, Tuesday, May 7 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Each of us is called to discover our own unique way to grow in holiness. No matter the occupation or the role we play in life, there are ten characteristics that should shine in the life of every Christian disciple. We will explore these ten challenging ways of becoming a saint. The retreat will be led by Franciscan Father Albert Haase. Cost is $40 and includes lunch.
The Silent-Preached Retreat for Religious Sisters will be held on June 16-21 at Cedarbrake Catholic Retreat Center. The topic will be The Art and Heart of the Spiritual Life. The spiritual life is the process of being transformed into the image of Christ for the sake of others. In this retreat, Franciscan Father Albert Haase will discuss this process of transformation and the challenge it presents to break free from the agenda of the false self. This is a week long retreat for religious sisters. Cost is $425 for a single private room with private bath. | {
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Wicker Assesses Spectrum Needs in 'Race to 5G'
Next Generation Wireless Technology Could Unlock Huge Advancements for U.S.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today attended a hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to hear testimony on U.S. efforts for the rapid deployment of 5G technologies and the industry's need for more wireless spectrum to support this next-generation wireless broadband internet technology.
Wicker asked the witnesses at the hearing about the U.S. position in the race to 5G.
"We can still win, but we have to act," said Meredith Attwell Baker, president and CEO of CTIA – The Wireless Association.
Baker noted the positive effects of U.S. leadership in 4G deployment, which helped propel major developments in the app and sharing economies.
"We know that at 100 times faster, and virtually no lag time, we know [5G] will unlock all kinds of things in transportation, energy, and education. We want all of that [advancement] to happen here so that we can export our innovation, instead of taking the Chinese innovation here," Baker said.
Wicker has been a leader in advancing 5G deployment. Last month, he introduced the SPECTRUM NOW Act, which would support the more efficient use of wireless spectrum.
Other witnesses at today's hearing included:
Mr. Dean Brenner, Senior Vice President, Spectrum Strategy and Technology Policy, Qualcomm;
Mr. Craig Cowden, Senior Vice President, Wireless Technology, Charter Communications, Inc.; and
Mr. Tom Stroup, President, Satellite Industry Association
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A protester holds up a copy of the U.S. Constitution while demonstrating in front of the U.S. Supreme Court December 5, 2007 in Washington, DC.
A nonprofit that leases a city-owned building prohibited the Pasadena Republican Club from holding an event that features a speaker who advocates against gay marriage.
The speaker is John Eastman, the director of Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, which is providing legal services for the Republican Club. The Western Justice Center rents out space to community groups at the historic Maxwell House. When they canceled the event, the Republican Club filed a lawsuit against both, the center and the city of Pasadena that owns the building.
The lawsuit argues that blocking the event is a violation of the First Amendment's protection of free speech. They say the city should not be allowed to pick and choose which organizations can rent space at the Maxwell House, nor should such discrimination be allowed at any city-owned property. But is the city's ownership of the building relevant? Does a private entity that rents a space from the city free to block events if they don't reflect their values? We debate.
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UK could refuse to pay Brexit bill EU fails to agree trade deal, says Raab – UK
Britain could refuse to pay its divorce bill to Brussels if it does not get a trade deal, the new Brexit Secretary has warned.
Dominic Raab, who replaced David Davis after he quit the role earlier this month, said "some conditionality between the two" was needed.
He added that the Article 50 mechanism used to trigger Britain's imminent exit from the EU provided for new deal details.
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He told the Sunday Telegraph: "Article 50 requires, as we negotiate the withdrawal agreement, that there's a future framework for our new relationship going forward, so the two are linked.
"You can't have one side fulfilling its side of the bargain and the other side not, or going slow, or failing to commit on its side.
Raab calls for 'renewed energy, vigour and vim' in Brexit negotiations
"So, I think we do need to make sure that there's some conditionality between the two."
He added: "Certainly it needs to go into the arrangements we have at international level with our EU partners.
"We need to make it clear that the two are linked."
The government has sent mixed signals so far on the divorce bill.
Prime Minister Theresa May agreed in December to a financial settlement between £35bn and £39bn that ministers said depended on agreeing future trade ties.
Barnier: Brexit White Paper 'constructive'
But cabinet members have since cast doubt on the position.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said shortly afterwards that he found it "inconceivable" Britain would not pay its bill, which he described as "not a credible scenario".
The UK is set to leave the EU on March 30 next year, but the two sides want to strike a divorce agreement by late October in order to give parliament enough time to endorse a deal.
Mr Raab said critics were mistaken to think Mrs May would not walk away without a deal if she had to.
Boris attacks May's Brexit plan as 'miserable, permanent limbo'
"They're wrong. No bluffing," he told the Sunday Telegraph.
"The ball is now in the EU's court, and don't get me wrong, there will be plenty more negotiations, I've made that clear, but if they show us the same level of ambition, energy, pragmatism, this deal gets done in 12 weeks."
His comments come as a new YouGov poll published by the Sunday Times shows 12% of people backed Mrs May's Chequers agreement as "good" for Britain while 43% thought they were "bad".
The poll also found that 16% of voters think Mrs May is handling negotiations well, while 34% believe former foreign secretary Boris Johnson would do a better job.
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Reasons For and Against Leaving Massachusetts by John Winthrop
Question 1: significance of English victory over Spanish Armada
If this sample essay on"Reasons For and Against Leaving Massachusetts by John Winthrop" doesn't help,
England had undergone different challenges especially when King Henry VIII was in charge of the country. During his time, King Henry VIII made it difficult for Protestants to enjoy their freedom of worship in England because he greatly despised the religion. However, after his death Queen Elizabeth I took over the throne and England acquired a new phase, especially on the religious context (Edmund, 1999). Elizabeth, I had a difficult time trying to reunite the country after its despair with the previous leadership. The country was divided into two major religious groups; the Protestants and the Catholics. During this period, most of the countries that advocated for Catholicism wanted to spread their ideology to other parts of the world. Spain was one of the major advocates of Catholic ideologies, and they wanted to capture England under Catholic rule (Edmund, 1999). The Spain forces of over 100 naval ships invaded England with the aim of recapturing the Catholic throne that was lost immediately after King Henry VIII died. The plan did not go well for the Spanish forces as they had wished after being beaten by England. This was a great victory for England and to them it signified Gods intervention in the war. They believed that God intervened for them to punish the Spanish force that had invaded their country. This happened only five months after the birth of John Winthrop.
Question 1: The relationship between God and the governments instituted by people
Immediately after John Winthrop got married, he undertook the journey of getting cleansed and devoting his life to God. This was the beginning of his Christian life that was marked by vigorous training at Trinity (Edmund, 1999). The puritans expressed their dissatisfaction with the way the government of England was carrying out its activities especially when dealing with other churches around. They expressed their dissatisfaction with the set regulations claiming that the government should enforce more strict laws so as to crack down on the factors that affected the religious foundation of England. According to Puritans, the presence of other churches in England like Catholic contributed to the impurity of the countrys religious standards. Therefore, they felt that it would be better if the government would establish strict laws that would prevent other churches from practicing their religious activities in the country. The Puritans tried to compare the state set by human beings and that established by God. According to the Puritans, the government created by human lacks moral virtues. The presence of different denominations in England meant that there would be different religious opinions. The Puritans felt that the government should establish a standard rule that controls the religious practices. Additionally, they felt that human beings inherited sins from Adam and Eve and therefore, elected leaders are most likely to engage in evil activities. Puritans claimed that they were a pure race that God had chosen.
Question 1: Reasons for and not leaving Massachusetts by John Winthrop
Three years after John Winthrops marriage it was time for him to take over the family property. His father, Adam Winthrop, Jr., wanted to prepare him for the upcoming task of taking responsibility for the family properties. Adam wanted to ensure that his son was capable of taking care of the family estate before handing them over to him (Edmund, 1999). most of his time, John Winthrop spent working on the family estate; for example, learning how to manage the family estate, collecting and levying fines against tenants. As a part time, he started to study law and later joined Grays Inn law school that prepared him for judiciary work. He began to work as presiding as a justice of the peace during trials in courts. However, in the 1620s, John Winthrop helped make various legislation reforms in the parliamentary committee. This work exposed him to influential politicians and countrymen, and in 1626, he was appointed an attorney for the court of Wards and Liveries. In the course of his work, John learned the corruption that infiltrated the justice system in England (Edmund, 1999). John Winthrop tried to assist the parliamentary committee to make various changes in the legislative policies with the aim of eradicating corruption that had become a threatening issue in England. Additionally, with the coming to power of King Charles I, corruption took another form in which the king himself led. King Charles, I fought the parliamentary committee for money that was by then controlled by the legislative committee. King Charles I ascending to power started to reduce the effectiveness of the Puritans work to spread their ideology. As an attorney, John Winthrop felt that he should stay back in the country to help fight the vice that had turned to be a threat to the development of England. On the other hand, John found himself in a dilemma when he realized that Puritans had found a land in the North America where they could practice their religious practices without hindrance from the king or other religious groups like the Catholics like was the case in England. This motivated him, and he made the decision to move to the North to settle in the new colony of the Puritans.
Question 2: Why John Winthrop was elected governor of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Company
Moving and settling in a new environment was not easy for many people who migrated from England. John Winthrop with his family moved to Massachusetts and settled there. It required a lot of persevering and determination that not anyone could do. John Winthrops hard work and dedication to make Massachusetts Bay a better and hospitable place for the newcomers in the region made him appointed the governor of the area (Edmund, 1999). John was never idle; he tried to keep himself busy and committed. This made him different from other Puritans who could not do the charitable activities that he used to do. Further, he acted as a role model for many people in the new land. This was a new land and most of them who came here were not used to working hard, and so, most of the people were idle. The idleness caused more suffering especially with the depletion of the resources that they had come with. After being appointed the governor, his first plan was to find a region to establish his colony. John Winthrop was also forced to circumstances he found himself in that made him develop the positive values that made him appointed as the governor (Edmund, 1999). Additionally, John had experience in the law while he was still working in England as an attorney in the courts. This also added him an advantage over other Puritans who went to the new land.
Question 2: The problems that the settlers face in the new land
The settlers arrived in Massachusetts when winter was beginning (Edmund, 1999). This was a bad welcome to the new settlers in the new region with the little resources they carried. The new settlers who moved from England were used to drinking spring water. Therefore, exposing them to winter was not only challenging but life threatening. Some of the new settlers like Isaac Johnson and his wife died few months after arriving in the new land. When people began to get discouraged, John Winthrop though of a way to help the situation; he found a new region where he thought was appropriate for the new settlers. He moved to Boston Peninsula where they settled with the other Puritans who came from England (Edmund, 1999). John felt that it would be better to maintain good relation with the neighboring communities like the Indians. As a way to maintain this connection, John sent some of his people who went to buy foodstuffs for the neighboring people to trade with them. Enhancing trade between the new settlers and the Indians helped maintain the good relation between the two parties.
Question 2: Dangers presented by separatism and how John Winthrop managed to address them
After the new settlers had settled in the new land, they began to separate based on the church backgrounds (Edmund, 1999). The Catholics were on their own side; the Protestants were also divided further. The Puritans were left on their own to continue following their ideology. The Puritan church had lost its sanctity amongst its members. As a way to bring back the sanctity that the church had lost, the General Court made laws that ensured that people were brought back to the virtues ways of the Lord. John Winthrop helped to make the legislations that guided people on how to behave. For instance, he proposed a new law that prevented other settlers from housing guests for over three weeks without permission from the General Court that acted as the government. This prevented other immigrants from England that could have caused more separation in the new land.
Question 3: How Leaders ensured that the government would retain the commitment to puritan values
The General Court in Massachusetts symbolized the state. After the first group that comprised of John Winthrop arrived in Massachusetts, they settled and prepared a way for the rest of their families who were left back in England. However, the separating began when different people started to come in Massachusetts. Some of the family members who were left behind followed different denominations. Therefore, when they came to Massachusetts, they carried along their denominational practices (Edmund, 1999). Since Massachusetts was started with the primary aim of maintaining the pure race that God had chosen, the Puritans; it became a difficult situation to control the difference that emerged out of the different denominations. Various people started to come up with their ideologies that were contrary to the puritans ideology; for example, Hutchinsons family that came to the region and began spreading their ideology of Arminianism that went contrary to the Puritans ways. The General Court had to come in to keep the cohesion in the region since it was the symbol of governance in the area. The court established regulations that prevented further damage to the already existing one. The court ensured that anyone going in contrary to the puritans ideology was convicted; for example, Wheelwright was convicted of sedition.
Question: How was Winthrop regarded as too lenient?
Winthrop started to experience the difficult moments of his times in Massachusetts in early 1632 when he engaged in a dispute with the Watertown citizens. In the dispute, the government wanted to increase the taxation and Winthrop stood for the people. He claimed that there were too many freemen to legislate, and therefore, his presence was not necessarily needed. When he was taken to court and the tribunal ruled for many freemen (Edmund, 1999). This was the first blow for Winthrop that ensured his step out of office. The fowling season, he was also engaged in another dispute with Dudley, who accused him of being too lenient. Complaints were raised by his administration, and two years later he was sent out of office. Even after being demoted from the governorship position, John Winthrop never showed his bitterness and he continued showing his support to the court. In spite being out of office, John Winthrop was a still a symbol of leadership to many people in the region who came for advice from him. Massachusetts began and thrived because of John Winthrop and therefore, even if he was out of office he was still a figure that stood for its development (Edmund, 1999). Additionally, when Winthrop joined an alliance with the La Tour, the other Puritans never took it simple. Most of them considered him as a traitor and too soft to handle the top leadership position like govern...
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Is it just me or are new bikes getting smaller. My son has just bought a Triumph Street Triple. I`m 6`3" and it just doesn`t look right.
Its not just you, I pre-ordered a 1200 Thruxton-R before they were available at the dealer. Very excited when they phoned to say it was ready for collection and I was waiting outside for them to OPEN the following morning. I sat on it for the time and nearly cried. It simply didn't fit! My knees were a good 2 inches further forward than the knee cutouts in the tank, bars too close and wrong angle, footrests completely wrong. I decided I would try and make it work but returned the bike four weeks later, and lost a LOT of money! | {
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This was written by Rami Kaminski, MD, founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York City.
For centuries, we lived in Berdichev. In the brutal Ukrainian winter of 1941, SS soldiers arrived there and rounded up eighty-seven members of my family – babies, young adults, octogenarians – stripped them naked, marched them to a nearby ditch, and executed them. Their lifeless bodies fell silently into a mass grave.
Like most Jews in Europe, my family "cooperated" with the Final Solution. They did not resist or fight back. Six million Jews were slaughtered in a period of four years. They received little sympathy while they were still alive and hunted down like animals. There was no public outcry because the Holocaust fit the world's narrative for Jews during the past 2000 years: a people destined to be persecuted and slaughtered.
During their two millennia in the Diaspora, Jews were not known to resist. There are few recorded instances in which Jews turned against their host nations or retaliated against their murderers. Instead, the survivors – if there were any – were expelled or left for another place. The murdered were regarded as "good" Jews. They accepted their fate helplessly, without resistance.
This narrative of the Jews has played out on the historical stage with boring monotony: Jews get killed because they are Jews. Nothing novel about it. After the Holocaust, however, the world, disgusted by this particularly ghoulish period of history, accorded some sympathy for the Jews.
Media commentary about the ongoing Gaza War reveals the world has now reverted to its pre-Holocaust perspective. Today, the only good Jew is a powerless Jew willing to become a dead one. The Zionist Revolution is to blame. It changed everything. Jews re-created their own country. The Arabs attacked the new Jewish state the day after independence and promised to complete Hitler's genocide. In succeeding decades, the Arabs attacked again and again. Strangely, the Jews, many of them refugees from Arab nations, adopted a surprising, new tactic: they fought back.
With Zionism, the Jews stubbornly refused to follow the centuries-old script. They refuse to be killed without resistance. As a result, the world has become increasingly enraged at their impertinence.
The recent events in Gaza and Mumbai make this plain. In 2005, Israel eliminated all Jewish presence in Gaza making it "Judenrein," and handed it over to the Palestinians. Left behind were synagogues and thriving green houses. The Arabs looted and destroyed them literally the day after Israel's withdrawal was complete. Where these structures once stood, the Palestinians built military bases and installed rocket launchers to shell Israeli civilians. To date, some 7,000 missiles have fallen on Israeli cities and towns, killing and maiming dozens, and sowing widespread terror. Medical studies reveal nearly all Jewish children in the communities bordering Gaza suffer from serious, trauma-induced illness.
The Gazan Palestinians then elected Hamas to lead them. Hamas proceeded to kill or imprison their political rivals, and its leaders, true to the Hamas charter, were unabashed in clearly stating their aims: they will not stop until they achieve their Final Solution, kill all the Jews, take over the land of Israel, and establish a theocracy governed by Islamic law.
As killing Jews for being Jews has been a national sport for centuries, Islamic militants are justified in believing they are merely fulfilling historical tradition in Argentina, India and Gaza. Surely the Jews in Mumbai did not occupy Gaza. They were tortured and killed just for being Jews. And predictably, in the eyes of the world, they immediately became good Jews, just like my murdered family in Bertishev.
Good Jews would wait until Hamas has weapons enabling its members to achieve their ultimate goal of absolute mass murder. Those enraged by Israel's defensive military action insist Hamas uses only "crude" rockets, as if Qassams were BB guns, and military inferiority were somehow equivalent with moral superiority. In fact, Hamas now has Iranian-supplied Grad missiles which have landed on Be'er Sheva and the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
The only enlightened people in the civilized world who actually get it are the Israelis. They've not had time for detached philosophical ponderings. They've been too busy confronting the reality of Islamic fundamentalism.
Soon, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It will give them to Hezbollah and Hamas. Today, Jews must take a position: either be "good" Jews willing to be slaughtered without resistance, or be "bad" Jews who defend themselves at the cost of being pariahs of our enlightened world. Good Jews would wait for another six million to be murdered, and pick up to leave for another country to start the cycle again. The bad ones refuse to go calmly into the ditch.
I confess: I'm a bad Jew.
Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for-profit organization aimed at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric conditions. Prior to that, Dr. Kaminkski was the Commissioner's Liaison to Families and Community and Medical Director of Operations at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Kaminski also holds an academic position as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He earned recognition in 1990 from Mt. Sinai Hospital as Physician of the Year, and received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Dr. Kaminski's research explores neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, as well as psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. He was for many years Director of The Schizophrenia research Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. Dr. Kaminiski also served as the Medical Director of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the Special Needs Program. | {
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Have You Tried Oolong Tea?
Today's story is about how making small changes can make a big difference in your life. Yes... the title of this article is about Oolong tea and it's not a lie; this article IS about Oolong tea and how making a small change, like adding it to my diet, made a big difference in my life, and how you can reap the same benefits.
Nausea sucks, but it really sucks when it's caused by a migraine. Worse still, is nausea from a migraine, from a sinus infection. If you suffer from my favorite trio of pain, you can understand the horror it is to have recurring sinus infections.
For the last five years, I had sinus infections about once a month, which, to the inexperienced means I was sick for 3-5 days, recuperating for 3-5 days, well for a week or two, and then slowly getting ill again to complete the cycle. Needless to say, (or write) it was no fun.
Then again, as someone with an impaired immune system, I seem to be a magnet for all bacteria everywhere. A papercut can turn into a staph infection (seriously, that's happened), an ob/gyn visit can turn into a UTI, and don't even get me started on skin fungus, bacterial infections, or the inability to leave the house without catching something. To put it simply, I've come to an understanding that I'm prone to get sick.
But the sinus infections were driving me mad, and as I was studying for The Allergy Series, I read a lot about a Chinese tea named Oolong. I learned that it helped with congestion, sinus problems, allergies, and even helped people lose weight.
Oolong comes from the same plant that green tea and black tea come from, but each is processed differently creating three distinctly unique teas. Being the guinea pig that I am, I ordered 100 bags and began drinking it daily.
Oolong is the middle tea between the (light) green tea and (dark) black tea. Everywhere I read, it was described as having a fruity flavor, but as a connoisseur of fruit tea, I can promise you that it most certainly does not taste like fruit.
Since I'm your friend, and we're here together in this space, I'll tell you it tastes like nothing; like a hot cup of weak, flavorless black tea. It's about as memorable as a Steven Seagull movie. It's nearly as rich and flavorful as a bowl of buttered noodles. It's about as exciting as listening to NPR. The point being, oolong tea is forgettable and boring, so why am I telling you about it?
Because it cured my sinus infections.
Oolong is semi-fermented and loaded with flavanoids and phytochemicals. It has an anti-allergic effect, promotes weight loss, and has antioxidants like Polyphenol that help lower blood glucose levels in diabetics.
Oolong has 49.5 mg of catechins and 52 mg of total flavonoids, but it also has Manganese, Potassium, Magnesium, and L-theanine. And because it's made from the camellia sinensis plant, the same plant used to make green and black tea, oolong also has between 30-60 mg of caffeine (about half as much as a cup of coffee).
Based on the studies I read from Japan and China, I choose to drink four cups a day in small doses. Usually, I had a hot cup on my desk next to me when writing, taking small sips between sentences. It's known that flavonoids work best when consumed in small batches, so I spaced my four cups out throughout the day- and I did this for 2 months.
Even though Oolong tea has been used for over 3,000 years, only 2% of tea drinkers consume it. It's used primarily in China and Taiwan, but more and more people are seeing oolong's health benefits, including this girl right here. But let's read what the experts have to say first:
"In a clinical trial done in Japan, people with allergic eczema that had not improved with medication were given oolong tea to drink for six months. While drinking the oolong tea, the majority of the people in the study experienced a moderate to marked improvement in eczema within one month, with benefits being first noticeable after one to two weeks." writes Dr. Leo Galland in his book "The Allergy Solution."
After about three days of drinking oolong tea, I noticed I woke up in the mornings without the usual congestion and stuffiness. At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but with each waking morning, I felt better and better. Two weeks later I chose to stop drinking it and test if my symptoms would come back, and if so, how long it would take.
Just as it had taken three days to start feeling better, it took about three days for me to start feeling snotty again. I repeated this set-up over and over for a total of 3 months and came to the same conclusion each time: oolong tea was making a big difference in my sinus health, and just by making the small change of adding a few cups of it to my diet.
I had no nausea, no migraine (due to sinuses), and no sinus infection when I had 2-4 cups of oolong tea a day along with my regular healthy diet. But it wasn't just my nose that felt better, my jeans did too. Somehow, in God's mercy, I also lost some belly fat and fit better into my jeans. It could have been that I had more energy from the caffeine and that's what caused the weight loss, but I don't think it was. Oolong tea is known for helping to burn more fat even if you change nothing else in your diet.
Plus, based on a Chinese study, just 10oz a week of oolong tea lowers total cholesterol, and based on Japanese research, men who drank one or more cups of oolong a day had a lower risk of heart disease. Being that heart disease is a major cause of death here in the U.S., oolong is undoubtedly worth a try for cardiovascular health.
It's also been studied on cancer patients, but the National Cancer Institute doesn't recognize oolong as preventing or decreasing the risk of cancer. But studies say otherwise: Women in China who drank oolong had a reduced risk of ovarian cancer. What is proven is that oolong tea boosts the immune system by preventing cellular damage.
In my own story, I can say oolong tea has made a difference. After five years of taking Claritin and Excedrin, I haven't had to touch either thanks to oolong tea. Whether that will be forever I'm not sure, but I made a small change that made a big difference in my life.
Oolong tea isn't just beneficial for allergies or sinus problems, but for weight loss, heart health, and lowering blood sugar levels.... even if it tastes like a hot cup of nothing... it sure does something amazing.
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MRSA toxin acquitted: Study clears suspected key to severe bacterial illness
Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) had better keep looking: Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have exonerated a toxin widely thought to be the guilty party.
Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is one of many toxins associated with S. aureus infection. Because it can be found in virtually all CA-MRSA strains that cause soft-tissue infections, several research groups previously have proposed that PVL is the key virulence factor.
