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Repent or Die
1At that time, some people who were there told Jesusa about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.b 2He asked them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered like this? 3Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die. 4What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem? 5Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die."
The Parable about an Unfruitful Fig Tree
6Then Jesusc told them this parable: "A man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but didn't find any. 7So he told the gardener, 'Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?' 8But the gardenerd replied, 'Sir, leave it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"
Jesus Heals a Woman on the Sabbath
10Jesuse was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight. 12When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, "Woman, you are free from your illness." 13Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began praising God.
14But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, told the crowd, "There are six days when work is to be done. So come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."
15The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of its stall to give it some water? 16Shouldn't this woman, a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day?" 17Even as he was saying this, all of his opponents were blushing with shame. But the rest of the crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.
The Parables about a Mustard Seed and Yeast
(Matthew 13:31-33; Mark 4:30-32)
18So Jesusf went on to say, "What is the kingdom of God like? What can I compare it to? 19It is like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."
20Again he said, "To what can I compare the kingdom of God? 21It's like yeast that a woman took and mixed withg three measures of flour until all of it was leavened."
The Narrow Door
(Matthew 7:13-14, 21-23)
22Then Jesush taught in one town and village after another as he made his way to Jerusalem. 23Someone asked him, "Lord,i are only a few people going to be saved?"
He told them, 24"Keep on struggling to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you that many people will try to enter, but won't be able to do so. 25After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, you can standj outside, knock on the door, and say again and again, 'Lord, open the door for us!' But he will answer you, 'I don't know where you come from.' 26Then you will say,k 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.' 27But he will tell you, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you who practice evil!' 28In that place there will be crying and gnashing of teethl when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside. 29People will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. 30You see, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.
Jesus Rebukes Jerusalem
(Matthew 23:37-39)
31At that hour some Pharisees came and told Jesus,m "Leave and get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!"
32He told them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work. 33But I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it's not possible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.' 34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you people were unwilling! 35Look! Your house is left vacant to you. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"n
a 13:1 Lit. him
b 13:1 i.e. whom Pilate had executed while they were sacrificing animals
c 13:6 Lit. he
d 13:8 Lit. he
e 13:10 Lit. He
f 13:18 Lit. he
g 13:21 Lit. hid in
h 13:22 Lit. he
i 13:23 Or Sir
j 13:25 Lit. begin to stand
k 13:26 Lit. begin to say
l 13:28 i.e. extreme pain
m 13:31 Lit. him
n 13:35 Cf. Ps 118:26; MT source citation reads LORD
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Elderly Veteran Sings Touching Tribute To His Late Wife
By Rachel Shapiro
Colin Thackery has always loved singing.
The 89-year-old spent 25 years in the Royal Artillery. He ended up going to fight in Korea just two months after marrying the love of his life, Joan. He and Joan were apart for two years.
While he was in the army, Thackery lost some of the hearing in one ear during an attack. Still, he continued singing. He performed throughout his time in the army. He also took part in a series of concerts while he was traveling on a ship from Lancashire to Korea.
"We went all over the brigade. They'd erect some sort of stage out of whatever they could find. We'd set up and the troops would sit on the ground – hundreds of them. We even entertained Americans, and Koreans would you believe! They didn't understand a word we were saying, but they enjoyed the music," Thackery told The Royal Chelsea Hospital.
Chelsea Pensioners Source: Chelsea Pensioners
When he got home from the war, he and Joan joined an Operatic Society together. Thackery says that Joan had an incredible voice.
"Joan had a very good alto voice. In fact, we both sang together in an operatic society," Thackery told The Mirror.
Three years ago, Thackery lost his wife. He was devastated—the two had been together for 66 years. Thackery decided to move in with the Chelsea Pensioners at the Royal Hospital Chelsea—a retirement home for former members of the British Army. There, he continued honing his singing skills.
In 2019, Thackery decided he wanted to try his luck auditioning for Britain's Got Talent. Many of his Chelsea Pensioner friends came to support him.
Thackery began his act by explaining that he was dedicating his song to Joan. The judges were touched by this dedication.
"Colin, I think it's incredible that you've come here," David Walliams said. "The stage is yours."
Thackery began belting out "The Wind Beneath My Wings" in his beautiful voice. The audience clapped and cleared as Thackery sang his heart out.
The judges were also amazed by Thackery's voice. A few of the judges brushed away some tears while he was singing.
The judges voted for Thackery to go through to the next round, and he was thrilled! The winner of Britain's Got Talent gets to perform in a Royal Variety Show before the Queen. Thackery says that performing for the Queen would be incredible.
"I served her for 25 years, I'd love to sing to her," he said. "If I did, I would die happy."
Thackery also said that his family is incredibly proud of him. His two children and four grandchildren have all called and texted to tell him that he did a great job.
"I've had my granddaughters texting me back. Saying, 'Well done, granddad!' They're all for it."
Thackery is an inspiring war veteran who has always turned to music in times of trouble. If you want to see his beautiful performance, check out the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szW9nb2R-p0
Source: Britain's Got Talent
Rachel Shapiro
Rachel Shapiro is a contributing writing at Shareably. She is based in New York and can be reached at hi@shareably.net.


