Vanuatu has a subtropical climate. This island nation experiences approximately 9 months of a paradoxically hot rainy weather and 3 to 4 months of dry cool weather characterized by the southeast winds. During those times, cyclones are expected to occur. Trade winds visit the archipelago from May until October. Basically, there are 2 main seasons in Vanuatu, the cold season and the hot season.
The temperature of the country varies very little throughout the year. Being situated near the equator, its equatorial temperature is relatively uniform with a daily average of 26 °C in the coastal areas. In the hot season, temperature reaches its average maximum to 30°C and an average minimum of 24°C. There had been times in the coastal areas when extreme night time temperature has dropped to 13°C. In Port Vila which is the capital on the west coast of Efate, the temperature is a soothing 25°C and becomes 23°C in August during the wettest months and 27°C in February.
Vanuatu experiences an unusual rainfall season. It is during the hot season when the country is hit by heavy rainfall. It is because the topographic features of the country and the seasonal wind flow determine the rainfall distribution pattern. There is also the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) that usually shifts over Vanuatu in the summer and especially during the La Nina years that causes rainfall in the hot season. There is variable rainfall on smaller islands.
The driest month in Vanuatu is usually August while the wettest month is March.


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Push to extend 9/11 Zadroga Act launched in Washington
By TOM BRUNEtom.brune@newsday.com@TomBruneDC April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON -- A longtime advocate for first responders and cleanup workers ailing from exposure to toxic debris at Ground Zero threw down the gauntlet to Congress Tuesday to renew the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, whose components begin to expire this October.
"I'm challenging Congress to pass this bill by Sept. 11 of this year," said John Feal, a former construction worker who was injured and founded the FealGood Foundation to help 9/11 workers and survivors a decade ago.
"We'll give you that deadline, and then after that we will either be your BFF, or we'll be the world's biggest pains," Feal said, using the abbreviation for best friends forever.
Feal was joined by a throng of New York politicians from both parties, labor union chiefs and 9/11 veterans at a news conference in a Senate conference room to kick off an effort to pass a bill to renew the Zadroga Act's two programs and to make them permanent.
Feal and the bill's chief sponsors, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), stressed that the act helps people across the country, saying people enrolled in its health program reside in 429 of the 435 congressional districts.
Congress passed the act on the last day of the 2010 congressional session as Christmas loomed, but with sunset provisions for its two programs.
The World Trade Center Health Program, which has paid for medical monitoring of 63,000 9/11 first responders and treatment for more than 7,800 survivors, expires this October.
The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which has spent more than $1 billion to compensate 4,415 first responders and survivors for 9/11 economic damages and has determined 6,100 more are eligible, expires in October 2016.
Gillibrand, who called Feal's deadline "a very reasonable goal," said, "It shouldn't take a Christmas miracle to get this done again."
Also at the event were Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), most New York City Democrats and the Long Island House delegation: Democratic Reps. Steve Israel of Huntington and Kathleen Rice of Garden City, and GOP Reps. Peter King of Seaford and Lee Zeldin of Shirley.
Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a statement backing the act's renewal. New York City pays a 10 percent matching share of WTC Health Program costs.
By Tom Brune
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Tom Brune covers the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and the federal government from Washington, D.C.

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Hamstring tears are often more complicated than they appear and need to be assessed carefully to select the best management. Many hamstring tears also have some involvement of the sciatic nerve. We can differentiate between the two types of hamstring tears easily in the clinic with some simple tests.
If the sciatic nerve is involved there are specific manual therapy techniques only physiotherapists can provide to release the muscle and nerve.
If the injury does not involve the sciatic nerve or lower back commencing on a carefully graded strengthening and stretching program is critical to regaining full function and prevent recurrent strains.


