Marietta Juanico learned to make pottery from her mother, Frances Concho, and grandmother, Helen Patricio, both respected Acoma Pueblo potters. When she was six her grandmother started teaching her to make small pots. "By the time I was in high school, I was good enough to sell with my grandmother on the Mesa Top at Acoma," says Marietta. "I made small and medium sized pots until after I was married. Then, my mother-in-law, Marie Juanico, encouraged me to build larger pots." Over time, Marietta has made pots from 1 inch to 24 inches high.
Marietta's pottery is elegant and graceful, spanning the range of shapes from wide mouthed ollas to long neck vases. She often captures the shapes and forms of the old water jars and vases in her smaller works, then uses traditional designs found on larger pieces to decorate them. The walls of her pots are thin and smooth, the painting clean and precise. She uses mostly traditional, but some contemporary, designs, several of which were passed down to her from her grandmother - in particular the black on white fine-line Starburst Rain pattern and the orange squares and brown triangles that make up the Butterfly pattern.
Like other pueblo potters she says "All of my pottery comes from the earth." The clay and pottery shards (broken pottery, crushed and used for tempering new pots) are mined on Acoma Pueblo property. The yellow-orange paint comes from yellow sand that has been strained and ground fine. The brown-black paint is ground from a stone found in dry riverbeds on the pueblo. Her pots are hand-built with the traditional coil technique. She uses a coconut shell and wooden paddle to shape them and a smooth river stone to polish them. For different sizes and style of pots she has stones of different sizes, the largest one a gift handed down from her mother. Marietta also uses the old-style yucca brushes to paint her designs because they work much better (for her purposes) than any commercial ones she has tried.


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Bovidae
Caprinae
Ovis canadensis
34-143 kg
Bighorn sheep live in North America and are one of two types of mountain sheep in this country. Their color ranges from light brown to dark brown or grayish, and they have a white rear and a white lining on the backs of their legs. Bighorn sheep take their name from the male's large, curved horns. They are excellent climbers in high, steep, rocky mountain regions. The "bighorn sheep" species has 3 living subspecies: Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, formerly California bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, and Desert bighorn sheep.
Photos with Bighorn Sheep
Bighorn sheep live in North America in the western mountainous areas, from southern Canada to Mexico. Their habitat consists of grassy mountain slopes, alpine meadows, and foothill country near rocky, rugged cliffs and bluffs. Bighorn sheep need drier slopes where the snowfall is no more than about sixty inches annually, as they cannot walk in deep snow to feed.
Canada, Mexico, United States
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Temperate coniferous forest
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Polar\Tundra
Bighorn sheep are diurnal. They are very social creatures, sometimes forming herds of up to 100, although more common are small groups of 8 to 10. Mature males keep away from young and females in separate flocks for most of the year. Young females remain with their mother's group, which is led by an older ewe. These sheep are very alert and their excellent eyesight enables them to accurately judge distances when jumping and finding footholds. In the autumn, the rams compete for ewes with butting contests, charging at each other faster than 20 miles per hour, their foreheads crashing together with a loud crack that one can hear a mile away. Such battles may go on for as long as 24 hours.
drift, drove, flock, fold, herd, mob, trip
Terrestrial, Cursorial, Altricial
The diet of Bighorn sheep varies according to the season. In summer they eat grasses or sedges. In winter they eat plants that are more woody, like sage, willow, and rabbit brush.
Diet Herbivore
November-December
150-180 days
1-2 lambs
ewe, dam
buck, ram
lamb, lambkin
The breeding season is from November to December, and young are born in the spring. Ewes will mate with several rams. After a gestation period of 150-180 days, one, and very occasionally two young are born. After only a week, lambs can follow their mothers confidently over the rocky terrain. Several few weeks after birth, lambs form groups of their own, going to their mothers only to drink milk now and again. By 4 to 6 months they are completely weaned. Females in captivity have been mated at 10 to 11 months, but they usually do not breed in the wild until in their second or third year. Due to fierce competition for females between males, and a hierarchy which is based on age and size (horn size as well), males are usually 7 years old before they mate. If dominant rams are killed, younger males in their group will mate sooner.
Unregulated or illegal hunting is the main threat, as well as competition from livestock, introduced diseases, and ongoing human encroachment where they live. Accidental deaths sometimes occur from falls, fighting, highway traffic, and avalanches. Predators include coyotes, wolves, mountain lions and bobcats.
It is thought that at the beginning of the 19th century Bighorns in North America numbered up to two million, but there are about only 70,000 today, including 15,700 sheep in Canada, 42,700 in the U.S. and 4,500 in Mexico. Overall, currently Bighorn sheep are classified as Leasy Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List and their numbers today remian stable.
These sheep are important predators of shrubs and grasses in their native landscapes. Bighorn sheep are also important prey for large predators.
The female is called a "ewe" and the male is called a "ram".
Desert bighorn do not need to water to drink during winter when green vegetation is present. During summer they drink at waterholes at least once every three days.
The hooves of these sheep have a strong grip when they are walking on rocky surfaces.
In winter, Bighorns move to areas where there is less snow, as they find it hard to walk in the snow.
Desert bighorn sheep use two unusual techniques for cooling their bodies during hot summers: panting and perspiring. Only during rainy seasons do desert bighorn exhibit the usual behavior of their species.
Bighorn sheep have the unique ability to be able to jump 6 meters from ledge to ledge.
1. Bighorn Sheep Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn_sheep
2. Bighorn Sheep on The IUCN Red List site - http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15735/0
Ovis ammon
Ovis orientalis
Thinhorn Sheep
Ovis dalli
Ammotragus lervia
Domestic Sheep
Spanish Ibex
Capra pyrenaica
Capra falconeri
African Bush Elephant
Loxodonta africana
Japanese Macaque
Macaca fuscata
Proboscis Monkey
Nasalis larvatus
Virginia Opossum
Didelphis virginiana

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Chief Communications Officer Paul Corliss
Brand Identity & Communications Guide
Paul Corliss
Paul.Corliss@untsystem.edu
UNT System Building, 432 | 1901 Main Street | Dallas, Texas 75201
Paul Corliss is the University of North Texas System's Chief Communications Officer. He is a member of Chancellor Lesa Roe's cabinet, and serves as the system's lead publicist and marketing strategist, overseeing media relations, branding, advertising, social media, digital communications, photo, video and public affairs, as well as both internal and external communications. Corliss handles media requests for Chancellor Roe and the UNT System Board of Regents. Previously he served as Director of Communications for the UNT System.
Corliss joined the UNT System after spending 20 years in professional sports, most recently as Vice President of Marketing & Communications for the NBA's official alumni association, Director of Community Affairs & Business Public Relations for the NFL's New Orleans Saints, and Director of Communications for NASCAR's Phoenix International Raceway. Through his own sports marketing company, Corliss has represented hundreds of celebrity athletes in marketing deals. He began his career as a sports writer for the Denton Record Chronicle and Dallas Morning News.
Corliss holds a master's degree in organizational leadership and administration from Concordia University Wisconsin and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas Christian University. He is an adjunct sports communications professor for UNT Dallas.