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Eddy Currents
The production of magnetic flux is instantaneously proportional to the coil current i. Strictly speaking, this is only true for magnetic circuits which do not contain any electrically conductive magnetic flux paths. When the level of magnetic flux changes (i.e. is raised or lowered) in a path/medium which can also conduct electric current, such as iron, there will arise, by Faraday's Law, circulating eddy currents.
(Faraday's Law states that the voltage induced in any closed path in space is proportional to the time rate of change of the net magnetic flux which flows through the closed path cross-sectional area. If the closed path is in an electrically conducting medium, there will then be a circulating current around that closed path proportional to the generated voltage and the electrical conductivity of the medium).
These eddy currents will, in turn, produce reaction magnetic flux which will tend to cancel out a portion of, or all of, the original excitation flux. The direction of eddy current flow can be deduced by the " right hand rule" and by the requirement that the reaction magnetic flux produced by the eddy currents must flow in the opposite direction to the flow of excitation flux. Eddy current production in a simple cylindrical path in iron is illustrated in Figure 4.11.
As a result of eddy currents, flux cannot be instantaneously produced in conducting mediums. There will always be a time "lag" between the flux flow and the exciting mmf. A simple magnetic equivalent circuit representation of this time-delay effect can be made by including "inductive" elements in series with reluctance elements which represent electrically conductive paths. For example, the structure shown in Figure 4.4 has two magnetic paths which are made up of ferromagnetic material: the core path and the armature path.
We include eddy current effects in these two paths by placing inductive elements in series with the reluctive elements which represent these paths. This modified circuit is shown in Figure 4.12.
The value of the inductive element for each magnetic path in a conducting medium is a function of the cross-sectional geometry of the path, the electrical conductivity of the material, and the effective length of the path. In the simple cylindrical structure of Figure 4.11, it can be easily shown that the equivalent eddy current inductance Le is given by
where L is the axial length of the conductor and ϱr is the electrical resistivity of the material. The magnetic reluctance of this path is
where µm is the magnetic permeability of the material , A is the cross-sectional area = πr2, and r is the cylinder radius. The magnetic time constant τe of this cylindrical path is then
As typical values, let the material be a 1.5mm radius rod of magnetic iron with µm=˜ 2000µo and ϱr = 10-5Ω-cm. Thus,
If such a rod is used as a magnetic core in a magnetic circuit breaker, and if we wish to accurately predict the breaker time response over time intervals of this magnitude, we must then necessarily include eddy current effects in our calculations. We can no longer use the simple results for the gap flux calculated from the static circuit of Figure 4.4. Rather, we must use the dynamic circuit of Figure 4.12. Results such as those given in Figures 4.9 and 4.10, calculated using static equivalent magnetic circuits, are optimistic at predicted operating time intervals equal to or less than the eddy current time constants of the structure elements.
For a rectangular cross-section magnetic path with side length ratio k, the equivalent eddy current inductance can be shown to be equal to
The path lengths of eddy currents in a rectangular cross-section magnetic conductor are longer than those in circular cross-section magnetic conductor. Thus, for equal electrical conductivities, the effective eddy current inductance in a rectangular conductor is lower.
To mitigate eddy current effects in magnetic materials, we see from Equations 4.16 and 4.17, that we should construct magnetic cores with
1) Magnetic irons (steels) with high resistivity values, (i.e. silicon steels). And
2) Very thin sheets (i.e. laminations) of magnetic steels stacked in the thin direction, and oriented such that the thin direction is perpendicular to the flow of magnetic flux.
The cost of such construction is only justified for devices which must operate at very high speeds (i.e. operating periods of the order of milliseconds).
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Pina: dance in 3D, what next?
In general, her full name sounds like the Philippines, but in ballet circles she is known as Pina Bausch, a German dancer and choreographer. She has been on the stage since she was 5, she studied first in Germany (a high school in Essen), then in the USA (Dzhulyardovskaya school). Then she worked in the New American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera (USA), in Germany in the Folkwang Ballet and in the ballet of the Wuppertal Theater.
Receiving an invitation to German groups as a dancer, Pina Bausch after some time became the artistic director of ballet troupes. And the Wuppertal Theater was soon renamed the Pina Bausch Dance Theater. With Wuppertal and the Ballet Theater since the 70s. of the last century and all the creative activity of Pina Bausch is connected.
Here she staged all of her famous ballets, became a world-class choreographer, gained recognition, many world ballet awards and prizes, and left here with the theater for touring and returning here. The figure is 35 years old, and that is how much Pina was associated with Wuppertal, of course, commands respect.
Where and how?
6 years have passed since the death of Pina Bausch, symbolically, just in 2009. (year of death) she was going to bring her new dance program "About the Seven Deadly Sins" to Moscow for the international festival. And the first visit to Russia with the play "Carnations" took place in 1989. The famous performances of Pina Bausch "Sacred Spring" (to the music of I. Stravinsky) and "Café Muller" were also seen in Moscow. In the last ballet Pina danced, and she was already more than 50ti.
But then the answer to the question: where can I meet with Pina's ballets - will be like this:
- in Wuppertal (Germany) the Pina Bausch Theater still exists, now its leader is Lutz Förster, which since 1975. he was the lead soloist of the Pina theater troupe, and worked with her until her death;
- In 2011, Wim Wenders' Pin appeared. Passion Dance 3D ", which the author (Wim W.) began shooting while the choreographer was still alive, then decided to interrupt the shooting, but seeing that the actors of the Pina theater continue to work actively, I realized that the film should be finished;
- on the Internet in Vkontakte There is an open group of Pins (//vk.com/pina_bausch), where almost all of her ballets are represented.
Therefore, it is quite possible to get an idea of what has brought such new things to the art of ballet Pina Bausch. You just need to spend some time watching the Wenders movie and see at least a few, and better - Pina's versatile ballets.
What surprises and amazes?
First, just some facts:
- "Orpheus and Eurydice" with K. Gluck's music. The play's genre is a dance operator, where a full choreographic performance takes place on the stage, but the vocal and instrumental beginning is also present. You can even call it all a dance-vocal two-voice. The choreography is modern (non-academic), the character of the dance gesture and movement directly depends on the restrained tempo of the music;
- "Sacred spring". In comparison with the "Orpheus" - this is rampant passions and emotions. And, accordingly, in plastic there is riot, swiftness and wildness of gesture and movement;
- routine and everyday life. Ballet "Kontakthof" (Kontackthof) will amaze with the choice of dancers and dancers of old age, which are perceived simply as "people from the street." The simplicity and elementary nature of their movements makes them "puzzle their brains" over the question: what is actually happening? The answer is no, but music and ordinary everyday plastic give a hint that perhaps this is the choreographic embodiment of everyday male-female intercourse, where a variety of solo-ensemble acts alternate with amazing choreographic humor;
- earthly and sublime in "Cafe Muller"or the neighborhood of everyday situations and high musical classics (G. Purcell "Dido and Aeneas"), and all this is in the language of a piercing gesture. The performance is, apparently, Pina's attempt to say that it is possible to talk not only by means of a word (oral and written), but also in some other way. And the most interesting thing is that everything that happens on stage is recognizable and well understood;
And if you begin to get acquainted with Pina with the movie "Pina. A Dance of Passion," then perhaps the viewer will have the conviction that he, too, will be able to walk, work with his fingers, make some gestures, that is, become an actor of the Pina theater, but - online. Why not?! It's great when high art wants to "imitate" instantly and now.
About choreography and appearance
Pina is not afraid of the age of the dancers, is not afraid of their appearance, most likely she will not find the usual ballet "prettiness". But, nevertheless, her ballets are a high art that is able to capture and hold the viewer's attention. But why is this happening?
There is no doubt that the choreographer manages with any performer to "prescribe" the choreographic line of conduct of the dancer or the ensemble of performers. And all the time there is a feeling that such movements and gestures are inherent in this particular choreographic hero. And then the external ugliness of the dancer (dancer) is compensated by natural and organic plastic.
So, this is a principle: the hero moves naturally, expressively and plastically, and his movements are able to convey meaning and emotion. Pina said this: "The last thing I'm interested in is how people move, I'm interested in what moves them.".
Then this is an addition to the principle: if the "internal springs of the ballet word" are clear, then it itself rises to the level of art, and the form (plastic) of movement can be any: from academic to super modern, but the main thing is that it carries meaning and is artistically convincing .
