It's been awhile since I've made a new blog post. No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth! We still do fun projects and experiments regularly, but the big difference now is that the boys do their own projects. Gone are the days of me setting up invitations and creating new ways to play. They use their imagination and go where that leads, and the best part is, they do all the set up and clean up!
Their latest creative venture is a YouTube channel! Presenting 4BoysToys! The four of them worked together to create, write, film, and edit this video. All I helped with was the editing and uploading to YouTube.
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We've been overdue for a new batch bin of dyed pasta, and this time I thought it would be fun to make eruptions while dyeing our pasta.
Typically when we dye pasta for art and sensory play we use this simple vinegar and alcohol free recipe. Pasta is one of our favorite sensory materials for many reasons, one of them being because it lasts forever. It's so easy to dye a few boxes then store for months and months of sensory play. I buy our dried pasta at Dollar Tree when I it's for play, so this ends up being a frugal sensory bin filler. This time instead of using my standard method to dye the pasta, I thought it would be cool to dye the pasta using erupting dye. My boys are more than a little obsessed with creating eruptions, so I knew they would be all over this.
Melted crayon art is the perfect way to use up old crayons and broken pieces. Plus, it's gorgeous!
I remember "painting" with crayons on a warm skillet back in kindergarten, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Throughout the years I've found a variety of ways to make art with melted crayons, and some of my favorite bloggers have come up with clever creations. Before you get started, use this simple trick to peel crayons, so they are ready to go for your art projects.
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Can I make a confession? As much as we love crazy sensory play and fancy art projects we are pretty vanilla when it comes to dyeing Easter eggs. We make our own egg dye, and I let the boys take the lead. We do enjoy painting with Easter eggs and coming up with creative art projects with plastic eggs, but our egg dyeing is low key.
Spring is in the air, and the blooming flowers mean it's time to create some art with nature.
Of all our favorite spring activities for kids, those involving nature and art are at the top of our list. My boys love open ended art projects, and nature provides a beautiful palette for our creations. These nature inspired art activities are sure to spark creativity and imagination in little ones and provides hours of outdoor entertainment.