But new evidence strongly suggests that is not the case. A study led by NIAID researchers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, MT, shows that the two major epidemic CA-MRSA strains and the same strains with PVL removed are equally effective at destroying human white blood cells--our primary defense against bacterial infections--and spreading disease. The findings, which appear online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, are surprising because many scientists had presumed that CA-MRSA uses PVL to target and kill specific white blood cells known as neutrophils.
"The Staphylococcus aureus bacterium is a growing global public health menace because of its rapid spread from hospital settings into communities of healthy people," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "This is an evolving pathogen that in recent decades has developed resistance to common medical treatments and now is finding new mechanisms to spread and cause severe illness."
About 75 percent of CA-MRSA infections are localized to skin and soft tissue and usually can be treated effectively. CA-MRSA strains have enhanced virulence, meaning they can infect otherwise healthy people. One of the biggest problems with CA-MRSA skin infections is that they spread rapidly and have the potential to cause illness much more severe than traditional hospital-associated MRSA infections, where PVL is less common. These life-threatening infections can affect vital organs and lead to widespread infection (sepsis), toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating pneumonia. It is not known why some healthy people develop CA-MRSA skin infections that are treatable whereas others infected with the same strain develop severe infections or die.
Scientists had recognized a connection between MRSA strains that contain PVL and the increased occurrence and severity of CA-MRSA disease, though no one had directly tested the role of PVL in CA-MRSA virulence. In striving to learn more about CA-MRSA, the RML scientists, with their colleagues at the International Center for Public Health (ICPH) in Newark, NJ, and the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, decided to test the PVL virulence theory, thinking that if they could understand the role of this toxin in disease, they could more quickly diagnose serious cases and develop effective treatments.
In addition to observing the destruction of human white blood cells regardless of whether PVL was present, the researchers also used mouse models to learn that CA-MRSA strains are just as pathogenic with or without PVL present. These findings were seen in tests with mice that displayed skin and soft-tissue infection and bacterial sepsis.
"The strains were just as deadly with or without the PVL toxin," says lead investigator Frank DeLeo, Ph.D., of RML. "Unexpectedly, the average abscess volume in mice infected with strains absent the PVL was slightly greater than those containing the toxin. The strong association between PVL and CA-MRSA makes the toxin an excellent marker to track community strains, but the assumption that it is the major virulence determinant driving this epidemic is simply not true."
These findings are significant because some infectious disease physicians who treat MRSA patients had begun questioning whether PVL truly led to severe illness, says Barry Kreiswirth, Ph.D., study co-author and a leading staphylococcal epidemiologist from ICPH in Newark. He adds, "We routinely receive calls from clinical microbiology laboratories asking to test for the presence of PVL, and it is hard to dissuade them that the PVL results will not affect patient care. Hopefully, the robust and contrary findings in our study provide the experimental evidence to convince the staphylococcal researchers and clinicians that PVL is not a significant virulence factor."
Next, Dr. DeLeo says his group will shift away from PVL and try to determine exactly which toxin or other mechanism in S. aureus kills white blood cells and allows the spread of CA-MRSA infection.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. NIAID also supports research on basic immunology, transplantation and immune-related disorders, including autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergies.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)--The Nation's Medical Research Agency--includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
Reference: J Voyich et al. Is Panton-Valentine leukocidin the major virulence determinant in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease? The Journal of Infectious Diseases 194(12), (2006).
News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
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TV Info Announced for Boston College vs Temple & Mizzou on September 18th & 25th
If you can't get to Philly or Chestnut Hill, here's how to watch
By Curtis Flannery@CurtisFlannery Sep 13, 2021, 11:27am EDT
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Boston College football will play their 3rd regular season game on Saturday September 18th against the Temple Owls in Philadelphia. The ACC just announced the TV info, so here's how to watch:
When: Saturday September 18th at 12:00pm ET
How to Watch: The game will be broadcasted on ESPNU
How to Listen: Listen locally on WEEI 850 AM or listen using the link on BC Football's schedule
How to Follow: Follow along via @bcinterruption on Twitter as we live-tweet the game
BC is heavily favored in this match-up for the third straight week, though not by as much as weeks prior, as they crushed the Colgate Raiders 51-0 dealt with UMass somewhat easily 45-28. Temple went a very bad 1-6 last year, with their only win coming against a similarly bad team, and they aren't expected to get much better this year. Here is the preseason preview we did of this match-up if you'd like to read further on how the Eagles are expected to perform.
Boston College will play their 4th regular season game on Saturday September 25th at home against the Mizzou Tigers. The ACC just announced the TV info, so here's how to watch:
How to Watch: The game will be broadcasted on ESPN2
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As there are so many kitchen styles, choosing a new style for your kitchen could be a fabulous experience. Before deciding to changing your kitchen, there are many important things you need to consider including choose a perfect style. Since the kitchen is your important area, pick a style based on your taste and never let someone pick something you do not like.
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Heineken Beats Budweiser For King Of Beers
We have all seen the the commercials "Budweiser...The King Of Beers" and for the most part, that has always been true. Budweisers all American label and majestic Clydesdales have been an iconic American beverage for generations. For decades happy drinkers have gathered together in social settings to enjoy their ice cold Budweiser. Those Bud loyalist have also joined up on social media and amassed an impressive social audience of over 12 million fans and followers across Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. But is being an iconic American beer with 12 million fans on social media enough to be considered the King of Beers…? I dont think so.
Heineken, the new King of Beers. With its dazzling green bottle and European name, Heineken has established itself as the number one beer on social. Frost brewed in the Netherlands for the past 40 years, Heineken has not only become one of the most enjoyed and iconic beers in the world but has also fostered a social community that puts all others to shame. At almost 18 million fans and followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, Heineken has established themselves as the new King of Beers.
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"Classical Adiabene, Syriac Ḥadyāb, refers to the region between the Upper and Lower Zab rivers, from the Tigris in the west to Mt. Ṣalāḥ al-dīn (= Mt. Pirmum) in the east." 1
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1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 10-11.
2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 2, 5, 7, 10–11, 31, 72, 144, 157, 175, 183, 194, 199, 202, 217, 218, 243, 294, 309, 311, 324, 414, 417, 430, 437, 440, maps: Map I C1, II C1.
3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 162.
4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Lu'lu' al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 142.
5 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 164.
6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Adiabene.
7 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), pp: 14, 20, 30, 95, 127, 165, 166-174, 346, 347, 350, 354, 355, 358.
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Gregg S Bossen, CPA of QuickBooks Made Easy is offering his New 2 part QuickBooks® training seminar for Nonprofits. Part 1: Essentials ($65), is an updated version of previous seminars; with some extra items added, and an overview of the software updates included in the QuickBooks® 2012 Editions (a perfect refresher if you went last year). The material will cover the basics of setting up and entering transactions specifically for Nonprofits as well as advanced topics.
See map: Google MapsThis conference provides an opportunity for people from across North Carolina to come together and share knowledge about technologies that can advance the mission of their nonprofit organizations. The conference will have scheduled presentations by leaders in the nonprofit technology sector in addition to participant-organized sessions on additional topics of their choosing. The conference concludes with a reception with complimentary beer and wine and a drawing for prizes. | {
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The Board of Directors of Severstal ("Severstal", "the Company") (LSE: SVST; MICEX-RTS: CHMF), one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, is recommending a dividend of 27.72 roubles per share for the three months ended 31 December 2017.
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Welcome to the United States of America. USA is considered to be the largest market for every kind of merchandise. This market gives a glorious chance for the businessmen to accelerate their activity and generate wonderful foreign exchange and employment opportunity.
At this time every retailer wants to buy direct from manufacturer and also want those manufacturers to deliver the merchandise in the shape of LANDED DUTY PAID. This brings a very challenging situation that how a foreigner can setup the entity, which import merchandise and deliver to the customer after clearing from customs. Carrying an entity in USA is very expensive and many businessmen have to get assistance from the existing companies in US market.
Besides all of the above, Government of Pakistan offer financial assistance for the exporters, including rebates for exports and financial assistance in setting up foreign offices. We can help to setup your foreign office and promote business with expenses sharing by the government of Pakistan.
significance of each form of organization? | {
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The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon195
FICTION, Fiction & Literature
By: Matt Haig
Cannongate Books
The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon195 quantity
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON
A RICHARD & JUDY, BETWEEN THE COVERS AND GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION
'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
Matt Haig is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library and the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and the follow-up Notes on a Nervous Planet, along with six novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children's books. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live? | {
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Science for Monks: Modern Heirs to Ancient Practice?
What did the universe look like, 380,000 years after the Big Bang? What's the function of messenger-RNA? How does magnetism work? How, exactly, do the findings of quantum physics unsettle classical logic? In January 2007, these and other unlikely questions occupied the minds of some sixty Tibetan monastics who had gathered in Sera Monastery, India for the eighth annual Science for Monks workshop.
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's personal interest in science and technology, as evidenced in his book The Universe in a Single Atom, must be common knowledge by now. During the past twenty years, in the so-called Mind and Life meetings, he has conversed with experts on topics such as consciousness, neuroplasticity, physics and cosmology. It is less well known that in 2000 the Dalai Lama also inaugurated the Science for Monks workshop, offering a select group of Tibetan monks their first encounter with modern scientific thought. Since then, once a year, these monks interrupt their demanding curriculum for a month to study biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics with Western scientists.
Monks and Nuns
Monastics of most all Tibetan traditions attend Science for Monks regularly. Because their command of English is not sufficient to understand classes without translation, and the Tibetan lacks many words for scientific concepts, a small group of experienced Tibetan translators with a working knowledge of science reconvenes each time as well. Over the years, building on previous experience, they share and refine their vocabulary, thus contributing toward the steady growth of a common Tibetan scientific jargon.
Notably, the 2007 workshop witnessed the first ever attendance of six Tibetan nuns—their presence boding hope for their fledgling nunneries' future. Together with the monks, most of whom had attended previous workshops, the nuns eagerly embarked on a full schedule that provided them with hands on experience in diverse fields of modern science.
In biology class, for instance, their teacher had the monks and nuns sample their own DNA in sealed glass phials on a string necklace, meanwhile explaining how genes govern their bodies' bio-chemical makeup. Fascinated, they held their flasks to the light, squinting to make out the slight trail of hereditary information that they now understood to make each of them truly unique. In turn, two physics professors asked their students to figure out experimentally if or why a fridge magnet sticks to a metal closet backwards. Now and again great hilarity ensued as the bravest among them presented their group's finding in diagram form, haltingly delivering impromptu solutions to the teachers probing questions.
Alternating classes, an emeritus professor of physics and a mathematician had the future geshes and lamas wrap their head around the intricacies of modern cosmology, algebra, calculus and math, while in another class a biologist explained the mechanics of cell division and the topology of neural receptor cells.
Conveying Scientific Knowledge
I was there to observe interactions between the teachers and students, and to engage the monks and nuns in conversation on the Dalai Lama's interest in science. To give them a sense of the difficulties involved in conveying scientific knowledge across cultures and intellectual styles, I showed the monks and nuns unedited footage of a Mind and Life presentation on quantum physics. For many this video was their first ever exposure to the Dalai Lama's own functioning as a 'student of science.' Completely engrossed, they struggled to follow the Tibetan simultaneous interpretation.
Most monastics present at the workshop are nascent scholars of Buddhism themselves. Being very secure in their own traditions, they matched the Dalai Lama's openness by an apparent readiness to entertain completely foreign ideas. In the past, the Dalai Lama has urged the monastic community to recognise the need and significance of science education. Nowadays, he speaks of a 'neo-Buddhist' perspective, a frame of reference that draws from both Buddhist wisdom and scientific knowledge. During a recent Mind and Life meeting on neuroplasticity the Dalai Lama commented that Buddhism embraces scientific, philosophical and religious elements. The first two noble truths the Buddha taught, suffering and its cause, he explained, are scientific; the third, cessation of suffering, is philosophical in nature; and the fourth, the path to cessation, technical.
Distinguished Professor
Last February the Dalai Lama was named Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory University, the first university appointment that he has ever accepted, saying: "I have long believed in and advocated a dialogue and cross-fertilisation between science and spirituality, as both are essential for enriching human life and alleviating suffering on both individual and global levels." His appointment is the outgrowth of Emory's longstanding relationship with Tibetan Buddhist institutes of higher learning in India. Indeed, one of the most ambitious projects of this partnership is an initiative to develop and implement a comprehensive science education curriculum for Tibetan monastics, the cosmology part of which was tested at Science for Monks by professor Finkelstein, who is also sitting on the Emory monastic curriculum committee.
My most vivid memory of these weeks at Sera Monastery is of watching the film 'Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution' together with the monks and nuns in a makeshift rooftop movie theatre. After a while, a noise poured into our room through the open windows, sounding much like a home crowd cheering its football team. Curiously, I peeked outside. From where I sat I could see thousands of monks sitting on the vast grounds outside Sera Jey gompa. I realised they were all Gelug monks of Ganden, Drepung and Sera, gathered there for the traditional inter-monastic Winter Debate on Buddhist epistemology.
Gendun Chöpel
Epistemology, the study of the nature and limits of knowledge, has always been of central importance to the Gelug tradition. Ever since Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) expounded the import of critical acumen and logic in realising the path to enlightenment, the possibility of valid knowledge has been hotly debated, and Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika has long been one of the five canonical texts that aspirant geshes study intensely for years. Deemed a form of scholasticism by modern scholarship, around the 1950s this tradition's self-proclaimed authority in epistemological matters was seriously challenged by one of its own when infant terrible Gendun Chöpel (1903-1951) wrote Adornment for Nagarjuna's Thought, disputing Gelugs' views on the foundations of knowledge.
The past few days of the workshop, I had been discussing Gendun Chöpel in the class I offered myself, exploring biographical details found in Lopez' insightful The Madman's Middle Way, the first English translation of Chöpel's philosophical work. In fact, citing the Dalai Lama's observation that Chöpel's observations on modern science often coincide remarkably with his own, I had asked the monks and nuns to reflect upon the personal qualities that might be required to question traditional authority the way he had done.
The World Is Flat
Gazing outside, I remembered how Chöpel, against prevailing opinion, stated in his essay The World is Round or Spherical that at least part of the traditional Buddhist cosmology had been invalidated by empirical evidence. To make matters worse, as Lopez makes clear, Chöpel had argued that, for Buddhists and non-Buddhist alike, the Buddha's description of the world as flat is utterly inconsequential to any discussion of its real shape, and that, therefore, resisting scientific findings on the basis of scriptural authority was completely futile.
Likewise, in the Adornment Chöpel said that no amount of consensus, even if confirmed by sacred scripture, can establish truth. Nor, for that matter, the omniscience and infallibility of the Buddha: "One may think, 'We concede that our decisions are unreliable, but when we follow the decisions of the Buddha, we are infallible.' Then who decided that the Buddha is infallible? If you say, 'The great scholars and adepts like Nagarjuna decided that he is infallible,' then who decided that Nagarjuna is infallible? If you say 'The Foremost Lama [Tsong kha pa] decided it,' then who knows that the Foremost Lama is infallible? If you say, 'Our kind and peerless lama, the excellent and great so and so decided,' then infallibility, which depends on your excellent lama, is decided by your own mind".
Debating Grounds
Meanwhile, outside Sera Jey gompa, amidst a sea of monks lit by a thousand points of light, a small group of present-day Tibetan epistemologists, heirs to an ancient practice, vied to debate one of the three monks seated in front of them. Every now and then, sensing where the argument was going, the crowd couldn't contain itself—encouraging the contestants with roaring cheers of excitement or cracking up with uproarious laughter.
Onscreen, employing a cinematic metaphor to connote galaxies "cooking up" elements, host Neil deGrasse Tyson watched a chef prepare a soup, preluding astronomer Sandra Faber's remark that research into the formation of galaxies heralds a new version of the cosmic myth: "This time it's scientifically based. From the Big Bang until now: Big Bang; formation of galaxies; formation of heavy elements in supernova; sun; earth; life. One unbroken Chain of Being."
Dismayed, the monks and nuns gasped for breath while the cook added one final ingredient to the thickening broth: a plate full of prawn and lobster. And while the film ended, credits scrolling, its finale almost drowned out by the commotion outside, I wondered: Of these monks and nuns, who will be the first to explore the epistemological ramifications of the most daunting, counterintuitive of scientific ideas—nonlocality, evolution, emergence—on the Tibetan debating grounds? | {
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It's hard to believe it's already the weekend again! Last weekend we spent four blissful days in Vail with our family. See all the fun here. This weekend was just as wonderful. Here is the recap. Above: My favorite teacup and teapot filled with Rishi citron oolong.
Banana muffins on vintage Norman Rockwell.
You know how I love flags.
I took a nap. Oh yes I did.
Sunday morning sunshine on my little sunshine.
After church, we met up with family in Boulder.
Uncle Dan and Lucy reading together.
Dan took the photo so I could be in a family photo more than once a year! Thanks Dan.
And the big fun of the weekend...Bella's new love of Legos. She has discovered the Lego Friends line and has been creating her little city. So fun to see her work for hours on all of her "projects". | {
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South Dakota will guarantee students automatic admission to state colleges and universities based on their scores on the Smarter Balanced assessment.
The new policy marks the first time a state higher education system has decided to use the scores from the Smarter Balanced exam, which is linked to the Common Core State Standards, to grant students automatic acceptance if they reach a qualifying score.
In South Dakota, 11th grade students who score at Level 3 or 4 in English and math on the four-level test, or earn an ACT composite score of 18, are guaranteed "general acceptance" to the state's six public universities and four technical institutes. General acceptance means that students might have to meet additional requirements to pursue specific majors. | {
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Centenary School Accolades
ZIMSEC GRADE 7 AWARDS – DISTRICT AND PROVINCIAL LEVEL
Bulawayo Metropolitan Provincial Merit Awards – awarded to Centenary on Friday 28 July 2017
Award for being the best performing school at Grade 7
Obtaining a minimum of 80% pass rate in each of the subjects examined at Grade 7.
Centenary School – Imbizo District Annual Merit Awards held on the 14th July 2017 at the Academy of Music.
The school scooped 7 awards this year, for the 2016 Grade 7 ZIMSEC results, as we continue to strive for excellence! These are the awards outlined below:
• Merit Award – Minimum 80% pass rate in English, Ndebele, Maths and General Paper.
The school achieved 100% pass rate in all the 4 subjects
• Honours Awards – Minimum of 80% overall pass rate for 3 consecutive years
The school achieved a pass rate of above 80% in all the 4 subjects for the past 7 consecutive years.
• Overall Best Grade 7 Primary school – School with the highest % pass rate
Centenary school this year shared the Floating shield with Amazon and Maranatha SDA.
• Best Performing Primary school – School with 95% and above pass rate in each subject
The school received these awards in all the four subjects. (4 awards)
Previous Accolades
The Secretary's Bell Merit Award
The Ministry of Education Sport and Culture Merit Award 'The Secretary's Bell', was awarded to Centenary Primary School, Imbizo District, Bulawayo Province in the year 2010.
Centenary School English Award
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Better Schools Programme, Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Merit Award. The certificate was awarded to Centenary Primary School for being the school with the highest number of candidates who attained grade 1 in English.
Centenary School Merit Award
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Better Schools Programme, Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Merit Award. The certificate was awarded to Centenary Primary School for being the school with minimum 80% pass rate in each of the subjects examined in grade 7 in 2015.
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Better Schools Programme, Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Merit Award. The certificate was awarded to Centenary Primary School for being the school with minimum 80% pass rate in each of the subjects examined in grade 7 for 3 consecutive years.
Certificate of Excellence awarded to Centenary Primary School for the Highest Percentage of Candidates who obtained Grade 1 in English in the Imbizo District of Bulawayo.
Centenary School Mathematics Award
Certificate of Excellence awarded to Centenary Primary School for the Highest Percentage of Candidates who obtained Grade 1 in Mathematics in the Imbizo District of Bulawayo. | {
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Q: Mysql Triggers: Track changes I don't know if this is possible, but I want to track changes of the table 1.
In the database the following two tables exists:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `db`.`table1` (
`idtable1` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`A` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
`B` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
`C` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`idtable1`))
ENGINE = InnoDB
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `db`.`table2history` (
`idtable2history` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`columnName` ENUM('A', 'B', 'C') NULL,
`columnPrimaryKey` INT NULL,
`columnNewValue` VARCHAR(45) NULL,
`changetimestamp` DATETIME NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`idtable2history`))
ENGINE = InnoDB
If the following instructions is executed:
UPDATE table1 SET A="ABC", B="XYZ" WHERE idtable1=50;
The Trigger "BEFORE UPDATE" should execute:
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "A", "50", "ABC", NOW());
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "B", "50", "XYZ", NOW());
If the following instructions is executed:
UPDATE table1 SET A="123", B="456", C="789" WHERE idtable1=20;
The Trigger "BEFORE UPDATE" should execute:
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "A", "20", "123", NOW());
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "B", "20", "456", NOW());
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "C", "20", "789", NOW());
Do you know an intelligent solution for this problem?
A: You need to iterate through each column you want to track in the trigger body, checking for null-safe inequality:
IF NOT (NEW.A <=> OLD.A) THEN
INSERT INTO table2history (idtable2history, columnName, columnPrimaryKey, columnNewValue, changetimestamp)
VALUES (NULL, "A",NEW.idtable1, NEW.A, NOW());
END IF;
IF NOT (NEW.B <=> OLD.B) THEN
...
The IF NOT (expr1 <=> expr2) test uses the null-safe equality comparison ("spaceship") operator <=> which, unlike a proper equality comparison, will consider NULL values equal, and comparisons of non-null values against NULL on either side to be FALSE instead of NULL, and the leading NOT inverts the test... so if the old value is not the same as the new value for the row, the INSERT query is run, otherwise nothing happens since the value didn't change.
OLD and NEW are special aliases for the old and new versions of the row. They are equally valid and contain the same values for BEFORE UPDATE and AFTER UPDATE, but a trigger that actually modifies the NEW image only works in the BEFORE trigger. BEFORE, NEW means "what the row will be updated to," and AFTER, NEW means "what the row has been updated to."
You probably will actually want to write this trigger as AFTER UPDATE, simply because you might later want to add a different BEFORE UPDATE trigger that does validation of the proposed update, since only one trigger for each timing can be defined (before MySQL 5.7), and that would allow this trigger to be left alone.
The trigger has to iterate through each column you're tracking using static queries, one for each column, since triggers do not support using prepared statements and dynamic SQL. Writing (generating) the trigger body by iterating through the columns with a script will save you some typing time, but for now you could write it out by hand and the above example should do exactly what you intend.
Your trigger body will look like it's doing a lot of work, but the server will run through all of these very quickly.
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Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin – Part 1
24 Oct Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin – Part 1
Posted at 00:00h in Interviews, Venture Capital by WTN News 0 Comments
Winslow Sargeant
In 1975, I was a sophomore at Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, Massachusetts, an all-white school one mile from a beautiful north Atlantic beach.
Winslow Sargeant, the keynote speaker at last week's Early Stage Symposium at Madison's Monona Terrace, was twelve, living with three sisters, one brother and his parents in Dorchester, one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods. Five years earlier, they'd emigrated from Barbados.
I remember listening to radio news accounts of rioting in Boston due to forced busing of black kids to white schools and vice versa. Winslow didn't need to hear the stories on the radio. He was riding the buses.
"I was a `bus kid'," Sargeant told me, last Thursday morning at Barriques, a downtown Madison café, the morning after introducing himself to a dinner audience of over 200 prominent leaders in business and academia as well as hopeful owners of new start-ups. "I remember going into the 5th grade at the time, times were tough back then."
He's 42, tall, and comfortable in a dark fitted suit that stood out in high relief against a bright red upholstered chair.
He's married to Ikanyeng, a Botswana native whom he met in Madison while in graduate school, and has three children: Kgosi, an 11-year-old boy; Lorato, a girl, 8; and Marang, a "gift baby," as Sargeant described him, 11 months old.