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Trade Finance & Investments PLC
ICRA Lanka reaffirms the rating of Trade Finance & Investments PLC
Instrument Rated Amount (LKR Mn) Rating Action
Issuer rating N/A Reaffirmed the issuer rating of [SL]BBB- with Negative outlook
ICRA Lanka Limited, subsidiary of ICRA Limited, a group company of Moody's Investors Service, has reaffirmed the issuer rating of Trade Finance & Investments PLC (TFIP or the Company) at [SL]BBB- (Pronounced SL triple B minus) with Negative outlook.
The Negative outlook factors in the subdued financial profile of TFIP's parent company, Commercial Credit and Finance PLC's (CCFL or the Parent/rated [SL]BBB with Negative outlook). TFIP is a 99.7% owned subsidiary and benefits from managerial and operational support from the Parent. The rating also takes cognisance of TFIP's established track record and experienced management team, granular loan portfolio and good profitability indicators. Over the next 3 years, the Company envisages to continue its aggressive portfolio growth strategy where it had recorded a CAGR of around 60% for the last three years, with focus on 2-wheeler and 3-wheelers. ICRA Lanka estimates that the Company, in view of its growth plans, would need additional capital infusion during this period to maintain an adequate capital profile. ICRA Lanka expects timely support from the parent, in raising funding, for meeting its capital requirements. ICRA Lanka notes that TFIP was acquired by CCFL under the financial sector consolidation programme of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) in 2014 but continues to remain a subsidiary as at date; ICRA Lanka would closely monitor any significant development on account of the above and the consequent impact on TFIP's credit profile.
The rating takes note of the moderation of TFIP's asset quality over the recent past largely because of macro-economic challenges and moderate credit profile of its customer segments. The rating further takes cognizance of TFIP's small scale, competitive business environment and susceptibility to unfavourable regulatory changes it faces.
Outlook: Negative
The Negative outlook reflects the weakened credit profile of the Parent company, CCFL. The outlook may be revised to 'Stable' in case of steady improvement in CCFL's credit profile while TFIP maintains comfortable capital, asset quality and earnings profiles. The rating may be downgraded in case of downward rating revision of the Parent, lower than expected support from the parent or significant moderation in the financial risk profile of TFIP.
Operational and managerial support from CCFL: TFIP is a 99.7% owned subsidiary of CCFL (rated [SL]BBB/Negative) and has strong business linkages with the Parent. CCFL's support in terms of shared services and knowledge sharing in all key aspects of the operations has helped TFIP to strengthen its systems and procedures over the period. ICRA Lanka expects CCFL to continue its operational and managerial support to TFIP, and provide timely support in securing funding for meeting capital or liquidity requirements, especially given the aggressive portfolio growth envisaged over the next 3-years. CCFL acquired TFIP under the financial sector consolidation programme of CBSL in 2014, going forward, ICRA Lanka would closely monitor the developments with regard to the same. Out of the 6 directors of the board, CCFL has one representative. TFIP has an established track record of 40-years of operation as a finance company in Sri Lanka and the Company's management is also well experienced in its traditional business of leasing 2-wheelers and 3-wheelers.
Adequate capitalization profile: TFIP's capitalization profile is adequate with core and total CAR at 14.3% and gearing at 4.6 times as of Mar-19. TFIP's core capital stood at about LKR 1.7 Bn as of Mar-19 (post incorporating IFRS9 transition impact of LKR 367 Mn), above the minimum regulatory requirement of LKR 1.5 Bn effective from Jan-19. The same is required to be increased up to LKR 2.0 Bn by Jan-20 and to LKR 2.5 Bn by Jan-21. While TFIP's core CAR would be above the regulatory requirement over the next 3-years, the Company would need to raise external capital to maintain gearing at moderate level and to meet increasing total CAR requirements (12.5% by Jul-21) in view of the envisaged portfolio growth at about CAGR of 50% over the period.
Granular loan portfolio– TFIP's portfolio grew by 36% to LKR 9.9 Bn as of Mar-19. The exposure to leasing increased to 96% of the portfolio as of Mar-19 vis a vis 93% as of Mar-18 (96% as of Mar-17), largely because of the curtailing of lending to microfinance during FY2019. The microfinance exposure decreased to 2% from 6% during this period. The top 10 exposures only accounted for 0.4% of the total portfolio (0.5% as of Mar-18) indicating portfolio granularity and low credit concentration risk. As of Mar-19, TFIP's portfolio consisted of 2-wheelers (78%), 3-wheelers (17%), 2% each of gold loans and microfinance and 1% other loans. Going forward, the Company envisages focusing 95-98% of its portfolio on 2-wheelers and 3-wheelers, with the balance on gold loans and other loans. While the portfolio is expected to remain granular, ability to keep credit quality under control in view of the envisaged steep growth in the portfolio and weak credit profile of targeted borrower segments would be a key monitorable.
Adequate profitability indicators: NIM and RoA (on PAT) stood at 18.6% and 7.0% respectively as of Mar-19 (20.8% and 7.5% as of Mar-18) supported by healthy business yields and moderate leverage. During FY2019, TFIP witnessed increase in the provisioning cost (as a percentage of average total assets) to 2.2% from 1.6% largely because of the transition into IFRS9 standard and subdued macroeconomic conditions that prevailed in the country. The operating expenses (as a percentage of average total assets) decreased to 8.3% from 9.2% with the increase in business volumes. Going forward, TFIP's ability to further improve its operating efficiency and keep credit cost under control would be crucial for incremental profitability.
Moderation in asset quality indicators; however, remains better than the industry: TFIP's gross NPA ratio (GNPA%) increased to 3.5% as of Mar-19 from 2.5% as of Mar-18 (2.0% as of Mar-17); however, it remains better than the systemic level (7.7% as of Mar-19). The increased NPAs during FY2019 was largely because of the weak macro-economic conditions. Further, TFIP targets largely the self-employed borrowers having moderate credit profile, who are more vulnerable to adverse economic cycles. The GNPA% further increased to 4.3% as of May-19 largely on account of the temporary disruption of operations after the terror attack in April 2019. TFIP's asset quality is somewhat supported by strong focus on collections and recoveries. During FY2019, the Company has written off about LKR 279 Mn (LKR 26 Mn in FY2018) largely from the disposal losses in the leasing portfolio. ICRA Lanka notes that historically TFIP had high delinquency in softer buckets. The 90 days past due (dpd) stood at 16% as of Mar-19 vis a vis 13% as of Mar-18 (10% as of Mar-17). Going forward, TFIP's ability to maintain good asset quality levels, considering the envisaged high portfolio growth, would be a key rating sensitivity.
Small scale of operations, competitive business environment and susceptibility to unfavourable regulatory changes: TFIP is a relatively smaller player in the NBFI industry with an asset base of about LKR 10.4 Bn as of Mar-19. The Company operates with 7 branches (including head office), and it has presence covering 11 districts of the country through its virtual business model (branchless operations). ICRA Lanka notes that given the Company's plan to expand its branchless operations island wide, there is need to improve monitoring and supervision aspect of its operations to make it commensurate with the business risk. Further, the operating environment for 2W and 3W financing is quite competitive with established NBFIs and banks competing for market share. The leasing business is also susceptible to adverse regulatory changes as observed in the recent past.
Analytical approach: TFIP credit risk profile is strengthened by the support from CCFL (rated BBB/ Negative).For arriving at the ratings, ICRA has applied its rating methodologies as indicated below.
Links to applicable criteria: ICRA Lanka's Credit Rating Methodology for Non-Banking Financial Institutions
TFIP is a registered finance company which offers leasing, hire purchase, gold loans and other loan products apart from accepting deposits (fixed and savings). The Company is specialised in leasing 2-wheelers and 3-wheelers, which accounted for about 95% of the total portfolio as on March 31, 2019. TFIP operates with 6 branches namely, Negombo, Kilinochchi, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Marawila and Maligawatta. TFIP was incorporated in the year 1978 as a private limited company and was part of the J. L. Morrison Son & Jones group. It was converted to a public limited company (unquoted) in 1990. The Company was taken over by Mr. N G H Cooray, former Chairman of the Jetwing Group of companies, in 1990 by acquiring 93% stake; the Cooray family took management control of TFIP in 1995. As part of the consolidation of the finance and leasing companies in Sri Lanka, Commercial Credit and Finance PLC (CCFL) acquired majority shares of TFIP in the year 2014. CCFL holds close to 99.7% of the Company as of March 31, 2019.
During FY2019, TFIP reported a net profit of LKR 624 Mn on a total asset base of LKR 10,364 Mn as compared to net profit of LKR 418 Mn on a total asset base of LKR 7,471 Mn in the previous fiscal.
Rating history for last three years:
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Rating: [SL]BBB-
ICRA Lanka revises the outlook of Trade Finance & Investments PLC to negative July 30, 2018
ICRA Lanka reaffirms the [SL]BBB- issuer rating of Trade Finance & Investments PLC
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Coca-Cola to invest USD 300 mln in Ethiopia
By Birhanu Fikade
New plant to produce 70,000 cases per day
Stretching on 14.3 hectares of land, a new Coca-Cola Factory that requires an investment outlay of two billion birr or USD 70 million, said to be the largest plant for coca cola in the country, is set to be finalized early next year, The Reporter has learnt.
Joining the Ethiopian beverage market some 60 years ago, Coca-Cola and its shareholders have announced their intentions of investing USD 300 million in the coming five years. Burno Pietracci, general manager of the East and Central African Franchise, said that Coca-Cola has decided to expand its outlay and promote Ethiopia as a destination for other potential foreign investors.
After breaking ground on Thursday at the town of Sebeta, some 25 kilometers from Addis Ababa, the new plant will be the biggest bottler that it has built in Ethiopia so far. Coca-Cola has installed three plants creating some 2,200 local jobs to date. The overall jobs created in Ethiopia under Coca-Cola will reach to 2,700 including the 500 newly expected jobs from the upcoming factory.
According to Daryl Wilson, managing director of East Africa Bottling Share Company (EABSC), the investment disbursement will further reach USD 150 million since one more plant is planned to be installed in Hawassa, capital of the Southern Regional State. The Sebeta plant will have a manufacturing capacity of 70,000 cases per day.
The first Coca-Cola bottling plant was set up in Addis Ababa in 1959 then followed by the second plant installed in Dire Dawa in 1965. The Addis Ababa plant alone has a capacity of bottling some 36,000 plastic bottles (PET) per hour. The most recent plant installed in Bahir Dar commenced its production in 2016.
According to reports, EABSC launched "vision 2020" where it will become energy self-sufficient; and during the same year, the company set plans to reach 100 million unit cases, that will put Ethiopia on par with Egypt and South Africa.
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The metabolism of n-nonane in male Fischer 344 rats.
Serve MP1, Bombick DD, Baughman TM, Jarnot BM, Ketcha M, Mattie DR.
Department of Chemistry, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.
The urinary metabolites of n-nonane in male Fischer 344 rats, after administering the hydrocarbon by gavage, included gamma-valerolactone, delta-hexanolactone, 2,5-hexanedione, delta-heptanolactone, 1-heptanol, 2-nonanol, 3-nonanol, 4-nonanol, 4-nonanone and 5-methyl-2-(3-oxobutyl)furan. Metabolism strongly favored the formation of monoalcohols and lactones, which are the products of appropriately substituted hydroxy carboxylic acids. The metabolites were identified using gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) permitted the detection of the dicarboxylic acids malonic acid and glutaric acid in the n-nonane dosed rat urines.


