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Dhritarashtra said, Thou didst mention to me before the name of Pandya, that hero of world-wide celebrity, but his feats, O Sanjaya, in battle have never been narrated by thee. Tell me today in detail of the prowess of that great hero, his skill, spirit, and energy, the measure of his might, and his pride' Sanjaya said, Bhishma and Drona and Kripa and Drona's son and Karna and Arjuna and Janardana, those thorough masters of the science of weapons, are regarded by thee as the foremost of car-warriors. Know, however, that Pandya regarded himself superior to all these foremost of car-warriors in energy. Indeed he never regarded any one amongst the kings as equal to himself. He never admitted his equality with Karna and Bhishma. Nor did he admit within his heart that he was inferior in any respect to Vasudeva or Arjuna. Even such was Pandya, that foremost of kings, that first of wielder of weapons. Filled with rage like the Destroyer himself, Pandya at the time was slaughtering the army of Karna. That force, swelling with cars and steeds and teeming with foremost of foot-soldiers, struck by Pandya, began to turn round like the potter's wheel.
Like the wind dispersing a mass of congregated clouds, Pandya, with his well shot arrows, began to disperse that force, destroying its steeds and drivers and standards and cars and causing its weapons and elephants to fall down. Like the splitter of mountains striking down mountains with his thunder, Pandya overthrew elephants with their riders, having previously cut down the standards and banners and weapons with which they were armed, as also the foot-soldiers that protected those beasts. And he cut down horses, and horsemen with their darts and lances and quivers. Mangling with his shafts the Pulindas, the Khasas, the Bahlikas, the Nishadas, the Andhakas, the Tanganas, the Southerners, and the Bhojas, all of whom, endued with great courage, were unyielding and obstinate in battle, and divesting them of their weapons and coats of mail, Pandya deprived them of their lives. Beholding Pandya destroying with his shafts in battle that host consisting of four kinds of forces, the son of Drona fearlessly proceeded towards that fearless warrior. Fearlessly addressing in sweet words that warrior who then seemed to dance on his car, Drona's son, that foremost of smiters, smiling the while, summoned him and said, O king, O thou with eyes like the petals of the lotus, thy birth is noble and learning great. Of celebrated might and prowess, thou resemblest Indra himself. Stretching with thy two massive arms the bow held by thee and whose large string is attached to thy grasp, thou lookest beautiful like a mass of congregated clouds as thou pourest over thy foes thick showers of impetuous shafts. I do not see anybody save myself that can be a match for thee in battle. Alone thou crushest numerous cars and elephants and foot-soldiers and steeds, like the fearless lion of terrible might crushing herds of deer in the forest.
Making the welkin and the Earth resound with the loud clatter of thy car-wheels thou lookest resplendent, O king, like a crop-destroying autumnal cloud of loud roars. Taking out of thy quiver and shooting thy keen shafts resembling snakes of virulent poison fight with myself only, like the asura Andhaka fighting with the three-eyed deity Thus addressed, Pandya answered, So be it Then Drona's son, telling him Strike assailed him with vigour. In return, Malayadhwaja pierced the son of Drona with a barbed arrow. Then Drona's son, that best of preceptors, smiling the while, struck Pandya with some fierce arrows, capable of penetrating into the very vitals and resembling flames of fire. Then Ashvatthama once more sped at his foe some other large arrows equipped with keen points and capable of piercing the very vitals, causing them to course through the welkin with the ten different kinds of motion. Pandya, however, with nine shafts of his cut off all those arrows of his antagonist. With four other shafts he afflicted the four steeds of his foe, at which they speedily expired. Having then, with his sharp shafts, cut off the arrows of Drona's son, Pandya then cut off the stretched bow-string of Ashvatthama, endued with the splendour of the sun.
Then Drona's son, that slayer of foes, stringing his unstringed bow, and seeing that his men had meanwhile speedily yoked other excellent steeds unto his car, sped thousands of arrows at his foe. By this, that regenerate one filled the entire welkin and the ten points of the compass with his arrows. Although knowing that those shafts of the high-souled son of Drona employed in shooting were really inexhaustible, yet Pandya, that bull among men, cut them all into pieces. The antagonist of Ashvatthama, carefully cutting off all those shafts shot by the latter, then slew with his own keen shafts the two protectors of the latter's car wheels in that encounter. Beholding the lightness of hand displayed by his foe, Drona's son, drawing his bow to a circle, began to shoot his arrows like a mass of clouds pouring torrents of rain. During that space of time, O sire, which consisted only of the eighth part of a day, the son of Drona shot as many arrows as were carried on eight carts each drawn by eight bullocks. Almost all those men that then beheld Ashvatthama, who at the time looked like the Destroyer himself filled with rage, or rather the Destroyer of the Destroyer, lost their senses. Like a mass of clouds at the close of summer drenching with torrents of rain, the Earth with her mountains and trees, the preceptor's son poured on that hostile force his arrowy shower. Baffling with the Vayavya weapon that unbearable shower of arrows shot by the Ashvatthama-cloud, the Pandya-wind, filled with joy, uttered loud roars. Then Drona's son cutting off the standard, smeared with sandal-paste and other perfumed unguents and bearing the device of the Malaya mountain on it, of the roaring Pandya, slew the four steeds of the latter.
Slaying then his foe's driver with a single shaft, and cutting off with a crescent-shaped arrow the bow also of that warrior whose twang resembled the roar of the clouds, Ashvatthama cut off his enemy's car into minute fragments. Checking with the weapons those of his enemy, and cutting off all the weapons of the latter, Drona's son, although he obtained the opportunity to do his enemy the crowning evil, still slew him not, from desire of battling with him for some time more. Meanwhile Karna rushed against the large elephant force of the Pandavas and began to rout and destroy it. Depriving car-warriors of their cars, he struck elephants and steeds and human warriors, O Bharata, with innumerable straight shafts. That mighty bowman, the son of Drona, although he had made Pandya, that slayer of foes and foremost of car-warriors, carless, yet he did not slay him from desire of fight. At that time a huge riderless elephant with large tusks, well-equipped with all utensils of war, treading with speed, endued with great might, quick to proceed against any enemy, struck with Ashvatthama's shafts, advanced towards the direction of Pandya with great impetuosity, roaring against a hostile compeer. Beholding that prince of elephants, looking like a cloven mountain summit, Pandya, who was well acquainted with the method of fighting from the neck of an elephant, quickly ascended that beast like a lion springing with a loud roar to the top of a mountain summit. Then that lord of the prince of mountains, striking the elephant with the hook, and inspired with rage, and with that cool care for which he was distinguished in hurling weapons with great force, quickly sped a lance, bright as Surya's rays, at the preceptor's son and uttered a loud shout. Repeatedly shouting in joy, Thou art slain, Thou art slain Pandya with that lance crushed to pieces the diadem of Drona's son adorned with foremost of jewels and diamonds of the first water and the very best kind of gold and excellent cloth and strings of pearls.
That diadem possessed of the splendour of the Sun, the Moon, the planets, or the fire, in consequence of the violence of the stroke, fell down, split into fragments, like a mountain summit riven by Indra's thunder, falling down on the Earth with great noise. At this, Ashvatthama blazed up with exceeding rage like a prince of snakes struck with the foot, and took up four and ten shafts capable of inflicting great pain upon foes and each resembling the Destroyer's rod. With five of those shafts he cut off the four feet and the trunk of his adversary's elephant, and with three the two arms and the head of the king, and with six he slew the six mighty car-warriors, endued with great effulgence, that followed king Pandya. Those long and well-rounded arms of the king, smeared with excellent sandal-paste, and adorned with gold and pearls and gems and diamonds falling upon the Earth, began to writhe like a couple of snakes slain by Garuda. That head also, graced with a face bright as the full Moon, having a prominent nose and a pair of large eyes, red as copper with rage, adorned with earrings, falling on the ground, looked resplendent like the Moon himself between two bright constellations. The elephant, thus cut off by that skilful warrior into six pieces with those five shafts and the king into four pieces with those three shafts lay divided in all into ten pieces that looked like the sacrificial butter distributed into ten portions intended for the ten deities. Having cut off numerous steeds and men and elephants into pieces and offered them as food into the Rakshasas, king Pandya was thus quieted by Drona's son with his shafts like a blazing fire in a crematorium, extinguished with water after it has received a libation in the shape of a lifeless body. Then like the chief of the celestials joyfully worshipping Vishnu after the subjugation of the Asura Vali, thy son, the king, accompanied by his brothers approaching the preceptor's son worshipped with great respect that warrior who is a complete master of the science of arms, after indeed, he had completed the task he had undertaken


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Arrow Episode Guide: Season 8, Episode 3 - Leap of Faith
For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here.
Reunited with his sister, Thea, Oliver finds himself in a race against Talia Al Ghul and the Thanatos Guild in the catacombs of the League of Assassins' headquarters. Meanwhile, Diggle and Lyla embark on a special ops mission together, to save Bronze Tiger's family. And in the far future of Star City 2040, the new Team Arrow take the fight to the Deathstrokes.