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Q: ios scrollViewDidEndDecelerating is not working UICollectionView , but is working for UITableView i am using a "scrollViewDidEndDecelerating" for load more data when user go to last on list data scroller and same page (on this page) i am using UICollectionView and  same think when user go to last page load more data
but scrollViewDidEndDecelerating is not working for UICollectionView please help
here is my code
i think scrollViewDidEndDecelerating is work for both UICollexction and Tableview but when i try to add one more SCrollerViewDidEndDec this return a error because i already defined in one time
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    float endScrolling = scrollView.contentOffset.y + scrollView.frame.size.height;
    if (endScrolling >= scrollView.contentSize.height)
    {
        HUD = [[MBProgressHUD alloc] initWithView:self.view];
        HUD.frame = CGRectMake(95, 330, 140, 150);
        HUD.labelText = @"Load More ...";
        HUD.detailsLabelText = @"Load More ...";
        HUD.mode = MBProgressHUDModeIndeterminate;

        [HUD show:YES];

        [self.view addSubview:HUD];

        fromValue =fromValue+4; //[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", endvalue];

        [self getdata2];
    }
}

A: You should implement both scrollViewDidEndDecelerating and scrollViewDidEndDragging:willDecelerate:
A complete solution involves checking that willDecelerate is NO and invoking the same logic you have in scrollViewDidEndDecelerating - this delegate method is called if you stopped scrolling without deceleration
- (void)scrollViewDidEndDragging:(UIScrollView *)scrollView willDecelerate:(BOOL)decelerate {
    if (!decelerate) {
        // preloading logic
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This was a brand new website with ecommerce facility for Marlow's leading independent running shoes and clothing retailer, Runners' Retreat.
Runners' Retreat approached me to provide a professionally designed website to better represent their business. The aim of the site is both to inform customers and potential customers of the range of products and services offered by Runners' Retreat, as well as to act as a focal point for "all things running" in Marlow and the surrounding area.
In order to offer customers another way to buy from Runners' Retreat, the site now offers a full online store facility.
"Hugues redesigned our website at the end of 2015. Beforehand we had a very bland basic site that did our business no justice; now we receive compliments about how good and informative it is.
In a very short space of time, Hugues, grasped the 'look' we wanted for our website and put together a design that reflects our business in the way we want.


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After a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma. Months later he awakens with the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen guardian angel. Though initially excited by his newfound powers, Barry is shocked to discover he is not the only "meta-human" who was created in the wake of the accelerator explosion -- and not everyone is using their new powers for good. Barry partners with S.T.A.R. Labs and dedicates his life to protect the innocent. For now, only a few close friends and associates know that Barry is literally the fastest man alive, but it won't be long before the world learns what Barry Allen has become...The Flash.
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With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she's Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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Fans thought Bryce Harper was coming out for a curtain call, but he was really just pointing to a cloud so he could prove to his teammates that he knew what a cloud was.
Bryce Harper: 1-4, HR, RBI, R, K. Who else? DC's Dynamic Douchebag finally hit the first of what will hopefully be a number of home runs so large that we have to invent a new numerical system to write it without frying whatever computing device it's written on.
Henry Rodriguez: .1 IP, 3 BB, Hold. Great Hold, Henry Rodriguez. You are likely to be getting a lot more of those in the future and a lot less of anything that anyone cares about.
Wow. I can't believe I was there to see it. They say you never forget the first time, and I'll certainly never forget this moment. Everything else that happened in the game will soon be lost to history, but not this. And what a scene! Literally hundreds of people in the crowd going wild. Nationals Park erupting with the jubilation that it had long been longing to feel. I looked around after it happened, knowing that not just I but everyone around me would cherish this memory for a lifetime: Sean Burnett's first save of the season.
This is one of the places Sean Burnett looked before throwing the pitch that induced the double play that got him his first save of 2012. Of much lesser importance, some rookie hit his first major league home run and it landed here.
It was a very rainy evening, which this picture demonstrates if you squint a lot. Sadly, the rain diminished the number of people who were able to witness history in person. But you know what they say: May showers bring May Sean Burnett saves.
This was the left field foul poll used in the game when Sean Burnett earned his first save of 2012.


