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Mercedes' new tech feature helps with keeping your big Benz clean.
In addition to the 900,000 other things I do as Roadshow's managing editor, I'm the guy responsible for our fleet of test cars. I'm a stickler for ensuring our testers stay shiny and clean, so it seems that a new bit of tech in the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class will be right up my alley.
It's called car wash mode, and it does a number of things to get the 2020 GLS ready for a bath. Once activated, the SUV's suspension automatically raises to its highest position, making sure water and soap can get into all those nooks and crannies. In addition, car wash mode folds in the mirrors, makes sure the windows and sunroof are closed, temporarily disables the rain-sensing wipers (I cannot tell you how many times I've entered a car wash with these on), turns the climate control into its recirculating setting and activates the 360-degree camera, in case you need a better view of where you are as you head into the wash.
When you're all done, just drive out of the car wash. As soon as the GLS hits 12 miles per hour, it'll automatically put your car back the way it was.
There isn't a car wash mode hard button on the dashboard or center console, however. A Mercedes spokesperson told me it's built into the MBUX infotainment system, in the "quick access" screen of the vehicle settings menu. You can also activate this via voice command: "Hey Mercedes, enter car wash mode."
The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class debuts at the New York Auto Show this week, and will hit dealerships later this year. Car wash mode comes standard on every new GLS, so my fellow Roadshow staffers have no excuse for handing one of these test cars back in anything less than pristine condition.


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Internet and Power
How much power does the Internet have? How much is the Net capable of influencing or determining behaviors? And who has power online? What does "power" mean on the Internet? Who has it and due to which factors?
It is time to consider these questions, also to avoid leaving them to a handful of governments – as it will happen during the next G8 meeting, led by President Sarkozy and devoted to Internet governance issues – or solely to Internet experts. The above questions, in fact, touch fundamental aspects of our democracies, such as consensus forming, transparency of the State, freedom of expression, the future of political parties and much more.
Regarding the power of the Net as a communications infrastructure it is enough to say that no developed country can afford to switch off the Net without paying an unbearably high price. The economy, the public administration, even the Army depend on the Internet. It is, therefore, rather a matter of the degree of actual online freedom, as in China and in other authoritarian regimes, not anymore whether to have the Net or not.
The power of the Internet is rapidly growing also in the sense of its capacity to influence or determine behaviors. A capacity based on the great ease with which the Net enables real-time one-to-one communication (email, chat, voice over IP), one-to-many (blog, social networks) and many-to-many (the tangle of social connections). A "big bang" that it is changing both the informational diet of citizens and the way they communicate among each other and organize themselves. Making mobilizations particularly easy, as proved by the Obama 2008 campaign, by the Tea Party movement and by the recent insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere. It is a wave of change that has been moving more quickly in countries who tend to naturally like what is new, such as the United States (Harold Bloom eloquently wrote of America's "neoism"). But the wave is reaching everywhere, also countries relatively poor - but young and increasingly well-educated - such as those of Northern Africa and of the Middle East.
It is, therefore, important to understand who has power on the Internet, also because, as the power of the Net increases, so are the forces that are trying to redraw the power-lines.
Does the power belong to the builders of our computers or to the owners of the software that makes them work? Or does it belong to the masters of the cables (both physical and ethereal ones), who sell us Internet access and who are in the position of potentially monitoring all our traffic? How much power belongs to those entities who make us find what we are looking for, i.e., the search engines ? And how much to those who have the deep pockets to create the most popular websites and to ensure smooth transport of their streams? Or does online power rest mostly with the owners of the large blog-, picture- and video-sharing platforms? Or with the owners of the largest social networks?
And, crucially, who has potentially power on some - or all - of the above actors?
All these questions call for specific answers, often complementary with each other and at times not obvious to articulate. What is certain is that online freedom – defined as leaving as much power as possible in the hands of individuals – requires that a layer of freedom is preserved at all levels, from actual control of our computers (both hardware and software) and actual control of our data and content, to the ability of communicating online secretly and without being discriminated.
Such layer of freedom can be at least partly preserved by user-level actions, such as using privacy software to communicate and to navigate.
But legislative action remains indispensable. At a constitutional level, it is necessary to enshrine Internet access as a fundamental right, as proposed by prof. Stefano Rodotà and as repeatedly requested by Tim Berners-Lee. At a regular legislative level, a series of laws ensuring the key components of Internet freedom, from network neutrality to digital inclusion, needs to be adopted to give substance to the above mentioned constitutional principle.
If we will succeed in applying democratic principles to the Net, avoiding in particular big concentrations of power, the Net may in turn help our, often frail (not only in Italy), democracies to make them more substantial. In particular, the Net could help filling the void between electoral events, by articulating the permanent dialogue between elected and electors that, besides the debates in Parliament, should be one of the pillars of all representative democracies. Dialogue that is urgently needed and that cannot be replaced neither by polls nor by the often shameful shouting offered by politicians on television. It is a kind of dialogue – to be sure – that it is already taking place online every day, involving an increasing number of representatives and thousands of citizens. But it is still just fragments, flashes of what could be and still is not. We must try to build on those fragments to give them shape and weight. In that sense, to discuss of power and the Internet coincides with discussing of an important component of the future of democracy.

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Is the COVID Vaccine OK for Catholics?
December 14, 2020 January 25, 2022 Posted inFlorida/USA/World News
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement on the new COVID-19 vaccines. Do these new vaccines align or conflict with the Church's teaching on life? Were they developed using aborted fetal cells? It's a complicated issue but this statement provides guidance for the faithful. The statement in part reads:
"The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith affirms that a serious health danger could justify use of "a vaccine which was developed using cell lines of illicit origin, while keeping in mind that everyone has the duty to make known their disagreement and to ask that their healthcare system make other types of vaccines available."
Read the full text here https://www.usccb.org/moral-considerations-covid-vaccines.
Update on January 6, 2021
The USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat has developed a new COVID-19 vaccine educational resource: "Answers to Key Ethical Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines". The purpose of this document is to provide concise answers to the most frequently asked ethical questions about COVID-19 vaccines and to provide additional resources for further study. There is also a webpage dedicated to providing "Moral Guidance on Vaccines".
Update on August 27, 2021
Respect of Both Common Good and Conscience The National Catholic Bioethics Center recalled that its guidance on vaccination against the coronavirus is drawn from the full range of Church teaching on the common good, conscience, and charity. Click here to read more.


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New Waterloo, the Austin-based integrated hospitality management and development company, recently completed a full redesign of both Hotel Ella and its restaurant Goodall's Kitchen. Goodall's Kitchen reopens this week with a dining room fully renovated by Waterloo Workshop, New Waterloo's in-house creative department.
Goodall's Kitchen features classic American bistro fare and handcrafted cocktails that can be enjoyed in the restaurant's relaxed bistro-style atmosphere or on the idyllic veranda overlooking the Hotel Ella front lawn. The renovated dining room blends the timelessness of the historic Goodall Wooten House with a modern Austin sensibility.
Executive Chef Michael Paley, formerly of Metropole at the 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati and Proof on Main in Louisville, conceived seasonal menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a weekend brunch. The current menu offers items like deviled eggs with candied bacon, house mustard and chives; carrot bisque with toasted cumin cream, brioche croutons and garden herbs; grilled oysters with lardo, bread crumbs, chimichurri and lemon; tavern steak with Goodall's fries, aleppo butter and roasted bone marrow; and chocolate soufflé tart with sea salt, almonds and olive oil ice cream.A limited menu and weekday happy hour is also available in the vintage Parlor Bar.