Indiana Jones movies (name-dropped, general theme of exploring a booby-trapped tomb, the Phoenix tile puzzle is lifted directly from the "name of God" challenge in The Last Crusade) and the present-day storyline of Arrow Season 3 (focus on League of Assassins drama, Diggle and Lyla spywork)
Many of the fights are shot too close. This would make it hard to see the action, if the poor lighting throughout the episode didn't make it impossible to see anything in general.
The Star City future storyline seems to suggest that the membership of the Star City Reunification movement is a big secret. Weren't they all present and trying to recruit new members at an incredibly open gala in the season 8 premiere?
The Thantos Guild die stupidly trying to get past Oliver (fully armed with a bow) and the booby trapped tomb of Al-Faith, by charging him one-at-a-time, while climbing down a rope.
Mia's throat-wound seems to heal up awfully quick when it's time for her to cradle Zoe and look anguished.
As always, Lexa Doig is a delight as Talia.
This episode marks Katie Cassidy's directorial debut.
This episode introduces the Arrowverse version of Sandra Hawke - the girlfriend of Ben Turner and mother of Connor Hawke.
In the original Green Arrow comics, Sandra "Moonday" Hawke was one of Oliver Queen's many short-term girlfriends during his free-loving college days. She became pregnant as a result of one of their dates, but refused to seek support, being determined to prove she could make it on her own as a single mother. Her son, Connor, would go on to meet his father nearly two decades later and eventually take up his mantle, becoming the second Green Arrow.
This episode sees Lyla and John return to Kasnia - a fictional nation first introduced into the DC Comics lexicon by Superman: The Animated Series. It has been repeatedly used on Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow whenever they needed a setting in Eastern Europe. On Earth-38, Kasnia was the nation which discovered the Supergirl clone that become known as The Red Daughter.
Felicity hard-wired the power grid of The Bunker through the floor. This can be used to electrocute anyone standing in the main room through a control hidden in a safe room.
Zoe makes use of a device that creates a stunning sonic attack similar to the Canary Cry. Sara Lance originally used this same device as The Canary in Season 2.
Dialogue Triumphs
(Oliver explains his bargain with The Monitor)
Oliver: He asked me to help him, but he's not very good at sharing information with the people he's working with.
Thea: (dryly) Sounds like somebody else I know.
Oliver: I need to be 100% sure that I can trust him. I know it's a long shot, but I was hoping that Nyssa could tell me what, if anything, the League knows about him.
Thea: Okay. What are you not telling me?
Oliver: He's seen the future. He's seen me die. It's soon, Speedy.
(There is a pause as Thea looks at Oliver expectantly.)
Thea: And?
Oliver: (deadpan) Take as much time as you need to be upset.
Thea: Ollie, come on. You've cheated death more than any of us have by this point.
Oliver: This is fundamentally different than anything that we've ever dealt with before.
Thea: Okay. Well, let's try to figure out what we're dealing with, but like I said, Nyssa's not here.
Oliver: Sara hasn't been able to help either.
Thea: We've kind of killed off every League member, haven't we?
Oliver: So now you're back to your old exploits?
Talia: With the League gone, the region has become quite unstable.
Thea: And you think training a bunch of assassins in a place like this is gonna stabilize it?
Talia: I think it a wiser course of action than declaring a one-woman war on the Thanatos Guild.
Thea: What is going on with you, Ollie? You were never this overprotective when I left Star City.
Oliver: Things have changed. I left my family behind, Speedy. And I miss them. And every day, I wrestle with whether or not I made the right decision because maybe I didn't. And I saw an entire world wiped out of existence. A world that you weren't in, by the way, because I wasn't around to protect you. I'm sorry, Thea, but the only way that I can bear this is if I become 100% certain that my sacrifice, that my death... will protect the people I love. I need my family to be safe.
Thea: You know, I've been thinking a lot about Mom and Dad lately, wondering what they would think about the lives we've chosen. All the mistakes they made, all the lies they told...In their own very, very messed up way, they thought they were protecting us.
Oliver: Well, they weren't. They didn't.
Thea: No, but it did help us become the people we are today. They turned us into heroes. We can't change the future, Ollie. The past teaches us you might as well not bother trying to.
Oliver: (chuckles) When you'd stop being my baby sister?
Thea: I never did. I just grew up a little bit. (sighs) Now can we please get off this mountain?
Oliver: Yeah.
Talia: It is your destiny.
Thea: Yeah, but, see, about that. I don't really believe in the whole fate, destiny thing. We can all make our own choices.
Talia: Meaning?
Thea: Meaning I don't think the world needs another League of Assassins. It could use League of Heroes. It wouldn't be a one-woman job.
Talia: You'd extend me that honor despite my betrayals?
Thea: You made a mistake. We've all made mistakes.
Talia: Not one but two women to wield my father's sword? He would be aghast. (Talia smiles and chuckles wickedly) I accept.
Oliver: I can't believe I'm saying good-bye to you again.
Thea: Well, you're not. Think of it as a "See you later, and please don't die."
Dialogue Disasters
The reactions to Zoe's death are pure hammy Narm.
Oliver runs into Thea in the area around Nanda Parbat.
Oliver catches Thea up on recent events, including her new niece.
Thea makes reference to 303 and her time in Corto Maltese, where she used Mia as an alias.
Thea now has a scar on her right cheek - the result of a battle with Athena of the Thanatos Guild.
Nyssa Al Ghul is off dealing with some League business. Thea thinks she is in Thailand.
Thea saw Roy Harper, sometime after the events of 720, and he told her about the fight with The Ninth Circle. He is currently off "dealing with his demons/"
Oliver contacted Sara Lance regarding the League's history and any connection the Monitor might have to it. She didn't know anything.
Lyla has been keeping an eye on Sandra and Connor Hawke since Ben Turner was recruited to ARGUS. He's currently on a deep-cover mission and Sandra missed a check-in for the first time.
Lyla has pictures of Sandra and Connor at an airfield in Kasnia - far from where Ben is now and any mission he's ever run for any organization.
The plane in the photo of Sandra and Connor belongs to Abdul Nardoc - a Kasnia philanthropist who is believed to have terrorism ties.
Lyla needs John to work with her on this mission, because she's still ferreting out all the corruption within ARGUS and can't trust anyone else with this mission.
Oliver refers to the events of 705 and how Talia owes him a debt for helping her escape from prison. He agrees to consider the debt paid if she helps him find the answers he seeks regarding The Monitor among the League's records.
The Karan Shah is the formal name of the League of Assassin's fortress and central base of operations. It has been destroyed, but the catacombs underneath it remain intact.
Talia's father had the League's historical records moved into the catacombs to keep them safe.
One of Abdul Nardoc's associates is Farzad Qadir - the son of Gholem Qadir - the man Ben Turner killed to save Lyla Michaels' life while serving in the Suicide Squad in 216.
The Chronicles of Al-Fatih are the journal of the founder of the League of Assassins and the first man to hold the title Ra's Al Ghul. Legend has it that he was given advanced knowledge by one of the sky gods. Talia thinks this could be The Monitor. When the book is located, it contains a drawing of the Monitor and a note that the end times would come if the League ever abandoned their mission charge from "the sky god" to maintain the balance between good and evil.
Thea can read Arabic.
The Sword of Al-Fatih is a relic of equal power to the Ring of Ra's Al Ghul. Before the Ring of Ra's Al Ghul, whoever wielded the Sword of Al-Fatih was considered leader of the League of Assassins. It is believed to be interred in Al-Faith's secret tomb.
Burning the false Chronicles of Al-Fatih reveals a stone sphere, marked with constellations, which somehow reveal the true location of Al-Fatih's tomb. It turns out to be on top of the mountain where Oliver dueled Talia's father in 309.
Talia poisons Oliver to keep him from getting to the tomb ahead of her. He is found by Thea, who he previously ordered to go back to their camp.
Talia is captured by Athena, who then captures Oliver and Thea and intends to use them to test for traps in the tomb of Al-Fatih.
Talia and Thea enter the tomb while Oliver holds off the Thanatos Guild.
Diggle and Lyla save Sandra and Connor Hawke.
All of the Thanatos Guild die.
Thea beats Talia in a duel for the Sword of Al-Fatih.
Talia passes command of her students over to Thea, but Thea refuses to restart the League of Assassins. She suggests, instead, that she and Talia start a League of Heroes.
Ollie makes reference to the Queen Family Hozen and how Felicity gave it to William.
William was able to protect himself from the Deathstrokes swarming The Bunker, having remembered that Felicity hard-wired the electricity for the complex through the floor. This enabled him to use it to shock them as they entered the main room.
William determines that John Diggle Jr. and the Deathstrokes are killing everyone involved in the Star City Unification movement. 10 have been killed so far.
