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The End Sars Protests need metamorphosis to #EndNigeria
It is the freedom of the nations within Nigeria that holds the keys to the prosperity of the regions and the people.
Adeola
In recent days, running to weeks, protests have emerged across Nigeria. Mostly, young people from all works of lives are calling for an end to police brutality.
This is my first reaction to the protests. Obviously, a lot of people can't find me on facebook because l deactivated my account during the summer and l tried so hard to stay away from it.
On twitter, l have not used the hashtag end sars for once. But on my microblog on instagram, my own hashtag still remains #ENDNIGERIA.
I am in full support of the end sars protest. However, l am also following the process as it develops because the goal definitely cannot be to end (only) police brutality and have the other situations as usual. I understand the demands have grown to 7 point agenda.
The agenda may grow to 100 point agenda for all it is worth.
As it is today, and as l have called for in the last couple of years, Nigeria must end, any demand or list of demand short of putting an end to the misery called Nigeria is half-baked bread.
Let me make my points clearer.
If you have been following my blog, it would appear that l am responsible for the end sars protest as a disguise for the calls l have made here and on my micro-instagram blog. On several occasions and very consistently and persistently, l have written that we have a long walk to freedom and we have to end the order of things in Nigeria to even begin to formulate a way forward.
The nations entrapped in Nigeria must be free, at all cost and by any means. It is the freedom of the nations within Nigeria that holds the keys to the prosperity of the regions and the people.
It won´t be eureka when the nations emerged but it should serve as the first step to securing the future of the indigenes today and the unborn generations tomorrow.
I want to live in a Yorubaland that is akin to the biblical fable paradise. I know it is a mirage to have such a dream now that l am 48. But l have nephews and nieces and l want their children and children's children to inherit that land that l dream of.
That land is not possible under the present useless unitary system in Nigeria. That land is not possible together with other people whom l don't share anything in common with and whose sole aim it to remain parasitic on me and suck the hell out of my existence. I need to break free before my young family members and their born and unborn children can inherit that land l dream of.
The closest thing to my dream was the Western Nigeria that existed before the 2 useless coups of 1966. Now, we have to even take more radical steps to ensure that when l break free this time, no stupid human being can rope me and my ethnic group into one useless union or country that has refused to progress for more than 60 years.
Read my blog to know my views and all the ground breaking theories l shared about Nigeria. Don't judge my state of mind by this article alone.
If we die as Nigerians, and not as free members of the different nations entrapped in Nigeria, our lives have been wasted and we were good for nothing, just like our parents.
Nigerian politicians must not go unpunished even if the regions or nations emerge. All the useless people and politicians who have stolen our commonwealth, built houses in Dubai, London and US and who kept several billions in safe havens outside Nigeria should be punished. They should only start to think about being members of the new order in their respective nations after coughing the monies they stole. Those monies will go a long way in the rebirth of the nations.
Many politicians and military gangsters forming statesmanship ought to rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
I don't know where end sars protests will culminate but if it does not bring about the independence of the nations and the freedom of the people, it still fall short of what l have advocated for and in my recent microblogs, l wrote that while we think that we have made progress, we have only actually deceived ourselves and before we know it, we are old and dying.
Again, let me be clear. The emergence of the nation may even lead to war and violence and fight for power and supremacy. Still, it is better than to live in perpetual slavery in Nigeria. I know it won't be that bad because the end sars has shown that the indigenes trapped in Nigeria can actually cooperate to achieve common goals. Imagine how sweet and smoother it will be if they spoke the same language, wear the same clothes, share a common identity and a proud heritage. I think it will be much better.
I could go on as usual, because once l start to write, l drift and l almost cannot stop.
Summariy, l am with you, THE NIGERIN YOUTH. AT 48 and after many years of blogging and risking my lives coming in and out of Nigeria, it is good to leave the batton and see how you carry on.
I am with you not until the end of sars but until the end of the fraud called Nigeria. I hope to tarry long.
All the points on your agenda are what you need to take to your respective nations when you get your independence. Those points will be the start of new code of conducts for you and the people you would elect in your new nations. If the nations don't emerge, you are going back to square one. Save this post and read it again in 2023 if you allow the useless APC and PDP to linger.
APC and PDP are criminal organisations. INEC too, is a criminal organisation. All the politicians are criminals. Sars is an offshoot of the criminal organisation called the Nigerian government. So this is beyond sars and we all know that.
I always say it is a long walk to freedom. If you stop at end sars and if the nations never emerge, the end sars protests will sustain the monsters in the system. It will bring forth new opportunists and they will be more brutal than what you have bargained for.
The freedom from Nigeria is now or never.
2020 Nigeria: Confined In Corruption And Poverty
July 27, 2020 July 27, 2020 / Adeola / 1 Comment
Nigeria must be dismantled, totally. Nigeria must end for the nations entrapped within it to emerge and begin afresh. It is only competition between the different regions or nations within Nigeria that can reduce corruption and eradicate poverty
This is the 27th day of July, 2020 and Nigeria as it stands is still being ruled by hardcore criminals and gangsters spread across 2 criminal organisations called APC and PDP.
The central government is headed by APC headed by a criminal called Muhammadu Buhari.
For those who are not used to the useless form of democracy in Nigeria, a quick recap is that Nigeria left military rule in 1999 and civilians took over. From 1999 to 2015, a criminal organisation called PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) led the Nigerian government and what followed was massive corruption as usual and extreme spread of poverty and hopelessness. In 2015, Nigerians thought a change had come and voted for another criminal organisation called APC (All Progressive Congress).
(Note: for details of Nigeria´s political history, please look elsewhere).
In this month of July alone, the entire world has been watching the drama unfolding in one of the several corrupt government institutions in Nigeria, the NDDC. I am not able to provide the details of what has transpired, sadly.
My take is that the problem is not just the NDDC. Everything about governance in Nigeria is wrong and crazy.
The NDDC has always been corrupt. The NDDC will always be corrupt. Check out NNPC too. Check out INEC, NEPA, the National Assembly, the Legislative arm, the Judiciary, the states and the governors, the Executives (presidency and ministers), state commissioners and everywhere and everything about government in Nigeria. What you see is different aggregation of criminals and criminal minds in public offices.
Corruption is not limited to public institutions in Nigeria. The private sector is also ripping Nigeria and Nigerians into pieces. You can start from the TELECOMS for a preview. They will milk poor Nigerians to starvation and deaths.
Nigeria is corruption personified. It is a country confined in a systemic culture of corruption. For the past 2 decades, this has been my theme on my essays, articles and blog entries.
More than 30 years ago, there was an article in one of Nigeria´s newspaper raising a question about the common man in Nigeria and his survival based on his meagre wage. The writer concluded that it was just impossible to live on such a wage. Today, the common man in Nigeria earns comparatively less (in dollar rate). How does anyone in Nigeria live on N30 000 minimum wage monthly? How is that possible? I should address this in another article.
Specifically Nigerian politicians from all across Nigeria are mentally deranged, have low cerebral functions, are grossly incompetent, possess unbelievable, insatiable lusts for material possessions. Their collective stupidity and ineptitude continues to confine Nigeria to the league of poor countries, poor citizens and poverty-plagued existence not worthy of lower animals.
