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If you have large, heavy, and challenging luggage items to move then you have to ensure the removal company confirm the job is written instead of verbal communication. How will it help? Well, there exist some people who create an after-scene like you didn't tell me this before. So let's prepare with any uncertain situation.
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More Than Politics In The Air In Blair Township
By Ross Boissoneau | Sept. 1, 2019
Visitors to the Blair Township Hall might be surprised to see a small mesh tent in the office – and even more surprised when they see what's inside it. Township Supervisor Nicole Blonshine, a longtime advocate for monarch butterflies, has taken her personal obsession to a new level: She has established a monarch hatchery in the township hall.
"It started as a fun hobby about 20 years ago," says Blonshine. "It took off. Everybody in the building is hooked on it." That includes members of the Blair Township Emergency Services Department, housed in the same building. "We're connected to the fire department, they're into it, and their children are into it."
Everybody seems to be into it, including staff and visitors. And it's a good thing, considering the important role monarchs and other butterflies play inagriculture and the environment. Several plant species, like milkweed and many other wildflowers, depend on butterflies to transfer pollen."They are the second-most important pollinator on the planet behind bees," says Cyndie Roach, curator at the Grand Traverse Butterfly House and Bug Zoo.
In addition to their role pollinating plants, butterflies and caterpillars are also an important source of food for other animals such as bats and birds.
But monarch populations are in decline; they face peril from a number of directions, including loss of breeding habitat, weather and climate change, predators, pathogens and parasites, and less overwintering habitat in Mexico.
Though not listed as an endangered species, their migration was listed as an endangered phenomenon in 1983. While monarchs typically live two to six weeks, the last generation born in the late summer migrates south to Mexico, where they winter, before flying north again to lay eggs for the next generation before they die. "Monarchs make such an incredible journey," says Roach.
Yet they're entirely dependent on one plant: milkweed. Blonshine says the use of pesticides and herbicides both endanger monarchs, as the latter often impacts milkweed, and no milkweed means no monarch eggs. That's why Blonshine, Roach and others are so dedicated to providing monarch caterpillars with food and habitat before releasing them into the wild.
Roach says she's always happy to help point people to local or online sources where they can get their own milkweed to attract monarchs. She says the most important thing is to make sure the plants have not been treated with any type of pesticide.
So the tent at Blair is filled with milkweed. "It's the only thing they'll eat," says Blonshine. That's why the butterfly lays its eggs on the plant, which Blonshine says typically hatch in about three days. The caterpillars take about ten days before they pupate, and it's another ten to 14 days in the chrysalis before the new monarch butterfly emerges.
Of course, in the case of Blair Township, it's butterflies plural. Blonshine says the goal this year was to release 100 butterflies. As of this writing, the total is already well past that number, and she thinks they will total 200 butterflies this year.
Blonshine and Roach are part of a growing group of monarch enthusiasts. There's a move afoot to name the monarch butterfly the state insect. Michigan is one of only two states in the country to not have an officially designated state insect (Iowa is the other).
Last year was the first time Blonshine took her butterfly infatuation to her workplace. "Some people thought I was crazy, a couple thought it was interesting." But it didn't take long for the idea to take hold. "Then they were naming them. As soon as you witness a butterfly hatching you're addicted."
She loves passing the passion on. She posts the releases on Facebook and has residents and visitors stopping by. When children come in, Blonshine likes to send them home with a caterpillar and milkweed.
Blonshine says she has even bigger plans for next year. "I want to enclose the whole area. We had some caterpillars escape – there are four on the ceiling."
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Biosafe Inc., Pittsburgh, has announced its Biosafe® antimicrobial has met ISO
10993-1 and USP bio-compatibility standards. Biosafe is available either as a powdered additive for
textiles and plastics, or as a masterbatch supplied RTP Co., Winona, Minn.
The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based
American Association of Textile Chemists & Colorists (AATCC) and Raleigh,
N.C.-based
North Carolina State University's (NCSU)'s College of Textiles Textile Education
Department have partnered to offer an online Textile Fundamentals education course. For more
information, visit
www.aatcc.org or
www.TexED.ncsu.edu.
Canada-based
Victor Group Inc. has launched eHome, a collection of affordable, high-performance
sustainable residential fabric designs.
Victor Group's new eHome sustainable fabrics collection
Germany-based
BBE Retail Experts has completed a trend analysis survey in the Netherlands,
Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, France and Spain, about interest in testing textiles for
harmful substances, and awareness of the Oeko-Tex® Standard 100. A summary of the survey,
commissioned by the Switzerland-based
Oeko-Tex Association, is available online at
www.oeko-tex.com/news.
Birdair Inc., Amherst, N.Y., has added an engineering office to its sales office
in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Southern Textile Association has relocated to: 469-C Hospital Dr., Gastonia, N.C.,
28054; (704) 215-4543; fax: (704) 671-2366. The mailing address is unchanged.
Rouse Enterprises LLC, Charlotte, now represents
Basofil Fibers LLC, Enka, N.C. Rouse is focusing on in-rubber applications and
other industrial end-use applications.
Research and Markets Ltd., Ireland, has released the following publications:
"Making the Transition from Traditional to Technical Textile Markets"; "Textiles – Global Strategic
Business Report"; and "Recycling in Textiles."
Switzerland-based
Schoeller Technologies AG's coldblack® ultra-violet-protective textile technology
has been named a 2008 finalist for the Swiss Technology® Award, given by the
Swiss Economic Forum AG.
Kaeser Compressors Inc., Fredericksburg, Va., has released the SmartPipe™ product
catalog and installation guide, and the "Energy Savings in Compressed Air Systems" guide.
New York City-based
WFXOnDemand.com has upgraded its WFX Web Product Data Management (PDM) and Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, enabling them to run on both Macintosh and personal
BASF Polyurethane Systems, Florham Park, N.J., has received the top supplier award
Donaldson Co., Minneapolis.
Tri Vantage LLC, Cleveland, now offers the Sunbrella® Renaissance collection of
area rugs and accessories.
Belgium-based
Balta Group's Balta Rugs division has relocated to: Nijverheidslaan 15, 8580
Avelgem, Belgium. Phone: +32 56 65 38 11; fax: +32 56 65 39 00; email:
rugs@baltagroup.com.
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio-based
Emerald Performance Materials LLC's Emerald Foam Control division has opened a new
sales and technical center in Greer, S.C. The company also has established a toll-free number for
technical support: (866) 688-FOAM.
Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMAI), Houston, has released the 2009 World
Butadiene Analysis, available in book and CD-ROM format with access to CMAI's Online Capacity and
Supply/Demand databases.
Pure Fiber International Inc., Upland, Calif., has established a Business
Development and Private Label Division for its current bamboo home textile products and hotel bath
and bed linen products.
Fairfield, Calif.-based
ChemSW Inc. has launched TrainingLive, a Web-based environmental, health and
safety program for compliance-based safety requirements training.
ABC Industries Inc., Warsaw, Ind., has received ISO 9001 certification for its
plants in Warsaw and Grand Junction, Colo.
Zimmer Machinery Corp., Spartanburg, now offers parts and service for all Stork
printing machines through a partnership with
Elad Textile Parts, the Netherlands.
Texworld USA, New York City, has introduced the Eco-Textile Labeling Guide,
providing information on the latest organic textile standards and eco-textile certification.


Dantherm Group acquires Sovelor in France. MCS - mobile heaters, cabinet heaters, dehumidifiers, ventilators, coolers and air conditioners.
Sovelor has more than 40 years' experience in the mobile product business with a large customer base across France. The key strengths of Sovelor is a broad range of mobile products combined with technical and application support, after sales support and an efficient logistics infrastructure.
The acquisition of Sovelor is another key milestone in Dantherm's expansion strategy following the acquisitions of the product brands Calorex, Master and Aerial. The Dantherm group is after the acquisition situated in the following countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Poland, Russia, United Arab Emirates and China.
Torben Duer, CEO at Dantherm Group says: "The acquisition of Sovelor further strengthens our position in France, which is an important market for us. We are excited about the opportunities that Sovelor provides in terms of market presence and the potential to expand our product offering to existing and new partners and customers in France".
Eric Robert, Directeur General at Sovelor says: "I am pleased that Dantherm is the new owner of Sovelor. This will give the company, that my father started 41 years ago and that I have managed for the last 25 years, further opportunities to grow in France, and I look forward to working with the Dantherm Group companies and their partners in France".
Sovelor and Dantherm will continue to operate in the market as two independent brands and will utilise each other's market and product strengths and continue to deliver quality market leading products to our customers.