Mia pushes the team to make a direct assault on the Deathstroke's hideout.
Zoe is killed by John Diggle Jr. while saving Mia.
Mia, William and Connor are sent back in time to 2019 and the original Team Arrow bunker.
Oliver is seemingly teleported to the Team Arrow bunker by the same flash of white light.
Nanda Parbat
Kasnia
Untelevised Adventures
Roy, Nyssa and Thea apparently destroyed the last of the Lazarus Pits some time between this episode and 616. They have been working since then to stop the Thanatos Guild from reforming the League of Assassins.
Ben Turner officially became an ARGUS agent sometime following the events of 722.
The Fridge Factor
Zoe Ramirez is unceremoniously killed off to give everyone else on Team Arrow 2.0 some angst. (Also, apparently, to not further confuse viewers with the presence of another Black Canary in the upcoming Green Arrow and the Canaries spin-off.)
A mixed bag, overall. The bits with Thea and Talia are good, but that owes more to Willa Holland and Lexa Doig nailing these characters out of the park with every appearance after so many years. The stuff with Diggle and Lyla is competently acted, but seems very repetitive. And the future storyline is as lackluster as everything else done with the flash-fowards since Season 7. Ultimately, it succeeds only because of some strong speeches and strong performances, which seem wholly separated from the overall direction and staging of the episode, which are outright horrible at times.
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Labels: Arrow, Arrow Episode Guide, Arrow Season Eight, Blackstar, Connor Hawke, John Diggle, John Diggle Jr., Lexa Doig, Talia Al Ghul, Thea Queen, William Clayton, Zoe Ramirez

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English teacher buys £52 fake TB diagnosis online so he can skip work for holiday
English teacher Mr Du tried to take time off from his school in Hohhot, in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, by pretending he had tuberculosis
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A teacher who bought a fake tuberculosis diagnosis online so he could go on holiday has been caught out after officials hauled him in for further tests.
Mr Du's dodgy diagnosis was discovered after two pupils at the school he works were found to have contracted the bacterial infection.
The 23-year-old teacher reportedly paid the equivalent of £52 for a fake chest scan and diagnosis online so he could take time off to go on holiday.
When Mr Du, who teaches English as a second language to children around the age of five, presented the certificate to his employers at the privately run school, they decided to test his 18 pupils for the disease.
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Things took an unexpected twist when two youngsters in his class were found to have TB.
The discovery led Mr Du to pay a further £35 for a second diagnosis showing he didn't have the disease, which usually takes months of daily antibiotics to cure.
But the teacher's second set of hospital documents failed to convince the parents, who pressured him into taking a third test at a Hohhot hospital in the Chinese region of inner Mongolia,
This proved not only that he had been clean of TB all along, but that the previous chest scans belonged to another person entirely.
It seems his two sick pupils contracted the disease from another source.
Mr Du, who parents said was popular among pupils, later made a public apology in front of all his pupils' parents.
He revealed he wanted to take an extended holiday and use China's National Day break to have some lengthy time off.
He paid the equivalent of more than £80 for the two fake scans (
Fearing his first lie would be exposed, he decided to lie again to try and cover it up, he added.
Mr Du admitted he did not realise how serious TB was when he chose to use it as his sick leave excuse.
Parents have told local media they are demanding further assurance that management at the school will improve, but did not say whether they would seek to involve officials with the city's education bureau.
The school's director, Ms Zhang, did not say whether Mr Du would keep his job.
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Sixers use steady offense, plenty of Joel Embiid in first road win
November 8, 2018 12:15 pm ET
For the Philadelphia 76ers, playing on the road has consisted of turning the ball over too much and not shooting well from the 3-point line.
The Sixers didn't significantly improve in either of those facets of their game Wednesday against the Indiana Pacers. Still, their steady play on offense helped them take down the Indiana Pacers 100-94 to earn their first road win of the season.
What the Sixers did well was initiating their offense through Joel Embiid. As Embiid played in the post, the floor opened for the rest of the team. Philly's star big man worked well in the post against Myles Turner early. He led the team with 20 points and shot 43.7 percent from the field.
With the Sixers being able to play through Embiid in the post, driving lanes were created; the Sixers totaled 46 points in the paint. As driving lanes appeared, 3-pointers were a bit easier to come by, too.
Sixers' 3-point shooting vs. Pacers
The Sixers still didn't shoot well from the 3-point line, but they finished about two percentage points higher than what their average on the road was before this game.
Dario Saric had his best game of the season, as he got cleaner looks within the offense. Saric scored a season-high 18 points and shot a season-high 66.6 percent from beyond the arc.
Landry Shamet also benefited from receiving open looks, as he shot 50 percent from 3-point range. Since Shamet moves without the ball well, he has been a solid option for the Sixers off the bench.
Though the Sixers played well inside, they faltered on offense when the Pacers defended the interior better. Philly committed 16 turnovers, right around their average per game for the season. As players drove into the lane, the Pacers clogged the paint. Embiid led the team with five turnovers, but perhaps that could be attributed to the Sixers becoming a bit too reliant on him for parts of the game.
The 24-year-old was doing so well in the post that the Sixers kept going to him, and rightfully so. The Pacers began to defend against Embiid better in the post, which messed with Philly's spacing.
Still, the Sixers' 16 turnovers were an improvement compared to their season-high 27 turnovers against the Brooklyn Nets.
Though the Sixers grabbed their first road win of the season, there was one other main area of concern. This came from the fact that they didn't play well defensively in the fourth quarter.
Saric hit a 3-pointer to put them up 92-75 with about 7:30 left, but the Pacers cut away at the lead because the Sixers didn't defend the 3-point line anywhere close to the level they did early on. Bojan Bogdanovic hit two 3-pointers and Victor Oladipo hit one as well during a 13-4 run for the Pacers.
For the Sixers, this first road win is a step in the right direction, but as the season goes on, they'll have to continue to improve their performances when playing away from Wells Fargo Center.
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OLCC kicks off six-month ban on flavored vape products
Created: 11 October 2019 | Written by Sam Stites/Oregon Capital Bureau
Ban takes effect Monday, Oct. 15, as OHA and OLCC to create work group to investigate cause of vape-related outbreak.
Oregon's Liquor Control Commission and the Oregon Health Authority on Friday, Oct. 11, rolled out a ban on all flavored cannabis and nicotine vaping products in response to a growing number of cases of acute respiratory illness and death linked to vaping.
OLCC board members unanimously approved temporary rules proposed by the Health Authority after a Portland meeting. The board was responding to Gov. Kate Brown's Oct. 4 order placing a temporary ban on the products.
OLCC's ban takes effect Monday, Oct. 15. The ban is expected to affect approximately 4,000 retailers statewide.
"We're dealing with a national epidemic with a growing number of cases," said Jeff Rhodes, the governor's senior policy adviser to OLCC. "The latest numbers are 1,299 cases and 26 deaths, two of which occurred in Oregon."
In Oregon, an outbreak of nine cases of acute respiratory illness caused the Health Authority and Brown to issue warnings in late September for Oregonians to stop vaping. Brown asked the Health Authority to propose options up to and including a temporary ban which she issued a week earlier.
According to OLCC officials, the agency will call manufacturers and retailers across the state this weekend to inform them of the new rules and distributing signs notifying consumers of the ban.
The ban does not include tobacco-flavored tobacco or nicotine products. It also doesn't include marijuana-flavored marijuana and THC products on the market.
OLCC Marijuana Technical Unit Manager TJ Sheehy said that 10 percent of all marijuana vape products would be affected by the ban. A process to handle exceptions could be in place by Nov. 15 at which time manufacturers can apply to have products sourced from natural botanicals exempted from the ban.
"It's important to note that most of these cases reporting vaping of THC products, some of them using exclusively THC products, but also some using exclusively nicotine products," said Dr. Dean Sidelinger, state health officer. "In working with the CDC, we still don't have a definitive cause of this injury, or what ingredient or ingredients are causing it."
The OLCC and the Health Authority will create a work group in the next six months to examine the source of these illnesses.