My aim today is to remind you as l have done in almost 2 decades that the person called the president of Nigeria is Buhari and he is leading probably the most corrupt government ever in Africa´s history. Like l always write, l thought Jonathan and the PDP gang would be the worst we had seen at the end of 2015. But this criminal called Buhari and the APC crew blew my mind away with the latest dimension of corruption in Nigeria since 2015.
The most annoying thing about this is the different nations enslaved in Nigeria, taking turns in different capacities and contributing to the ruins. I have mentioned names in many articles and it is becoming old fashioned. Still, take a little time and follow criminals like Akpabio and Oshiomhole if you want to have an idea of the problems. Then take time to follow all the politicians that are prominent, write their names and add corruption in a google search.
Buhari himself started stealing before 1977 but in 1977 he made it official as a minister of petroleum. Do you know how many years that is, from 1977 to 2020, that Buhari has had his hands in Nigeria´s public treasury?
Those aso rock dogs called special assistants or media assistants for things and nonsenses are just looking after their daily bread. Femi Adesina comes to mind. This is another criminal mind. When this is over, he would follow the lines of Segun Adeniyi and Reuben Abati in writing some stupid books or memos. Yorubas called such people didinrins.
Nigeria must be dismantled, totally. Nigeria must end for the nations entrapped within it to emerge and begin afresh. It is only competition between the different regions or nations within Nigeria that can reduce corruption and eradicate poverty.
The Yorubas and the Ibos especially are very unfortunate to be clumped with the rest of Nigeria. These are ethnic groups that can survive on their own and rule the world in all ramifications. The Niger Delta would have toed the same line of progress and prosperity.
The North is lazy, but it would have emerged based on the competition from the other regions around or close to it.
Together in Nigeria, all these nations remain slaves to the colonial masters and the dumb ass politicians and elites who remain the most formidable criminal organisation in Africa. This is the bane of Nigeria.
These are some of the problems facing Nigeria. As it stands, like l always write, Nigeria will never, never make it under the present criminal political arrangement. Let me tell you, there will always be people and organisations that will prosper under the situation in Nigeria. You will be stupid to use your personal progress as a measure of the workability of Nigeria, a rotten country with a despicable high morality rate.
I don´t even want to remind you of the other things that make Nigerians less human. I don´t even want to start with our ladies who don´t know that they are mentally deranged with all the nonsense wigs on their heads. Our boys have all taken to rituals and cultism. Terrorists are made locally and internationally and dumped across the area called Nigeria. What is left of being African? What is left of being a Yoruba? Ibo? Kanuri? Bini?
Africa is long gone and the nations that should help rebuild are fading away not just because of poverty and corruption but also as a result of the total destruction of the cultural heritage of motherland-Africa.
A Country Called Nigeria (Part 1)
June 18, 2019 June 18, 2019 / Adeola / 1 Comment
Written By Adeola Aderounmu
The rest of the world is making giant strides and the rate of global development is amazing. It is like a race to perfection, a sort of paradise on earth. Nigeria is not having the same goals as other developed countries of the world. This can be expressed and proved in more than a million words.
It is this same sad story that we have been writing about since time immemorial. But it appears that for some of us, we have to keep writing about it. For so many other people, the happenstance called Nigeria is the only life they know. What if they knew better? What will become of Nigeria if the people who write about the ills in that relegated country stop writing? How low can Nigeria descend?
Politics and Elections.
Politically, Nigeria is backward. The so-called president of Nigeria in the person of Mr. Buhari is an epitome of the decay and outright foolishness that is displayed as politics in Nigeria. Buhari has almost no education, forged a certificate to contest, and in the last 4 years (2015- 2019) have shown that he is more interested in power than in performances.
The 2019 presidential election conducted under his watch is nothing but a disgrace to the human race.
The elections in Nigeria are disgraceful for so many reasons. The ruling party, the APC cheated. The main opposition, the PDP, also had been involved in electoral frauds since 1999. The policemen and soldiers were active and played decisive roles in the outcome of the elections. The greatest disappointments in electoral matters in Nigeria lie with the electoral body called INEC and the electorates-the people who have also become zombified by a largely fraudulent system.
INEC executed a manual system that is ridiculous and laughable. In the 21st century approaching the 22nd, Nigerians cannot count themselves in a successful census and Nigerians cannot line up and be counted on elections days. They have not even dreamt of an automated system based on the social security number system. Nigeria is far from civilization where it mattered most.
Infrastructure: Roads, Water and Electricity
I have been running this blog since 2006. One of the biggest issues on this blog is the dearth of infrastructure in Nigeria. How can anyone believe that there is no electricity in Nigeria? How can you reckon with the absence of water that should be provided by state and federal governments? Do you know that some of the worst roads in the world are in Nigeria? Go and check out Badagry-Oshodi expressroad or Agbara road linking to Ogun state. These are not even roads anymore, they are the longest stretch of deathtraps l have seen in my entire life.
One day l was reading through an old post where l reflected on the speech of Mrs. Clinton during her short visit to Nigeria. In her words, she said "when you hear Nigeria, you think wao! everywhere is electrified!". But sadly, many years after her visit, Nigeria is still not electrified by electricity. The country is electrified instead by evil, kidnapping and terrorism. Then you start to think, "what kinds of morons are running the country"? Where is their shame? Where are their senses? Do they even have brains?
(To be continued. Part 2 coming up soon).
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The Nigerian Genocide Under The Watch Of Buhari
May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019 / Adeola / Leave a comment
If you defend yourself, you can live to tell the story. If you do not defend yourself, other people will tell your story and they will not tell the true story.
There is a lot of massacre going on in Nigeria. The people of Nigeria need to react and start nationwide protests (where/if necessary). The rest of the world should stop acting dumb and deaf. All the groups that are under siege depending on their ethnicity and religion need to start defending themselves properly. In some situations, we have seen Christians (and non-Christians) massacred senselessly, and I think it is about time they took up arms and defend themselves. If you defend yourself, you can live to tell the story. If you do not defend yourself, other people will tell your story and they will not tell the true story.
The terrorists are enjoying massive support and logistics from the APC government.
The terrorist activities of Boko Haram are well documented. They are controlling a substantial part of northern Nigeria, probably up to 15% or more. When Buhari said in 2015, through his minister of information, one notorious liar called Lai Mohammed, that Boko Haram had been technically defeated, (false) optimism was raised.
Today, in 2019, Boko Haram is one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the word having free movements and free flow of arms and weaponry into Nigeria through the undefined and unprotected borders. The Nigerian army has been severely disgraced and defeated several times by the terrorists.
But the rage of genocide in Nigeria under the watch of Buhari has grown massive tentacles.
Rather than label all terrorists as terrorists, the Buhari government developed fanciful and distractive names for them. Names like bandits and Fulani herdsmen have emerged. Even Miyeti Allah.
In reality these are all terrorist organizations and they found great fertility under the APC-Buhari mandate since 2015. Nigeria is in a serious soup as the jihadist movements expanded greatly in the last 4 years. Several communities in the middle belt of Nigeria that were originally occupied by predominantly Christians have been sacked and transformed to Islamic communities. In extreme situations, the names of some communities have changed.
Under Buhari, several communities have been wiped away or displaced and the level of outrage has been disappointing. Several reasons can be responsible for this muted acceptance or state of silence locally and internationally. But the evil cannot be swept away under the carpets, not for long though.
