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Delphi Display Systems Selected by Quick Restaurants SA to Provide Order Confirmation Systems
U.S. Digital Signage Solution Provider to Deliver and Install its Drive-thru Order Displays in up to 500 Quick Service Restaurants throughout Europe
Delphi Display Systems, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of outdoor digital signage solutions, today announced it was selected to provide Order Confirmation Systems (OCS) for Quick Restaurants SA, a leading quick-service dining operator in Europe. Delphi was awarded the call for tender to provide and install its outdoor drive-thru Order Confirmation Systems in up to 500 Quick locations in Belgium, France, and other locations throughout Europe.
"We are pleased and proud that Quick Restaurants SA has chosen Delphi Display Systems to provide and install our high-quality Order Confirmation Systems at their restaurants," said Ken Neeld, president and CEO of Delphi. "This relationship is an important addition to our growing list of international clients and demonstrates Delphi's unique ability to service restaurants around the world."
Delphi's Order Confirmation System display is ruggedized, direct sunlight-readable, and reliable in harsh environmental conditions. The OCS contains enhanced software that interfaces with the point of sale system and manages graphics, digital merchandising capabilities, and has a powerful daypart scheduler. Delphi's OCS is made of recycled materials, is RoHS compliant, and utilizes green technology to be power efficient.
"We selected Delphi for its proven and reliable technology and commitment to deliver service excellence to Quick," said Josi Mues, Director of Information Services at Quick Restaurants SA. "Quick is known for its quality. By working with Delphi, we are ensuring our corporate and franchise restaurants will have the industry's leading solution to deliver a quality experience to our drive thru guests."
About Delphi Display Systems
Delphi Display Systems designs and manufactures a wide variety of outdoor digital signage products serving the quick service restaurant (QSR), petroleum, retail, and other market verticals. Applications include drive-thru order confirmation systems, digital menu boards, gas-pump top video displays, outdoor information kiosks and more. For more information on the company and its products, visit www.DelphiDisplay.com or call 714-825-3400.
About Quick Restaurants
A European fast-food group, Quick Restaurants is mainly present in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. With 18,500 employees, the Group reached 2009 turnover sales of EUR 925,7 million, with a total of 468 restaurants, including Russia, Spain, New Caledonia, Réunion, and Algeria. For more information, visit: http://www.quick-restaurants.com.
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Even though President Donald Trump has faced sexual assault controversy himself, he had thoughts to share when NBC fired Today anchor Matt Lauer last November. Matt lost his job once NBC News received evidence of his sexual misconduct on the set of the morning news show — and Trump weighed in on the scandal via Twitter just after the news of Matt's dismissal broke.
"Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for 'inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace,'" the POTUS tweeted on Nov. 29. "But when will the top executives at NBC [and] Comcast be fired for putting out so much fake news? Check out Andy Lack's past!" Interestingly, Donald once worked for NBC and its parent company when he hosted The Apprentice, but that didn't stop him from tweeting about the network's employees. At the time, he didn't elaborate on NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack's past.
After his first Tweet about Matt, Trump then took aim at other high-profile media figures — Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, and Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe. "So now that Matt Lauer is gone, when will the fake news practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin?" he tweeted a couple of hours later. "And will they terminate low-ratings Joe Scarborough based on the 'unsolved mystery' that took place in Florida years ago?
Investigate!" In 2001, when Joe was a Florida congressman, a 28-year-old congressional aide was found dead in one of his offices. A medical examiner determined the woman lost consciousness because of an abnormal heart rhythm and died from a head injury sustained in her fall.


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We know what you're thinking. If Ursolic Acid is so great, why isn't it in other recomp agents? Well, Ursolic Acid traditionally has low bioavailability (meaning that most of it gets lost in the harsh environment of your body's digestive system), but the scientists at Blackstone Labs were determined to get the most out of this miraculous compound. Using a proprietary distribution system called Self-Microemulsifying Delivery System (SMEDS RXTM), Blackstone Labs has pushed past the barrier of low bioavailability to ensure that you are getting the maximum dose of ingredients in every capsule of Recomp RX. What's more, not only are you getting the amount advertised on the bottle, but with SMEDS RXTM technology you get more out of the ingredients - very little is lost during the digestive process ensuring that you get what you paid for. Add Recomp RX to your training program and watch as the fat melts away and your muscles become larger and more defined. We wouldn't expect anything less from Blackstone Labs.
Blackstone Labs recommends taking 1 capsule three times daily with meals. For best results, take Recomp RX continuously for six weeks, followed by two weeks off. Repeat cycle as needed.


These bright green dual recycling bins are eye-catching. Made of steel, this bin will last the distance as well as keeping out the elements. With a bridge bonnet design, keeps the rain out. With clear labels, it is easy to distinguish what needs to be thrown where. 40L x 2 steel liners are used. Each bin comes with a separate lock for easy clean up. This free-standing bin can be mounted for extra security.


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This university-wide seminar series provides critically important perspectives on the grand challenge of climate change. Speakers from Cornell University and other institutions will cover a range of topics including the science of climate change, implications for ecosystems, oceans, forests, agriculture and communities, the important ethical, philosophical and legal insights on the issue, and provide thoughts on societal responses through international mechanisms, economic drivers and communication tools. This seminar series counts towards the requirements of the climate change minor and the ESS minor and major.
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Goals are your guide for results.
Technically, a goal is the result you want to achieve, while objectives are specific and measurable checkpoints along the way.
Your goals should be relevant and meaningful for you.
If they aren't compelling, you aren't going to see them through.
Know the tests for success.
Know the "WHY" behind the goal.
Work backwards with the end in mind.
Is your ladder up against the right wall? Every now and then you have to stop and check your ladder. Nothing's worse than climbing a ladder to find it's up against the wrong wall. Test your metaphorical ladder by imagining your future results based on your current path. One way to help check your ladder is simply add periodic reviews, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, and evaluate your direction.
SMART goals are specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and timely. A fuzzy goal would be "make more money." A specific goal would be to make $100,000 a year within the next 6 months. By making it specific, you know when you're done. You also know what good looks like. By putting a time frame on it, it helps you prioritize over other activities. You can't do everything at once. By prioritizing your goals and by getting clarity on your results, you give yourself a clear map to drive your results and direct your energy.
Your "What" should be a great manifestation of your "Why." Use it to guide your course. This is your vision.
Identify the tests you can use to know when you've achieved your results. Use your tests to also help identify what good looks like. The better your tests reflect what you want to accomplish, the more effective they are for helping you measure your results along the way. When developing software, it's common to use "exit criteria" to know when you're done with a certain stage. Consider adopting your own personal exit criteria.
Why is this goal so crucial for you to accomplish? Most people fail at their goals because the goals didn't really matter to them. If your goal is worth spending time on, then spend the time up front to really elaborate on why it's so important for you. The more you can identify the value and make it compelling, the more creative forces and energy you'll bring to bear when you need to make your goals happen. This will really help you when you hit your early hurdles or when you find your focus or energy starts to wane. You can revisit your why behind the goal, and it will help inspire you back on track.
When you have a clear vision of the outcome you are shooting for and can even feel as if it has already happened, you make progress quicker. Assuming the goal is compelling and you actually desire the outcome, the feeling gives you the energy to continue moving towards your desired outcome. Knowing that the feeling is different from the outcome lets you shift to a different vision of an outcome if needed. Remember, in the end it's how you think the outcome will make you feel that's really important when you step back.
Working backwards from where you want to be can help make you more resourceful. Look to working examples and reverse-engineer.