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'Fossil galaxy' found hidden deep Inside the Milky Way
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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND — Scientists have discovered the remnants of what they call a "fossil" galaxy buried in the inner depths of the Milky Way, according to a study published last week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The galaxy, which has been named Hercules, is thought to have collided 10 billion years ago with the Milky Way, which itself is about 13.5 billion years old.
This ancient collision is thought to account for about a third of the mass of the Milky Way's spherical halo.
It had not been observed before because stars inside the dense center of the Milky Way are hidden by massive clouds of interstellar dust.
In their study, scientists used data collected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, on more than half a million stars.
"Of the tens of thousands of stars we looked at, a few hundred had strikingly different chemical compositions and velocities," said lead author Danny Horta, a graduate student at Liverpool John Moores University.
"These stars are so different that they could only have come from another galaxy."
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My first and only pregnancy was perfect. We flew through our doctors appointments all the way through to November 30, 2009, when, without any complications, my baby girl was born: pink, large-cheeked and loved.
We were told our daughter, Cora, was 100 percent healthy, so like any other new parents, we took her home.
For 5 days we cuddled, and basked in the glow of being new parents. For 5 days we thought Cora was a normal healthy newborn.
And then we found out she wasn't.
Early one morning, my husband woke me up saying Cora seemed hungry. He jumped in the shower as I carefully set up my nursing pillows, prepping Cora to feed just as she had been over the past 5 days.
My husband got out of the shower and walked over to check on us. He stroked Cora's cheek and told me he loved me. He walked the few steps over to a chair. My eyes followed him to his chair as I held my happy feeding newborn.
A few seconds later when I looked back down, I noticed a bit of blood on my chest. Confused, I thought I was bleeding. I looked closer and noticed blood running from Cora's nose and mouth. She was limp and didn't seem to be breathing.
I jumped up and screamed, "She's not breathing, call 911." I remember my husband searching for the phone and shouting, "Are you serious?" over and over again.
We reached the operator, who told us ambulance was on its way, but we lived just five minutes from the nearest hospital, so my husband and I decided to drive instead. It was a cold December night and our windows were frosted over. My husband stuck his head out the window to see as we barreled through town, going 70 in 30 mile per hour zones.
We must have reached the hospital somewhere between five to ten panicked minutes after I noticed her dying in my arms. It didn't matter how soon we did or didn't get there; there was no saving Cora.
I collapsed and was pulled onto a gurney. In many ways, I've never come back. How do you come back from something like that?
The coroner and a detective interviewed us and asked to come to our home for a reenactment. They were as gentle as possible. As I sat bawling on the same sofa Cora had just died on hours before asking, "Why?" over and over, the coroner's eyes teared up and she told me she didn't know why yet. She ensured us that we did everything right and that she would find an answer.
A few days later, she called me with the preliminary results of Cora's autopsy — congenital heart defect.
I would later learn that congenital heart defects are more common than Down Syndrome, cystic fibrosis, childhood cancer and any other birth defect. I'd learn they affect about 1 in 100 babies.
I'll never forget the day I learned from a Minnesota mom, whose baby also had a heart condition, about the simple test that might have found Cora's congenital heart defect (CHD).
This mom was working on a pilot program for pulse oximetry screening (or CCHD screening); which finds a subset of the most lethal congenital heart defects that can cause sudden death, like Cora's. Results from the pilot program looked good and studies around the globe began to pour in showing the effectiveness of the screening.
I took those studies and my story to my lawmaker and asked him to introduce a law to make sure other babies in Indiana, my home state, were screened.
In May 2011, that bill was signed in to law.
In January 2012, the bill went into effect and in the first 12 months, 12 babies' heart defects were found. I held one of the first to be saved, a little boy named Gabriel who coded in the ambulance on the way to the children's hospital.
Now about 40 states have laws like Cora's Law in Indiana.
The screening doesn't find all heart defects, so until then I'll constantly be advocating for more; for parents to be aware of signs and symptoms (blue coloring of the infant, trouble feeding, tiring while feeding, failure to thrive) as well as more research and even more screening methods.
It's going to be a long road, but I'm determined that no other mother find out about her baby's heart defect from the coroner like I did.
Kristine Brite McCormick is an advocate for congenital heart defects, newborn health and a safer world for infants. She became an advocate, blogger and speaker after the sudden death of her daughter Cora to undetected heart defects. She writes about Cora at CorasStory.com. You can learn more about her at KristineBrite.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and on Facebook.


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Die St. Sebastianskirche ist ein römisch-katholisches Gotteshaus in der Frankfurter Nordweststadt, das nach dem heiligen Sebastian benannt ist. Sie ist ein Kulturdenkmal gemäß Hessischem Denkmalschutzgesetz. St. Sebastian gehört als Gemeindekirche neben sechs weiteren Filialkirchen seit 2016 zur Pfarrei St. Katharina von Siena im Frankfurter Nordwesten, welche dem Bistum Limburg angehört.