نشر سيرهم الذاتية من أجل إستعانة المؤسسات العلمية بخبراتهم.
ايجاد أرضية مشتركة للحوار وتبادل الخبرات والأبحاث العلمية بين مختلف المؤسسات العلمية بما يخدم توطيد العلاقات المتينة بين الشعوب ونخبهم.
تقديم منحة كاملة سنوية للدراسات العليا لصالح أحد أعضاء الإتحاد.
صورة عن وصل تسديد رسم الإشتراك (اضغط للمزيد).
فقد شرطا من شروط العضوية.
القيام بعمل من شأنه أن يلحق بـ "الإتحاد" أو أحد أعضائه ضررا ماديا أو معنويا.
إستغلال الانضمام لـ "الإتحاد" لغرض شخصي.
عدم تسديد رسم الاشتراك السنوي.
Encourage, support and provide them the appropriate environment to progress in their researches.
Exempt from paying the fees of all the évents organized or sponsored by us.
Benefit from all the Union services.
Find common ground for dialogue and exchange of expertise and scientific research between the institutions.
The auspices of the joint scientific activities between the institutions that are under its sponsorship.
The scientific institution should be either: a university, a scientific center, an institute, a laboratory, a publishing house or any other scientific body that seeks, through its goals and activities, to spread the culture of scientific research.
To submit a formal request to the Union's Secretariat, attached to a full profile file and their accreditations, according to the applicable laws.
Provide a full scholarship for postgraduate studies for the benefit of one member of the Union in the year.
The applicant should be at least nineteen years old, and must be of good behavior and conduct.
He should be a researcher belonging to a scientific institution such as a university, a center, an institute, a laboratory or any other scientific institution.
He should accept and adhere to the Union objectives.
He should submit to the Union's Secretariat a written request, together with academic diplomas and Curriculum Vitae.
He should pay an annual subscription.
Violation of one of the membership conditions.
Doing something that is deemed to cause a material or moral prejudice to the "Union" or to one of its members.
Making use of the "Union" membership for a personal purpose.
Not paying the annual subscription fee.
يرجى ارسال الملف لدراسته قبل تسديد رسم الاشتراك السنوي. وشكرا.


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In Acrobat Pro, in the Tags pane, right-click the List tag associated with the ordered list and select Properties. In the Tag tab of the Object Properties dialog, click the Edit Attribute Objects button. In the Attributes dialog, if a "/Attribute Object 1 <<Dictionary>>" does not exist, click the New Item button to create one. Expand "/Attribute Object 1 <<Dictionary>>" and select the "/O /Layout" item. Click the Change Item button and change the Value to "List". Select "/Attribute Object 1 <<Dictionary>>" and click the New Item button. Enter ListNumbering in the Key field; enter the appropriate value (Decimal, UpperRoman, LowerRoman, UpperAlpha, or LowerAlpha) in the Value field; leave the Value Type as Name.