Homeward-Bound: President Obama and First Lady Michelle boarding Air Force One in Miami on Friday at the start of a nine-day Asia trip that will bring the US leader to his former home of Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Current recording from sensory cilia of olfactory receptor cells in situ. II. Role of mucosal Na+, K+, and Ca2+ ions.
S Frings, S Benz, B Lindemann
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DOI: 10.1085/jgp.97.4.725 | Published April 1, 1991
Action potential-driven current transients were recorded from sensory cilia and used to monitor the spike frequency generated by olfactory receptor neurons, which were maintained in their natural position in the sensory epithelium. Both basal and messenger-induced activities, as elicited with forskolin or cyclic nucleotides, were dependent on the presence of mucosal Na+. The spike rate decreased to approximately 20% when mucosal Na+ was lowered from 120 to 60 mM (replaced by N-methyl-D-glucamine+), without clear changes in amplitude and duration of the recorded action potential-driven transients. Mucosal Ca2+ and Mg2+ blocked spike discharge completely when increased from 1 to 10 mM in Ringer solution. Lowering mucosal Ca2+ below 1 mM increased the spike rate. These results can be explained by the presence of a cyclic nucleotide-dependent, Ca(2+)-sensitive cation conductance, which allows a depolarizing Na+ inward current to flow through the apical membrane of in situ receptor cells. A conductance with these properties, thought to provide the receptor current, was first described for isolated olfactory cells by Nakamura and Gold (1987. Nature (Lond.). 325:442-444). The forskolin-stimulated spike rate decreased when l-cis-diltiazem, a known blocker of the cyclic nucleotide-dependent receptor current, was added to the mucosal solution. Spike rate also decreased when the mucosal K+ concentration was lowered. Mucosal Ba2+ and 4-aminopyridine, presumably by means of cell depolarization, rapidly increased the spike rate. This suggests the presence of apical K+ channels that render the receptor cells sensitive to the K+ concentration of the olfactory mucus. With a slower time course, mucosal Ba2+ and 4-aminopyridine decreased the amplitude and caused rectification of the fast current transients (prolongation of action potentials). Abolishment of the apical Na+ current (by removal of mucosal Na+), as indicated by a strong decrease in spike rate, could be counteracted by adding 10 mM Ba2+ or 1 mM 4-aminopyridine to the mucosal solution, which re-established spiking. Similarly, blockage of the apical cation conductance with 10 mM Ca could be counteracted by adding 10 mM Ba2+ or by raising the mucosal K+ concentration. Thus mucosal concentrations of Na+, K+, and Ca2+ will jointly affect the sensitivity of odor detection.
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No pro in the history of skateboarding ever made a successful transition from the '70s skinny board era through the '80s vert era to eventually become a pioneer in the modern era of street skateboarding. None, zero, zilch, nada. None, that is, except for Eric Dressen, OG Venice and Santa Cruz legend…
Eric has witnessed firsthand the rise and fall of skateboarding three times over, and has come out a better man for it. These days, Eric still skates for Santa Cruz and has expanded his artistic output to include tattooing full time at Will Rise in Los Angeles. Eric truly is one-of-a-kind, and as such it's our honor to collaborate with Eric on this exclusive Syndicate pack.


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Born in Austria or Poland in 1860, Karl Witkowski is known for his genre paintings. His work typically features scenes of newsboys and children in urban settings, and his style has been compared to that of John George Brown (1831–1913). Witkowski received his formal education at the Czartkow Academy of Art and at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied from 1887 to 1888. After immigrating to the United States, he lived and worked primarily in New Jersey. Witkowski's paintings were exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1899. Today, his work may be found in the
Born in Austria or Poland in 1860, Karl Witkowski is known for his genre paintings. His work typically features scenes of newsboys and children in urban settings, and his style has been compared to that of John George Brown (1831–1913). Witkowski received his formal education at the Czartkow Academy of Art and at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied from 1887 to 1888. After immigrating to the United States, he lived and worked primarily in New Jersey. Witkowski's paintings were exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1899. Today, his work may be found in the collections of the Newark Museum and the Hunter Museum of American Art.
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Our friend Betsy was coming to stay for the night, so I thought feeding her breakfast would be a nice idea. I was shopping the day before and picked up a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread thinking it would make nice French toast.
Peg mentioned a recipe for baked French toast with Bailey's Irish Cream liqueur in it, and a little bit of searching on the internet provided something like this (original is at tablespoon.com). Quite coincidentally I used Irish butter, which at $3.00 for 8 ounces is both terribly expensive and wonderfully delicious.
I used a bit more butter to liberally grease a 9″ ceramic casserole dish, then arranged the bread in layers until the dish was nearly full. You can be as fastidious as you like to fill the dish, but I just rotated each 3-slice stack enough to fit them in nicely.
Mix all the other ingredients except the butter with a whisk until they are very well mixed, and pour the mixture over the prepared bread. Let the mixture soak into the bread for a good 15 minutes, or overnight, refrigerated.
Slice the butter into six or eight pieces, and dab over the surface of the soaked break.
Bake for 25-35 minutes, until a knife or skewer comes out clean.
Rest it for 10 minutes, slice, and serve with syrup and, dare I say, more butter.
Serves 6 if my Aunt Joann is watching, otherwise serves 4.
Mix the dry ingredients together. Add oil, egg, and milk. Whisk together quickly.
Pour 1/2 C of batter onto a hot skillet, cook until bubbles set up, then carefully flip over. Cook for another minute or so until golden brown.
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Not Quite Ready For Prime Time: The State Health Insurance Marketplaces and Google
Sep 17, 2013 • 2
By Elaine K. Swift and David McCormick
All of the state health insurance marketplaces (also known as exchanges) are online, but millions of expected users may have a hard time finding them. Marketplaces will enable shopping and enrollment mainly through their websites. States are using a variety of promotional strategies, but most people will likely find marketplaces in the same way they find other websites—through common keyword searches on Google, by far the nation's dominant search engine. Poor search engine results can create serious barriers to shopping and enrollment, the major measures of success for marketplaces and, by extension, the success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
We used standard methods to assess Google results for the 17 marketplaces operated by 16 states and Washington, DC that offer individuals, families, and small businesses a place to shop for health care coverage. Over three days in mid-September, we looked at results for keywords that data from Google show people are commonly using to search for health insurance. We examined both unpaid (or "organic") and paid (or "sponsored") results. Although research shows that unpaid results get more attention, paid results can also lead to page views.
Our preliminary findings show that marketplaces for four states—Idaho, Maryland, New Mexico, and New York—and Washington, DC did not appear on the first page of Google results, which generates 92% of all page views. In addition, both unpaid and paid search results for most of the remaining 12 states were frequently absent from page one.
With enrollment in the marketplaces opening October 1 for coverage beginning January 1, this would be a good time to focus on search engine optimization (SEO), the process of increasing the rankings of unpaid or "organic" search results. Once implemented, SEO results can be seen quickly, especially for a topic as popular and important as new health insurance options. However, it requires analysis, planning, and time to implement.
Methods for Conducting Search Engine Result Testing
To test search engine results for state-operated health insurance marketplaces, we used the five keywords most effective in producing page views of a prominent healthcare-related website produced by a federal client: Affordable Care Act, affordable health care, health care, health insurance, and Medicaid.
We further verified the effectiveness of these keywords using the Google Keyword Planner tool, which provides approximate data on the average numbers of searches per month, the average cost for paid search ads using the keywords, and the number of advertisers bidding to use the keywords (i.e., their competitiveness). Even though this tool is designed to identify keywords to improve the impact of paid searches, it is also commonly employed to identify keywords to improve the impact of unpaid searches.
From September 9-11, 2013 we performed one search per state each day. Each search was conducted at a different time–morning, afternoon and evening. For each state, we therefore collected five samples of page one search results each day for a total of 15 samples per keyword.
To make it more likely that these Google results would be similar to the ones that average users would receive, we conducted each of the 255 searches (15 searches for 17 states) using the Google Chrome incognito browser. Before each search, we also cleared our browser data, opened a new incognito window, and manually changed the physical location in our Google results page to a major city in the state we were analyzing. We then recorded whether the state's marketplace appeared on page one as an unpaid or paid result.
State Health Insurance Market Test Results
Table 1 presents all unpaid and paid search engine results. As it shows, the keywords we tested did not produce any page one Google results for marketplaces for Idaho, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, and Washington, DC. They also produced limited page one Google results for most of the other state marketplaces.
Covered California is a notable exception. Common keywords frequently produced page one search results for this marketplace. In particular, in the case of the keyword, "Affordable Care Act," it produced a paid result and two unpaid results: one to the website home page and the other to another page within the site.
The five common keywords that we tested produced a range of unpaid and paid page one results. "Health insurance" produced the most of any keyword: 22 unpaid and five paid results, or almost one third of page one results for the marketplaces. "Health care" was a close second, generating 16 unpaid and six paid page one results, or almost one quarter of the page one results for marketplaces.
Medicaid as a keyword did not produce page one results for any of the marketplaces. For Internet users, this may weaken the "no wrong door" approach to providing information and determining eligibility. In states where Medicaid managed care plans will be available in the marketplaces as Qualified Health Plans (QHPs), a nonproductive search for that popular keyword can create a digital barrier to shopping and enrollment.
Table 1: Unpaid and Paid Google Search Engine Results by Keyword for State Marketplaces (Click to Expand)
These findings are preliminary, but we believe they provide useful insights. We note that our sample of search engine results for state marketplaces may not reflect the impact of SEO efforts that are already underway.
We counted only page one results for marketplaces. Although the higher the ranking of unpaid results (i.e., #1 vs. #10) and the position of paid results (i.e., at the top or on the right side) on any page affect how likely users are to view them, the appearance of marketplaces on the first page of Google search results should be an important, if initial, goal for state SEO efforts.
Because Google delivers highly customized searches based on a variety of factors such as the location of the user and the user's browser and search history, it is difficult to get a truly representative sample of search results. However, we have taken measures described above to maximize the accuracy of our results.
Elaine K. Swift, PhD is a health care researcher who leads contracts for the federal government to support public reporting initiatives.
David McCormick is a Digital Marketing Strategist at Blast Analytics & Marketing. His specialty is content optimization, content marketing and analytics analysis. David has been working with government organizations to help optimize sites for the new changes in healthcare requirements.
Tagged as: David McCormick, Elaine K. Swift, Google Search, Health Insurance Exchanges, Health Plans, Pharma, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), The ACA, The States
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The word searches used by the authors don't seem to be ones most folks would use to search for an exchange. When you search under "state name health exchange" you get the site on the first page. Why are the authors surprised when broad categories bring up broad answers? Google appears to be doing just fine when you use the phrasing the bulk of the population would use.
Hmm, interesting research. Would be curious to know what kind of search volume Google is seeing in this area so far and how things change when enrollment starts and people start linking to the official sites – from what I know, which admittedly isn't very much – the algorithm Google uses to rank search results gives a lot of weight to the number of sites linking to you .. Would also like to see the $$$ numbers you turned up for keyword demand in the various markets and how much individual states are spending on optimization, for that matter ….