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Slothrust and Sons of an Illustrious Father Release Double A-Side
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Today, Slothrust have released a double A-side with their dear friends and former tour-mates, Sons Of An Illustrious Father -- comprised of Josh Aubin, Lilah Larson, and Ezra Miller. The bands covered each others' songs for a split 7" whose proceeds will benefit The Trevor Project, who focus on suicide prevention within the LGBTQIA+ community.
LA-by-way-of-NYC band, Slothrust, recently released their fourth LP, The Pact. This new album showcases their dynamic evolution through experimentation and exploration. With millions of streams on Spotify, it's clear that new fans are joining the Slothrust movement, and the band's influence has expanded drastically since their first album in 2014. AsBillboard puts it, "You're never going to fully figure out Slothrust, but rest assured, it's well worth the effort."
Recently, the band also shared their Noisetrade EP, If You Took Me To The Zoo, out now. The EP features a 2019 Mix of "Double Down" by 5 time Grammy-award winning American mix engineer Chris Lord Alge, along with two previously unreleased demos: "Some Kind of Cowgirl" and "On My Mind."
"Double Down" was featured on SirusXM Octane's "Test Drive" and was also added toSpotify's "Rock This" playlist. The track currently has over 3 million Spotify streams.
On February 6, the band appeared on FX's "You're The Worst," and not only performed as a punk band on the episode, but also had their single "Double Down" featured in another scene. Slothrust's 2012 single "7:30" is the show's theme song, as well.
The band just completed their Spring 2019 tour, including three festivals: Shaky Knees in Atlanta, Epicenter in Charlotte and Bottlerock in Napa.
A thunderously versatile and agile band, Slothrust's live show is driving much of the band's widening success. Fans blissfully revel in guitar epics from the band's own growing catalog, and a selection of inventive covers ("Baby, One More Time by Britney Spears and "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground, for example). Get a taste of their live show by checking out their Audiotree session, and stay tuned for more announcements.
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A cabin in the woods becomes one family's dream vacation home. Author: Janis Nicolay
One designer helps a B.C. couple achieve the vacation home of their dreams.
We didn't have to knock down walls. We had to put them up – and that almost never happens," says designer Dan Vickery on the transformation of this small cabin on Hornby Island, B.C. A project he took on as one of the hosts of W Network's new show Love It or List It Vacation Homes, the cottage was far from complete. Homeowners Jim and Lauren Wolf (he's a city planner, historian and author; she's the executive director of a not-for-profit organization) purchased the 700-square-foot space on a whim in 2005, and for the next 10 years, the New Westminster, B.C., couple spent vacations lovingly updating and expanding the cabin to suit their family, which includes 16-year-old son Griffin, Felix the Jack Russell terrier and Loonie, "a fat and fussy ginger tomcat." They raised the existing structure and set it on a new concrete foundation; flipped the blue-stained siding to reveal its natural cedar finish; and added an Arts and Crafts-style porch to suit the artist-populated island. And they didn't stop there: Jim and Lauren continued to enlarge the cottage, incorporating a full kitchen, extending the main-floor master bedroom ("so it could actually fit a queen-sized bed," he says) and building a second level for more bedrooms.
"Jim is an artist at heart," says Dan. "And while he's great at starting projects, he's not so great at completing them. When I entered the scene, the only finished rooms were the kitchen, bathroom and living area." But, Dan clarifies, the flooring was mismatched, and the bathroom had an exposed water heater at its centre. In addition, the master bedroom had no insulation, and the entire upstairs was built only to the studs. The challenge – made even more difficult by the fact that the island is three ferry rides from mainland B.C. – may seem daunting to most, but Dan was in his element. "This was a fun project," he says. "We just had to fix some construction issues and put up some walls to define the upstairs bedrooms." (Ha! "Just.")
"The hardest part," says Dan, "was hunting down unique items that would speak to the character of the cabin, its artful setting and, especially, Jim and Lauren themselves." Of the couple's established style, he adds: "Every part of this place has a story. There are pieces from different vintage shops they've visited or vacations they've taken. There's a sense of love and warmth as soon as you walk in." So to continue the welcoming atmosphere, Dan sourced a lot of items from the Free Store, a Hornby Island spot where people can adopt others' donated goods and building materials at no cost. It's where Dan located stuff like the sheet metal (used as a textured wall treatment in Griffin's room) and salvaged barnboard (turned into a herringbone headboard in the master bedroom, not shown).
The strategy was a success, because when it came time for Jim and Lauren to decide whether they'd keep this freshly renovated cabin or buy a new place (the premise of the Love It or List It franchise), it was a no-brainer: "The other properties couldn't match the sweat equity that we had already invested and would never have our history so entwined in every corner," says Jim. "This cottage is a part of our family's story."
This cabin may be three ferry rides away from where Jim and Lauren Wolf reside in mainland B.C., but designer Dan Vickery brought the homeowners closer to their ideal vacation property than they could have dreamed.
"Sometimes all that's needed to define the different areas of a great room is a little bit of extra breathing space in between," says designer Dan Vickery of the small open-concept main floor that features a living room, dining area and kitchen. In a clever twist on tradition, Dan used a basket as a shade for the dining room pendant light.
The light-filled living room was one of the more finished areas of the cabin when Dan arrived on the scene. Apart from the flooring and a few blue accessories ("I love that the homeowners weren't afraid of colour," he says), almost everything else here stayed the same.
The mud room/ laundry room boasts a washer and dryer, open and closed storage and a bench for pulling shoes on and off. It even conceals the ugly water heater that was once exposed in the bathroom (just beyond that white door). "Since the area is open to the main living space, it had to look good," says Dan. "The result demonstrates how design can be beautiful and functional at the same time."
"If a client tells me they're not afraid of colour, I'm going to give it to them," says Dan, who incorporated bold hues, such as the rusty orange of the master bedroom's tufted armchair, throughout the house.
The homeowners' teenaged son, Griffin Wolf, was so thrilled to finally get a place of his own: Until now, his bedroom was just one big unfinished space. "There was no sense of privacy," says Dan. "Griffin's room was open to the living area below." An old paddle offers creative wall art that's perfectly fitting for Hornby Island, which attracts both artsy and sporty types.
Demarcated by new walls, Griffin's bedroom is positioned behind this little loft area, which is open to the downstairs living room. The cheerful space features a lounger (not shown) that unfolds into a small bed for guests wanting to spend the night, as well as this tiny office nook for anyone who has extra work to complete.
While a shiplap-look treatment lends texture to three of the walls in Griffin's new room, corrugated metal roofing provides interest on the fourth. "Colour is obviously critical to great design," says Dan. "But every space should take a good black and white picture as well, because when you take colour out of the equation, texture is what's left to analyze."
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One of the cornerstones of survival, finding enough food to keep you and your loved ones alive when times get tough, is arguably the most important challenge you will face. In survival situations, though, some foods will make the cut while others are best reserved for softer times (sorry chocolate cake lovers).
When it comes to disaster preparedness, there is a reason certain foods have remained so popular in survivalist circles. If you are looking to stock up on foods that will get you through when the SHTF, check out these 11 survival foods.
Note: Normally when listing products, I would link to them on Amazon.com, but almost all of these foods are much cheaper at stores like Costco or Sam's Club. I highly recommend you purchase these foods at one of those stores instead of online.
The prices I mention are based on the prices I've seen at my local Sam's Club (in Florida; other stores around the country may be more expensive).
Peanut butter is high in protein, super filling, has a fairly long shelf life, and is relatively affordable, allowing preppers to stock up on bulk amounts of peanut butter without having to take out a second mortgage.
Peanut butter has an unopened shelf life of one year and only costs about $2.50 a pound.
For a large portion of the world, rice is a daily staple, supplying the majority of a person's nutritional needs. It's one of the cheapest foods you can buy, it's easy to store, and it lasts for decades if you store it properly.
White rice can be purchased for around $15 per 50 lb. bag.
If college students can survive on Ramen noodles for four years, so can you. They're not particularly nutritious (as in not at all), but they are incredibly cheap and tasty enough to add a little variety to the foods you'll be eating in a disaster scenario.
Combine that with the fact that Ramen Noodles have an indefinite shelf life and you've got a survival food just good enough to make the list.
As far as the cost of this incredibly cheap meal goes, Ramen Noodles can be purchased for about 17 cents a package, meaning that, if Ramen Noodles is all you ate, you could eat three meals a day for an entire year and only spend $186.15 (although you shouldn't actually do that as they're very high in sodium).
Another simple, filling crop, beans are a lot like rice in their affordability and shelf life. They're easy to store, high in nutrients, have an indefinite shelf life, and are by far one of the most popular survival foods. As an added bonus, the same beans that can be eaten can also be planted to grow more beans if needed.
The price of beans depends on the variety, but pinto beans, for example, cost about $30 for a 50 lb. bag.
Surviving in a post-apocalyptic world takes a lot of energy, which means you'll want to know how to make coffee when the power is out. Fortunately, coffee has a great storage life and, although not incredibly cheap, is affordable enough to set back an ample enough supply for tough times.
For a 48 oz. can of coffee grounds, you can expect to pay around $12.
The chicken of the sea is a great survival food and one of the few meat products that will make the list of popular foods for disaster situations. For meats, spoilage is a real problem, but tuna has a great shelf life and will last up to five years unopened, making it a viable source of tasty protein in a disaster situation. Tuna is also full of nutrients and is affordable enough to buy in bulk.
On average, a can of tuna costs less than a dollar when bought in bulk.
If you think the post-apocalypse is going to be completely void of your favorite foods, rejoice in the fact that pasta is one of the most popular survival foods. Though what you will season it with is a different story, pasta is another affordable, easy to store, and long-lasting food that is right at home in a survival setting.
The cost of pasta varies depending on the type of pasta you're buying, but you can get spaghetti for less than a dollar a pound.
Oil is essential for cooking a large number of foods. Unfortunately, most oils don't have a long enough shelf life to be viable for long-term storage. Coconut oil, though, is the exception, able to last a reasonable two years before it begins to spoil.
If you're planning on frying anything post-disaster, coconut oil is your best choice. As an added bonus, it's one of the healthiest oils you can cook with.
You can get an 8-pound pail of coconut oil for about $30.
During the days of the Roman empire, salt was one of the most valuable things a person could own. While it may not have the same value this day and age, salt is still an irreplaceable food item to have in a disaster situation.
It can be used to make almost any food more palatable, can be used to cure beef, and can also be used for a wide range of other purposes such as easing a sinus infection and cleaning a kitchen counter.
Common table salt has an indefinite shelf life and costs less than $2 a pound.
Instead of storing flour for your post-disaster baking needs, consider storing cornmeal. Cornmeal can be used in many of the same applications as flour, plus it has a much longer shelf life.
While flour requires yeast and oil to make biscuits or bread, cornbread and tortillas made from flour can be baked without these things and come out nicely when cooked in a solar oven or a simple skillet.
Stored in a dry area, cornmeal can last up to two years and will cost around $15 for a 25 lb. bag.
Honey isn't all that cheap, which makes buying it in bulk a tough pill to swallow for cost-cutting preppers. However, honey can be used to add a nice boost of calories and flavor to a meal, it's one of the few sweets with an indefinite shelf life, and it's good for you. As long as you use it sparingly, a little honey will go a long way.
On average, you can expect to pay around $14 for a 40 oz. bottle of raw honey.
If you haven't already started purchasing these foods in bulk, it's time to get started. Join Costco or Sam's Club and you'll find you can put away a lot of food for less money than you might think.
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Ramen must have an oily costing. because it goes rancid before a year.
A note on coconut oil is that it's not as healthy as previously thought.
It's very high in saturated fats, about 90%.
Brown rice and beans together form a complete protein, a substitute for meat. And a lot cheaper, too. I eat from what I have in storage, and replace and rotate 4 times a year.
Thanks for the tips! But I have a question, at what temperature can these products be left at as I live in Canada where minus 25 degrees is a common thing.
The ONLY thing on the list which I would have an issue with storing at – 25F or colder is the tuna … the article sadly did not specify what the tuna was packed in [water or oil] if oil it can stand colder than packed in water. Also if given a choice I would pick the oil packed over water as for the same weight in my pack you get more food value… btw everything else on that list could be put into a freezer safely.
Honey offers the additional virtue of being a good anti-bacterial agent. It's been used for millennia to heal infected wounds. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing, especially in hard times.
Coffee isn't a survival food as it has very little nutrional value(a couple micro nutrients),better choice is cocoa powder,good amount of calories,real moral booster(actually effects pleasure center of brain) and should have long shelf life.
Peanut butter is good stored for much longer than a year, coconut oil and corn meal lasts a lot linger also, if unopened and stored properly.
Invest in a good manual grain grinder. Wheat and corn, as grains, lasts infinitely longer than the ground product. Grind flour and cornmeal as needed. You can buy both, in resealable buckets. You can get things like Rye, different kinds of wheat, corn, sorghum, barley, rice – which can also be ground into rice flour – and several other kinds of grains.