I recently popped by Snow PR's showroom to get a closer look of their client's SS12 collections. I was fortunate enough to see the collections at LFW but I always love seeing my favourite pieces close up and seeing the prints, details and embellishment; it's almost like gaining a whole new perspective and appreciation for the collection.
Own The Runway – Low priced label On The Runway didn't show at LFW and is completely new to me. The shoe collection blew me away. The term on-trend really makes me cringe but that's exactly what they are. With such an overwhelming choice, it was so hard to choose favourites. Glittery, animal print, platforms, chunky heels, lace ups; I want them all!
PPQ – This collection was one of the highlights of LFW. Although I adore the quirky PPQ crest print, I really liked the cute, pastel pieces in lightweight tweed and silk.
Joanna Hynes – As exquisite up close as it was from a distance, a really strong debut collection. One to watch.
Jena Theo – The duo who won Fashion Fringe back in 2009 count Hilary Alexander as a fan and it's easy to see why. Their show is always one of my favourites during LFW and their pieces are as stunning in person as they are on models strutting down the catwalk.


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FINALLY! SpaceX is on the edge of Starship's first orbital launch attempt..
It's been more than a year and a half since we've seen the prototype of SpaceX's next-gen Starship spacecraft on its maiden flight with the Super Heavy rocket, which has been pushed back relentlessly during that time.
Although this is finally going to change soon in the form of SpaceX. The dazzling Starship is now inches closer to leaving the atmosphere Elon Musk took to Twitter last Thursday morning to post a photo of the Starship sitting atop the super heavy rocket above the coastal fog in South Texas.
Elon Musk attached a short comment Starship launch attempt soon is a relative term in space flight, but SpaceX also tweeted on January 12 that Starship was moving forward with a final series of tests of the vehicle and super heavy booster. The Starbase Test Site in Boca Chica Texas A company installed a Starship vehicle named Ship 24 atop a super heavy booster named Booster 7 on the launch pad on January 2.
March 9 Now let's see why March looks and feels like there is a lot of work to be done before Starship launches on the Super Heavy Of course the combined vehicle will go through a wet dress rehearsal The upper Starship stage will be removed so the Super Heavy rocket will be a full stable Able to pass through the test fire. The Starship team recently targeted a January 20 launch date for one of the 33 Raptor engines, according to people familiar with the plans.
One person told that due to the repair of the road near the examination venue, the date of conducting the examination has been delayed. The company is now targeting January 20 for what is known as the static fire test. That test, which is the final test before launch, could still be rescheduled, the people warned, to make sure all 33 engines on the rocket are working properly. must be done and SpaceX must still obtain its launch license.
The FAA completed an environmental review in June allowing the Starship orbital launch from Boca Chica to proceed, but required the company to implement about 75 measures to reduce environmental impacts, something neither SpaceX nor The FAA has provided updates on the progress of implementing those mitigations or Starship launches. However, the license conditions do not require all measures to be met before the launch license is issued, it said in a statement to Space News on January 12.
While others are designed to happen after launch or perhaps after an accident, the FAA will ensure SpaceX complies with all necessary mitigations, but a March launch seems a likely time when everyone names Mars. Named after the deity of. Not only SpaceX but NASA is also looking forward to this historic flight, which if successful will bring a Starship-like vehicle the likes of which the world has never seen before.
Large-scale spaceflight will open up new possibilities for the space industry that were never available before as Starship can realize the long-desired goal of rapid low-cost reuse of a launch system, pioneered by NASA for large space launches. A mission has been conceived. under the status quo. Consider development. The system rocket will be capable of launching 95 metric tons into low Earth orbit. NASA and its contractors, led by Boeing, would be able to build a one-year expandable vehicle to launch payloads at a cost of about 4 billion permits.
The vehicles are similar to Starship in terms of lift capacity and the Super Heavy should be able to put 100 tons into low Earth orbit, although SpaceX is already capable of building Starship in a month and re-engineering each booster and spacecraft. Is. It is possible plan to use. The ability to launch a hundred tons every two weeks instead of an annual mission is several times more than what NASA could do with its vehicle space program at a seriously $4 billion a year.
Just take a moment and really think about their decision to choose SpaceX for the Human Landing System. NASA officials appeared to recognize this potential, where we want to see what industry partners can do in terms of innovation and solutions. Lisa Watson Morgan Human said there is an emphasis on innovation and new solutions to old problems, and the landing systems program manager chose the Starship architecture.
Tripathi, who examines these problems from the perspective of both NASA and SpaceX, says that if Starship succeeds, NASA no longer needs to choose just one or two big things to do in space.
The agency will be able to do many different things at the same time, and more importantly, Starship will change space science to such an extent that today no one understands how Starship differs from other Starships in its design. is different. Is. is the location.
This means that as far as you can go, there would need to be a huge amount of mass around the Solar System. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a public meeting of the National Academies in November 2021 that Europa, a 100-ton object on the surface, could offer five times more performance than the best SLS, even reaching the kick stage Starship unable to.
It's also projected to be significantly cheaper, though that may or may not affect Musk's optimistic projection of less than $10 million per launch, more in line with the 747 and shipping if they get anywhere near that cost. Robin Hague, former head of launches for UK launch company Skyra, said 1,000 cubic meter containers were being used throughout the solar system.
The Starship is large enough to fit the entire Eiffel Tower into a usable volume, although it is not powerful enough to lift it into orbit. This enormous potential prompted Jennifer Holdman of the NASA Ames Research Center and her colleagues to see what kind of starship it might be. prompted to publish a paper on the device. Landing the Starship and Orbiter on the lunar or Martian surface effectively allows the rocket equation to carry large payloads to the Moon and Mars.
It fits neither the Moon nor Mars, as Margarita Maranova F. The goal for Starship, said SpaceX's former senior Mars development engineer, is to build on more general large-scale exploration capability ideas that include pint-sized versions.
You don't have to try and make it as exciting as you can drill into ice on Mars which is so important to human exploration as well as sustaining the search for life, two-way delivery service Starship may return There is a huge amount of material from these and other worlds. We've always been very cautious about returning samples to Earth because we're limited by the amount of mass, with the Heymann Starship you can fill that vehicle with rocks and ice.
What you find in the meantime is that Starship's unique capabilities can be used to launch a wide variety of next-generation space telescopes, revolutionizing astrophysics. Really hope the latest starship timeline comes true and that's it for today's episode don't forget to share your thoughts in the comment section below we thank Elon Musk so much for your support and looking forward to the next one Huh. ,