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New Hope Club is een Brits poptrio gevormd in 2015, bestaande uit Reece Bibby, Blake Richardson en George Smith.

Hun debuutalbum Welcome to the Club is uitgebracht door Steady Records/Hollywood Records op 5 mei 2017. De band bracht hun eerste album 'New Hope Club' uit in februari 2020, dat de top 5 behaalde in de UK Album Charts en nummer 7 op de Ierse album-hitlijsten.

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 Welcome to the Club (2017, ep)
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Iran: Free Ethnic Rights Activists
Five Demanded Greater Rights for Azeri Minority
(Beirut) – Iranian officials should immediately and unconditionally release five Azeri ethnic minority rights activists. The five were sentenced to heavy prison terms solely for their membership in a party that peacefully works for the civil and cultural rights of the country's Azeri ethnic minority. An appeals court recently affirmed nine-year prison sentences for each of the five men.
The five were convicted in a closed two-day trial for "founding an illegal group" and "propaganda against the state" in connection with their membership in Yeni GAMOH, an Azeri party, members told Human Rights Watch. Yeni GAMOH, which stands for "New Southern Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement" in the Azeri language, has for more than a decade promoted Azeri cultural and linguistic identity, along with secularism and the right to self-determination for the Azeris of Iran, members say.
"Speaking out peacefully for their rights or for more autonomy is no reason to send members of a minority group away for long prison terms," said Joe Stork, acting Middle East directorat Human Rights Watch. "We have seen no evidence suggesting that these men, or their group, have done anything but exercise their right to protest."
With an estimated population of at least 15 million, mostly concentrated in Iran's northwest regions, Azeris constitute the country's largest ethnic minority.
On June 16, 2013, an appeals court in the northwestern city of Tabriz upheld the nine-year prison sentences for Mahmoud Fazli, Ayat Mehrali Beyglou, Shahram Radmehr, Latif Hassani, and Behboud Gholizadeh on national security-related charges. The ruling came less than two months after they were convicted by Branch 3 of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court. The five men are currently in Rajai Shahr Prison, in the city of Karaj, 47 kilometers west of Tehran, the capital.
Security forces arrested four of the men in cities in the Azeri-majority provinces of northwestern Iran between December 31, 2012, and February 16, 2013. Hassani was arrested on February 6 in Karaj. Officials transferred the men to the central prison in Tabriz in early March, after agents from the Intelligence Ministry interrogated them for several weeks in a ministry detention facility, according to information provided by Sajjad Radmehr, the brother of Shahram Radmehr.
Radmehr said that the men were abused physically and psychologically during the interrogation. He said that after his arrest his brother began to suffer from severe headaches and that he had lost consciousness three times during his interrogation.
Several of the other detainees also suffer from ailments that require proper medical care, which the family members say they are not receiving in prison. On July 13 the five men initiated a hunger strike to protest their unfair trial and the conditions of their detention, family members say.
Zahra Farajzadeh, Beyglou's wife, told Human Rights Watch that none of the defendants' lawyers had access to their case files during the investigation phase, which was carried out by the Intelligence Ministry. She said that the lawyers repeatedly requested a delay in the trial until they had time to review the charges against their clients and prepare a proper defense, but that the judge convened the trial a week after allowing them access to the files. Farajzadeh also said that the appellate court refused to consider the lawyers' appeal to vacate the lower court's judgment on the basis of numerous trial irregularities.
Fatemeh Heidari, Fazli's wife, told Human Rights Watch that after the men went on the hunger strike, authorities threatened to transfer them to prisons in Tehran as punishment. Hediari said that in early August, prison officials transferred the men to Tehran's Evin Prison without notifying their families. Officials later moved them to Rajai Shahr Prison, where they are currently being held. All five have ended their hunger strike.
The detainees are all members of Yeni GAMOH's central committee, and Hassani is the party's general secretary. Authorities had arrested the men in 2010 in connection with their membership in the group, and revolutionary courts had sentenced them to various prison terms, ranging from six to 18 months, on charges similar to those handed down in April.
Radmehr served his six-month sentence prior to his latest arrest, while the others had not yet been summoned to serve their terms. According to Sajjad Radmehr, 20 members of the group had been arrested in 2010, and the authorities had repeatedly warned the five detainees to stop their activities before this latest round of arrests.
Several of the men, including Fazli and Gholizadeh, had prior arrest records in connection with other activities on behalf of Azeri rights, including the Lake Urmia demonstrations in September 2011, which led to the arrests of dozens of protesters.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party, requires authorities to conduct a "fair and public hearing by a competent, independent, and impartial tribunal," and allow defendants "adequate time and facilities for the preparation of their defense." Article 27 of the covenant requires Iran to respect the rights of members of minorities, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, and to use their own language.
Article 15 of Iran's Constitution designates Persian as the "official and shared language of Iran" but allows for the "use of local and ethnic languages in groups' press and media and teaching of their literature in schools alongside Persian." Article 19 of the constitution states that, "the people of Iran, no matter what ethnicity or tribe, have equal rights, and attributes such as color or race or language will not be a reason for privilege."
On August 1 Human Rights Watch wrote an open letter to Hassan Rouhani, then the president-elect, urging him to implement policies "ensuring equal protection of law for all Iranians, irrespective of ethnicity and faith."
"Iran's treatment of its largest ethnic minority, the Azeris, says a lot about the government's attitude toward basic rights and equal protection of the law for all Iranians," Stork said. "Judging by the treatment of these five activists, there's a lot to do to close the gap between what officials say and do when it comes to respecting minority rights."
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Enjoy this look at Mike Rhoades' and Justin Tillman's trip to Atlantic 10 Conference Media Day in Washington, D.C.
A-10 MEDIA DAY: BEHIND THE SCENES
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The Atlantic 10 conducted its annual Media Day on Oct. 18 in Pittsburgh, site of the 2017 conference tournament. Although it'll be a big change from the last four years in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh really seems to be embracing the A-10. In the meantime, check out some sights and sounds from Will Wade's trip to A-10 Media Day.
VCU BASEBALL – ATLANTIC 10 CHAMPIONS
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A few weeks ago, VCU looked like it might not even make the Atlantic 10 Tournament. The Rams had just been swept at league-leader Saint Louis and were sitting 11th in the A-10 standings, albeit amid a tight race.
Yesterday, VCU capped its incredible turnaround by defeating Rhode Island 5-3 for the A-10 title in Arlington, Virginia. VCU has won 11 straight games and the Rams outscored their opponents 38-8 in the four-game A-10 Tournament. Now VCU will play in its 11th NCAA Tournament.
Meanwhile, check out Logan Farrar's tournament-clinching catch in centerfield. It made SportsCenter's Top 10.
A-10 CHAMPIONSHIP VIDEO ROUND-UP
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RAMS TURN ON A DIME, TOPPLE TOP-SEEDED DAVIDSON
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Mo Alie-Cox (left) provided 18 points and eight rebounds as VCU knocked off regular season champion Davidson 93-73 in the A-10 semifinals.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Momentum is a funny, nebulous concept, but if there was ever proof of how quickly it can shift, it was VCU's impressive – and for many, unexpected – 93-73 upset of regular season champ Davidson Saturday in the Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinals at Barclays Center.
Left for dead a little over a week ago by some prognosticators, VCU is back to wreaking havoc on brackets. The Rams are storming into the A-10 title game for the third straight year Sunday, where they'll take on Dayton. The Flyers topped Rhode Island in Saturday's semifinal nightcap. It will be VCU's fifth straight appearance in a conference championship game.
Just days ago, VCU's victory would have been considered as unlikely as a Knicks winning streak. At times, the Rams made it look easy against Davidson, hitting 12 three-pointers on the way to victory.
The Rams didn't just beat a red-hot Davidson team Saturday, avenging an 82-55 blowout loss on March 5, VCU dominated the Wildcats for long stretches, and displayed championship form. It was Davidson's first loss in 11 games, and VCU's best performance since losing point guard Briante Weber to injury on Jan. 31. VCU's 93 points were the most by a Davidson opponent in three months.
"We played with a lot of enthusiasm today. We wanted to go out there and attack from the get-go. We had our ups and downs and responded pretty well today, and we're going to have to do that for the rest of the season," said senior Treveon Graham, who finished with 18 points.
It had been nine days since VCU and Davidson last met, but it might as well have been nine years.
VIDEO: VCU UPENDS DAVIDSON 93-73
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VIDEO: RAMS SQUASH SPIDERS IN A-10 QUARTERS
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VCU FINDS A LITTLE OF ITS OLD SELF; HAS LAST LAUGH ON RICHMOND
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Melvin Johnson hit five threes and scored 23 points in VCU's 70-67 win over Richmond Friday.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – It was a game against Richmond that originally jolted VCU into its darkest stretch under Shaka Smart, and it might have taken a game against Richmond to shock the Rams back to life.
After two crushing losses to the Spiders this season – a third if you count Briante Weber's knee – VCU found a way to look a little more like itself Friday on the way to a heart-pounding, come-from-behind, 70-67 Atlantic 10 Quarterfinal victory at Barclays Center.
The win sends the fifth-seeded Rams back to the A-10 semifinals, where they'll face top-seeded Davidson at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Bronx native Melvin Johnson enjoyed a strong shooting performance for the second straight night and finished with 23 points for the Rams. He hit 5-of-6 threes in the first half as VCU grabbed a 37-36 lead. When his jumper abandoned him in the second half, Johnson found other ways to bolster the Rams, including a steal and breakaway layup and later an assist on a go-ahead 3-pointer as VCU scored its biggest triumph, emotionally and practically, since January.
It was a VCU victory with a cathartic bent.
The Rams were nationally ranked and in the midst of a 12-game winning streak when a game with the rival Spiders on Jan. 31 altered the course of the season. Not only did VCU lose that game at the Siegel Center, it also lost Weber to a torn ACL in the waning moments. The Rams closed the regular season with a 5-6 stretch and lost heartbreakers to St. Bonaventure (at the buzzer), La Salle (in double overtime) and again, Richmond (also in double overtime). Once 7-0 in league play, the Rams slipped to the A-10 Tournament's No. 5 seed.
VCU has spent the last six weeks trying to find itself without Weber, who was not only the Rams' starting point guard, but their emotional cornerstone.
SECOND CHANCES, JOHNSON'S RETURN TO FORM FUEL SECOND SEASON
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Melvin Johnson hit 4-of-7 three-pointers and scored 16 points to help lift VCU past Fordham Thursday.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – An unfortunate consequence of poor shooting is the tendency to worry about more poor shooting. The key to breaking out, Melvin Johnson believes, isn't more thinking, but less.
Johnson, who has battled shooting slumps this season, looked confident and comfortable Thursday as he stroked 5-of-8 shots, including 4-of-7 from three, to help pull fifth-seeded VCU to a 63-57 win over 12th-seeded Fordham in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament at the Barclays Center.
In his last two games, Johnson is 7-of-13 from three. He finished with 16 points Thursday and hit a critical trey with 2:31 remaining as VCU kept a persistent Fordham at bay.
His revival comes at a good time for VCU, which is looking to break out of a shooting funk, and needs scoring from any player not named Treveon Graham. As a whole, the Rams (23-9) didn't find their shooting stroke Thursday. VCU shot .301 (18-of-59) from the floor, a fact which kept Fordham (10-21) knocking at its door for 39 minutes. But Johnson and Graham ultimately provided just enough baskets and VCU was able to track down enough of its misses to secure the victory.
The Black & Gold grabbed 20 offensive rebounds and turned those into an 18-12 advantage in second chance points. It wasn't pretty, but it was enough.
The win sets up a third meeting this season with rival Richmond Friday at 2:30 p.m. at Barclays.
Johnson, a Bronx native playing in front of friends and family, is VCU's most prolific 3-point shooter. But when shots stopped falling for him earlier this season, it got to him. The more he obsessed over missed shots, the more he missed them. He says it took a fresh perspective to help the ball start finding the bottom of the basket.
FORDHAM POSTGAME
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Hello from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia!
I am crossing the halfway point of my term as the "Fulbright Professional Scholar in Climate Change and Clean Energy" (a shorter title would be far better), and it has gone by quickly! Melbourne is a great city, with so much happening every day, festivals every weekend, and ample opportunity to "research" the inside of local bars, music halls, and restaurants.
As to the real research (as opposed to the cultural exchange), I have broadened my scope with my hosts at ClimateWorks Australia from the implementation of the Australian national Commercial Building Disclosure (CBD) requirements for office buildings at time of sale or lease, to more broad policy considerations impacting problem areas for Australia. As in the U.S., code compliance and the ability of buildings to reach their design potential are challenging. We are working to find creative policy options for improving both compliance and performance.
The Fulbright Commission encourages and supports the proliferation of the research they fund, and as a result I have some airplane time in my future. I've already spent some time in Perth with the Commission, and soon I'll be headed to Singapore during the first week of April to work a bit with the Building & Construction Authority of Singapore, creators and implementers of the "Green Mark" green building program for buildings (new and existing, commercial and residential), as well as the building code enforcement agency. Side note: I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about the life of Lee Kuan Yew, who recently passed away and is largely responsible for the prosperity of the successful country/metropolis I will soon visit.
June 1st sees me flying nearly around the world to Toulon, France to present a paper entitled "Building Energy Rating & Benchmarking: Understanding Similarities and Differences" comparing benchmarking and disclosure policies in the European Union, the U.S., and Australia at the ECEEE Summer Study on Buildings. My co-authors are Adam Hinge of Sustainable Energy Partnerships and Andrew Burr from the U.S. Department of Energy.
I'll be back home in San Francisco by mid-June. All that travel correlates to a higher "average speed" than I'd like, but of course I gratefully welcome the opportunity.


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The Geração de Orpheu (Orpheus's Generation) or Grupo de Orfeu were a Portuguese literary movement, largely responsible for the introduction of Modernism to the arts and letters of Portugal through their tri-monthly publication,  (1915).

Following the lead of other European vanguard movements of the early twentieth century, and inspired by the Futurist Vladimir Maiakovsky's urgings, the poets Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Almada Negreiros, and the painters Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Guilherme de Santa-Rita formed a journal of art and literature based in Lisbon's Baixa district, with the principal aim of agitating, subverting and scandalizing the Portuguese bourgeoisie and social conventions.

Orpheu

The journal was named Orpheu after the Greek mythological character Orpheus, the musician who had to travel from the world of the living without looking back to save his wife Eurydice from Hades. This metaphor inspired the Geração de Orpheu, who aspired to not look back, to relinquish the past and focus on the future for the "edification of Portugal in the twentieth century". After emerging onto the Portuguese literary scene in 1915, the journal folded due to financial insolvency, when the father of Mário de Sá-Carneiro refused to continue sponsoring it. Only two issues were published (Jan-Feb-Mar and Apr-May-Jun, 1915). The third issue of Orpheu, already in printing proof, was lost for many years and until it was recovered and published in 1984.