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Sticky gloves and shoes are being developed using a material that allows the wearing to stick and climb up walls. They have already created a new textile inspired by geckos which has been tested successfully on a small robot that can scale smooth surfaces such as glass and metal.
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I'm a huge supporter of modernizing government IT practices, but there's something apocolyptic about the rhetoric of "digital transformation" folks which I cannot quite wrap my head around. Maybe it's because I'm on the outside looking in, so I cannot perceive the cultural problems that they see.
"We plan on doing things differently. This will require a culture shift.
To me, the message that "we have to fundamentally change how the public service operates" seems like a recapitulation, at the organizational and leadership level, of the worst mistake of old school IT: the old system is no good, we need a brand new system.
Back in the early aughts, when I was a fluffy young IT boffin, and discovered open source software, I was pretty sure we were on the cusp of a radical and immediate transformation: the open source model was so self-evidently better that a culture change would necessarily flow through IT.
Here we are, coming up on 20 years later and… things are still slowly getting better?
There was no radical change, the overall culture of IT slowly changed, and the things that I once had to argue loudly for – agile development (we called it RAD), GitHub (we called it open development), open source (OK, we called it that too) – are now accepted as somewhat normal practices.
Government culture will change because the rest of the culture is also changing. Sure, government is heirarchical. It used to be a whole lot more heirarchical as were the post-WW2 corporate and military cultures it co-existed with.
Small organizations are getting flat and more agile. Larger ones are following along at their own pace. As the largest of the organizations, government sometimes runs slowest. The challenge is to speed up the pace of change without breaking the beast.
I don't see how a message like "we have to fundamentally change how the public service operates" isn't going to give rise to a lot of push-back from people who aren't necessarily opposed in principal to digital, but who are surely opposed in practice to being talked down to.
At the same time, for people inclined to support digital, it implies a manichean, "year zero" approach to change that is fundamentally unrealistic. With lots of institutional support and political backing and always the best of intentions among civil servants, a more digital government will arrive in 10 years instead of 20.


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Destructor.

*Requires*: Always available.

*Complexity*: Same as for `value_type`'s, `error_type`'s and `exception_type`'s destructors. Constexpr, triviality and noexcept of underlying operations is propagated.

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An excruciating pain struck my back and as usual with the overwhelming confidence due to ignorance and the need to finish the daily chorus of life I started moving. It did not take me long to realize that I was in trouble with my back. It did not mean anything much to me until the doctor told me that I'd be bed ridden for a minimum of one month. And that day has changed my life forever.
While lying on the wooden bed in the hospital with the instruction to not get up, all I had in my vision and my mind was the white ceiling. I felt like a lost traveler in a thick forest. I had no clue what lied ahead for me while the world around me continued to move at a frantic pace.
The only solace to my grievance was that I was blessed with a bed near the window. With a blank mind like the ceiling with no immediate agenda in hand, I just looked through the window and I noticed a butterfly in the garden.
One year back? Two years, maybe three? Maybe 10? Maybe when I was 10! Where had all the butterflies gone all these years?
The more I started gazing through the window the more I saw colorful butterflies flying all over the garden in such an elegant and slow pace which made me think, "Why are they in no hurry?" I couldn't see any competition out there. I couldn't identify a leader, or the leader was so good that he wasn't visible. Do they have a plan to reach somewhere by a certain time? Are they bothered about all the chaos happening around them?
Of one thing I was sure: they enjoyed every moment in the garden. Above all I felt the garden, the rose, the plants, the little cricket; even the soil enjoyed the presence of dancing butterflies. I felt an amazing harmony of life. For a little while I had forgotten the agonizing pain in my back.
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You were certainly brought BACK to life by that experience. Yes! It is important to enjoy the butterflies and the other amazing visions life has to offer.
Am glad you realised it, but even more glad that you decided to share the experience with the rest of us.
Keep writing; you have great skill.


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Rigoberto Paredes (*Santa Bárbara, Honduras, 26 de abril de 1948 – Tegucigalpa, 9 de marzo de 2015) fue un poeta, ensayista y editor hondureño.

Biografía
(Trinidad, Santa Bárbara, Honduras, 26 de abril de 1948 – Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 9 de marzo de 2015). Poeta, ensayista y editor. Perteneció a los grupos literarios: Tauanka de Tegucigalpa y Punto Rojo de Colombia. Ha recibido el premio   It-zamná de Literatura, otorgado en 1983 por la escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Honduras y el Premio Nacional de Literatura Juan Ramón Molina (2006). Ha sido finalista en los Certámenes internacionales de poesía de Casa de Las Américas (Cuba), EDUCA (Centroamérica) y Plural (México). Como poeta, participó en recitales personales y colectivos en festivales celebrados en Honduras y varios países americanos y europeos, como España, Francia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Estados Unidos de América, México, Colombia, Argentina y Chile.

Fungió como Viceministro de Cultura, Diplomático de Honduras en México y Director de Asuntos Culturales del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, también fue es asesor cultural del  expresidente Manuel Zelaya.

Ha sido cofundador de los proyectos editoriales: Editorial Guaymuras, Editores Unidos y Ediciones Librería Paradiso, así como de las revistas Alcaraván, Paradiso,  Imaginaria y Galatea.

Cofundador del proyecto cultural Librería Café Galería Paradiso, 1988, desde donde promovió las artes.

Obras
Su obra comprende:
 En el Lugar de los hechos (1974)
 Las cosas por su nombre (1978)
 Materia prima (1987)
 Fuego lento (1989)
 Colección de ensayos Literatura Hondureña (1987)
 La estación perdida (2002);
 Obra y Gracia (2006)
 Segunda Mano (2011)
 Lengua Adversa (2012)
 Partituras para chelo y caramba (2013)
 Irreverencias y Reverencias (2015)
 Fue coautor, junto con Roberto Armijo, de la antología Poesía contemporánea de Centroamérica, publicada en Barcelona.

Referencias

Escritores en español del siglo XX
Escritores de Honduras
Poetas de Honduras
Santabarbarenses

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Уикипедия на силезийски език () е раздел на силезийски език в Уикипедия. Проектът започва работа на 26 май 2008 година.

Статистика

Посещаемост

Силезийски език
Силезийски език
Езици в Полша
Култура на Чехия


One of the best rare quality tanking chestpieces in the game, but not the easiest to get. This only drops from Kromcrush, meaning that you must sacrifice getting a perfect tribute (and thus shutting off the possibility of getting some other very good items your groupmates may want). On top of this, Kromcrush is a very difficult boss.
If you are looking for another good rare +defense breastplate you have two alternatives.
The Ornate Adamantium Breastplate (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=15413) is obtainable by a quest series in the Eastern Plaguelands, and requires only a run into Stratholme's live section.
Skul's Cold Embrace (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=13394) is the other, and it also drops in Stratholme, off a rare boss spawn in the undead section.
Gorgeous chestpiece. Gamaschen des Ursa match this perfectly....working on the other pieces for a nice transmog set atm.