Something like a resume
Pina Bausch Ballets is going beyond the usual ballet genre, but it was made extremely talented.
Pina proved that the gesture, the movement can expressly stand next to the word. Not always, but it can.
Music in her ballets lives its organic natural life: it may sound, it may not sound, it may be contrasted to the utmost, but it always enhances and "highlights" the expressiveness of the plastic arts of the performers.
Wim Wenders put the concept of 3D in the title of the film (3-D volume), but he meant that he managed to shoot in this technique.
In a broad sense, one can probably say that the life of Pina Bausch's ballets after her death continues in the 3rd dimension: they live in the Wuppertal theater and can "come to life" on the Internet.
Or will it already be the 4th dimension? But, most likely, it is necessary to expect that the Pina Bausch choreographic traditions will continue, because she did everything fascinating, talented and infectious. But then it will be - the 5th dimension!
Alexander Bychkov
Watch the video: Pina 2011 - Official Trailer HD (January 2020).
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Dr Richard Vranch
Richard Vranch might be best known to British audiences as 'Richard at the piano' from the original series of Whose Line Is It Anyway? or as a member of the Comedy Store Players where he has performed improvised comedy twice a week for as long as he can remember. A regular on British radio and television, before turning to comedy he worked as a research scientist and completed a PhD in physics in the 1980s. He often incorporates the two in his comedy, as well as being half of the comedy-science-hula-hoop act Dr Hula.
I wanted to call the PhD "Fission Chips" but they didn't let me.
On working in science
When I was a scientist, and that's back in the early seventies as an undergraduate and in the early eighties as a research student and then briefly a fellow of St John's College Oxford, I was at Cambridge in the Cavendish laboratory and I loved physics because it made sense, and when I went to church those stories didn't make sense so I was good at physics and I liked music and I like electronic music, people were doing things with synthesisers and electronics in those days, so by doing physics I could learn how to make synthesisers by buying transistors with my pocket money and stuff.
So I ended up being a research scientist because in 1980 when I finished my degree I could've got a job in Ipswich doing research for British Telecom, who at that point had a world-class research lab doing fibre optic stuff, or I could've stayed at Cambridge to do a PhD, and a girl I really liked stayed at Cambridge to do a PhD and that really clinched it. So I ended up for no other reason other than a girl I liked, staying at Cambridge and doing a PhD, and my PhD was all about the way that radiation from nuclear bombs or from space, the way that it damages silicone chips. I wanted to call the PhD "Fission Chips", but they didn't let me and they are right, retrospectively. So, yeah, it was about the way that radiation damages chips.
On silicon chips
The thing about silicone chips is, they're very tiny and there are very small channels where the electrons go and interfaces between the silicone and the silicone dioxide and the silcone's a semiconductor so you can make it do things and silicone dioxide is like an insulator that sits on the top. That boundary between the two is really unstable, and the atoms don't fit together, so if radiation comes along - a big energetic particle of radiation - it hits those weak bonds and splits them, and that makes the device not work very well. And in the early days of space travel, when they sent up satellites into space like Telstar, there's a lot of radiation in space, some is natural and some we made by exploding bombs in the upper atmosphere – yes, we used to do that - and when you fly a spaceship through the radiation, all the ships packed up. Now people got very worried about that because you can't repair them up there. People also got worried about people because you can't line a spaceship with lead, it's too heavy, so you can't protect people against radiation, so space is a radiation environment where both people and chips are in danger.
One of the things I learned was they're more worried about the chips than they are about the people, and one of the reasons I gave up and became a comedian full time was because I didn't like the fact that not only was my research helping them make circuits which would survive radiation in space, but it was also helping them build circuits which would survive nuclear war on earth, and I personally think one of the reasons there wasn't a nuclear war was people were afraid to press the button because all of their own systems would go down and I was effectively helping them make their own systems stay up, and so I thought this was a morally untenable position.
Also I liked the idea of becoming a full time entertainer rather than a physicist and I've never regretted it. But that's what was going on in the early eighties, they were trying to find out ways of making silicone devices more robust in a radiation environment, whether that was space or whether it was nuclear bombs.
So they started using other materials like germanium and gallium arsenide and all sorts of stuff, I'm sure its moved a long way since then. But I found out what was going wrong with the radiation, it buggers them, basically.
On using science in comedy
Nowadays, and indeed for the last 30 years, I've been doing comedy, improvising an unscripted show every Wednesday and Sunday at the Comedy Store Players. Now we've been going since the mid-eighties and from our show came a lot of other improvised formats, for example the TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and when that show got made, because I'm a bit musical I ended up getting stuck behind the piano on that show, so everyone knows me as Richard Vranch at the piano from Whose Line… which is nice, because people remember, but on the other hand it's a bit annoying because it's the only pure music job I've ever done. I've always been more into jokes than music so I don't really do music work, but it's odd, when you get into show business weird things come your way. I also did a science series, I did a science series on Channel 4 in the nineties called Beat That Einstein, which was an odd title but it was like a challenge thing. Members of the public came along and had to solve some seemingly insurmountable problem using just the kind of junk you'd find in the shed, but if they put their minds to it and kind of used common sense, I'd say actually that's good science because what they're doing there is using a pulley, or using a lever, or using thermodynamics.
And it was a quite a nice programme but in those days, science wasn't as popular and trendy as it is nowadays, partly thanks to Robin Ince and Brian Cox, it has to be said, you've done wonderful things. So Channel 4 had very few slots for factual entertainment and commissioning editors have to do their jobs and commission things, so we only got offered that series and then they replaced it with Scrapheap Challenge, I think, which is fine.
So I've had a go at doing science in an entertaining way on television but there days the only way those two things overlap is in my new show, Dr Hula - not Dr Who, Dr Hula - and my very good friend Pippa the Ripper, who is one of the world's best hula hoopers, and she is a Guinness world record holder for fire hooping, she's amazing, she can do stuff with hoops, she can do 100 hoops, she can make them all move, er…so, I thought we can do atomic theory with one atom going round, or two atoms going round for helium, but I'm a bastard, I make her do the two hoops in different directions and they've got different spins. So we actually do explain some of the minutiae of atomic theory using hula hoops and it's the sort of act that is fun because you see Pippa being brilliant hula hooping but you see me doing jokes about hydrogen and helium and it kind of works and we've done it a few times in Robin's Bloomsbury shows, the Xmas shows and so on, and we're trying to work it into a bigger act. Live performance is always the most fun because you just get up and do it and there's not a twelve year old telling you why that's not funny. So doing a bit of science and comedy live is great fun at the moment, really enjoying it.
On the importance of curiosity
It's very important that people think about what's going on around them. That might sound obvious, but most religious people I would not put in that category, because if you believe in imaginary friends to explain or justify what you're doing or what's happening, you really need to have a good hard look at yourself. The fact that the world is changing so rapidly, not just climate change but also the way the internet has finally delivered the promise it failed to deliver at first, people are communicating in a different way, opinions are going round in different way, science is affecting the world hugely and yet people seem to feel that just by having a pig-headed option that science isn't right and God is right, thinking that they know better without reference to experimentation or evidence, and I can see the world going to hell in a handcart, which it couldn't have done without science because without wheels you wouldn't have a handcart. This worries me a lot, plus having done an experimental PhD it means now that if something goes wrong, I'm pretty confident in changing a plug.
Science has done amazing things, we've got vehicles going round Mars analysing the rock on Mars, this is beyond science fiction, this is absolutely wonderful. But the scientific invention that still hits me the most here [points to heart] is the telephone, not Skype, not video, but the telephone. The fact that you can pick up a phone and hear the voice of someone on the other side of the world, particularly someone that means a lot to you, I think that's the most staggering thing that science has done, more than Skype, which I hate, because if I see them I want them to be there, but they're not, so for me, the telephone really is the one. I mean, obviously, you know, disease and other things we've conquered, but in terms of my personal pleasure and wonder, the telephone.