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Awesome Person of the Week: Man With Autism Writes Children's Book To Help Kids Feel Less Alone
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Kerry Magro has done something amazing – he has written a book for children with autism. Magro was diagnosed with autism at the age of two. He only started speaking at the age of three. He felt like an outsider during his childhood and with his new book, he wants to make sure that no child with autism ever feels like he did.
Having role models with autism is important
31-year-old Magro told Today that if he had role models with autism while he was a child, he would have felt a lot less isolated. He added that seeing someone like him being displayed in the media world would have given him more self-motivation and would've made him feel less alone.
Magro showed doctors that autism doesn't have to determine your future
Doctors didn't have high hopes for Magro, telling his parents that he was unlikely to ever graduate from high school. Magro lived to surprise people – not only did he graduate from high school, but he also earned a doctorate. Take that, naysayers.
Magro has been working as a professional speaker, author, and advocate for the past ten years. It's no surprise then that he decided to use his talents to help other people with autism. His new children's book titled "I Will Light It Up Blue" was released recently and the protagonists feature a boy and girl with autism.
Magro wants to create more awareness
According to Magro, he wrote the book to help start important conversations regarding autism. He is hopeful that the book will be helpful to children, their parents, and educators. Magro says that his biggest motivator for writing the book was to show people how to accept someone who is different from them. While writing the story, Magro made sure that he shared the characteristics of autism in the hope that people will learn how to recognize it.
"I wanted to focus on a boy character and a girl character – even though boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism. I wanted to share the characteristics of a girl with autism in the hopes that people can recognize a girl who shows signs of autism and make sure she doesn't fall through the cracks."
Growing up without any role models with autism, Magro felt very alone. He wants to make sure no kid ever feels like that again.
Image courtesy of Kerry Magro
The two main characters in the book are twins named Doug and Emma. The story follows their journey as they learn about "Light It Up Blue", which was also part of World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. During their adventures, they learn how to speak up for themselves. Hopefully, their tale will help readers to learn and understand more about autism.
Autism doesn't look the same for everyone
For Magro, it was important to showcase characters with different abilities – Emma relies on an iPad to communicate with the people around her, while Doug can speak. Magro did this to show the world that people with autism aren't all alike – it differs from person to person. In the story, Emma is more impacted by autism than Doug and Magro did this to emphasize the different ways autism can impact someone. He also went to a lot of trouble to make sure that his characters were true to life – he did his research, consulting with experts in the field to make sure the way he presented the characters were as authentic as possible.
We need more stories like Magro's
Magro is a firm believer that there need to be more stories out there that feature people with autism. He is glad that these type of characters are starting to appear in pop culture, such as Julia on "Sesame Street", but he believes that more needs to be done.
"If we are truly trying to be a society that focuses on inclusion, we have to make sure we are representing the community as it truly is."
Creating more awareness around autism and specifically focusing on helping kids who have to deal with it, is pretty amazing. Let's hope that the narrative regarding autism will change sooner rather than later so that no kid (or grown-up for that matter) would ever have to face feeling isolated again just because they are a bit different from the rest of society. After all, differences should be celebrated, not criticized.
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Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi Polskiej Akademii Nauk (3)
Na-X (1)
activated carbon (1)
chemical-mineralogical characteristics (1)
elemental mercury (1)
flue gases (1)
fly ash particle size (1)
pyrolyzate (1)
solid sorbents (1)
tire pyrolysis (1)
zeolites (1)
Measuring the installation for mercury sorption from gases on solid sorbents
Piotr Kunecki Dorota Czarna-Juszkiewicz Rafał Panek Magdalena Wdowin
Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi Polskiej Akademii Nauk | 2018 | Nr 104 | 153-162 | DOI: 10.24425/124362
Keywords solid sorbents elemental mercury flue gases zeolites fly ash
The issue of mercury emission and the need to take action in this direction was noticed in 2013 via the Minamata Convention. Therefore, more and more often, work and new law regulations are commencing to reduce this chemical compound from the environment. The paper presents the problem of removing mercury from waste gases due to new BREF/BAT restrictions, in which the problem of the need to look for new, more efficient solutions to remove this pollution was also indicated. Attention is paid to the problem of the occurrence of mercury in the exhaust gases in the elemental form and the need to carry out laboratory tests. A prototype installation for the sorption of elemental mercury in a pure gas stream on solid sorbents is presented. The installation was built as part of the LIDER project, financed by the National Center for Research and Development in a project entitled: "The Application of Waste Materials From the Energy Sector to Capture Mercury Gaseous Forms from Flue Gas". The installation is used for tests in laboratory conditions in which the carrier gas of elemental mercury is argon. The first tests on the zeolite sorbent were made on the described apparatus. The tested material was synthetic zeolite X obtained as a result of a two-stage reaction of synthesis of fly ash type C with sodium hydroxide. Due to an increase, the chemical affinity of the tested material in relation to mercury, the obtained zeolite material was activated with silver ions (Ag+) by an ion exchange using silver nitrate (AgNO3). The first test was specified for a period of time of about 240 minutes. During this time, the breakthrough of the tested zeolite material was not recorded, and therefore it can be concluded that the tested material may be promising in the development of new solutions for capturing mercury in the energy sector. The results presented in this paper may be of interest to the energy sector due to the solution of several environmental aspects. The first of them is mercury sorption tests for the development of new exhaust gases treatment technologies. On the other hand, the second aspect raises the possibility of presenting a new direction for the management and utilization of combustion by-products such as fly ash.
Effect of pre-treatment of fly ash on the efficiency of zeolite synthesis
Dorota Czarna-Juszkiewicz Piotr Kunecki Rafał Panek Magdalena Wdowin
Keywords fly ash synthesis Na-X fractions fly ash particle size
The problem of of the use of fly ash still constitutes a research and exploration area for scientists. This is due to the fact that, 6,000,000 Mg of coal combustion by-products (CCB) are storage on landfills yearly in Poland alone. One of the potential directions of using fly ash is to use it as a substrate in hydrothermal syntheses of mesoporous materials (synthetic zeolites). Zeolites are aluminosilicates with a spatial structure. Due to their specific structure they are characterized by a number of specific properties among others molecular-sieve, ion-exchange and catalytic that can be used in engineering and environmental protection. So far, the synthesis has been carried out using coal combustion by-products such as fly ash or microsphere. The article analyzes whether separation from the fly ash of the appropriate fraction (below 63 μm) will affect the formation of zeolite grains. The syntheses were carried out using class F fly ash and the fraction separated from it, which was obtained by sieving the ash through a 63 μm sieve. Chemical (XRF) and mineralogical (XRD, SEM-EDS) analyzes were carried out for substrates as well as the obtained reaction products. In the case of substrates, the analysis did not show any significant differences between the ash and the separated fraction. However, in products after synthesis (Na-X zeolite with a small amount of Na-P1 zeolite, and small amounts of quartz and unreacted aluminosilicate glass - mullite) higher aluminum and sodium contents were observed from the separated fraction, with a lower calcium and potassium content. A small proportion of illite was observed on the diffraction curve of the zeolite from the fraction. Observations of grain morphology showed no differences in formation. Based on the conducted analyzes, it can be stated that, considering the economics of the synthesis process, the separation of fine fractions from the fly ash does not affect the quality of the synthesis process.
Characteristics of waste after pyrolysis of tyres and analysis of its potential use
Dorota Czarna-Juszkiewicz Magdalena Wdowin Piotr Kunecki Paweł Baran Rafał Panek Robert Żmuda
Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi Polskiej Akademii Nauk | 2018 | Nr 107 | 19–32 | DOI: 10.24425/znigsme.2018.125802
Keywords tire pyrolysis pyrolyzate activated carbon chemical-mineralogical characteristics
It is estimated that the amount of used car tires in the European Union in 2016 was established at the level of 3,515,000 Mg, which is undoubtedly a problem from the point of view of engineering and environmental protection. An alternative to storing this waste in landfills is their pyrolysis. As a result of thermal decomposition, calorific value products (oil and gas fraction) are obtained, as well as a solid residue, which due to its composition and properties can be processed into a high quality carbon sorbent. For this purpose, various methods of modification of the pyrolyzate are used, both involving physical and chemical activation. This article presents the characteristics of solid residue after the pyrolysis of rubber tires running at a temperature of about 400°C, which included an analysis of chemical composition (XRF and IR), mineralogical composition (XRD, SEM-EDS) and textural characteristics. Additionally, for the purpose of activation, the sample was treated with nitrogen at a temperature of 550°C. The mineralogical analysis showed that the dominant mineral component is carbon. In addition, the presence of quartz, calcite and sphalerite was observed. Analysis of the chemical composition suggests that due to the high carbon content (about 80% by mass) it is possible for a carbon sorbent from the analyzed waste to be obtained. However, previous preliminary studies did not allow a material constituting a substitute for activated carbon to be obtained, because the applied modification only slightly increased the BET specific surface area, which reached the value of approx. 85 m2/g. Based on the analysis of the pore size distribution of the 2 tested samples, it was found to be homogeneous/modal with a micro/mesoporous nature, while the shape of the hysteresis loop suggests the presence of "bottle shape" pores. Due to the relatively high content of zinc, the composition of waste (about 4% of mass), the possibility of recovery of this element should also be considered.