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A Matter of Taste
For six days, work shall be done… (35:2)
The Torah expresses itself in the passive - 'work shall be done' - rather than using the active - 'do work'. This is to teach us the proper attitude toward our workday pursuits: the necessary mundane involvements of life should be approached in a matter-of-fact and unenthusiastic manner…
- Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was expected at the home of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. But the visit gave rise to a dispute between the Rebbe's wife and her daughter, Freidkeh. For several years now, Freidkeh had taken charge of all the cooking in the house; now, in honor of the distinguished guest, the Rebbetzin wanted to retake the kitchen. The Rebbetzin cited seniority and baalbosteh's[1] rights. Her daughter argued that since she always does all the cooking, it is hardly fair that the task be taken from her just when an honored guest arrives.
The case was referred for arbitration to Rabbi Schneur Zalman, who offered the following compromise: The Rebbetzin will prepare the food, but Freidkeh would add the salt. Since the food will be all but tasteless without her contribution, the privilege of feeding Rabbi Shlomo would be equally hers.
But when the much-contested dish finally reached the table, Rabbi Shlomo Karliner found himself unable to continue past the first spoonful. The force of decades-long habit had caused the Rebbetzin to salt the food without even realizing it, and Freidkeh, of course, had not failed to perform her duty. The result was simply impossible to swallow.
But the sodium story of this hapless dish was far from over: a third dash of salt now joined its predecessors, this time cast by the hand of Rabbi Schneur Zalman himself. Upon noticing the neglected plate in front of his guest, the Rebbe figured that perhaps the food is not sufficiently salted to Rabbi Shlomo's taste.
Finally, Rabbi Schneur Zalman asked the Karliner why he wasn't eating; Rabbi Shlomo replied that the food was too salty to eat. Surprized, Rabbi Schneur Zalman took another spoonful from his own plate and swallowed thoughtfully. "You know," he said, "you're right."
"From the time that I journeyed to Mezeritch to my Rebbe" the Rebbe explained "I have not sensed the taste of food."
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Saturn, measurer of effort in the sign of Libra will demand change with your handling of money, your spending and your holdings this year while Pluto, Lord of the Underworld will urge you on the path to a new lifestyle or fresh creative efforts or ventures and perhaps a romance or romantic renewal. Jupiter will spread good cheer through new companions or advance the cause of someone you love or are close to—that's if you're not being taken in with flimflam or false promises from a shyster pretending to be in your corner. Take risks but don't be too trusting. In the wheel of great events, there's a turn of consequence for you.
On a smaller scale but just as important, the year begins with Mercury in reverse in Capricorn and your solar fifth house, striking sparks with Mars, also in reverse, but in Leo and your solar twelfth house. There'll be wobbles, excitement of the unexpected sort and an ambush or two as you roll into 2010. There'll also be confusion, misunderstandings or delays with lifestyle or romantic matters. Give things a chance to brew rather than flying off the handle or racing to the rescue. You'll have problems or even a contretemps with a first child or a romantic partner but, once again, give them time. There will be delays or a blockage with creative work or you'll need to take extra care with safety if you're involved in vigorous or demanding recreational activity. The main thrust of this will be to get a focus on what you're doing that is inessential or unhelpful—or what you're not doing that you need to add to the pot. It will also be, with the closeness of the tension with Saturn in Libra, that the lifestyle imperative and the financial resources are ill-matched. It's time to make some magic to get what you want. Mercury moves forward on Jan 15 (right on a New Moon and Solar Eclipse in Capricorn), emerging from the shadow on Feb 4.
This will be a year when old dreams or schemes, perhaps failing or even forgotten will finally come into form. You'll take an unexpected direction, find yourself amid a mishmash of communications or among a web of people from the past, turning up or getting in touch unexpectedly. Nothing will go according to plan but the unplanned diversion might well be the one that takes you closer to your goal in time. With Mars reversed in Leo, realize that you'll have to wait for your dreams to come true or face opposition from an unexpected quarter. Shape your secret plans or dreams but let the momentum of others carry you to Mar 10 when Mars moves forward. Money will be better then and you'll work on the foundations of something new. A real leap ahead follows on, as the warrior planet at last emerges from the grip of Leo and rolls into your sign on Jun 6. You'll be fired up!
The joint is jumping in your solar seventh house as Jupiter, Lord of Fortune, rolls into Pisces on Jan 18. For some, a partner or close associate will receive a promotion or enjoy an elevation of status while, for others, there'll be opportunity or good fortune that comes through newly-made connections, or perhaps a new partner. Someone you meet or form an association with will really alter the circumstances or the direction of your life. People of academic standing, or from other cultures, will home in, bringing a special kind of magic. However, you will also deal with people who exaggerate, are extravagant or go OTT at the drop of a hat. If you've met someone new and are not sure where it's going or where you stand, watch for signs of indulgence so you don't get your fingers burned. You may come into a close relationship with a teacher, or someone who brings that extra something special into your world. Professional people, legal people, or academics will make their presence felt; you'll draw from their experience or skills in order to alter or uplift your own situation.
Advantage or possibilities will come from a close connection, but you'll have to be watchful as to where you're going and how you're going to get there from Apr 7 when Saturn, the Measurer of Effort, returns to your sign. A push and pull or a shakeup of the foundations of your thinking or practices comes as Jupiter and Saturn move through their opposition, Jupiter joining revolutionary Uranus as he moves along the latter stages of his journey in the sign of the Fishes. There'll be nine kinds of magic, or seven kinds of powerful change, as you roll into the midyear on the threshold of a new adventure.
The story unfolds at speed from there, as revolutionary Uranus on May 27 and giant Jupiter on Jun 6 put on the spurt into fiery Aries, opening doors, firing fresh initiatives or bringing impossible feats within reach with your financial situation or holdings. Expect the rocketing acceleration of change, or the spark of possibility, with what you have and what you can gain in new ventures, or with investments. A sudden stroke of fortune could turn your situation around. Money will certainly be in the frame, but the best strategy for making it, keeping it, or using it to make more, will be to understand yourself, who you are and what you want. For some, there'll be a journey into esoteric or occult knowledge and perhaps a teacher who will lead the way, or open the doors of the mind.
Get set for a transformation of your lifestyle, romantic life or life direction as Uranus and Jupiter hover on the edge of a square to Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, on his journey through Capricorn and your solar fifth house. There'll be important changes with children, lifestyle, creative ventures or projects, recreation or romance. What comes will come with a sudden surge, or a ride on a dramatic wave of change. However, the process slows from there as Uranus hits reverse on Jul 5 while Jupiter does the same on Jul 23. On Aug 14, Uranus moves back to Pisces and your solar seventh house and Jupiter performs similarly on Sep 9. Reconfigure the ebb and flow of life in partnership or close association and set your sights on an even more vigorous exploration of unknown climes in 2011.
For those in a relationship, someone close will undergo a shift of status (or luck) that'll open doors for both of you. There'll be a celebration, a sabbatical, travel, study or a new horizon. You'll seal your relationship in a ceremony, or you'll take a new path together. It's also possible you'll meet someone new, who'll alter the course of your present relationship by urging you to seek a horizon, or enter new climes. One way or another, you will celebrate the possibilities of change that life offers. For those single, you'll find yourself with a new romantic connection that offers opportunity, or an advance not open to you before. Someone will provide the stimulus of knowledge by which you can advance. That someone may also open your eyes to places or possibilities you didn't know existed. Both knowledge and fortune are to be had for a Virgin that seizes the day. Be mindful though, as it's also possible you'll meet someone who is wasteful, extravagant, or keeps secrets. Remember, it can be a failing of yours to compensate for the lack of action in someone close by taking things on yourself. Avoid that like the plague! Married or single, you'll find yourself looking opportunity in the eye with new business partnerships, partners, or ventures that show the way or lead it. Do the business!
As Venus the Goddess begins the year in Capricorn, fresh from a crossing with Pluto, romance and lifestyle will be the order of the day. You will seek to make an end with the past or past connections, burying your dead, laying ghosts and leaving the past behind for fresh fields and pastures new. With all that in mind, where does money fit into the plan?
Saturn, the Measurer of Effort, waits in Libra, squaring Pluto and urging you towards the threshold of change with finance and lifestyle. This is not about changing your job or your tasks as you would change your clothes; this is about fashioning a new lifestyle from the foundation up that sees you with the freedom, or the independence, to operate as you wish. Creative projects, new ventures, or the unfoldment of your special skills or knowledge will be the key to start the engine. In the wake of the union of Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius, your solar sixth house, on Feb 16, let the new light call. As Mars moves forward in harmony with Saturn on Mar 10, you'll give form or structure to new undertakings, though the period from April 7 to Jul 21 will see you fiddling and fixing to finally settle past matters, or put the outstanding details in place. You can make the money you need to make, when armed with resolve and partnered with those who have your interests at heart. It's important to remember that the Lunar Eclipse on New Year's Eve 2009 will have knocked a few friends off the Christmas card list, or deleted some contacts from the address book.
Keep an eye on the period from Apr 20 to Jul 20 as Chiron slips into Pisces and your solar seventh house. Someone new or unusual will appear on the scene, or you will find yourself in an uncharacteristic or unfamiliar situation with someone you're close to. Health or intimacy will be an issue as you seek new ideas and practices that will turn around your thinking and actions. For some, a new and unusual relationship will begin. This will either get underway full steam ahead, or there'll be a harbinger as to where you're set to go in the future. You'll engage in therapy or healing around relationships.
From Oct 8, Venus moves into reverse in Scorpio, bringing a hiatus, a delay, or even a withdrawal in your dealings with the outside world. Step back from an external role, or from interaction with the public or a public situation. It will also be that familiar contacts, females especially will be absent from your usual interactions. For some, the reverse of this will be the case for, if you have been away from public interaction for some time, you'll return to such duties or involvements, stepping back into a past role. There'll be a change in relations with siblings or neighbours, perhaps something of a feud or ill-feeling that brings a division or a stand-off. It could also be that someone is simply absent for a time. If there is ill-feeling, don't let it build. You'll deal with troubled or frustrated people, females especially, playing the agony aunt or dodging the bullets. Prepare for a change with work or business contacts, educational or travel-related connections or you'll simply deal with absences amongst the usual run of associates. You may step back from public or external interaction to take a break or deal with an interim period. As the Goddess returns to Libra on Nov 8, dealings with people over money will come under the umbrella of this reversal and income or spending will be on the list of matters to be discussed and sorted. Nov 18 sees Venus move ahead once more.
With these last years in mind and with the domestic or personal phases you have been through, many of them involving significant changes or endings, you'll come into this year knowing how you want to live—and determined to put yourself in that place. You may lack the means, but, if you set your mind to it, it will come. You may lack the connections, but opportunity or luck will favour you this year. This is the year, not for a lifestyle block, but for a lifestyle home.
With Pluto in Capricorn and your solar fifth house, there'll be changing relationships or new patterns with your children, for those who have them, or for someone else's, for those who don't. The oldest child will feature in particular. The important thing is for you to set the ground and make the rules by which the domicile works. Your home will need to be something or do something, not just be a repository for those who want to live there while you wipe the surfaces and pick up the clothes. Thinking, talking and duty or responsibility will get things going from Apr to Jul. From there, it's up to you and those with whom you're close to hammer in the nails, or lay the stones.
Work and Health
There's a mystic element to the union of Neptune and Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in your solar sixth house on Feb 16. Who knows where this will lead or take you? For some, a new interest in health will alter your path, with new skills or engaging practices to learn. For others, either the creative urge or disillusion with current circumstances will turn your head in a new direction. If there's something you truly aspire to, this is the year to follow the light that calls, no matter what. There'll be lots happening in the space about you, so it will be important to judge people to their depths and not just take them with a teaspoon of hope or at face value. Avoid dishonesty or poor self-understanding in others.