After Orpheu
After the dissolution of Orpheu, the group continued to publish in other literary journals. In 1917, Portugal Futurista came out with reproductions of Santa-Rita Pintor and Souza-Cardoso, along with the posthumous Futurist poems of Sá-Carneiro and some poetry by Fernando Pessoa and his heteronym Álvaro de Campos. Among the journals that published contributions from the Grupo were: Exílio (1916), Centauro (1916), Portugal Futurista (1917), Athena (1924–1925) and Presença (1927–1940).

Prominent members of the movement
 Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, painter
 Almada Negreiros, writer / visual artist / choreographer
 Ângelo de Lima, writer
 António Ferro, writer
 Fernando Pessoa, writer
 Mário Saa, writer
 Mário de Sá-Carneiro, writer
 Santa-Rita Pintor, painter

References

Bibliography

 AA.VV. (1989). ORPHEU, edição facsimilada. Lisboa:  Contexto Editora.
 SARAIVA, António José and Óscar Lopes (1993). História da Literatura Portuguesa. Porto:  Porto Editora, 17th ed.
 MARTINS, Fernando Cabral (coord.) (2008). Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. Alfragide: Editorial Caminho.

External links
 Portuguese National Library
 Orpheu at the Portuguese National Library
 Orpheu Nº1 at Gutenberg Project
 Orpheu Nº2 at Gutenberg Project

20th century in Portugal
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Q: Rotate gameObject by applying rotation matrix in unity3d Is it possible to rotate a game Object by applying the Rotation matrix to it. Instead of passing each angle and rotating it.
I tried to use GL.MultMatrix() but there is no movement in game Object
Code sinppet:
    GL.PushMatrix();
    GL.MultMatrix(m);
    GL.PopMatrix();

The above snippet is in update() function. Docs says GL.MultMatrix() is similar to glMultMatrix in opengl library.Which we can use in openGl to Rotate right!!
If there is any method to achieve this please mention.
Thanks

A: I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve but using GL for rotation probably is not a good idea. Have you had a look at Matrix4x4?
I don't know matrices well but I can tell you GL works with slightly different logic. You need to manually draw your stuff between the MultMatrix() and PopMatrix() commands using GL class (like GL.Vertex3) which gives you absolute control of how things are rendered but is redundant as hell.

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As it turns out sometimes traditions have to move along when life changes, and that's not always a sad thing. There were several things different this year in my holiday celebrations, and even though in years past that would have made me sad, this year it just felt like part of the flow and I went along languidly.
Praying out loud is important. I knew that. I know that words are extremely important and that we need to be careful not only what we think, but also really careful with what we say. A book I read this month about prayer helped bring this truth to the forefront of my mind, and I've been working at praying out loud more often.
I love my family. I know this, but I'm learning more and more just how much I love them and how crazy special they are. (And just plain crazy.) We had some fun adventures and family time this month, and that was delightful and filled my little soul with happiness. I'm so very, very, very thankful for this era in my life.
Twenty-Seventeen wasn't at all what I had expected or imagined twelve months ago, life didn't take the curves I'd expected, instead, it kept yelling Plot Twist! and it was wonderful. I am incredibly thankful for all I learned, the opportunities, opened doors, changes in expectations, and the hardships I was able to work through. I'm learning to embrace the unexpected and really (despite what it may look or feel like) be flexible.
People. This month. It was like a firehose of life aimed straight at me. After recovering from the blast of water, I jumped into the puddle with both feet and didn't look back.
I played lots of games and made lots of memories and felt incredibly busy the entire month, but the best kind of busy.
I read a lot during the first week of the month and then hardly touched another book until near the end of the month, and therefore thought I didn't read a lot. Apparently, I have a skewed view of what "a lot of reading" entails.
December was a wonderful month, and the best way to bid farewell to 2017. I'm thankful. Very thankful.
What were some of your highlights of December?
Awesome post, friend! I'm excited to see what God has in store for you in the new year of 2018! God bless!


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How to Use Parental Controls and Child Profiles on an Amazon Fire Tablet
December 18, 2015, 6:40am EDT
Amazon's Fire Tablet offers both parental controls for quickly locking down a device as well as fine-grained "child profiles". These child (or teen) profiles use the Kindle FreeTime feature, which is perhaps the most sophisticated parental-control solution for a tablet operating system
Fire OS is actually quite compelling if you're looking for powerful parental controls and child-friendly features. It's here that Amazon's hardware really stands out on more than just price.
Parental Controls vs. Child Profiles
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You can lock down your device in one of two ways. There are parental controls, and there are child profiles that use Kindle FreeTime. Both are intended for locking down your device and restricting what your kids can do, but they take different approaches.
Parental Controls: Enable parental controls and the Fire table will block access to a variety of things — the web browser, email, contacts, calendars, social sharing, the camera, Amazon's stores, purchases, video playback, different types of content, Wi-Fi settings, and location services. You can choose which of these you want to block.
This doesn't require you to set up any other account. Effectively, it's a restriction placed on the current account that can't be removed unless you know the password. You can just activate parental controls, set a parental control password, and access to sensitive content can be restricted. You can then hand the tablet to a kid and let them use it as they wish.
Child Profiles: Rather than just activating parental controls, you can get more sophisticated controls by creating up to four "child profiles" or "teen profiles". You'd create a different profile for each child who will use the device. These use Amazon's Kindle FreeTime feature, and you can choose which apps, eBooks, and other content you want to share. You can also change a variety of other settings — for example, setting a "bed time" for each child after which they can't use the tablet, setting limits on how much they can use the tablet for different purposes, or requiring them to use educational content before they can play games.
Enable Parental Controls
To activate parental controls, open the "Settings" app — swipe down from the top of the screen and tap "Settings." Tap the "Parental controls" option under Personal. Activate the "Parental Controls" slider and you'll be prompted to create a parental control password. This password is necessary for enabling, disabling, or configuring parental controls. You can change it from this screen later — assuming you know the current password.
Use the other options on the screen to control access to the web browser, email, contacts, calendars, social sharing, the camera, Amazon's stores, videos, other types of content, Wi-Fi settings, and location services settings.
While parental controls are enabled, you'll see a lock icon on the notification bar at the top of the screen. To disable them, pull down the notification shade at the top of the screen, tap the "Parental controls are enabled" option, and then enter your password.
You could leave parental controls enabled except when you want to use the tablet yourself, ensuring your kids can't make purchases, mess with your email, watch age-inappropriate videos, or browse the web — depending on which options you choose.
Create Child Profiles
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Open the Settings screen and tap "Profiles & Family Library" under Personal to create new profiles and manage existing ones. This uses your configured "Family" and works along with Kindle Family Sharing.
Tap the "Add a child profile" option and you'll be able to add one or more profiles. A "child profile" will get a simplified, content-centric interface, while a "teen profile" will get Amazon's standard Fire tablet interface.
You'll be able to choose which content you want to share, and you can tap the child's name later to add more controls. For example, you could set up daily time limits, choosing when the child is allowed to use the tablet and for how long they can do different things on it.
From the lock screen, you or anyone else with the tablet can tap the profile picture at the top-right corner of the screen and select a new user to switch users. You can also pull down the quick settings menu while signed in, tap the profile picture, and select a new user account.
To view information about how your child has been using the tablet, you can open the "FreeTime" app.
Amazon will likely continue adding new parental controls to Fire OS. It's ahead of every other mobile operating system when it comes to kid-friendly features and parental controls. It's especially ahead of Apple's iOS, which still doesn't offer multiple user accounts or profiles on a single iPad.