Next May, after his children finish school in Silver Spring, Maryland, he'll move the family to Madison to become the sixth partner in Venture Investors LLC, a Madison-based venture capital fund that provides seed and early-stage money to high-potential health care and IT companies. Its portfolio includes local firms Alfalight, TomoTherapy, Third Wave and Promega.
Sargeant, who has a Ph.D in electrical engineering from UW-Madison, knows both success and disappointment. Aanetcom, a `fabless' semiconductor integrated circuit design company that he'd co-founded in 1997 with seed money from Cisco Systems Inc., was sold to British Columbia's PMC-Sierra in 2000 for $900 million. PMC-Sierra, a Cisco supplier, had wanted to increase sales to Cisco, and Aanetcom's chip was faster than others.
It was during the peak of the dot com craze, and the next day, the stock market pushed the of Aanetcom up to $1.2 billion.
It wasn't all wine and roses, however. Sargeant stayed on with PMC-Sierra after the sale, but the next chip wasn't as successful. In 2001, he took a job as program manager with the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which distributes millions of dollars each year to hundreds of promising ventures.
In the 18 months prior to March 31, 53 companies around the state had won $42 million in SBIR grants.
But finding financing in Madison is hard, he knows. Many promising firms have left for the East and West Coasts because money flows more freely out there, he said. Sargeant, whose specialty will be computer software, hardware, and materials, hopes to make inroads into the traditionally risk-averse Midwestern financial scene.
His partners-to-be are betting that he will succeed. "Winslow is an extraordinarily accomplished individual for someone who's still quite young," said John Neis, a Venture Investors founder.
"I think he brings a couple of things" to the firm, Neis continued. He brings the credibility of someone who's seen different ends of the entrepreneurial spectrum, he said. Also, Sargeant has served as a Venture Investors board member and in that role, has offered great advice. Lastly, Sargeant's tenure with the federal SBIR grant program brought him in contact with a diverse group of people. "He's really clued in to who's doing research with potential," Neis added.
Coming up in Thursday's newsletter: Part 2 of our profile of Winslow Sargeant. Also, Sargeant's tips on getting SBIR grants.
Katherine Esposito is the senior staff writer for WTN in Madison. She can be reached at [email protected]. | {
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Q: a square DIV element with an arrow on left side, keep it fixed I'm trying to make a DIV with an arrow stay fixed.
Right now the content inside arrow_box decides where the arrow is.
How do I have it in a fixed position no matter what? Please run this code snippet to see what I mean:
body {
width: 500px;
margin: 100px;
}
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position: relative;
background: #88b7d5;
border: 4px solid #c2e1f5;
min-height: 50px;
padding: 10px;
}
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right: 100%;
top: 20%;
border: solid transparent;
content: " ";
height: 0;
width: 0;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
}
.arrow_box:after {
border-color: rgba(136, 183, 213, 0);
border-right-color: #88b7d5;
border-width: 10px;
margin-top: -10px;
}
.arrow_box:before {
border-color: rgba(194, 225, 245, 0);
border-right-color: #c2e1f5;
border-width: 11px;
margin-top: -11px;
}
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A: You want to set the arrow fixed on the same position on every box? Simply replace top:20%; with top:10px; on .arrow_box:after, .arrow_box:before. Try this solution:
body {
margin:100px;
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Regular exercise is vital to our well-being. Adults are advised to complete 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity every week1. Fitness Courses College can provide you with courses to help others achieve these goals – and establish an exciting new career for yourself.
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Q: How do I create a time boxed lookup of events in Python 3? I am dealing with event data (in this case USGS earthquakes). USGS give you e.g. the last hour or last day of all earthquakes and updates that list every few minutes.
I need to poll that list every minute and act on new events in that list but ignore those I have acted on.
I can easily create a list that I add new quake events to it:
events = list()
for f in features:
event = [{
'name': 'usgs.earthquake.feature', # Time Series Name
'columns': ['id', 'long', 'lat', 'depth', 'mag', 'type'\
'magtype', 'tz', 'felt', 'place', 'status'\
'gap', 'dmin', 'rms', 'ids', 'title', 'types'\
'cdi', 'net', 'nst', 'sources', 'alert', 'time'\
'tsunami', 'code', 'sig'
], # Keys
'points': [[ f['id'],\
f['geometry']['coordinates'][0],\
f['geometry']['coordinates'][1],\
f['geometry']['coordinates'][2],\
f['properties']['mag'],\
f['properties']['type'],\
f['properties']['magType'],\
f['properties']['tz'],\
...
f['properties']['time'],\
f['properties']['tsunami'],\
f['properties']['code'],\
f['properties']['sig']
]] # Data points
}]
if event in events:
log.debug('Surpressing duplicate event id: %s', event[0]['points'][0][0])
else:
log.debug('Event data: %s', event)
events.insert(0, event)
handler.postEvent(event)
log.debug('Event Cache Count: %s', len(events))
Is that a smart way - building a lookup via a list like that?
How do I best maintain the past 2h or 36h in the list while dropping off older entires?
A: Since you've got an id field, I suggest you can work with a dict instead of a list. (but the id has to unique, I don't know if this is the case)
events = {
'eventid': Event()
}
This way your query, if the event is already saved, works a expected.
if event in events:
[..ignore..]
and if not already there: add it to the dict:
events[eventid] = Event(..data..)
If you also save the event timestamp or datetime in the meta Event object, then you can easily loop trough the events dict and remove events older than a certain time with the "del" statement. Lets say your datetime field ist named dt. Then you can do something like this:
for eventid, event_data in d.items():
if datetime.utcnow() - event_data['dt'] > timedelta(minutes=20):
del events[eventid]
this will expire events older than 20 min.
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Q: Can't load AVDs with certain APIs on Windows 10 For instance AVD's with Android 6 can't be loaded, there are screen with with "android" title and nothing more. AVD's with some more older Android versions (2.3.3 for instance) can be loaded.
Using latest Android Sutido/SDK/Build Tools.
Tried to use older SDK Build Tools, change CPU, use Host GPU, change amount of RAM.
A: Reinstallation of Windows solved the problem.
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The Compliance Team expands patient satisfaction service
SPRING HOUSE, Pa. - The Compliance Team has expanded enrollment in its web-based patient satisfaction reporting and benchmarking service to all DMEPOS providers, whether they're accredited by The Compliance Team or another Medicare-approved organization. "Given Medicare's and managed care's emphasis on pay-for-performance and mandates for providers to prove their quality claims, we believe the time is right to expand our service," stated Sandra Canally, founder and president, in a press release. The Compliance Team has been requiring the submission of patient satisfaction surveys on a quarterly basis since 1998, making its database the oldest and largest of its kind, the company stated in the release. To date, The Compliance Team has aggregated and benchmarked more than 1.3 million patient satisfaction surveys, garnering 10 million standardized data points from providers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Compliance Team is charging an introductory fee of $249 per year for the first location for providers that are not accredited by the company.
Accreditation, Benchmarking Survey, Patient satisfaction, The Compliance Team
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All entering students majoring in Architecture and Interior Design are admitted as Architecture-Intended or Interior Design-Intended majors. As ARCH-Intended and INTD-Intended majors, students complete the 1st and 2nd Year Architecture courses in the course sequence while completing the Core Curriculum. Students can declare major for the fall semester only.
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'Forces linked with govt.' abducted Gunaratnam, claims his Party
Political activists and leaders of the People's Struggle Movement in Sri Lanka, Mr. Premakumar Gunaratnam and Ms. Dimithu Attygalle disappeared on 6th April 2012.
Gunaratnam is believed to have been abducted from his temporary residence at No.291/1, Gemunu Mawatha, Kiribathgoda, on April 6. He was last seen by a party member who dropped him at his residence in Kiribathgoda at around 5pm on April 6 following a party meeting. At around 11pm that day, Gunaratnam spoke to the same party member and asked to be picked up from his residence at 5am the following day (April 7). Gunaratnam has not been seen or heard from since.
The party member who arrived at Gunaratnam's residence at around 4.30am the following day found that the air had been let out of all four tyres in Gunaratnam's vehicle (NWKE 9457). On further examination he found that the door locks had been broken. Gunaratnam could not be found and was not contactable on his mobile phone. A neighbor had told police that 4 or 5 armed men had come to the house at around 4.30am on the morning of April 7 and instructed her to shut off lights and stay indoors. When she had looked out around 5.15am, she had seen nothing unusual.
According to party members, Gunaratnam's mobile number (+94-71-3519722) was ringing till around 8am on April 7 but was not answered. The phone is currently disconnected or unreachable. The GPS coordinates of the mobile phone indicate that the phone was in the Thalawathugoda area on the morning of April 7. However there is no further evidence regarding his whereabouts.
Never reached home
Attygalle was last seen by Duminda Nagamuwa, a party leader who dropped her at the Kottawa bus stand at around 6pm on April 6. Attygalle had confirmed that she was going to her residence at 32/14/7, High level Road, Henawatte, Meegoda. However she did not answer her mobile phone (+94-77-0325567) the following morning though it had been ringing till about 11am. It has been confirmed that she had not arrived home on April 6.
On April 7, Ajith Kumara, a member of parliament; Gunaratnam's sister-in-law, Dr. Nandani Somaratne; and Duminda Nagamuwa have filed police complaints regarding the disappearances.
The Australian High Commission in Colombo has been informed of the disappearance as Gunaratnam is an Australian citizen. A police spokesperson told the media that neither of the two had been taken in for questioning or been arrested by the police.
Party members however had received credible information that Gunaratnam was under intense surveillance by the government. As a safety precaution Gunaratnam and Attygalle always informed party members of their whereabouts and never switched off their mobile phones.
FSP members believe that Gunaratnam and Attygalle have been abducted by forces linked with the government since the party has campaigned actively against human rights abuses by the government, particularly against the Tamil minority in the North.
Courtesy: Lakbima News
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In the wake of #BellLetsTalk day, one thing is extremely clear: people now more than ever are ready, willing, and excited to have conversations about mental health. Considering the long history of stigma against those affected by mental illness, it's heartening to see such a tremendous amount of people across the country coming forward and sharing their stories.
For thousands of years, the mentally ill have been mistreated.
The word "stigma" itself traces back to Ancient Greece, where stigmas were marks to brand slaves and clearly denote them as inferior.
People in these ancient cultures used to believe mental illness was a symptom of demonic possession, and they would literally poke holes in the heads of those afflicted to "let the evil spirits out".
As centuries passed, the mentally ill were imprisoned.
They were shackled to walls.
It wasn't until relatively recently that mental illness began to be seen, widespread, as something to be treated and cured. The late 1800s saw the advent of psychiatric hospitals and closure of asylums, and the late 1900s saw a radical increase in outpatient care and deinstitutionalization.
And though stigma persisted, peaking with the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill killed or sterilized in Nazi Germany, the last few decades are testament that we have had enough.
People are ready to talk.
A few groups in support of mental health in the early-to-mid 1900s trickled into larger organizations as the millennium came to a close.
In the last decade, this call for support became a movement.
Organizations like Jack.org and DIFD were born out of tragedies, out of a need to let people know that it's okay to not be okay, and out of a need to shout from the rooftops that you are not alone.
Individuals of all ages and backgrounds have come together across the country to show their support and normalize the topic of mental health.
Notice the shift: we're no longer talking just about mental illness, but also about mental health.
Because we may not all have mental illness, but we do all have mental health.
We may not all have mental illness, but we all have mental health.
And that is reason alone to keep carrying the conversation forward.
That graph shows the number of interactions incited by the #BellLetsTalk campaign in the last 7 years.
Yesterday, we surpassed last year's number with over 138 million interactions.
That's over 138 million times someone shared or consumed content exploring the topic of mental health.
Over 138 million instances of bravery.
Whether or not you're a person who's enraged by the "corporate agenda" of #BellLetsTalk, this campaign is nothing if not empowering to those of us affected by mental illness.
Every year, more and more people gather to tell each other not only that it's okay and that they've got each other's backs, but that they're all going through the same crap, too.
For the first time in literally millennia, crowds are coming forward, unabashed and unashamed of their experiences. Seeing this day as an opportunity to share their story, hundreds of thousands of people take to social media and to social gatherings to sing their song, loud and proud.
Yes, this is a conversation that needs to continue everyday beyond #BellLetsTalk day.
But if anything, this campaign is telling of just how badly people crave connection, and just how much they're itching to share their experience with another human.
Yes, there's heaps more to do for mental health than "just talking about it". Yes, we need policy changes. Yes, we need more resources. Yes, we need better education.
But just the fact that we manage, each and every year, to gather more and more people to band together in an effort to normalize mental health is a huge step forward.
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While there are a variety of ways to increase targeted website traffic, every business owner should consider optimizing their website for the search engines.
Instead of putting all of your eggs in one basket, it's best to drive website traffic through several sources. This way, you can cast a wider net, resulting in more traffic, and track the efficacy of each source.
1. Everything related to SEO starts with an understanding of what a "keyword phrase" is.
If you know what keyword phrases your prospects are entering when looking for the type of information, products or services you offer, you will know what phrases to optimize your web pages for.
2. Websites are not indexed or ranked by the search engines… each web page is indexed and ranked independent of any other.
This is commonly misunderstood but so vital to understand! Just because you have one web page that ranks really well in the search engines, that doesn't mean that your others will also rank well.
Each page of your website must be uniquely optimized for a handful of keyword phrases… keyword phrases that are searched upon and those likely to attract your targeted audience.
If you pay close attention to the optimization of each page, you should see a dramatic improvement in terms of search engine placement.
3. Like it or not, you're competing against others!
Some have a harder time with this concept than others but the truth remains the truth… in order to get your web page listed on page one of Google, you have to kick one of the currently listed web page's off!
This is valuable information because it will help you understand what you must do to achieve the ranking you're after.
How well is their page optimized for the keyword phrase?
How old is their domain (the older the better)?
How many links can be found that point to the page (the more the better)?
While there are other elements involved, these three are of primary concern. If you find you can outdo your competitor's web page in at least two of the three areas mentioned, you can probably kick them off the page and take their place.
After ensuring you are optimizing for a keyword phrase (or phrases) that are likely to bring you the kind of traffic you want, you'll often find it is the quantity of backlinks that make the real difference.
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Adam Diksa (15 de enero de 1984), conocido profesionalmente como Keiran Lee, es un actor pornográfico, director y productor británico que trabaja principalmente para la compañía de producción pornográfica Brazzers. Su pene estaba asegurado por 1 millón de dólares en 2012 por Brazzers. Ha actuado en más de 3500 vídeos porno en su carrera. Es uno de los actores pornográficos mejor pagados. También ha recibido varios premios de la industria cinematográfica para adultos, incluido el Premio AVN al Artista Masculino Favorito en 2017, y el Premio británico de cine y televisión para adultos al mejor actor masculino en 2007.
Biografía
Lee nació y creció en el área de Littleover en Derby, Inglaterra. Es de ascendencia medio india, ya que su padre es indio. Al crecer, asistió a la Academia Voluntaria Católica de San Benito. A la edad de 18 años, trabajaba como gerente de proyectos para Network Rail.
La carrera de Lee en el porno comenzó después de que sus amigos subieran una fotografía suya desnudo a un sitio web de swingers. Después de ver la publicación, una pareja le ofreció a Lee un papel en el porno. Lee actuó por primera vez en un video para adultos en 2002 a los 18 años. Comenzó a trabajar de forma independiente en el porno en Inglaterra antes de firmar un contrato exclusivo con Brazzers en 2005 después de mudarse a Estados Unidos. Comenzó su carrera pornográfica en 2006.
Lee realizó su primer vídeo para Brazzers en 2008. En agosto de 2011, Brazzers colocó un anuncio en una valla publicitaria con una foto de Lee en una camiseta y gafas de sol en Sunset Boulevard. Dan Miller de XBIZ se refirió a él como "una promoción histórica para una estrella porno masculina". En 2012 se informó que Brazzers había suscrito una póliza de seguro con Lloyd's of London, asegurando el pene de Lee por un millón de dólares. Lee ha aparecido en 1553 vídeos para Brazzers a partir del 8 de mayo de 2020, más que cualquier otro artista.
En octubre de 2013, Lee hizo su debut como director de cine con Hot Chicks Meet Big Fangs para Digital Playground.
A partir de 2017 ha actuado en más de 3500 vídeos pornográficos, junto a más de 4000 actrices pornográficas. Hoy en día, Lee protagoniza alrededor de 18 escenas y dirige aproximadamente unas 20 escenas al mes para Brazzers.
De mayo a julio de 2016, Lee apareció como mentor y juez en The Sex Factor, una serie de realidad en línea que presenta a dieciséis hombres y mujeres que compiten por 1 millón de dólares y un contrato porno de tres años. Lee, junto con otras estrellas porno como Lexi Belle, Remy LaCroix y Tori Black, ofrecerían consejos y juzgarían a los concursantes durante toda la competencia. En su reseña de la serie, Janis Hopkins de Vice News criticó el juicio de Lee, comentando que "él ha confundido la técnica inexpresiva de decir la verdad de la televisión real con solo ser un imbécil". Lux Alptraum de The Verge también criticó el juicio, refiriéndose a los anfitriones como "forzados". Jeremy Glass de Thrillist se mostró de acuerdo con esta opinión, llamando a los jueces "difíciles de ver".
Lee ha estado casado dos veces. Su primer matrimonio fue con la actriz pornográfica Puma Swede en 2009, pero la pareja se divorció. Está casado desde 2013 con la estrella porno y presentadora de Playboy TV Kirsten Price. Los dos residen actualmente con su hijo en Calabasas, California. Keiran actualmente tiene 3 hijos. Lee es un gran fanático del fútbol, y dice que "programa [toda] su vida en el condado de Derby". En 2011, mientras jugaba al fútbol para el Hollywood United FC, Lee tuvo que ser hospitalizado después de romperse la mandíbula en dos lugares.
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"Wind Beneath My Wings" (sometimes titled "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Hero") is the title of a song written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley. They recorded a demo of the song, which they gave to musician Bob Montgomery. Montgomery then recorded his own demo version of the song, changing it from the mid-tempo version he was given to a ballad. Silbar and Henley then shopped the song to many artists, eventually resulting in Roger Whittaker becoming the first to release the song commercially. It appeared on his 1982 studio album, also titled Wind Beneath My Wings.
Following Whittaker's recording, many other artists recorded the song, including Sheena Easton (who also recorded it in 1982). Easton's version appeared on her 1982 studio album Madness, Money & Music, though it was not released as a single by her record company. She did, however, perform it on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show, her HBO live concert special, as well as her NBC television special.
1983 was the first year "Wind Beneath My Wings" appeared on music industry trade publication charts in the United States. Singer Lou Rawls was the first to score a major hit with the song, as his version peaked at #10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, as well as #60 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart and #65 on the main Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Gladys Knight & The Pips also released a recording of the song in 1983 under the title "Hero", and their version peaked at #64 on Billboard' Hot Black Singles chart while also reaching #23 on Billboard' Adult Contemporary chart. Singer Gary Morris released a country version of the song in 1983 that charted highest on any of the Billboard music charts that year. Morris's version of the song peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, and also later won both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association awards for Song Of The Year.
I fell and broke my collar bone this morning. I will be out of commission for the next 6 to 8 weeks. I am really disappointed that I will not be able to join you. This is a classic example that reminds me that we should get out and enjoy ourselves at every opportunity, so get out and enjoy yourselves tomorrow. I have received a lot of emails and telephone calls about the party tomorrow so get your bums out there and party. Looks like a record breaking number of party goers tomorrow.
YOWZERONI-RINI! Chuck, I am so very sorry to hear this, after all your hard work! Dashed plans have always broken my heart. We wish you a very speedy recovery!
07 - The late Kathy Pilgrim Clark ('63) (deceased - 03/08/06)!
16 - Tena Goodson Hensel ('39) of VA AND The late Mr. John Huller ('43) (deceased 07/29/09) AND Brian Cooper of SC!
Gen. Sterling Price, CSA, was an aggressive commander when he had the opportunity. He had fought Franz Sigel and Nathaniel Lyon to a draw at Wilson's Creek in August, then withdrawn to Arkansas to get his large but undisciplined army better organized. Today he was back with a vengeance, in the small Missouri town of Lexington. He had the Union forces under Col. James Mulligan surrounded and under siege. Mulligan's commander, Gen. Fremont, was supposed to be organizing a relief force to march from St. Louis, but was too busy having his supposed allies arrested.
It was rapidly becoming obvious that a major battle was soon to take place somewhere near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Lee was calling his scattered army together, and McClellan was on his way, albeit slowly, with his. Ahead of both rode Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac. He had the grim task of pre-selecting buildings which would serve as hospitals afterwards. His job, although simplified by the fact that most civilians had long since fled, was complicated by the fact that the ambulances had been left behind in Norfolk, Va. In addition, most of the medical supplies had been used up in the Peninsula Campaign over the summer.
Gen. William Rosecrans' Federal army had taken Chattanooga four days ago, but Braxton Bragg's Confederate army was nowhere close to defeated. The Southern forces were strung out on a roughly north-south line on the east side of a ridge called Lookout Mountain. Rosecrans' army was scattered and vulnerable, especially the men with Gen. George Henry Thomas to the south near LeMoyne Cove. Thomas could have easily been isolated and defeated, but the orders to do so never got delivered to Gen. Thomas C. Hindman. The man carrying the orders, a French soldier-of-fortune known as Maj. Nocquot, was not available to testify at the court-martial of Hindman, as he had disappeared. Some $150,000 in Army funds went missing around the same time, but in all the confusion no connection was ever proved.
In the days before mechanical refrigeration, keeping ones' troops in food required some interesting logistics. Hardack could be shipped and stored, but if the troops were to have beef one had to store it on the hoof. Confederate cavalry under Wade Hampton took advantage of superior Union stocks by staging a raid at Coggins' Point, VA, where they captured 300 Federals and, more importantly, what they were guarding--a herd of some 2400 cattle. Getting them back to Petersburg would take several days and several skirmishes, but the food was desperately needed by the besieged forces there.
There had been a meeting of certain members of the Maryland state legislature scheduled for today. Despite the fact that the capital of the state is in Annapolis, this little get-together had been planned to take place in Frederick. The reason for the solitude, not to mention the lack of publicity, was that these members were Southern sympathizers, and their intention was to work out a way for Maryland to secede from the Union. Their attempts at secrecy had not been entirely successful, however, and a number of the gentlemen had been arrested by Federal officials on their way to the meeting. They were now on their way to prison on an island in Boston Harbor, and the meeting was cancelled.
Sharpsburg, Maryland, was where the two great armies of the East finally met today. McClellan, displaying his characteristic hesitation, kept realigning troops and did not order an attack; Lee, outnumbered two to one, was not inclined to start things either. Although Stonewall Jackson had rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia, A.P. Hill had not, being still on the way from Harpers Ferry. Before the day was done, 23,000 Americans would be dead, wounded or missing: 12,000 Union men and some 11,000 in grey. It has been calculated that during the 12 hours the battle lasted, men died at the rate of 35 per minute. It was the bloodiest single day of the War, or in fact in North American history.
Braxton Bragg, who had defended Tennessee so well for the Confederacy that he was now backed up into northern Georgia, had had a chance for the last week to attack Rosecrans' exceedingly scattered forces. Although several orders had admittedly been issued, for one reason or another no actual attacks had taken place. One result of this was that acrimonious notes, nastiness and name-calling were making the rounds between Bragg and his corps commanders. The other result of this was that the Union army was now reassembled in much better order, and Bragg had no choice but to attack the whole thing at once. The best plan he could come up with was a thrust at the Federal right, to cut off their line of retreat to Chattanooga. Unfortunately for Bragg, this thought had occurred to Rosecrans as well.
John C. Fremont, "The Pathfinder", former commander of the US forces in St. Louis where he spent far more time fighting with Frank Blair Jr. than marching to fight Sterling Price's Confederates, did a noble deed today. He informed a committee of the Radical Republicans that he was declining their request that he run for President in the primary against Abraham Lincoln. Although he regarded Lincoln as a failure (the fact that Lincoln had relieved him of command in St. Louis may have influenced this opinion), he disliked the Democrat, McClellan, even more. McClellan's victory, Fremont said, would result in "separation or re-establishment [of the Union] with slavery" still intact.