Entstehung
Im Zuge des Siedlungsbaus der Nordweststadt in den 1960er Jahren entstand auf Heddernheimer Gemarkung an der Ernst-Kahn-Straße ein Stadtteilzentrum mit Schule, Kindertagesstätte und zwei Kirchen. Auf der westlichen Straßenseite wurde die evangelische Cantate-Domino-Kirche errichtet, und auf der östlichen Seite entstand nach Plänen des Architekten Johannes Krahn das katholische Pfarrzentrum St. Sebastian mit Kirche, Gemeinderäumen und Pfarrwohnung. Es wurde am 24. September 1966 eingeweiht.

Beschreibung
Das Ensemble besteht aus flachgedeckten Gebäudekuben und einem separaten Glockenturm. Er steht am Vorplatz gegenüber dem Eingang zur Kirche. Im Umfeld der verputzten Wohngebäude hebt sich die Natursteinfassade der Kirche ab. Auch der Campanile besteht aus grob behauenen Steinen. Der kubische Bau ist durch nach innen geknickte Stirnwände gekennzeichnet. Sie bestehen aus Sichtbeton während die durch Glasfugen abgesetzten Seitenwände mit Bruchsteinen verkleidet sind. Auf der Nordseite ist eine gerundete Kapelle angefügt. Die umlaufenden Glasfugen trennen gestalterisch die Wände und das flache Dach voneinander. Die Seitenwände ruhen auf Stützen zwischen denen Wandelemente eingestellt sind. Das Hauptportal im Westen erschließt den Kirchenraum.

Auch der Innenraum ist geprägt von der Bruchsteinverkleidung der Seitenwände und den sichtbaren Betonelementen. Der stützenlose Raum wird durch die Glasfugen unterhalb der Decke und zwischen den Wandscheiben belichtet. Zwei Bankblöcke mit Mittelgang sind nach Osten auf den erhöhten Altarraum gerichtet. Taufstein, Tabernakel und Ambo sind um den Altar gruppiert. Nördlich davon befindet sich die Marienkapelle und in einer Raumnische im Süden die Orgel. Zwischen den Stützen der Seitenwände sind  Beichtstühle eingestellt.

Weblinks
 Internetseite der Gemeinde St. Sebastian

Literatur
 Karin Berkemann: Nachkriegskirchen in Frankfurt am Main = Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Hrsg.: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Wiesbaden 2013

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Cloaking device developed, for fish
A team in Singapore have developed an invisibility cloak that can hide goldfish and cats...
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The dream of invisibility goes back to at least the Greeks whose god of the underworld, Hades is supposed to have had a helmet of invisibility.
But this week scientists at the Nanyan Technological University in Singapore, unveiled a video of a goldfish and cat disappearing and reappearing behind a new 'invisibility cloak' they'd developed. If you haven't seen it yet you can find a link to the video below but in the meantime here's the Quickfire Science...
At the moment objects like tanks can only be disguised, using cameras to project the view behind the tank onto screens covering the other side. This was seen on a car in the James Bond movie, Die Another Day.
However this technology only works from one perspective - the angle the camera is facing - so if you spotted the tank from a different angle, it would distort the illusion.
But in 2006, British Researcher Sir John Pendry came up with a way of bending light around an object to create a 'cloak', which would make it invisible to the naked eye.
However when light waves are bent around an object they have to travel further than the light unaffected by the cloak. This means the bent light arrives slightly later than it should so the image isn't perfect.
To correct this, the bent light waves have to appear to move faster than the unaffected light travelling in air, which is impossible with natural materials.
Cloaks like this have been built successfully with artificial 'metamaterials', made with carefully designed structures smaller than the wavelength of light. But they've only been able to hide objects from view in microwaves rather than visible light.
To disguise large objects in visible light, the team in Singapore decided to see how well they could manage with conventional materials, not worrying about whether the light was delayed.
They used prisms of glass in a hexagon or square which refract the light through one another around the object - so even if your pet moves inside the prisms it looks like it has disappeared!
This can still only be seen from a maximum of six angles but the hope is that they will be able to increase this by changing the layout of the prisms.
They have managed to hide goldfish and even a cat in a real life environment and hope it could be used for both surveillance and entertainment.
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