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Tunkhannock approves budget with no tax increase
Commissioners mull purchasing Mill City Elementary School
PPA investigates paranormal phenomena in Upper Darby, Pa.
Tunkhannock Borough Council approved its 2020 budget on Thursday, Nov. 11, of $1,114,244.
Although approved without a tax increase, Council President Robert Robinson noted that it has been steadily increasing for the past few years.
"It grows," he said before the vote was taken. "It's not growing as fast as I thought it might grow. But it grows some.
Robinson observed that, according to information reported in the Wyalusing Rocket, Wyalusing's 2020 budget is about half-a-million dollars.
"That's a lot of money for a borough like Tunkhannock," Robinson said, referring to the borough's 2020 budget.
Council also approved its assessment of 27.9 mills on property, 1.5 mills for Triton Hose Company, and 1.9 mills for street lighting – all of which remains unchanged from last year.
By a six-to-one vote – with Robinson voting no – council approved a Cost of Living Adjustment of 1.9 percent to the pensions of two its retired police officers.
Before the vote was taken, Robinson explained that the money for the COLA is coming out of the borough's pension fund.
"We are now sort of in a pension crunch," he said. "We're behind in pension revenues. "We're having put a lot more into the pension fund than we normally would have done."
During the discussion, council member Scott Douthett said that the increase would only be a minium amount. Borough Manager Dawn Welch confirmed that it would only be about $1,000 a year for each officer.
"Dawn and I talked about this right when it came out," Douthett explained. "My first knee jerk reaction was 'Oh my God, more money?' When I heard what a small about it was – I think Marshall (Davis) said 'Do you want to pay it now, or do you want to pay it later?'
Robinson announced that council will hold a mid-month meeting on Nov. 20, in which former Mayor Norman Ball will be honored at 2 p.m. Mayor Stacy Huber will be presenting Ball with a plaque, recognizing his years of service to the borough. The meeting will be at the borough building, and all are invited to attend.
The caboose which has been displayed in Riverside Park is scheduled to be moved to its new home in Honesdale on November 25.
Council voted to advertise that it intends to adopt a Property Maintenance revision in December. Robinson reported that the borough solicitor will be going over the proposed revisions before the vote is taken. Council also announced it intends to amend the zoning ordinance regarding signs in the borough.
The Wyoming County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to attempt to purchase the Mill City Elementary school.
By a two-to-one vote – with Commissioners Rick Wilbur and Ernie King voting yes and Tom Henry no – the board voted to submit a bid of $125,000 to the school district.
As explained by Wilbur, the board is looking to consolidate the number of offices it maintains throughout the county into one building. The move, he said would allow them to save on rents.
"We spend in excess of $50,000 a year," he explained.
To help pay for the cost of renovations to the school, Wilbur said, the county could take out a mortgage, costs of which would remain consistent over the years.
Another advantage, he continued, is the county could sell the Robinson building, located near Walmart in Eaton Township, which currently houses Children and Youth. In addition to bringing in money, the move would put the building back on the local tax rolls.
By purchasing Mill City, Wilbur continued, the county could rent space to state and federal agencies, as well as install an "incubator" to assist small businesses. They would also like to keep the all-purpose room at the school as a recreational facility for the community.
However, one problem is the district already sold the elementary building at auction on Saturday for $110,000. Wilbur explained that the reason they did not submit a bid is because the timing was "absolutely horrible," – the county did not have time to take the necessary steps when the auction occurred.
"What we're going to do is ask the school district to not accept the offer that's there and we're going to make a counter offer," Wilbur explained.
Henry explained after the vote was taken the reason he voted no is because he is concerned with the timing of transaction.
"How it might be perceived by the public," Henry said. "And the location. It's not that I don't believe in the building.
Wilbur said he understands Henry's concerns, but if the county does not move now on the project, it will never happen.
After the meeting, Henry elaborated further, explaining he is concerned over the elementary school's location. Many people who use county services – such as Children and Youth – would have a more difficult time of accessing them should the elementary school be used as an all-purpose facility. Henry also explained that the building is now geared for elementary school children, requiring extensive renovations to bring it up to specifications. Such renovations, he estimated, could cost as much as $500,000.
The commissioners issued a proclamation, declaring "One County, Two Books, Two Movies." The event, sponsored by the Dietrich Theater and the Tunkhannock Public Library, will feature the reading and discussing of the books "Atonement' and "On Chesil Beach" by author Ian McEwan on Feb. 5, Feb. 19, and March 4 at 7 p.m., at the library. The event also includes showings of the movie version of Atonement on Feb. 12 at 1 and 7 p.m., and "On Chesil Beach" on Feb. 26 at 1 and 7 p.m. All are invited to attend.
The commissioners heard a presentation from Sandra Boyle, asking that "pickle ball" courts be set up at Riverside Park in Tunkhannock. Pickle ball, she explained, is played on a court, using a net, paddles, and a nerf ball. The activity has become popular with people of all ages, she said, and would be good for the community.
Boyle explained that there are three basketball courts at Riverside Park that could be renovated to allow pickle ball to be played. The cost – including repaving – is estimated at $27,000.
Wyoming County Planning Director Lynelle Farber confirmed that there could money for the project available through the Marcellus Legacy Funds available to local communities. Deadline for application for the money is Feb. 21. Farber urged communities as well as eligible organizations throughout the area to consider making a grant application, because many have ignored the resource in past years.
Albert Olive, a member of Nicholson Borough Council, informed the commissioners that the borough will hold a "Jeans and Cama Ball" on Jan. 25 at 7 p.m., at the local fire hall. Cost is $10, he said, and is also "bring your own bottle." Proceeds from the event will benefit the local fireworks program, as well as the Nicholson Fire Department.
In other business, the commissioners:
Reappointed Ronald Kukuchka as vice-chairman of the Airport Authority.
Hired Lindsay Shepherd for Domestic Relations.
Approved the promotion of Amber Collett from a part-time to full-time corrections officer.
Hired Kelly Ferguson for Case Aid for Children and Youth.
Hired Christina Soloman for Case Aid 2 for Children and Youth.
Hired Sara Strohl as an administrative assistant for the Sheriff's Office.
Paranormal investigations are often a lot of fun, but they can also be a lot of work.
Take the case "The Upper Darby Poltergeist." In 2010, members of the Pennsylvania Paranormal Association ended up chasing three spirts – one of them particularly bad – before a family being plagued by hauntings could find some peace.
"It was one of the most intense cases that my team and I ever had the privilege of working on," explained association Director Mark Keyes.
Keyes recently provided a fascinating account of the incident to members of American Legion Post 672 in Dallas. The investigation is but one of many conducted by the Pennsylvania Paranormal Association into unusual activities that occur in people's homes.
"Take requests from people who want to know what is going on at their house," he explained.
Keyes is a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper, having served on the force for 25 years in various capacities – including undercover drug work, criminal investigation and public information. Following his retirement, Keyes began investigating paranormal phenomena.
"I started out as an optimistic skeptic when it came to paranormal stuff – ghosts, hauntings, psychics," he explained. "I didn't know whether to buy into any of it. I really wanted to. I wanted to believe it. I wanted it to be real, but something just wasn't doing it for me. So I had to physically just go out and do it for myself just to answer my own curiosity."
Things started slow, and for the first two years all that happened was strange voices captured on a recorder. But Keyes persisted, with he and his wife Lauren founding the PPA. More members joined the team, and their investigations continued to grow.
Keyes noted that those he worked with were sincere – that they were scared and believed they really needed help in such situations.
"Things kind of grew and grew, and we continued to get more and more requests for help, and now 15 years later, we're still going and we're still getting almost a case every other weekend.
The most intense case for the PPA occurred in 2010 a double block house Upper Darby, right outside of Philadelphia.
"It turned out to be one of the most relentless hauntings," Keyes said. "It was not easy to stop."
Keyes and his team ultimately determined that the case involved ghosts, voodoo, plus a much darker entity.
"For me, this is the most physically active case that I've been involved in," he said. "The dad, kind of did some seedy stuff in his life, including his business practices. "And that kind of led to an attachment taking place with him."
Most cases involve perhaps a shadow on the wall, or a door opening an shutting without explanation.
"This case proved to be the exception to everything we did. It became known as the Upper Darby Poltergeist. Poltergeist meaning noisy ghost in German. It's where you have a lot of physical activity taking place."
Some of the evidence, though, Keyes and the others took with a grain of salt. The family provided pictures of chairs being stacked neatly on top of dining room table, with items on top.
"I wasn't buying it," Keyes said. "It's too precise. A chair knocked over – maybe. I thought maybe somebody human was doing some of this stuff."
In another instance, baby was moved while sleeping from one room to another. When found, the child was covered from head to toe with a blanket.
"And I thought to myself – no way. No way, these people are exaggerating."