I've finally gone to broadband internet service. Unfortunately by doing so, I was forced to change my e-mail address. I've only had ONE e-mail address since I got "on-line".
My computer guy should be here on tomorrow (Monday) to set-up my Outlook Express to work with my new address but I'm not positive he will make it because his work is backed-up from the hurricane.
My new address will be: ______@___________.___ so if you e-mail me at this address and it bounces, please try the old one - ______@__________.___. Hopefully all this will be cleared up this coming week.
Thanks, Jennie - I have you all switched!
air swimmers- I want one!!
Oh, every home and business definitely needs one or more of these! If I had had one of these back in the day, I'll bet I wouldn't have had nearly the trouble I did arousing my sleepy-headed little darlings for school and church!
Time waits for no one--treasure every moment you have.
To realize the value of a friend or family member: LOSE ONE.
Remember....Hold on tight to the ones you love!
Send it to friends & family to whom you wish a good, long, happy, life.
Thank you again, Norris Sweetie!
A great way to live our lives! We are bombarded by negatives but we all we need is to change our thinking. Have a great day!
''That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied. ''Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Pass this message to 6 people except me. You will receive a miracle tomorrow.
Now, STOP! Did you hear what I just said. You WILL receive a miracle Tomorrow. So send it right now!
This is for everyone because we all hope to live a long life. God bless you!
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM /HER.
7. Surround yourself with what you love: Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever… Your home is your refuge.
9. Don't take guilt trips… Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance… Remember! Lost time can never be found.
12. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
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I MOA: 2878/52 - Cow Bell
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Oblong shaped bell carved out of a single piece of brown wood. At the top of the bell on both ends there are two pairs of squares carved into the wood through which a rope is strung and tied. Within the bell there are two wooden clappers that protrude from the bottom of the bell. These clappers are also tied to the main portion of the bell from the inside; the top of these ropes are tied through the top of the bell in a large knot. The rope itself is made up of four pieces which are twisted together. There are four knots tied throughout these ropes.
This bell is from the Kondh tribal region in the Phulbani District.
Made in Phulbani, Odisha, India
Owned by Tamarin Productions Inc. before May 4, 2011
Received from Tamarin Productions Inc. (Seller) and Ruth Read Bequest (Funding source) on May 4, 2011
wood and fibre
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Phulbani, Odisha, India
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India: Odisha, Phulbani
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height: 48 cm (overall), width: 16.9 cm (overall), depth: 7 cm (overall)
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The 1957 models retained a single-headlight front end like their predecessors, but were unmistakable with their long flanks and tailfins. A plethora of trim lines was introduced, starting with the base "Custom", "Custom 300", "Fairlane", and top-line "Fairlane 500". The two Custom lines used a 116 in (2946 mm) wheelbase, while the Fairlanes had 118 in (2997 mm) between the wheels. A new car/pickup truck hybrid based on the short-wheelbase chassis was also introduced, the Ranchero.
A new frame was used for the 1957 Fords. It moved to perimeter rails out, so that they would fully envelope the passengers.
In a survey of 1957 Ford owners in the March, 1957 issue of Popular Mechanics, only 6.2% of owners ordered seat belts.
This model was very successful, being the best selling car in America, overtaking arch rival Chevrolet for the first time since 1935.
The line was freshened with a simulated hood scoop and dual-headlight front clip for 1958. The rectangular grille openings gave way to circles, and a simulated hood scoop was added. A new 3-speed Cruise-O-Matic automatic was optional along with the 2-speed Ford-O-Matic and manual transmission. Engines were also updated, with the 272 CID dropped, the 292 CID making 205 hp (153 kW), and a new-generation 332 CID (5.4 L) FE V8 rated at 240 HP in 2 barrel form and 265 HP in 4 barrel "Interceptor" form. The new 352 cubic inch V8, also dubbed "Interceptor" and rated at 300 hp (224 kW) made its debut. Galaxie production was started in Lorain, Ohio at Ford's Lorain Assembly plant for 1958 and continued through 1959 with 102,869 Galaxies produced there. Air suspension became optional. The convertible version of Ford Fairlane 500, Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner (also called Skyliner Retractable Convertible), had been sold for three years - 1957, 1958, and 1959. It was the most expensive vehicle offered by Ford. The 1958 Skyliner sold for $3,163 while the standard convertible sold for $2,650 and the sedan went for $2,055. A total of 14,713 units were produced in 1958. Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner weighed 4,609-pounds.
The top-line spot for 1959 was the new Galaxie, positioned above the continued Fairlane 500. The Custom line was dropped, with Custom 300 the lowest rung on the ladder, and all 1959 Fords used the long 118 in (2997 mm) wheelbase. New for safety was fully padded armrests and rear door locks that were child proof. American prices ranged from the mid-1,000 to the low 3,000s.
This version was also assembled in Australia, beginning in late 1959. Local models were the luxurious Fairlane 500, the lower-priced Custom 300 (both sedans), as well as the Ranch Wagon. The Australian models were powered by the 332 cu in (5.4 L) "Thunderbird" engine, producing 204 hp.For 1960, the range was updated with the grille and trim from the 1959 Canadian Meteor.
The 1960 Ford looked all-new with twin headlights riding in a scalloped-square front clip. The Fairlane was now the base model in the full-sized lineup, along with the Fairlane 500, Galaxie and range-topping Starliner. The Station Wagon Series continued with Ranch Wagon, Country Sedan and Country Squire models. The elegant Starliner 2-door hardtop was Ford's choice for NASCAR racing. The 1960 fullsize Fords abandoned the ostentatious ornamentation of the 1950s for a futuristic, sleek look. Round taillights were replaced by half-moon shaped taillights for 1960 only. There were tailfins still, but smaller ones – the focus of Ford's stylists abandoning, as did the rest of the industry, the aviation influences of the previous decade and instead capturing the new obsession – the Space Race. The Galaxie name was particularly appealing to this trend, it seems. Windshield wipers were extended to cover more of the windshield. Ford also introduced the center rear fuel door lid.
With the Fairlane and Fairlane 500 names shifted to a new intermediate-sized model range for 1962, the full-size Ford lineup consisted of the Galaxie, new Galaxie 500 and Galaxie 500XL models and the Station Wagon Series. Also new was a 406 CID (6.7 L) version of Ford's FE mid-sized V8 rated at 405 hp (302 kW). Bucket seats were everywhere in 1962 – sold as "The Lively Ones", the XL series added buckets to the Sunliner convertible and hardtop coupe. The slow-selling Starliner semi-hardtop coupe was cancelled, leaving Ford no choice than to compete in stock car racing with the Club Victoria, which had a formal roofline. Their top speed was lower than the 1961s because of the inferior aerodynamics. Trying to come up with a quick solution, Ford attempted to enter the Starlift, which was a Sunliner convertible with a removable roof with a curved roofline similar to the 1960–61 Starliner. NASCAR banned the Starlift from competition, and few if any were actually produced. It is said that the windows could not be rolled up on the Starlift when the top was on, as the windows were the stock Sunliner windows which did not fit the roofline.
Ford rolled into 1963 with a NASCAR-winning Galaxie and a 427 CID (7 L) FE V8 sporting either 410 hp (306 kW) or 425 hp (317 kW). A new hardtop coupe body was added to the Galaxie range, and the base model became known as the 300.
The hardtop coupe sported a lower, fastback roofline and was added mid year to improve looks and make the big cars more competitive on the NASCAR tracks. This 63½ model was called the "Sports Roof" hardtop.
Ford took the 427 CID (7.0 L) equipped Galaxie to the dragstrip in serious fashion beginning in 1963, building a number of lightweight cars just for that purpose. They featured fiberglass fenders, doors, trunklid and aluminum bumpers. Rated conservatively at 425 hp (317 kW), this engine also featured in Carroll Shelby's final incarnation of the AC Cobra.
The Ranch Wagon name was transferred to the Ford Fairlane range for 1963, leaving only the Country Sedan and Country Squire models in the full-size Ford Station Wagon Series.
The final year of the 1960 full-size Fords was 1964, with the 300 base model again using the Custom name. The base Galaxie was now called "Custom 500." The Sports Roof was continued for all hardtop coupes. In addition, new sloped rooflines were introduced for all non-wagon '64 big Fords. Interior trim was new, including new thin-shell bucket seats for all XL models. The instrument panel remained the same, except for the ignition switch, which was moved from left of the steering column, to the right. External styling was once again refreshed, with a more sculptured body that was supposed to reduce drag at high speeds, no doubt done for NASCAR.
Under the hood,the 427 CID (7.0 L) engine carried on the high performance duties. Ford again took the 427-equipped Galaxie to the racetracks in serious fashion in 1964, building a number of lightweight, fiberglass equipped cars just for that purpose. These competed with success not only in North America but also in the United Kingdom. Initial doubts as to their competitiveness in Britain were short-lived; despite their great size and weight compared to the opposition, the Ford 427 engine gave them a competitive power-to-weight ratio and the handling was better than might have been supposed. They were raced in Europe reasonably successfully.
Late in the year Ford introduced their new engine challenger, the SOHC 427 Cammer, Though it is not documented it is believed a few may have found their way onto the street. (This engine was only available to racers through the dealer network or from the manufacturer, none were ever factory installed) Rated at over 600 hp (447 kW), this is possibly the most powerful engine ever fitted to a production car by an American manufacturer. NASCAR changed the rules, however, requiring (instead of hundreds) thousands of production examples in service to qualify for the next season, and Ford decided against producing the Cammer in that quantity. Fears of liability concerns and the bad publicity possibilities in giving the public a car that was so dangerously powerful are often cited as reasons, but it might simply have been that Ford doubted that an engine so unsuited to street use could sell in such numbers.
The 1964s represent a high point in early 1960s Ford quality, durability, and styling. They were not only enormously popular, but proved to be so durable that many continued to run well past the 100,000 mile mark without a major overhaul. Holman & Moody continued to supply high-performance equipment for the big '64 Fords, giving them wins at NASCAR. | {
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Many instructional design and development processes produce ineffective products, often accompanied by delayed timelines and cost overruns. Agile instructional design applies the SAM (Success Approximation Model) principles to training development, which results in meaningful and effective learning experiences that help the learner as well as meet the needs of stakeholders. In this course, Richard Sites explores how to apply an agile process to instructional design. Learn how to start savvy, document your ideas, prototype course content, build your design, and review your instruction for any missed opportunities. Dr. Sites also shows how to align your current process with SAM and become an effective leader of agile and iterative training and development projects.
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CREER engages with governments, business, trade unions and wider civil society in Latin America to understand their perspectives and build them into the multi-stakeholder approach takes to strengthening government and company efforts to protect, promote and respect human rights.
Building on IHRB's experience in Myanmar, CREER recently published a sector wide impact assessment (SWIA) of the Colombian mining sector after nearly two years of research and engagement. The centre also focuses on contributing to peace building in Colombia, in particular on access to non-judicial remedy. | {
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Syasstroy () is a town in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located near the mouth of the Syas River, at its confluence with the Valgonka, close to Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. Population:
History
Before 1926, a small village of Nosok () existed at this location. An urban-type settlement was founded in 1926, as construction of pulp-and-paper mill started. At the time, it belonged to Volkhovsky Uyezd of Leningrad Governorate. On August 1, 1927, the uyezds were abolished and Volkhovsky District was established. The governorates were also abolished and the district became a part of Leningrad Okrug of Leningrad Oblast. On March 20, 1946, Novoladozhsky District with the administrative center located in Novaya Ladoga was split off Volkhovsky District and Syasstroy became a part of this district. On February 1, 1963, Novoladozhsky District was abolished and merged into Volkhovsky District.
Syasstroy was granted town status in 1992.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with ten rural localities, incorporated within Volkhovsky District as Syasstroyskoye Settlement Municipal Formation. As a municipal division, Syasstroyskoye Settlement Municipal Formation is incorporated within Volkhovsky Municipal District as Syasstroyskoye Urban Settlement.
Economy
Industry
The economy of Syasstroy is dependent on just one enterprise, the paper mill, which makes it potentially very vulnerable to economic crises.
Transportation
The M18 Highway, connecting St. Petersburg with Murmansk, passes through Syasstroy. A road connects Syasstroy with Kolchanovo, on the highway heading to Vologda via Tikhvin and Cherepovets.
The railway connecting St. Petersburg and Murmansk runs several kilometers east of Syasstroy. The closest station is in Kolchanovo.
In the beginning of the 19th century, a system of canals bypassing Lake Ladoga were built, which at the time were a part of Mariinsky Water System, connecting the Neva River and the Volga River. In particular, the Syas Canal connects the Syas and the Volkhov, and the Svir Canal connects the Syas and the Svir. The canals collectively are known as the Ladoga Canal.
Culture and recreation
The district contains one cultural heritage monument of federal significance and additionally three objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. The federal monument is the tomb of the author Sergey Semyonov, who died in 1942 in Syasstroy Military Hospital from pneumonia. The local monuments are two tombs of soldiers fallen during World War II and a house where Sergey Kirov stayed when he visited the construction place of the paper mill.
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Cities and towns in Leningrad Oblast
Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union
Populated places established in 1926
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Economic security is an overriding priority for Sberbank. We devote special attention to preventing threats and ensuring the stable work of the Bank. In 2017 we identified and prevented 529 attempts to use stolen (lost) or forged passports, identified 22 attempts at fraud using forged payment documents, and prevented 71 cases of theft using forged powers of attorney of a total of RUB 600 million in funds from the deposits of Sberbank clients.
In all, the economic security divisions sent 1,055 statements to law enforcement agencies concerning attempts to cause damage to Sberbank or its clients, and 526 criminal cases were instigated.
We take a proactive approach to the identification of counterfeit banknotesIn 2017, 4,041 counterfeit or intentionally damaged (partial) banknotes were identified, as well as 80 mass influxes of banknotes. Sberbank branches and the Corporate Investment Center detected 949 instances when clients presented counterfeit banknotes of the Bank of Russia. In addition, 1,577 counterfeit banknotes of various face values were removed from circulation. Fifteen people were arrested in 2017 for distributing counterfeit banknotes, with criminal proceedings instigated against one person.
As part of the "Red button–AR" fraud monitoring procedures, 313 audits were performed on corporate borrowers in 2017 at the request of the underwriting service due to suspicions of loan fraud. Instances of loan fraud were confirmed in 169 cases, in the amount of RUB 7.5 billion.
Reviews of 54.3 thousand loan applications of individuals using "Credit Factory" technology were also performed in 2017 and sent on for additional review to the economic security divisions.
We use state-of-the-art information security systems to ensure secure, fully functional servicing of clients. Artificial intelligence and analytical tools were used in 2017 to identify fraudulent operations when clients voluntarily transfer information to con-men, making it possible to hedge nearly 97% of this risk on the client side. During 2017 more than 300 thousand attempts to steal the funds of individuals and legal entities were stopped, preventing damage of more than RUB 40 billion.
Around 40 major DDoSDistributed Denial of Service attacks on Sberbank were averted, ensuring 100% protection of the Bank's infrastructure.
The Bank pays close attention to cyber-security. The Bank has learned how to successfully combat cybercrime using an intelligent client protection system. The Sberbank project "Fraud monitoring for remote retail channels", for instance, was the bronze medalist at the international IPMA International Project Excellence Award 2017 competition. As part of this large-scale project, which lasted 15 months, Sberbank implemented a unique fraud monitoring system created based on artificial intelligence. The system automatically protects clients from inappropriate actions caused by a lack of knowledge of cyber-security rules. Every day we uncover several thousand suspicious transactions using this system.
The development of the systems to combat cyber fraud will continue in 2018, to ensure 100% protection of all Sberbank's client service channels.
At Sberbank, personal data is protected through a single integrated system of organizational, technical and legal measures to protect confidential information (trade secrets, bank secrets, personal data), taking into consideration the requirements of federal legislation (including Federal Law No. 152–FZ dated 27 July 2006 "On Personal Data") and also global best practices.
When processing personal data, we take the necessary legal, organizational and technical measures to protect data against unlawful or accidental access, destruction, alteration, blocking, copying, provision, dissemination and also against any other unlawful actions with the personal data.
identification of and response to incidents that might lead to breakdowns or disruptions in the functioning of the automated systems and/or to the appearance of security threats to personal data.
In order to neutralize existing threats to personal data security, we use information security tools that have duly passed procedures to assess their compliance with the requirements of Russian information security law.
Access to the personal data being processed is given only to those Sberbank employees who require this data to perform their job duties. Everyone hired by Sberbank signs a non-disclosure agreement covering personal data and other confidential information. This agreement remains part of the employee's personal file.
In order to improve their information security awareness, knowledge and skills, employees undergo training in the form of mandatory remote training courses.
Sberbank has also organized internal controls (audits) of the compliance of personal data processing with Law 152–FZ and regulations adopted in accordance with this law, personal data protection requirements, Sberbank policy on handling personal data, and Sberbank's internal regulations. The internal audit is performed by the Internal Audit Service of Sberbank as part of audit reviews.
The Cybersecurity Service of Sberbank monitors the protection of personal data during processing in automated systems. Monitoring of protection in the information infrastructure uses instrumental verification and penetration testing. | {
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Leroy Merlin expressed a desire to make a digital solution available in its stores to help its customers make decisions and consequently help with sales for its sales team.
Digital terminals to enhance the in-store customer experience.
Leroy Merlin expressed a desire to make a digital solution available in its stores to help its customers make decisions and consequently help with sales for its sales team. The brand chose the Bema company's concept called 'Paint Box' developed by WAX Interactive.
It is an interactive terminal which offers the user a choice of thousands of paint colors and guides them according to their projects, preferences and also suggests the best combinations. In addition, at the end of the 'journey' the terminal will virtually paint a typical surface (kitchen, bathroom, etc.) with the colors chosen and saved by the user (with the option of printing the chosen colors in high definition) to enable them to imagine themselves in the universe that they have imagined.
Following this pilot phase which made it possible to collect information and feedback from customers, Leroy Merlin and Bema asked WAX Interactive to create a new interface for the terminal in order to enrich it and consequently offer a unique sensory experience which is both practical and fun.
The agencies in Belgium and Lille have combined their UX, functional, design and technical expertise in order to redesign the application and customise it so that it addresses the brand's specific issues as fully as possible.
The WAX teams consequently optimised the interaction screens so as to make the journey smoother, more user-friendly, and above all involve the customer in their choice of colour and facilitate their purchase. In addition, the ranges of colors available on the terminal have been greatly expanded while remaining simple to use for customers.
With this new interface, the customer can now choose their color in less than thirty minutes, imagine themselves in a room, and also share their mock-ups in real time with friends and family to get their feedback in order to validate their choice to trigger the purchase directly in the store.
The redesigned terminal interface has been updated in all test stores and a brand new terminal was installed for the opening of the new Leroy Merlin store in Le Havre in June 2015. In the next few months, the experience will be rolled out in more than fifteen other stores.
I really liked the rapidity and proximity in the collaboration with WAX Interactive. The 'back and forth' nature of our discussions made it possible for us to develop and act quickly to get what we wanted to visually. In addition, the WAX teams clearly knew how to make the technical vocabulary accessible, and above all we had a graphic designer during the meetings who adjusted the layout and showed us changes in real time which we noted for the interface!
Paintbox is a perfect example of connected commerce: combining the new opportunities created by the digital and dynamism of Leroy Merlin stores, terminals provide customers with high value-added services in the development project of their homes. | {
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Sydney Thunder terminate Fazalhaq Farooqi's contract
A 'behaviour' incident has trigged the Thunders and Cricket Australia to terminate his nine-match deal
Syndey Thunder have terminated the contract of Fazalhaq Farooqi, the Afghanistan pacer, with immediate effect after an incident triggered an investigation by Cricket Australia's Integrity Unit.
The team management of the Thunders received a complaint on Thursday, 15th December and referred the matter to Cricket Australia for further investigation.
The left-arm seamer has played three games for the Thunders in a nine-game deal as a replacement for David Willey, who withdrew from the tournament in November.
While there is no information on the incident that occurred, according to certain reports, this has been an off-field behaviour incident.
Cricket New South Wales CEO Lee Germon said, as quoted by cricket.com.au, "The behaviours displayed by Fazalhaq Farooqi sit outside our values, and it was determined that his contract be terminated."
"Our focus now is providing the necessary support to those affected by this incident," he further added.
The 22-year-old is known for his ability to nail the yorkers and bowl at the death, and this incident will come as a massive blow to the Thunders and the growth and development of the pacer.
Farooqi made his debut for the Thunders against Melbourne Stars and scalped two wickets for 20 runs in their one-wicket win in the opening clash of this edition of the Big Bash League.
Sydney Thunder vs Brisbane HeatBig Bash League, 2022/23Sydney ThunderFazalhaq Farooqi | {
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi
February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 ~ Nick Cohen
Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Nearly every page reeked of a sly attempt to sweeten dictatorship and cover up the murder it inevitably brings. It was greeted with deserved indifference.
As for Milne, two-years ago he was just another columnist in a newspaper industry that is stuffed with them. He provided a niche service on the Guardian by catering for a corner of the market that yearned to hear defences of 20th century Soviet Communism and 21st century Islamo-Fascism at the same time and for the same reasons. Now Milne is Jeremy Corbyn's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications. There is a faint chance he could be the most influential adviser in a Corbyn government, if Labour wins power. He won't go back to obscurity, if Labour loses, however. Milne will fight to ensure that the modern version of the Hitler-Stalin pact, the alliance of the red and the black, continues to control the opposition.
The cult of St Jeremy
February 4, 2019 ~ Nick Cohen
Observer, October, 2017
The few people not caught up in leader worship in Brighton asked how the cult of Jeremy Corbyn's personality would die. Would his support for Brexit drive his young admirers away? Have we reached peak Corbyn? They forgot the lesson of history that you don't worry about personality cults that fail. You worry when they succeed.
Manufacturing fake news
On 12 May, Robbie Travers sent Esme Allman, a fellow student at Edinburgh University, a Facebook message.
"Hey Esme, just to let you know multiple news agencies have been delivered [sic] your comments on calling black men trash. You might want to think about saying that in future, some have been linked it [sic] to neo-Nazism."
The ill-crafted words were at best half-truths and at worst outright lies. But there was a nugget of fact beneath them, which Travers could melt and remould. Allman had indeed said "trash". But the context, which Travers did not mention, could not have been further from neo-Nazism. Allman was in a Facebook group for black and ethnic minority students at Edinburgh. Its members talked about the abuse Serena Williams received when she announced she had fallen in love with a white man. Black men who insulted a black woman for marrying the love of her life were "trash", Allman declared. Harsh words, but understandable in the circumstances. Whatever their colour, trolls are trash, after all.
How I learned to leave the pub and love running
The Observer August 2017
Four years ago, I put on what I used to call my gym kit and went for my first run in decades. Two hundred metres in, pain shot through my ample, but I liked to think, still manly physique. It was as if a sniper had taken out my legs. Abandoning all thought of fitness, I hobbled home, wincing with every step.
One should try to grow old honestly. And for middle-aged men that includes facing up to self-delusions. For anyone brought up in the journalistic culture of the late 20th century, the greatest delusions were about health. All kinds of subconscious diversion strategies clicked in whenever it was suggested that perhaps we should think about leaving the pub occasionally and taking some exercise.
Anne Marie Waters and the lure of Islamophobia
It sounds like the start of a bad stand-up routine. An Irish lesbian feminist walks into Ukip's HQ and… And the Kippers walk out. Or at least three-quarters of Ukip's members of the European parliament say they will walk out if Anne Marie Waters becomes their new leader.
Brexit bullies turn on those sorting out their mess
The Observer May 2017
The racist right, it used to be said, wanted everyone to look the same, while the politically correct left wanted everyone to think the same. What unites the small and the dirty minded, however, is always more important than superficial ideological divisions. Now the worst of the right has become like the worst of the left. We must not only look like them but think like them.