In Nigeria, the government has been so irresponsible that in the eyes of the people, there is no government. Since the existence of the people have been reduced to survival of the fittest, there are no more outrages as people's state of mind have returned to the barbaric stone age.
When Buhari said in 2015, through his minister of information, one notorious liar called Lai Mohammed, that Boko Haram had been technically defeated, (false) optimism was raised.
So it's like the acronym, all man to himself and [God] for us all. But this is sad, that the security of lives and property lost its nomenclature and became nationally declassified.
As it is in Nigeria today, staying alive is a miracle and no longer a right. I will not be able to highlight all the atrocities and anomalies that terminate lives daily in Nigeria. But the recent (2019) elections where several lives were lost because invariably the elections became a show of force and in some cases an open war between the ruling party and the oppositions, tell a lot.
The police brutality, the army brutality, the road accidents, the collapse of buildings, kidnapping, assassinations, daylight murders, cult wars, and several vices that ought to be abominable and condemnable have disrupted the normal psyche of the average Nigerian. Fighting for one's personal survival have become the first law of living in Nigeria.
So, if Boko Haram razed down a whole community in Maiduguri or if Fulani Herdsmen shot dead 50 people in Plateau including pregnant women and children, the people in Ogun State will go to church and give thanksgiving that they are alive. But now the genocide has moved south and the people of Ogun are also bracing for the murders ahead.
Quite undeterred, the terrorists either as Boko Haram or Miyetti Allha will continue with their Islamic agenda, razing down one community after the other. Some states like Benue are worst hit! The people who have not been hit are still giving thanks. Soon they will learn to take arms to defend themselves. That is the only way to survive a terrorist situation when the government appears to be the sponsor.
Soon, Nigerians will know that staying alive is not about being at the right place at the tight time or the wrong place at the wrong time. Staying alive when the government is in support of terrorism will soon become a regional battle and the breakup of Nigeria may become inevitable, unless the APC- led government of Buhari and Osinbajo stop the herdsmen and BH.
Over the years, education has been truncated. I mean public education where it should be compulsory and basic. More than 15 million Nigerian children may be out of school. In government, criminals are over represented making the case for education less attractive. Buhari is not educated and so are several persons across Nigeria occupying sensitive and public positions. People of low mentalities, sometime zero mentalities are leading Nigeria to the gutters.
Today the security of Nigeria is heavily tilted, with nearly all the service chiefs from the core north of Nigeria. Buhari is the most dangerous nepotic person alive in the world today. The ruling party is a sham and a complete disgrace to humanity and the case for freedom, democracy and development of the human mind. Rather than wage a war of terrorism, the service chiefs are getting fatter on contracts of weapons that never buy. They are building and buying properties in Dubai. This country, Nigeria, is cursed from beyond!
Buhari needs to be stopped. He can't rule Nigeria for the next 4years. In terms of security and the protection of life and property, which is the first duty of any government, this APC government is not working. The people of Algeria recently forced their president to resign totally from politics. The same fate should be meted to a man as incompetent as Buhari.
The terrorists masquerading as herdsmen must be stopped. They are not herdsmen if they carry weapons. They are not herdsmen if they can re-group at short notice and overtake other people's communities at will. This is Jihad. The Nigerian Christians must equip their people and churches to resist further Jihadist expansion. They must fight to reclaim the stolen lands and villages. Beyond religion, every ethnic group in Nigeria owes it to their ancestors and future generations to protect their heritage and future. These are non-negotiable acts of existence.
The people of Nigeria need to renegotiate their collective existence. That is the best way to get rid of Boko Haram totally. When the problem becomes the problem only of the North, l am sure they will strategize to either defeat Boko Haram or incorporate the organization as its legal army. This cat and mouse game must end someway. It should not cost the East, West or South a dime. The Northern elites invented Boko Haram the same way the Southern elites invented the militants. In a separate and self-determining system, every region would either deal with its problem or perish with them
All these stupid talks about weapons from Libya would be stopped if the North is going to be consumed by it. But when it is used as an expansionist agenda to take over the middle belts and probably subdue the rest of Nigeria under a unitary system of government, the north care less. When we are separate, we will be readier to defend out territories.
But before then, from now, the rest of Nigeria needs to take up arms to defend itself because the BUHARI government is not going to do that. It has never done that, it will never do it.
There are many ways and many opinions on these issues and of course many think that Nigeria should remain as one country. But if you have tried something from 1966 to 2019 and it didn't work, what is the probability that it will ever work? As a mathematician and a scientist, my opinion is that both empirical and practical issues must go hand in hand and for Nigeria the outcome of a unitary system of government remains a disaster.
It is time to renegotiate Nigeria, peacefully. The jihadist movement will not work. It did not work before, it will not work now or in the future. And when the dust is settled, Nigerians must make haste to prosecute all the military men under whose watch genocide have been perpetrated unabated. You know them, we know them.
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The Detroit Red Wings and winger Jakub Vrana agreed to a three-year contract worth $5.25 million per season Tuesday, avoiding arbitration.
Vrana, a 25-year-old Czech, had eight goals and three assists in 11 games last season with the Red Wings after they acquired him as part of a major move just before the NHL trade deadline. The Washington Capitals sent Vrana, Richard Panik, 2021 first- and 2022 second-round pick to Detroit for Anthony Mantha.
Vrana had 36 points in 50 games last season. He had 84 career goals and 168 assists over five seasons. He had three game-winning goals in 11 games with the Red Wings after scoring three winners in Washington last season.
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— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) August 10, 2021
The Red Wings recently re-signed left wing Tyler Bertuzzi to a two-year contract for $4.75 million, keeping another key player for their rebuilding effort.
General manager Steve Yzerman took advantage of his cap space this offseason, acquiring Carolina Hurricanes rookie goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic for the No. 94 pick in the draft and the rights to pending free agent netminder Jonathan Bernier. Detroit signed Nedeljkovic to a $6 million, two-year contract, slightly less than the 25-year-old might have been awarded in an arbitration hearing.
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Food : Take steps to make sure food in your refrigerator and freezer will stay safe.
During an extended power outage, temperatures in your fridge and freezer will begin to rise, even if the doors stay closed. As the temperature rises, harmful bacteria may begin to grow on your food.
If the temperature in your fridge stays above 41 degrees Fahrenheit for more than four hours, perishable food items (milk, lunchmeat, mayonnaise based salads, poultry items, leftovers, etc.) may be unsafe to eat.
If the temperature in your freezer stays above 41 degrees Fahrenheit for more than one to two days, food may be unsafe to eat. Food that still contains ice crystals should be safe. Always check the color and odor of food, particularly meat when it is thawed. If it is questionable throw it out (make sure it is discarded where animals can't get to it).
• Install a thermometer in your fridge and freezer.
• If you anticipate a power outage, such as a winter storm, reduce the temperature of your fridge and freezer. The colder your food is the more time it takes to thaw.
• Keep containers of ice in your freezer to keep the temperature down.
• Cover the fridge or freezer in newspapers and blankets. Keep vents clear in case the freezer starts operating again.
• Avoid opening the door to the fridge or freezer.
• Use dry ice, if available. Identify a source for dry ice in advance and remember that if the power outage is widespread, there may be a lot of competition for this resource.
If you don't know the temperature of your fridge or if the fridge was off for more than four hours, the food should be discarded. Eating perishable food that has not been kept cold can cause food poisoning, even if it is refrozen or cooked. When in doubt, throw it out!