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ESCAP report highlights benefits of integrated power grid in South Asia, essential for sustainable low-carbon future
New Delhi, 5 April 2018 – A new report published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) underscores the strategic importance of fully integrating South Asia's power grid, as a key building block to achieve energy transition and fulfill climate change-related commitments in the subregion.
Released ahead of the Second Asian and Pacific Energy Forum held in Bangkok from 3 to 5 April 2018, the report examines progress made to date in integrating the power grids of South Asia and the multiple benefits that can be realized through the process, in terms of direct economic benefits, but also in helping countries prepare for a sustainable and low-carbon future.
According to sources cited in the report, Integrating South Asia's Power Grid for a Sustainable and Low Carbon Future, the benefits of full power grid interconnection could be manifold compared to the business-as-usual scenario. The role played by an interconnected power grid for South Asia in boosting renewable energy, enhancing affordability and access while lowering emissions will have a bearing on the subregion's efforts to achieve the SDGs.
With the right mix of national complementary policies, power grid connectivity will form the basis of a subregional delivery system for low-carbon energy, facilitating the transition to renewable energy, and as such become a regional public good for South Asia, the report states.
Speaking at the opening of the two-day Forum, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar acknowledged the growing recognition by Governments, the private sector and investors, that a sustainable, low-carbon energy system is the only option to "safeguard our future".
"There is a palpable sense of the enormous opportunities ahead that can transform the energy scene. The [Asian and Pacific] region's energy intensity has continued to decline but our enormous energy efficiency potential has yet to be fulfilled," said Dr. Akhtar. "Asia-Pacific's tradition and capacity to forge regional cooperation for mutual gain are well known, and our contribution will steer the global progress towards a world that uses energy sustainability".
As Chairperson of the Forum, H.E. Mr. Awais Ahmad Leghari, Federal Minister for Energy, Pakistan, recognized national policy challenges and noted that the pace of energy transition for developing countries depended largely upon the provision of "finance and technology transfer". "Managing the transition towards low-carbon and sustainable growth pathways has never been so imperative," he said.
The concept of cross-border power system connectivity has gained increasing support from the international community in the recent past, given the benefits it can offer in lowering costs, diversifying supply and tapping into renewable and low-carbon energy resources.
According to the report, South Asia offers a unique example for the application of a regional approach to electricity. It faces current electricity deficits, with a strong demand growth outlook, but also has vast unexploited generation potential.
https://www.unescap.org/resources/integrating-south-asia-s-power-grid-su...
Press release about the Second Asia-Pacific Energy Forum:
https://www.unescap.org/news/ministerial-energy-forum-adopts-declaration...
Media advisory:
https://www.unescap.org/news/second-asian-and-pacific-energy-forum-opens...
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Q: Add L2 regularization to specific embeddings in Tensorflow I am building a model like wide & deep using Tensorflow. For discrete features I first embed them into vector space and I am wondering how to add L2 normalization on embeddings.
The L2 regularization operator tf.nn.l2_loss accept the embedding tensor as input, but I only want to regularize specific embeddings whose id appear in current batch of data, not the whole matrix.

A: Just use the specific embeddings whose id appear in current batch of data to calculate regularization loss.
import tensorflow as tf

ids = sparse_tensor.values
uniq_ids, _ = tf.python.ops.array_ops.unique(ids)
embedding_index_slices = tf.gather(large_embedding_variable, uniq_ids)
regularization_loss = tf.nn.l2_loss(embedding_index_slices.values)

...

loss = train_loss + FLAGS.l2 * regularization_loss

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National / 2G Case: SC orders probe into allegations against ED officer
2G Case: SC orders probe into allegations against ED officer
1:44 PM, 27 Jun 2018
RSTV Bureau
The Supreme Court ordered probe against senior Enforcement Directorate (ED) official Rajeshwar Singh, who is probing the Aircel-Maxis deal case. Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee, appearing for the Centre, told the court that the government was willing to investigate the allegations against Singh.
A vacation bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and SK Kaul said that allegations levelled against Rajeshwar Singh, who has handled probe in high-profile cases, were serious and required to be looked into.
The plea is filed by Rajneesh Kapur, who claims to be an investigative journalist, alleging Singh has amassed assets which are disproportionate to his known source of income.
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who has filed intervening applications in the main 2G case, has also moved the top court seeking its permission to implead himself as a party in the plea filed by Kapur.
The court, while hearing the matter, said that issues related to the 2G spectrum case were "highly sensitive" and no officer investigating the matter should be "under any cloud". The bench, after perusing the documents placed before it in a sealed cover, said sensitive issues were involved in the matter.
"As a matter of fact, when there are allegations, whether right or wrong against you (Singh) it has to be looked into," the bench said, adding "the things which have come before us are startling."
"You are simply an officer. You can't be given a blanket clean chit. Everybody is accountable. You must be accountable for any action. We need to ensure that you are accountable. We don't want to damage you or comment against you. There are very serious allegations against you," the bench told the officer.
Meanwhile, Singh has also filed a separate contempt plea against Kapur and has claimed that attempts have been made to scuttle or delay the ongoing probe in the Aircel Maxis case.
(With inputs from PTI)
2G scam, 2G spectrum case, Aircel-Maxis case, apex court, ED, Enforcement Directorate, Supreme Court


Facebook is getting sued. A lot.
As WSJ detailed this morning, the slumping IPO has become exhibit A for plaintiffs lawyers looking to recoup losses experienced by clients in the most-heavily traded IPO of all time. Continue reading on WSJ's Deal Journal blog.


South Bay Coffee Company is proud to recently be awarded this year's Best of Twin Harbor's medal for coffee stands in the area. "It put us on top of the world" Stephanie says. "It just shows all of our hard work, dedication and training, everything that we put together is what our customers want and that just feels so good." After coming in second last year to one of the chain coffee stands, she says it feels great to win this year.
Stephanie and her team now want a chance to give back and show just how much their customers mean to them. So on Friday, April 27, they will host their Customer Appreciation Day to honor those who make their business thrive. "They're our life blood," she says. "Without them we cannot be there. Customers are the most important thing to us. This is a thank you to them for supporting us." There will be numerous specials, giveaways, and raffles and she says to keep an eye on their Facebook Page for updates.
Along with new weekend hours, South Bay Coffee Company also has some new fun flavors to brighten those dreary days. White Peach, Cantaloupe, Desert Pear and Sugar-Free Blue Raspberry will now join the already extensive list. Also don't forget to try their new Lotus spritzer Tie Dyed, which is similar to Red Bull, but without the crash due to its plant based ingredients. The coffee stand also now serves Thai Iced Tea along with their other great herbal tea recipes hot or iced. And before you drive off, don't forget to satisfy your hunger cravings with their delicious bagel sandwiches and stuffed pretzels, also recently added to the menu.