Your daily routines will involve dealings with spiritual and artistic folk or people gifted in the healing arts. You'll work with people and their health concerns. One way or another, practices in work or health are marked for change and, if you've followed the behest of Jupiter in Aquarius in this last twelve months, you will have learned new disciplines or garnered information that will have prepared you for a new regime. There will be no logic or practical reasons for what you want to do now, but that isn't the point. The point is to follow on the road of what you believe to be your true calling. Health concerns, or changes at work with someone around you, will set new tasks for you to undertake on a daily basis.
Career Matters
In many ways, the notations for work or health will apply to career aspirations, setting you on a new path or summoning you with a new sense of vocation or practice. However, there is something else at work in the alchemy in 2010, as both revolutionary Uranus and Jupiter, Lord of Fortune fire up in Aries in the midyear for a few brief months. Where this will touch your career sector will be twofold.
Firstly, finance is in the frame and you'll either simplify your financial obligations in pursuit of that lifestyle you want, or you'll step up to the task of making money by using money, rather than going about the process through the sweat of labour or attention to the task. Over these next years, you'll think differently about money and people, seeing yourself and your life from a different perspective.
Secondly, the psychology of behaviour and the hidden matters of life and power will become more fascinating and an area of interest. In time, some will look to significant training or retraining for a marked change of direction. Some of you will play the markets, whether to win or lose is in the lap of the gods and your acumen. What is important is the oldest aphorism of all—know thyself!
Mercury the Messenger
Mercury moves into retrograde motion three times a year for about three weeks each time—and this year he starts off already retrograde in Capricorn, as already noted. This phase heralds a time of confusion and misunderstandings that can affect arrangements, travel, transport, appliances, machinery and communications, especially concerning children, romance or speculation. The breakdowns that occur are a function of neglect, inattention, simple misunderstandings or component failure. They will often bring to the fore the very contingency we should have planned for and didn't. When the retrograde phase occurs, watch out for such possibilities as well as putting off major decision-making or the signing of crucial documents and agreements. We tend to miss things while Mercury is in reverse motion and then have to come back and do them again. A process of review in the retrograde phase can efficiently show where problems might lie and help us with damage control or the mending of things. Double check arrangements at these times! What you think you've said and what others have understood will often prove to be two different things.
In the body of this year, Mercury hits a second reverse motion phase in Taurus on Apr 18. You'll be looking at communications, plans for study or overseas travel or legal issues and wondering what happened or you may be searching for a further horizon you did not know you'd need to find. You'll have to alter where you're going or how you'll get there at short notice. You'll simply be waiting on the news or information you need. Events in the big picture, unexpected ones, will alter what you can or can't do. Problems with culture or language may hinder your progress or your dealings. Academia or the elite will be hard to understand, or hard to get in touch with. However, all is fixable with time and patience, as the harmony of earth signs will serve the situation or ease difficulty. It'll only be a matter of waiting or patience. Be prepared for a blow-up or a sharp course of action in the last week of Apr. As Saturn and Uranus once again wrestle in their opposition cycle, you will need to review close relations as a consequence of changing plans for the future, or a clash of view or beliefs. Learn to speak someone else's tongue, or see things from their point of view. Talk is the remedy, once the tension blows away. Mercury moves forward under favourable influences on May 11, emerging from the shadow on May 29.
Mercury's next retrograde cycle comes in your sign, beginning Aug 20. You'll stumble with words or ideas, or you'll find relations with physical objects are not straightforward for the moment. You'll have cause to review the situation in personal relations or attachments and will find poor communication or a misunderstanding is the cause behind the cause of any problems. For some, there may be a perfectly simple break in contact while for others there'll be a remedy required or a bridge to be built. You may be uncertain or frustrated over what you want from relationships and something will need to be talked over so you feel you're heard. Past connections or communications will resurface and, with Mars and various in tension with Lady Moon and the Lunar Nodes at the start, money or lifestyle will be at the heart of disputes or confusion. An old debt, long overdue may at last be paid or claimed. You'll look to a change with presentation or activity to sort yourself out, but this isn't the time to make it, just to plan it. Set yourself for a new launch when Mercury moves forward on Sep 12, emerging from the shadow on Sep 27.
The last retrograde cycle for the year starts on Dec 10 as the messenger reverses in Capricorn. Once again, lifestyle, romance, recreation, creative projects and children will be in the frame for problems with arrangements, communications, unexpected events or a reversal of the expected situation. Watch 'you' and safety if you're engaged in extreme or vigorous activities. Be careful or sensitive with communications involving lovers and kids. You'll also need to monitor the activities of the latter for safety. Celebrations or occasions may not go according to the plan and this is not a time to organize a big do or food for the multitudes unless you really have your act together and room to move. There'll be a block or delay with creative projects or ventures, so be patient and look to the reasons. You may feel tired or exhausted and unable to continue at the accustomed pace on either of these roads. Once again, wait for the air to clear and don't over-commit or sign on the dotted line. It'll be hard to make arrangements or plan, due to communication difficulties or to the absence of crucial people. Shared schedules may not make the needed alchemy to get the show on the road. Arrangements for dinners, outings or entertainment may have to be bent into a new shape. Cruise along, say goodbye to something that hasn't worked out and watch the messenger slip back to Sagittarius and put the focus on home family and personal life on Dec 18 before moving forward on Dec 30.
Lunar Life with Lady Moon
Your Full Moon comes on Feb 28, dancing with Jupiter in Pisces alongside the Sun. It's a sweet or 'swept away' time, with strong feelings or excitement in the air. The workplace will be abuzz with activity or communications as your plans seem to take shape or begin to gather real momentum after a long hiatus. There'll be direct connections, gatherings or meetings with professional or qualified people, or you'll be involved in a celebration or a get together on behalf of someone close to you. Your loved one or a close associate will introduce you to new or exotic people; overseas links or other cultures will be involved. Status or authority comes with those present. You'll have the opportunity to see where you stand on your own two feet.
Your New Moon on Sep 8 will bring about a process of review, or a return to the activities or connections of an earlier time or phase. Mercury is in reverse in your sign at this point, urging you to think about where you're going, what you're doing, how you act or engage and how you get on with or communicate with others. It's time for a fresh start in the wake of this point. Revise the methods or techniques of presentation or action. Take a beat from earlier skills or take the advice of someone you're close to. You'll need to do a little listening, taking in information and the views or feelings of others. Somehow or other, you'll need to refresh or revise the situation with an important relationship.
Eclipses of both the Sun and the Moon often indicate the end of a cycle or a significant change in the direction or pattern of the affairs governed by the house in which the eclipse falls. Eclipses of the Sun tend to affect work, direction and relations with people in authority. Eclipses of the Moon affect matters of home, family and emotions as well as relations with women and children. Both may affect your health.
A Solar Eclipse comes at the New Moon in Capricorn on Jan 15, setting your finger to the edit button as far as lifestyle, romance or recreation is concerned. Dealings with a first child may feature for some. As far as lifestyle is concerned, it'll be important to see clearly what's excess to requirements and has to go. Though this isn't a potent blockage of the light, you will nonetheless need to set aside what doesn't serve or step back from involvements or ventures that are going nowhere or wasting your energy. What can you do that's good for you? For the singles, is there a romance that isn't going anywhere? For all, is there an activity or project that's not worth the candle? Strip away what's surplus to requirements and start afresh. With certain activities or connections, a hiatus or delay will right itself in time. If so, leave things to their own devices.
There'll be a Lunar Eclipse at the Full Moon in Capricorn on Jun 26, when the mood will be intense as Lady Moon hovers side by side with Pluto, Lord of the Underworld. Endings or beginnings will be in the frame. Lifestyle, romance, recreation and involvements with friends or groups will be the main arenas for the action, or the inaction, as the case may be. Females, intense people, domestic matters or family will feature in a departure or change that affects the way you're living. Food or diet may also come into consideration, as will children. One thing will go, so that another is free to flourish. For instance, better health will be a trade-off against a dietary indulgence or a lack of recreational activity. Either that or you'll have to suspend a favourite activity to keep up commitments or involvements with friends, groups, or even the wider community. Shake up the pieces of the lifestyle puzzle and see what falls to the floor. Prepare for a break or hiatus affecting romantic life; there's a change in your life with a child, especially the first.
The big guns in Heaven boom as a total Solar Eclipse comes on Jul 11 with the New Moon in Cancer. With a favourable aspect to Mars in your sign at last, and with Saturn now returned there, this could shift a blockage or end an embargo that's been holding you back, or keeping your endeavours under wraps. Expect an end with a friend, a group activity or a community involvement. Something will pass, because it's at the natural conclusion of a cycle, or there'll be a slam dunk finish because of powerful or dramatic circumstances. This is part of a series of changes to your solar fifth and eleventh houses running through the year. You'll reshuffle the deck of lifestyle or romance, drawing new cards or discarding old ones to suit the changes you're making or have to make with lifestyle. Romantic life will enter a new phase, exiting past cycles; relations with lovers or children will be part and parcel of the process of alteration. Something or someone is set to go or change completely, a end that will leave a mark on the cycle of your life. Practices with recreation or food could also be earmarked for change at this time.
A total Lunar Eclipse at the Full Moon in Gemini on Dec 21 sees changes, disruption or an end with responsibilities, professional concerns or dealings with authority. There'll be an end with a professional link or to a line of communication with responsibilities or career dealings. A talkative or active individual (perhaps too much so) will be away from the scene, or off altogether. You may drop tasks or duties where communication, movement or quick response is part of the deal. You may enter a quieter space, seeking more from your personal life, or you may find yourself on the outer with professional activity. This will mark the final phase of an ongoing change or concern. Watch health and energy here with the nervous system or stresses, as you may be pushed to the limit or beyond it. Is there too much pressure from the demands placed on you by others, or by dint of your position? As Mercury is retrograde in your solar fourth house at this point, the push and pull of public and private life will determine the outcome or the changes involved. Problems or shifts at home or in the family will lead to a shift with responsibilities or in career. There will be a reconfigure with the balance of personal and professional life due to a change, an absence or an ending.
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I tried your email but couldn't get through…..
(or at least see if you could forward this to Witold).
I ended up using a penetrating oil called PB Blaster simply because I had some. I researched and found various companies advertising oils which they claimed worked with all materials. I emailed some with photos of my bike and my concerns about structural damage or paint destruction and got two replies.
One company "corrosionfree.com" recommended their product "Nut Z Lube" and suggested it be sprayed if possible both from top and from bottom and left overnight to soak in.
Had the PB Blaster not worked, I would have ordered the Pipe Break just because of the confidence in the statement that it should work without a problem. I haven't used either product so I can't warranty either.
Witold was discussing removing a seatpost from a carbon fiber frame. Yours evidently is aluminum. I would still be extremely wary of using any kind of penetrating oil on carbon fiber, because the epoxy could soak it up, and expand.
Did you get my full email? The above post is missing half of what I sent you.
I don't want to try to pull the seat post out and deform the seat tube.
You quoted a long section from the page on the site before getting to your own observations.
Witold Walkowski, who composed that section, improvised a mechanism to push down on the top of the seat tube while pushing up on the underside of the saddle clamp by using the bolts of the saddle clamp itself to apply force. YMMV depending on the type of saddle clamp.
I got the post out by turning and pulling slightly upwards. I held the frame cradled against me to prevent marring it.
Having said that would love to hear any suggestions for next time…..