Sam could hardly sleep the night before this year's school spelling bee. He finished in third place last year, but in his mind that just wasn't good enough. He vowed he wouldn't let a silly mistake knock him out again.
The competition was fierce, but eventually there were only two spellers left: Sam, and a 6th grade girl from another class. The two of them volleyed words back and forth for nearly 15 minutes, with the entire school watching.
I lost track of all the words he successfully spelled, but they included: glass, glance, hammock, migraine, gargantuan, huddle, bracketed, hexagon, agricultural, plethora, gorse, portico, and agora.
In the end, he earned a 2nd place trophy. We beamed with pride, but this was a failure in his competitive mind. He blinked back tears as he shook the champion's hand. My heart broke a little for him, because I knew how badly he wanted the win. But I also know these disappointments bring great lessons, and we keep stressing the value of simply putting himself out there. I draped my arm around his shoulder and walked him to his classroom, confident that he'd bounce back quickly. He may be competitive, but he's also resilient.
His teacher snapped some photos for us, which really captured his roller coaster emotions during the bee!
And… as predicted… by the end of the day he was smiling with his bobble head bee trophy. He'd also debriefed with the school champion at lunch, where they congratulated each other again. We are very proud of his sportsmanship and his spelling!


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Q: How to say hello to a group of people? When entering a place or meet a group of people or starting a speech, how do you say hello to the audience (from a few to thousands of people). I know that this depends on the situation. I think it is common to say