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Most of us don't realize how important sleep is to virtually every aspect of our health. New studies are showing that sleep not only affects the energy we feel each day, it also affects our metabolism, hormone levels, body composition, and mental health.
Understanding how important sleep is should motivate those suffering from a sleep disorder to seek treatment, but it doesn't often overcome the reluctance many feel to sleeping in an unfamiliar bed at a clinic where they are observed. If you fall into this category, you need to know about the exciting new option of home sleep studies.
Home sleep testing requires less money and time than a traditional sleep study in a clinic. In the comfort of your home, you can simply wear a medical device that tracks your breathing and other vital signs throughout the night as you sleep.
Rather than spending an entire night at a clinic, you simply pick up the equipment at your convenience and then put it on at night when you are ready to sleep. In the morning, you follow the instructions on the equipment to submit the data collected during the night. Doctors may ask you to wear it two nights in a row to confirm the results, but they will be able to evaluate the data quickly and diagnose what is causing your lack of quality sleep.
Is Home Sleep Testing Right For You?
OSA is a serious condition in which a person's breathing essentially stops multiple times during sleep cycles, depriving the brain of oxygen and preventing a person from entering the REM stage of sleep needed to feel fully rested. If you think you suffer from OSA, a home sleep study may be able to help you get your health back on track. Ask your doctor today if it's right for you.
Are you considering at-home sleep testing? Contact Dr. Clifford Brown and the experienced team at Silent Night Therapy to discuss your options and get a test scheduled. Call us at (631) 983-2463 or reach out to us online today.


Ultrasound is the sound whose frequency is too high for humans to hear which is within the frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz, and the frequency of ultrasound is above 20 kHz. The aim of this study was to observe the effect of ultrasound and sonication on α -lactalbumin (α -LA) with a view to improving its physicochemical and functional properties. In this work both low-intensity ultrasound (500 kHz bath) and the high-intensity ultrasound (20 kHz probe and 40 kHz bath) were used. Ten per cent wt (g g-1 dry matter) protein model suspensions of α -lactalbumin (α -LA) were treated with ultrasound probe (20 kHz for 15 and 30 minutes) and ultrasound baths (40 kHz and 500 kHz for 15 and 30 minutes). Changes in pH values, electrical conductivity, solubility measurements, foaming properties, as well as rheological and freezing-thawing properties have been examined. The protein fractions of α -lactalbumin were analyzed before and after ultrasound treatment by SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis). The result showed that pH did not change significantly upon ultrasound however conductivities increased significantly after 20 kHz sonication. Electrical conductivity decreased significantly for ultrasound treatments in baths at 40 kHz and 500 kHz for all samples. Solubility increased significantly for all samples at 20 kHz. Foam capacities and foam stabilities were improved after ultrasound treatments for both 20 kHz and 40 kHz treatments. Foaming properties were not improved for protein model suspensions for 500 kHz treatments. The molecular weight of the protein decreased significantly after ultrasound treatments both using a 20 kHz probe and 40 kHz bath. The flow behavior of α -lactalbumin was observed to be shear- thickening after all treatments. Apparent viscosity data calculated with power law equation (R2 = 0.983– 0.999) have not been changed significantly after all treatments. A remarkable decrease of initial freezing point was obtained after 20 kHz treatments.


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Almost Grown is an American television drama series about a couple, whose lives are explored during three time periods of their lives. The series was well received by critics, but aired for only 10 episodes between 27 November 1988 and 20 February 1989 due to low ratings. The series is notable for being co-created by David Chase, who would later go on to create the critically and commercially successful HBO original series The Sopranos. Many themes appearing in Almost Grown were later explored in The Sopranos.
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Especially since I only drive in the fast lane. Its safer over there.
Only if you're from above the Mason-Dixon Line.
...and west of the great divide.
Just saying what the old man taught me. Of course he drove everywhere at 90mph. I can still remember trips from Hannibal to St Louis, 60min of terror in the back of a Ford Maverick. Plus car sickness.
Nice article BOTW. Seems like I've seen your name floating around on the forums for a long time. Niice to put a face to the name.
Hey man you should brew a belgian wheat beer and call it White Bear Wit Beer!
I've been called a floater before. But thanks, I have been haunting the NB forum for awhile now and found this one several months ago.
I could make it as an Imperial, but then you couldn't order it after a couple.


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Billy Bragg Explores the Roots and Reach of Skiffle
Henry Carrigan Posted On September 21, 2017
Whenever skiffle comes up in a conversation, folks mention Lonnie Donegan — and maybe Van Morrison — as if just the sound of the name should be the end of the conversation. Thankfully, Billy Bragg decided that a proper history of skiffle — including its influence on him and his own music — needed to be written to illustrate not only the roots and evolution of the music but also its impact on the music of the Beatles, the music of the British invasion, and punk rock. A cracking good storyteller, Bragg brings to life the events and the people that brought skiffle to the world in his entertaining and enlightening Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World (Faber & Faber).
Why a book on skiffle, though? Could anyone really be interested in this music or care about its history? Well, skiffle changed the music scene in Britain from one ruled by the crooners of the '30s and '40s to one where the guitar reigned. The guitar-driven sound became the hallmark of British rock from the boys from Liverpool, Cream, and the Hollies to The Clash and Faces, to mention only a few. Yet, as Bragg points out on the very first page of his book: "Skiffle exists in the dead ground of British pop culture, between the end of the war and the rise of the Beatles. It's a landscape dominated by Elvis and his British acolytes — Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, Marty Wilde — but beyond Tommy Steele, the terrain falls away quickly … the vast majority of its practitioners were boys in their early to mid-teens, whose amateur performances in youth clubs, school gyms and church halls left no permanent mark on our culture … there is little tangible evidence of the contribution made by tens of thousands of skiffle-mad kids, save for a few black-and-white photos of earnest youths posting with washboards, tea-chest basses and cheap acoustic guitars."
A few skiffle artists climbed the charts, notably Lonnie Donegan, whose version of Lead Belly's "Rock Island Line" kicked off the entire skiffle craze, and who became synonymous with the music. Donegan ruled the charts for a few years in the mid- to late '50s, but he eventually became, as Bragg observes, a parody of himself, and skiffle receded into the distance by the mid-1960s. Yet the seed had been planted; the number of guitars sold in Britain rocketed from 5,000 in 1950 to 250,000 in 1957; and those teens had been turned onto guitar and the power of the "high-tempo three-chord thrash" by skiffle.
As Bragg points out, "skiffle was the first music for teenagers by teenagers in our cultural history. Not willing to sit passively and wait to be told what to listen to, this first generation of British teens took the initiative and created a do-it-yourself music that crossed over racial and social barriers. Taking their songs from black blues, gospel and calypso and white folk and country music, and their instruments from the jug bands and spasm groups that played in the streets of the American South, the skiffle groups mixed them together to create a sound that had never been heard in these islands before. In doing so, they faced resistance from generational forces that sought to control and dictate youth culture."
Bragg finds the roots of skiffle in trad jazz, a movement that found its inspiration in the music of New Orleans from the early 20th century. "Bill Colyer was the Godfather of Skiffle. He was present at its birth and presided over its christening, naming this purely British phenomenon after a distant American relative of whom he was very fond. This role fell to him due to his deep knowledge of American roots music, stretching back to when he began collecting jazz records as a teenager." Bragg develops the story of skiffle by introducing us to many of its most important players, such as the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, Nancy Whiskey, and the Vipers, and he chronicles the ways that American folk musicians such as Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guy Carawan, and Peggy Seeger, among others, who were in London during the late '50s and early '60s, added to the mix.
Bragg illustrates the deep influence of skiffle on British music (and also illustrates the circular character of musical influence: British musicians incorporate American music, develop their own singular musical style out of it, and then bring this music back to American shores in the mid-'60s) by quoting George Harrison: "If there was no Lead Belly, there would have been no Lonnie Donegan; no Lonnie Donegan, no Beatles; therefore, no Lead Belly, no Beatles."
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World gives us one more reason to love Billy Bragg. He's a passionate advocate for free speech, human rights, and solidarity with others, especially the working class. In his own way he's an archivist, preserving the history of folk music in his own music and on the album of Woody Guthrie songs that he and Joe Henry released a few years ago. Because of his sense that we must know our history so we'll be able better to understand ourselves, Bragg tells a rattling good tale in this book of the music that played such a crucial role in the evolution of rock and roll.