In my little room, All is filled with rain, I remember the scent of you, But I still feel the pain. I see the flower in the window, I remember all the good times, But still the rain is there, knocking at my heart, Baby, please, why can't we start Again, being loved, Again, being kissed, We are like flowers, But if all fades away, I can't take this anymore, I kneel down and prey. If flowers fade, Where will the love go, I can't stay alone, I have to find you again, My flower, my magic flower. The rain still falls down in my heart, And the flower, It faded away, I just stay here alone, Since our love is gone... And I ask you, in my dreams, If flowers fade, where the love will go? Nothing is anymore like it seemed before, In my dreams, I only hear your silent screams, We lost each other, forever. Until the flower grows again... But this time has not come yet, So I'm here at the window, With my fading flower, Waiting for my princess, And I know, it can't rain forever, I will find her, God, I take the bet!
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If flowers fade, where will love go?


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Etiquette of some kind probably began some 11,000 years ago when early humans switching to farming from hunting and gathering first sat down to a communal meal. The first written advice on manners and etiquette ever discovered came from ancient Egypt about 4000 years ago.
Etiquette is a set of rules society lives by.
Manners are the way society puts rules into effect.
Good manners are based on respect and genuine kindness for other people.


NEW DELHI: Union IT and Communications Minister Arun Shourie said on Friday Indian IT companies should diversify to strong markets like Europe and respond to the outsourcing backlash by expanding its markets.
"After all it is up to our companies to find ways and Indian companies know that they were to set up operations in Europe which is a vigorous market with countries like ermany and we should diversify our exports in that regard also", he said after the meeting of the third EU-India Working Group on IT.
Brushing aside the outsourcing backlash controversy, Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner, said the European Union supported free trade.
"We are very open in trade. So we are supporting free trade of goods and services. When we stick to this principle, we do not have particular legislation for or against one type of services or good", he said.
TCS already has a presence in Hungary and in its offices, majority of the people are citizens and inhabitants of that country, Shourie said, adding that "this kind of a response to outsourcing fears is already visible and I am sure it will accelerate".
"It much depends on factors that transcend policies and economic progress in Europe... On our professionals and firms learning languages other than English. All these things should also be overcome", he added.
Liikanen pointed out that during his meeting with Infosys, he was told that the company was going to set up an office in Czechoslovakia.


Nov 1, 2017. It's Nov. 1, which means Cincinnati is already in the Christmas spirit. STAR 93. 3, Cincinnati's Christian music station, began playing Christmas. According to Nielsen, adult contemporary stations that play Christmas music enjoy ratings increases of up to 87 percent during the workday hours but can gain as much as 129 percent in the evening.
Christmas music is good business. It's quietly beloved, and radio stations that switch to an all-Christmas music format do so well that listeners in many markets can carve the Thanksgiving turkey to" White Christmas, " and in some markets, give candy to trick-or-treaters with" Silver Bells" in the background. With satellite radio and other similar music on demand platforms, finding a radio station here in the Tampa area that plays holiday music is not as easy as it used to be.
Many local stations used to play only Christmas tunes during the month of December. 99. 9 KEZ starts non-stop Christmas music format November 15. start time for the switch to Christmas music for a reason. is that we have other stations that will play things like Maroon 5. Advanced Radio Search. Christmas Radio Stations: Format: Currently Playing Continuous Holiday Music; Station Types: full service stations, low power FM stations. Your search did not yield. All Stations Only Stations. stations at a time.
We play nothing but Christmas carols – no novelty Christmas music, nothing but traditional carols. As far as we know we're the only internet radio station in the world playing nothing but Christmas carols.
As we countdown to Christmas, the children's radio station Fun Kids will be bringing you a daily treat!. of Christmas and plays a song or two. that time has. Christmas music is good business. It's quietly beloved, and radio stations that switch to an all-Christmas music format do so well that listeners in many markets can carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
All Americans Want For Christmas Is A Radio Station That Plays Holiday Tunes Constantly 4: 00 PM EDT By Mary Beth Quirk @marybethquirk drummer boy is drumming christmas christmas music. New to Chattanooga, TN - trying to find out if there is a radio station that plays only Christmas music soon? We lived in PA before, and one radio station would switch to all Christmas music as of Thanksgiving day.
Nov 22, 2016. All Christmas, all the time: Some radio stations switching earlier. more than 500 stations in America that play only Christmas music during the. JACKSON TWP. - A local radio station is taking advantage of the holiday spirit - a month in advance. For holiday lovers across Northeastern Ohio - it is a Christmas music lover's dream come true.
WLIT (The Lite-93. 9 FM) is one of the worst radio stations in Chicago. Most of the songs they play are so dull and annoying.
I don't like this station at all and it's even worse during the Christmas season. The Lite plays the same Christmas songs over and over again from early November-December 25 each year. For example in New York City, the most-played song last year was the aforementioned "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Ms. Carey (I probably am responsible for at least 143 of those plays). In Los Angeles, "Feliz Navidad" ruled the airwaves.
ALBANY, N. Y. It's the most wonderful time of the year. And now, it's all year. A Capital Region radio station now plays Christmas music 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
WQSH-FM, once known as. Tune in to these D-FW radio stations for Christmas music in 2017. Now called" The Star, " 102. 1 will be until. kicks off with Christmas. The very popular Christmas Station is back for 2017. Press play button above to listen. Plays all your holiday favorites during the holiday season.
You will hear all your traditional favorites: Bing Crosby, Chipmunks, David Bowe, Darlene Love, Gene Autry, " Christmas music is like the gingerbread latte, " said 97.
1 WASH-FM program director Kenny King, whose station has gone all-Christmas since 2001. " It's here for a limited time only, and it's. All Christmas, All The Time. when he began recommending that radio stations play holiday music on the day after Thanksgiving, a time when Americans flock to malls to begin their Christmas. WEZW 93. 1 FM becomes first radio station in country to broadcast Christmas music all the time It would be interesting to have a radio station that plays Christmas music all year round though.
Walking In The Winter Wonderland is really not a Christmas song, because they don't say the words Christmas or Santa Claus in the song. " It's one thing to play all or nearly all Christmas music for a. you can't please everyone all the time. ". be just one station playing Christmas music. Our radio station's slogan is 'We play.
After 2007, WLIF played wall to wall Christmas music not only before Thanksgiving, but all the way until New Year's Eve. They were the last station left playing Christmas music at New Year's. Most stations in this market that feature Christmas music continue mixing it in throughout the last week of the year, unlike many places that end cold. " Christmas music stations typically do very well and grow their audience, " said Jhani Kaye, program director at CBS-owned KTWV and oldies station KRTH-FM.
Local radio station Sunny 100 (WGSY-FM, 100. 1), which used to play adult contemporary hits, announced Monday that it has re-branded as Santa 100. It will now play nothing but Christmas music - all year, every day. WHOF My 107. 7 FM, is playing nothing but holiday music now through Christmas Day.
WHOF isn't the only station in town taking advantage of the early holiday spirit - Canton's WHBC-FM, Mix 94. 1, will begin playing 24 hours of Christmas music all the time starting at 6 a. m. Thursday. Easy 93. 1 was the first radio station in the country to flip to Christmas music this year, the second time it's been the first country in the USA to go all-Christmas.
It was also first in 2011. Kringle Radio broadcasts directly from the North Pole. It is year round, commercial free and HD quality radio featuring a unique blend of Christmas music from nearly every available genre.
Jan 09, 2011 · All Songs 24/7 Music Channel:. Special music streams produced by NPR Music and public radio stations. The All Songs 24/7 Music Channel. All Songs 24/7 Music. Christmas music has begun.
The stations will play all holiday music through Dec. 25, after which they will return to their regular Martini Radio adult standards format, said program director.
The studio at Sunny 107. 9 FM in West Palm Beach where Bill Adams and Tracy St. George play Christmas music from 6 to 10 a. m. weekdays. The studio at Sunny 107. 9 FM in West Palm Beach where Bill. All Songs 24/7 Music Channel:. Special music streams produced by NPR Music and public radio stations. The All Songs 24/7 Music Channel. All Songs 24/7 Music. Listen. Facebook; Twitter; Nov 16, 2017. Accordingly, the station started playing Christmas tunes on.
Both are going all- Christmas songs, all-the-time, and raking in the extra ad. Listen to oldies of the Christmas season all year long. Get it on Google Play. Christmas Oldies is a 24/7 internet radio station supported by in-stream ads. Enjoy the best selection of free Christmas music online with unlimited skips. Only the all-time greatest Christmas records.
Simply choose any other channel on. Jan 15, 2018. iHeart Media radio station WGSY-FM, previously known as Sunny 100, announced Monday it would change its name to Santa 100 and play. No, my problem isn't when they play Christmas music, it's what holiday music they play.
Now, they completely bypass Thanksgiving(which for me, is my all time. Hear all your favorite music and radio, free. Listen online or download the iHeartRadio App.