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WorldRemit Launches Digital Money Transfer Service in Hawaii
Leading online remittance company has 120,000 Filipino migrants in
its sights
LONDON & DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WorldRemit,
the leading online money transfer service, has launched in Hawaii.
Customers in Hawaii can now send money to over 140 destinations as
easily as sending an instant message, using the WorldRemit smartphone
app or website.
The United States is the world's biggest sender of remittances, totaling
almost $135bn each year.
Just under 2 million Filipinos were living in the US in 2015 – one of
the largest migrant groups in the country, according to the Migration
Policy Institute.
Hawaii numbers amongst the most diverse
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Thursday, March 16th 7pm - 8:30pm.
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This presentation will provide you with an introduction to the process of transitioning your yard into a permaculture designed, productive, low-maintenance, sustainable system. Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable food production system based on woodland ecosystems. The perennial forest garden is designed with fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting in guilds—which are then intermixed to grow in a succession of layers—builds a self-sustaining edible paradise. This type of food system reduces the need for external non-renewable resources, conserves our natural resources, increases biodiversity, provides a natural recreational area and local, nutrient dense foods that support healthy communities. Upon understanding the forest garden concepts you will want to start building your own as soon as possible!
Jodi Trendler is a co-founder of The Resiliency Institute, an educational non-profit transforming the suburbs through permaculture design. Permaculture is a philosophy for designing resilient systems for lifestyle, land, and community. The Resiliency Institute's mission is to create resilient permaculture communities prepared for economic, social and environmental change. We are using permaculture education and design to grow food security, build the local economy, increase biodiversity, and foster community. Jodi and her cofounding partner Michelle Hickey have worked to build community sustainability through several municipal and non-profit organizations over their careers and both received their Permaculture Design Certification from Midwest Permaculture. They have advanced their training with several veteran permaculture designers and have created nature connection and self-reliance building programs which are offered through their organization. Since 2013, they have designed and installed two community forest gardens in Naperville. One forest garden is at The Conservation Foundation's McDonald Farm where they host permaculture and re-skilling courses, and one is on Ferry Road along the Illinois Prairie Path near Route 59. They have also worked with Northern Illinois Food Bank to install a demonstration fruit tree guild at their headquarters and help promote food security, and continue to expand their community resilience building with other organizations throughout the suburban region.
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"Habaneros" by Julien Temple at Buenos Aires Bafici
Duna Viezzoli 29-05-2019
What does it mean to "tell" Cuba? The foreigner perspective about such a particular reality necessarily imply a certain vision, but at the same time it can mean to have a different approach. And which is the best way, for such a multilayered portrait, if not cinema: mutual union of images, motion and sound, in revolution like the roll in reel? This is Julien Temple's power and his Habaneros (UK, 2017, '136), in Latinamerican premiere at 21° Bafici, Buenos Aires Festival of International Independent Cinema, pays an extraordinary homage to this land, tenacious and sensual as its inhabitants.
The film goes through Cuban history from the origin to contemporary, marking the fundamental steps which led to the edification of the inextinguishable spirit known as cubanidad. Unfolding a two and a half years process of research and filming, it shows history as much as it gives voice to specific and different interpretations of facts: to Cuban people of today who, despite cyclones and embargo, bureaucracy and Trump, keep on living in Cuba.
Interviews alternate with unpublished video-photographic material from historical Cuban archives, restored and digitalised in 4K, and with emblematic films as I am Cuba and Memories of Underdevelopment, unforgettable witnesses of an era. The magic of the documentary is fulfilled by music, as images pass in front of the bystander with the most varied Cuban rhythms. "The best in the world", as Julian Temple affirm, telling about the moment when he had imagined with Mick Jagger a concert of the Rolling Stones in Havana – which would make history – "a show to pay the debt to inspiring Cuban riffs, as for Sympathy for the Devil". Therefore going through centuries of Cuban history, one can hear traditional themes as Manicero and Bebo Valdés ones, as well as contemporary folk singers and rappers.
Nevertheless impeccable editing of high quality audio-video material is not the greatest result of this film, whose special feature is to be able to show, in a very direct and balanced way, what Cuba passed through in the past and what still occurs today. Being by a British director this film testifies both the interest for Cuba still high around the world and the need to have a distant perspective when telling still hot facts. Indeed Temple's power lies in explaining them to the world, because foreigners' idea about Cuba reflects decades of myths, built in the collective imaginary with multiple subjective views. Finally this impartial documentary can be useful to have a fresh look at what is nos longer a myth, but a twist, a unique evolution of 20th century history, which keeps on fascinating the world.
"I've tried to make a balanced film and I hope it gets to Cuban people", explains Temple, who would like to take it to the next December 2019 edition of Habana International Festival of the New Cinema. "To those Cubans who are able to see good things as well as bad ones; I made my film for them. Their situation is not easy and it is amazing how they manage to hold on."
The British director tells a long part of history – in more than hours, passing instantly – of course with some emotional involvement, though with no partiality, giving back a different image, where mythologising give space to humanity. Because the whole world tries to understand Cuba, that nevertheless remains so romantically inexplicable for those who cannot see it with their own eyes – and few of them manage to see behind the facade of Buena Vista Social Club, Mojitos and Chevrolets – and there is where Habaneros gets. Not specifically for Europeans, Latinos or Americans. But for all who have read in her image a reason for their own quest in the world. Temple's documentary does not give answers, but new questions, given by today's Cuban men and women. Not to end myth, but to give a sight about how it keeps on being a much more human reality than what people know. The reality of a magnetic Caribbean island which has its own way to live history. And become immortal through it.
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We had the unique and blessed privilege as a church to honor a dear couple on their 70th anniversary! Yesterday, October 27th was Rod and Hope Carter's 70th anniversary celebration. On Sunday night we gathered as a church to recognize them and give them the honor due a couple who makes it to this milestone that is reached by a very small number of couples.
Give love. Take on Christ's image.
Give forgiveness. Take the high road.
Give service. Take the back seat.
Give a soft answer. Take biblical advice.
Give your time. Take the treasured memories.
Are you willing to give and take in your marriage so that you can make it to 70 years? Get in a biblical church where you'll learn to apply God's Word to your marriage. Then you'll also have an example to give, and the blessing to take from it!
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Congratulations to that sweet couple!! I think Hope's advice is very wise.
I'll pass that along to her. Thank you!
I love you interpretation of "give" and "take". Thank you for expounding on great advice!
She really gave me something to think about when she said that to me! I have to break it down to make it applicable. Glad it was helpful to you, too!