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Delays at U.S.-Canadian border concern business owners, employees
Vermont U. S. Rep. Peter Welch held a discussion about the issue Monday
Updated: 7:17 PM EDT Jun 3, 2019
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NBC5 Reporter
14:00:12:10 45 TO 50 MINUTES, DEPENDING THAT'S HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR ROB VOSINEK TO GET TO WORK... HE COMMUTES FROM QUEBEC -- TO JAY PEAK EVERY DAY... WHERE HE'S THE CANADIAN GROUP SALES MANAGER. 14:00:31:10 I COMMUNICATE WITH THE PORT OFFICIALS ON A REGULAR BASIS VOSINEK -- SHARING HIS CONCERNS ABOUT DECREASED STAFFING AT THE U.S.-CANADIAN BORDER AT A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION THIS WEEK, HOSTED BY VEROMONT CONGRESSMAN PETER WELCH... WHO SAYS STAFFING AT THE NORTHERN BORDER HAS BEEN A CONCERN FOR MONTHS... SINCE SOME STAFFERS HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY RE-LOCATED TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER, TO MANAGE OVERCROWDING CONCERNS. 13:37:54:17 IF YOU'RE TRYING TO SOLVE ONE PROBLEM YOU DON'T DO IT BY CREATING ANOTHER THE STAFFING -- IMPACTING BUSINESSES, LIKE THE BURLINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. IT'S PRESIDENT GENE RICHARDS SAYS 20- PERCENT OF ITS PASSENGERS ARE CANADIANS. 13:53:03:22 PEOPLE ARE ALREADY CHALLENGED. THEY'RE RIGHT AT THEIR PATIENCE LEVEL 13:53:20:09 WE NEED THAT OPERATION TO WORK WELL NATS / CLAPPING 14:31:30:25 ONE OF THE LARGEST TRADING PARTNERS IS OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH: CANADA GOVERNOR PHIL SCOTT -- ALSO EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF A SMOOTH OPERATION AT THE NORTHERN BORDER... AT A 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FOR A. N. DARINGER -- WHICH DEALS WITH U.S. AND CANADIAN BUSINESSES...EV ERY DAY. THE COMPANY'S PRESIDENT -- SAYS TARIFFS -- ARE ALSO A MAJOR CONCERN... 14:43:11:14 OUR CLIENTS HAVE NEEDED US MORE IN THE LAST YEAR PROBABLY THAN THEY HAVE IN A WHILE. ITS VERY COMPLEX AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO STAY THAT WAY FOR A WHILE VERMONTERS -- HOPING TO SEE CHANGES THAT WILL IMPACT AMERICANS AND CANADIANS IN A POSITIVE WAY. .
"(It takes me) 45 to 50 minutes, depending (on traffic)," said Rob Vosinek. That's how long it takes for him to get to work. He commutes every day from Quebec to Jay Peak Resort, where he's the Canadian Group Sales Manager."I communicate with the port officials on a regular basis," he said.Vosinek shared his concerns about decreased staffing at the U.S.-Canadian border at a roundtable discussion this week hosted by Vermont U.S. Rep. Peter Welch.Welch said staffing at the northern border has been a concern for months since some officers have been temporarily relocated to the southern border to help manage overcrowding concerns. "If you're trying to solve one problem you don't do it by creating another," he told business leaders in the room.The staffing shortage is impacting businesses like the Burlington International Airport, whose general manager, Gene Richards, said 20 percent of its passengers are Canadians."People are already challenged. They're right at their patience level. We need that operation to work well," said Richards."One of the largest trading partners is our neighbor to the north: Canada," said Gov. Phil Scott.The governor also emphasized the importance of a smooth operation at the northern border at a 100th anniversary celebration for customs broker A.N. Deringer. The company deals with U.S. and Canadian businesses every day.A.N. Deringer's President Jake Holzscheiter said tariffs are a concern."Our clients have needed us more in the last year probably than they have in a while. It's very complex and I think it's going to stay that way for a while," he said.Vermonters are hoping to see changes at the border that will impact Americans and Canadians in a positive way.
"(It takes me) 45 to 50 minutes, depending (on traffic)," said Rob Vosinek.
That's how long it takes for him to get to work.
He commutes every day from Quebec to Jay Peak Resort, where he's the Canadian Group Sales Manager.
"I communicate with the port officials on a regular basis," he said.
Vosinek shared his concerns about decreased staffing at the U.S.-Canadian border at a roundtable discussion this week hosted by Vermont U.S. Rep. Peter Welch.
Welch said staffing at the northern border has been a concern for months since some officers have been temporarily relocated to the southern border to help manage overcrowding concerns.
"If you're trying to solve one problem you don't do it by creating another," he told business leaders in the room.
The staffing shortage is impacting businesses like the Burlington International Airport, whose general manager, Gene Richards, said 20 percent of its passengers are Canadians.
"People are already challenged. They're right at their patience level. We need that operation to work well," said Richards.
"One of the largest trading partners is our neighbor to the north: Canada," said Gov. Phil Scott.
The governor also emphasized the importance of a smooth operation at the northern border at a 100th anniversary celebration for customs broker A.N. Deringer.
The company deals with U.S. and Canadian businesses every day.
A.N. Deringer's President Jake Holzscheiter said tariffs are a concern.
"Our clients have needed us more in the last year probably than they have in a while. It's very complex and I think it's going to stay that way for a while," he said.
Vermonters are hoping to see changes at the border that will impact Americans and Canadians in a positive way.


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Albayrak Career
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Tractors and Engines
TÜMOSAN
TÜMOSAN, which has successfully carried out many products and services since its establishment in 1976, continues its activities in order to contribute to the country's economy and to eliminate foreign dependency with its experience of more than 40 years in the production and development of diesel engines, tractors, gearboxes, transmission and power transmission organs.
TÜMOSAN which is the neing the first diesel engine manufacturer of Turkey, has focused on R&D studies of engine, transmission and power transmission groups and electronic systems for the Defense Industry sector in 2012, and has signed national projects in the Defense Industry with 100% Turkish capital and engineers for more than 40 years. continues its activities with the mission of throwing.
TÜMOSAN was selected by the Defense Industry Presidency (SSB) in order to initiate contract negotiations in the Altay Main Combat Power Group tender in 2014, the contract was signed on March 17, 2015, but the force major and the project occurred due to the failure of the Austrian firm providing technical support to obtain an export license from its government. This contract was mutually terminated on February 24, 2017, since the changes requested by TÜMOSAN were not accepted by SSB.
Following the signing of the Power Group Development Project Agreement between TÜMOSAN and SSB, tactical wheeled vehicle concept design studies, which will consist entirely of domestic systems in the field of Defense Industry, started and the developed industrial prototype vehicle was presented at IDEF'17 Fair. The first prototype of the armored vehicle called "PUSAT", with the R&D project supported by TÜBİTAK after the fair, took place in the IDEF'19 Fair.
TÜMOSAN first started R&D studies to develop automatic transmission with torque converter, automatic transmission with synchromesh and transmission control unit in Turkey and has taken an important progress in this regard. Industrial prototypes of 8 + 1 manual transmission, 8 + 1 synchromesh automatic transmission and full automatic transmission with torque converter, which were developed by TÜMOSAN for on-road and off-road wheeled vehicles, were presented at IDEF'19 Fair. The hybrid power package, developed for PUSAT and the "ALP" power group developed for Armored Combat Vehicles, was also among the remarkable products at the fair.
As a result of intensive R&D studies, a contract was signed between SSB and FNSS for the supply of 100 Special Purpose Tactical Wheeled Armored Vehicle (ÖMTTZA) project diesel engines from TÜMOSAN.
In line with Turkey's 2023 goal and strategy and within the framework of localization activities; Instead of the gasoline Wisconsin engines of American origin used in the Aircraft Stop Systems, which are used to safely stop the military aircraft when they land on the runway in emergency situations at Military Airports.TÜMOSAN has started the Aircraft Stop System Rewind Engine Application Project for the use of 3-cylinder diesel engines. TÜMOSAN 55 horsepower diesel engine suitable to be integrated into the Aircraft Stop System within the scope of the project; The domestic and national power package, which includes the cooling package and its subsystems, was applied and presented to the use of the Turkish army.
Developed as the first member of the Marine engine family, the 4DT-41M engine (105 hp) was showcased as "Turkey's 100% Domestic Marine Engine" at the CNR Eurasia Boat Show – 14th International Marine Vehicles, Equipment and Accessories Fair. The TÜMOSAN Marine Engine Project has been initiated to develop solutions that Turkey needs, extending to the type of engines that can be used both for the use of auxiliary engines and marine generators and for boats with an average length of 12 meters. With the project, it is aimed to offer and integrate economic and national-domestic solutions at 75, 85, 95 and 105 horsepower for important waterways platforms in Turkey, which is surrounded by seas on three sides.
In order to increase the product range of TÜMOSAN, generator and generator engine production was planned by using 3 and 4 cylinder diesel engines, and in the first half of 2019, 4-cylinder 42, 48, 65, 74, 82, 91 and 100 kVA generator engines were produced. At the same time, a domestic generator with 80 kilovoltamper (kVA) power was developed as the first member of the Generator family with options varying between 40-100 kVA using the TÜMOSAN engine was exhibited at the fair.
TÜMOSAN, which has achieved many firsts in our country with its young staff, most of whom are doctorate and graduate level engineers in Istanbul Topkapı R&D Center, is forcing the boundaries of our country's industry with its newly developed engines and other projects, such as diesel engines, transmissions and transmission organs. It has undertaken a mission to reduce our country's external dependence on critical issues. With the activities of TÜMOSAN, Turkey will reach a competitive level among countries that have the ability to develop and manufacture diesel engines, transmissions and powertrains in the world.