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SIGNATURE Group announces Joint Venture with SINGER Sri Lanka to penetrate into the kitchen market i
The SIGNATURE Group, Malaysia's leading kitchen manufacturer has announced a new joint venture in Sri Lanka, as the company continues to boost its overseas business by focusing on building strategic partnerships with leading brands and business corporations.
On 18th August 2020, Signature signed a Joint Venture (JV) agreement with Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC via its wholly owned subsidiary, Signature Manufacturing Sdn Bhd, leveraging the synergies, complementary strengths and brand reputations from each business force to penetrate into the kitchen cabinets market in Sri Lanka. The virtual JV signing ceremony was graced by Mr Mahesh Wijewardene, Group CEO of Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC and Tan Kee Choong, Group Managing Director of Signature International Berhad, in the presence of top management officials.
"We are proud to join forces with SINGER in Sri Lanka, a market where we see significant growth opportunities for the Signature Kitchen brand," commented Mr Tan Kee Choong. "In SINGER we have a partner which has extensive home furnishing product portfolio and a large and robust retail network with experience in distributing multi-brands through its 430 showrooms across the Sri Lanka market; an unmatched presence in Sri Lanka which will enable us to speed up our market penetration as we continue to advance our development of overseas markets."
Under Signature Kitchen Lanka Pvt Ltd, its wholly owned new company set up in Sri Lanka to run the local production operations, SIGNATURE will bring into the venture its kitchen expertise, technical knowledge and 'know how' in relation to the distribution as well as management expertise in the retail operations and project business of its products under its core brand 'Signature Kitchen'.
"By leveraging SINGER's established household brand and large retail network, SIGNATURE will be well positioned to produce important cost synergies to capture the market as we navigate the challenging markets and uncertain environment in times of the Covid-19 pandemic," Tan added.
About SINGER
SINGER has been operating in Sri Lanka since 1877, when the first SINGER sewing machines went on sale in the Colombo stores. Today, SINGER is a public limited liability company listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange of Sri Lanka, offering its consumers a wide range of top quality international brands, engaging with its consumer base through the largest distribution network in Sri Lanka with over 430 sales outlets spread island wide and an equally established after sales service network offering incomparable quality after-sales service that has won the hearts of Sri Lankans. SINGER's product portfolio expands up to 600 electronic items, 1200 home appliances and home furniture with more than 50 internationally renowned brands.
From its humble beginnings in 1994 as a distributor and retailer of modular kitchen systems, Signature has grown to be the largest kitchen manufacturer in Malaysia, specializing in the design, manufacturing, distribution and installation of kitchen cabinets and built in wardrobes under its flagship brand 'SIGNATURE KITCHEN'.
Signature's portfolio thrives on maintaining a good balance between project and retail clients. Architects and designers from local and international developments appreciate the unparalleled versatility offered by Signature Kitchen.
Today, with the largest kitchen retail network in Malaysia, and a strong global presence spanning across 15 countries, Signature is at the forefront of revolutionizing the landscape of living space solutions; bringing to the world the value of a brand synonymous with trusted quality, functionality, design and style. (Source:https://www.theedgemarkets.com/content/advertise/signature-group-announces-joint-venture-singer-sri-lanka-penetrate-kitchen-market-sri-lanka)
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Boxing champ Anthony Joshua beats Damian Lewis to lead Top Gear track times
The heavyweight boxer zooms past the Billions actor to top the Star In A Rallycross Car leaderboard
By Emma Daly
Monday, 13th June 2016 at 8:58 am
IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua landed another knockout on Sunday night, beating actor Damian Lewis to lead the Top Gear Star in a Rallycross Car leaderboard.
Taking on the show's revamped race track in Sunday's third episode, Joshua tackled the dirt tracks, the water and the air jump in the suped up Mini Cooper to see off the Billions star's leading time.
Oh yes, keen driver Lewis is bound to be miffed that Joshua's 1.52.6 now tops his 1.53.9, which had been a three-second lead on nearest rival Gordon Ramsay (1.56.3).
Joshua hadn't originally seemed that fussed about his lap, joking to presenter Chris Evans that he hoped to record a time at least half as good as that of fellow guest Kevin Hart, who was eager to prove his driving prowess.
The sportsman's natural competitiveness was more apparent when he was behind the wheel though, the in-car camera showing him yelling at himself to "pick it up" as he whizzed around the course.
Hart, much to his disappointment, came in fourth with a time of 1.57.7.
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SulutPos.com, Brussels – 10 April 2019, The first ever observation of a black hole is the result of the large scale international research collaboration Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), where EU-funded researchers have played a key role. This major scientific achievement marks a paradigm shift in our understanding of black holes, confirms the predictions of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and opens up new lines of enquiry into our universe. The first image of a black hole successfully captured was unveiled in six simultaneous press conferences across the globe today.
First Image of a Black Hole. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow.
Today's results add to the many achievements of the EU's research and innovation funding programmes Horizon 2020 and its predecessor Framework Programmes. Building on this success, the Commission has proposedHorizon Europe, the most ambitious EU programme yet to keep the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation.
· The €14 million BlackHoleCam project which aims at capturing the image, measuring and understanding black holes. Since 2014, this six year research project is being carried out by three lead scientists and their teams; namely Professors Heino Falcke from Radboud University Nijmegen (also Chair of EHT Science Council), Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, and Luciano Rezzolla from Goethe University Frankfurt.
· The RadioNet project supports a consortium of 27 institutions in Europe, the Republic of Korea and South Africa that aim to integrate world-class infrastructures for research in radio astronomy. This includes radio telescopes, telescope arrays, data archives and the globally operating European Network for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (EVN). The project is coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy. In the past 15 years, the EU invested €30.3 million in RadioNet.


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Congress slams BJP for repeated U-turns
New Delhi: The Congress Monday accused the BJP-led central government of taking repeated U-turns during the six months it has been in power and said the party had misled voters in order to capture power at the Centre.
Congress general secretary Ajay Maken released a booklet titled "6 Maheene Paar U-turn Sarkar" that listed 25 U-turns the government made vis-a-vis the stand the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took when it was in opposition.
"This is a book on the BJP's change in its stand on national issues before and after the elections. This government has made 25 U-turns in the last around 180 days. That's an average of one U-turn every seven to eight days," Maken said.
He said the issues included black money, civil liability for nuclear damage act, and the Bangladesh land deal.
"While the booklet was being printed, the government made three more U-turns which have not been included," Maken said.
In a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and BJP president Amit Shah, the Congress general secretary said the government has failed to honour its pre-poll promises and fooled the people with the sole intention of coming to power.
"They only wanted to seize power even if it meant fooling the voters. They have misled the people of this nation. This government will be known as the U-turn government," he said.