There is an awful lot of talk around at the moment about masterplanning, urban design and planning. This has given impetus to an emerging army of consultants who are battering their way through public procurement exercises in order to secure work. Architects, landscape architects and some engineers have all embraced this area of expertise; but is this a good thing?
For example, the area around Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz in Berlin was the subject of much public debate and consultation after the Wall came down. The public meetings were interminable and led up to a competition, the winner of which created the basis of what we see here today - which is boring, clinical and lacking in any edge. It is here that we see the downside of urban design as administered by a director of planning who firmly believed in the city block idea, pandering, with no creativity, to an unfounded perceived public requirement.
I observed a blind application of a planning dogma in the city that ultimately failed to live up to the extraordinary opportunity, on a world scale, that the Berliners had until the early 1990s.
A similar warning may be heeded in Toronto. The waterfront, which has been subjected to much scrutiny and 'best practice' (sic), fails to attract people and certainly does not engage with the emotional and experiential passions that people respond to.
In both cases we can see the arrogance of the masterplanner rise above evolution as a necessary component for place making.
Our cites must not be sacrificed by the blind and the opinionated who talk endlessly about avenues, boulevards, city blocks and 'public space' as though they can't break out of this vocabulary. It is a good example of how process can be constrained by language.
Planners often talk as though buildings do not matter. In fact, I heard one illustrious practitioner say exactly this at a recent conference. This is someone who then proceeds to go on and design buildings in his own masterplans which we can see would clearly benefit if he thought architecture was important.
The relationship between the ground and the objects (buildings) is critical.
The process involved with masterplanning is of vital importance. In fact, at the outset of a project it is better to start by designing the conditions in which a conversation might occur.
The spirit and openness of the procedure is vital. The whole period of working is like a voyage of discovery on a ship that can house a number of people. The eventual course charted is plotted by many, which gives common ownership. The guiding into the port of destination is the job of the captain and the pilot. In my experience, the community is concerned with identity and uniqueness of its area. It is appropriate for the urban designer to report back in terms of 3D representation in order that people understand the implications of the collective vision.
The idea that the buildings themselves do not form a part of their concern is far from the truth. The success of our future places lies in being able to make possible futures visible, and current masterplanning practice seems to ignore this.


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Maxwell Trial Bombshell: Epstein Photo with Pope Reportedly Entered Into Evidence
By Michael Austin December 3, 2021 at 2:20pm
The extent of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's influence was sweeping. This is extremely disturbing, considering the multitude of sex crimes for which he was convicted or charged before his death two years ago, many involving children.
New evidence submitted in the trial of Epstein's former girlfriend and alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, further emphasizes just how far-reaching that influence was. According to federal prosecutors, she helped groom many of his victims and at times even participated in the abuse itself.
Multiple reports Friday said a photograph showing Epstein and Maxwell being blessed by Pope John Paul II had been submitted into evidence in Manhattan federal court in New York.
Epstein and Ghislaine were blessed by the POPE: Photo reveals paedophile billionaire and his 'madam' at private meeting with the Head of the Catholic Church in the Vatican after flying into Rome on his 'Lolita Express' private jet pic.twitter.com/2L7eVNq9WR
— Maxwell Trial Tracker (@TrackerTrial) November 22, 2021
The picture of Pope John Paul with Epstein has been entered into evidence.
— Maxwell Trial Tracker (@TrackerTrial) December 3, 2021
The fact-checking site Snopes previously questioned the authenticity of the photograph, saying it was "rating this claim unproven until we're able to independently confirm its authenticity."
Time for Snopes to update their "independent" fact check on this photo. pic.twitter.com/76azcK242V
The site now indicates the photograph is, in fact, authentic.
"Status changed from Unproven to True on the basis of evidence and testimony presented at Maxwell's trial," Snopes said on Friday.
In an article covering live updates of the trial, The Independent reported that "[c]rime scene investigator Gregory Parkinson is answering Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey's questions about it, noting the three-car garage and photos of Epstein with Pope John Paul II and Fidel Castro."
A live update published by the New York Post included a similar report.
Vatican Corruption Tribunal Hears Secret Tape of Pope Francis - He Never Realized He Was Being Recorded
"Former Palm Beach Police officer Gregory Parkinson resumed testimony after the lunch break, and prosecutors are asking him questions about a video he recorded while executing a search warrant at Epstein's estate in 2005," the Post reported Friday.
"The video shows one photo of Epstein with Pope John Paul and another with Fidel Castro, Parkinson said."
The Sun reported on the photo on Oct. 20, writing, "The snap sees the paedo billionaire and his alleged 'madam' enjoy a private audience with the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican."
"They are understood to have flown to Rome by private jet for the blessing by John Paul II almost two decades ago. A source told The Sun On Sunday: 'Pictures like this show just how powerful Epstein's connections were and his ability to open almost any door,'" the report said.
"'He managed to manipulate his way into royal palaces, the White House and the Vatican, all with Maxwell by his side.'"
Indeed, this photograph further emphasizes the sheer influence Epstein had on the world stage.
That raises a disturbing question: How many other global elites were involved in his crimes?
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it's complicated Feb. 13, 2018
My Quest to Understand Why Bumble Is Full of Guys With Fish Photos
By Gina Ryder
Illustration: J.V. Aranda
Welcome to It's Complicated, stories on the sometimes frustrating, sometimes confusing, always engrossing subject of modern relationships. (Want to share yours? Email pitches to itscomplicated@nymag.com.)
In a photo on his Tinder profile, John Prioli is standing on a pier in Greenpoint, the Manhattan skyline in the distance, holding a live striped bass slightly larger than the size of a standard pillow. He's wearing a beanie and a leather jacket over a Ghost concert T-shirt. He'd just heard the heavy metal band play at Lincoln Theatre, he explains, and decided to grab his fishing poles on the way home; striper feed at night, and the bite was hot. After the photo was taken, Prioli released the bass back into the East River, as he does with most of his catches.
For the past five years, Prioli, a 32-year-old North Carolina native who lives in Brooklyn, has used a handful of dating apps off and on — Tinder, Bumble and Hinge — and built profiles featuring similar photos. On Tinder, his profile says, "What's worse? A couple of fish pics or bathroom/gym selfies?" It's pretty clear which side he falls on.
Here's my take: It's not that fish pictures are inherently bad. It's that they're ubiquitous. I first discovered the trend when my friend, over at her apartment for dinner, asked if she could play around with my Bumble app — and once she pointed it out, I started seeing fish everywhere. How had I missed the fact that another fisherman popped up seemingly every few swipes?
Curious and a little amused, I started to collect some data — and by collect some data, I mean screenshot every Bumble fisherman I encountered and compile the images into a quickly growing Google doc. After logging over 100 screenshots of mackerel men, I was more intrigued than ever. I get the men who put a dog or cat selfie in their profile — it's an easy conversation starter, and gives guys a chance to show their tender, pet-dad side. But fish? They're slimy, scaly, and smelly. I needed to know: why so many of them?
The next stop on my research quest was the Tinder profile of a cute guy whose photo showed him wearing overalls next to a pond. When we matched, I wrote him, "I noticed you have a lot of fish pictures. What got you into fishing?" His reply: "Oh, I live in North Carolina. All I do is fish." Once I confirmed that we matched while he was visiting New York, I unmatched him. (As a general rule, at least in my experience, out-of-towner Tinders are generally up to no good).
Then I started a conversation with someone more geographically acceptable. We'd already chatted about weekend plans, so I followed up with another inquiry: "Looks like you're a fisherman. What got you into fishing?" "It's a lifestyle," he said. "A lifestyle?" I replied, hoping to invite elaboration. "Yep," he answered. Chatting online with matches, it seemed, wasn't going to get me any answers.
So I turned my investigation elsewhere, joining the Facebook group of a local fishing alliance. There, I met a 50-something fisherman who told me met he his wife while working as a fishmonger. (He gave her his number after she admired several 30-pound fish he brought into a sushi restaurant where she was eating.) But he — and plenty of my new fishermen friends — warned me that fish love stories aren't always sweet.
The desire to show off your fishing skills online, they told me, isn't just boasting; it's also a weed-out mechanism. Fish pictures can be subtle warnings to potential mates that they're immersed in a time-intensive and sometimes expensive pastime. AJ Scheff, a 35-year-old environmental scientist who belongs to the online fishing community, told me his first marriage ended partially because "I was spending too much on boating and fishing." So when he got back into dating again, he decided to make it clear to women he matched with exactly what they were getting into — for three years after his divorce, every photo he posted on Bumble was either on a boat or at the dock. "I wanted to make my hobby known in hopes to find someone who also enjoys it as much as me," he says. Eventually, Scheff matched with a woman who had fishing photos of her own. Their first date was a boat ride, and they're still together.
It makes sense, but surely not every guy with a fish pic is that dedicated a hobbyist. Another possibility, evolutionary psychologist David Buss told me, is that the men posting fish photos are signaling that they'd be valuable partners — that they have both the ability to provide resources and the tendency to seek resources beyond what's currently available. (This holdover from long-ago caveman instincts is an idea excellently mocked in a New Yorker article titled, "I Am a Tinder Guy Holding a Fish and I Will Provide for You". (Sample line: "I will provide you with many orgasms and sea bass.")
"Resources obtained by the man's individual efforts are more highly valued than, say, resources that a man lucked into," Buss, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote in an email. "This also signals industriousness, a work ethic, and is a good cue to long-term provisioning potential."
Or, as Prioli puts it, fish photos "show we can put food on the table if the shit hits the fan." Dating profiles often have built-in features for more modern forms of resource signaling, like the college someone went to and the company they work for, both signs of socioeconomic status. Fishing photos, on the other hand, can display strength and athletic prowess.
But Prioli, who has 15 years of experience as an angler, has another theory: fish photos convey wholesome enjoyment. "I use fish pics because I'm usually happiest in them," he says. "It's the culmination of waking up early (or going out late), busting your ass to get out there, bringing the right gear, presenting the fish with the right bait or lure in the right place and time and finally just being able to hold the animal for a while and take a photo." A good fish can also be a conversation starter — sometimes, he says, matches might kick things off by complimenting his catch or asking him where he goes fishing. It probably doesn't hurt that fishing is typically a summer activity, meaning plenty of opportunity for tanned, shirtless pics on boats.
For now, though, that's about as far as my investigation has made it. And maybe as far as it'll ever go. During my get-to-the-bottom-of-the-fish-pics quest, I came across Prioli's profile and swiped right. We never matched. I say he swiped left. He says he might not have seen my profile. Either way, there are always other fish in the sea.
My Quest to Understand Why Bumble Is Full of Fish Photos