Catholics schools have served as a major resource to help immigrant communities in the United States promote Catholic identity and social mobility. At a time when nearly 60 percent of U.S. Catholic children under age 18 are Hispanic, we need to examine with new eyes how Catholic schools are serving this population. This workshop introduces the findings from the National Survey of Catholic Schools Serving Hispanic Families (2015), conducted under the leadership of Dr. Hosffman Ospino. Come and learn from fresh data and analysis on a very important topic for the future of the Catholic community in the United States.


International friendlies – what have our players been up to?
International friendlies - what have our players been up to?
RoM has launched a World Cup preview with football writers from around the world write about the Manchester United players who are going to Russia.
Jesse Lingard and Ashley Young started England's 2-1 win over Nigeria, playing for 67 minutes. Marcus Rashford came on for the final 17 minutes. Phil Jones left the squad as his wife is due to give birth.
Romelu Lukaku started Belgium's 0-0 draw against Portugal and was one of four players to be rested at half-time. Marouane Fellaini came on for the second 45 minutes. Our striker's relationship with the fans isn't the best though, with him reflecting on the standing ovation he received after scoring twice against Saudi Arabia in March. "A first applause after nine years," he said. "Has everything been forgotten and forgiven between me and the public? As far as I am concerned not yet. One applause in nine years, then it is not forgotten and forgiven." Lukaku is Belgium's all-time top scorer.
Victor Lindelof played for 90 minutes in Sweden's 0-0 draw against Denmark, making his 20th appearance for his country. The 23-year-old got married last week.
Marcos Rojo came on for the second half in Argentina's 4-0 win over Haiti.
David de Gea will likely play against Switzerland for Spain this evening at 8pm.
So its official, Fred is due for medicals tomorrow...congrats #Red Fred.
Been thinking, we could buy Shaqiri of Stoke city.He just confirmed he is leaving and wants to stay in England. He fits in naturally into our RW position.Will come cheap with not to high salary too. What do you guys think?
Yep just read about it this morning. Its good to do the business early with out that last day crap.
Not seen him play so will watch out for him with Brazil at the WC.
As for Shaqiri, interesting question....He has bags of skill no doubt, however do we really need him?
Seems we are also close to signing 19 year old full back Diogo Dalot from Porto.
He speaks very highly of you though , but reckons you seldom get the beers in !
Dalot had a €20million (£17.5m) clause in his contract that could be activated on June 30.
It reported eight clubs are willing to pay an even bigger fee to sign the full-back before then.
Just biding my time waiting for the fixture list to be released ( then to be rearranged to suit TV) so I can plan my excursion to Old Trafford at Christmas (presuming my daughter comes over from the states) and then to get the wife on board .
A bit of trivia for you Louise Bryne is the match day coordinator (pic below) For G. Nev (and Co) at Hotel Football .
She was brilliant at organising everything for me , especially with the wife being really ill at the time and the daughter and family flying over from San Francisco (it made their arms ache) .
I was so surprised when I met her (and I took her flowers as she had been so helpful (i'm also a creep)).
I was expecting her to be a middle aged northern lady, but she was a youngster (they all seem to be at the hotel) from Plymouth, who supported Chelsea . She was also a football coach in the states .
Bit of trivia for you, when we played Barca in March 1984 (I was there) , who had who was at the time the best player in the world i.e Maradona in his pocket for 90 minutes?
Think I was there also, was the player you mentioned a Mr Scholes ?
A part of my daily slavery I take the wife's dog for a three mile walk every morning at 5-00am .
Scholles is invincible, he was in disguise .
Oddly enough I can remember my very first match.
I can remember the score (3-2 to United) but very little else .
Even I was young then !
Granted, thought you were 250! lol Resident dinosaur!!
That atmosphere and noise is what we have to bring back somehow to Old Trafford.
When I went last December it was like a morgue, and incidentally it is the only time I have ever sat in the chairs .
It is a bit like Glastonbury (just up the road from me), a lot of people go there just to say they've been, the football seems a secondary thing to a lot of them.
They do bring in a lot of revenue though which I'm sure the Glaziers love .
I could not believe the change when I went after such a long time .
The whole logistical side of things was very interesting though .
It is the sign of the times I suppose .
I prefer the good old days with the old first division, four bob to get in and plenty of blood .
Another useless bit of Info . The first match that the (then) new cantilever stand was opened, was the charity shield against Spurs in 1965 (or 6). If memory serves me I think Pat Jennings the Spurs goalkeeper scored .
More useless info on request !
All banter aside, hopefully turns great and shows the things we expect from a ManUtd player.
We could do with a signing to step up to the plate and show his worth.
I wonder why he has never played for a big club though ?
We look forward in anticipation !
I think a lot of peeps are confusing the Fred (Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos) with another Fred (Frederico Chaves Guedes) who was a cumbersome striker for Brazil in the last world cup .
So to most of us this one is a bit of an unknown quantity . which makes the signing all the more intriguing .
He was banned for the second half of last season worldwide after being tested positive for diuretic Hydrochlorothiazide .
But that aside he does appear to have all the attributes desired in a modern central midfielder.
A gifted passer with both feet, he is capable of breaking the lines of the opposition either with incisive through-balls or powerful dribbles from deep.
The Brazilian is also diligent in carrying out his defensive duties, regularly seen running back towards his own goal to recover possession and sweeping up behind team-mates.
Bring on the new season !
But yeah, it's definitely a bit of mystery, the player but its nothing crazy. He is for a reason in that brazil squad which is not a joke squad. They are filled with talent, so if you get there, you are very good. Also 2 top managers, Jose and Pep wanting you, is pretty good news.
Here's for a great player!
As I said , I think their is a lot of confusion between the two Freds. I was mistaken at first, this one is only a baby .
I have a feeling that Jose might be changing tack a bit with the two young signings we appear to be getting .
Hopefully they can shake a few of the "stars" up a bit .
I know what you meant by "old" on your other threads . But Jose has tended to go down that road, but without much success .
That's what I meant when I said I think he is changing tack .
And yes here's for a title challenge !!!
"Arsenal interest in Fellaini is genuine and it sounds like he's more likely to sign for them than he is to renew with MUFC or sign for AC Milan. Has already spoken with Emery, who wanted to sign him for PSG.
Yes here's to a title challenge .
Can't say too much about Jose, although I don't like him as a person, he is the one I would have chosen after SAF.
I just hope we take a more attacking stance next season .
But some of the players need to step up to the plate also .
It will all turn around eventually .
I also think that Jose will extend his contract beyond this season, hence the younger players on his radar .
If all goes well we should be the most improved side next season performance wise, and if we are, we will be champions.
Spurs and the "L" team are nothing , Arsenal have to restructure, city have had their moment in the sun. so if we're bold, the title is ours to win .
And hell no, we need positivity.
If I can remember the details would like to hear the story about the supporters trip to boro just after their promotion to the top flight, our traveling restrictions, the prisoner, and the women with the tattoo across her forehead?
The age thing is one of the many myths bundled around by our manager's distractors, just like the academy thing, especially in comparison to other managers.
Most top managers buy over and under 25 years in a balanced way, mixing youth with experience.
It's not a foreign concept at United.
We have brought in Blanc, Michael Owen, Sheringham, Berbatov, RVP, Larson, Veron, Yorke etc, at various times, as well as younger players.
Jose has mixed them up too.
Lindelof, Bailly, Lukaku, Pogba under 25.
U learnt from me to support the manager? U must be joking, did u also learn to support all our players or did u skip that part of the lesson and pick which players u hate to bash. When Jose is sacked and we get a manager who u don't like u would still come and say u learnt from me to criticize whichever manager u feel is destroying our club. Apparently I'm your role model and u are learning from me.
It wasn't a criticism , but it does seem he had gone for instant success , and the younger players on his radar gives me the impression he will be here for the long haul .
Yes Lindelof, Bailly, Lukaku, Pogba are under 25, but have hardly set the world alight , apart from Lukaku who has done what was expected .
"Zlatan, Mikhi, Matic, Sanchez over 25 [ and 2 are gone] "
Indeed,long term planning and a myth!
Matic has done well , Sanchez has been atrocious but I would imagine will find his feet next season .
All in all next season should see a big improvement .
I certainty hope so !
So what if two of his signings will be in their 30s?
Are there not enough examples above where we bought some players for " short term" use ?
All I'm saying is that it's not a unique situation.
Yea role model - a person looked to by others as an example to be imitated.
He better change his ways and we better be bold..
We haven't been for a number of years now and failed in every one of them under different managers!
Our club just can't win by doing a Chelsea.. it's in our DNA I believe!
No to shaqiri.. I just don't see what use we have of him.. he wouldn't get ahead of Mata, Lingard or Sanchez on the right.. we also have Rashford who José has used at times over there and possibly Pereira too capable of playing there..