Keyes carefully questioned family members, particularly the wife who filed the initial request for help. He discovered that the woman was sincere, and came to the conclusion that she knew nothing about the incident with the young child. However, he remains convinced that another family member – probably one of the other children – pulled the stunt as a joke.
But some of the phenomena were very typical – including knocking noises, doorways being blocked by items piled behind them; lights turning on; someone playing with children's toys; rooms trashed; and refrigerators being emptied. Other things not so easily explained included cold spots and shadows where none should be.
And something else which Keyes and his teammates eventually observed first-hand.
According to the family, certain things were occurring every single day, all day long.
"And that was the thing that really stood out. Most hauntings aren't like that," he said, explaining that typical sightings occur perhaps one or two days per week.
With so much unexplained activity going on, the team decided to do a full investigation of the house, figuring that it would be interesting if even half of what had been reported was actually going on.
"We ended up going down there with a team of three investigators. Myself, a guy named Paul, and guy named Bobby. And Virginia, who is our physic medium."
Using her abilities, Virginia was able to determine certain things that had gone on in the house – both while the family was present, as well as before they were living there. During a walk-through, Keyes explained, Virginia detected the presence of two unhappy ghosts on the premises. The first was a woman who was extremely bitter because children have moved into the house while she was there, he said.
The other ghost was the woman's son, Keyes explained. Virginia was able to determine that they two were not communicating with each other, because they were on a separate plane of existence. The son's situation was that he had lived and died in the house, it was his home in life, and he did not want to leave.
Eventually, Virginia performed a ritual that convinced the mother and son to both "go to the light," leaving the house forever.
But that was not the end of the situation – in many ways it was only the beginning.
Whiel conducting her walk-though, Virginia uncovered another important piece of information.
"She turns to me, and said, did this family do voodoo or have voodoo done to them."
According to Keyes, there was no previous indication of voodoo in the case. But family members confirmed that there had been such a situation in their lives.
Keyes and his colleges learned that the father had had a ceremony performed against him by a practitioner of Santeria, which is very similar to voodoo in its practice.
"Her friend did what they call a heart-binding ceremony, and reported manifesting something and sent to him in the way of like an evil entity to physically and financially corrupt him," Keyes explained.
During the investigation, Virginia had an experience in the house convincing her what had been directed against the husband was true.
"All of a sudden, she said it felt like somebody came from behind her, threw a bag over her head and yanked it backward and something was choking her. That's the feeling she got," he said.
On March 30, 2010, the team set up recording devices on the premises to see if they could obtain any physical evidence of a haunting. With no one in the house, they obtained unexplained noises on various recorders repeating themselves on a regular basis. Among the noises included: loud footsteps on stairs; the swinging of a metal hinge; and quarters dropping on the floor.
The quarters turned out to be one of the biggest phenomena for the team, as they actually recorded them appearing from no where on video. In one instance, a quarter was captured on film, appearing off screen, rolling across the room, and stopping when it struck a chair.
In another instance, a door in a bedroom was recorded on film, opening and closing by itself at least twice.
Although the ghosts had left by this time, evidence continued to indicate that the malignant spirit afflicting the father was still around and still causing problems. As a result, the team conducted a second investigation on April 6, 2011. Again, everyone left the building while electronic devices were employed to create recordings.
"At the end of that night, we had a whole bunch of more stuff happen," Keyes explained.
This time, Keyes actually saw a quarter fly across the room and hit a wall
"And I thought 'I got them. Whoever is here, I got them," Keyes said.
But looking through various rooms in the house yielded nothing. However, Keyes noted that the quarter itself was warm- far warmer than the room where it was found.
Believing that a lot of the activity was focused in the basement, Virginia went there, hoping to make contact, Keyes said. While attempting to communicate with the entity, another quarter dropped from the ceiling. This one was recorded on film.
"A quarter drops from thin air," Keyes said.
In a separate incident which occurred about the same time on the floor above, a door shut by itself. When Keyes opened the door, four more quarters were discovered.
After learning about what happened in the basement, the team decided to make certain there was no logical explanation for what had occurred.
"So the three of us tore that ceiling apart," he said. "Just to make sure there were no more quarters, no holes in the ceiling. I even went upstairs – there was wall-to-wall carpeting; there wasn't even a place where someone could push something through."
Following the investigation, Paul sat in the basement, in the hopes of communicating with the entity. After about 20 minutes, with Paul attempting to strike up a conversation, another quarter was recorded falling in the room.
This was the fourth time that quarters mysteriously appearing in rooms had been recorded in under two hours, Keyes explained.
Although she continued to contact the entity, Virginia was unable to determine conclusively that it had left the premises.
"It was like there, and it was gone," Keyes said. "For most ghosts, she makes contact with them, there's a cleansing and they leave."
But this time, there was nothing to indicate anything had happened.
All was quiet for a while, Keyes continued, but then disturbing things again began to manifest themselves. This was usually tied in when there were depressing things going on with the family – particularly with the father.
"They were still hearing some things, seeing some shadows," he said.
As a result, the team decided to perform a third investigation.
This time, the team brought a K-9 police dog named Ben, because animals can often sense things that humans cannot.
As the investigation continued, Ben, who was trained to stay in place, suddenly jumped up from the floor and bolted upstairs.
"He jumped up, fixated on the stairwell, and he took off," Keyes explained. "He went up the stairs, took a right, slammed into the wall and let out a huge yelp."
Virginia had also sensed an "energy source" at the same time, and confirmed that's what Ben had gone after.
Ben was unharmed from the incident, but his behavior confirmed that something unusual was occurring in the house.
Attempts were made by Virginia to 'bind the entity to the earth,' with limited success, Keyes explained.
"Almost like an exorcism, but physic medium style," he said.
Other mediums were brought in, along with a physician. But it was determined that the strain of such activity might be too much for the husband, who suffered from a heart condition.
Keyes, Virginia, and others explored additional options, and decided to perform a ritual that would bind the entity to the property. This caused a drastic reduction in the entity's activities, although they did not cease entirely.
"The only thing that was going on right now was an occasional sighting," Keyes explained, saying this was limited to shadows on the wall and other minor incidents. "Nothing real bad, but still enough to scare kids if you're lying in bed at night."
Finally, Virginia informed the family that all had been done that could be done. She explained that they could either tolerate the situation, or move. Virginia was certain the entity would not follow them because of the binding ritual.
The family remained in their home for about a year before decided to move a short distance away. At that at point, Keyes explained, the haunting and sightings ceased.
There was concern over if the entity would pose a problem for anyone who moved into the now vacant property, given the fact it had been bound to it. However, Virginia was certain it was now harmless, given the fact it had been specifically summoned for the father.
"I felt like this may have been something which was a one time human, but so evil and twisted by evil that I don't even feel it's human any more," was Virginia's explanation for the entity, according to Keyes.
The family eventually moved to Florida, with no further incidents regarding paranormal phenomena or hauntings. The case was so intense for Keyes he decided to write a book about the experience, title "The Upper Darby Poltergeist."
Further information about the Upper Darby Poltergeist, as well as other cases investigated by the Pennsylvania Paranormal Association, can be found at the group's website at http://www.theppa.net
Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch offers Fall fun
Fall is now officially here, and folks showed up at the Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 to participate in various seasonal activities.
Many people stuffed straw into pants and other old clothing, making scarecrows out of various provided materials.
According to Stacy Field, one of the Whistle Pig's owners, the pumpkin patch will host scarecrow building as well as other fun things every weekend into October.
"This is only the first week," Stacy explained. "We're going to do this every weekend."
Cost to build a scarecrow is $3, Field said. The cost of other activities is as follows: Corn maze, $4.50; decorating pumpkins, $3.50. Folks can pay 40 cents a pound to pick their own pumpkins. Hayrides, scheduled on a regular basis, are free.
The Whistle Pig Pumpkin Patch has been operating in Noxen, Pa., since 2004. Things start hopping at the patch in June, Stacy explained. That month, people can pick strawberries and rhubarb. In July, it's red, black, and purple raspberries. Other harvests, depending on the month, include blueberries, fall red and yellow raspberries, canning tomatoes, green peppers, and of course, pumpkins.
Group campfire outings are available at various prices. People should call ahead to make reservations.
Further information can be obtained by calling 570-298-0962, or www.WhistlePigPumpkin.com.