PIGGS PEAK, SWAZILAND - The Kingdom of Swaziland's Ministry of Health announced the launch of the first Management Development Institute (MDI) for HIV/AIDS service providers. Key Ministry staff and partners who work to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT) convened in Piggs Peak from August 30 to September 4 to expand their management and leadership skills through a program designed and delivered by world-class management faculty from UCLA Anderson School of Management and leading African training institutions.
Presented in conjunction with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), and the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business, the Ministry hosted this dynamic program aimed at developing the management and leadership capacity of those who lead the Kingdom's PMTCT work. The MDI program in Swaziland was made possible by a grant from Johnson & Johnson.
This comes at a critical time with revised World Health Organization guidelines around PMTCT and Swaziland's King Mswati III calling for the elimination of pediatric AIDS by 2015.
"We are very pleased to be the host of this exceptional MDI training, which gives our health care managers and technical leaders the unique opportunity to expand their leadership and management skills," said Phumzile Mabuza, Programme Manager of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit (SRHU). "With this expanded management expertise, our PMTCT leaders will be better equipped to help achieve our goal of eliminating pediatric HIV/AIDS in Swaziland."
For six days, the Swaziland PMTCT managers and technical leaders received intensive training on organizational planning, health information systems, operations management, leadership and human resources, financial management, social marketing, and program monitoring and evaluation.
"The MDI aims to provide participants with new competencies and skills in order to enable the Kingdom of Swaziland and its partners to provide better access to high quality PMTCT services," said Professor Victor Tabbush, MDI Program Director, UCLA Anderson. "We are thrilled to be a part of the elimination of MTCT in Swaziland and working closely with the Ministry and its partners on this exciting program." Considered by many as a 'mini' Masters in Business Administration, the MDI provides more than 35 participants from regional and national levels-including matrons, supervisors, heads of health facilities, information technology managers, and community-based organizational leadership -- exposure to critical and cutting edge management and leadership principles.
Recognizing the importance of fostering long-term sustainability, the MDI training experience will continue for 9 to 12 months beyond the initial 1-week training with on-going support. Participants will form regional teams and work in the coming months to better address implementation of the new PMTCT guidelines through the skills acquired during the 6-day MDI course. At the end of the 9 to 12-month period, the MDI teams will come together again to present their progress towards achieving their projects and strategic objectives towards the elimination of vertical transmission of HIV and to reflect on lessons learned.
"Johnson & Johnson is privileged to support efforts to strengthen the Ministry of Health organizational capacity, leading to increased access and improved services for mothers, children and their families in Swaziland," said Rene Kiamba, Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa Family of Companies Contributions Fund, Johnson & Johnson. "We are delighted to work with these world-class partners to support the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Swaziland in these critical PMTCT & SRH areas."
The Swaziland MDI program benefits from lessons learned from similar regional MDI trainings conducted in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. This is the first time the MDI is focused on one country and is specific to the PMTCT and SRH areas. Over 400 participants from 21 African countries have already graduated from this prominent MDI program since its inception in 2006.
AMREF's mission is to improve health and health care in Africa. It aims to ensure that every African can enjoy the right to good health by helping to create vibrant networks of informed and empowered communities and health care providers working together in strong health systems. Its extensive experience in development of human resources for health targets a diverse range of health professionals, from primary health care workers to field surgeons. AMREF has a strong regional presence and close working relationships with communities, governments, key development agencies, academic institutions, and the private sector with a current funding base of over $80m annually.
EGPAF is a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV and AIDS, working in 17 countries to implement prevention, care, and treatment services; to further advance innovative research; and to execute strategic and targeted global advocacy activities to bring dramatic change to the lives of millions of women, children, and families worldwide. EGPAF has been a key partner in providing PMTCT services in collaboration with the Swazi Ministry of Health and Welfare since 2004.
Johnson & Johnson is the world's largest and most comprehensive manufacturer of health care products serving the consumer, pharmaceutical and professional markets. The company has its worldwide headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where the business was founded over a century ago. Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Contributions program is recognized for its impact on global health care. The company's giving program is inspired by its business philosophy, aptly articulated in the uniting document - Our Credo. It challenges the company to put the needs and well-being of the people it serves first. Johnson & Johnson partners with hundreds of community-based organizations, NGOs and governments across the world to implement programs that save and improve lives, prevent diseases and fight stigma, as well as build capacity of health providers who serve under-served communities.
Ranked as one of the top business schools in South Africa, the GSB has four decades of success in developing business leaders. GSB graduates consistently go on to achieve highly in all sectors of society and all over the world. Their success creates an enduring reputation for the school. GSB programmes are at the cutting edge of management education. The school continually pushes the boundaries and challenges students on every level to ensure that they grow both personally and professionally. The GSB is taking the lead in South Africa in developing a business school that is adapted to the circumstances of a country and continent where the imperatives are democratisation, international competitiveness and economic growth.
UCLA Anderson School of Management is recognized as one of America's premier business schools. Its preeminent position is based on internationally acclaimed research, an innovative and distinguished faculty, excellent degree programs, and exceptionally bright, highly motivated students chosen from one of the largest and finest application pools in the nation. The MDI is conducted under the auspices of the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, a recognized leader in entrepreneurial education and research. The Price Center oversees all teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities related to entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson, and maintains a strong commitment to serving the non-profit and small business communities through management development programs.