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Power Vpn – PureVPN Review – 2019
by newadmin October 8, 2016
Introduction Power Vpn
PureVPN has been providing VPN services because 2007, so It is not surprising that it currently maintains a lengthy list of attributes: 2,000+ self-managed servers around 180+ locations, a broad selection of protocols, torrent service, DNS and IPv6 flow protection, a smart kill switch, five apparatus allowed and payment via Bitcoin if you require it. Power Vpn
Unusual Extras include'split tunneling' (you choose which traffic goes through the VPN, and which uses your ISP) and also the ability to create an instant Wi-Fi VPN hotspot in your laptop, and connect even more devices through that.
The Company provides dedicated apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux, extensions for both Chrome and Firefox, and much more downloads and tutorials to help you set this up on routers, Kodi, Android TV, Amazon's Fire TV Stick and much more.
12 month program – $5.75 per month ($69 total cost)
The Monthly strategy is average value at $11 (#8.40), but the yearly program is merely a monthly $2.99 (#2.30), a really good thing.
This Drops into a monthly $1.32 (#1) if you cover five years upfront, a total of $79 (#61). The cost is so low, although we would not normally suggest signing up for this long, you may think that it's worthwhile. Personal Internet Access delivers a decent two-year program for $2.91 (#2.24) a month, for instance, but that is still $70 (#54) in total, not much less. If you simply use PureVPN for a couple of years, you're getting adequate value.
The By employing some marketing trickery, company spoils this belief a little. Each program has a'past sold' indicator that informs you when someone signed up, and it's only a few minutes ago.
This is Presumably intended to explain to you how popular the service is, but we're not certain that the figures are genuine. We seen in different browsers, and refreshed the page several times, and also the'past sold' figures varied widely. They act as though they're chosen randomly, rather than corresponding to any real world events.
PureVPN does not advertise a trial. We dug deep and found a webpage for something known as a'3-day trial accounts', but that's somewhat misleading. It is really just a commercial plan in which you pay a non-refundable $2.50 (#2) for 3 days of support.
There is a guarantee for the Regular plans, which can be more generous than many. PureVPN's refund policy utilized to include some sneaky circumstances where you wouldn't get your money back in the event that you'd connected more than 100 occasions, or used more than 3GB of data transport, but we're happy to observe these happen to be dropped. It's currently promoted as a'no questions asked, risk-free, stress-free' money-back guarantee, so if you're miserable, just send an email and ask for a refund. Power Vpn
Handing Over your money to PureVPN is unusually easy, as the company supports just about every payment format there's: credit card, PayPal, Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies (through CoinPayments), AliPay, various gift cards, and more than 150 additional payment methods via the Paymentwall platform.
After Parting with your cash, download links point you to apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, the browser extensions and much more. We caught the Windows client, and there came a welcome email with login information, as it was downloading.
Installation Was easy, and after a quick launch, the Windows client prompted us to pick one of five modes: Stream, Internet Freedom, Security/Privacy, File Sharing and Dedicated IP. We guess most people will wonder whether to select Internet Freedom or even Security/Privacy, and there's no advice to explain the difference.
The Support website told us that choosing a mode would optimize PureVPN's settings . File Sharing manners and the Streaming would optimize for speed, although for instance, choosing Security/Privacy would prioritize security above all else.
VPN Novices might appreciate this strategy since it means they don't need to understand and tweak the settings that are underlying. But specialists are not as inclined to approve, as there's no indication of what each mode does. There's nothing wrong with task-based style choice, but we'd like a clear display of the settings that are unsuitable for each mode, so experienced users may understand the effects of their choice.
After Selecting a style, you're in a position to pick locations from a dashboard. This has lots of functionality, allowing you to browse locations by countries or cities, search by title, see ping times, or make favorites for speedy recall afterwards.
Alternatively, Choosing a Goal choice displays a listing of tasks you might want to carry out — unblocking Netflix or other streaming sites, using VoIP, accessing social media sites or whatever — and you can in theory choose one of them, and permit PureVPN to select a host for you.
Connect To a host and the client displays your link status. There is also an optional bandwidth graph showing your data transfers. You won't want it, but it is good to see PureVPN making the effort.
The Client makes clever of use of notifications to be certain that you know what's happening. Decide on a place as long as the Windows client is the foreground application, it will not waste your time together with desktop notifications. But if you change to the customer notices another application, and a window seems to let you know when it disconnects and connects.
A bonus Characteristic blocks access to known malicious sites. We would always like to purchase this kind of attribute from a specialist security company, but Gravity is a lot smarter than the majority of the VPN-related competition. In addition to blocking dangerous links, it may turn on Safe Search for the primary search engines, block entire categories of website, whitelist sites you always wish to access, and blacklist sites you do not. Oh, and advertisements can be blocked by it , also. Power Vpn
The Settings Box is a highlight, especially for experienced users, as it is absolutely stuffed with unusual and intriguing extras.
The Client doesn't just have options to launch as an example, on auto-connect and system start. It can automatically open your default browser as soon as you're protected.
Need a Different protocol? PureVPN Permits You to choose from OpenVPN TCP/UDP, PPTP, L2TP, SSTP and IKEV. There's also an automated alternative that the client suggests offers the very best security and speed, but from what we could see, that is not true: it just cycles through another protocols till it finds one that works.
Split Tunneling permits you to send just the traffic of specified apps through your VPN. That takes more time to set up, and you have to be very certain which programs you want to redirect, but it can also optimize performance by restricting your data transfer needs.
The VPN Hotspot is an additional, configuring a hotspot which turns the server computer into a limited VPN router. When it's enabled, you'll have the ability to use your telephone, tablet or other devices to get online through the host's PureVPN connection.
And the List goes on, using IPv6 leak protection, an unusually configurable kill button, along with a multi-port option which chooses the best port, avoiding any closed or throttled alternatives. You can opt to utilize a non-NAT system to acquire a special IP address, port forwarding is available should you need it, and a Support department does not simply link to the website: it facilitates creating a service ticket from within the client.
Although There's plenty of power here, the interface is a inconsistent and clumsy mess. There are standard buttons, radio buttons, links, icons and sidebars, they don't necessarily work as you would expect, and even though we figured out how to navigate across the system, it never felt comfortable or natural.
Still, The customer did a decent job for us, blocking DNS and WebRTC escapes, and with the kill switch successfully murdering our internet access when the VPN connection fell. If you'll use a number of their client features that are added, it may appeal.
We took a Look at PureVPN's Android program, and it was the exact same story as the Windows version. After picking a'Mode' (still not sure why), we were able to pick countries, cities, or choose a Purpose (optimized for China, unblock this or that streaming assistance, etc ). It's more awkward to use than the VPN program, but you will find it out.
What is Intriguing is that the Android app doesn't drop the majority of options and the desktop settings, which is what we see. It's a very similar feature set, such as a choice of protocol (OpenVPN TCP/UDP or IKEv2), a kill switch, split tunneling, port forwarding, Gravity URL filtering, and more. Again, if you'll use some or all of that operation, it's well worth a try. Power Vpn
In a Previous inspection , we pointed out that PureVPN created a big deal of its'zero log' policy, explaining that this meant the firm didn't record exactly what you did online. But the small print stated there was some session logging, which appeared to add the time you connect to a host, your incoming IP address as well as the total bandwidth utilized.
This Isn't a minor detail. In October 2017 reports emerged of a man being arrested on suspicion of running"a comprehensive cyberstalking effort", in part according to PureVPN records demonstrating that its services were obtained from appearing IPs including the accused man's house and office. The'zero log' VPN kept some kind of logs, after all, and these were able to assist link internet actions to a specific account.
PureVPN sort of responded in a blog to this Post, in which the company pointed out that it didn't keep full logs, such as your surfing history, and it had not done anything to violate its privacy policy, in which the session logging was cited.
This Doesn't tackle the dilemma of why the company described itself as keeping'zero logs' in the primary part of the site, however, when this turned out not to be completely correct. That is also not a trivial point. Logging policies are predicated almost entirely on trust, and a VPN is not likely to be reliable if it is seen to mislead consumers or bury the fact of a situation in the small print.
PureVPN has at least updated its privacy Coverage, which now includes possibly the most explicit no-logging sentence we have ever seen:'we don't keep any record of your surfing activities, link logs, records of the VPN IPs assigned to youpersonally, your initial IPs, your connection time, the history of your surfing, the websites you visited, your outgoing traffic, the information or data you've accessed, or the DNS queries generated by you personally.'
The Policy also clarifies the minimal connection information it will report –'We all know the day you connected to some particular VPN location and from which Internet Service Provider' — and covers plenty of other vital issues in a clear and readable manner.
The good news, then, is that PureVPN's present Privacy policy looks great and says all the right things. It's far better than the majority of the competition. But the catch is that the previous logging story will lead some people to wonder whether they could trust what the company says. We can not let you know exactly what to believe, but it is well worth checking out both PureVPN's original site defense and also its present privacy policy before you make up your mind.
PureVPN Makes more of an effort to support site unblocking than almost all of the contest. The company does not just make airy promises on the site then forget about these later, it features special support for streaming within its programs, in theory allowing you to get Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer and a plethora of other services from wherever you are on the planet. Power Vpn
We Double-clicked that the BBC option, and viewed as the client displayed , our default browser opened, and joined an'err-network-changed' message. What? This looked like a serious difficulty, but the browser had only detected the shift in our community settings as the customer connected, and after this was complete, the BBC iPlayer site opened and opened content as normal.
It was The same story with Netflix. The client launched our browser until the link was complete, so we saw the same error message, but that vanished mechanically, and we were free to navigate and stream whatever Netflix articles we enjoyed.
You're Not restricted to the services built to PureVPN's apps. Connecting to a US server got us , although youTube was not included on the list, for instance.
Our Performance tests involve running custom applications which connects to multiple servers, assessing speeds time, place and more. Unfortunately, we could not get this working with PureVPN, or figure out why (whether that's our fault or theirs, we can not be convinced ).
But An warning in the print clarifies that users aren't permitted to have more than 200 sessions every day, if we did. That won't concern most folks, but it does become an issue when you are running intensive VPN benchmarks. Power Vpn
We fell Back on our older manual method of linking via customers and checking the results from various speed checking websites, including SpeedTest.net, Fast.com and TestMy.net. This doesn't provide us to work with, but there is still enough to get a sense for exactly what the service can provide.
Our local UK servers varied but nevertheless gave quite acceptable download speeds of 50-65Mbps on our test connection to us.
Near European rates were mildly below average. they were, although netherlands relations can often deliver substantially the same speeds for us as UK servers.
US Performance ranged from approximately 30Mbps on the shore, about the east to 50Mbps. That's far from the fastest we've seen, but unless you're planning 24 hours of intensive torrenting, it's most likely not likely to cause you any difficulties.
As usual, Speeds tailed off to the places that were less typical or more distant. For example, New Zealand averaged 12Mbps, Vietnam had been 10Mbps, 1Mbps was barely touched by Taiwan, also China ranged down to a slow speed the web often stalled mid-test. That places the size of PureVPN's system into perspective (having loads of servers doesn't matter whether they're unusably slow), but if you're only planning to use the major locations, it won't matter very much.
On a few Events, our PureVPN Windows customer wasn't able to link to our test server that is preferred. The issue here is that the link did not time out for many minutes, and the Cancel button did not work, although that is not uncommon.
The Evaluation of Speed — Just How Fast is PureVPN?
Let's start off by making something clear, i.e. whatever VPN support you use, the online rate is going to take a hit. That hit is a result of the security measures used to encrypt and protect your identity. The majority of VPN providers make every possible attempt. Unlike what many people are going to have you think that it's not going to be like utilizing dial-up.
PureVPN, when compared to other similar VPN services, happens to be much quicker. Thus, yes it does live up to the promise of being the fastest in the business. Power Vpn
How we compared and tested the performance was by using Ookala's nifty speed testing website and program. We ran the speed test on both global and national servers. We compared the outcomes and that is the way we discovered PureVPN to be faster.
PureVPN includes a domestic latency of a mere 6.7% percent. During our evaluations, as a matter of fact, PureVPN improved speeds considerably that by our calculations is an unbelievable 346% percent. We discovered that competing VPN providers were slower. Some we suspect were throttling download rates perhaps because they did not want to stress their servers out.
When it comes to uploads, PureVPN didn't really boost it did with downloads, but it required a mere 4.5% percent hit. If anything this is still one of the best scores we've seen from a VPN provider.
Throughout our global speed tests, the latency increased by 200%. Though download speeds have been still a whopping 403.8% better than any of the competing products I tested it against. The uploads have been 22.7% percentage slower which is second best compared to possibly Hotspot Shield which improved the upload speed by 1.4% percent.
The map on the left allows you bypass the program's default recommendation and decide on a server for yourself. Keep in mind that by default PureVPN chooses the server which is often the one. When in China I discovered that it kept picking up servers in Hong Kong by default that's not the fact but also nearby that the cyberspace of Hong Kong is not as rigorously censored as mainland China.
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Once a BJP bastion, now a duel in Doiwala
Gaurav Talwar | TNN | Updated: Jan 28, 2017, 15:41 IST
DEHRADUN: The stage is set for a tight contest in the Doiwala assembly segment, where two former cabinet ministers—Hira Singh Bisht from the Congress and Trivendra Singh Rawat of the BJP -- will be taking on each other.
With over 1.41 lakh voters, Doiwala, which has until now been regarded as a "BJP bastion", is the only seat from two former cabinet ministers are trying their luck. The seat was represented by Rawat twice, between 2002-07 and 2007-12.
In the 2012 assembly polls, former chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had contested from Doiwala and won it after his traditional seat, Thalisain in Pauri, was abolished in the 2008 delimitation.
However, Congress successfully made inroads into the BJP stronghold, with former transport minister Bisht defeating Rawat by over 6,000 votes in the 2014 bypolls, which was necessitated after Nishank vacated the seat following his successful Lok Sabha foray from Haridwar in the 2014 general elections.
Bisht is confident that the work done by him in the last couple of years will be "acknowledged" by the people of his constituency. "Since the formation of Uttarakhand, this constituency has been represented by the BJP for much of the time. I won it in 2014 and have initiated various development works," he said, adding, "Because of our persistent efforts, Doiwala has been made a tehsil and an SDM court is now operational. We have constructed around 300 km of roads across Doiwala and have built one bridge even as three more are under construction."
BJP spokesperson Vinay Goyal was dismissing of Bisht's claims. "Winning a by-election does not mean the Congress will come back here. The poll then had been held under the influence of the state government. The present MLA has a poor performance record and people will once again vote for BJP in Doiwala."