The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the Winter in Central America and migrates to Eastern North America for the Summer to breed. It is by far the most common hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi River in North America.
This hummingbird is from 7 to 9cm (2.8 to 3.5in) long and has an 8 to 11cm (3.1 to 4.3in) wingspan. Weight can range from 2 to 6g (0.071 to 0.212oz), with males averaging 3.4g (0.12oz) against the slightly larger female which averages 3.8g (0.13oz). Adults are metallic green above and greyish white below, with near-black wings. Their bill, at up to 2cm (0.79in), is long, straight, and very slender. As in all hummingbirds, the toes and feet of this species are quite small, with a middle toe of around 0.6cm (0.24in) and a tarsus of approximately 0.4cm (0.16in). The ruby-throated hummingbird can only shuffle if it wants to move along a branch, though it can scratch its head and neck with its feet.
The species is sexually dimorphic. The adult male has a gorget (throat patch) of iridescent ruby red bordered narrowly with velvety black on the upper margin and a forked black tail with a faint violet sheen. The red iridescence is highly directional and appears dull black from many angles. The female has a notched tail with outer feathers banded in green, black, and white and a white throat that may be plain or lightly marked with dusky streaks or stipples. Males are smaller than females and have slightly shorter bills. Juvenile males resemble adult females, though usually with heavier throat markings. The plumage is molted once a year, beginning in late summer.
The breeding habitat is throughout most of eastern North America and the Canadian prairies, in deciduous and pine forests and forest edges, orchards, and gardens. The female builds a nest in a protected location in a shrub or a tree. Of all hummingbirds in the United States, this species has the largest breeding range.
The ruby-throated hummingbird is migratory, spending most of the winter in southern Mexico and Central America, as far south as extreme western Panama, the West Indies, and southern Florida. During migration, some birds embark on a nonstop 900 mile journey across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean from Panama to Gulf Coast. The bird breeds throughout the eastern United States, east of the 100th meridian, and in southern Canada, particularly Ontario, in eastern and mixed deciduous and broadleaved forest. In winter, it is seen mostly in Mexico and southern Florida.
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are solitary. Adults of this species are not social, other than during courtship (which lasts a few minutes); the female also cares for her offspring. Both males and females of any age are aggressive toward other hummingbirds. They may defend territories, such as a feeding territory, attacking and chasing other hummingbirds that enter.
As part of their spring migration, portions of the population fly from the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico across the Gulf of Mexico, arriving first in Florida and Louisiana. This feat is impressive, as a 800km (500mi), non-stop flight over water would seemingly require a caloric energy that far exceeds an adult hummingbird's body weight of 3g (0.11oz). However, researchers discovered the tiny birds can double their fat mass by approximately one gram in preparation for their Gulf crossing, then expend the entire calorie reserve from fat during the 20-hour non-stop crossing when food and water are unavailable.
Hummingbirds have one of the highest metabolic rates of any animal, with heart rates up to 1260 beats per minute, breathing rate of about 250 breaths per minute even at rest, and oxygen consumption of about 4 ml oxygen/g/hour at rest. During flight, hummingbird oxygen consumption per gram of muscle tissue is approximately 10 times higher than that seen for elite human athletes.
They feed frequently while active during the day. When temperatures drop, particularly on cold nights, they may conserve energy by entering hypothermic torpor.
Hummingbirds have many skeletal and flight muscle adaptations which allow great agility in flight. Muscles make up 25-30% of their body weight, and they have long, blade-like wings that, unlike the wings of other birds, connect to the body only from the shoulder joint. This adaptation allows the wing to rotate almost 180, enabling the bird to fly not only forward but backward, and to hover in mid-air, flight capabilities that are similar to insects and unique among birds. Hummingbird hovering has been estimated to be 20% more efficient than performed by a helicopter drone.
Analysis of the main wing bone, the humerus, is thought to be specifically adapted for hovering flight. Hummingbirds have a relatively short humerus with proportionally massive deltoid-pectoral muscles which permit pronounced wing supination during upstroke when hovering.
A hummingbird's ability to hover is due to its small mass, high wingbeat frequency and relatively large margin of mass-specific power available for flight. Several anatomical features contribute further, including proportionally massive major flight muscles (pectoralis major and supracoracoideus) and wing anatomy that enables the bird to leave its wings extended yet turned over (supine) during the upstroke. This generates lift that supports body weight and maneuvering.
Hummingbirds achieve ability to support their weight and hover from wing beats creating lift on the downstroke of a wing flap and also on the upstroke in a ratio of 75%:25%, respectively, similarly to an insect. Hummingbirds and insects gain lift during hovering partially through inversion of their cambered wings during an upstroke. During hovering, hummingbird wings beat up to 80 times per second.
Nectar from flowers and flowering trees, as well as small insects and spiders, are its main food. Although hummingbirds are well known to feed on nectar, small arthropods are an important source part of protein, minerals, and vitamins in the diet of adult hummingbirds. Hummingbirds show a slight preference for red, orange, and bright pink tubular flowers as nectar sources, though flowers not adapted to hummingbird pollination (e.g., willow catkins) are also visited. Their diet may also occasionally include sugar-rich tree sap taken from sapsucker wells. The birds feed from flowers using a long, extendable tongue and catch insects on the wing or glean them from flowers, leaves, bark, and spiders' webs.
As typical for their family, ruby-throated hummingbirds are thought to be polygynous. Polyandry and polygynandry may also occur. They do not form breeding pairs, with males departing immediately after the reproductive act and females providing all parental care.
Males arrive at the breeding area in the spring and establish a territory before the females arrive. When the females return, males court females that enter their territory by performing courtship displays. They perform a "dive display" rising 2.45-3.1m (8.0-10.2ft) above and 1.52-1.82m (5.0-6.0ft) to each side of the female. If the female perches, the male begins flying in very rapid horizontal arcs less than 0.5m (1.6ft) in front of her. If the female is receptive to the male, she may give a call and assume a solicitous posture with her tail feathers cocked and her wings drooped.
The nest is usually constructed on a small, downward-sloping tree limb 3.1 to 12.2m (10 to 40ft) feet above the ground. Favored trees are usually deciduous, such as oak, hornbeam, birch, poplar or hackberry, although pines have also been used. Nests have even been found on loops of chain, wire, and extension cords. The nest is composed of bud scales, with lichen on the exterior, bound with spider's silk, and lined with fibers such as plant down (often dandelion or thistle down) and animal hair. Most nests are well camouflaged. Old nests may be occupied for several seasons, but are repaired annually. As in all known hummingbird species, the female alone constructs the nest and cares for the eggs and young.
Females lay two (with a range of 1 to 3) white eggs about 12.9mm 8.5mm (0.51in 0.33in) in size and produce one to two broods each summer. They brood the chicks over a period of 12 to 14 days, by which point they are feathered and homeothermic. The female feeds the chicks from 1 to 3 times every hour by regurgitation, usually while the female continues hovering. When they are 18 to 22 days old, the young leave the nest and make their first flight.
The oldest known ruby-throated hummingbird to be banded was 9 years and 1 month of age. Almost all hummingbirds of 7 years or more in age are females, with males rarely surviving past 5 years of age. Reasons for higher mortality in males may include loss of weight during the breeding season due to the high energetic demands of defending a territory followed by energetically costly migration.
A variety of animals prey on hummingbirds given the opportunity. Due to their small size, hummingbirds are vulnerable even to passerine birds and other animals which generally feed on insects. On the other hand, only very swift predators can capture them and a free-flying adult hummingbird is too nimble for most predators. Chief among their predators are the smaller, swifter raptors like sharp-shinned hawks, merlins, American kestrels and Mississippi kites as well as domestic cats, loggerhead shrikes and even greater roadrunners, all of which are likely to ambush the hummingbird while it sits or sleeps on a perch or are distracted by breeding activities. Predatory lizards and bird-eating snakes may also prey on the species, especially on its tropical wintering grounds. Even large, predacious invertebrates have preyed on ruby-throated hummingbirds, including praying mantises (which have been seen to ambush adult hummingbirds at hummingbird feeders on more than one occasion), orb-weaver spiders, and green Darners. Blue jays are common predators of nests, as are several other corvids in addition to some icterids, bats, squirrels and chipmunks.
The vocalizations of ruby-throated hummingbirds are rapid, squeaky chirps, which are used primarily for threats. For example, males may vocalize to warn another male that has entered his territory.
During the courtship displays, the male makes a rapid tik-tik tik-tik tik-tik sound, apparently with his wings. The sound is produced both during the shuttle display, at each end of the side-to-side flight. Also, the sound is made during dive displays. A second, rather faint, repeated whining sound is sometimes produced with the outer tail-feathers during the dive, as the male flies over the female, spreading and shutting the tail as he does so.
More inforamtion about Ruby-throated Hummingbird Facts and Photos.