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Аврово — посёлок в Сясьстройском городском поселении Волховского района Ленинградской области.

История
По данным 1966 года посёлок в составе Волховского района не значился.

По данным 1973 года посёлок назывался Аврора и входил в состав Пульницкого сельсовета Волховского района.

По данным 1990 года посёлок назывался Аврово и также входил в состав Пульницкого сельсовета.

В 1997 году в посёлке Аврово Пульницкой волости проживали 438 человек, в 2002 году — 397 человек (русские — 98 %).

В 2007 году в посёлке Аврово Сясьстройского ГП — 430.

География
Посёлок находится в северной части района на автодороге  (Сясьстрой — Колчаново — Усадище), к югу от города Сясьстрой.

Расстояние до административного центра поселения — 8 км.

Посёлок расположен на правом берегу реки Сясь.

Демография

Улицы
Лесная, Набережная, Центральная.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Волховского района

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Welcome back for Written Wednesday 2. My very warmest greetings and salutations to the loyal OG 'Mirrorheads' you are always appreciated. A regal wave to the newcomers; let's get it!
Another Wednesday and more W's to consider. I am running low on words to fit this 'W'theme so do enjoy it while it lasts.
My overriding thoughts over the past couple of weeks are surrounding self-accountability. I've tried to really strip back my wider ambition, to the things I can competently do/achieve/accomplish on my own. That is the opposite of how you grow a business/brand I know! You largely need to delegate and empower others on the way to executing your vision. Yet there is only fatal flaw in that; it is completely possible to trust the wrong people. That is despite your best intentions and most vigilant selection techniques. Nothing is guaranteed especially, when it comes to things outside of our control.
I have always been someone who likes to work independently. No problem pitching in with a team, but I prefer to get things done on my own terms. Also some of what supposedly counts as team spirit is just irritating. You know the needless gossip and terrible jokes while passing around fattening sugary snacks, counting the time away, listening to a radio station you hate, whilst hearing complaints about the weather/partners/children. After one week on repeat, you've heard all you need to of this.
I'm far happier in an environment where it's just the result I am aiming for and I. However, this isn't something that is easy to communicate to others. You're not a team player, you're anti-social, you don't share your personal life etc. Soz! On top of that, I have had to learn the hard way that not everyone is as detail oriented as me. Being thorough comes naturally to me and sometimes it causes visible frustration having to see the slapdash approach of others. Especially when it's on your dime/time.
If you're enthusiastic about upholding high standards, you're always welcome to work with me. Heck that's probably the single most important thing. Maximising the potential of what you have. The 'nobody is going to notice it' crowd can kick rocks, if I notice why won't someone else? It's chronic laziness to take this approach to life. You can't pick up everything but, if you see something out of place and it's not too late, remove it from the project. People appreciate attention to detail, the small things matter and it often makes the difference between a flimsy experience and a staunch supporter.
"Not everyone can understand the intensity that goes with attempting to be extraordinary." – p.26Mullings, J (2015). The Thought Book. England: Written Mirror Ltd.
Back to the original thoughts I've had. It is true that you can take on too much work and burn yourself out. That is never a suggestion I would make to someone. However, what I would say is this, if you can do it at a substantially higher level than the help you're thinking of getting, be prepared to be underwhelmed with the result. If it is something that you can halve your time by giving a once over after, then it may still be of value to you. Don't do it if you know you won't have the time to undertake that task IF the help gets it wrong. Save yourself the time, money and likely frustration.
More work for you now, but less work in the long run if it's done right from the jump!
You've done all you can do and you need help/expertise to reach the next level. There is no shame in looking to more qualified/skilled individuals to involve in your project. In fact it's the smart move. What is important when you're in this situation is not to completely surrender your instincts. Not every skilled/qualified professional is pure in his or her intent. I know this from personal experience, your instincts often make up for a lack of specific know how. Many times you will find the people that they try to take advantage of, are the very people who are willing to pay a fair rate for their services. Strange and somewhat an indicator of insecurity, but don't let it detract from your instincts.
I suppose it is fair to wonder what the underlying message is here? Simply one that you have instincts that are useful and talents you should utilise for the best results. When you combine that with the right help, you are on the path to a very exciting/profitable venture. Anyone that does not live up to that standard of delivery will have you to reckon with. Don't roll over and let people bulldoze you while taking your money/time/resources. That can't run! Now go be great!
I can be reached for serious comment and article contributions via email jay@writtenmirror.com if it's a formal request. There will be no tweeting from me for the rest of the year @writtenmirror (returning Jan 2019) so please don't contact me via twitter if it is urgent. Instagram @writtenmirror if need be. For any public speaking opportunities kindly use the above mentioned communication methods.


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which can neutralize excess acid. All of the people in the study were told to avoid reflux triggers, such as coffee, tea, chocolate, soda, greasy and fatty foods, spicy foods and alcohol. TIME Health.
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Jun 5, 2013. When we eat alot of highly acidic foods, our body starts to become accustomed. It may seem obvious, but spicy foods do not help acid reflux.
Thus, eating foods and drinks that prevent acid reflux can help decrease the chances of heartburn. If you notice acid reflux symptoms, it might be a good idea to change up the diet and allow it to.
Before you toss your reflux meds in the garbage, talk to your doctor. While dietary changes alone may work for some patients, "there are some people for whom you would never stop their acid medicine.
But if you really want to manage your reflux and reduce the heartburn and discomfort, you are going to have to make some changes. changing your diet as part of your treatment plan. Foods to Avoit.
You should exercise and also follow an acid reflux-friendly diet. A healthy diet and. stomach prokinetics or antibiotics to help your stomach empty faster You should speak with your doctor if.
Lisa writes: "I recently came across a diet that's supposed to help with acid reflux. In this diet, you cut way back on carbohydrates and replace those calories with fat. The theory is that your body.
Help patients manage this painful condition with lifestyle changes and. But when heartburn turns into a persistent problem, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). "That's where I guide the client on how to keep those foods in their diets.
While diet has not been shown to cause acid reflux it can definitely help to lessen the symptoms for those suffering with the disease. There are several foods that have been shown to trigger acid.
Symptoms of acid indigestion are more common among the elderly and women during pregnancy. WHAT KIND OF DIET CHANGES CAN HELP ACID REFLUX?
Nov 19, 2014. "Many lifestyle changes can help with acid reflux," says Dr. Ashwani Garg, " Significant changes in diet, regular exercise and a reduction of.
Dec 7, 2018. Also known as acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), What to Eat Instead: There are plenty of nutritious non-citrus fruits to. a little baking soda or grated carrots can help neutralize some of the acids.
As a result, there are no shortages of fad diets. dietary changes or restrictions. The ketogenic diet, more commonly called the keto diet, is one such diet. But this diet in particular may not be.
People with GERD can use medications for relief, but for many, changes in the diet can help ameliorate some or all of the symptoms. Eating alkaline foods is one.
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Since the start of 2017, about 57 percent of the reported vehicle burglaries in College Station have been the result of owners leaving their cars and trucks unlocked.
A recent trend has been for burglars to target trucks displaying stickers or emblems that suggest a firearm could be inside. After breaking a window, they quickly search the interior, especially areas where a firearm could be stored.
Take your valuables with you, hide them in the vehicle, or lock them in the trunk.
Consider removing stickers and emblems that suggest a firearm may be inside.
Consider leaving your gun at home or carry it with you when legal.
By being vigilant and careful, you can help us protect your property and prevent vehicle burglaries.
This entry was posted on February 28, 2017 by City of College Station. It was filed under Police, Public Communications and was tagged with crime prevention, Police, vehicle burglary.