Hello, folks!

But what are some appropriate ways to say hello to initiate a connection with a group of people in different situations?

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*Formal

*Formal but friendly

*Informal

Apart from common salutations, can you also suggest creative solutions, which may be unusual but acceptable to a native speaker?

A: In English, greetings like Hello and Hi and Good Morning don't change if you are addressing one, a few, or thousands of people. It's quite common to add something to note that you are greeting many people, such as "Hello everyone" or "Good morning everyone" and certainly there is a range of formality in what you choose to put there.
To my ear, most-to-least formal would be:

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*Good morning/afternoon/evening

*Welcome (this also carries an implication that you are the host and "in charge" of the get-together

*Hello

*Hi

*Hi there

*Howdy / Hey

*S'Up?

And for the group-indicator, again most-to-least formal:

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*[List of titles such as Madam Speaker, Sir Thompson, Mr President], [categories with adjectives such as honoured judges, dear guests], ... , ladies and gentlemen (this particular choice for the group-indicator allows you to omit hello/hi entirely and just launch into the list, but it requires you to end with ladies and gentlemen so that people know you have finished listing)

*Ladies and gentlemen

*everyone

*[nothing]

*friends / folks / team

Avoid mixing and matching: both hey there, ladies and gentlemen, let's rock! and S'up, honoured guests? are kind of weird. Not impossible to use, but definitely an expert technique. It's fine to say Good morning folks though.

A: Your "Hello, folks!" sounds a bit odd to my ear.
In a colloquial register, one often says "Hi guys", and one uses this irrespective of the gender distribution in the group addressed.
A more Southern-sounding version is "Hey y'all".
An extremely informal version is "Hello people".
In a more formal register, "Good morning/afternoon/evening, ladies and gentlemen" is the customary and expected form.