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Geelvinck Muziek Museum Zutphen
Music Museum forced to leave
The Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen closed its doors for the public on November 4th 2019.
Press Release Zutphen, 4 nov. 2019
The Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen closed its doors for the public on November 4th 2019. Already hindered by the unwilling attitude of the current Municipal Executive, Museum Geelvinck has been unable to reach agreement on the initially intended continuation of its Music Museum in Zutphen. In 2017, the municipality had provided the historic building 'De Wildeman' as a fitting venue for the Music Museum. A structural moisture problem, which, on closer inspection, turned out to have a dramatic scale, was ultimately the last blow. Museum Geelvinck will continue its activities for the preservation of living musical heritage elsewhere.
A Dutch 'Beethoven House' in Zutphen
In 2017, the new Music Museum Zutphen was warmly welcomed by the previous Municipal Executive. It offered a unique opportunity for the city to profile itself with Ludwig van Beethoven. In the 19th century, it was assumed that this icon of classical music was born in Zutphen. Museum Geelvinck, which keeps the largest Dutch collection of 18th and 19th century pianos, considered it a challenge to develop to this theme. Within two years, the Music Museum Zutphen managed to become a music institution of international standing. 'De Wildeman' functions as a museum already for over half a century, previously as an art museum. The Music Museum was a suitable addition to the cultural scene of the region, in line with the current government policy.
Unreliable municipal policy
However, the new Municipal Executive, which took office after the municipal elections in 2018, set different priorities and in no way demonstrated its commitment to the spirit of the agreement to continue the Music Museum in 'De Wildeman', as was signed with its predecessor in 2017. It had no ear for the cost-saving solutions, that Museum Geelvinck came up with for the much-needed restoration and sustainability measures for this listed national monument. Furthermore, the municipality intended to pocket for its own use the government subsidy, which on the initiative of the museum recently was allocated to eliminate the considerable maintenance backlog of 'De Wildeman'. Moreover, the municipality wanted Museum Geelvinck to take on all the risks of the extensive restoration of the building. Specialist research, funded by the museum itself, showed at the eleventh hour, that 'De Wildeman' is afflicted by a structural moisture problem of a dramatic size. With this additional setback, the financial risk for Museum Geelvinck became unacceptably high. The Music Museum Zutphen closed to the public on November 4th, 2019. The closure is most unfortunate for the staff and the learning-workplace, which is now being canceled. It is also a major damper for all involved, who, in the past years, have passionately worked to make the Music Museum Zutphen a success. It is indeed a loss for musical heritage preservation in general and, more in particular, for the young generation of engaged professional performers working in the field of early keyboard in the Netherlands.
Museum Geelvinck gives living musical heritage a future
Museum Geelvinck manages its extensive collection of pianos from the 18th and 19th centuries in Amsterdam and at various historical locations throughout the country. With exhibitions and concerts in historic house museums, castles and country estates, Museum Geelvinck strives to keep this 'semi-mobile' sounding heritage alive; for instance: in the Luther Museum in Amsterdam and in the Historic House Museum Oud Amelisweerd near Utrecht. The instruments are used for educational purposes (master fortepiano) in collaboration with the Conservatory of Amsterdam and vocational training for piano technicians. The Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival 'Early Piano' is the world's largest dedicated to performances on the historic fortepiano. The associated scientific symposium enjoys international recognition. Although most of the historic pianos will now be stored away from the public eye and ear, Museum Geelvinck expects to be able to continue its core efforts, albeit on a smaller scale, as a digitalized network museum. It aims at being the national institution for historic pianos and an international hub for scientific research, as well as music performance, dedicated to period pianos and related 'semi-mobile' keyboard instruments.
Jurn Buisman (gen. director):
Phone: +31.578691621 / +31.206390747 / +31.654794606 (cell Dunya Verwey)
Museum Geelvinck
Kamperweg 23
8181CS Heerde
www.geelvinck.nl
p/a Kamperweg 23
FORCED TO LEAVE ZUTPHEN
In 2019 the Music Museum was forced to leave Zutphen. More background information is available in the press release.
Copyright © 2021 · Geelvinck Museum


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Football specialist James O'Rourke (@JamesOR1) provides us with an in-depth betting preview of the 2019/20 Premier League season with a focus on the outright, relegation, top goalscorer markets, as well as general best bets for the campaign.
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Based on the outright odds, it once again looks like being another two-horse race at the top of the Premier League. Manchester City are an odds-on shot to secure a third title in succession, whilst Liverpool once again go in search of the gong having only fell a point short last season. Norwich City, Sheffield United and Aston Villa are all back in the big time looking to make their presence felt. Graham Potter, Frank Lampard and Steve Bruce are all in new jobs at Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea and Newcastle United respectively. The new campaign is not too far away now and we've got every base covered here at The Punters Page.
Another Two-way Battle At The Top?
As touched upon already, it would appear that Man City and Liverpool will fight it out until the very end of May to secure the latest Premier League number one position after 38 games. From an antepost perspective, there's little appeal in 4/6 over Man City. There's every chance that price could rise mid-season after a bad result or two, or should a rival pull a few points clear like last season. Liverpool are around the 5/2 mark, which is fair as for all they got the plaudits, they still ultimately fell short to Pep Guardiola's men. Jurgen Klopp hasn't exactly gone big so far in the transfer market either. Pep on the flip side has splashed out over £60million on Atletico playmaker Rodrí, who is very much a Busquets 2.0. He'll get them points next season. Whilst we'd never doubt Klopp at all, you just wonder if he has maybe missed a trick in not boosting his squad. Then again, the Anfield club are likely to give everything to the league season after falling so short last time and winning the UEFA Champions League. This should be a good battle, but for this market your best bet is to wait for periods in the season. There are of course other clubs in the mix, such as Tottenham, Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal, who are all big odds. Spurs could be interesting, whilst Lampard might need a settling in period in the Stamford Bridge dugout given he's not been able to utilise the transfer market. Man Utd and Arsenal really need to step up to get involved. The Premier League title market is one which doesn't appeal, unless you can 'spot a Leicester' somewhere in the mix!
Tips To Struggle?
Naturally, the three promoted clubs are always around the subject of potential teams to be relegated from the Premier League. Aston Villa have spent big to make sure they're not part of the equation. That is a lot of new faces to integrate into proceedings, but you'd like to think they'd have enough. Norwich have a young and exciting squad, and you just wonder if that could work against them. They're likely to win plenty of friends and they certainly impressed in the Championship, but they too have questions to answer. As do Sheffield United, and Chris Wilder has elected to keep faith with the team that got them to this position. He deserves big plaudits for that, with Slavisa Jokanovic from last season at Fulham a big exactly for going against that approach. Burnley, Brighton and Newcastle are the other notable short odds for this market, with there being a bit of a gap to the rest. That again presents a lack of value in this particular field. I wonder if Crystal Palace could be worthy of consideration at 6/1 in one place. They've lost Aaron Wan-Bissaka, plus Wilfried Zaha has made his feelings clear that he'd like to move on. It could be a case of wait and see with that one. Watford at 6/1 is another as for all they had a good year last season, they've finished in the bottom half for four seasons running. You just wonder if they'll suffer a bit of a second season bounce after doing well last year in making the FA Cup Final. Again, I'm not overly keen on this market because of the prices.
Value Around In The Top Scorer Market
Over the last eleven seasons in the Premier League, only on three occasions has to top scorer broke the 30-goal barrier. The talk of a '30 goal a season striker' therefore is perhaps something more in the past, especially with squads becoming stronger overall, rotation playing a bigger part, meaning other players are chipping in to spread the goal load. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Sadio Mané and Mo Salah shared the gong from last season with 22 each. Once again, they'll likely be part of the equation this time around. Things like injuries can never be accounted for, but the schedule can and you just wonder which clubs will rely on their strikers as much as some. Harry Kane is the favourite on the basis of him likely starting almost every game. He got 17 last year, when injury cut his involvement, whilst he reached 30 the year before when injury-free. He won the top scorer prize in 2015/16 and 2016/17. There are each way markets in this sphere however, which could be to our advantage. A 100/1 shot has placed in this market in 11 of the last 17 Premier League seasons. A 50/1 has placed in 14 of the last 17 seasons, too. Mane was 80/1 last season for example. Many are suggesting those that take penalties could be in for a good time with VAR now involved in the Premier League. After its showing in the summer tournaments, you wonder how many spot kicks we could see per match! Luka Milivojevic is one notable mention, and you can get 250/1 on him with Sky Bet! However, it is another current Palace player which tickles me fancy at 100/1, and that is Wilfried Zaha. This was initially on the basis of him likely moving to Arsenal, but a possible switch to Everton remains a possibility… I'm happy to have a small play on him. His goal contribution has increased in each of the last four seasons and even in Everton's setup he could be perfectly suited. This is a big if however, in terms of if a move to Goodison or the Emirates materialises. Then again, even if he remained at Palace, he'll still want to perform to a level which would keep some of the bigger clubs interested. He'd be getting regular football in a side which has lacked an out-and-out goalscorer up front, so there is a void to be filled in terms of getting among the goals.
One bet I do like the look of the 13/2 on offer from Sky Bet for the top three to be positioned exactly as Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham. The top two look pretty secure, but picking which way around is up for debate. Again, I pip City again on the basis of them adding Rodrí, who is a bit of a game changer for them. Spurs have made the top three in three of the last four seasons, only missing out last season when their UEFA Champions League run began to take centre stage. Spurs have added Tanguy Ndombele to their roster to fill a necessary void and that will only aid their cause. Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal have plenty of questions to answer.
Finally, the PFA Young Player of the Year Award is something which caught my attention when seeing the prices. Only the likes of Trent-Alexander Arnold, Marcus Rashford, Leroy Sane and Dele Alli can you get single-priced odds across the board, so there's plenty of value to be had. Much has been said of the fact that Chelsea cannot utilise the transfer market, and Lampard is likely to look towards his plethora of young talents. To me, this can only be a good thing in relation to this market. With youngsters likely to be getting more game time, it will get them in the public eye and we can really see how good these guys are at the top level. There's plenty of notable candidates from many other clubs, but if a youngster can really make a mark at Chelsea, who will challenge near the top regardless, then it could only be good for their cause. Callum Hudson-Odoi ticks all the boxes as far as I'm concerned. A move to Bayern Munich now looks off the table, but that just highlights how regarded he is across the game. Lampard wants to work with him and you can see him having a big role to play, especially with Eden Hazard now in Madrid. Christian Pulisic could be another contender, but Hudson-Odoi proved in flashes last season that he can make an impression in this league, and at international level. 20/1 with Sky Bet is a great price.
Recommended Bets
Man City, Liverpool, Tottenham (Top Three Exact Order) – 13/2 (Sky Bet)
Wilfried Zaha Premier League Top Scorer (e/w) – 100/1 (Betfair)
Callum Hudson-Odoi PFA Young Player of the Year – 20/1 (Sky Bet)
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Catherine Liggett's race took off last fall and we can hope for more of the same for her this fall, but can Legend make a run at a regional title? Colorado Track XC file photo by Paul Jaeger.