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Humanitas news
Everyone Has Their Own Path
Written by Ernesto De Santiago
Social Justice Humanitas Academy is well known for its success in helping students matriculate toward college, and as well, delivering colleges a well educated and dedicated student. Although most of the students in Humanitas intend to attend a college or university next fall, there exists a diverse minority of students who are joining the military after high school.
College is a rewarding opportunity for high school students because of how successful the students become afterwards. But going to college isn't always what every student wants to do; not surprisingly, constantly surrounded by students with different future ideals than yours can be very difficult. I can't begin to count how many times students have asked me, "why are you joining the military? or "isn't that for dumb people?" Being a student at Humanitas with a different mindset other than college is very difficult and I know from experience because I am joining the military. I often feel like an outsider because I have no one to have a conversation about the military compared to someone who is going to college; it's different for others because most of the students are going to college.
Mia Perez agrees with my dilemma and responds "being surrounded by my peers and knowing that their 'after high school plan' is different than mine doesn't change my mind nor does it bring doubts about my choice. If anything, I feel special because most of the students think I enlisted because I don't have a plan. Only I know why I joined the military, and just because I don't have the same plan as they do doesn't make me any different."
Mia and I were also talking about how teachers' attitudes change when helping a student with college apps versus a student who needs help studying for the ASVAB- a test for the military. She expresses herself by saying " I honestly feel disappointed which goes back as to why I feel like my responses don't matter. Like I haven't heard of any offer from adults on campus helping out those that have plans about joining the military. They just assume that everyone wants to apply to college and don't question other options that the students may have. When it comes to college, help is offered but when it comes to the little amount of students joining the military, we have to be the ones reaching out to adults and most of the time we don't get the help we actually need."
Mia isn't the only student who feels like her voice is being ignored; Josh Corona, a senior in Humanitas, expresses his feelings towards some of the teachers' attitudes when it comes to military- bound students. Josh states "especially in Humanitas we have this idea that all of our kids have to go to college and that the military doesn't fit in to what the school envisions for us. Also people tend to feel like we're lost when we say that we want to join the military. But in my case I'm joining the navy for myself because it's something that I want and I feel that college is not my route yet, and although I still want to go to college it's just not my time right now.
Josh muses on how he feels left out because of the career he has chosen. He adds, "I feel that I'm often put down in the school especially amongst teachers because when I tell them that college is not a waste of my time- it just doesn't benefit the dream that I want to achieve for myself - some teachers really get upset with my decision because they tell me to not do this- instead, to go to college because the military is not really great for me. I feel like this is bad because I feel they should be here to support us and the decisions that we make."
Everyone has a different path in life and Humanitas is a really great school with a lot of benefits to it. But I feel that we should not be guided into doing something we don't want to do; rather, supported and understood for our future dreams.


Red River starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru and So many more. Walter Brennan, John Ireland, Harry Carey Sr., Harry Carey Jr., Hank Worden, Noah Berry Jr., Coleen Gray and so many more.
Released in 1948 this is many peoples favorite western movie still today.
Robert M. Lopez as an Indian.
Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) is a stubborn man who wants nothing more than to start up a successful cattle ranch in Texas. Shortly after he begins his journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), Dunson learns that his love interest (Coleen Gray), whom he had told to stay behind with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send for her later, was killed in an Indian attack. Despite this tragedy, Dunson and Groot press on. That night, Dunson and Groot, keeping watch, hear a group of Indians planning to attack them. They kill the Indians, and on the wrist of one, Dunson finds a bracelet he had been left by his late mother. One day before, he had presented it to his young love as he left the wagon train. The bracelet reappears significantly later in the film. The next day, an orphaned boy named Matthew Garth (played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn and as an adult by Montgomery Clift) who had been part of the wagon train Dunson had left, and who came back from finding a strayed cow to see the ruins of the train wanders into Dunson and Groot's camp, traumatized and babbling incoherently. He was the sole survivor of the wagon train. Dunson adopts him and ties the boy's cow to his wagon, alongside a bull Dunson already owned.