Anyone into pop-culture kitsch would have heard about this bloated Lomography fad (my thoughts here), and the legendary Holga toy camera. If you'd rather not bother yourself fiddling with film – moreso, 120 rollfilm (not your ordinary 35mm) – but a curiosity did spark, you can download this Photoshop 'actlet' available at Adobe Studio Exchange (FREE registration required).
The actlet author mentions that this is best used by utilizing a digital camera with at least 4 megapixels, and images sized at 2300 x 1700. By default, it converts color photos to black-and-white, but there are dialog boxes to guide you on what to do in case you'd like to keep the image colored, or to lessen blur effects.


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Michigan was the 10th Least Safe State During The COVID Pandemic
Laura Hardy Published: April 25, 2022
No one could have imagined that in March 2020 what was originally proposed to be a 2-4 week quarantine would turn into nearly 2 years of postponements, cancellations and major life changes for the majority of Michiganders.
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And while obviously people have the personal freedoms to chose where and how they wanted to protect (or in some cases, ignore) themselves and others during the pandemic. And while Michigan was one of the first states and more strict states to implement COVID rules and regulations, it turns out somehow we still were towards the bottom of the list when it comes to keeping each other safe.
The good news is that around 66% of the population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of April 19. So now that we are in the back end of the pandemic, how did we do?
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WalletHub did the heavy lifting recently and compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across five metrics: The rates of COVID-19 transmission, positive testing, hospitalizations and death, as well as the share of the eligible population getting vaccinated.
What was the safest state? Maryland
Maryland masked up and stayed inside more than any other state in the US, which helped them keep their rate of transmission low. While they weren't in the top 5 states in any of the categories the survey considered, they had the highest average score across all five, which made them the most consistent and safest state of all.
What was the least safe state? Nevada
Nevada's biggest city, Las Vegas, was one of the last to close down, and one of the first to reopen, so it's not surprising why they ended up with this ranking. Add the fact Las Vegas is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the country, coupled with the
Why did Michigan rank so low on the list?
While Michigan was initially one of the leading states when it came to health and safety mandates, ultimately Michiganders sometimes didn't heed the advice of those in charge.
Michigan reached it's highest positivity rate for COVID in November 2021, when 20 percent of tests came back positive during the week of Thanksgiving. While Michigan was not one of the first (nor last) states to drop mandates, vaccination rates were generally below average for the country, thus causing a high positivity rate late last year.
How does Michigan prevent COVID going forward?
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While for the most part life is back to pre-pandemic routines, experts say we aren't past COVID.
When asked, many experts say that unless more people are exposed to the virus, we will likely continue to have spikes in cases, particularly in the cooler months when we spend more time indoors. Dr. Mohammad R. Torabi said,
I believe that as long as there is no worldwide herd immunity, the virus may continue to mutate to potentially much higher levels of virulent/pathogenicity and potentially with a higher rate of infectivity. The western world along with China, and Russia must work collaboratively with World Health Organization and make a serious investment in providing safe and effective vaccines to the poor nations to possibly eradicate this serious disease or at least reduce that to a manageable endemic level.
And while no one expects there to be quarantines or mask mandates going forward, we could see people experiencing stronger or different forms of the virus as it mutates over time.
Of course your best course of action is to get your vaccine and booster shots (as needed), to wear a mask if you must be indoors for extended periods of time with large amounts of people, and to wash your hands frequently. And, make sure to stay home if you're sick in order to be considerate to others and prevent the spread of illness.
Michigan Offering Free at-Home COVID-19 Tests at Public Libraries
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is offering Michigan residents free at-home COVID-19 tests which are available at various public libraries throughout the state.
We'll update the list as more libraries have test kits available.
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The stuff I'm editing right now is totally inscrutable to me. Even though I wrote it. I mean, I wrote it a while ago, and it's quite weird, and it's on that edge where I can't tell if it's good or bad. So I'm trying to do more reflection as I edit, hone the lens, and maybe someday I'll be able to tell if this is an interesting story or if my past self was doing serious drugs. But, you know, drugs that caused her to write a first-person voice who can't stop going on about weird math.
I notice that there's some second-draft changes I've been making a lot across stories lately. Some of them are good? Some of them are just kind of weird?
The first thing I do–I almost always have to chop at least one entire scene. Usually it's because it was taking too long to do something that should have been done in two lines. Then I nail those two lines onto the end of the dialogue in the previous scene or the next scene.
I know what scene is getting cut before I even finish the story. But I can't just not write that scene, because it always seems like the next logical step when I write it. I probably couldn't even write the scene after it, the one I want to keep, if I didn't write that middle scene. Thanks, weird middle scene, and goodbye.
The other most important structural change I always make is shoring up the ending. When I finish writing, I'm usually so relieved to be ending the damn story that I just want to be done, and the last 500 words is a vaguely related collection of deep-sounding reflections. Honestly, not sure I have managed to upgrade many of these endings from "vaguely related collection of deep-sound reflections", but maybe they'll get there someday. And practicing endings is one of the specific reasons I wanted to write more short stories, so in the long term, this is a positive.
People are always looking at each other in my first drafts, so I have to get them to do other things.
Dialogue usually needs more pep in the second draft.
I think more about the unreeling of time in every sentence. When I'm writing a first draft I just want to get an action down, so I use a lot of "Lee kissed his teeth after Alex gave him a real mean look" or whatever. But I'm trying to be more strict about communicating the actual passage of time with sentence construction? Thinking about ways to do this a lot. Reflecting on the section about time in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
Quoyle jumped down the steps. He would drive. But walked first down to the dock to look at the water. The boat charged against the tire bumpers. The waves pouring onshore had a thick look to them, a kind of moody rage. Looked at his watch. If he stepped on it there was enough time for a cup of tea and a plate of toast at the Bawk's Nest. Clean up the oil piece then down to Misky Bay to the marine archives. Check boats in the harbor. Supposed to be a schooner there from the West Coast.
After a couple hundred pages of this you look at the subjects of your own sentences like "What are you even doing here? I don't need you, bud!" It's contagious. Someday, when I'm reading another book, I'll probably look back on these sentence subjects with fondness and miss them terribly.


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Last week I had the opportunity to cheer from the crowd (I even did the wave a little bit in my head) at Tattered Cover Books for fellow Lighthouse member Carleen Brice as she celebrated the launch of her debut novel, Orange Mint and Honey. I haven't read my copy yet, but if it's half as good as jazz band, the wine, the orange chocolate brownie (okay, brownies, if we're being honest), and the company that came together for the book party, well… just go pick up a copy, okay? Because Carleen's reading was wonderful. I mean, everyone was hooked.
Me, Jenny (my fave Lighthouse instructor), Karen, and Lisa.
Carleen talks about family bonds in Orange Mint and Honey.
Really. It might be something you say or a gesture or the way your face changes when you talk about the person you love. It might be a scar on your chin or the color of your eyes or the way you sing and play air guitar at my brother's shows (yes, I'm talking to you, Nameless Air Guitar Man with whom I'm utterly fascinated). Maybe it's your laugh or your beliefs or your nickname or the way I feel when I'm around you – good, bad, or ugly. Whatever it is, you're all going into the character soup, and one day you'll read my book and you'll recognize something on the page and you'll smile or cringe… and then you'll know what I mean.
So when Carleen talked about stirring in all the best men in her life, including her husband and grandpa and brother and video store cutie, I smiled, because I knew exactly what she meant.
Anyway, best of luck to Carleen on Orange Mint and Honey!


Sunny Michaela Sweeney is an American country music artist. She is signed to the independent Big Machine Records label. Her debut album, Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame, was issued in 2007. Although it produced three singles in "If I Could", "Ten Years Pass" and "East Texas Pines", none of these singles have charted. In June 2010, the lead-off to her second studio album, "From a Table Away," became her first single to chart.