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In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn addresses questions that are of great significance to sports parents and youth coaches. He addresses the issue of when to begin mental training for sports kids. How much mental training should youth sports parents and coaches share with their young athletes? How important is mental training at this young age? And, is it more important then physical training? Finally, Dr. Cohn provides many valuable resources for youth coaches and sports parents on mental training.
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Game times and TV channels set for Louisville basketball's 2019-20 schedule
The majority of Louisville's games in 2019-20 will be broadcast on national television networks including ESPN, the ACC Network and CBS.
Game times and TV channels set for Louisville basketball's 2019-20 schedule The majority of Louisville's games in 2019-20 will be broadcast on national television networks including ESPN, the ACC Network and CBS. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2019/09/26/louisville-basketball-schedule-2019-20-game-times-tv-channels-set/3774579002/
Danielle Lerner, Louisville Courier Journal Published 12:22 p.m. ET Sept. 26, 2019 | Updated 7:46 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2019
Six freshman + six returners = Top 5 fun at Louisville basketball media day
Louisville's six freshman: Aidan Igiehon, Samuell Williamson, David Johnson, Josh Nickelberry, Quinn Slazinski and Jae'Lyn Withers. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Freshman forward Aidan Igiehon hometown is Dublin, Ireland and nicknamed the "Irish Hulk," he was ranked No. 50 nationally in the ESPN 100, No. 52 by 247Sports.com and No. 53 by Rivals.com. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Junior Malik Williams will be leading freshmen David Johnson and Josh Nickelberry this season. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
UofL Sports Information Director Kenny Kleine organizes players for a team photo during the Cardinals' basketball media day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Redshirt senior guard Ryan McMahon led the Cards in free throw percentage, connecting on 95 percent on the year (57-of-60). He made his last 21 free throw attempts. Fifty-three of his 68 field goals for the season were three-pointers, and 150 of his 181 field goal attempts were from three-point range. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
UofL Men's Basketball team photo. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Freshman forward Jae'Lyn Withers averaged 19.8 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.2 blocked shots as a senior in helping Cleveland Heights (Ohio) High School to a 14-11 record while reaching the district semifinals. Withers chose Louisville over Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M and Virginia among others. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Scenes from UofL Men's Basketball Media Day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Louisville's returning six: Malik Williams, Dwayne Sutton, Ryan McMahon Jordan Nwora, Darius Perry and Steven Enoch. The team had a 20-14 record last season, finishing stronger than many had predicted for Coach Chris Mack's first year as head coach. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Junior forward/center Malik Williams of Ft. Wayne, Ind. started the last 20 games of the season. He averaged 9.8 points and 8.4 rebounds in his last five games. He had his fourth double-double with a career-high matching 13 rebounds and 10 points vs. North Carolina in the ACC Tournament. He averaged 7.9 rebounds over the last 11 games. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Junior guard Darius Perry and freshman Josh Nickelberry. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Courier Journal photographer Matt Stone shoots photos of players during UofL Men's Basketball Media Day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Redshirt senior center Steven Enoch is a transfer from the Univ. of Connecticut, where he played two years (2015-17). In his last 20 games coming off the bench, Enoch averaged 10 points, 5.6 rebounds and made 78-of-150 shots from the field (.520). He was a double figure scorer in 17 games. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
UofL players line up for a team photo during the Cardinals' basketball media day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Freshman guard David Johnson was a four-year starter at Trinity, averaging 16.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and four assists as a senior while leading the Shamrocks to a 30-8 record and the Kentucky state championship. He missed six games with a knee injury his senior year in high school. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Grad transfer guard Lamar 'Fresh' Kimble of Philadelphia had was a three-time captain and two-year starter at Saint Joseph's University. He totaled 958 career points, 265 assists, 111 three-point goals in his career with the Hawks while connecting on 73.5 percent of his career free throws (211-of-287). Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Freshman Josh Nickelberry averaged 26.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game as a senior in leading Northwood Temple Academy to a 20-14 record and a runner-up position in the 1A NCISAA North Carolina state championship. He scored 19 in the title game as his team was the first in program history to reach the state championship game. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Returning UofL Men's Basketball players pose for a group photo during media day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Freshman forward Quinn Slazinski of Houston, Texas averaged 14.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists on a balanced team in his final season in 2018-19 at Huntington Prep, which posted a 20-5 record and No. 16 national ranking among prep schools. He was selected to the All-USA West Virginia Boys Basketball Team second team. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Junior forward Jordan Nwora was the top scorer (17.0 ppg, seventh in the ACC) and rebounder (7.6, ninth in the ACC) for the Cardinals last season. He'll be looked on as one of the team's go-to scorers. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Junior guard Darius Perry was a starter in 11 games last season, ranking fourth on the team in assists (50). He scored in double figures in five games, including a career-tying 17 points against Vermont. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
UofL's six freshman scholarship players pose for a photo during UofL Men's Basketball Media Day. October 25, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Freshman Samuell Williamson had offers from Kansas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Oklahoma before signing with Louisville. He averaged 25 points, 11.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists a game as a senior in helping Rockwall, Texas High School reach the regional semifinals and achieve a No. 8 final ranking in the regular-season Class 6A state poll. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Redshirt senior forward Dwayne Sutton started in all 34 games, one of 11 players with at least four double-doubles in ACC games as a junior. He was noted as one of the nation's top ten "Glue Guys" this season by College Insider Jon Rothstein. Sutton scored a career-high 19 points against North Carolina in Louisville while matching a career-high four three-pointers made. He played at Manual High School in Louisville. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Freshman guard David Johnson and redshirt senior Dwayne Sutton. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Louisville's walk on Grant Williams is a junior guard who played at South Oldham High School. He's also been student manager for the past two years. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Freshman center Hogan Orbaugh is from Zionsville, ind. and a walk-on front line player who averaged 5.5 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists as a senior in 2018-19 in helping Zionsville post a 21-6 record, their second straight 20-win season. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
With college basketball season waiting impatiently in the wings, the Louisville men's basketball program has announced game times and TV channels for its 2019-20 schedule.
Since select details of Louisville's Atlantic Coast Conference dates were announced earlier this month, tipoff times and TV designations have been filled in for all but one matchup on the Cardinals' 32-game slate — the Nov. 29 contest against Western Kentucky in Nashville doesn't yet have a TV assignment.
The majority of Louisville's games will be broadcast on national networks including ESPN, the ACC Network and CBS.
Louisville's matchups against Youngstown State, Georgia Tech and Clemson will air on the ACC's regional sports network (RSN), which in Louisville is FOX Sports South.
And the Cardinals' Oct. 29 exhibition game against Bellarmine will be streamed online only through ACC Network Extra, available to eligible subscribers through the WatchESPN app.
More: Here's how to watch the 2019-20 Cardinals at the Louisville Live 2019 pep rally
Read this: The NCAA took a heavy hand with Kansas. Will it do the same for Louisville?
Check out the full lineup below (all times Eastern):
Louisville basketball 2019-20 schedule
Oct. 29, 7 p.m. - BELLARMINE (Exhibition) // ACC Network Extra
Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. - at Miami, Fla. (ACC game) // ACC Network
Nov. 10, 2 p.m. - YOUNGSTOWN STATE // FOX Sports South
Nov. 13, 8 p.m. - INDIANA STATE // ACC Network
Nov. 17, 5 p.m. - NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL // ACC Network
Nov. 20, 7 p.m. - USC UPSTATE // ACC Network
Nov. 24, 6 p.m. - AKRON // ACC Network
Nov. 29, 5 p.m. - vs. Western Kentucky in Nashville // TBA
Dec. 3, 7 or 7:30 p.m. - MICHIGAN // ESPN or ESPN2
Dec. 6, 9 p.m. - PITTSBURGH // ACC Network
Dec. 10, 7 or 7:30 p.m. - vs. Texas Tech in New York // ESPN or ESPN2
Dec. 14, noon - EASTERN KENTUCKY // ACC Network
Dec. 18, 7 p.m. - MIAMI (OHIO) // ACC Network
Dec. 28, 3:45 p.m. - at Kentucky // CBS
Jan. 4, 2 p.m. - FLORIDA STATE // ESPN2 or ESPNU
Jan. 7, 7 p.m. - MIAMI (FLA) // ESPN Networks
Jan. 11, 2 p.m. - at Notre Dame // ESPN
Jan. 14, 7 p.m. - at Pittsburgh // ESPN Networks
Jan. 18, 6 p.m. - at Duke // ESPN
Jan. 22, 7 p.m. - GEORGIA TECH // FOX Sports South
Jan. 25, 2 p.m. - CLEMSON // FOX Sports South
Jan. 29, 9 p.m. - at Boston College// ACC Network
Feb. 1, 2 p.m. - at NC State // ESPN Networks
Feb. 5, 9 p.m. - WAKE FOREST // ESPN2 or ESPNU
Feb. 8, 4 p.m. - VIRGINIA // ESPN2 or ESPNU
Feb. 12, 8 p.m. - at Georgia Tech // ACC Network
Feb. 15, 4 p.m. - at Clemson // ESPN Networks
Feb. 19, 7 p.m. - SYRACUSE // ESPN
Feb. 22, 6 or 8 p.m. - NORTH CAROLINA // ESPN or ESPN2
Feb. 24, 7 p.m. - at Florida State // ESPN
March 1, 6 p.m. - VIRGINIA TECH // ACC Network
March 7, 4 p.m. - at Virginia // ESPN or ESPN2
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Chassignelles és un municipi francès, situat al departament del Yonne i a la regió de Borgonya - Franc Comtat. L'any 2007 tenia 295 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Chassignelles era de 295 persones. Hi havia 129 famílies, de les quals 37 eren unipersonals (7 homes vivint sols i 30 dones vivint soles), 48 parelles sense fills, 33 parelles amb fills i 11 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 169 habitatges, 125 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 36 eren segones residències i 8 estaven desocupats. 162 eren cases i 6 eren apartaments. Dels 125 habitatges principals, 89 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 33 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 6 tenien dues cambres, 24 en tenien tres, 35 en tenien quatre i 59 en tenien cinc o més. 87 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 55 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 53 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 166 persones, 122 eren actives i 44 eren inactives. De les 122 persones actives 109 estaven ocupades (57 homes i 52 dones) i 13 estaven aturades (4 homes i 9 dones). De les 44 persones inactives 21 estaven jubilades, 9 estaven estudiant i 14 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Chassignelles hi havia 139 unitats fiscals que integraven 322 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 16.393 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 8 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa extractiva, 1 d'una empresa alimentària, 3 d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa immobiliària i 1 d'una empresa de serveis.