TÜMOSAN also aims to take an active role within the framework of localization activities of Engines, Transmissions, Power Packs and Transmission Bodies within the scope of modernization projects in the field of Defense Industry.
TÜMOSAN will develop nationally and locally cost-effective products in line with Turkey's 2023 goals and strategies, and present them to the use of our Defense Industry.
TÜMOSAN has ISO 9001 Quality Management System Certificate, TSE Service Qualification Certificate (TSE-HYB), MSB Military Factories General Directorate Approved Supplier Certificate, Facility Security Certificate and R&D Center certificates.
www.tumosan.com.tr
ALBAYRAK CONSTRUCTION
After the earthquake that destroyed the city in 1939, there were also members of the Albayrak family among those who ran to Erzincan to start reconstruction. First came Albayrak's father, then his son Hacı Ahmet Albayrak, the founder of Albayrak Group. Hacı Ahmet Albayrak worked in the construction of housing units for earthquake victims until 1950 to serve his country and act with the awareness of creating a safe future for society.
Albayrak Construction is among the best construction companies in Turkey with the projects it has initiated since the 1950s when urbanization started to accelerate in Turkey. Albayrak Construction has undertaken many important projects including the construction of Muş Train Station in 1954, 4th Levent-Taksim Metro in 2001, Kartal-Kaynarca Metro Line in 2017, hospitals (more than 1,000 beds in total), and stadium (33,000 seats). It has completed more than 20,000 housing constructions.
Albayrak Construction is famous for being able to do business in the most difficult and unfavourable conditions abroad and finishing projects before the time it's due. For example, a 200-bed capacity hospital in Mogadishu was concluded in 12 months with a 24-month contract, and the construction of the Mogadishu Turkish Embassy building was completed in 24 months, despite a 36-month contract.
In the last 10 years, the company has turned into an investor operator in the global arena. With the concessions of Mogadishu and Conakry Ports, the company continues its investments with a revenue-sharing mechanism where it is responsible for construction, seaside investments, and equipment investments. Albayrak, with its engineers and technical team, has full control of the local construction market conditions within its borders and contributes significantly to the development of the countries concerned with a win-win approach.
The strategy of Albayrak Construction is based on the joint development of concessions and contracting works, which are two main fields of activity. Albayrak Construction aims to strengthen this business model by expanding its area of expertise and the geography in which it is active.
Albayrak Construction's goal is; to consolidate its position as a private sector company serving the public interest, to fulfil its globalization targets in strong growth markets, to strengthen its position in transportation and logistics activities, to accelerate the digital transformation of business activities with its own team and to provide fully independent transparent management.
The main task of Albayrak Construction; To design, finance, construct and operate infrastructure and facilities to improve daily life, logistics activities, and mobility, acting with the mission of providing benefit to society and developing infrastructure for countries.
Beyond economic and financial impacts, Albayrak Construction has a vision of versatile performance and is determined to operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Group companies operating in the field of environmental management play an active role in realizing this vision.
Albayrak Construction, which undertakes projects for the benefit of the public and society, thinks that it is essential to engage in active and effective dialogue with all its stakeholders to correctly explain the win-win principle to all its stakeholders in the conduct of business activities.
Transparency allows for the most active and instantaneous information transfer possible with the effective help of the information technology company of our group.
Acting with this assertive vision, Albayrak Construction's goal is to create long-term, sustainable benefit for its customers, employees, partners, and humanity.
VARAKA KAĞIT
SEKA Balıkesir Paper Factory, which started its activities in 1981 to produce domestic newspapers and book paper, was transformed into a joint stock company in 1997 within the scope of privatization, and in 2003 it was included within Albayrak Group.
After joining the group, modernization works are started and a paper production machine with a capacity of 174,000 tons / year was purchased from Holmen Paper Madrid S.L. The machine was disassembled in the first quarter of 2013 and installed in Balıkesir SEKA facility with a capacity target of 400,000 tons / year. Completed, the facility was completed in mid-2019 with a trial production by Varaka Kâğıt Sanayi A.Ş. as it started its activities with.
The facility, which was established on an area of 1,265,000 square meters near Paşaköy, on the Balıkesir-Bigadiç highway, has a closed area of 110,000 square meters. The headquarters of the company is in Istanbul.
The products produced and planned to be produced in Varaka Paper facilities are as follows: Fluting, Testliner (Brown), Testliner (White), Testliner (White Coated), Kraft (Imitation), Kraft, Gray Cardboard, Bag Paper.
High-tech Automation Control System (DCS) and Quality Control Systems (QCS) are used at every stage of production in order to increase productivity and quality and to ensure continuity in the product quality.
Varaka Paper, which is environment friendly, uses 100% waste paper as a raw material for its production, while ensuring the recycling of paper and packaging wastes to the economy, it also contributes to environmental cleanliness by using waste. In addition, it prevents the use of trees for paper production and prevents the cutting of thousands of trees.
In the cogeneration facility it owns, the fuel provided by the country's resources is burned and steam is produced, while, the electricity requirement of the facility is produced with the steam turbine, then it brings environmentalism to the force by using energy resources correctly and efficiently.
Waste water from the process is treated in a treatment facility consisting of physical, chemical and biological treatment units with a capacity of 9400 m3 / day, and discharged by creating a wastewater below the discharge criteria. At the same time, it minimizes water consumption by using some of the treated water in its own process.
www.varaka.com.tr
On-Vehicle Equipment
KADEME A.Ş.
Kademe A.Ş., which started its activities in 2011, in Konya Organized Industrial Zone on the land of 1.000.000 square meters, in a closed area of 20.000 square meters; constitute the industry's most extensive product range with productions of compact, vacuum and trailed type road sweeping vehicles, disinfectant and sterilization vehicles, hydraulic compacted garbage container, hook lift, container washing vehicle, water tanker-sprinkler, vacuum truck, combined trenching machine, various type platform, tree removal machine, trailer, and compost machine.
Within the framework of the Albayrak's corporate culture and international quality understanding, offers products and services by creating value beyond customer expectations, attaches great importance to honesty and after-sales satisfaction. Albayrak is open to foreign markets and to adopt the mission of being a leading international organization in the production of on-vehicle equipment, and unconditionally as a vision. With a customer-oriented approach, it has set itself the main goal of reaching the position of "leading company" in Turkey and the world.
With its expert staff, have superior engineering knowledge, it aims to expand its product range by analysing the needs of the sector and transferring the opportunities offered by advanced technology, to the production processes at the highest level in line with the pioneering and innovative approach, and to strengthen its position in the domestic market as well as in the countries it exports to.
With its strong R&D department, Kademe offers the opportunity to design and manufacture equipment on vehicles of different brands and types in the sector where each order requires a new design.
Kademe which is being a leader in the sector with its manufacturing and after-sales service support, carries out its production without sacrificing quality by obtaining a CE certificate for the products it manufactures at ISO 9001 quality standards.
www.kademe.com.tr
Defense Industries
TÜMOSAN DÖKÜM
TÜMOSAN Döküm has started its production activities in 2012, manufactures cast iron parts in the factory established on an area of 15.340 square meters. The factory, which has a gross liquid metal production capacity of 10,000 tons / year in a single shift, is aimed to reach 20,000 tons / year in double shifts.
TÜMOSAN Döküm, melting system producing 6 tons / hour of liquid metal, 800x1000x300 + 300 mm 50 molds / hour automatic molding, 45 tons / hour sand preparation system, 25 and 80 lt cold box core machines, robotic and manual grinding units, 1 ton It has suspended sandblasting machine, surface painting units and fully equipped sand and metal laboratories.
TÜMOSAN Döküm is a customer-oriented company that has a command of the technical and environmental standards of the sector, is aware of its social responsibilities, knows the value of the environment, nature and human health, is open to continuous improvement, uses advanced technology, manufactures at international standards.
It has determined as a vision to increase the contribution rate to the country's economy, industry and employment with the existing production capacity increase and new investments, and to become a leading global casting company that guides the sector.
www.tumosandokum.com.tr
MEZRA AGRICULTURE
Mezra Ziraat founded in 2018 to eliminate the raw material deficiency of Erzurum Sugar Factory, lease arable lands within the borders of Erzincan and Sivas, making beet cultivation, introducing modern agricultural practices and agricultural tools to the farmers in the region, and leading them in this regard.
In the 2018-2019 season, when founded, 4,500 decares of land were leased as well as 7500 decares of leased land in the 2019-2020 season, and thus 6-10% of the raw material need of the Erzurum Sugar Factory was met by Mezra Ziraat.
In addition, within the scope of modern agricultural tools and agricultural practices, 10 tractors, 2 6-row dismantling machines, and 3 cleaning and loading machines, and a wide variety of plows and seed drills were purchased, and this equipment was offered to our farmers as other rented planting areas.