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He said the city and other public agencies must require that single-sex, multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities only be used according to "biological sex" as defined by the new law.
"They've made it very clear that localities can't change that, make any accommodations similar to what Charlotte did," he said.
But he said that HB2 does not provide a penalty for people who use bathrooms that do not correspond to their birth certificates.
According to the report, the statute did not provide any guidance on whether bathroom signs marked "Men" or "Women" need to include additional information about the definition of "biological sex." For now, Baker said, the city can wait to see what is done in state-controlled buildings.
He also explained that HB2 leaves private businesses' bathroom policies up to their discretion.
In the resolution, the council encouraged private businesses to take advantage of this "by openly welcoming LGBT people to their places of business, by providing gender-nonspecific bathroom facilities for their customers and employees wherever practicable, and otherwise to encourage their customers and employees to use the bathroom facilities that most closely align with their gender identity."
HB2 prevents cities from requiring contractors to pay employees a livable wage, but Baker said a law passed in 2013, known as House Bill 74, had already effectively done so. Because Durham had already developed a policy in line with the 2013 law, HB2 will not affect the city on this issue. HB2 did, however, close some potential loopholes in House Bill 74, Baker said.
The city also has a policy saying it "desires that firms doing business with the City" not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. But the policy is not binding and therefore does not, in the city attorneys' view, violate HB2.
Baker said several suits had been filed in response to HB2, one by Durham resident and NCCU professor Angela Gilmore. But litigation currently pending in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over North Carolina, will likely offer guidance even sooner. The case, involving a student in Virginia, may address whether transgender discrimination falls under Title VII as a form of sex discrimination, he said.
Several Durham residents made public comments about HB2 before the council voted on the resolution.
"I do support the governor and feel that he's right," Rose Sanchez said. "I think many other citizens do despite the resolution that's been proposed today."
Luke Hirst, Patty Adams and LGBTQ Center of Durham executive director Helena Cragg spoke in support of the resolution, although Cragg challenged the council to do more.
"Hopefully your work is not going to end after today," Cragg said. "Hopefully we can call on you to show the sort of leadership that Charlotte did and at every opportunity proactively work to repeal HB2."
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Mayor Bloomberg rolled out the lightweights yesterday to help boost the city's plan to limit soda sizes.
"We hope more mayors and health departments will follow New York City's example," declared Weight Watchers President Dave Burwick during a press conference with the mayor at the Flushing Meadows Park recreation center.
Other diet gurus also on board include the creators of Jenny Craig, the South Beach Diet, Best Life Diet, Dukan Diet and Picture Perfect Weight Loss.
Backing up the experts was Rachelle Conley, a 45-year-old mom from Laurelton, Queens, who said she lost 91 of her 279 pounds since 2009 by kicking a vicious sugar habit that included large, sweetened drinks.
Conley, a human resources specialist, said before joining Weight Watchers she would typically have two cups of coffee a day — each with 25 packets of sugar! That was in addition to an 8-ounce sugary drink in the morning; a 16-ounce soda with lunch; another 16-ounce soda with an afternoon snack and five more 8-ounce glasses of sweetened beverages once she got home.
"We grew up in the '60s and '70s when it had to be sweet," she explained of her sugar addiction.
Bloomberg has asked the Board of Health — which he controls — to impose a 16-ounce limit on the size of sugary beverages sold in eating establishments. Supermarkets and other food stores not regulated by the city Health Department would not be affected. The board meets on Sept. 13 to take up the proposal.
While city officials insist consumers will still be able to buy as much soda as they want — as long as the containers are no larger than 16 ounces — Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said he expects "almost immediately" to see a drop in soda consumption when the new regulation takes effect.
Last month, Bloomberg met with Don Thompson, president of McDonald's, one of the nation's largest soda sellers. "They're trying to encourage healthier eating," the mayor explained.


Fourth album from German hard rockers Kissin' Dynamite is arguably their best yet. Drawing influences from industrial acts but remaining true to their roots, this album is a breath of fresh air in a crowded genre. If you like hard rock or guitar driven industrial this album has something for you!
Megalomania is the fourth album from five piece German hard rock band Kissin' Dynamite. Formed in 2007 the band released their first album 'Steel of Swabia' in 2008, taking the name of the region in Germany they hail from. Since then their career has delivered two further albums before this one, chart success, and over 500 live dates spanning Europe and Asia.
DNA opens the album with an unforgettable punch. So infectious are the chunky riffs, a simple but big chorus to sing along to and all held together with a smattering of techno, that the first track deserves a second play (and third…). Combine a gritty but strong vocal performance and this album has opened well, I am hoping – no praying – that this quality can continue!
'Maniac Ball' and 'VIP In Hell' really do go hand in hand bringing a darker theme with them, lyrics covering angels and demons and the unforgettable catchy chorus 'I'm gonna be a VIP in hell!'. The sounds here are starting to show some of the gothic & industrial influences that German bands do so well, even the drumming speed has taken it up a notch or two almost bordering on power metal. Hannes Braun does start mixing in some vocals that verge on rap at times, but make no mistake this is hard rock that I couldn't help but chant along to.
So then we meet the first ballad of the album and after the heavy sounds of the previous tracks, the intro to Firefly is a complete curveball with its mellow guitars and almost orchestral opening. This moved into a solid offering with a strong vocals, crisp acoustic sounds mixed with electric solos made for thoroughly pleasurable listening.
With Firefly having brought the mood down 'Deadly' hits with nearly the same punch that 'DNA' opened the album with. This track has dance floor written over and mixes the industrial sound with the more sleazy feel found in the bands material. The only slight disappointment is how short the track is, but that does mean that full on synth laden industrial track 'God In You' arrives sooner, which is good. You could easily imagine Marilyn Manson laying some of these vocals down, backed by fast riffs, heavy use of keyboards and a pounding beat. Where previous tracks dipped a toe in the industrial pool this one jumps right in.
Not content with leaning towards industrial genre, we get the thundering hard rock rollercoaster 'Running Free' to sing along to, which then leads into 'Legion of the Legendary'. This song draws clear influences from nu metal of the early 00's, even down to the scratching, while still remaining fresh and melodic enough not to put rock fans off. With a piano intro 'The Final Dance' is the second ballad on the album, while still staying mellow the lyrics venture into a final dance before being apart forever.
The album could very well have ended there, but Kissin' Dynamite chose to finish on a high with Ticket to Paradise. Plenty of distorted electro, chunky bass groove, catchy hooks and a huge chorus this is a track that will stick in your mind long past the final bars.
The band have clearly taken a few risks with this release, however the elements and influences come together perfectly to keep this album modern and original. The production quality of the album if faultless, punchy and bass and crisp guitars with just enough electro to keep it fresh and a vocal track that is neither overpowered or lost.
The results are a breath of fresh air in the hard rock genre and being unlike anything I have heard makes me want to listen again, and again.
Megalomania is released by AFM Records and will be available to buy or download on the 5th September 2014.