The Shortest History of Germany review – probing an enigma at the heart of Europe
Observer April 2017
In AD843, Charlemagne's grandsons divided his empire like mafia bosses parcelling out territory. Louis received the land we were to later call Germany. A large part of it had been in the Roman empire, lying behind the Limes Germanicus, the great wall the Romans built to keep out the barbarians to the east. Cologne, Stuttgart, Vienna, Bonn, Mainz and Frankfurt, all the greatest cities of the future West Germany and Austria, with the exception of Hamburg, grew up within or in the immediate shadow of Rome's western empire.
Louis knew where his kingdom began – Germany began at the Rhine, of course. He knew, too, that at its heart were territories that were now Catholic lands and had once been part of the Roman empire. But where did Germany end? He wasn't sure, nor was anyone else. The Treaty of Verdun, which managed the partition, simply assigned Louis "everything beyond the Rhine". It left open the question of where "everything" stopped. Did Germany end at the Elbe, where Charlemagne's rule had stopped, or could it go on into the Slav lands to the east, whose rulers had paid tribute to Charlemagne?
James Hawes's sweeping and confident history shows how deep the division of Germany between west and east became as Teutonic knights, Junkers, Prussian militarists and Nazi imperialists all determined to establish an empire over the Slavs in the lands beyond the Elbe. | {
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HomeMusicEl baile de buey cansado (by Juan Formell y Los Van Van)
El baile de buey cansado
by Juan Formell y Los Van Van
The Tired Cow' this song is an attempt to create a new rhythm as the singer says, he looked at the movement of a tired cow and got the rhythm and inspiration from there. So if you don't know how to dance it, look at a tired cow. A bit quirky sound effects not very typical in Cuban music makes it rare and interesting
The Best of Juan Formell y los Van Van
This album is a personal selection of los Van Van's best work recorded between 1969 and 1990. The tracks were chosen by Tumi Music. The best of Los Van Van was released on Tumi Music label in 1996 and has their famous political hit " La Habana no aguanta mas"
Artist: Juan Formell y Los Van Van
Juan Formell y Los Van Van
Juan Formell
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Big mummy as she is called, is the serving Overseer of the New Wine Christian Centre. With a prophetic calling and passion for lost souls, she carries the mandate of reaching out and planting churches in rural villages and dwellings. With an apostolic background, she stepped into Ijegun land in 1995 at God's express instruction to preserve the harvest of the land. She is a mother and the sent in our midst who stands perpetually in the gap for God's children in prevailing prayers & intercessions. The ministry is blessed through God's enabling grace upon her life with signs and wonders. | {
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If we want to change the existing inequalities between genders, gender equality must include all, women and men, by addressing different needs and specific situations of individuals.
Živa Humer, born 1977 in Ljubljana, graduated in 2002 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Her thesis was awarded the Student's Prešeren's Acknowledgment. In 2004 she attained her MA at the Central European University in Budapest, Gender Studies program. The same year she continued with her PhD studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and in October 2009 she defended her PhD thesis Ethics of care, gender and family: the processes of the relocation of care between public and private spheres. The central points of attention are the processes of relocation of care and care practices within family life, between genders and within private and public spheres, with a strong emphasis on childcare and domestic work.
She has been engaged in various projects at the Peace Institute since her undergraduate studies, from 1996 onward. Since then she has been involved in various national and international projects, mainly in the field of gender studies, gender equality politics and social politics.
Hrženjak, Majda, Humer, Živa. Družbena delitev skrbstvenega dela: preizkusni kamen socialne pravičnosti in politik enakosti spolov. V: Tašner, Veronika (ur.), Lesar, Irena (ur.), Antić, Milica G. (ur.), Hlebec, Valentina (ur.), Pušnik, Mojca (ur.). Brez spopada : kultur, spolov, generacij. V Ljubljani: Pedagoška fakulteta, 2009, str. 179-191.
Hrženjak Majda, Humer, Živa, Kuhar, Roman. Fostering caring masculinities: Slovenian National Report. Ljubljana: Mirovni inštitut, 2006.
Humer, Živa. Tracing the Act on equal opportunities for women and men – the case of Slovenia. V: Sevenhuijsen, Selma (ur.), Švab, Alenka (ur.). The Heart of the matter: the contribution of the ethic of care to social policy in some new EU member states. Ljubljana: Mirovni inštitut, 2004, str. 123-146.
Humer, Živa. Care, justice and equality. An ethic of care and the Act on equal opportunities for women and men (the case of Slovenia) : M.A. Thesis. Budapest, 2004.
Humer, Živa, Sušnik, Mojca. Politika enakih možnosti žensk in moških brez medijske pozornosti. Medijska preža, nov. 2004, št. 20-21, str. 47-48. | {
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President Akufo-Addo yesterday received the letters of credence of five envoys.
They included Bril Vyacheslav from the Eastern European State of Belarus, Jyrki Juhani from the Northern European State of Finland, Amadu Taal from the Gambia, Imaani Ouaadil from Morroco and Natasha Halfhuid from the Southern American State of Suriname.
First on the list was the newly-assigned Morrocan Ambassador to Ghana, Imaani Ouaadil, who said she was looking forward to strengthening the economic relations that exist between Ghana and her country.
She said she would spare no effort in enhancing the bond of cooperation existing between the two governments and raise the Ghana-Morocco bilateral relations to a new high.
Ambassador Natasha Halfhuid of Suriname, in her address, observed that like Ghana, Suriname has huge reserves of rainforest with an abundance of freshwater conducive for faming and eco-tourism. Suriname, she added, is also rich in gold mines, bauxite with huge deposits of oil and gas.
"The abundance of all these resources presents to both Ghana and Surinarme a new chapter, as it relates to trade, investment and partnerships, providing us with immediate opportunities for strengthening our economic ties," Ambassador Halfhuid said.
President Akufo-Addo also stated that it would make economic sense for Ghana to liaise with Belarus to enhance the exploitation of her natural resources by tapping into the technological know- how of Belarus.
On his part, the Ambassador of the Eastern European State of Belarus, Bril Vyacheslav, indicated that Ghana is not only known as a country with huge economic potentials but is also considered to be the hub of the West African market.
To this end, Ambassador Vyacheslav said, "Belarus is highly motivated to intensify the development of trade and economic relations with the Republic of Ghana."
The Finnish Ambassador, Jyrki Juhani, touted the educational system in his country ? which, according to him, has seen a tremendous improvement ? one of the best in Europe.
He expressed his country's readiness to share with Ghana all the policies that have made her educational system a success.
President Akufo-Addo, in response, said government through the Education Ministry would be ready to send a delegation to Finland to gather first-hand information of the Finnish education system in order to apply same to improve Ghana's educational sector.
The last to present his credential was the Gambian High Commissioner to Ghana, Amadu Taal, who commended President Akufo-Addo for "the clear vision you have defined for the development of your country. We have no doubt that this developmental strategy is beginning to yield positive results in various sectors of the economy."
In welcoming all five envoys to Ghana, President Akufo-Addo wished them a successful tour of duty to Ghana.
He stressed the preparedness of officials of the Presidency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration to assist them in order to make their tour of duty a successful one.
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John Frederick Hinch (Lichfield, 19 de junio de 1947-29 de abril de 2021), fue un músico británico, conocido por haber sido baterista en la banda de heavy metal Judas Priest entre 1973 a 1975. Luego de su salida del grupo inglés participó en la misma labor con artistas como Uli Jon Roth y su hermano Zeno Roth, y también fue mánager de agrupaciones como Jameson Raid, Steel y The Bureau.
Carrera
Inició su carrera en 1968 en la banda de rock The Pinch, para luego tocar en The Generation y Bakerloo durante el año siguiente. En 1972 ingresó a Hiroshima, donde conoció al vocalista Rob Halford que posteriormente se uniría a Judas Priest. Al año siguiente y gracias al apoyo de Halford ingresó a Judas Priest, como reemplazo de Chris Campbell.
En la agrupación inglesa estuvo desde 1973 a 1975, en la cual participó en la grabación del álbum debut Rocka Rolla y en su respectiva gira. En septiembre de 1975 renunció por problemas con el resto de la banda, aunque Glenn Tipton afirmó que fue despedido por no tener el sonido apropiado para Judas Priest.
Durante los posteriores años inició su carrera como mánager de algunas bandas inglesas y se mantuvo alejado de la música como baterista. Una de sus últimas publicaciones públicas fue en una entrevista donde habló sobre los inicios y su paso por el grupo, que fue lanzado en el recopilatorio The Best of Judas Priest: Insight Series.
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Bateristas de Inglaterra
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Miembros de Judas Priest
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Trevor Haddrell
Trevor was born in South Yorkshire and trained at Bath Academy of Art.
As a teacher (Head of Art, then Head of Art & Design in Bristol schools) he taught many aspects of the subject and in the last ten years of his career developed an abiding enthusiasm for relief printing. From 2000 he became a professional artist to explore this passion further.
His favourite themes include cityscapes of UK and foreign cities, rooftop views and panoramas especially; theatres and opera houses including imagined on-stage scenes; natural forms including monumental studies of flowers, fruits and vegetables; a growing series of intimate cat studies; and purely abstract work. In addition to his black and white techniques with lino-cuts and wood engraving, Trevor works in pen and ink, watercolour, pastel and acrylic.
One print, the first of a set of large-scale panoramic engravings of Bristol, won a major prize for outstanding merit in the National Print Show (RWA, 1997): another won a prize in 2006. He has become an elected member of the Society of Wood Engravers. He was Artist in Residence at the Records Office in Bristol in 2005 when he produced his largest engraving, a rooftop view over 8 feet in length. He has now produced well over 100 different views of Bristol and environs.
Trevor has had many shared and one-man shows in Bristol and exhibits regularly in the Society of Wood Engravers annual touring exhibitions, at the Royal West of England Academy, the Museum of Garden History and at the Bankside Gallery, London and at the White Lion Street Gallery, Tenby. He has shown his work at other venues around the UK and also in America.
His work is held in permanent public collections at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and the Theatre Collection at Bristol University, and has been published in various books of engravings.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Ever since its discovery, graphene\cite{Novoselov1} has shown a great potential for applications
in nano-technology\cite{Katsnelson, Novoselov2, Zhang, Nair}, especially in electronic
transport\cite{elec-graphene}. Studies of superconductivity in graphite intercalation
compounds (GICs)\cite{Hannay, Koike, Kobayashi, Alexander, Iye, Al-Jishi0, Emery1, Weller, Emery2, Walters},
recent experimental evidence of a superconducting state in graphite-sulfur
composites\cite{daSilva, Moehlecke}, and the growing interest in superconducting
nano-devices\cite{qd, set, jj} have motivated theoretical investigation of possible
superconductivity in the two-dimensional graphene
systems\cite{Uchoa, Zhao, Black, Honerkamp, Kopnin, Gonzalez, Loktev}.
Single- and few-layer graphene may exhibit a superconducting state upon adatom deposition or intercalation.
As in the case of alkali-metal and alkaline-earth GICs, superconductivity in modified-graphene systems can
be explained by the electron-phonon coupling enhancement that arises from the presence of an
intercalant-derived band as well as graphitic $\pi$-bands at the Fermi level\cite{Al-Jishi0, Al-Jishi1, Al-Jishi2}.
Theoretical studies within the density functional theory (DFT) framework were conducted on
single- and few-layer graphene systems with intercalated and deposited dopants.
The electron-phonon coupling parameter $\lambda$ was found to be $0.60$ and $0.80$,
respectively, in calcium intercalated graphene bilayers and trilayers.
The superconducting transition temperature T$_c$ was estimated to be $4.1$ K for
Ca-intercalated bilayer and $10.1$ K for Ca-intercalated trilayer\cite{Jishi3}.
Recently, the possibility of a superconducting state in lithium covered graphene monolayers
was discussed by Profeta {\it et al.} \cite{Lidepo}. They argued that removal of quantum
confinement, in going from LiC$_6$ GIC to Li-covered monolayer graphene, could bring the Li-derived
states down in energy to the Fermi level. This enhances the electron-phonon coupling strength,
making Li-covered single-layer graphene a superconductor at T$_{c}=8.1$ K.
The recent fabrication of lithium intercalated graphene bilayer \cite{sugawara} raises the question
of whether this two-dimensional material would also exhibit a superconducting state. In addition,
the possibility of a further enhancement of the electron-phonon coupling strength in few-layer
graphene systems intercalated with lithium, remains an open issue.
In this work, we study the effect of increasing number of Li-doped graphene layers on the
electron-phonon coupling strength via first-principles density functional theory.
Details of our methods are presented in Section \ref{sec:meths}. The electronic structure of
lithium covered graphene and lithium intercalated graphene layers is calculated.
It is found that only Li-covered graphene systems exhibit a coexistence of
Li-derived $s$-bands and graphitic $\pi$-bands at the Fermi level. In the case of
Li-intercalated graphene systems, the interlayer band (derived from Li states) is unoccupied.
From the vibrational modes and electron-phonon coupling calculations we find that a significant
coupling of electrons to out-of-plane vibrations is necessary to achieve a significant
enhancement of the total electron-phonon coupling strength.
In Section \ref{sec:systems} we describe the crystal structure of the Li-doped graphene
systems investigated in this work, and in Section \ref{sec:meths} details of the methods
of calculation are presented.
The results of the electronic structure and vibrational modes calculations are presented
and discussed in Section \ref{sec:elec} and \ref{sec:mode}, respectively.
Conclusions are given in Section \ref{sec:con}.
\section{Crystal Structure}
\label{sec:systems}
Systems consisting of equal numbers of graphene and lithium layers (Li-covered graphene)
and lithium intercalated graphene layers were systematically analyzed from first-principles.
Calculations of the electronic structure and vibrational modes were carried out on systems
of up to four lithium and four graphene layers for Li-covered graphene and up to two
lithium and three graphene layers for Li-intercalated graphene layers. In all the cases
considered, the unit cell is a $(\sqrt{3}a\times\sqrt{3}a)\ R\ 30^\circ$ supercell of
the graphene sheet unit cell. In agreement with the stage-1 Li-GIC, the carbon layer
stacking is taken to be $AAAA$. The separation between adjacent carbon and Li
layers is set at $1.855$ \AA, similar to the corresponding value in Li GICs.
The in-plane lattice constants are $a=b=4.33$ \AA. Since the DFT calculations are
carried out on a 3-dimensional crystal, the $c$-lattice constant is taken to be
sufficiently large so as to render the system, in effect, two-dimensional.
For systems of the form C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li and C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li-C$_6$, two stacking
configuration for the Li layers were considered. In one configuration,
Li atoms in both layers
sit above the hollow sites of the graphene layer which are
labeled $\alpha$ (see Fig. \ref{fig:abc}). The stackings for C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li and C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li-C$_6$ are
$A\alpha A\alpha$ and $A\alpha A\alpha A$, respectively. In this configuration,
C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li and C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li-C$_6$ will be simply denoted as
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$ and C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$C$_6$, respectively.
In the other configuration, whereas the Li atoms between the first and second graphene layers
occupy positions labeled $\alpha$, the Li atoms above the second carbon layer occupy
positions labeled $\beta$. In this case, the two Li layers are not directly above each other;
the second layer is shifted, relative to the first, by a lattice vector of the graphene sheet.
In this configuration, the stacking sequence is $A\alpha A\beta$ for the Li-covered system,
and $A\alpha A\beta A$ for the intercalated system. In this configuration, the Li-covered
system will be denoted as C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$, while the intercalated system will be
written as C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$C$_6$.
For structures with three Li layers, two stacking configurations were considered.
The first, in which the three Li layers are directly above each other, is
$A\alpha A\alpha A\alpha$. The corresponding system, C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li-C$_6$-Li,
will be denoted as C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha}$.
In the second configuration, the Li atoms between the first and second graphene layers
occupy the hollow sites labeled $\alpha$, those between the second and third graphene
layers sit in hollow sites labeled $\beta$, and those above the third graphene layer
occupy sites labeled $\gamma$. The third layer of Li adatoms is shifted,
relative to the second Li layer, by a lattice vector of the graphene sheet.
The stacking is of the form
$A\alpha A\beta A\gamma$, and the Li-covered system is denoted by C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics{honeyabc}
\caption{(Color online) The graphene sites labeled $\alpha$, $\beta$, and $\gamma$. In the
Li-covered system denoted by C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$, Li atoms sit over the $\alpha$-sites
of the first graphene sheet, over the $\beta$-sites of the second graphene sheet, and over the
$\gamma$-sites of the third graphene sheet.}
\label{fig:abc}
\end{figure}
\section{Methods}
\label{sec:meths}
The reported total energy and electronic structure were obtained from
density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the all-electron,
full-potential, linear augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method as implemented in the
WIEN2K code \cite{WIEN2K}. The exchange-correlation potential was calculated using
the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) as proposed by Perdew, Burke,
and Ernzerhof \cite{PBE}. The radii of the muffin-tin spheres for the carbon and
lithium atoms were taken as 1.36$a_0$ and 2.21$a_0$, respectively,
where $a_0$ is the Bohr radius. The product R$_{MT}$K$_{max}$ was set to $7$,
where R$_{MT}$ is the smallest muffin-tin radius and K$_{max}$ is a cutoff wave vector.
The valence electrons wave functions inside the muffin-tin spheres were expanded in terms
of spherical harmonics up to $l_{max}=10$, and in terms of plane waves with a
cutoff wave vector K$_{max}$ in the interstitial region. The charge density was
Fourier expanded up to a maximum wave vector G$_{max}=13a_0^{-1}$.
Convergence of the self-consistent field calculations was attained with a total
energy convergence tolerance of $0.1\ mRy$ and a total charge convergence tolerance of $0.0001\ e$.
The frequencies of the vibrational modes and the electron-phonon coupling parameter
were calculated using the QUANTUM-ESPRESSO\cite{QE} package with norm-conserving pseudopotentials.
The valence electrons wave functions and the charge density were expanded in
plane waves using $40\ Ry$ and $300\ Ry$ energy cutoffs, respectively. The phonon frequencies
were calculated within the linear-response framework on an $8 \times 8 \times 1$
phonon-momentum mesh with a $16 \times 16 \times 1$ uniform electron-momentum mesh.
For the calculation of the electronic density of states and the electron-phonon coupling
strength, a uniform $40 \times 40 \times 1$ $\mathbf{k}$-point mesh in the Brillouin zone was used.
The Eliashberg spectral function $\alpha^2F(\omega)$ is given by
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn:eliashberg}
\alpha^2F(\omega)=\frac{1}{N(0)N_kN_q}
\sum_{n\mathbf{k},m\mathbf{q},\nu}|g^\nu_{n\mathbf{k},m\mathbf{k}+
\mathbf{q}}|^2 \times \delta(\varepsilon_{n\mathbf{k}})\delta(\varepsilon_{m\mathbf{k}+\mathbf{q}})
\delta(\hbar\omega-\hbar\omega^\nu_{\mathbf{q}})
\end{equation}
where $N(0)$ is the total density of states at the Fermi level, and $N_k$ and $N_q$ are the total
number of $\mathbf{k}$- and $\mathbf{q}$-points, respectively. In the above equation,
$\varepsilon_{n\mathbf{k}}$ is the energy, measured from the Fermi level, of an electron with
wave vector $\mathbf{k}$ in energy band $n$, $\omega_\mathbf{q}^\nu$ is the frequency of a phonon with
wave vector $\mathbf{q}$ and branch index $\nu$, and $g^\nu_{n\mathbf{k},m\mathbf{k}+\mathbf{q}}$
is the matrix element of the electron-phonon interaction.
The coupling strength of electrons to all phonon modes with frequencies below $\omega$ is
defined as
\begin{equation}
\label{lambda}
\lambda(\omega)=2\int_0^\omega\frac{\alpha^2F(\omega')}{\omega'}\ d\omega'
\end{equation}
The total electron-phonon coupling is calculated as $\lambda(\omega\to\infty)$.
The values of the superconducting transition temperature were computed using the
Allen-Dynes \cite{Allen-Dynes} modification of the McMillan formula \cite{Mcmillan},
\begin{equation}
\label{allendynes}
kT_c=\frac{\hbar\omega_{log}}{1.2}exp\left[\frac{-1.04(1+\lambda)}{\lambda-\mu^*(1+0.62\lambda)}\right]
\end{equation}
where $\omega_{log}$ is the phonon logarithmic average frequency.
The screened Coulomb pseudopotential \cite{Morel} $\mu^*$ was taken as $0.115$.
\section{Electronic Structure}
\label{sec:elec}
In Figures \ref{fig:elec-c6li} and \ref{fig:elec-c6lic6} we present the energy band
dispersion and density of states (DOS) of lithium-covered graphene layer (C$_6$Li)
and lithium-intercalated graphene bilayer (C$_6$LiC$_6$),
respectively. By inspection of the band-structure of C$_6$LiC$_6$, we notice that the
interlayer band (derived from Li states) at the Fermi level is empty, as is the case
in stage-1 Li-GIC, which is not a superconductor. In the case of C$_6$LiC$_6$,
the $c$-direction confinement, imposed by the top and bottom graphene layers, keeps
the interlayer band from being occupied. As Figure 3a reveals, the bottom of the
Li-derived band is $\sim 1.75$ eV above the Fermi energy.
Based on these grounds, any further increase in the number of layers will not
create new Li-derived states at the Fermi level.
In the case of Li-covered graphene, we see that the Fermi level is crossed by an $s$-band
derived from Li states. The removal of the top graphene layer has the effect of bringing down the energy of
the Li-derived band to the Fermi level; this suggests that there is a partial charge transfer from
the Li atoms to the carbon sheet. The amount of charge transferred from each Li atom
is calculated using Bader's quantum theory of ``atoms in molecules'' \cite{AIM}, and the
results are presented in Table \ref{tab:aim}. The table reveals that there are two values
of the charge transfer: 0.69 electrons (partial transfer) from an Li atom in the outer layer,
and 0.88 electrons (almost complete transfer)
from an Li atom in an inner layer surrounded by two graphene layers. As in the case of GICs \cite{Csanyi},
the presence of an adatom band at the Fermi level increases the number of carriers,
promotes electron coupling to the low energy carbon atoms out-of-plane vibrations, and generates coupling
to the adatom vibrations. \cite{Calandra1}.
\begin{table}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}
\caption{Charge transfer ($e^-$ per Li atom) from lithium atoms to graphene planes calculated
using Bader's ``atoms in molecules'' (AIM) method for selected systems. For the Li-covered
graphene systems with more than one lithium layer, the reported charge transfer is from Li
atoms in the outer layer.}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c |c c }
\hline
Structure & Charge Transfer ($e^-$/Li) & Structure & Charge Transfer ($e^-$/Li) \\
\hline
C$_6$Li & 0.6847 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ & 0.6931 \\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.6922 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ & 0.6892 \\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.6898 & C$_6$LiC$_{6}$ & 0.8784 \\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.6894 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$C$_{6}$ & 0.8803 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:aim}
\end{table}
In Figure \ref{fig:elec-c6li}(c) the partial density of states (PDOS) and the total DOS of C$_6$Li
are compared. The total density of states is the sum of the atomic densities of states and
the density of states in the interstitial region. It is important to note that the Li-projected
DOS comes predominantly from the $s$-band. The LAPW method projects the DOS onto the
muffin-tin spheres, yielding the atomic densities of states; the rest of the total DOS
is assigned to the interstitial region. Figure 2c shows that a substantial portion
of the DOS results from the interstitial region. Since the interstitial space in this structure is
mainly the space between the Li muffin-tin spheres, the contribution
of the Li-derived $s$-band to the total DOS is comparable to that from the graphitic $\pi$ bands.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics{C6Li_band_dos}
\caption{(Color online) Plot of the energy bands ((a) and (b)) and density of states (c) in
Li-covered graphene layer C$_6$Li along high symmetry directions in the Brillouin zone.