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Celebrate Ramadan with this delicious recipe that is SO addictive! The blending of flavors like pistachio, date and chocolate are so unique and satisfying. This cookie is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside giving you balanced textures with these amazing flavors. Enjoy with a big glass of milk after iftar, a strong cup of coffee at suhoor or a midnight snack. The perfect recipe to include in your family's Ramadan tradition.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, pudding powder, baking powder, baking soda, oatmeal, and salt. Whisk together to combine and aerate, then set aside.
Melt 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) of butter and allow to cool slightly. Add butter, vegetable oil, and both sugars to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low to medium speed until well combined.
Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla and mix again.
Incorporate the flour mixture a little at a time on low speed until well mixed in.
Add in dates, chocolate, and pistachios. Mix by hand or on low with the mixer until the add-ins are well combined and mixed through the dough.
Place golf ball sized dough on a parchment lined cookie sheet, spacing them out to about 6 to a sheet since the cookies will spread. Bake for approximately 10-13 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a moment on the sheet before removing to a cooling rack. Allow to cool for another 5-7 minutes.
*Don't want to make a whole batch of cookies? Freeze golf sized balls on a tray until frozen then transfer the a freezer safe bag. Anytime you want a cookie, place balls on a cookie sheet and follow cook time instructions.
These Ramadan recipes look so delicious! I would be very glad to try them all.. They're perfect for this coming Ramadan 2013. My best Ramadan wishes to all Muslims around the world!
I'm so glad you like the recipe. This one happens to be my absolute favorite! Enjoy!