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Lyric Essentials: Jennifer Martelli Reads Marie Howe
For this episode of Lyric Essentials, we're thrilled to welcome Jennifer Martelli, who reads for us two poems by Marie Howe. We discuss the personal feel of Howe's poetry, and Jennifer tells us about the ways in which Howe's work has impacted her own. As always, many thanks to our readings for their support of this series!
Riley Steiner: Why did you choose these two poems in particular? What do you admire about them?
Jennifer Martelli: It was so difficult choosing two Marie Howe poems! One of the many things I admire about Howe's poems is that they invite the reader into a space, a room, where it's as if I'm having coffee with her. The poems are conversational in that they emphasize syntactical rhythms—the way we speak. There isn't a false musical step in any of her poetry (to my ear), and yet, these are not poems that follow a metrical pattern. So how do they work? How do they maintain their structure? I guess a better question would be, how do I tell you a story? It has to begin and end; it has to inform. A master poet, Marie Howe turns that into something I listen to, a room I want to be in with her. So, the two poems I chose were the two I felt exemplified this.
Jennifer Martelli reads "How Some of It Happened" by Marie Howe
"How Some of It Happened," from her second collection, What the Living Do, tells the story of her brother's fear, his medical horror, and finally ends with a philosophical truth. This poem, though, changed how I read, and more importantly, how I write a poem. Look at the fourth couplet:
We found a pile of sharp and shining crystals in the upstairs hall.
So you understand, it was terrible
I italicized "So you understand" because it is brilliant: who is the you? It's us, it's me—the speaker, the sister, wants us to understand the accuracy of her brother's terror. She's not using the "you" to tell the brother—he knows what happened! The pronoun is more than just a useful trope—it's integral to the urgency of the poem. It is a moment of intimacy between the speaker and the poet. "Come here, I need to tell you this, how some of it happened." This charges the poem and the book with integrity, clarity, beauty, and grace. This is a challenge I give myself every time I sit down to write: to whom am I writing this poem, and why?
Wow—I love that poem.
Jennifer Martelli reads "Magdalene—The Seven Devils" by Marie Howe
I chose "Magdalene—The Seven Devils," from Howe's most recent collection, Magdalene, for much of the same reason: I believe that I am the "you" Howe is addressing.
The second—I was different from you: whatever happened to you could
not happen to me, not like that.
This is a list poem, but a list that is in flux or distracted from its last item, which is its truth. In many ways, it is how we write poetry—or how I write poetry. It takes constant revision to get to the truth. So, here, the voice is Magdalene (which is a contemporary, or eternal, voice), inviting me in and then proceeding to try to tell me the truth—and that's it, isn't it? Telling the truth? I admire Howe's piling on of the "devils"—some are downright funny (the aphid, the obsessive touching, the laundry) and some are painful. I felt a real identification towards the end of the poem, as well, with the introduction of the mother's dying and her death. The only other time the poem addresses me, the "you," is the final item on the list:
The underneath. That was the first devil. It was always with me.
And that I didn't think you—if I told you—would understand any of this—
If we think of the word stanza as meaning "room," then this is what Howe does in this poem: she creates all these rooms where she's telling me something in a language I know. This is how I write a poem.
RS: In our emails, you mentioned that Marie Howe was one of your first teachers and poets that you heard. Can you elaborate a bit about your relationship with her and her work?
JM: I lived in Cambridge from 1990–1996. At that time, Marie Howe was living there, as well as Lucie Brock-Broido and Mary Karr. They would have workshops in their homes—their kitchens, living rooms, little Harvard offices. They'd Scotch-tape the announcements on the windows of the Grolier Book Store—£50.00 for a workshop, £100.00. Amazing—six weeks with these master poets! Marie's workshop was my first and one that I returned to many times. She urged me to apply to Warren Wilson College for my MFA (I loved WW, but the experience of sitting with her and Lucie and Mary was as good as any MFA). These workshops were ruthless and honest and loving.
When I met Marie, she was working on What the Living Do, or perhaps just starting it? Anyway, when I walked into her house, I had absolutely no relationship with the poetry being written and read at that time. The most contemporary would have been Plath, whom I love, but that's where it ended. I needed to hear poetry, and that meant reading and going to readings. I'd been writing "poems" or "Poems"—stilted, with very little truth, just lots of poetry. I'll never forget the first time I got it—I remember the poem (though I can't find it), but it was in the voice of Lady MacBeth. I was sitting in Marie's living room, she was nursing a bad cold, and she said, "That's it! That's what it sounds like!" It was a visceral understanding. It was syntactical more than metrical.
RS: You also mentioned that Howe's work has had a huge influence on yours. How so?
JM: Howe's influence has been on this kind of listening and telling. I've learned from her about the music of the sentence, which, in poetry, has to work with line breaks, right? I try to think about whom I'm inviting into the poem, and why. What do I want/need to tell you? Why is it important? And who is the "I"? I've really tried to avoid being gratuitous with "you." I also learned the importance of spacing on the page; I like those spaces around lines and stanzas.
I think her greatest influence has been to read and to listen to poetry. When I'm not reading poetry, I have a much harder time writing. My poems seem so precious! I've been lazy since the spring, so I did #TheSealeyChallenge (a book a day in August)!
RS: In that vein, is there anything you're currently working on that you'd like to tell us about?
JM: My book My Tarantella came out last fall from Bordighera Press, so I'm still doing readings. This was a weaving of the Kitty Genovese story with my life, and then, the intrusion of Donald Trump. It's about violence, about silencing women, about trauma. The urge to write this was sudden and intense and intruded on another manuscript, which I just "finished"—maybe. This newer/older manuscript is about my long-term sobriety: what happens to the recovering alcoholic 30 years in? It's about shame, about the seeds of this disease. Also, I'm writing these poems about Geraldine Ferraro (like Kitty Genovese, an Italian-American from Queens), so I'm back to women, trauma, the 80s. These poems are very new and kind of blend the misogyny in My Tarantella and the craziness of addiction, but we'll see what happens!
Marie Howe is the author of the poetry collections The Good Thief and The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. Her 1997 book What the Living Do is viewed by many as an elegy to her brother John, who died in 1989. Her most recent work is Magdalene: Poems, published in 2017 by W.W. Norton. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others.
Visit Marie's website
Listen to Marie speak about her work in this NPR feature
Read Marie's interview about Magdalene: Poems in The Millions
Jennifer Martelli is the author of My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), selected as a 2019 "Must-Read" by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her chapbook, After Bird, was the winner of the 2016 Grey Book Press open reading period. Her work has appeared in Verse Daily, Cutthroat, The Bitter Oleander, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Iron Horse Review (winner, PhotoFinish contest). Jennifer is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is co–poetry editor for Mom Egg Review and co-curates the Italian-American Writers Series at I AM Books in Boston.
Visit Jennifer's website
Read Jennifer's poetry in MORIA, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Psaltery & Lyre
Purchase My Tarantella (Bordighera Press)
Riley Steiner graduated from Miami University, where she studied Creative Writing and Media & Culture. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she enjoys baking, cheering for the Green Bay Packers, and spending way too much money at Half Price Books. Her creative work has recently appeared in the Oakland Arts Review and Collision.
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"We pushed boundaries of what technology capable of, with new Huawei MateBook X Pro," says Richard Yu
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The Chinese giant, Huawei, will introduce its MateBook X Pro laptop into Egyptian market, as the tech firm is seeking to rule out Apple's MacBook Pro from the market. The laptop has a 14in screen squeezed into a 12in laptop frame, a discrete graphics processing unit (GPU), and a camera which pops up from beneath the keyboard.
The new thin and light laptop follows Huawei's 2017 MateBook X, and looks strikingly familiar to Apple's top-of-the-line notebook. With an aluminum body, the company has improved the notebook's features, which impressed the audience in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018, where the laptop was officially released.
"We pushed the boundaries of what technology and innovation are capable of, with the introduction of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro," Richard Yu, CEO of the Huawei Consumer Business Group, stated during the tech firm's press conference at the MWC 2018.
The notebook has already earned a significant number of recognitions and awards from several industry players, leaders, and prominent magazines, which made the Chinese firm ecstatic about its second successful attempt to take over its rival's place in the laptop market.
Matebook X Pro comes with chamfered edges, and it features the latest Intel 8th generation quad-core i7 U series processor, with up to a 16GB of RAM, as well as an Nvidia MX150 discrete graphics processor with a 2GB memory. It also supports Thunderbolt 3, has two USB-C ports, a USB-A port, and a headphones' socket, which are squeezed into a wedge shape that tapers from 16.6mm to 4.9mm, and weighs1.33 kilograms.
Huawei rates the battery life of the MateBook X Pro at 12 hours of video playback. The company is going to sell the device with a new compact 65W USB-C charger, which is about the same size as any smartphone's fast charger, describing it as "intelligent enough to charge anything safely."
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I was in Paris last week as one does in a post-holiday treat before really hitting the rat race… again, and one of my client who I was having lunch with asked be: "Oh Marianne, I just read on your biography that you've worked in 6 different countries with over 80 nationalities. That must take superb communication skills to get the best out of people when you're conversing in a 3rd or 4th language!" I laughed, but actually….
First of all, and to straighten the record… it is now 8 countries and close to 100 nationalities… and hopefully it will continue to increase with the years to come.
No, joke on the side, I believe communications skills are the number one skill one needs to focus on to successfully lead and nowadays work in more and more multi-cultural environments.
It needs to go deep, very deep. The starting point is to understand the cultural making and the psyche of the population you are going to interact with.
I am currently expanding in the Middle East and on my bedside table you will find a mix of FT articles, academic books, religious books, a couple of novels and, poetry, yes, you read well poetry… because a lot transpire from language and culture.
Getting a wide array of sources help me gage my own perception gap, be aware of my own cultural bias and in a better position to address them.
I always follow the same process, I research, I read, I think I meet with different people and communities. I learn as much as I can- yes full circle back to learning – and I guess, I always try to engage with humility and from a position where I can assess the cultural gap and ultimately bridge it.
Listening and observing are critical…and yes speaking the local language can help, but to me it is just another element in the equation.
From a leadership perspective, it is more about understanding what drive the other person, and try to agree on goals that are both appealing for him/her and matching the need of the organization you are working in.
We are in a highly virtual world, but at the end of the day, business is done with people of flesh and bone. They come with history, a story, a personality, needs and fears. The closest you can get to understanding THE person, the closest you will get to be successful as a leader, or as a business person.
So the truth about communication skills? It is not about language, or even about body language. It is about the capacity to interact from one human being… to another.