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Samoamarkduva (Alopecoenas stairi) är en fågel i familjen duvor inom ordningen duvfåglar.

Utseende och läte
Samoamarkduvan är en knubbig kortbent duva. Hanen är ljusgrå på huvud och bröst, avgränsad nertill av en vitaktig halvmåne mot mörkt lilafärgad buk. Även rygg och vingar är lilafärgade. Honan liknar vanligen hanen, men vissa har helt purpurbrun kropp med kraftigt rostfärgat bröst och huvud. Lätet är en serie mörka och typiskt duvlika hoanden.

Utbredning och systematik
Samoamarkduva förekommer i Fiji, Tonga, Samoa samt ögruppen Wallis och Futuna. Den behandlas numera vanligen som monotypisk, men vissa delar in den i två underarter med följande utbredning:
 Gallicolumba stairi stairi – förekommer på Wallis- och Futunaöarna och Samoa
 Gallicolumba stairi vitiensis – förekommer i Fiji och Tonga (Vava'u, Ha'apai och Nomuka)

Släktestillhörighet
Arten placerades tidigare i släktet Gallicolumba. Studier visar dock att dessa inte är varandras närmaste släktingar, där arterna i Alopecoenas står närmare australiensiska duvor som Geopelia. Vissa anser dock att Pampusana" har prioritet före Alopecoenas''.

Status och hot
Samoamarkduvan har försvunnit från många områden och den tros minska i antal. Beståndet är relativt litet och fragmenterat, uppskattat till mellan 2 500 och 10 000 vuxna individer. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN kategoriserar arten som sårbar.

Namn
Fågelns vetenskapliga artnamn hedrar John Bettridge Stair (1815-1898), brittisk missionär verksam i Samoa.