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UTS alumni celebrated in Australia Day honours
UTS alumni and staff are have been recognised for their contribution to education, health, justice, and public policy reform, in this year's Australia Day Honours.
"UTS is proud that its graduates and academics can make such meaningful and outstanding contributions to society," says UTS Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs. "They have distinguished themselves in a manner that goes to the heart of our values – social justice, diversity, community engagement, and a passion for excellence – and we congratulate them for achieving the recognition they so richly deserve."
Vivienne White (Diploma in Teacher Librarianship, 1978) was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for her service to education through leadership in developing initiatives supporting disadvantaged students and schools. In White's 30-year career, which spanned teaching roles in primary, secondary, and tertiary education institutions, she co-founded the Australian National Schools Network and was appointed as CEO of the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission. She is now also the CEO and co-founder of Big Picture Education Australia, an independent network of schools dedicated to developing innovative school models to serve all students, particularly disadvantaged ones.
Also awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia was Jozefa Sobski (Master of Education – Adult Education, 1997), who was recognised for her service to women's rights and migrant advocacy, and her efforts across higher education and skills-based training. Since working as a Councillor at the NSW Teachers Federation in the 1980s, Sobski has been the Principal of Meadowbank College of TAFE, the Director of South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, the Deputy Director-General of TAFE Educational Services, and a founding member of the TAFE Community Alliance. She has also been a board member of Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia for ten years, and an Executive Member and NSW Convenor for the Women's Electoral Lobby since 2006.
Stephen Burdon, a Professor in Strategic Management and Technology at UTS's Faculty of Engineering and IT, was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for significant service to information technology and telecommunications, to education, to the visual arts, and to Australia-Asia cultural relations. During his times at UTS, Professor Burdon's research has centred on the digital economy, innovation, creativity and collaboration. He has also been the Director of VisAsia at the Art Gallery of NSW and a Foundation Member of its President's Council. He has also been on the board of Silex Systems, Transfield Services; and held directorial roles at British Telecom and Telstra.
Garry Traynor (Master of Education – Adult Education, 1993) received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division for his work in adult education. Traynor was the founding principal of Sydney Community College, which he established in 1988. In the years since, he has been the President of Adult Learning Australia, a member of the TAFE Accreditation Council, the Deputy Chair of the TAFE NSW Sydney Institute Advisory Council, and a Member of the Education Advisory Committee of the Innovations Business Skills Australia.
Also recognised for his contribution to education was David Collins (Bachelor of Arts in Communication, 1981), who was awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) for outstanding public service to vocational education and training (VET) in New South Wales. Through his leadership, he secured more than $1 billion in funding over the past 12 years for reform programs, including the 'Smart and Skilled' program and the 'Infrastructure Skills Legacy Program'. The reforms introduced by Collins are credited as having kept NSW at the forefront of VET.
Robyn Latimer (Bachelor of Design – Visual Communications, 1992) was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division for her service to community health. A graphic designer by trade, Latimer has been the National President of the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, a non-profit charity run by volunteers, since 2007. In 2010, she received the NSW Volunteer of the Year Award.
Anthony Avsec (Bachelor of Applied Science – Building, 1986) also received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division for a career dedicated to the building and construction industry, and to education. He was a National Councillor with the Australian Institute of Building from 1999 before becoming its Queensland Chapter President and, later the Chair of the Education Committee of the Queensland Chapter. Avsec is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology's School of Science and Engineering.
Andrew Nicholls (Master of Management – Public Sector Management, 1998) was recognised with a Public Service Medal (PSM) for his contribution to transport and insurance policy development and reform in NSW. Most notably, he led the NSW Green Slip Scheme since 2010, which brought down the average cost of Green Slips by $100; and he led the reform of the $2.5 billion NSW Compulsory Third Part (CTP) scheme, which gave more than 7,000 people access to benefits they were previously excluded from.
Tracey Hall (Graduate Certificate in Legal Practice, 1996) was also awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) for her work in the justice sector in New South Wales. After being appointed Sheriff of New South Wales in 2013, she has been recognised for transforming the Office of the Sheriff into a contemporary law enforcement organisation. Most recently, she led the organisation's contribution to the Lindt Café siege and the subsequent Coronial Inquest. The extraordinary care and compassion with which the hostages and the families of the victims were treated brought her organisation into high regard.
Also awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) was Cathryn Cox (Master of Management – Public Sector Management, 1993), who has earned a reputation as a role model and expert in statewide clinical service and capital planning. In a career spanning 25 years, Cox delivered 17 integrated cancer services across New South Wales, including the abolition of the patient co-payment for chemotherapy. As the Executive Director of Health System Planning and Investment in the NSW Ministry of Health, she is responsible for the management of the Capital Investment Plan valued at over $1.7 billion per year.
Commander Leigh Jackson RANR (Bachelor of Business, 2004) received a Conspicuous Service Medal (CSM) for meritorious achievement in the field of Navy personnel management systems. Jackson led the development and implementation of the Compass personnel reporting and management system, an innovative tool that reduces day-to-day administrative burdens and has reinvigorated the Divisional system across the Navy.
Lieutentant Colonel Melanie Cochbain (Bachelor of Education – Adult Education, 2001) was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) for her outstanding devotion to duty as the Commanding Officer of the Army Personnel Support Centre in the Australian Army.


New Delhi: The National Capital Region is infamous for its terrible air quality – rated widely as one of the worst in the world. Diwali makes the situation apocalyptic and this year was hardly any better than years gone by. Even as the air quality remains in the 'Severe' category, there seems to be no political solution in the offing as the ruling AAP and BJP officials appear way too busy pointing fingers rather than looking for effective solutions.
Delhi's PM 2.5 levels are 10 to 20 times over what is considered safe by the World Health Organisation. Respiratory problems, burning eyes and throat and jarring cough are complaints not just coming in from children and the elderly but an increasing number of healthy adults as well. Locals shot themselves in the foot too when many flouted Supreme Court's order to burst 'green' crackers only between 2000hrs and 2200hrs on Diwali by lighting up well past midnight. And while they did so, politicians kept themselves busy by accusing one another on a range of issues.
While AAP has questioned why BJP's O P Sharma and Praveen Shankar Kapoor questioned SC's two-hour window for bursting crackers, BJP has hit back saying the ruling government here is trying to duck the blame. "Instead of focussing on vehicular pollution and local sources of dust, they blame parali (crop residue) burning and shift blame on neighbouring states. Delhi government should bring out a 'white paper' to tell people what it has done to address to the problem of pollution," Sharma was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
AAP and BJP leaders have been firing shots at one another even as states like Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh have done little apart from making tall claims of having checked pollution. For now, heavy trucks – barring those carrying essential items – are prohibited from entering Delhi and the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Protection Authority has said it is keeping a close watch on pollution levels.
In addition, there are meetings galore. Then there is analysis. And then there are in-depth studies. Many feel that it is a yearly process of a lot of sitting and very little of acting. On Friday, two days after Diwali, Delhi's environment minister Imran Hussain discussed the deteriorating air quality but there was no word on counter measures for it. For now, Delhi's air quality is likely to remain firmly in the 'Severe' category till at least Saturday and may only fall to 'Very Poor' in the days thereafter.


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