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The Free Library > Literature > Jack London > Adventure > Chapter IV--Joan Lackland
Chapter IV--Joan Lackland
By the second day of the northwester, Sheldon was in collapse from his fever. It had taken an unfair advantage of his weak state, and though it was only ordinary malarial fever, in forty-eight hours it had run him as low as ten days of fever would have done when he was in condition. But the dysentery had been swept away from Berande. A score of convalescents lingered in the hospital, but they were improving hourly. There had been but one more death--that of the man whose brother had wailed over him instead of brushing the flies away.
On the morning of the fourth day of his fever, Sheldon lay on the veranda, gazing dimly out over the raging ocean. The wind was falling, but a mighty sea was still thundering in on Berande beach, the flying spray reaching in as far as the flagstaff mounds, the foaming wash creaming against the gate-posts. He had taken thirty grains of quinine, and the drug was buzzing in his ears like a nest of hornets, making his hands and knees tremble, and causing a sickening palpitation of the stomach. Once, opening his eyes, he saw what he took to be an hallucination. Not far out, and coming in across the Jessie's anchorage, he saw a whale-boat's nose thrust skyward on a smoky crest and disappear naturally, as an actual whale-boat's nose should disappear, as it slid down the back of the sea. He knew that no whale-boat should be out there, and he was quite certain no men in the Solomons were mad enough to be abroad in such a storm.
But the hallucination persisted. A minute later, chancing to open his eyes, he saw the whale-boat, full length, and saw right into it as it rose on the face of a wave. He saw six sweeps at work, and in the stern, clearly outlined against the overhanging wall of white, a man who stood erect, gigantic, swaying with his weight on the steering-sweep. This he saw, and an eighth man who crouched in the bow and gazed shoreward. But what startled Sheldon was the sight of a woman in the stern-sheets, between the stroke-oar and the steersman. A woman she was, for a braid of her hair was flying, and she was just in the act of recapturing it and stowing it away beneath a hat that for all the world was like his own "Baden-Powell."
The boat disappeared behind the wave, and rose into view on the face of the following one. Again he looked into it. The men were dark-skinned, and larger than Solomon Islanders, but the woman, he could plainly see, was white. Who she was, and what she was doing there, were thoughts that drifted vaguely through his consciousness. He was too sick to be vitally interested, and, besides, he had a half feeling that it was all a dream; but he noted that the men were resting on their sweeps, while the woman and the steersman were intently watching the run of seas behind them.
"Good boatmen," was Sheldon's verdict, as he saw the boat leap forward on the face of a huge breaker, the sweeps plying swiftly to keep her on that front of the moving mountain of water that raced madly for the shore. It was well done. Part full of water, the boat was flung upon the beach, the men springing out and dragging its nose to the gate-posts. Sheldon had called vainly to the house-boys, who, at the moment, were dosing the remaining patients in the hospital. He knew he was unable to rise up and go down the path to meet the newcomers, so he lay back in the steamer-chair, and watched for ages while they cared for the boat. The woman stood to one side, her hand resting on the gate. Occasionally surges of sea water washed over her feet, which he could see were encased in rubber sea-boots. She scrutinized the house sharply, and for some time she gazed at him steadily. At last, speaking to two of the men, who turned and followed her, she started up the path.
Sheldon attempted to rise, got half up out of his chair, and fell back helplessly. He was surprised at the size of the men, who loomed like giants behind her. Both were six-footers, and they were heavy in proportion. He had never seen islanders like them. They were not black like the Solomon Islanders, but light brown; and their features were larger, more regular, and even handsome.
The woman--or girl, rather, he decided--walked along the veranda toward him. The two men waited at the head of the steps, watching curiously. The girl was angry; he could see that. Her gray eyes were flashing, and her lips were quivering. That she had a temper, was his thought. But the eyes were striking. He decided that they were not gray after all, or, at least, not all gray. They were large and wide apart, and they looked at him from under level brows. Her face was cameo-like, so clear cut was it. There were other striking things about her--the cowboy Stetson hat, the heavy braids of brown hair, and the long-barrelled 38 Colt's revolver that hung in its holster on her hip.
"Pretty hospitality, I must say," was her greeting, "letting strangers sink or swim in your front yard."
"I--I beg your pardon," he stammered, by a supreme effort dragging himself to his feet.
His legs wobbled under him, and with a suffocating sensation he began sinking to the floor. He was aware of a feeble gratification as he saw solicitude leap into her eyes; then blackness smote him, and at the moment of smiting him his thought was that at last, and for the first time in his life, he had fainted.
The ringing of the big bell aroused him. He opened his eyes and found that he was on the couch indoors. A glance at the clock told him that it was six, and from the direction the sun's rays streamed into the room he knew that it was morning. At first he puzzled over something untoward he was sure had happened. Then on the wall he saw a Stetson hat hanging, and beneath it a full cartridge-belt and a long-barrelled 38 Colt's revolver. The slender girth of the belt told its feminine story, and he remembered the whale-boat of the day before and the gray eyes that flashed beneath the level brows. She it must have been who had just rung the bell. The cares of the plantation rushed upon him, and he sat up in bed, clutching at the wall for support as the mosquito screen lurched dizzily around him. He was still sitting there, holding on, with eyes closed, striving to master his giddiness, when he heard her voice.
"You'll lie right down again, sir," she said.
It was sharply imperative, a voice used to command. At the same time one hand pressed him back toward the pillow while the other caught him from behind and eased him down.
"You've been unconscious for twenty-four hours now," she went on, "and I have taken charge. When I say the word you'll get up, and not until then. Now, what medicine do you take?--quinine? Here are ten grains. That's right. You'll make a good patient."
"My dear madame," he began.
"You musn't speak," she interrupted, "that is, in protest. Otherwise, you can talk."
"But the plantation--"
"A dead man is of no use on a plantation. Don't you want to know about ME? My vanity is hurt. Here am I, just through my first shipwreck; and here are you, not the least bit curious, talking about your miserable plantation. Can't you see that I am just bursting to tell somebody, anybody, about my shipwreck?"
He smiled; it was the first time in weeks. And he smiled, not so much at what she said, as at the way she said it--the whimsical expression of her face, the laughter in her eyes, and the several tiny lines of humour that drew in at the corners. He was curiously wondering as to what her age was, as he said aloud:
"Yes, tell me, please."
"That I will not--not now," she retorted, with a toss of the head. "I'll find somebody to tell my story to who does not have to be asked. Also, I want information. I managed to find out what time to ring the bell to turn the hands to, and that is about all. I don't understand the ridiculous speech of your people. What time do they knock off?"
"At eleven--go on again at one."
"That will do, thank you. And now, where do you keep the key to the provisions? I want to feed my men."
"Your men!" he gasped. "On tinned goods! No, no. Let them go out and eat with my boys."
Her eyes flashed as on the day before, and he saw again the imperative expression on her face.
"That I won't; my men are MEN. I've been out to your miserable barracks and watched them eat. Faugh! Potatoes! Nothing but potatoes! No salt! Nothing! Only potatoes! I may have been mistaken, but I thought I understood them to say that that was all they ever got to eat. Two meals a day and every day in the week?"
"Well, my men wouldn't stand that for a single day, much less a whole week. Where is the key?"
"Hanging on that clothes-hook under the clock."
He gave it easily enough, but as she was reaching down the key she heard him say:
"Fancy niggers and tinned provisions."
This time she really was angry. The blood was in her cheeks as she turned on him.
"My men are not niggers. The sooner you understand that the better for our acquaintance. As for the tinned goods, I'll pay for all they eat. Please don't worry about that. Worry is not good for you in your condition. And I won't stay any longer than I have to- -just long enough to get you on your feet, and not go away with the feeling of having deserted a white man."
"You're American, aren't you?" he asked quietly.
The question disconcerted her for the moment.
"Yes," she vouchsafed, with a defiant look. "Why?"
"Nothing. I merely thought so."
"Anything further?"
He shook his head.
"Why?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing. I thought you might have something pleasant to say."
"My name is Sheldon, David Sheldon," he said, with direct relevance, holding out a thin hand.
Her hand started out impulsively, then checked. "My name is Lackland, Joan Lackland." The hand went out. "And let us be friends."
"It could not be otherwise--" he began lamely.
"And I can feed my men all the tinned goods I want?" she rushed on.
"Till the cows come home," he answered, attempting her own lightness, then adding, "that is, to Berande. You see we don't have any cows at Berande."
She fixed him coldly with her eyes.
"Is that a joke?" she demanded.
"I really don't know--I--I thought it was, but then, you see, I'm sick."
"You're English, aren't you?" was her next query.
"Now that's too much, even for a sick man," he cried. "You know well enough that I am."
"Oh," she said absently, "then you are?"
He frowned, tightened his lips, then burst into laughter, in which she joined.
"It's my own fault," he confessed. "I shouldn't have baited you. I'll be careful in the future."
"In the meantime go on laughing, and I'll see about breakfast. Is there anything you would fancy?"
"It will do you good to eat something. Your fever has burned out, and you are merely weak. Wait a moment."
She hurried out of the room in the direction of the kitchen, tripped at the door in a pair of sandals several sizes too large for her feet, and disappeared in rosy confusion.
"By Jove, those are my sandals," he thought to himself. "The girl hasn't a thing to wear except what she landed on the beach in, and she certainly landed in sea-boots."


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Melbourne Cup: Online gambling can 'leave people at risk of problem gambling'
By: Lucy Carter
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Posted Tue 3 Nov 2015, 8:30am
Updated Tue 3 Nov 2015, 8:45am
Australians are expected to wager more than $150 million on this afternoon's Melbourne Cup, with a significant proportion of that being bet online. Experts say gambling online, particularly with the larger multi-national betting agencies, will leave people vulnerable to constant targetted advertising and at risk of problem gambling.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Australians are expected to gamble in excess of $150 million on this afternoon's Melbourne Cup, with a significant proportion of that being bet online.
Experts say gambling online leaves people vulnerable to constant targeted advertising and at risk of problem gambling.
Lucy Carter reports.
LUCY CARTER: Having a flutter on Cup Day is a well loved Australian tradition.
However the proliferation of major multi-national online betting agencies has some experts and politicians concerned.
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says this type of online gambling should be subjected to tighter rules.
NICK XENOPHON: Online gambling companies use the Melbourne Cup as an opportunity to recruit more new players.
And a number of those will go on to become problem gamblers, not because of the Melbourne Cup, but because all of the other products and inducements and other forms of gambling they offer.
LUCY CARTER: Monash University gambling researcher Dr Charles Livingstone says it's a tough time of year for people with a gambling addiction.
CHARLES LIVINGSTONE: The whole Spring Carnival is a very difficult time and a lot of people really struggle with the relentless promotion that occurs these days, particularly around betting.
LUCY CARTER: He says online betting agencies in particular use events like the Melbourne Cup to lure in customers.
CHARLES LIVINGSTONE: They don't necessarily make a huge amount of money out of the Melbourne Cup, but what it does do is it provides them with a focal point for their promotion.
So it's a big part of their yearly cycle, just as football finals are, World Cup in rugby or soccer is, just as any major sporting event is now used relentlessly as a commercial platform for the endless promotion of sports betting and wagering.
LUCY CARTER: Since 2009, when the High Court ruled that online betting agencies could advertise anywhere in Australia regardless of where they were registered, the industry has grown massively.
A long-promised review into the 15 year old interactive gaming laws was announced in September, however the Federal Government has already outlined that its primary focus will be on illegal offshore based services.
CHARLES LIVINGSTONE: Current review of the interactive gambling act needs to be much more focused on cleaning up the existing bookies in Australia than it is on so-called illegal offshore gambling sites, which is how it's being pitched.
That review has the opportunity to undertake that clean-up and it would be a great pity if that opportunity was missed.
LUCY CARTER: He says that there are safer ways to gamble on the Melbourne Cup
CHARLES LIVINGSTONE: If you are going to have a bet, probably the safest thing to do is just to participate in a sweepstake with your friends or your co-workers.
If you really, really, really want to have a bet then make it real, go down to the TAB with real money, with a limited amount of real money, put your bet on and if you win, collect it and go away.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Monash University gambling researcher Dr Charles Livingstone ending that report from Lucy Carter.
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