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Blackburn boss Henning Berg is still waiting for his first win in charge of the club after his side were held to a draw by Birmingham at Ewood Park.
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Tottenham moved back into fourth place in the Premier League as they beat a poor Blackburn side whose relegation fears increased with the defeat.
Junior Hoilett's superb strike helped Blackburn improve their hopes of Premier League survival by beating Norwich.
Blackburn's survival hopes took a massive nosedive with a comprehensive defeat at the hands of classy Swansea.
Blackburn remain in the bottom three after Andy Carroll's late header sees 10-man Liverpool claim a dramatic 3-2 victory.
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Home Books Australian History Silences and Secrets
Silences and Secrets
The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators
Kay Dreyfus
'The Weintraubs case becomes a prism through which Dreyfus examines the whole socio-historical context in which the destruction of the band occurred … as the nation entered the intensely anxious beginnings of World War II.' Colin Nettlebeck, Australian Book Review
'Fascinating … A remarkable story.' Peter Pinne, Stage Whispers
'… the story is engrossing and the human interest quotient high…' Phil Shannon, Australian Left Book Review
The Weintraubs Syncopators, international musical celebrities of the 1930s, embarked on a four-year journey across Europe, Russia and the Far East in exile from the antisemitic ideologies of the German Third Reich. This band of mainly Jewish musicians arrived in Sydney, Australia, in 1937. The decision of some of them to stay brought them into conflict with the aggressively protectionist Musicians' Union of Australia. They gained employment at a high-end Sydney nightclub but when war came, were forced to come to terms with a change in their status – from celebrities to enemy aliens. Denounced for alleged espionage activities in Russia, three were interned and the band broke up.
In this major recounting of the experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators, Kay Dreyfus pieces together the complex personal, social and political forces at work in this story of migration at a time of insecurity, fear and dramatic conflict.
Kay Dreyfus is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of History (SOPHIS), Monash University. Her background is in musicology and history and she holds doctorates in both areas. As curator of the Grainger Museum (Melbourne), she edited The Farthest North of Humanness, Letters of Percy Grainger 1901–1914 (1985). She is particularly interested in everyday musical experience in Australia, and her publications include Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of Australia's All-Girl Bands and Orchestras to the End of the Second World War (1999) and a biography of the Australian violinist Alma Moodie (Die Geige War ihr Leben: Drei Frauen im Portrait, 2000).
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Cancer Biology: Bye, bye, baby... Too much radiation for our children?
Bye, bye, baby... Too much radiation for our children?
Full body X-ray, or "babygram"
The other day, I was perusing the Health section of the New York Times and a small box in the corner of one article caught my eye. It was a link to a series called Radiation Boom, which showcases a number of articles that examine "issues arising from the increasing use of medical radiation and the new technologies that deliver it." Since my project involves some examination of the later health problems that arise related to types of cancer treatment, with radiation being one, I thought this might be an interesting series to take a look at.
Looking at a handful of these article titles is enough to make you stay away from x-ray machines for life. Radiation Worries for Children in Dentists' Chairs, After Stroke Scans, Patients Face Serious Health Risks, Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm—you don't even have to read the article to be persuaded by the overwhelmingly negative tone among the titles that suggest radiation is bad, bad, bad. I decided to take a closer look at the most recent article, X-Rays and Unshielded Infants Raise Alarms.
According to this article, children are being unnecessarily irradiated due to disregard to both proper protocol and common sense. Considering the health risk radiation poses, there are simple standards that trained technicians are obligated to uphold in order to protect both themselves and their patients. It seems that care for the latter—particularly in the cases of babies—has come under scrutiny more recently as a SUNY Medical Center in Brooklyn was discovered to have been performing "babygrams"—the moniker given to whole body X-rays performed on infants.
Whole body scans? You aren't the only one justly concerned by this statement. "This poor, defenseless baby," said Dr. Sclafani, a SUNY radiology department chair, upon hearing of one infant enduring ten full X-rays. "Full, unabashed, total irradiation of a neonate," he described it . Alarmingly, another doctor at the same hospital found that this baby's situation was not all that unusual either,s and that "that full-body X-rays of premature babies had occurred often, that radiation levels on powerful CT scanners had been set too high for infants, [and] that babies had been poorly positioned" .
When I first read this, it was easy to get worked up by the fact that this was occurring in hospitals. But then I thought, "Well, maybe I am overreacting"—if it has happened more than once and these technicians performing the procedure are properly trained and aren't worried themselves, maybe it really is not as bad as we thought. Wrong. Here's what else I found after a little more research.
In a study done in 1999 (admittedly, dated), Professor John W. Gofman at UC Berkeley attributed a significant number of cancer and heart disease deaths from previous medical radiation. I would have to do a little more digging to see if 50% of cancer deaths and 60% of deaths from heart disease are actually attributed to the accumulation radiation as this study claims (which I find doubtful, though, very alarming if it could be verified), but other studies have at least confirmed these speculations in general . A five-year study featured in ScienceDaily in 2005 found that even a small amount (zero to 100 milliSieverts—please, don't ask me to try to explain what those units mean) of radiation can increase cancer risk; "There appears to be no threshold below which exposure can be viewed as harmless," says Herbert L. Abrahams, a radiology professor at Harvard and Stanford . More importantly, though, the study also found that radiation in the first year of life for males increases one's cancer risk three to four times than a similar dose given as an adult. Female infants' risk was double that of males.
That sounds like a pretty convincing excuse for why infants in particular should stay off the X-ray table. Age seems to be such an important variable to consider because of the rapid growth we undergo as children; logically, it makes sense that with a greater number of cell divisions occurring, there is similarly a higher risk for something to become mutated because of radiation. I believe this risk can only be generalized to "the more radiation a patient receives, the greater the chances of developing cancer" as the article suggests is possible if all parameters are considered. If age is a strong factor example, could it even trump dosage? If the effects of five radiological events before age 18 is greater than five radiological events after age 25, it doesn't seem that far-fetched that the five exposures before 18 may still be even greater than 7 or 8 exposures over age 25. That would be an interesting study to propose. There is an overall consensus that the effects seem to be cummulative, yet the patterning of when the events occurred in one's life seems to have great significance, as well .
And, yet, the youngest of our patients are increasingly facing a greater number of X-rays; one source even says the average child will have had more than seven by age eighteen (unfortunately, the article doesn't cite what study this came from, so we can't determine how legitimate this claim is). So, again, why is this happening?
On one level, it is simply because it has radiation has increasingly become a great way to detect medical problems and trauma. But it goes beyond the science alone and often comes down to the technician's competence and human error. Whether it is being afraid of hurting fragile bones, sheer laziness at shielding sensitive parts of the body (like genitalia and breast tissue), or being in a hurry to see multiple patients, improper X-raying procedures can expose the infant to high levels of radiation directly, in radiation quantity, and indirectly, by producing a poor X-ray that might then require a retake. This is one reason why so many people argue there needs to be a greater emphasis on training X-ray technicians. Some are even lobbying Congress to pass the CARE bill which would establish national education requirements for positions that perform X-rays on patients, since currently it is decided on a state-by-state basis, meaning it is unregulated in some states (as radiation therapists apparently are in 15 states) . The bill would require everyone to obtain a certain level of certification and follow up with continuing education requirements.
What do you think the next step should be in controlling radiation procedures and implementing standard precautions? Could there be negative ramifications of such a bill? I, personally, don't see any. To me, taking precautions does no harm. Even if we didn't have the aforementioned evidence, wouldn't the chance to save people down the line outweigh the costs of the time it took to enforce those precautions?
 Bogdanich, Walt and Kristina Rebelo. "X-Rays and Unshielded Infants." The New York Times, 27 Feb 2011. 27 Apr 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/health/28radiation.html?_r=2>.
 Sanders, Robert. "Radiation expert warns of danger form overuse of medical X-rays, claiming they're responsible for many cancer and heart disease deaths." Public Affairs, (510) 642-3734. 16 Nov 1999. UC Berkeley. 27 Apr 2011. <http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/11-16-1999b.html>.
 Stanford University. "Even Low Exposure To X-rays, Gamma Rays Increases Cancer Risk, Study Finds." ScienceDaily, 27 Oct. 2005. 27 Apr. 2011. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051027090539.htm>.