The width of the bands at every $\mathbf{k}$-point is proportional to the contribution of
(a) Li-derived states, and (b) C-derived states. The Fermi level is set at zero energy.}
\label{fig:elec-c6li}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics{C6LiC6_band_dos}
\caption{(Color online) Plot of the energy bands ((a) and (b)) and density of states (c) in
Li-intercalated graphene bilayer C$_6$LiC$_6$ along high symmetry directions in the Brillouin zone.
The width of the bands at every $\mathbf{k}$-point is proportional to the contribution
of (a) Li-derived states, and (b) C-derived states. The Fermi level is set at zero energy.}
\label{fig:elec-c6lic6}
\end{figure}
We now focus on Li-covered and Li-intercalated graphene systems with two and three lithium layers.
As discussed before (Sec. \ref{sec:systems}), we considered two stacking configurations when
dealing with more than one lithium layer.
The first issue to address is to determine which stacking configuration yields a more stable structure.
To study this, we carried out total energy calculations for the Li-covered and the
Li-intercalated systems considered in this work. In all cases, we found that the lowest energy is obtained
when the Li atoms of different layers sit directly above each other, so the Li layers
are not shifted with respect to each other. In the case of Li-covered graphene layers,
the structure C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$ is lower in energy than its counterpart
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ by 19.45 $meV$ per unit cell, the energy of
C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha}$ is lower than C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ by
41.95 $meV$ per unit cell. In the case of Li-intercalated graphene layers, the structure
C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$C$_6$ is lower in energy than
C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$C$_6$ by 20.42 $meV$ per unit cell.
Although it is concluded that it is energetically favorable for the lithium atoms of different
layers to sit in equivalent hollow sites (Li stacking $\alpha\alpha\alpha$), there is some
experimental evidence (Ref. \cite{Dresselhaus} and references therein) that at low temperatures
the lithium intercalant layers in stage-1 LiC$_6$ GIC are sequentially arranged as $\alpha\beta\gamma$.
For this reason we continue the comparative study of all structures
regardless of their stacking configuration.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics{C6Li_ab_band_dos}
\caption{(Color online) Plot of the energy bands ((a) and (b)) and density of states (c)
in Li-covered graphene C$_{6}$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ along a high symmetry path in the Brillouin zone.
The width of the bands in (a) is proportional to the the contribution of the orbitals of
the outer Li layer, while in (b) it is proportional to the contribution of the orbitals of the
carbon atoms in the graphene layer adjacent to the outside Li layer.
The Fermi level is set at zero energy.}
\label{fig:elec-c6liab}
\end{figure}
Figure \ref{fig:elec-c6liab} shows the calculated band structure and DOS of C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$.
In similarity to the the C$_6$Li monolayer case, there is a lithium $s$-band
as well as graphitic $\pi$-bands crossing the Fermi level simultaneously. We note that
the $s$-band is derived from orbitals of the Li atoms lying in the outer Li layer. We also
note that there is a substantial increase in the density of states at the Fermi level
in comparison with the C$_6$Li case. In the C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ unit cell,
there are two inequivalent Li atoms and two inequivalent C atoms. The atomic densities
of states shown in Fig. \ref{fig:elec-c6liab} are for the outer layer Li atoms and the C
atoms in the adjacent layer.
We have also calculated the electronic structure of C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$
(plots of the energy bands and DOS for this structure are provided in the supplementary material).
As expected from the previous case (C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$), in addition to the graphitic
$\pi$-bands, the Fermi level is crossed only by
the band derived from the orbitals of the atoms of the outer lithium layer. We note
the existence of a substantial increase in the DOS at the Fermi level relative to C$_6$Li,
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$, and C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$. Analysis of the PDOS, projected on the
carbon states and lithium states, reveal that the main contribution to the total DOS
results mainly from the carbon muffin-tin and interstitial regions.
In the case of the Li-intercalated system denoted by C$_6$Li$_{\alpha}$C$_6$Li$_\beta$C$_6$,
the interlayer bands are not occupied, and superconductivity is suppressed in this material,
as we will demonstrate in Section \ref{sec:mode} by the computating the electron-phonon
coupling and estimating the superconducting transition temperature. The energy bands and DOS
for this system are given in the supplementary material.
\section{Vibrational Modes and Electron-Phonon Coupling}
\label{sec:mode}
In Section \ref{sec:elec} we found that only Li-covered graphene systems exhibit a coexistence of
graphitic $\pi$-states and lithium-derived $s$-states at the Fermi level. We also noted that
$c$-direction confinement produced by the graphene layers push the bands derived from inner
lithium atoms to energies well above the Fermi level. This means that only one Li-derived band
crosses the Fermi level regardless of the number of Li-covered graphene layers. In addition,
the total density of states at the Fermi energy in Li-covered graphene systems increases
as the number of lithium layers increase,
a fact that could be relevant for the enhancement of the electron-phonon coupling strength.
However, when the number of Li layers is large, the Li-covered graphene system, with
equal number of Li and graphene layers, begins to look like stage-1 Li GIC, which is not
a superconductor. We conclude that there is an optimal number of Li layers which leads
to the highest possible $T_C$ in these systems.
To this end, we present in this section electron-phonon coupling calculations for
various Li-covered graphene systems, as well as the Li-intercalated graphene bilayer.
The phonon dispersion curves for Li-covered and Li-intercalated graphene systems can be divided
into three regions: a high energy region ($\omega_{\mathbf{q}\nu}>830\ cm^{-1}$) composed of in-plane
carbon-vibration (C$_{xy}$), an intermediate region ($430\ cm^{-1}<\omega_{\mathbf{q}\nu}<830\ cm^{-1}$)
composed of out-of-plane carbon-vibration (C$_z$), and a low energy
region ($\omega_{\mathbf{q}\nu}<430\ cm^{-1}$) mostly composed of in-plane (Li$_{xy}$) and
out-of-plane (Li$_{z}$) vibrations. It turns out that the low energy branches related to
Li$_{xy}$ and Li$_z$, and their mixture with C$_z$, make the greatest contribution to the
electron-phonon coupling parameter.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{PHdis}
\caption{(Color online) Phonon frequency dispersion and phonon density of states of
C$_6$Li (top left), C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ (top right), and C$_6$LiC$_6$ (bottom).}
\label{fig:phon-c6liall}
\end{figure}
In Figure \ref{fig:phon-c6liall} we present the phonon dispersion curves and the phonon
density of states (PHDOS) in the Li-covered graphene systems C$_6$Li and C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$,
and the Li-intercalated graphene bilayer C$_6$LiC$_6$. In the case of C$_6$LiC$_6$, the lowest
energy branch
is hardened compared C$_6$Li.
Going from C$_6$Li to C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$, the lowest energy branch
(corresponding to Li$_{xy}$-vibrations) in the $\Gamma K$ direction is softened, while branches
immediately above (corresponding to Li$_z$) are hardened. We also note that the lowest energy
branch in C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ (shown in the supplementary material) is slightly hardened
relative to C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$; this may explain the fact that the electron-phonon coupling is
stronger in C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ than in C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$, as we will see shortly.
As a final note, we do not observe any significant effect on the high energy branches due to the
increasing number of Li layers in Li-covered graphene systems.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includegraphics{Eliashberg}
\caption{(Color online) Eliashberg function $\alpha^2F(\omega)$ (continuous black line) and integrated
electron-phonon coupling parameter $\lambda(\omega)$ (blue dashed line) for
C$_6$Li (top left), C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ (top right), and C$_6$LiC$_6$ (bottom).}
\label{fig:alphaFc6liall}
\end{figure}
The Eliashberg function $\alpha^2F(\omega)$, plotted in Figure \ref{fig:alphaFc6liall},
gives the contribution of each frequency to the total electron-phonon coupling constant $\lambda$
(see Sec. \ref{sec:meths}). In all cases we observe a considerable contribution to the total
electron-phonon coupling from the carbon-carbon stretching modes, which are high in energy
($\omega_{\mathbf{q}\nu}>1000\ cm^{-1}$). More importantly, a substantial contribution to the
electron-phonon coupling from the Li modes and C out-of-plane vibrational modes is observed
in all the Li-covered graphene systems. However, in the case of C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ this
contribution is significantly larger than that in C$_6$Li, C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$,
and C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ (the last two are shown in the supplementary material).
For completeness' sake, we also show the Eliashberg function for C$_6$LiC$_6$ where we notice a
weak coupling of electrons to the Li modes and C out-of-plane modes. This weak contribution in
the Li-intercalated graphene bilayer is detrimental to the overall electron-phonon coupling
parameter $\lambda$, which was calculated to be 0.29.
The calculated total electron-phonon coupling parameter $\lambda$ for C$_6$Li is 0.55 with an estimated
T$_c$ of 6.67 K. In the case of C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$ we calculated $\lambda=$0.65 and
T$_c$=10.88K, for C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ we obtained $\lambda=$0.86 and T$_c$=13.54 K, and
for C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ we found that $\lambda$ is 0.57 and the estimated T$_c$ is 8.41 K.
The results of the electron-phonon coupling calculations are summarized in Table \ref{tab:lambda}.
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{{Summary of the electron-phonon coupling parameter ($\lambda$), logarithmic average
frequency ($\omega_{log}$) and $T_c$ for all the studied systems.}}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c||c c c c}
\hline
Structure & $\lambda$ & $\omega_{log}$ ($cm^{-1}$) & T$_c$ (K) & Structure & $\lambda$ & $\omega_{log}$ ($cm^{-1}$) & T$_c$ (K) \\
\hline
C$_6$Li & 0.55 & 320.4 & 6.67 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$ & 0.86 & 194.3 & 13.54\\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.65 & 308.2 & 10.88 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma}$ & 0.57 & 357.8 & 8.41\\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.56 & 296.7 & 6.60 & C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta\gamma\alpha}$ & 0.46 & 469.0 & 3.22\\
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\alpha\alpha\alpha}$ & 0.49 & 373.4 & 4.56 & C$_6$LiC$_{6}$ & 0.29 & 898.4 & 0.171\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:lambda}
\end{table}
\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:con}
In this work, we presented the results of calculations of the electronic structure and
electron-phonon interaction for several configurations of graphene-lithium systems. We
assessed the structural stability and the strength of the electron-phonon coupling with
respect to the stacking sequence and number of layers of lithium adatoms and the graphene sheets.
We found that in all studied cases, the structures were stable, but the ones that yield the lowest
energy were those where the Li adatom would sit in equivalent hollow sites; that is, with Li
stacking of the form $\alpha\alpha$, $\alpha\alpha\alpha$, and $\alpha\alpha\alpha\alpha$.
Structural stability of the systems was later confirmed with the calculation of the phonon
dispersion curves, which do not show the presence of any imaginary frequencies. We found that,
in contrast to the corresponding GICs, Li-covered graphene systems exhibit an incomplete charge
transfer from the lithium atoms to the graphene planes, giving rise to a lithium-derived band
which crosses the Fermi level simultaneously with graphitic $\pi$-bands. This enhances the
electron-phonon coupling strength, which was found to be highest for the structure
C$_6$Li$_{\alpha\beta}$. The calculated $\lambda$ for this structure was found to be $0.86$
with an average logarithmic frequency $\omega_{log}=194.3$ cm$^{-1}$ and a critical
superconducting transition temperature T$_c=13.54$ K. The optimal value of T$_C$ is thus
obtained for a system consisting of two graphene layers and two lithium layers.
One of the authors (RAJ) gratefully acknowledges support by NSF under grant No. HRD-0932421.
DMG would like to thank the CSULA-MORE programs and CSU-LSAMP fellowship for their support
under grant No. HRD-1026102-518741.
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CEO - WA Foundation for Deaf Children
Lynne van Olden has experience working in the private and not for profit sector in a variety of roles and has qualifications in environmental health science, social impact and business management. Lynne is passionate about social justice and feels privileged to work with Deafness Council WA. Since 2005, her role as Chief Executive Officer for the WA Foundation for Deaf Children has enabled her and a passionate and dedicated team to positively influence the lives of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, the Foundation has developed into an innovative, creative and highly competent organisation supporting families through their journey.
Miliza Cruz
Audiology Account Manager, Cochlear Limited
Meliza's passion for hearing is reflected in the various roles she held in the last fourteen years with Cochlear: providing Clinical Education in Asia Pacific, supporting the set up of various Cochlear implant programs in Southeast Asia, and leading introduction of Connected Care portfolio in Asia Pacific markets. She was President of the Society for Audiology Professionals Singapore (SAPS) from 2009-2011. Meliza moved from Singapore to Western Australia in 2018 to join Cochlear ANZ team. In her current role, she supports the various Cochlear and Baha implant programs across Western Australia. She closely collaborates with hearing care partners to better understand the needs in advancing hearing health and deliver best outcomes for people seeking hearing solutions. Meliza holds a Master of Clinical Audiology degree from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor in Speech Pathology from the University of the Philippines. She was an Assistant Professor at the College of Allied Medical Professions University of the Philippines, prior to joining Cochlear.
Phillip Parkes
Principal, Shenton College Deaf Education Centre
Phillip Parkes began his appointment as Principal of Shenton college Deaf Education Centre in July 2021. His previous experience includes Program Coordinator for Deaf Education at Belmont City College, Visiting Teacher of the Deaf in Perth and advising schools in the Pilbara and Central West to support Aboriginal students with Otitis Media. Phillip's teaching career began as a classroom teacher at Neerigen Brook Primary School. Previously Phillip served in the Royal Australian Navy for 16 Years. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), a Grad Dip in Primary Education and finally a Masters of Special Needs Education – Deaf and hard of hearing. Phillip encourages working cooperatively and collaboratively with the staff, families and community to provide the best educational and well-being outcomes for each student. He believes that every Deaf and hard of hearing student should enjoy school, be successful and have access to educational and vocational opportunities.
Becky Kirby
Clinical Coach, Hearing Australia
Becky Kirby is a senior audiologist and the WA clinical coach for Hearing Australia. She has experience providing diagnostic and rehabilitative hearing services to paediatric and adult clients. Growing up in a small wheatbelt town and undertaking regular trips to the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, she has a passion for improving access to services and hearing outcomes in rural/remote communities, especially for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Becky is committed to training and upskilling her clinical team to ensure consistent quality care is offered to all clients and individual hearing goals are achieved.
Bronwyn Birch
Teacher of the Deaf (TOD)
Bronwyn has been a Teacher of the Deaf (TOD) for over 40 years spending most of her working career at Telethon Speech and Hearing. In 2009, she became a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) Cert Auditory Verbal therapist through AG Bell in America. In 2014 Bronwyn started working with families with deaf children in their homes, as an AVT, and an NDIS provider, 'Auditory-Verbal Western Australia' (AVWA). Bronwyn also works at SSEN; S as a Visiting Teacher of the Deaf. She is the Chairperson & National Rep.of the Australian Association of Teachers of the Deaf WA (AATD WA). She represents WA Teachers of the Deaf when attending the Deafness Council meetings.
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Chairperson, Audiology Australia WA Chapter
Alison Cook PhD MClinAud B.Sc(Hons) BMus MAudA(CCP) represents the WA Chapter of Audiology Australia. She is currently Paediatric Specialist Audiologist (Perth) with Hearing Australia, and also travels with the Hearing Australia HAPEE program providing paediatric diagnostic audiological services to remote indigenous communities across WA. Previously a university academic lecturing in Paediatric Audiology, Dr Cook has a demonstrated commitment to establishing and maintaining standards of teaching and practice of Clinical Audiology. Her research background is in cochlear mechanics, cochlear autoregulation and instrumentation, and clinical electrophysiology ranging from the objective diagnostic assessment of infants and young children, to intra-operative monitoring during ear and skull-base surgery.
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EVSC » About Us » News Archive » 2016 » January » Little Mermaid Set as Summer Musical
The Public Education Foundation and Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation announced today (01-20-2016) their 28th Annual Summer Musical: Disney's The Little Mermaid, to be presented July 14-17, 2016 in the Aiken Theatre at Old National Events Plaza in downtown Evansville. Show times are July 14, 15 and 16 (Thursday – Saturday) at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for all ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, this fishy fable will capture the hearts of both young and old with its irresistible songs including "Under the Sea," "Kiss the Girl," and "Part of Your World." - See more at:
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All Tri-State students currently in Grades 7-12 are invited to participate in auditions, which will be held April 5 and 6 from 3:30-7:30 p.m. in the performing arts center at the Academy for Innovative Studies – Diamond Avenue. Callbacks will be on Thursday, April 7, 3:30-8:00 p.m., also at AIS Diamond.
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The company's board endorsed a management recommendation to make the water available to mitigate the dire circumstances being faced by its predominantly family-farm customer base.
The distribution, which has a current market value of about $28 million, has been made on the back of a Department of Industry-Water (DoI-W) announcement earlier today that the allocation of water to farmers holding general security water licences would remain at zero for the year.
The DoI-W announcement has crushed the hopes of many Murray Irrigation customers who had relied on forecasts by the department early in the season of an allocation of up to 14 percent this month (February).
Since that forecast, both the DoI-W and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) have run the system at a rate that has generated what company Chairman and farmer Phil Snowden believes are extraordinary and excessive losses that have deprived customers of what could amount to 200GL or as much as 400GL of water.
"We first raised the issue formally with the NSW Minister's office in early December and it prompted him to ask his department for a review of losses, where they were attributed and how it might be improved," Mr Snowden said.
"As late as last week, we were advised by the MDBA that it was contributing to that Ministerial response and that Murray Irrigation would be provided with a briefing note in time for most of its meetings with customers later this month," he said.
If confirmed, the loss of 200GL to irrigated agriculture would add further to calls for scrutiny of the water management decisions made by MDBA and DoI-W.
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RUDN Journal of Law
Vestnik Rossiiskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Seriya: Yuridicheskie nauki
Keywords European Union Russia Russian Federation civil society comparative law constitution constitutional law democracy globalization human rights integration international law law legal culture legal regulation legal system legislation local government public administration sports law state
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No 3 (2016)
URL: http://journals.rudn.ru/law/issue/view/897
Model of Legal Progress: from "Evolution" to "Explosion"
Beljaev M.A.
This article is devoted to legal progress and metaphors, which describes it. The author proposes to analyze two metaphors - "evolution" and "explosion". These quasi-concepts are relevant to the study of dialectical interaction between quantity and quality. Thereby most abstract level of philosophical methodology will be applied to the juridicial issues. According to author's statement, each scientific concept has epistemic and social grounds. Former bound concept with cognitive aspect of legal activity, latter describe communicative characteristics of actors, which activities changed the legal system. As a result, the following conclusions were obtained. On the one hand, because the law has system-ordered configuration and predictable effects, its development can be called "evolution". On the other hand, since the development of the law is often intermittent, chaotic, unpredictable, it has rightly been compared with the explosion. It is shown that these metaphors reflected of different models of social reality. Different images of social world exists because actors, which created it, occupy different functional position in the structure of society. In this sense, the evolutionary model corresponds to the position of law enforcers, and chaotic - the position of independent theorists. The paradox lies in the fact that in law necessity and contingency coexist peacefully. Thus, the science does not yet have a universal scheme of quantitative and qualitative changes connected in the law. For any specific research tasks to design this connection again, that requires taking into account the mass of cultural, psychological and anthropological data.
RUDN Journal of Law. 2016;(3):9-20
Anti-corruption Expertise of the Territorial Entities of the Russian Federation Normative Legal Acts: Practice of Realization
Rostova O.S.
The aim of the article is the complex analyses of the regional legislation applicable to the anticorruption expertise of regulations projects of the territorial entities of the Russian Federation. The article reviewed the characteristic features of the procedure of anti-corruption expertise of regulations of the territorial entities of the Russian Federation. The author proves the role of anticorruption expertise as one of the key elements of the regional law-making activity. Comparative study of the notion "anti-corruption examination" due to the regional regulations is given in the article. The analysis of the notion "anticorruption expertise" due to the regional regulations is given in the article as well as its types and essence. The author deals the anticorruption examination as one of the corruption prevention measures of the anti-corruption legal policy of the Russian Federation as well as the stage of the legal expertise of the regulations (and its projects) gained its quality and principle of legality improvement. This article analyzes the federal and region legislation regulated the examination of the legislation. The author proves the problems of realization of this institute due to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation practice and statistics. This article discusses some problems occurring in modern practice of anticorruption expertise dealing with regional law acts and their projects. Also gives a comparative analysis of the law-making bodies' activity and neutral evaluation. The article gives the author's position about the necessity for the law making process of the territorial and municipal entities of the Russian Federation improvement, which includes special measures of organizational and legal character and methodical supports in order to provide the effectiveness of the lawmaking process of the territorial and municipal entities of the Russian Federation.
RUDN Journal of Law. 2016;(3):21-31
The Public Interest as Constitutionality of Laws Criterion: French Doctrine and Practice
Kalish D.B.
The article is devoted to genesis, doctrinal interpretation and practical application of the concept of the public interest in French law. The modern interpretation of the public interest goes back to the concept of the common will J.-J. Rousseau. French doctrine does not consider the public interest as a set of private interests, but on the contrary, opposes it to them. The public interest is understood as the common will of the nation and has priority over the interests of individuals. Public interest is both a base, and a restriction of the activities of public authorities, which should ensure its implementation, but can not act beyond necessity for that. The French Conseil d'État and administrative courts used the concept of public interest in order to control the legality of public administration activity. The act of executive authority, pursuing goals that do not meet the public interest, recognized as illegal and subject to cancellation. On the basis of analysis of decisions of the Constitutional Council and researches of French lawyers the author justifies the assertion according to which the public interest is considered one of criteria applied for assessment On the basis of analysis of decisions of the Constitutional Council and researches of French lawyers the author justifies the assertion according to which the public interest is considered one of criteria applied for assessment of quality of laws. The Constitutional Council is guided by the principle of proportionality. If the law provides for the limitation of rights and freedoms, they must comply with the objectives of public interest and is not excessive. The Constitutional Council shall consider the nature of the rights and their constitutional importance, applying different standards of the public interest to various rights. The author emphasizes that the French doctrine and case law have not developed a universal definition of public interest, its meaning is largely reduced to correspond to the common will, and the criteria of the public interest established by the resolution of specific cases. Despite the fact that some legal theorists doubt the effectiveness and validity of the public interest concept when it comes to creating new laws and regulations as well as for the Constitutional Council, the Conseil d'État and the administrative courts decision-making, this bodies continue referring to this concept within the framework legality control of executive acts and constitutional review of laws.
The History of Russian State and Law: Domain-Branch approach
Minnikes I.V.
The article assesses the practical significance of the a chronological approach to the study of the History of Russian state and law, ruling in the educational literature. Noted that this approach makes it difficult to identify patterns of development of state and law, since the information about state and law is closed within a certain historical period and is often incomplete, fragmentary. The author offers several new guidelines that can improve the course of History of Russian state and law. There are the purposeful domain-branch targeted orientation of the information about state and law, the use of comparative legal diachronic method of analysis of historical and legal phenomena and coherent structured presentation of information about the history of Russian state and law. The purposefulness allows to form some main themes, each of which covers the certain state-legal phenomenon (for example, the evolution of sources of law) or certain branch of law (e.g. the history of civil law, the evolution of criminal law, etc.). Every branch of law or phenomenon is investigated by means of comparative legal diachronic method. This allows to focus on a small number of related issues and to study the phenomenon or branch of law, not only in statics but also in dynamics, starting from the time of formation and to its modern state, tracing the main stages of evolution and development trends. The guideline of coherence and structuring of the presentation helps avoiding blanks in the presentation of information that allows to reconstruct a complete picture of the development of the branch of law or legal phenomenon. On the certain example of the evolution of national legislation about form of marriage were demonstrated the capabilities of the author's guidelines. The article in accordance to the guidelines of purposeful comparative historical coherence analysis explores the forms of marriage practiced in Russian state from X to XX century and makes important insights, both of theoretical and practical nature. It is established that in the earliest period two forms of marriage - pagan and Church competed among themselves. Church marriage became exclusively dominant only at the end of the XVI century. However, Church marriage has never been the sole legal form of marriage. Along with it existed pagan rites of «aborigines», schismatic marriages and non-Christian and mixed marriages, and also civil marriage. On the basis of the comparative analysis it was established that the ritual and ceremonial side of marriage were complemented by formal side in the XVIII century. The formal side of the marriage gradually entirely displaces the ritual and in the mid-twentieth century becomes the only proof of the legality of the marital union. The conclusion on the positive impact of the proposed principles of improving the course of the History of Russian state and law made, and that this approach matches the idea of practice-based learning.