Lunch Provided: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
In this forum members from the entire Lewis & Clark community will work to improve our listening skills and our cross‐cultural communication.
The forum and lunch are co-sponsored by the committee on diversity and inclusion, the provost's office, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) and the law school diversity committee.
The facilitators for this event are Lee Mun Wah and John Lenssen from StirFry Communications. StifFry Communications describes the forum as follows: Cross‐cultural communication is an art that requires our utmost awareness and understanding. The subtleties are everywhere‐ within a simple question, an insignificant omission, the gesture of a hand or a facial expression. In this training, we will explore how to mindfully transform those subtleties into authentic relationships, where everyone on campus can feel valued and acknowledged for their many gifts and contributions.
Thousands of participants from educational, government, corporate and social service agencies have taken StirFry's trainings and seminars so that they could then begin facilitating discussion groups in their agencies, schools, and communities and learn to engage in authentic and healthy multicultural dialogue. The company is recognized by many of the top 500 corporations as having one of the most outstanding cross-cultural and communications training programs for managers, supervisors, H.R. and top administrative executives. Clients have relayed that their participation in our workshops has been life changing, powerful and applicable to their personal and professional lives.
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Why Captain America's shield is stronger in the comics than the MCU
Captain America's shield is an iconic Marvel weapon, but in the MCU, Cap's shield is nowhere near as strong as his comic book counterpart.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain AmericaThe shield is an incredibly strong and durable weapon that is an efficient tool for defeating baddies across the board, but compared to the shield Cap wields in Marvel Comics, it doesn't even compare to the original. And to think, it all comes down to what each shield is made of!
As synonymous with Captain America as Cap's love for America and what its values stand for, Cap's shield is an object that hardly needs an introduction. Used as Cap's primary weapon of choice dating back to his humble Marvel Comics beginnings during WWII, the red, white, and blue of his sequined shield is as much a part of who Captain America is as from his equally iconic outfit or from his favorite hobby of punching evil villains in the face.
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But compared to its MCU counterpart, the shield Captain America uses in the comics is much stronger for a few different reasons. Made entirely from a comic book-exclusive metal called proto-adamantium, the most obvious reason Cap's shield is stronger than the one used in the MCU is simply what it's made of. Comprised of, but not limited to, the metal known as vibranium, Cap's comic shield, as the name suggests, also includes the nearly indestructible man-made metal known as adamantium; an alloy that is well known to fans of the adamantium-clawed hero, Wolverine, and that can withstand incredible amounts of force, temperatures, and energy blasts (among many other things).
In contrast, the MCU version of the shield is composed solely of vibranium, a special alloy that the people of Wakanda primarily find and use (including their protector, Black Panther), making it an extremely powerful weapon in its own right and somewhat. It is almost unrivaled. in the cinematic universe, but unfortunately not something that can go toe-to-toe with Cap's comic weapon. Considering adamantium isn't a thing in the movies (yet), Cap's MCU shield is only made up of vibranium, giving the live-action version of the shield a noticeable drop in quality by default.
Known in the MCU for being smashed, cracked, and scratched by any number of characters, both heroic and villain, vibranium is a metal that is extremely powerful in its absorption and redirection of kinetic energy, but it can also be completely destroyed if directed enough power at any time. Meanwhile, and thanks to the unique proto-adamantium construction of Cap's comic shield, this version of his weapon is completely resistant to any form of extreme temperatures, blunt attacks and, combined with the energy absorbing properties of its similar elements to vibranium, any kind. of kinetic assault that Cap can face while on the battlefield.
So while Captain America's MCU shield is a powerful weapon in its own right, it simply can't be compared to near perfection to his comic book shield which is not only non-recreated, but as strong as it is durable. This iconic shield may have recently passed a new Captain America in the movie universe, but he'll always be the strongest in the comics … until a certain person with access to adamantium shows up, of course.
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Bostik is preparing to go 'back to school' with a number of key products for the new school term.
Blu-Tack®, the market's leading re-usable adhesive, has enjoyed continued sales success over the last 12 months with sales increasing in value by 8.6% per cent over the last year to grow the product's share of the tack market to 85.4% per cent*. As the 'back to school' season approaches, Blu-Tack® is anticipating a further peak in sales as schools look to stock up for the new term.
Sew Simple from Bostik is a solvent-free fabric glue which sticks in just one minute to form a strong and invisible mend and provides an ideal alternative to a needle and thread. It can be used to fix name tags into school uniforms and sports kits and can even be machine washed and ironed.
Also new for 2010 is Bostik's Sticki Pen Jumbo. A new innovation in the glue stick market, Sticki Pen Jumbo lasts twice as long as traditional glue sticks, is easier to apply, can do fine nib or wide nib applications and is also repositionable. Positioned as a trendy pencil case item, Sticki Pen Jumbo is a strategic addition to the Bostik Sticki Pen (fine) which has already achieved number one status within its category with sales doubling in some of the multiples in the last 12 months*. Sticki Pen Jumbo will be available from September from WH Smith.
Blu-Tack® is available in either a 'handy' or 'economy' pack. SRP is 99p.
Bostik Sew Simple SRP £3.99. Bostik Sticki Pen Jumbo SRP is £2.79.


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Men's Health Urbanathlon to debut in the UAE
September 25, 2014 /0 Comments/in New Launch /by Team TMN
The Men's Health Urbanathlon, presented by Daman's ActiveLife, has announced its first ever event to be held in the region, coinciding with the launch of Men's Health Middle East earlier this month. With the Urbanathlon already held in over 25 countries across six continents, the 10km obstacle race is set to be held at Yas Marina Circuit on October 24, and will be a test for elite athletes and weekend joggers alike.
"I'm delighted that we're able to kick off Men's Health in the region with such a flagship event as the Urbanathlon," says Andrew Nagy, Editor, Men's Health Middle East. "The thing to remember though, is that this isn't just for elite athletes, it's a test thrown out to people of all fitness levels and I'm certain that it's set to become a firm fixture in our annual fitness calendar."
Nick McElwee, Sales and Marketing Director of Yas Marina Circuit adds, "We are very pleased to add the Urbanathlon to our extensive health and fitness calendar at Yas Marina Circuit. It is exciting to be part of the first Urbanathlon held within the UAE and it adds a new dimension for our health and fitness community to engage with. In particular, we are keen to encourage corporates to take up this challenge and see if they are tough enough, we think company engagement in health programmes is key to a healthier Abu Dhabi."
With a dedicated website – www.urbanathlonme.com – participants can register for AED250 per person or AED800 for a team of four to undertake the fitness challenge.
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Andrew Nagy, ITP Consumer, ITP Publishing Group, Laura Holmes, Men's Health Middle East, New Launch, Nick McElwee, United Arab Emirates, Urbanathlon, Yas Marina Circuit
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Samsung bets big on India's handset market
South Korean major will take part in India's program to boost local smartphone manufacturing
by KS Kumar August 2, 2020 August 3, 2020
The Samsung Opera House in Bangalore on September 11, 2018. Photo: AFP
As Sino-Indian ties come under strain and with general hostility towards Chinese brands in India, Samsung has now increased its focus on the world's second-largest smartphone market.
The South Korean handset maker, along with Apple's contract manufacturing partners Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron, have applied to join India's $6.6 billion incentive program aimed at boosting local smartphone manufacturing.
India's IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the Production-Linked Incentive Scheme is for a period of five years and will offer a range of incentives to companies for goods produced locally. Already 22 firms have applied. He claimed the companies have agreed to export 60% of the locally produced products.
The minister said the program aims to turn India into a global hub of high-quality smartphones and attain greater self reliance. However, Chinese smartphone makers Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus and Realme have stayed away from this program.
The plan is expected to generate 300,000 direct jobs and 900,000 indirect jobs in the next five years. Indian handset makers Lava and Micromax have also applied for the program.
Sales improve
Meanwhile, for the April-June quarter Samsung regained its second spot with 26% market share, next only to Xiaomi (29%), according to Counterpoint Research. In the March quarter it accounted for only 16% and it was trailing behind Xiomi and Vivo.
In the premium segment (above 30,000 rupees) OnePlus 8 had a total market share of 19% followed by Vivo V19 (15%) and Samsung Galaxy A71 (12%). Apple held the fourth and fifth spots with the iPhone SE 2020 (10%) and the iPhone 11 (7%).
The share of Chinese brands in India's smartphone market dropped to 72% in the quarter, compared with 81% in the first three months of this year, as leading brands such as Oppo, Vivo and Realme faced a supply crunch amid rising anti-China sentiment.
On the other hand Samsung was comparatively better off and reached almost full (94%) pre-Covid manufacturing capacity by the end of June.
The fall in market share came on the back of a big decline in smartphone shipments during the quarter. That figure fell 51% year-on-year to around 18 million units, as manufacturing facilities and sales were suspended during the first 40 days of the lockdown.
It improved in June due to pent-up demand as well as a push from brands.
Of late Samsung has also been concentrating on the entry and mid-level segments to drive volumes and trying to position itself as an alternative to Chinese brands.
It had recently launched Galaxy M01 Core, which is also its most affordable phone in India at a starting price of 5,499 rupees. It is aiming to attract first time smartphone users with the promise of accessibility and affordability.
Tagged: AT Financial, India smartphone market, Samsung, South Asia


Rafael Domingo, Spruill Family Research Professor, has an article, "Body, Soul, and Spirit of the Law: Towards a Holistic Legal Paradigm," in the February, 2018 issue of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. In the article, he explores potential applications of the body–soul–spirit metaphor in the legal realm. "This metaphor is not supported in scientifc research," he writes. "It is spiritual in character and, therefore, metascientific, but not opposed to science at all. Although metaphor is not subject to the intellectual constraints that other methods of knowing demand (e.g. geometry), it is useful and appropriate becuase it is a source of inspiration and illumination."