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Smith, Governor Involved in Stalled Negotiations
NM Senate Finance Committee Chair John Arthur Smith
NM Governor Susana Martinez
(Deming) — Negotiations have failed again and Gov. Susana Martinez announced she has no plans to call a special session to consider more than $260 million in funding for public works projects.
Martinez spokesman Chris Sanchez said the governor met twice Thursday with Senate Finance Committee chair John Arthur Smith of Deming in an attempt to forge a compromise.
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats have renewed their call for a special session.
Smith said Senate Democrats have compromised and offered to
meet Gov. Martinez half-way on how to pay for road and highway improvements – the issue that created an impasse earlier this year.
He said Senate Democrats are looking forward to a special session of the Legislature to pass a needed capital outlay funding bill – what he called the important unfinished work of the 2015 Legislature.
Smith said the projects contained in the legislation are critical to create jobs that are needed in every part of the state.
But, he added, time is running out.
Smith said the governor must act immediately to call lawmakers into a special session if they are going to restore funding for critical construction projects at senior centers, higher education institutions and tribal communities across the state.
Lawmakers failed to agree on the capital outlay projects during the regular session.
The Senate passed one version of a bill, but the Republican-controlled House amended it, shifting millions of dollars from projects to roads.
Another sticking point has been a package of proposed tax breaks supported by the governor.
Smith said they studied the governor's tax package, and are disappointed that it does not help ordinary New Mexicans, working men and women, and small businesses. He said they should be on top of the list of beneficiaries for any type of tax relief.


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Statkraft donates NOK 1 million to Red Cross Norway's relief work in the Philippines
Volunteers and staff working with food items at Philippine Red Cross HQ. Photo: Jarkko Mikkonen/Finnish Red Cross
(Oslo, November 12, 2013) Statkraft donates NOK 1 million to relief work after the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The money will be canalized through Red Cross Norway in which Statkraft already has a cooperation agreement with. Statkraft has operations in several Asian countries, including the Philippines through its subsidiary SN Power.
– We wish to express our sympathy with the people of the Philippines who have been hit hard. The humanitarian crisis and the enormous devastation make a strong impres-sion. We hope this could contribute to the very demanding relief efforts after the violent typhoon, says Communications director Bente E. Engesland.
Health workers, water- and sanitation equipment
The Norwegian Red Cross will initially assist with two mobile health clinics and 11 del-egates, in addition to water and sanitation equipment and personnel to ensure clean water. Money the Red Cross gets from donors also goes to blankets, food, jerry cans, mosquito nets and first aid equipment.
Thanks to the local presence of the Philippines Red Cross, the Red Cross is now present in all areas of the country and therefore do not fly in all rescue personnel, only experts.
SN Power assists locally
SN Power (partly owned Statkraft 60%, 40% Norfund) owns and operates Binga, Magat and Ambuklao hydropower plants north of Manila in a joint venture with its partner in the Philippines.
SN Power assists directly in relief efforts in the Philippines through local organizations such as the Red Cross. The company has already donated money and equipment locally.
Statkraft is Europe's leader in renewable energy. The group develops and generates hydropower, wind power, gas power and district heating, and is a major player on the European energy exchanges. Statkraft has 3 600 employees in more than 20 countries.
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Open Forum: Tom DeLay, Agent of Satan?
Tom DeLay, perhaps the most corrupt politician to walk the halls of Congress in a quarter-century, recently told his pastors that he is the Antichrist — or something similar to that. But could the Antichrist possibly be so pathetic, and could the religious right follow an antichrist so gullibly?
From The Washington Post, April 9.
The supposed pro-family advocate, who as of 2001 was estranged from his own mother and extended family, vows to put government bureaucrats in charge of the Bible, family values, and personal morality.
The Family Research Council on April 5 applauded DeLay's ongoing leadership of religious conservatives.
Maybe they really are that gullible.
No, they are really just that mendacious and cynical.
Leadership? An analogy about the pied piper comes to mind… Oh yes, that's perfect… let the fox guard the henhouse. And while we're at it, let's appoint executives of liquor companies to safeguard against alcoholism, lobbyists for cigarette companies to help keep children from smoking, and…. well, you get my drift. Be afraid people, be very VERY afraid!


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A customer was looking to link two building together that were 100's of metres apart. The first thing to consider was the technology to use for the communications – Copper wire would work, but over those distances the loss of speed (effectively) would be to the detriment to the operation. WiFi was also considered but owing to the topology of the surrounding land and buildings we opted to use a physical dedicated optical fibre connection.
As part of the connection between building we also decided to upgrade their current 10/100 switching network with Gigabit. This would have a marked increase in communications between their local PC's and the Server, ultimately giving a better experience to the users and in many ways improving productivity.
What we needed to do is upgrade the data switches so that they had interfaces for fibre, so we found switches that has the SFP Transceiver interfaces, and that would allow us to interface to the most appropriate physical fibre solution. We also wanted to ensure that some of the kit could provide Power over Ethernet (POE) as we looked to connect various Access Points (AP's) and VoIP Phone without additional Power supplies.
The aim was to find kit that was of reasonable quality, as it was a small business, but not high end corporate kit, that would break most budgets.