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Nazis and the Republican Party
Posted byVictor Vaughn August 6, 2011 Posted inFascism, Germany, History, Hypocrisy, Imperialism & Colonialism, Oddities, Racism, Reactionary Watch, United States
Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in "Blowback" that after World War II, Nazi émigrés were given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U. S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas. The Nazi agenda did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the Republican Party.
Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll "for their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer. After Germany's defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U.S. certain concessions in exchange for his own protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the political right in this country, and helped shape U.S. perceptions of the cold war.
Journalist Russ Bellant ("Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party") shows that Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.
Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small newspaper, Washington Jewish Week, disclosed that a coalition for the Bush campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.
According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:
(1) Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of "Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust denier, Austin App.
(2) Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of "Romanians for Bush." Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.
(3) Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.
(4) Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.
(5) Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich worked closely with many Nazi groups.
(6) Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukranians for Bush." Fedorak headed a Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish wartime pogroms.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article on the Bush team's inclusion of Nazis (David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," September 10, 1988.) The newspaper also ran an investigative series on Nazi members of the Bush coalition. The articles confirmed that the Bush team included members listed by Russ Bellant.
Journalist Martin A. Lee, has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. In "The Beast Reawakens," Lee confirms that during both the Reagan and Bush years, the Republican Party's ethnic outreach arm recruited members from the Nazi émigré network.
Lee says that the Republican Party's ethnic outreach division had an outspoken hatred of President Jimmy Carter's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), an organization dedicated to tracking down and prosecuting Nazi war collaborators who entered this country illegally. Former Republican Pat Buchanan attacked Carter's OSI after it deported a few suspected Nazi war criminals.
According to Lee, public relations man Harold Keith Thompson was principal U.S. point man for the postwar Nazi support network known as die Spinne, or the Spider. In the late 40s and early 50s, Thompson worked as the chief North American representative for the remaining National Socialist German Worker's Party and the SS. Lee writes that the wealthy Thompson gave generously to Republican candidates Senator Jesse Helms and would-be senator Oliver North. Thompson's money gained him membership in the GOP's Presidential Legion of Merit. Lee says Thompson also "received numerous thank-you letters from the Republican National Committee." Those letters are now in the Hoover Institution Special Collections Library.
Christopher Simpson writes in "Blowback" that in 1983, Ronald Reagan presented a Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, to CIA émigré program consultant James Burnham. Burnham was a psychological warfare consultant who promoted something called "liberationism." Just before the 1952 election, the CIA worked up a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at selling Americans on expanding cold war activities in Europe. Part of the guiding theory (given the name "liberationism") was the idea that certain Nazi leaders from World War II should be brought in as "freedom fighters" against the USSR.
Reagan said that Burnham's ideas on liberation "profoundly affected the way America views itself and the world," adding, "I owe [Burnham] a personal debt, because throughout the years of travelling on the mashed-potato circuit I have quoted [him] widely." Reagan may not have known Burnham's theories were based on his work on projects that enlisted many Nazi collaborators, but it seems that Reagan's CIA Director Casey or former CIA Director, Vice President George Bush, would have informed him.
At a May 9, 1984 press conference, Simon Wiesenthal said, "Nazi criminals were the principal beneficiaries of the Cold War." The cold war mentality, hyped by Reinhard Gehlen and other Nazis, became the shelter for tens of thousands of Nazi criminals. Helping the far right in this country to promote cold war hysteria became the Nazi war criminals "reason for being." As Christopher Simpson says, the cold war became those criminals' means "to avoid responsibility for the murders they had committed."
Journalist Seymour Hersh says Christopher Simpson's "Blowback" is "the ultimate book about the worst kind of cold war thinking, in which some of our most respected statesmen made shameful decisions that they mistakenly believed to be justified." To this day, says Simpson, the U. S. intelligence agencies hide the scope of their post-World War II collaboration with Nazi criminals.
Are Republicans like George H. W. Bush, Oliver North, and Jesse Helms aware they have been assisted by Nazi collaborators? Bush once worked for the CIA and should have known about the nature of the Nazis in his '88 campaign. No doubt he knows the history of Nazi/CIA collaboration. Whether or not Bush knew of the fascists' involvement in his campaign, the Republican Party should have done a far better screening job. One thing is certain: The intelligence agencies know the scope and extent of Nazi involvement with the political right in this country. It is a shame they keep it hidden from the majority of the American people.
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Title: Trading Places (1983)
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One of the funniest, most outrageous comedies of the 80s arrives on Blu-ray as part of the Paramount Presents line. Newly remastered from a 4K film transfer supervised by director John Landis, TRADING PLACES cemented Eddie Murphy's star status. The limited-edition Paramount Presents Blu-ray Disc™ is presented in collectible packaging that includes a foldout image of the film's theatrical poster and an interior spread with key movie moments. The film will also be available on 4K Ultra HD Digital.
The very rich and extremely greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager over whether "born-loser" Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) could become as successful as the priggish Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Akroyd) if circumstances were reversed. Alongside the street-smarts of Ophelia (Jamie Lee Curtis), Winthorpe and Valentine are a trio ready for a riotous revenge that culminates on the commodities trading floor in New York City.
The Paramount Presents Blu-ray includes a new Filmmaker Focus with John Landis, access to a Digital copy of the film, as well as the following previously released bonus content:
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Sprinkle salt and pepper on the chicken.
Coat with a little olive oil and brown on both sides in pan suited for stove-top and oven use, such as a high-sided cast-iron pan. Add the full ½-cup olive oil, the thyme, and all the garlic. Mix it all together.
Cover and bake at 350°F for 1 ½ hours.