Dels 3 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un guixaire pintor, 1 lampisteria i 1 electricista.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una fleca.

L'any 2000 a Chassignelles hi havia 5 explotacions agrícoles.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Chassignelles a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Chassignelles a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Yonne

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If you're ready to make your gifts known to the world to create an impact, I cannot wait for you to hear the conversation in this episode with Travis Believes! We discuss some of his career highs working with huge entrepreneurs like Lewis Howes and Jay Shetty, to the personal lows of dealing with homelessness, jail, and abandonment. It's all about finding the unique work that you are here to do and sharing your light with the world.
"Failure is just rerouting you to the place you need to go."
Travis Believes is a motivator, speaker, entrepreneur and founder/CEO of InnerLightMedia, the premier social media agency for brands and influencers with positive and life affirming messages. Travis has worked with the top entrepreneurs and personal development brands on social media and continues to make an impact everyday.
Coming from St. Louis, MO and having to overcome some of life's most challenging circumstances — extreme poverty, homelessness and living in a state run children's facilities, Travis deeply understands the value of self belief and how inspiration impacts everyone. Travis wants to usher in ultimate authenticity — owning every aspect of who you are, not living up to anyone else's expectations of who they think you should be and realizing you are enough. We can give the world the fullness of our gifts when we are able to live our truest selves.
Travis and I talk about the journey of figuring out how to share your message and make your unique impact. We talk about resilience through tough times and vision to fuel us forward into our best work.
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How growing up without parents affected Travis as a kid (6:20)
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The importance of emotional involvement in a goal (21:42)
How to make YouTube videos work for your brand (28:32)
Why connection can help you pivot and grow your business (37:46)
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Janakowski's 6 Field Goals help Raiders beat Bears 25-20
Posted on November 28, 2011 by grobber
OAKLAND—Sebastian Janikowski kicked a team-record six field goals, Shane Lechler had an 80-yard punt and neutralized ace returner Devin Hester and the Raiders took advantage of three interceptions from Caleb Hanie to beat the Bears 25-20 Sunday.Janikowski made field goals of 40, 47, 42, 19, 37 and 44 yards to break the team record he shared with one time Bear Jeff Jaeger. Lechler controlled field position all game with a 49.2 yard net average, pinning the Hester and the Bears inside the 20 on three of five punts and booming the team-record 80-yarder over his head with a boot that generated "oohs" and "aahs" from the crowd and his teammates. The only remaining ties to the Raiders teams that won three straight division titles from 2000-02 were a major reason why Oakland (7-4) remained alone in first in the AFC West. Palmer threw for 301 yards and Michael Bush iced the game with a touchdown run in the fourth quarter to lead the Raiders to their third straight win against a Bears team missing starting quarterback Jay Cutler. Hanie struggled in his first career start for the Bears (7-4) in place of Cutler, who broke his right thumb last week in the Bears fifth straight win to put a major obstacle into what had been a promising season. Hanie, who nearly led a comeback in last season's NFC title game, had thrown only 14 regular-season passes since signing as an undrafted free agent in 2008 and looked like a career backup for much of this game. Hanie completed 18 of 35 passes for 254 yards and three interceptions, including a crushing one late in the first half when the Bears were deep in Oakland territory and on the verge of taking the lead.But Hanie also threw two TD passes, including a 5-yarder to Kellen Davis with 2:11 to play that cut the deficit to 25-20. That was set up by an 81-yarder to Johnny Knox.The game ended when Hanie botched a spike play with 4 seconds left at his 46. Instead of immediately spiking the ball to stop the clock, he took an extra step back and hesitated, leading to a game-ending intentional grounding call. Bush was held to 69 yards on the ground by a strong defense and Palmer was sacked four times and threw an interception as the Raiders missed injured big-play threats Darren McFadden, Jacoby Ford and Denarius Moore. But they made up for it on special teams, headed by Janikowski and Lechler. The Raiders did not shy away from the dangerous Hester, holding him to 7 yards on two punt returns. He didn't get a chance on the 80-yarder as Lechler sailed it over his head once he saw the returner creeping up too far. Hanie managed to drive the Bears into field goal range on that drive and Robbie Gould's 53-yard field goal cut Oakland's lead to 18-13 with 7:17 to play.The Raiders answered with Palmer throwing a 47-yard pass to Louis Murphy on third-and-4 from midfield to set up Bush's 3-yard TD run with 3:47 remaining.Hanie's three first-half interceptions put the Bears in a 12-7 hole despite his 29-yard TD pass to Knox. The Bears had a chance to take the lead when they drove to the 7 late in the first half. Hanie attempted a throwback screen to Davis that was tipped by Aaron Curry and went right to Kamerion Wimbley, who returned it 83 yards before being dragged down by a horse-collar tackle by Lance Louis. Oakland settled for a 19-yard field goal. "We knew coming into this game that he lacked experience but we knew that he could still make plays, as you saw in the Green Bay title game last year," Routt said. "We knew he still had the ability to make us look bad and come out of here with the W if we didn't take care of business."
NOTES—Bush's TD gave Oakland's its first points in the fourth quarter since Oct. 9 at Houston….Knox had 278 total yards with 145 coming on his four catches and 133 on four kick returns.
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2016 NFL Free Agency: Nate Washington's Contract Details are Wicked Cheap
By Rich Hill@PP_Rich_Hill Mar 29, 2016, 1:00pm EDT
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The New England Patriots certainly aren't banking on wide receiver Nate Washington to be a game changer in the offense- just look at his contract.
Washington signed a one-year contract for the veteran's minimum. He received a $60,000 signing bonus (which is peanuts) and has a $20,000 workout bonus. Signs point to Washington being a camp body that can compete for a spot, similar to how Brandon Gibson tried to win a spot last offseason.
The 6'1, 185 lbs receiver will cost the Patriots $680,000 in cap space this season if he makes the roster. Washington is capable of playing inside and outside, so while he is likely to compete with Chris Hogan for playing time, his versatility will help the team in contract renegotiations with Danny Amendola.
Look for the Patriots to continue to find alternatives at the position in the draft and Washington can provide valuable veteran experience to the new players on the roster.


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Q: Three.js transparency model texture bug I have searched over all internet and tried a lot of ways, but no results..
How to remove texture transparency bug? Check on image

So, on 3dsmax model looks okey. I have converted to .js format from .obj with python script in order .png files were transparent (.obj does not make transparence).
How to solve my problem? Thank you
var loader = new THREE.JSONLoader();
loader.load('tree_model.js', function(geometry, materials) {
    var material = new THREE.MeshFaceMaterial(materials);
    var object = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
    object.traverse( function ( child ) {
            if ( child.material instanceof THREE.MeshPhongMaterial ) {

                // this code is unattainable, but anyway without if (..) it does not work

                child.material.alphaTest = 0.5;
                child.material.depthWrite = false;
                child.material.depthTest = false;
                child.material.side = THREE.BackSide;
                child.material.transparent = true;
            }
        });
        scene.add(object);
    });
});

And renderer:
renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({ antialias: true, alpha: true, premultipliedAlpha: true });

A: You have to set alphaTest on your materials. Additionally setting the leafes and branches to THREE.DoubleSide ensures that they are not disappearing when viewed from the other side.
The code you have posted contains various errors, so replace it with this:
var loader = new THREE.JSONLoader();
loader.load('model/Elka.js', function(geometry, materials) {

    for( var i = 0; i < materials.length; i ++ ) {
        var material = materials[ i ];
        material.alphaTest = 0.5;
        material.side = THREE.DoubleSide;
        // not-so-good practice
        if ( material.name === "NorwaySpruceBark" ) {
            material.transparent = false;
        }
    }

    var material = new THREE.MeshFaceMaterial(materials);
    var object = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
    scene.add(object);
});

To further reduce transparency artefacts, set the trunk to non-transparent. Your model should contain the correct material settings, so this is kind of a bad practice.
Edit: Setting alpha and premultipliedAlpha in the renderer is not necessary for this problem.
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KS1 have been looking at the work of Julia Donaldson.
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US intelligence agencies have not provided evidence proving that Russia was eager to swing the presidential election to US President-elect Donald Trump with hacking, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said in an interview with the Washington Examiner's weekly podcast. The excerpts of the interview were published on Jan. 3.
"There's no proof that we have from intelligence sources that I've seen that show that the Russians were directly trying to help Trump," Nunes said.
Nevertheless, he does not rule out that Russia was behind the hacking that the US intelligence agencies claim was targeting the US political structures, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and team members of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
"This is something that Hillary Clinton knew damn well when she set up her private server, that the Russians could have the capability to get into there," he said.
The speculations on hackers, who allegedly act upon Russia's instructions, have been regularly emerging in US mass media reports over the past months. In July, WikiLeaks published emails stolen by hackers from the systems of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC). The US administration claims that Russian hackers were tied to the cyberattacks. Moscow has repeatedly denied any role in them.