Judiciary Transformations in the Russian Empire of the mid XVIII century, as Precondition of the Public Institutions Legal Base Establishment
Lapteva L.Y.
The article deals with some problems of the Russian justice system development over the middle forty years of the XVIII century. It highlights that those were not only the years of stagnation in the development of the judiciary, but also the time of the latent specialization and stabilization of judicial system. It was during the period considered when increasing complexity of the system of judicial and administrative institutions was in progress hand by hand with the gradual assertion of the idea of the legality in management and judgment. There appears awareness of the need for knowledge of the law as an important employment condition in staff of any government institutions. At the first glance, the system of the supreme and central court underwent the minimum changes during the period considered, although fiskalat and prosecutors activities were relatively fruitful. Strange as it may seem, but even within bodies of political investigation the requirement to follow rules of assessment of legality of accusations and proofs including methods of their obtaining existed formally and sometimes was followed. The extraordinary procedure for political trials was in the end forbidden to use by the Manifesto February 21, 1762. Judicial activities remained an important component of boards competence, and secretaries and judges were to be fined, according to law, for unjust trial. However, in view of a lack of the trained personnel the caught and punished judges were not released from a position, and in case of returning to crime the penalty in the same size was again levied from them. The local judicial administrative system badly coped with its' tasks, therefore it was constantly reformed. All the guidance and supervision of the local courts were transferred to the governors. The exceptions were the church and the military courts. The question of the jurisdiction under the urban population transfer to magistrates was resolved rather accurately in the time of Peter. Then they ceased to submit to voivodes. Only throughout the short period (from 1727 to 1743) the Main Magistrate and magistrates in all cities were replaced with town halls with annually replaced bailiffs.
Liberty of Discussion is Being Realized by United Nations and Some Member States
Abashidze A.K., Chernykh I.A.
In 2006 Australian citizen J. Assange founded the WikiLeaks cite, where regularly were being placed different states' secret materials. Later Great Britain and Sweden initiated criminal proceedings against J. Assange on the unconfirmed sexual harassment concerning two female Sweden citizens. On the 19th June 2012, J. Assange requested Republic of Ecuador to provide him political asylum in his London embassy. On the 16th August 2012 Ecuadorian embassy granted him political asylum. In September 2014 J. Assange's lawyers went through Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council to protect his human rights. The authors explain not only actual reasons of the WikiLeaks founder criminal proceedings but determine UN remedy for human rights infringements on the base of J. Assange Case. The article enlights the legal procedure of individual complaint deliberation in Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council and legal status of its opinions. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council refers to the special procedures, created by United Nations Human Rights Council, and entitled to handle an individual claims of the persons being arbitrary detained. Procedure of the individual complaints investigation includes four stages: submission of communications to the Working Group, providing the government of the opportunity to rebut allegations, providing a source of opportunities to comment the response of the government and making a Working Group's opinion. Issued opinion is a quasi-judicial act, however, Sweden and Great Britain decided to dispute it, pointing out not-professional bench of the WGAG and not legally binding force of its opinions. Authors of the article not only explain the current international legal and political situation with J. Assange, but highlight main reasons of arbitrary detention, consider and analyze specific international legal terminology for a designation of detention and categories of liberty deprivation as arbitrary. Methodological basis of the research includes general scientific means of perception such as analysis, deduction and induction, and also special juridical means: rather-legal and technical methods. The article presents a reasoned legal opinion on the above-mentioned objects.
Main Forms of Inter-State Cooperation in the Field of Migration
Kiseleva E.V.
Unity of all movements of the population covered by the concept of migration as a subject of international legal regulation, in terms of risks and the potential for States, societies and individuals objectively pushes States to a comprehensive approach towards the phenomenon of migration. Inter-State cooperation on migration issues is being developed in different forms: treaty form and non-treaty form. And in all cases a share of inconsistency remains. Cooperation of States in the form of international agreements has not resulted yet in a comrehensive treaty on migration, on the contrary, the demand for such a treaty still follows from the analysis of only non-legally binding instruments, such as those by the UN General Assembly. Nowadays, one can only single out the blocks on the most important aspects of migration, e.g. human rights, fight against crime, etc., i.e. agreements developed as part of other branches of public international law, but applicable to the situation of migration. The exception here is refugee law that developed more or less on its own. However it covers one problem of migration out of many, and, thus, is an exception that proves the rule. Non-treaty (or institutional) form of cooperation of States also lacks a single unit, authorized by States to a comprehensive approach towards migration aimed at developing the commitments (obligations) in this area and control mechanisms over the execution of those commitments. There are a lot of international intergovernmental organizations touching migration within their respective competences. Duplication of their activity is monitored through coordination mechanisms. States' need for cooperation is further satisfied through non-binding «processes», «fora», «initiatives» operating at regional and universal levels. Author's opinion on the root-cause of the situation lies in the belief that effective and transparent co-operation can only be based on the true coordination of the wills of the States, whereas at present, the discussions of migration topics at the universal level are based on systematically distorted data, despite all the calls for the creation of the reliable multifaceted factological base. It seems to the author that the latest plans to develop by 2018 global compacts on migration and refugees, correspondingly, are not capable of radically changing the situation.
RUDN Journal of Law. 2016;(3):90-105
The Summary Procedure in the Administrative Law: Experience of Comparative Legal Research
Zelentsov A.B.
The author focuses upon the features of the summary procedure (written proceeding) concerning administrative matters of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Russian Federation and reveals its place in the system of special procedures. The author dwells on the consepts of summary, simplified and reduced proceedings in the context of comparative analysis of the administrative procedural legislation of some foreign countries. Furthermore, article stresses the need to give particular status to the summary procedure. Notes that in modern States there is the well-known variety of different approaches to the use of summary, simplified and reduced proceedings their legal frameworks and subject sphere. Nonetheless, the wide use such proceedings under administrative procedure in various countries suggests, that in the modern context one of the major trends of development administrative procedure law is expedite trials by simplifying procedures and the possibility of cutting down on the time required to hear administrative cases. The tendency of development of the simplified forms of proceedings in the Russian Federation aimed at shortening the timelines of regarding cases and improving judicial efficiency of administrative judicial proceedings is reflected in the summary procedure (written proceeding) and in the writ proceedings. Reveals the essential characteristic of the summary procedure (as written) such as: administrative process takes place without court hearings, without summons and hearing the parties in the shorter procedural time limits, based on written proof submitted by the parties. Concluded that the refusal of to establish a list of cases of the summary procedure, meaning that it can be used for any administrative case if one of the following conditions set out in article 291 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Russian Federation, as well in the cases specified in part 7 of article 150, in part 5 of article 216 and in part 2 of article 315 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Russian Federation. Also the comparative analysis of the summary procedure and writ proceeding is made. On the provisions of article 123.5 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Russian Federation concluded that writ proceeding has a special nature, since the legislator defines this procedure outside the two judicial proceedings provided by article 140 of the Code of Administrative Procedure. Accordingly, it is suggested to consider the writ proceeding as pre- procedural, ex parte proceeding for settling disputes.
RUDN Journal of Law. 2016;(3):106-118
The Legal Aspects of the Basic Categories in the Sphere of State Registration of Real Estate
Kolomijets D.Y.
The article observes a problem of legal regulation of the state registration and inscription activeness on real estate properties. The author specifies basic categories "registration" and "cadaster". A "cadaster" is considered to be informational and analytical registry system modifying almost every record process of land property complex into high-integrates territorial cadastre-type system. This enables to make a conclusion concerning formation and development of information space of property sphere in the modern period. The author analyses definitions of subjects of cadastre registration, focuses on definitions of buildings, constructions, locations, constructions in progress and underground structures that show specificity of researched sphere of legal regulation. The article also proves that conceptual framework of the problem includes a term "Uniform state register of real estate properties support system". It reveals not absolutely reasonable variety of analogues of this term, so the author has to concentrate on analysis of structural components of the basic concept. It is proved that combining of information resources of the aforementioned Uniform state register and State Real Estate cadastre as a structured and logically unified data set necessary for registration and identification will have as one of its results a possibility to analyze a procedure of a posted state cadastre registration when making a decision about state registration of ownership. The author concludes that fulfilling of the task of minimizing the uncertainty and crossover use of definition in the system of legal regulation of registration and inscription activeness will contribute to improving of its conceptual and theoretical basis and practical aspects.
The Financial Monitoring as Mandatory Condition for Financial Safety of the State
Proshunin M.M.
This article is devoted to financial law issues on financial security of the state in relation to anti-money laundering and terrorism financing. The financial safety becomes the essential part of financial activity of the state. One of the threats for modern state is money laundering and terrorism financing. In course of financial activity of the state financial monitoring acts as a financial law instrument for anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing. The financial monitoring as an essential part of financial safety of the state is justified by negative consequences for the state due to money laundering and terrorism financing. The author considers political, economic, social and legal significance of money laundering and terrorism financing. In order to ensure the financial safety of the state in course of financial monitoring measures it is very important to permanently develop the financial law procedures, including client identification, monitoring of operations, assets freezing and others as money laundering and terrorism financing presume the permanent genesis by development of new schemes of money laundering and terrorism financing. The author proves that deregulation has to be one of methods of improvement of current system of financial monitoring in order to ensure financial security of the state and its financial institutions. The article contains suggestions as to the institute of mandatory control which the immediate law modification is required to and institute of identification of ultimate beneficiary owners imposing the parallel obligations on clients and agents of financial monitoring. It is stated that decreasing the number of public functions in relation to agent of financial monitoring being commercial entities will increase the efficiency of analytical work as to detection of transactions linked with money laundering and terrorism financing and finally, ensure the financial safety of the state.
S.F. Udartsev. Constitution and evolution of a society (issues of theory and legal philosophy)
Nurpeisov E.K.
There are a few works in scientific writings that contain theoretical and philosophical-legal comprehension of the constitution and the constitutional development. The article includes the analysis and the value of fundamental theoretical deductions contained in the monograph "Constitution and evolution of a society (issues of theory and legal philosophy)" written by S.F. Udartsev (Saint-Petersburg: Universitetskii izdatel'skii konsortsium, 2015. 388 p.). It is dedicated specially to the aforementioned aspects of the constitutional evolution. The work under review observes the search for basis of law in the human history and etymology of a term «constitution». Due to the fruitful using the method of moving from the abstract to the concrete the monograph presents a proved, theoretically multidimensional picture of evolution of the constitution during the stages of development and stagnation of the human civilization. It shows the place of the basic law in mechanisms of economical and political development. The constitution is interpreted as a basis as well as apex of the national legal system that connects it with the international law. The impact of the constitution on the social-political and social-economical life is presented by its regulative activity as well as ideological influence through contemporary forms of political, legal, moral and religious consciousness. The work shows its back influence on the forming and acting constitutions. It marks general tendencies and perspectives of political and legal development and the role of the constitution in this process. Globalization contributes to including of whole countries and peoples into space of the developed civilization and this is accompanied by appearance of supranational, planetary regulative tools. One of the latter shall be planetary law that already has some ideological and legal background in the modern world society.
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Moving Beyond the Emergency: A Whole of Society Approach to the Refugee Response in Bangladesh – Center for Global Development
Posted on 7 October 2019 by davidrcurry
Bangladesh – Rohingya
Moving Beyond the Emergency: A Whole of Society Approach to the Refugee Response in Bangladesh
Lauren Post , Rachel Landry and Cindy Huang
PDF: https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/moving-beyond-emergency-whole-society-approach-refugee-response-bangladesh.pdf
Bangladesh provides a significant global public good by hosting over one million Rohingya refugees. Most are living in camps in Cox's Bazar district, where resources and livelihoods are strained. The refugee situation is likely to be protracted, and medium-term planning is critical. CGD has been working with local and international partners to understand what that medium-term response could look like. This is one of five publications where we outline steps for developing a medium-term plan for Bangladesh, to benefit refugees and their host community alike. The other four cover forest and landscape restoration, trade, private sector investment, and labor mobility.
In August 2017, more than 740,000 stateless Rohingya started to flee systematic violence and persecution perpetrated by Myanmar's military, the Tatmadaw, and other security forces in Rakhine State. The government of Bangladesh generously opened its borders to these forcibly displaced Rohingya and is now hosting over one million refugees, the vast majority of whom are confined to camps in one of the country's poorest districts, Cox's Bazar. Two years on from what quickly became the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, all signs point to an acute need to change the approach to the Rohingya refugee response.
The current response is based on an understandable, but ultimately insufficient, short-term view that focuses on delivering basic and lifesaving humanitarian assistance. But the needs of the Rohingya refugees and local hosting community are far more complex. The government of Bangladesh rightly wants Myanmar to be held accountable for resolving the root cause of the crisis, but the reality is safe and voluntary returns of the Rohingya to Myanmar are unlikely in the near term. There have been several attempts at repatriation since the start of the crisis, most recently in August 2019; but none has been successful as refugees refuse to return until their citizenship, safety, freedom of movement, and access to services and livelihoods in Rakhine are guaranteed. For the sake of both Rohingya and Bangladeshi residents of Cox's Bazar, the government of Bangladesh must prepare for the fact that this refugee crisis is on track to becoming protracted. Even if Myanmar successfully addressed the underlying causes of inequality and marginalization across Rakhine State, and refugee returns became a reality, credible estimates show that in a realistic scenario for repatriation, significant numbers of Rohingyas will remain in Bangladesh for more than 10 years.[1]
The inadequacy of the current response has implications for the refugees, host communities, and Bangladesh's development trajectory. The well-being of refugees and host communities is at risk and social cohesion is deteriorating. Nearly 44 percent of Rohingya refugees and 40 percent of the host community have poor or borderline food consumption, meaning they are unable to get enough to eat and are not getting the right nutrition—which could lead to malnutrition and other health issues. Poverty levels among refugees and host communities are high: 75 percent of refugees live below the minimum expenditure basket. Approximately 33 percent of the local population in Cox's Bazar lives below the national poverty line, compared with the national average of 25 percent.[2] Negative coping strategies, including child labor, early marriage, and drug trafficking, are frequently reported in the camps. And while only 11 percent of Rohingya indicated in a recent survey that there are inter-community tensions, 48 percent of locals said tensions exist.[3] services. It is difficult to imagine how Bangladesh, and Cox's Bazar in particular, will achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and its commitment to Leave No One Behind given this trajectory.
Unlike five to ten years ago, when a short-term response to refugee crises was the accepted norm, the international community now acknowledges the importance of development approaches in refugee settings. The Grand Bargain, Global Compact on Refugees, and World Bank have catalyzed a set of tools for humanitarian and development actors to better support both refugees and hosts in protracted situations. However, the government of Bangladesh's policy environment is a barrier to fully realizing these approaches and the positive impact they can have. Since the start of the crisis, the government has restricted NGO access in the camps, and put in place measures that prohibit refugees from accessing the labor market and getting a formal, accredited education in schools. Some progress has been made, including allowing refugees to partake in cash-for-work and paid volunteer opportunities in the camps and approving two out of four levels of an informal learning framework for Rohingya children. However, this progress is a far cry from meeting needs and enabling self-reliance.
Inadequate financing to support the government of Bangladesh and implementing agencies is only contributing to the challenges. The 2019 Joint Response Plan (JRP) was funded at just 34 percent as of July 2019. The 2018 JRP was only 69 percent funded, leaving a shortfall of nearly US$300 million. In addition, humanitarian funding that is available is being disbursed in short-term grants—which is inefficient and unsustainable especially as donor fatigue sets in. While development financing from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank will help meet the needs of refugees and host communities, the banks have not successfully shifted the response to a multiyear plan to align with the multiyear financing they are bringing to the crisis. The World Bank has so far not been able to leverage its financing to encourage the government of Bangladesh to make necessary reforms to its refugee policies to support self-reliance as it has done in other contexts, such as Jordan and Ethiopia. Consequently, bank financing is being used as gap-filling for humanitarian aid rather than as catalytic development financing.
Global experience has demonstrated that developing a plan to address medium-term needs for refugees and for hosts—or a whole of society approach—is critical and that this plan should be put in place within the first few years of a crisis. Some of the benefits of a whole of society, medium-term plan that enables self-reliance have been demonstrated in countries such as Uganda, Jordan, and Colombia, where refugees have legal pathways to formal education and decent work. At the same time, the risks of failing to devise and implement such a plan have been made clear through protracted refugee situations such as in Thailand, where refugees do not have livelihoods opportunities, leading to high levels of economic stress and negative coping strategies such as early marriage, alarming levels of suicide, and violence—impacting the well-being of both refugees and host communities alike.
The inevitable protracted nature of this refugee crisis, combined with the increasingly pressing challenges faced by Rohingya and their hosts, demands a change in course. Donors and implementing partners are starting to think about what a medium-term approach could look like. National and international actors should prioritize three pillars of actions:
[1] The government of Bangladesh, with development and humanitarian actors, should develop a three-to-five-year Whole of Society Medium-Term Response Plan that addresses the well-being of, and enables self-reliance among, Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi host community in Cox's Bazar. The plan must define a set of shared outcomes to be achieved, outline complementary actions, and identify incremental steps to expand refugees' protections and access to services and the labor market.
[2] The government of Bangladesh, with development and humanitarian actors, should create a Coordination Platform that is responsible for designing the plan, coordinating its implementation, and monitoring progress towards agreed outcomes.
[3] The international community—particularly donors, UN agencies and the private sector—should provide adequate and appropriate support for the implementation of the plan, including multiyear financing, economic incentives for private investment, and other "beyond aid" measures to support economic growth.
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Q: Binding to height attribute produces error in IE Binding the td.height attribute to a number produces a stack trace in IE11, but works in Firefox and Chrome.
<td [height]="bufferHeight"></td>
The bufferHeight variable is initialized to 30
bufferHeight: number;
constructor() {
this.bufferHeight = 30;
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One way to correct this is to make buffer height a string and initialize it to "30px".
I eventually fixed the code when I realized the height attribute is deprecated in HTML5 and switched to the following
<td [style.height.px]="bufferHeight">
Why is IE behaving differently? Errors like this can be hard to track down due to the cryptic error message. This project was bootstrapped with angular-seed.
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at resolvePromise (http://localhost:5555/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js?1482518301781:429:25)
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TV-SERIES "EKATERINA" WILL BE AIRED IN JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Sovtelexport has sold the rights for two seasons of the historical TV-series "Ekaterina" to a Japanese TV channel, Channel Ginga Japan.
RUSSIA TV&RADIO PROVIDES THE "NEW YEAR'S BLUE LIGHT CONCERT 2018" FOR HOLIDAYS IN ASIA
TV program "New Year's Blue Light Concert 2018" has been broadcast for the first time on the "Niconico" - the largest website in Japan.
DRAMA "BORN TO BE A STAR" AIRED IN POLAND
Sovtelexport sold the rights for drama "Born to be a star" to the Polish popular film channel Kino Polska TV S.A.
DRAMA "THE FAMILY" IN AIR MACEDONIA
TV Nova has picked up the broadcast rights for series "The Family" produced by Russia TV&Radio in a deal with Sovtelexport
STABLE COOPERATION WITH ITALY
Sovtelexport made a new deal with La7, which is a television channel of the Cairo Communication SpA - leader of a group of companies operating in the publishing sector
SERIES FROM THE CATALOGUE OF RUSSIA TV&RADIO PREMIER IN ALBANIA
"Anna Karenina", the adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's world-famous novel by Russia Television and Radio, is now available in Albania | {
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Home/Uncategorized/Juul: Deceptive Advertising Attracts Vulnerable Youth
Marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes and a means by which to quit smoking altogether, the growth of e-cigarettes skyrocketed in just a few years. Operated by batteries, these devices emit vapors that contain nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), there are more than 460 e-cigarette brands that are currently on the market. Commercial e-cigarettes were invented in 2003 by Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, who allegedly created the device after watching his father, a heavy smoker, die of lung cancer.
However, by 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) dismissed the belief that e-cigarettes aided smoking cessation. WHO also demanded that marketing material that claimed as much be removed. Subsequently, Ruyan, the company that manufactured and sold Lik's invention, funded its own study claiming that the carcinogens and toxins found in their products were below harmful levels. After bans in several countries, the concerns of scientists and medical professionals weren't enough to curb the continual rise and development of this product.
According to the United States Surgeon General, vaping is an epidemic among minors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also cautioned the public against vaping, as illnesses associated with the habit become more apparent. Johns Hopkins Medicine reports that the kind of chemicals found in vape pens and their overall long-term effects on health are still unknown. What they do know is that its main ingredient, nicotine, is harmful to health as it spikes blood pressure and increases the risk of heart attack.
Furthermore, vaping is just as addictive as traditional smoking – some research suggests that nicotine is just as addictive as heroin or cocaine. What's more, individuals who vape have the option of buying extra-strength nicotine cartridges or adjusting the voltage on their pens so that they ingest more of the substance per hit.
As of 2019, Juul Labs dominates the e-cigarette market, controlling 70 percent of it three years after the company's launch. Similarly to Lik, the brand's creators were former cigarette smokers. On its website, Juul markets itself as "a smoking alternative for adults."
Juul devices, resembling USB drives, seem most popular among teenagers and young adults, so much so that these discrete devices are often found among middle schoolers. A large part of this issue is that nearly 14 percent of these children don't know that they're consuming nicotine, according to the NIH. Many kids and young adults alike are under the impression that vapes are just flavorful smoke and contain no addictive substances or harmful additives. Additionally, the fact that vape pens are marketed as smoking cessation tools make it easy to assume that they're not bad for you at all.
The marketing surrounding Juul is the reason the company is under federal investigation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).While the FDA hasn't publicly disclosed the details of its investigation, the agency accused the vaping giant of making false claims regarding the safety of its products.
The FDA determined that Juul Labs did not receive the federal green light to market its pen as an alternative to smoking. The FTC is investigating whether or not Juul Labs intentionally used influencer marketing and other digital media campaigns to appeal to minors, and believes that Juul Labs purposely marketed its products to adolescents and misled them into believing that their products were safe.
A team of researchers from the Stanford Research Into the Impact of Tobacco advertising determined that Juul's marketing campaign in the years between 2015 and 2018 purposely targeted the youth demographic. According to the research team's white paper, "JUUL e-cigarette now dominates the American vapor market and had achieved cult level of popularity among school aged adolescents."
The document also details Juul's launch campaign and how the company featured models in their early 20s, mimicking many of the same marketing tactics of traditional tobacco. The report concludes that Juul's mission statement to "Improve the lives of the world's one billion adult smokers" doesn't line up with its actual marketing practices over the first three years of the company's existence (Juul launched in 2015).
Juul Labs maintains that it has never targeted its marketing toward youth and that its products are for adult use only. As of now, the company has rebranded its visual marketing materials to only include adults over the age of 35. The company also stopped selling its flavored cartridges in brick and mortar stores, and claims to support the congressional push to make the legal purchasing age 21.
According to the NIH, 70 percent of American teenagers are exposed to e-cigarette advertisements. In 2018, the NIH also found that 37.3 percent of 12th grade high school students admitted to vaping within that past year. As of February 2019, the FDA also found that 4.9 percent of middle school students regularly vape.
The best thing parents can do to discourage their children from vaping is to be armed with information. Additionally, the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids encourages parents to listen to their kids and have open, nonjudgmental conversations about vaping, while expressing the risks and concerns associated with the practice. It's important that young people be aware of the seriousness of nicotine addiction, and that some products, despite their enticements, simply aren't in their best interest to use.