The dealership of an important company in modern irrigation systems has been taken; Both our farmers were provided with irrigation systems at affordable prices, and the 7500 decare area was equipped with sprinkler irrigation systems, saving the lands from the flood (wild) irrigation method that causes soil erosion. In addition, those who did not rent their fields or planted other crops were encouraged to plant sugar beet with sprinkler irrigation pipes, seed, fertilizer, and harvesting supports. Because of these incentives, there has been an increase in farmer planting and an awareness of modern agriculture has increased.
Mezra Ziraat, the only pioneering private company in Turkey in its field, continues its activities by growing with a machinery and equipment park of 25 million TL, 10.000 decares of cultivation area, approximately 60.000 tons of beet production capacity, 50 permanent 150 seasonal employees in total.
EREĞLİ TEKSTİL
Established by Sümerbank in 1934, Ereğli Integrated Textile Factory was put into operation in 1937 and joined Albayrak Group in 1997 within the scope of privatization. After this date, Ereğli Tekstil, which has become a giant integrated facility in the sector with its 8 million dollars of modernization, technology park, and new unit investments, has succeeded to be among the three biggest brands in Turkey.
The factory, which consists of a fabric factory with a closed area of 45,000 square meters on a land of 72,000 square meters and garment units with a closed area of 3,500 square meters, produces weaving thread, sewing thread, printed and dyed fabric, and sewing from fabric.
Manufacturing and sewing fabric of camouflage and non-camouflage clothing, coats, parkas, shirts, and wind jackets for land, air, gendarmerie and security forces with international quality standards, antibacterial, nanotechnology features, with the machine park developed with Industry 4.0 technology, as well as cold climate parkas and dresses, planting is done.
The production volume of Ereğli Tekstil, which has an annual capacity of 5 million dyed fabrics, 8 million printed fabrics, and 765 thousand ready-to-wear suits, fills the needs of the General Staff and Police units. Ereğli Tekstil, where 950 people are employed, has an annual growth rate of approximately 30 percent.
www.ereglitekstil.com
Sugar Production
SUKKAR ŞEKER ÜRETİMİ
Erzurum and Erzincan Sugar Factories, which were put into service in 1956 by the late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, were taken over by Albayrak Group in 2018 and started to produce crystal sugar with the SUKKAR brand as of May 2019.
As a result of the efforts put in factories renewal and modernization, with an investment of over 40 million TL, the capacity of the Erzincan Sugar Factory, where 1800 tons of beets are processed per day, has increased to 2200 tons and the capacity of the Erzurum Sugar Factory, where 3300 tons of beets are processed per day, has increased to 4000 tons.
SUKKAR produces 80.000 tons of crystal sugar annually in 1500 decares of land and 116 decares of closed area in the region where beet cultivation and approximately half a million tons of sugar beet are harvested on 100.000 decares of land with nearly 4000 farmers. While performing these, it provides employment opportunities for 400 personnel.
SUKKAR, which is also the pioneer of the transition to mechanized agriculture in Erzurum and Erzincan Sugar Factories, in order to increase beet production and sugar yield per decare, put into service the beet harvesting, also, loading and cleaning machines imported from abroad within this scope. In this way, sugar beets are easily removed and transported from the field, saving workload and cost.
Additionally, the company, which plans to focus on the neglected agricultural cultivation areas in the field of sugar beet production in the Erzurum region, aims to increase productivity and farmer training to the highest levels by implementing an exemplary agriculture practice. It also plans the licensed warehouse activities for the cereals to be sown by the farmer, and the oil factory where it will collect and process oil seeds for sunflowers. In addition to these, the dry pulp facility, cube sugar facility and sugar packaging facilities are among its near-term targets.
www.sukkar.com.tr
Established in 1952, Albayrak Group embarked on its journey by launching operations in the construction sector. Today, the group boasts over 30 companies that employ close to 20,000 workers in the fields of construction, manufacturing, logistics, services and media.
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The Energy Project
Butterfly Way Station: Helping an Eagle Scout and Our Community
Written by Jillian Cready
Including an interview with Krish Dhanuka
This past summer, Puranik Foundation had the opportunity to transform a Third Ward community park into a butterfly way station. By partnering with Eagle Scout Krish Dhanuka, the block-wide Chess Park gained visitors of humans and insects alike.
We talked with Krish about his project, and what inspired him to focus on butterflies and Chess Park in particular.
"When I was looking for a place to do my Eagle Scout project, I wanted to do it where I could make a big impact, and that is when I found Chess Park. Seeing how Chess Park was currently benefiting the community, and its future potential was really inspiring to me. I figured it would be a great place to do my project," said Dhanuka.
After assessing the park, Krish then decided to focus on butterfly-attracting flowers and plants that would contribute to a monarch butterfly way station.
"The reason for the Monarch Butterfly Way Station is to sustain monarch butterflies on their migration path from Canada to Mexico and vice versa. While on their migration, they go through multiple generations and need places to sustain themselves. The main plant in the way station is milkweed, which is the only thing monarch caterpillars can eat. The rest of the plants attract other pollinators and animals," Krish continued.
These plants will be sustained long after this year's migration, which took place between October 10th-22nd, 2021.
"The park will be beneficial for as long as it stays alive and maintained. If the plants are receiving water we can continuously regrow the milkweed and the way station will stay functional," Krish discussed.
We will be tending to this location, as one of our many Plant with Puranik projects. These are monthly events where we partner with a local park or community garden to help maintain, build, or expand these cherished areas.
"I would like to follow up on the park and continue to visit it as often as I can. I live about an hour away from the park so I am not able to water it on a daily basis, but I asked Mr. Edward Pettitt to water them. I want to try to keep the park operational as long as possible. Personally, I want to try to get more involved with more non-profits and projects like this one as I grow up, and I also want to try to help as many people as I can by either volunteering in different places or doing more community projects like this one," Krish added.
We, at Puranik Foundation, were excited to partner with such a passionate student to work on this specific project. We thank Krish, his family, and his fellow scouts who made this possible.
If you or your school have any projects such as this one in mind that need assistance, please contact info@puranikfoundation.org. If you are interested in volunteering on a Plant with Puranik day, please follow us on social media or visit our website www.puranikfoundation.org to learn more.
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(thing) by malcster Sun Oct 06 2002 at 12:48:21
Name: Shadow Man
Format: Nintendo 64*, Playstation, PC, Dreamcast.
Developer: Acclaim Teeside Studios
Publisher: Acclaim
BBFC rating: 15
Acclaim's wonderfully dark 3D action platformer. The game is based on the themes of Voodoo and the afterlife, and a supernatural avenger who is trying to save the world from the enemy, named Legion.
The basic plot of the game is that you play Mike LeRoi, an ex cab driver from New Orleans. After Mike got in trouble with a street gang he was in fear of his life. He asked a Voodoo priest to put a charm on him to protect him from dying. Unfortunately it worked a little to well, and then the gang decided to attack Mike's car, which also contained the rest of his family, including Luke, his brother. Everyone in the car died, except Mike. When he woke up from a 5 year coma, his memory was gone, and he was a slave to the Voodoo priest, forced to work as a hitman for him. Later, Nettie, another powerful Voodoo priest, freed Mike from the clutches of his original master. She put the mask of shadows in his chest, forcing him to become his alter ego, Shadow Man, walker of Deadside.
Deadside and Liveside are the two worlds in which the game is set. You travel between them using Luke's teddy bear, which warps to any level which you have already visited.
Deadside is the afterlife, a twisted world full of once living people turned in to zombies, or even little two headed walking torsos. Most of the game is set in Deadside.
Marrow gates
This is the first area of Deadside, and this is where you can talk to Jaunty, a skeleton snake who is your mentor of sorts in Deadside. He will provide you "advice", but regrettably some of it is not helpful in the slightest.
Paths of Shadow
These paths connect every area of Deadside together, and this is the place you will spend most of your time trekking though.
The Temple of Life located in the Wasteland is where you can trade in any cadeaux you find - 100 gets you a new block on your life bar.
This is the first of the Gad temples, and after completing it you are rewarded with the Gad Toucher which allows you to push burning blocks without taking damage.
Temple of Prophecy
This Gad temple is the home of the Gad Marcher, which allows Shadow Man to walk over hot coals without taking damage.
The final, and hardest Gad temple, contains the Gad Nager, which allows you to swim in lava without taking damage. All three Gad tattoos are needed to complete the game.
The Asylum, the main base of Legion, the Shadow man's arch enemy. Contains:
Cageways
Contains a train to transport you into the Asylum proper.
Where you first get to see the inspiring size of the Asylum up close.
Cathedral of Pain
This level is the gate to all five of the serial killers lairs in Liveside. Retractors are needed to enter each lair through the girsly "Schism" gateway (a flayed torso, into which you plunge a surgical tool to open it up. It then become a passage to Liveside
Lavaducts
The Gad Nager is almost essential here, because as the name suggests, the level is full of lava.
This is the most disturbing level in the game, because it is made up of white tiled rooms covered with blood.