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Sodium metatungstate is the inorganic compound with the formula Na6[H2W12O40], sometimes written 3Na2WO4·9WO3·H2O.  It also called as sodium polytungstate (SPT).  This salt has been used in the manufacture of dense aqueous solutions. Sodium metatungstate exists as white solid. The anion is the polyoxotungstate [H2W12O40]6-, which features six-coordinated tungsten(VI) centers interconnected with doubly- and triply bridging oxo ligands.

Due to its very high solubility in water (max. density 3.1 g/cm3), SPT is widely used as to produce "heavy liquid" for gravity separation (sink /float analysis) and density gradient centrifugation. It has significant advantages when compared to zinc chloride solution or the toxic halogenated carbons for sink-swim analysis. Aqueous SPT is non-toxic (unlike the denser Clerici solution), non-flammable, odorless, reusable and additionally it has a low viscosity.

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For Chris Grundemann, one of the best ways to protect a cloud service is to implement a rock-solid security solution. To truly achieve this, privileged account management must be a primary concern. At Security Field Day, he heard from CyberArk how they are implementing this for their customer base. The company was originally founded in 1999, and have used their experience guarding secrets to trickle down an excellent PAM solution to customers.


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Social Skills Training Program at UCLA
In The Politics of Autism, I write about the lack of research on (and resources for) autistic adults.
At The Los Angeles Times, Amina Khan reports on a program at UCLA, quoting its director, Professor Elizabeth Laugeson:
Autism is often thought of as a childhood disease, Laugeson says, and very little research has focused on adults. Resources for young people on the spectrum plummet after they turn 18.
"It's almost as if we forgot that these kids grow up," she says.
People with autism often cannot easily read the emotions of others. Tone of voice, facial expression and other verbal and nonverbal cues can be as inaccessible as a foreign language, turning the most ordinary social interactions into minefields.
This, coupled with other symptoms of autism, can have serious ramifications for young adults. Eighty-one percent of autistic people between high school and their early 20s have never lived independently; 68% have never lived apart from their parents; 64% have had no education after high school; and 42% aren't employed, according to the 2015 National Autism Indicators Report published by Drexel University's A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.
Those numbers are steep, and they don't have to be. Laugeson and other researchers say many of the right social skills — for getting a job and keeping it, for making and maintaining friendships, and for dating — can be taught, just as the underlying rules of a foreign language can be broken down and explained.
That's the goal of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, or PEERS.
"A lot of people think that social skills in general are innate, that you're hard-wired in some way and that you either are born with social skills or you're not," Laugeson says. "But I think what PEERS has established is that this is actually a set of skills that can be learned, that you don't have to be born with them."
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The reason why
Petition rates a serious answer
· May 23, 2011 12:05 am
The First Amendment to the Constitution, as we all know, includes the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."
What most of us probably do not know — perhaps because it is buried more deeply and expressed less poetically — is that Utahns also have the statutory right to approach their state government and request that various agencies initiate the process of making new rules in furtherance of their lawful missions and in the interests of the people. This provision of the Utah State Code — Section 63G-3-601 — also provides that, should the state not grant the petitioners' requests, for a hearing and then for new rules, it must give the reason why. In writing.
Such a petition was filed recently by a group of Utahns, mostly of high school and college age, asking that each of several state agencies pull all the levers on their respective panels to slow the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and stave off the expected impact of global climate change.
And the answers that those agencies — which include the state's agriculture, environment, transportation, water and health departments — give to the students and their mentors should form the starting point for some long-overdue discussions about what Utah can, and cannot, reasonably hope to accomplish in this area.
It is only a starting point, most likely, because the agencies are all but certain to give these inspiring young people the official brush-off.
State agencies depend on the Utah Legislature for their continued funding. The Legislature, in turn, is dominated by development and real estate interests who never met a carbon atom they didn't want burned.
And, as the grand American muckraker Upton Sinclair once said, "It is hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it."
What the Utah executive branch is unlikely to understand, so long as the legislative branch remains in active denial, is that global climate change is real, is influenced by human behaviors and is potentially catastrophic to our environment, our health and, yes, our livelihoods.
Meanwhile, the movement's goal of using state rules to lower greenhouse gas emission by 6 percent per year for the next 39 years may be beyond practical reach.
That doesn't mean the challenge isn't worth raising, or that the young people filing this petition don't deserve a serious answer to their altogether fair question: After you guys have squeezed every last dollar out of the earth, sky and water, what will be left for us?


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Fortnite v11.20 update – Leaked skins and cosmetics
Epic Games have rolled out a new v11.20 update for Fortnite Battle Royale and a number of skins and cosmetics have been leaked.
As is the case with any update to the popular battle royale game, data miners have been hard at work following the release of the update to find as many hidden details as possible.
Now, they have revealed a number of new outfits and accessories, which will presumably be available to purchase soon in the Fortnite Item Shop – or perhaps even pick up as rewards in future challenges.
There's a lot to unpack, so let's take a look at everything leaked by Lucas7yoshi, VastBlastt and FNBRHQ on November 20.
All leaked skins and cosmetics
There appears to be, as you would expect, a Christmas/holiday theme running right through this selection of leaked features – with a number of skins and cosmetics appearing to tease a winter event of some sort, just like we had last year.
Image from Lucas7yoshi.
If you're interested in a closer look at some of the skins individually, the leakers have also got you covered there as well.
As seen in the image below, these skins (from left to right) are Globe Shaker, Brilliant Bomber, Stingray and Bundles.
A number of other skins have also been revealed by the data miners, many of which can be seen in the following list.
While these leakers are typically very accurate, the discovery of these outfits and accessories in the game files doesn't necessarily mean that they will be added very soon.
Read More: Is 'Winter Royale duos' the next Fortnite tournament?
However, given that there are holiday costumes included, there's a big chance that these will appear in the Item Shop shortly.
After all, the game's developers have already announced that there will be lots of "new content" coming this Christmas, after confirming Chapter 2, Season 11 has been extended.
It's also worth noting that this update, where the leaks have come from, is the first in quite some time where Epic Games have released official patch notes to show us what's changed. Feel free to check those out.
Content writer for both Fortnite Intel and Dexerto. The Flint-Knock Pistol was the best around and I won't hear any different.


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