If you thought that I had everything together and didn't struggle like everyone does, this article will surely shatter that image of me. If you realize that I am the same as you – a pilgrim trying to make it through life – perhaps you can understand this.
Life is a blur sometimes for my family. Shoot, often it is a blur. We are so busy we barely have time to think much less anything else. With all our commitments, responsibilities, and other stuff we barely have time to relate to each other. It seems sometimes we are strangers in our own home. And if my wife and I are having trouble finding time to speak to each other because of the busy nature of life, how in the world do I relate and speak to God each day. You know, that prayer thing. Have I become a stranger to God's throne?
Sin is a cruel master. A very cruel master.
Last week I hurt my wife and my marriage (before you speculate, I didn't have an affair or strike my wife but hurt her and crossed a line I shouldn't have). It was inexcusable and indefensible. But it was entirely predictable result of my becoming a stranger to God's throne because I became too busy with life that I forgot to commune daily with my Life-giving Father in heaven. How did tis happen?
Sixty hours at work per week. One hour commute to work. One hour commute from work. Responsibilities here. Responsibilities there. This ministry. That ministry. An event today, tomorrow, and the next day. Football practice, basketball practice, gymnastics, and dance. A blog article is due. Gotta finish that manuscript outline. Study? Oh yeah, I need to study…and pray. But I'm busy.
I have apologized to my wife, asked her forgiveness, and taken steps to prevent the sin from repeating itself. My wife has forgiven me and we are working to repair the damage I inflicted on her and our marriage.
Now I need to approach God's throne. I feel like I don't belong.
Jesus invites us to come to Him with all the burdens and labors we bear. I have no doubt these burdens included the unbiblical rules and regulations that the religious leaders placed on the people of that time. I also believe that these burdens – at least as an application – can include the burdens we often carry from previously forgiven sin. Like the burden I now carry.
Will I listen to His invitation and meet Him in His throne room? Will I shrink back, hide, and cower in shame and disgust at my sin? I wish I could answer those questions. But right now, I just don't know what I will do.
I clearly hear Christ's call to come to Him. I just don't want to go right now.
I feel just plain wrong.
How can I approach my holy God – the Holy One seen in Isaiah 6 – with this sin? How can I bear to see Him? How can I allow Him to see me?
I know, I know. All I have to do is repent (done), ask forgiveness (done), and it will be granted to me. After all, that is what the Cross accomplished, right? All my sins were washed away. Yeah, I know 'em all. If I was counseling someone as a Pastor, I would be quoting them left and right. I'd be reassuring the one I'm counseling of God's forgiveness if he repented.
But this one…this one really hurts. I hurt the one person I never wanted to hurt. I hurt my wife. The woman who has stood by me through thick and thin. She has endured things that I'm sure others know nothing about. And now this. I feel like I need to be beaten more. I feel that I need to do something and not just move on.
Forgiveness of my sin is granted at the Cross. Though I do not feel forgiven, I am forgiven. You see, there is sometimes a lag between the granting of forgiveness and the realization that forgiveness has already been received. My sin wasn't just committed by the act (again, not a physical thing). It began to work in me as I drifted from the throne room of God. That was a mistake I hope I never make again.
My burdens have already been lifted. My sin already forgiven. I have received mercy and grace in my time of need. To believe anything less would cheapen the Cross. It would deny the power of Christ's sacrifice. Now I just need to realize these things are true.
This is going to be tough.


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Shengfa Liao was recently hired in the animal and dairy sciences department as a nonruminant nutritionist with both teaching duties and research responsibilities in the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. His work focuses on maximizing the efficiency of nutrient utilization by swine.
"As a department, we will be investigating swine management systems that will improve production efficiency in the Southeast," Blanton said. "With the addition of Dr. Liao to the department, our swine research program will be rejuvenated, and our students will receive the well-rounded education that is necessary for successful employment after graduation.
Liao said he will soon begin a two-year project to examine the role of amino acids in muscle growth in pigs. He will be working with about 60-80 young pigs at a time.
Mark Crenshaw, swine specialist with the MSU Extension Service, said the facility that will house swine research is located at the H.H. Leveck Animal Research Center. While it has housed pigs before, the building has been used as a multipurpose facility in recent years.
"Several things needed to be done to make it workable for a research project," Crenshaw said.
In partnership with Prestage Farms, MSU has installed feeders, a new watering system, a feed auger system to move feed to the pigs as needed and ventilation curtains that open and close automatically to control the temperature in the facility.
Crenshaw said the facility will not only house swine research but also provide students firsthand experience to prepare them for working in the swine industry.
"Pigs are used as models for a variety of research projects, and it will be good to have this basic livestock animal species once again in our research facility," Crenshaw said.
Although small numbers of pigs will be housed in the facility at any given time, their presence will give MSU students an opportunity to learn how to care for pigs and manage their needs.
Terry Emerson, general manager of Prestage Farms in West Point, said the partnership will help MSU get back into swine research.
Contacts: Dr. John Russell Blanton, Jr.


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AIIMS runs a variety of undergraduate courses in medicine, nursing and related areas , and postgraduate courses in virtually all the basic and clinical medical specialties and superspecialties. Admissions to these courses are based on entrance examinations conducted all over the country.
AIIMS is the only institution in the country running a B Sc (Hons) course in Human Biology. This course is aimed at producing a group highly proficient young scientists well-versed in basic medical and modern biological techniques. Some of these graduates may eventually fill teaching positions in medical schools in the basic medical sciences. In addition, they are also expected to be tomorrow's leaders in research, specially in emerging fields like biotechnology and molecular biology.
Students going through the Objective Structure Practical Examination (O S P E) in Physiology.
personnel without whom no health care team can be complete.
(O S C E) in neonatology in progress.
All postgraduate students in AIIMS are potential teachers and research workers. Hence during their stay at the Institute, they not only acquire competence in a branch of medicine or surgery, but they also savor the romance of teaching and research. The small pieces of research which postgraduate students complete are treated as guided introduction to the painfully slow and tedious process of discovery. AIIMS is also one of the pioneers in initiating an in-service training programme for postgraduate students. Residents, while providing patient care, also get formal training and education towards their degrees. At present the Institute awards postgraduate degrees in 55 different specialties.


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Q: How to send data as json object in post method of Rho::AsyncHttp I sending data to a server using the Rho::AsyncHttp.post method, but i'm unable to send the data as json object. But sending the data as string reaches the server but the server api requires json data.
Here the code i'm using,
data = { :query1 => "this demo" , :query2 => "another demo" }
result = Rho::AsyncHttp.post(
    :url => "https://www.myserverapi.com/myapi",
    :body => data
)

The above code fails to connect to server. How ever when i change the :body => #{data},
its reaches the server but as string. Ant suggestion?

A: First, when you set the :body => #{data}, you are converting the json data to string doing #{}
Second, you need to set the :header to { "Content-Type" => "application/json; charset=utf-8", "Accept" => "application/json" }. This makes the post method accept the data as json object.
So you need the below code,
data = { :query1 => "this demo" , :query2 => "another demo" } # Any data to be passed
result = Rho::AsyncHttp.post(
    :url => "https://www.myserverapi.com/myapi",
    :header => { "Content-Type" => "application/json; charset=utf-8", "Accept" => "application/json" },
    :body => Rho::JSON.parse(data)
)

Hope this helps you.

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