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#include "config.h"

#include <fstream>

namespace vikki
{
	config::config(const std::string& filename)
	{
		std::ifstream stream;
		stream.open(filename, std::ios::in);

		if (!stream.is_open())
		{
			throw exception("Can't open config file");
		}

		const nlohmann::json& data = nlohmann::json::parse(stream);

		load_storage_settings(data["storage"]);
		load_sensors_settings(data["sensors"]);
		load_network_settings(data["network"]);
	}

	config::~config()
	{
	}

	config::storage_info config::storage() const
	{
		return _storage;
	}

	std::list<config::sensor_info> config::sensors() const
	{
		return _sensors;
	}

	config::network_info config::network() const
	{
		return _network;
	}

	void config::load_storage_settings(const nlohmann::json& node)
	{
		if (node.is_null())
		{
			_storage.enabled = false;

			return;
		}

		_storage.enabled = true;

		_storage.name = node["name"].get<std::string>();

		nlohmann::json params_node = node["params"];
		if (!params_node.is_null())
		{
			const std::map<std::string, nlohmann::json>& params = params_node;

			for (const std::pair<std::string, nlohmann::json>& iter : params)
			{
				_storage.params[iter.first] = iter.second.get<std::string>();
			}
		}
	}

	void config::load_sensors_settings(const nlohmann::json& node)
	{
		for (const nlohmann::json& sensor : node)
		{
			sensor_info info;

			info.active = sensor["active"].get<bool>();
			info.name = sensor["name"].get<std::string>();

			nlohmann::json params_node = sensor["params"];
			if (!params_node.is_null())
			{
				const std::map<std::string, nlohmann::json>& params = params_node;

				for (const std::pair<std::string, nlohmann::json>& iter : params)
				{
					info.params[iter.first] = iter.second.get<std::string>();
				}
			}

			_sensors.push_back(info);
		}
	}

	void config::load_network_settings(const nlohmann::json& node)
	{
		if (node.is_null())
		{
			_network.enabled = false;

			return;
		}

		_network.enabled = true;

		_network.address = node["address"].get<std::string>();
		_network.port = node["port"].get<int>();

		_network.security.enable = false;

		nlohmann::json security_node = node["security"];
		if (!security_node.is_null())
		{
			_network.security.enable = security_node["enable"].get<bool>();
			_network.security.type = security_node["type"].get<std::string>();

			const std::map<std::string, nlohmann::json>& params = security_node["params"];

			for (const std::pair<std::string, nlohmann::json>& iter : params)
			{
				_network.security.params[iter.first] = iter.second.get<std::string>();
			}
		}
	}
}

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GM closing Lordstown assembly plant, cutting 14,700 jobs in North America
(Source: GM)
By Chris Anderson | November 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM EST - Updated November 26 at 11:25 AM
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - General Motors announced Monday plans to close five U.S. and Canadian plants in 2019, including the Lordstown assembly plant in Warren.
In addition to the plant closures, approximately 14,700 jobs will be slashed as an effort to improve business performance.
BREAKING: GM is slashing 14,700 factory and white collar jobs in North America; may close five factories.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 26, 2018
"The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future," said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. "We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success."
By closing the five plants, which also include facilities in Canada, two in Michigan, and a propulsion plant in Maryland, GM is expected to increase automotive free-flow cash by $6 billion annually by 2020.
Ohio's politicians weighed in on the news.
My statement on the situation in Lordstown. pic.twitter.com/Wx2u9V8iPu
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) November 26, 2018
I am deeply frustrated with General Motors' decision to shut down its Lordstown plant and disappointed with how the hardworking employees there have been treated throughout this process. During frank conversations with GM CEO Mary Barra after the announcement that GM cut a shift at the plant due to the weakening market for the Chevy Cruze, I urged her to look to the Lordstown plant for production of other vehicles and to make a public commitment to the plant and its workforce. During today's conversation, I pressed GM again to provide new opportunities to the Lordstown workers and take advantage of the skilled workforce there. I once again urged GM to make a commitment to bring a new product to the plant, especially since GM is proposing to build a number of new electric vehicles. In the short term, I urged GM to at least reallocate some of the production and employees to the Toledo GM plant. I will continue doing everything I can to help the Lordstown workers during this transition. For decades, workers in the Mahoning Valley have made a commitment to GM, and today GM let Northeast Ohio down.
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman
GM owes the community answers on how the rest of the supply chain will be impacted & what consequences its disastrous decision will have on the Valley & Ohio. My office stands ready to do everything we can to help these workers. This decision is corporate greed at its worst. -SB
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) November 26, 2018
According to GM, the 6.2 million-square-foot facility that opened in 1966 has over 1,600 hourly and salaried employees on one shift.
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News Francesco Starace: PNRR, Enel supports the country
Francesco Starace: PNRR, Enel supports the country
Enel: Starace's speech at the presentation of Sace's 2021 Export Report
Speaking on 14 September at the presentation of Sace's 2021 Export Report, Enel's CEO Francesco Starace explained that he sees "hope and optimism for the next few years." Focusing on results, the CEO spoke about the importance of making the most of the opportunities deriving from Italy's PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) in the years to come, as "it gives us a historical chance to take some fundamental actions for the long term, recovering lost ground and, above all, taking the road to a different kind of growth."
With this in mind and with "great effort and commitment," Enel is presenting projects worth "potential investments of 26 billion euros, for two of the six pillars in the plan." Initiatives that can lead to an increase of employment of about "104,000 jobs, as well as an increase in the GDP of approximately 86 billion euros, about three and a half times the investments" announced. These are projects that Francesco Starace described as "fundamental" in order to "transform the industrial structure and create new energy and industrial sectors, taking up new spaces in the world's energy growth".
"We are available to anyone who wants to team up with us, as we believe that the more people who push for this, the more we will be able to grow our economy"
After a first phase in which Italy "did much more than could be expected, and became one of the few European countries to achieve its 2020 targets – thanks to the impetuous growth of renewable energies," now "a second phase of at least another ten years is underway, leading to a further major transformation: the electrification of energy consumption."
In this, as Francesco Starace emphasized, Italy can continue to count on Enel: "We are available to anyone who wants to team up with us, as we believe that the more people who push for this, the more we will be able to grow our economy", in order "not to return to pre-pandemic levels – which were not worthy of Italy – but rather to reach the level of countries like the United States."


John Fabian Witt, Susanna Blumenthal, Robert W. Gordon, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Ariela Gross, and Amalia Kessler, at "Celebrating Bob Gordon's Taming the Past: Essays on law in History and History in Law," Stanford Law School, January 13, 2018.
Credit: Misha Bruk, Stanford Law School.
Here is Bob in his own words, adding a more personal reflection and commentary to his more formal publications and presentations…. illuminating the ideas and biography of one of the most influential and much-loved legal historians of the last fifty years…. Hopefully, it conveys the spirit of our dialogue, and, among other things, what a good time we were having.