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Project Location - Roeland St, Gardens, Cape Town
Project Timeline – 5 Months
This was an intriguing project where a heritage retaining rock wall was collapsing and had to be removed and reinstated in an exact position under careful scrutiny. All rocks had to be meticulously marked and replaced in its original position as per heritage protocols.
There was excavation and demolition of a concrete retaining wall together with the removal of the heritage rock wall. The rock wall was reinstated on a reinforced concrete wall to create a "new" rock wall identical to the old wall.
A large amount of photographs were taken and later enlarged to create a design matrix for the reinstatement of each and every rock in its original position in the wall.
We worked closely with specialist heritage architects and engineers. We complied with all heritage protocols while improving the structure and aesthetics of the wall. | {
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A list of events and resources at the 2010 ISTE conference.
Now in its 31st year, the International Society for Technology in Education's Annual Conference & Exposition features an array of professional learning and collaborative networking opportunities.
ISTE 2010 attendees will have access to more than 600 sessions: formal sessions and hands-on labs, traditional and student poster presentations, Birds of a Feather discussions, and themed lounges and playgrounds, plus three thought-provoking keynote addresses.
Nearly 500 exhibitors also will be on hand to showcase their latest products.
Morning Keynote – Innovation & Excellence: Buzzwords or Global Imperative? | {
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A group of men seen swimming inside a baited crocodile trap in Australia near where a woman was recently eaten were blasted as "idiots of the century" Tuesday.
Declines in health-care shares sent European stocks lower for a fourth day after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to lower the cost of medicines.
Shire Chief Executive Flemming Ornskov will need to dig deeper in his pocket if he wants to win U.S. biotech company Baxalta.
Critics, as Oscar Wilde once remarked, know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Some of Wall Street's biggest names are licking their wounds as October lives up to its reputation as one of the market's roughest months. | {
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Bringing a high-street brand online to offer an unrivalled customer experience. Integration of Magento ecommerce, WordPress, social media and back-office logistics for greater efficiency.
Fish Soho offer salon performance at an accessible price for consumers, these products are available online but Fish wanted to improve their customer experience.
The products are sold on the high street and have an existing logistics set-up which required full integration with the website.
The brand had a strong existing place in the market and this needed to be maintained whilst bringing an improved buying experience under the control of the brand outright, rather than via other online retailers.
In order to offer this unrivalled online buying experience, we built a customer-focused e-commerce site, using Magento for the strong ecommerce engine, and integrating it with WordPress for the ease of updating the dynamic content. All this tied into the brand's strong social theme.
We also integrated the existing, laborious logistics process into the system, automating much of the process from shopping-cart to shipping. Bringing order-processing and reporting into the new Magento platform. | {
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Time for a Friday's Fave Five hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story.
It feels like a busy, long week around here. Maybe it was. Or maybe it's just that dull moments are few and far between when you have a four and one year old who can't stop moving and talking. I'm not sure. At any rate, I'm very glad it's the weekend.
Five things I'm thankful and grateful for this week? Let's get right to the list, shall we?
#1 - CSN Stores contacted me and asked if I'd like to review another of their products and it just so happens that I would. I know we all see a lot of bloggers talking about CSN Stores and, hey, I don't begrudge them that. It's a nice thing to do every now and again and with Christmas coming up - I know one thing in particular that we think would be really fun to get for the boys so I'll be reviewing "that" product for Christmas.
In the meantime, if you haven't heard of CSN Stores they are kinda running the race against Amazon (and by my Google searches for various items, are picking up their speed!) You can find any multitude of items on their site, including but not limited to bathroom furniture. (Yes, my friends, it's true.) Anyway. I AM grateful for this opportunity, especially right before Christmas, to be able to work with them again.
Know what it is? Why, it's one of my all-time favorite Christmas movie classics and I'm excited to kick off the Christmas movie watching season with this timeless story. You cannot beat Bing Crosby when it comes to Christmas. He simply cannot be topped!
#3 - I am not really an ice cream person. It's nice every now and again but if there is another treat option, I'll usually go for whatever the other thing is. (I'm the opposite of Jonathan in this way!) However, when it comes to Christmas and Dreyer's Peppermint Ice cream, if you are going to bring some over to my place you should probably pick up two cartons - one for me and one for everyone else.
We'll just call this one a "craving" right now, ok? Isn't that fair? Say it's fair.
#4 - A rare night out with one of my in-town friends. It's not often that we get a chance to connect and fellowship but I always enjoy it when we do. We met up at a local bakery on election night which may or may not have been a good idea (when local contestants began to give acceptance speeches right next to our booth.) But it was a good catch-up conversation.
Those are my Friday Favorites this week! As always, I'm grateful to Susanne for hosting!
Have a wonderful weekend, folks! I hope you enjoy it!
Yahoo for peppermint candy ice cream!!!!!! I agree it is THE BEST ice cream ever discovered!!!! ENJOY!
I've not heard of CSN -- will look forward to your review.
Yes, I do know that movie and love it!
If I were coming over I'd give you all the ice cream. :-) Lactose intolerant and not a peppermint fan.
Glad you got to visit with a friend, and I was pretty pleased with the election results, too!
I'm glad your candidate won. I'm pleased with a lot of the election results. However, I'm not looking forward to 2012 and the ads we will have to listen to then!
The review going on sounds 'christmassy' :) Happy Friday.
I have not heard of CSN Stores, but sounds very cool. Glad you're able to "help" them out. :-) I'm not really an ice cream person either, so maybe I should try the peppermint? Or maybe I should stay far away from it! I have enough temptations with desserts as it is. Have a great weekend!
I almost picked up some Peppermint Ice Cream the other night. Instead, I got their Pumpkin, which is quite good, too.
Sounds like a great week! And oh, the peppermint ice cream looks wonderful. Over the summer we had an ice cream cake roll with chocolate cake and peanut butter ice cream; I imagine it would also be delicious with peppermint ice cream!
I love peppermint ice cream, too!
Couldn't help but comment on your CSN mention--they've contacted me twice and I figured there was a catch so I didn't respond. I'm curious about your experience with them.
OK, you're gonna be shocked...I have never actually seen that particular Christmas movie! But NOW it is definitely on my list for this season. I'll watch while eating a big bowl of peppermint ice-cream!
I start to look for Christmas gifts. I don't want to wait for the last minute. Each time I see something which is nice I buy it and put it away.
Its fun to have those seasonal favorite movies. Our family loves Elf, crazy, but we always laugh.
Congrats to your Texas friend for winning the election. I really haven't experienced CSN. I'll have to check it out. Is that White Christmas or something like that? I love that one. I'll need to try that ice cream, too. Have a great weekend!
I hadn't heard of CSN Stores before (not being much of a shopper on or off line) but I'll be sure to mention its existence by my husband.
I saw the photo of Bing and Rosemary and KNEW just by that one frame that you were writing about White Christmas! Well, yes, I love that movie too and have seen it SO many times!
We don't have Dreyer's but I'll be on the lookout for Peppermint Ice Cream. Sounds dreamy.
I won a gift certificate from CSN, but I haven't used it yet.
I've never seen that brand of peppermint ice cream here but there is an awesome one out by President's Choice that I saw sitting in the freezers this past week. Yum!
That peppermint ice cream is certainly a special treat at Christmas time! Even in November :-) That's so neat that someone you knew and knew to be such a person of integrity has won the election. Hope your weekend is going well.
Mmm. Peppermint ice cream. I usually avoid the ice cream aisle (because it is TOO tempting for me), but I might have to make a special trip to check out this yummy-looking treat.
Oh! I love White Christmas! I remember the first time we watched it, my parents had it broken into two parts. We watched the first part on a Sunday evening and then had to wait a whole week to watch the second. (we must have been young). Love that movie. And yes, I've been a Bing fan for a long time. There are so many great Christmas movies, but I still think White Christmas tops most. | {
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Press release 20 April 2012
26 April, 2012 Press Releases
Film Literacy in Bradford Schools
Bradford City of Film is pleased to announce a programme of research into the effectiveness of Film Literacy in raising attainment levels in Bradford Schools.
Supported (funded) by the School of Informatics, Computing and Media at the University of Bradford the PHD placement will work with schools in the Bradford district over the next three years with assistance from the National Media Museum and the BFI.
Building on the success of a pilot project in 2010-2011 the research will follow the progress of children who will be using film and be taught about film as part of the primary curriculum. Working with film in the classroom offers children equal access to a medium that they are very familiar with, a medium that engages, excites and most importantly interests them. The project uses a BFI CPD model and teachers are trained to use short films and film clips to enhance the delivery of their literacy curriculum and to help pupils create short pieces of film of their own. The project encourages film literacy in the classroom and the use of film is an exciting and enticing tool for developing literacy and enhancing learning. The standard of boys' writing notably improved as a result of integrating film in to literacy learning in the 2010-2011 pilot and we hope to have the same effect on a much wider scale in the coming 3 years.
Dr Ian Palmer, Dean of the School of Informatics, Computing and Media said; "The University of Bradford has been a key partner in City of Film since the designation was awarded. Whilst there is a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest the effectiveness of using film and the moving image in an educational setting, we believe that this will be the first longitudinal study at PHD level in this area in the UK."
In June 2009, Bradford was designated as the world's first UNESCO City of Film. The title was awarded because of the city's rich film heritage, its inspirational movie locations and its many celebrations of the moving image through the National Media Museum and the city's annual film festivals.
As a result of the designation Bradford is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network which includes 30 Cities from around the world. The Creative Cities Network connects cities who want to share experiences, ideas and best practices for cultural, social and economic development.
David Wilson, Director of Bradford City of Film said: "Following a successful pilot scheme in 2010, Bradford now aims to embed a film literacy strand throughout the education strategy for all Bradford Schools. The pilot will be extended to encourage all primary schools initially with a number of secondary schools coming on board throughout 2013 and 2014."
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this editing in this video is very dishonest, within 20 seconds cherry picked clips of nationalists taking a stand is portrayed as something bad even though it's a perfectly rational response to hordes of people who share nothing in common with the natives trashing the entire country.
when will people admit that Islam is not the problem, but racial differences? there are ethnic kids who grow up without following Islam, yet they turn out to build an extensive criminal record since early childhood. It has nothing to do with religion.
many ethnics and whites doesn't even get along even if they grew up along side each other. Very few individuals are actually able to properly overlook racial differences and bond with each other. | {
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Mines engineering physics student Brandon Tortorelli was recently awarded the CSMAA Melville F. Coolbaugh Memorial Senior Award.
Tortorelli, who (in addition to his academic load) is involved in the CSM Rocket Club, serves as an international student mentor and volunteers as a STEM teacher with the Jefferson County Boys and Girls Club' has the potential to do just that.
Tortorelli is a previous recipient of the Boettcher Foundation Scholarship and recently completed a policy minor through the McBride Honors Program.
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Situated in the heart of Bowness-on-Windermere, The Royal Oak Inn offers a traditional Inn, which has been family run since 1995. Home; Covid-19; Menus; Our Reviews; Vacancies. Food. They helped us park the car, the inn is clean and tidy and the pub grub is spot on. (604) 581-3330. We came in yesterday after walking from Staveley to Bowness along the Dales Way, we waited to be seated so the waiter knew we were there but we were ignored! : + 45 74 55 32 94 | e-mail: [email protected] Est. The Royal Oak is a small, busy, family run Inn with a warm welcoming atmosphere for the walker, tourist and business visitor alike. ... royal oak inn windermere • royal oak inn windermere photos • royal oak inn windermere location • royal oak inn windermere address • Created with Sketch. 1612 W Windemere Ave , Royal Oak, MI 48073-5221 is currently not for sale. Royal Oak Restaurant 15336 fraser hwy Surrey, BC v3r3p5 CA. 14.95. Read More. Make a visit to view the available floorplans. Really good portions, excellent food, friendly staff & quick service. The Royal Oak Inn - Bowness-on-Windermere 54.36328 , -2.91984 Brantfell Road , Bowness-on-Windermere , United Kingdom , LA23 3EG show map Check out delicious cask ale , lager or gin . A selection of great tea , coffee or hot chocolate is provided to guests. The 942 sq. Customers are free to download and save these images, but not use these digital files (watermarked by the … The Royal Oak Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere (United Kingdom) - Deals & Reviews. (604) 581-3330 We all had great main courses with good portion sizes. The property comprises 8 rooms. More. Excellent choice of food and drink in pleasant surroundings. The 1,459 sq. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. Sausage, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms, fried egg, tomato and beans, served with chips or toast. People arrived after us and were served! Our customers at Royal Oak Family Restaurant have come to expect some of the best american food in Rensselaer. Home; Covid-19; Menus; Our ... Front Of House; Kitchen; Contact; 01527 870141. The Royal Oak is a traditional Cumbrian village inn offering award winning ales, wines and an amazing menu offering. GALLERY. Greene King Local Pubs. Click here to view our menus and learn about our locally sourced produce Read More. ft. single-family home is a 4 bed, 1.0 bath property. Well worth the money, Two meals, lasagne and steak and ale pie, pint and a half £29. We are proud to offer exquisite beef steaks, also sourced locally, and are all cooked to perfection. Some rooms are en-suite and some have a … A traditional Lakeland Inn in the heart of the lake district This home was built in 1945 and last sold on for. Royal Oak Braithwaite, Keswick, Cumbria. Graham Richards November 18, 2015. Didn't bother staying! Royal Oak Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere: See 677 unbiased reviews of Royal Oak Inn, rated 4 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked #19 of 83 restaurants in Bowness-on-Windermere. Create your website today. A selection of ten freshly steamed seasonal vegetables and crispy roast potatoes. The Royal Oak Lindale. ft. single-family home is a 2 bed, 1.0 bath property. 457 likes. Sun-Thur: 11am-8pm Fri-Sat: 11am-9pm 30955 Woodward Avenue, Suite 605 Royal Oak, MI 48073 Not sure if they show live footy though and doubt it - it's more of a real ale and food type of pub. About Us. This traditional town pub is just a street or two back from Bowness Pier with the hustle and bustle of Windermere tourism. Get quick answers from Royal Oak Inn staff and past visitors. FOOD MENU PLEASE CLICK 'MAIN MENU' , 'SET MENU' OR 'BAR MENU' BELOW ... 01702 258259. www.theroyaloakstambridge.com. Skip to content. Click here to find our about our range of drinks and local cask ales. EN. 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Note: your question will be posted publicly on the Questions & Answers page. Alongside our carvery we have an extensive menu with a range of foods to suit any and every palate. 139 likes. A traditional Lakeland Inn in the heart of the lake district Bed And Breakfast. Foursquare © 2020 Lovingly made in NYC, CHI, SEA & LA, "Cosy little pub serving Robinson's ale, just of the beaten track. Chicken and parmesan burger, smoked bacon, melted mozzarella, house relish, skinny fries £13.20. 4oz rump steak, 4oz, gammon steak with fried egg, cumberland sausage, black pudding, crispy onion rings, field mushrooms, salad garnish and chunky chips. Our Menu. Welcome to The Royal Oak. Book Royal Oak Inn, Windermere on Tripadvisor: See 150 traveller reviews, 23 candid photos, and great deals for Royal Oak Inn, ranked #67 of 106 B&Bs / inns in Windermere and rated 4 of 5 at Tripadvisor. Royal Oak Inn is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Windermere, offering a quaint environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay. Découvre aussi les photos et conseils de visiteurs. (604) 581-3330 I don't recall seeing any TVs to be honest. The Royal Oak is a small family-run inn with a warm, welcoming atmosphere, and enjoys a busy life all year round. Karaoke night friendly people. St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere is situated 380 feet northwest of The Royal Oak Inn. We nearly didn't return cos on our first visit there was 3 people sat a table nearby constantly swearing, i know he was...More, We visited with family for an evening meal and the staff were very accommodating and helpful. Given the close proximity of popular landmarks, such as High Street (1.3 mi) and Orrest Head (1.7 mi), guests of Royal Oak Inn can easily experience some of Windermere's most well known attractions. En af vores bestsellere i Bowness-on-Windermere Situated in the heart of Bowness-on-Windermere, The Royal Oak Inn offers a traditional Inn, which has been family run since 1995.. You have to pay on ordering...More, Visited couple of times, was there in July and toilets had rope across so customers could put across to let others know toilets were in use, one in one out, visited again in September, no rope? CONTACT US. Download now. The Oak Mixed Grill. 1 Tip and review. We stopped here for a couple of drinks before going for dinner one night. Restaurants near Royal Oak Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere on Tripadvisor: Find traveller reviews and candid photos of dining near Royal Oak Inn in Bowness-on-Windermere, United Kingdom. The Royal Oak Inn offers cosy rooms above the public bar with free Wi-Fi, TV, radio alarm clock and tea/coffee making facilities. The Royal Oak is a great local pub in the heart of the community, with a great range of drink to tempt you. Contact; Main Menu. Can a gluten free person get a good meal at this restaurant? Their phone number: 015394-43970. We went here several times on our break to Bowness, the staff are really friendly and work extremely well under the conditions. Drop on by or give us a call at (219) 964-0077 to make a reservation. The Royal Oak Lindale. Royal Oak Inn is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Windermere, offering a quaint environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay. 13. ratings. Didn't eat here so can't comment on food, but it looked nice! Not many pubs listed on sky website. View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow. ft. single-family home is a 4 bed, 1.0 bath property. Situated in the heart of Bowness-on-Windermere, The Royal Oak Inn offers a traditional Inn, which has been family run since 1995. We...More, This is the version of our website addressed to speakers of English in United Kingdom. 5 cask ales on today, I had 4, all good quality....More. From amenities to floorplan options, the leasing staff is ready to help match you with your perfect home. MENU. Get Directions Contact Us Sales (877) 455-9318 Parts (888) 437-1972 Service (888) 432-3651 Email Us. Tripadvisor gives a Travellers' Choice award to accommodations, attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travellers and are ranked within the top 10% of properties on Tripadvisor. Royal Oak Menu; Pub Safe; takeaway; Book; Open menu. Royal Oak: Diese Uhr von Audemars Piguet lieben die Hollywoodstars – hier zeigen wir Ihnen die 13 schönsten Modelle. Time Well Spent . Nissan Models; 2018 Nissan Reviews; Nissan NV VS Benz Sprinter; Purchasing at Dealership v. Privately; YouTube Channel; Menu. KAYAK searches hundreds of travel sites to help you find and book the hotel deal at The Royal Oak Inn that suits you best. Promotions. The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak. Contact Us. 4oz rump steak, 4oz, gammon steak with fried egg, cumberland sausage, black … COVID-19 UPDATE Read more TREAT SOMEONE. Search for The Royal Oak Inn discounts in Windermere with KAYAK. 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Traditional pub, well presented with good service. Reasonable prices. Would definitely recommend. Given the close proximity of popular landmarks, such as High Street (1.3 mi) and Orrest Head (1.7 mi), guests of Royal Oak Inn can easily experience some of Windermere's most well known attractions. I don't recall seeing any TVs to be honest. We are long standing member of CAMRA with a minimum of five real ales at any one time. This home was built in 1945 and last sold on for. 139 likes. Download Foursquare for your smart phone and start exploring the world around you! Locating pub... Order & Pay with the Greene King App. Are you sure you want to delete this answer? Royal Oak Restaurant 15336 fraser hwy Surrey, BC v3r3p5 CA. Are you sure you want to delete this question? Plus use our free tools to find new customers. The Royal Oak Inn - Bowness-on-Windermere 54.36328, -2.91984. Home; Covid-19; Menus; Our Reviews; Vacancies. The Royal Oak Inn is an accommodation in Windermere. The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak. Experience your new home at The Windemere in Royal Oak, MI. There was a back room that I think had a pool table so, perhaps, there was a TV in there. We didn't eat, so can't comment on the food, but...More, 5 of us sat at one of the outside tables under the heaters. Discover The Royal Oak, our charming hotel, bar & restaurant in Keswick. 7.0 / 10. The Royal Oak Inn offers cosy rooms above the public bar with free Wi-Fi, TV, radio alarm clock and tea/coffee making facilities. View menus, order your food & drink, and pay for your bill all from the comfort of your table! 12,241 were here. Royal Oak menu in image format shown on this website has been digitised by Zomato.com. Our customers at Royal Oak Family Restaurant have come to expect some of the best american food in Rensselaer. Welcome to The Royal Oak. 7.0 / 10. Get Prices. 01527 870141. Click here to view our menus and learn about our locally sourced produce Read More. It has a real traditional Inn feel to it and we were made to feel really welcome by the friendly staff. Some rooms are en-suite and some have a separate bathroom. Spark Bridge Ulverston Cumbria LA12 8BS Tel: 01229 861006. Consistently good, no complaints. Restaurants near Royal Oak Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere on Tripadvisor: Find traveller reviews and candid photos of dining near Royal Oak Inn in Bowness-on-Windermere, United Kingdom. Make sure your information is up to date. … Royal Oak Inn: Arrive Early for Specials Menu - See 677 traveler reviews, 93 candid photos, and great deals for Bowness-on-Windermere, UK, at Tripadvisor. More. The outdoor terraced seating is a welcome escape and the car park is a bonus. EN. Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, After-hours. We're just down the street. Translate: The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak The Royal Oak. Not forgetting to finish it off, stuffing, yorkshire puddings and of course our amazing gravy! This site was designed with the .com. Find our salads and you'll be delighted that you did. Royal Oak, Brantfell Road, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3EG (015394) 43970. www.royaloak-windermere.co.uk £58 per night (Latest starting price for this hotel). Skip to content. Can a vegan person get a good meal at this restaurant? Drink. Close. Great value and good prices throughout. Zomato.com does not guarantee prices or the availability of menu items at The Royal Oak. Cooks at Royal Oak Inn do their best to provide visitors with good yorkshire pudding, biscuits and brownies. Watch Our Festive Film. EN. Log in to leave a tip here. EVENTS. Menu; Royal Oak Inn. The Royal Oak Inn offers cosy rooms above the public bar with free Wi-Fi, TV, radio alarm clock and tea/coffee making facilities. Click here to see photos of our rooms and check availability & prices Read More. Guests. Refund Promise. The 2-star The Royal Oak Inn is situated 1.9 km from Thuline Studio - Gallery. Offering home-cooked food, cask ales and accommodation, book direct with us. Brantfell Road, Bowness-on-Windermere, United Kingdom, LA23 3EG show map. royal oak | golfvej 2 , jels | dk-6630 rØdding | tlf. We stayed here a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. (604) 581-3330. more. Visit Our Location 7690-110 Ave N.W., Calgary, AB, T3R1R8. Food. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Search. Situated in the heart of Bowness-on-Windermere, The Royal Oak Inn offers a traditional Inn, which has been family run since 1995. We rank these hotels, restaurants, and attractions by balancing reviews from our members with how close they are to this location. Delightful! Royal Oak Inn, Windermere: Bekijk 150 reizigersbeoordelingen, 23 onthullende foto's en goede aanbiedingen voor Royal Oak Inn, gewaardeerd als nr.67 van 106 B&B's/pensions in Windermere en geclassificeerd als 4 van 5 bij Tripadvisor. Royal Oak Inn is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Windermere, offering a quaint environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay. Royal Oak Inn pub in Bowness-On-Windermere (near Windermere), Cumbria, LA23 3EG : Pubs Galore : Contains reviews, photos, maps, events & social media details of Royal Oak Inn Menu (including prices) for Royal Oak may have changed since the last time the website was updated. A traditional Lakeland Inn in the heart of the lake district Been going now for over 7 year worth a visit. The Royal Oak Inn Bowness-on-Windermere - 2 star hotel. (604) 581-3330. Sizzling 8Oz Sirloin Steak. Has anyone got up to date prices for food and drink eg pint lager, spirits? Spark Bridge Ulverston Cumbria LA12 8BS Tel: 01229 861006. WELCOME TO ROYAL OAK HOTEL CLARENDON. Royal Oak Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere: See 668 unbiased reviews of Royal Oak Inn, rated 4 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked #19 of 83 restaurants in Bowness-on-Windermere. 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