This moody level is one of the last in the game (although as with all the others, it can be reached quite early on, since Shadow man is so non-linear) and as such has Dark Souls hidden in the most fiendish places.
This level is crucial to finishing the game, as it houses the dark engine which powers the Asylum. The engine was built by one of The Five, Jack 2. You must shut it down to proceed.
Liveside is the game's name for our world. A small but very significant portion of the game is set here.
Levels set in Liveside include:
Bayou Paradise
This level houses Nettie the Voodoo priest, who is ultimately in charge of you. She gives you necessary items at the start, and can be returned to at any time for advice.
Gardelle Jail
This level houses three of the serial killers: The Lizard King, the Repo man, and the Video Nasty Killer. Naturally, the prison is in the middle of a full scale riot.
Mordant St. NY
This gloomy level houses Avery Marx, aka the Home improvement killer. He wanders round this pitch dark flat with Night vision goggles, hunting you.
Down St. Station
This out of use tube station is the home of Jack 2, a resurrected version of the original Jack the Ripper. He is the hardest serial killer to beat.
The levels with serial killers in can at first only be entered through a Schism Trace from the Cathedral of Pain, but once they have been explored they can be warped to from anywhere, using Luke's Bear.
The game revolves around Mike's quest to ultimately find all 120 Dark Souls. Dark Souls can be used to open Coffin Gates in Deadside, which then allow new parts of the game to be explored. The game is hopelessly vast, with a reputed 70 odd hours of gameplay. Shadow Man or Mike LeRoi run, jump, swim and climb their way through enormous levels, which contain excellent graphics, top notch sound, and interestingly for an Acclaim game, no fog.
Abilities, weapons, and items were all collectable, and imporoved as you went through the game, and so you ended up with a Shadow Man who could walk across hot coals, swim in lava, climb up bloodfalls (think a red waterfall) and push flaming blocks. Both supernatural voodoo weapons and real world machine guns are included.
Overall this game is incredibly complex and challenging. If you like your adventures set in a dingy depressing place of doom, then Shadow Man is the way to go. I have never got very far on it, due to my Controller Pak not working, so I cannot save my game. However, the bits I have played are wonderlingly splendiforous. It's out for the PC on budget now in the UK for £5. Pick it up - I know I will.
*I currently only own the N64 version, so if other versions have major differences don't complain to me.
Thanks to Triften for a correction.
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Heritage Malta (HM) is launching its summer programme for children in order to encourage them to try their hands at art more, according to a press release sent to Business Malta.
HM will do this by making them play with art while being in prehistoric areas maintained by Heritage Malta; under the shadows of a megalithic temple, close to the mysterious catacombs, in a palace or in an art museum.
"If your children dream of becoming artists, comic creators, writers, or are simply fascinated when listening to stories, Heritage Malta gives the opportunity to join its programme starting this month and ending in September," Heritage Malta said in the press statement.
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Finding out which greeting will work for your team can be a fun back-to-work exercise that may just bond you closer to your colleagues and make up for lost time apart. From simple hand waves to the shaka sign, here are some greetings we're exploring at Vari in the post-COVID workplace.
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As businesses slowly reopen across the globe, employees will enter dramatically changed workplaces. Social distancing and new levels of cleanliness have become prioritized in the workplace and revamped office layouts will prioritize personal space—whether that involves desk barriers or pedestrian lanes keeping office traffic flowing. Along with other health and safety precautions, your team will naturally try alternative types of greetings for their co-workers and their clients beyond the usual handshake or friendly hug. Finding out which greeting will work for your team can be a fun back-to-work exercise that may just bond you closer to your colleagues and make up for lost time apart. From simple hand waves to the shaka sign, here are some greetings we're exploring at Vari in the post-COVID workplace.
It's time to wave goodbye to the standard handshake and start waving hello to your colleagues. Though COVID-19 is primarily spread through respiratory droplets, the problem with handshakes is that if an infected person coughs or sneezes on their hands and then touches your hand, you can be exposed to the virus. Your best bet is to forego contact altogether, and a simple wave may be something you're already accustomed to doing in casual settings. When you pair your wave with a smile, friendly "hello," or even an explanation as to why you're not offering a handshake, your connection becomes even more meaningful because you're showing your colleague that you care about their health, too.
Elbow Bump
At a news conference in Connecticut, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams displayed the elbow bump to reporters, remarking, "We should probably rethink the handshake for a while." He wasn't the only one either. World Health Organization Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward was also photographed offering an elbow to a reporter who extended his hand for a handshake. While this gesture is ideal for those who want to hold on to physical contact in their greeting style, keep in mind an elbow bump may be disconcerting for those who still want to keep six feet of distance from each other.
You may have seen the Añjali Mudrā if you've ever traveled to parts of Asia that either practice Hinduism or have taken on the greeting as a cultural norm. The Añjali Mudrā involves clasping one's hands together in prayer position while uttering, "Namaste," which translates to, "The Divine within me bows to the same Divine within you" in Sanskrit. Or, if you prefer, you can incorporate this only as a gesture, without saying "Namaste". Whatever you choose, it may just result in a blissed-out workday for you and your colleagues.
Shaka Sign
If the shaka, or "hang loose" sign, is forever associated with surfers in your mind, think again. According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the casual greeting originated with a Hawaiian man named Hamana Kalili, who lost his three middle fingers in an accident at an Oahu sugar mill. The greeting quickly became a symbol he used to communicate with his co-workers and took off as a sign of gratitude and friendship on the islands ever since. Whether you surf or not, a shaka sign is a perfectly safe greeting to give your co-workers during these difficult times.
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Popularized in predominantly Muslim nations, putting your hand over your heart is a sincere greeting that shows respect for one another and has been around "since the time of prophet Muhammad in the 7th century," says Craig M. Considine, a lecturer at Rice University. Even more, the greeting was recommended by World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. If it helps, you may even think of the hand over heart greeting as making a pledge, whether that's a pledge to keep your relationships strong with your co-workers or a pledge to eradicate this virus in whatever small way you can.
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"Suddenly normally calm economists are talking about 1931, the year everything fell apart," writes Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times.
"The parallels between Europe in the 1930s and Europe today are stark, striking, and increasingly frightening, write Bradford DeLong and Barry Eichengreen in the new preface to Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression 1929-1939.
"We see unemployment, youth unemployment especially, soaring to unprecedented heights. Financial instability and distress are widespread. There is growing political support for extremist parties of the far left and right."
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In May 1931, Austrian bank Creditanstalt, founded in Vienna by the Rothschild banking dynasty, suffered a run. Its collapse after a merger with an insolvent rival sparked a crisis that left Germany and central Europe strewn with failed banks, caused defaults in Europe and Latin America, knocked the pound off the gold standard, and forced the New York Federal Reserve by October to raise its discount rate by 2 percentage points.
"Austria's troubles shouldn't have been big enough to have large effects on the world economy, but in practice they created a panic that spread around the world. Sound familiar?" wrote Krugman.
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Their solution to the crisis would be a program of bank recapitalization in the periphery and the core funded by the European Financial Stability Facility and its successor, the European Stability Mechanism.
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Kingdom of Essex
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For other uses, see Essex (disambiguation).
The Kingdom of the East Saxons (Old English: Ēast Seaxna Rīce; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Saxonum), today referred to as the Kingdom of Essex /ˈɛsɪks/, was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.[1] It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and (for a short while) Kent. The last king of Essex was Sigered and in 825, he ceded the kingdom to Ecgberht, King of Wessex.
Kingdom of the East Saxons
Ēast Seaxna Rīce (Old English)
Regnum Orientalium Saxonum (Latin)
The Kingdom of Essex.
Common languages
Old English, Latin
Anglo-Saxon paganism, Christianity
Æscwine (first)
Sigered (last)
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Kingdom of Wessex
1 Extent
2.1 Origin
2.2 Essex monarchy
2.3 Christianity
2.4 Later history and end
3 List of kings
ExtentEdit
A map showing the outline of those parts now adjacent to the traditional county of Essex (in grey), but which historians postulate were part of the ancient Kingdom of Essex before becoming detached during the middle of the 8th century.
The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia. The territory included the remains of two provincial Roman capitals, Colchester and London. The early kingdom included the land of the Middle Saxons,[2] later Middlesex, most if not all of Hertfordshire[3] and may at times have included Surrey.[4] For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.
The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th century.[3]
In the Tribal Hidage it is listed as containing 7,000 hides.
Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented. It produced relatively few Anglo-Saxon charters[5] and no version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; in fact the only mention in the chronicle concerns Bishop Mellitus.[6] As a result, the kingdom is regarded as comparatively obscure.[7] For most of the kingdom's existence, the Essex king was subservient to an overlord – variously the kings of Kent, Anglia or Mercia.[8]
OriginEdit
Saxon occupation of land that was to form the kingdom had begun by the early 5th century at Mucking and other locations. A large proportion of these original settlers came from Old Saxony.[9] According to British legend (see: Historia Brittonum) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Treachery of the Long Knives, which occurred ca. 460 during the reign of High King Vortigern. Della Hooke relates the territory ruled by the kings of Essex to the pre-Roman territory of the Trinovantes.[10]
The kingdom of Essex grew by the absorption of smaller subkingdoms[11] or Saxon tribal groups. There are a number of suggestions for the location of these subkingdoms including:
The Rodings ("the people of Hrōþa"),[11]
the Haemele, Hemel Hempstead[12]
Vange[13] - "marsh district" (possibly stretching to the Mardyke)
Denge[5]
Ginges[12]
Berecingas - Barking, in the south west of the kingdom[14][15]
Haeferingas in the London Borough of Havering[14]
Uppingas - Epping.[14]
Essex monarchyEdit
Essex emerged as a single kingdom during the 6th century. The dates, names and achievements of the Essex kings, like those of most early rulers in the Heptarchy, remain conjectural. The historical identification of the kings of Essex, including the evidence and a reconstructed genealogy are discussed extensively by Yorke.[16] The dynasty claimed descent from Woden via Seaxnēat. A genealogy of the Essex royal house was prepared in Wessex in the 9th century. Unfortunately the surviving copy is somewhat mutilated.[17] At times during the history of the kingdom several sub-kings within Essex appear to have been able to rule simultaneously.[3] They may have exercised authority over different parts of the kingdom. The first recorded king, according to the East Saxon King List, was Æscwine of Essex, to which a date of 527 is given for the start of his reign, although there are some difficulties with the date of his reign, and Sledd of Essex is listed as the founder of the Essex royal house by other sources.[18]
The Essex kings issued coins that echoed those issued by Cunobeline simultaneously asserting a link to the first century rulers while emphasising independence from Mercia.[19]
The tomb of Sæbbi of Essex (r.664-683) was visible in Old St Paul's Cathedral until the Great Fire of London of 1666 when the cathedral and the tombs within it were lost.
ChristianityEdit
The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop (later Saint) Mellitus in London in 604. Æthelberht (King of Kent and overlord of southern England according to Bede) was in a position to exercise some authority in Essex shortly after 604, when his intervention helped in the conversion of King Saebert of Essex (son of Sledd), his nephew, to Christianity. It was Æthelberht, and not Sæberht, who built and endowed St. Pauls in London, where St. Paul's Cathedral now stands. Bede describes Æthelberht as Sæberht's overlord.[20][21] After the death of Saebert in AD 616, Mellitus was driven out and the kingdom reverted to paganism. This may have been the result of opposition to Kentish influence in Essex affairs rather than being specifically anti-Christian.[22]
The kingdom reconverted to Christianity under Sigeberht II the Good following a mission by St Cedd who established monasteries at Tilaburg (probably East Tilbury, but possibly West Tilbury) and Ithancester (almost certainly Bradwell-on-Sea). A royal tomb at Prittlewell was discovered and excavated in 2003. Finds included gold foil crosses, suggesting the occupant was Christian. If the occupant was a king, it was probably either Saebert or Sigeberht (murdered AD 653). It is, however, also possible that the occupant was not royal, but simply a wealthy and powerful individual whose identity has gone unrecorded.[23]
Essex reverted to Paganism again in 660 with the ascension of the Pagan King Swithelm of Essex. He converted in 662, but died in 664. He was succeeded by his two sons, Sigehere and Sæbbi. A plague the same year caused Sigehere and his people to recant their Christianity and Essex reverted to Paganism a third time. This rebellion was suppressed by Wulfhere of Mercia who established himself as overlord. Bede describes Sigehere and Sæbbi as "rulers … under Wulfhere, king of the Mercians".[24] Wulfhere sent Jaruman, the bishop of Lichfield, to reconvert the East Saxons.[25]
Wine (in 666)[26] and Erkenwald (in 675)[26] were appointed bishops of London with spiritual authority over the East Saxon Kingdom. Although London (and the rest of Middlesex) was lost by the East Saxons in the 8th century, the bishops of London continued to exert spiritual authority over Essex as a kingdom, shire and county until 1845.[27]
Later history and endEdit
Despite the comparative obscurity of the kingdom, there were strong connections between Essex and the Kentish kingdom across the river Thames which led to the marriage of King Sledd to Ricula, sister of the king, Aethelbert of Kent. For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South. During this period, Essex kings were issuing their own sceattas (coins), perhaps as an assertion of their own independence.[28] However, by the mid 8th century much of the kingdom, including London, had fallen to Mercia and the rump of Essex, roughly the modern county, was now subordinate to the same.[29] After the defeat of the Mercian king Beornwulf around AD 825, Sigered, the last king of Essex, ceded the kingdom which then became a possession of the Wessex king Egbert.[30]
The Mercians continued to control parts of Essex and may have supported a pretender to the Essex throne since a Sigeric rex Orientalem Saxonum witnessed a Mercian charter after AD 825.[31][32] During the ninth century, Essex was part of a sub-kingdom that included Sussex, Surrey and Kent.[32] Sometime between 878 and 886, the territory was formally ceded by Wessex to the Danelaw kingdom of East Anglia, under the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. After the reconquest by Edward the Elder the king's representative in Essex was styled an ealdorman and Essex came to be regarded as a shire.[33]
List of kingsEdit
The following list of kings may omit whole generations.
527 to 587 (perhaps)
Æscwine or
Erchenwine First king according to some sources, others saying son Sledd was first
587 to ante 604 Sledd Son of Æscwine/Erchenwine
ante 604 to 616/7? Sæberht Son of Sledd
616/7? to 623? Sexred Son of Sæberht. Joint king with Saeward and a third brother; killed in battle against the West Saxons
616/7? to 623? Saeward Son of Sæberht. Joint king with Sexred and a third brother; killed in battle against the West Saxons
616/7? to 623? (another son of Sæberht
name unknown) Joint king with Sexred and Saeward; killed in battle against the West Saxons
623? to ante c.653 Sigeberht the Little
c.653 to 660 Sigeberht the Good Apparently son of Sæward. Saint Sigeberht; Saint Sebbi (Feast Day 29 August)
660 to 664 Swithhelm
664 to 683 Sighere son of a Sigeberht, probably 'the Good'. Joint-king with Sæbbi
664 to c.694 Sæbbi Son of Sexred. Joint-king with Sighere; abdicated in favour of his son Sigeheard
c.694 to c.709 Sigeheard Joint-king with his brother Swaefred[34]
c.695 to c.709 Swæfred Son of Sæbbi. Joint-king with his brother Sigeheard[34]
c. 709 Offa Joint-king during latter part of reign of Swæfred and perhaps Sigeheard
c.709? to 746 Saelred Representing distant line descended from Sledd. Probably joint-king with Swaefbert
c.715 to 738 Swæfbert Probably joint-king with Saelred
746 to 758 Swithred Grandson of Sigeheard
758 to 798 Sigeric Son of Saelred. Abdicated
798 to 812 Sigered Son of Sigeric. Mercia defeated by Egbert of Wessex, sub-kingdom of Essex subsumed into Wessex; from 812 to about 825 held it only as dux.
See also: List of English monarchs
^ The Latin name was used, for instance, by William of Malmesbury.
^ Keightley, Thomas (1842). The History of England: In two volumes. Longman.
^ a b c Yorke, Barbara (2002). Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. Routledge. pp. 47–52. ISBN 978-1-134-70725-6.
^ Baker, John T. (2006). Cultural Transition in the Chilterns and Essex Region, 350 AD to 650 AD. Univ of Hertfordshire Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-902806-53-2.
^ a b Rippon, Stephen, Essex c. 760 – 1066 (in Bedwin, O, The Archaeology of Essex: Proceedings of the Writtle Conference (Essex County Council, 1996)
^ Campbell, James, ed. (1991). The Anglo-Saxons. Penguin. p. 26.
^ H Hamerow, Excavations at Mucking, Volume 2: The Anglo-Saxon Settlement (English Heritage Archaeological Report 21, 1993)
^ Yorke, Barbara (1985). "The Kingdom of the East Saxons". In Clemoes, Peter; Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael (eds.). Anglo-Saxon England 14. Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–36.
^ Yorke, Barbara (1985). "The Kingdom of the East Saxons". In Clemoes, Peter; Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael (eds.). Anglo-Saxon England 14. Cambridge University Press. p. 14.
^ Hooke, Della (1998). The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England. Leicester University Press. p. 46.
^ a b Andrew Reynolds, Later Anglo-Saxon England (Tempus, 2002, page 67) drawing on S Bassett (ed) The Origin of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Leicester, 1989)
^ a b Yorke, Barbara (2002). Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-134-70725-6.
^ Pewsey & Brooks, East Saxon Heritage (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1993)
^ a b c Hooke, Della (1998). The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England. Leicester University Press. p. 47.
^ VCH, volume 5
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