Noter

Externa länkar

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Duvor
Fåglar i oceaniska regionen

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This article was published on June 5, 2013
Former Zynga employee takes to Reddit: 'They rely too much on reacting to what is making money now'
June 5, 2013 - 12:55 pm
Nick Summers is a technology journalist for The Next Web. He writes on all sorts of topics, although he has a passion for gadgets, apps and (show all) Nick Summers is a technology journalist for The Next Web. He writes on all sorts of topics, although he has a passion for gadgets, apps and video games in particular. You can reach him on Twitter, circle him on Google+ and connect with him on LinkedIn.
A Reddit user claiming to be one of the 520 employees laid off by Zynga earlier this week has described the company's "terrible" business strategy and ongoing efforts to raise staff morale.
The former member of staff said the video game publisher has "major issues" and an "inability to adjust to the changing market".
"They did great when Facebook gaming was on the rise, but now it's declining and Mobile is on the rise," the Reddit user, who is answering questions as part of an 'Ask Me Anything' discussion thread said. "They're trying to change over, but employ too many of the same game development 'best practices' that were developed for Facebook games. These just don't translate to the mobile market, which is why they're suffering in that market."
A lack of innovation
The user has kept their identity anonymous, so it's unclear exactly which projects they worked on or their position within the company. They expressed concerns, however, with the amount of micromanagement that was being enforced by high-level executives and argued that this was stifling creativity throughout the firm's development cycle.
"(There's) an over reliance on every game being a blockbuster hit, which makes the fun aspect of games suffer while making the money grabbing tactics all too transparent to the users," the user added. "They rely too much on reacting to what is making money now, and too much on their own data. They don't strive to make anything new or innovative and that's no way to excel in the games market."
Following the crowd
The former Zynga employee described how when one game suddenly hit the number one spot in the 'Top Grossing' chart in the App Store, everyone in the company was then forced to pivot or adapt their game in order to take advantage of the new mechanics or concept.
"Which wastes time, makes for bad design and ultimately puts projects behind schedule," they said. "It just means they're always late to the party, and whatever game they're trying to compete with has already faded away by the time their own version hits the market."
The Reddit user also disclosed details about what it was like for employees when they tried to sell their shares following the company's IPO in December 2011.
"By the time employees could sell for the first time it had dropped to $8 a share," they said. After that window closed, the stock price had dropped to $4 or $5 by the next time employees could sell. I guess the investors were pissed that the top brass made out like bandits and everyone else got screwed."
The bright side of Zynga
The 'Ask Me Anything' discussion also touched upon the benefits of working for Zynga though. The former employee praised the company for trying to keep morale high and prioritizing the well-being of the individual and wider community.
"I ate two out of three meals for free at work every day," they said. "It was awesome. And they provided healthy options! They promoted volunteering. Going green. They really tried hard to be a good place to work and a socially conscious company. In that way, they're really great."
The discussion is still taking place on Reddit and will undoubtedly produce more interesting insights into the state of Zynga, both past and present.
Related: Over: Zynga's now defunct OMGPOP acquisition likely cost the firm around $400,000 per day
Image Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Published June 5, 2013 - 12:55 pm UTC
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Samrat's mother Shashi decides to take some rest after spending the entire night serving her son. She yawns and asking them all not to wake her up. Rudra asks what if Samrat hollers for her. She asks if only she is left, and asks them also to render their responsibilities, and not wake her up at any cosy. Aditi says that she would take care of Samrat, and asks her to have some rest.
Urmi is busy with her work, while Samrat lies on the bed, watching tv. Rudra and Tauji come in deciding that Rudra would talk to Samrat. Samrat's father, Rudra talk to him in front of Tauji expresses his concern about handling the business, to Samrat. He says that had Diwaker been there, there wouldn't have been any problem and proposes that they would ask Diwaker to help. Samrat decides to trust Amrit and says that he is well capable of handling his own business himself, and that Amrit would handle everything and tells them not to worry about his business. Rudra and Tauji are tensed. Meanwhile, someone is shown to be approaching Samrat's office and eyeing the boss' chair. It turns out to be Amrit who eyes the office with evil eyes and has plans to destroy Samrat's business and make as much money as he can before Samrat's get well. On the other hand, Samrat tells them that it's just a matter of few weeks. Amrit says that he would get everything in his name in these few weeks. Amrit grabs the opportunity of taking over Samrat's business with both hands and thinks that by the time Samrat stands up, he wouldn't have anything to land on, and would drown completely. Amrit smiles evilly. Kanchan calls Shashi, while she is fast asleep, saying that Samrat has been hollering for her for a long time. Shashi wards her off. Kanchan again reminds her that if Samrat gets to know this, she would be removed from the house, and she would have to look for a replacement. Shashi instantly wakes up at this, and laments at the situation she is in, while Kanchan is amused and barely able to control her laughter.
Meanwhile, in his room, Samrat continues to holler for his mother, and when she comes, he reprimands her for being absent when he needed her. She tells why she had gone to take a nap and offers to change his dressing but he asks her not to even touch anything. Urmi comes tensed. Samrat then decides to appoint a nurse for himself as he does not trust his mother to do the job and asks Urmi to dial up the number of the city hospital, to arrange for a nurse, as he would die if he has faith on his mother. Urmi complies, she calls the city hospital and asks for a nurse. But the hospital does not have any nurse free until the next ten days and the nurse tells this to Urmi. Urmi relays the information to Samrat and he speaks on speaker phone and tries to bribe them by giving them money saying that he would pay everything, but wants the best nurse but he only gets scolded by the nurse who picks up the phone and snubs him off when he tries to show off his money and status and slams the phone on him. Samrat says that she is responsible for everything, as he refused Urmi due to her overconfidence as Urmi would have done everything perfectly. Tauji comes in asking that she should have done it. Urmi says that it was on Samrat's insistence that she didn't do it. He says that it looks like she was waiting for the first chance to be relieved and jumped when it came along her way. Shashi tries to instigate him too, but he asks her to shut up. Urmi says that she is not lazy but obedient, and did what she was asked and hence wouldn't have begged to serve him. Samrat taunts her for being obedient and says that now he wants her to obey his command and agree to do all of his work. Samrat then orders Urmi to do all the work for him from right now. Shashi is pleased with this.
Whil Urmi is working in the kitchen, Tauji comes and says that she will be wondering why he assigned her to do Samrat's work again, and clarifies that he wants Samrat to realise her importance in his life, as he has seen what his mother is worth of, and that maybe god too wanted this, and asks her to make him realise what her importance is in his life. Urmi says that it doesn't make any differnce to her, what Samrat thinks, and that she is just doing her duty and that she has left all hopes from Samrat. She begins to work, while Tauji thinks that she may have but he won't be hopeless, till everything works out best for her, and all is well in her life.
At Anu's residence, Gaurav comes in and finds Asha with open hair, getting dressed and is amused. He remembers Anu's teasing remarks and smiles as he eyes Asha again. Gaurav's attitude towards Asha starts to change. He comes to her, standing behind her, and takes her in his arms, from behind. She jerks him away, hitting him on the head with a bed. While he sits furious, Asha continues to rant nonsense about how she won't let boys touch her at all, as instructed by her mother. Gaurav gets tensed and leaves finally.
As he comes out, Saroj and Granny tensedly ask him about the wound. Before he can explain, Asha comes with his phone and tries to say what he did, but Gaurav distracts her. He talks to his friend on the phone, who invites him along with his wife, for his wife's birthday party. His friend insists that he brings his wife along so that they may get to know each other. Asha is very excited at the prospect of the party, and decides what she wants to wear. Gaurav says that they won't go, as that would only create more problems.
At Samrat's residence, while Tauji discusses share market with samtrat, his eyes are keen on how effectively Urmi is taking care of him and his every need, without being affected by his proximity. As she sees his medicines, he says that he won't take it as he doesn't like the taste. Urmi continues unbothered and says that medicine are not for taste. But Samrat is insistent, while she catches him off guard, blocking his nose, and making him drink it. She then leaves. He is shocked and asks his Tauji to notice what she is doing to him. Tauji says that she is reciprocating what he did to her, and that if he wants good behaviour then he should do so too. He asks Samrat to decide what he wants now and then decide his further course of action. Tauji tells Samrat that Urmi is very angry with him, and that now he would have to initiate towards making the first move. Samrat is tensed. He asks Samrat to think and move on, as she has already decided what she has to do. Samrat is tensed, as he thinks deep.
While Shashi is in her room, Amrit brings a hex bag given by a baba and hungrily eyes the money kept in her almirah ( cupboard ). He tells her about going to some baba, who gave some rice, to be put under Samrat's pillow and asks Shashi to put that pouch under Samrat's bed. Shashi gets influenced, while Amrit tells that he is a little costly and thinks he continues to extract more money out of her. Shashi gives him more money for that sake, while Amrit eyes the money hungrily. Shashi tells him to arrange for a meeting with baba. Amrit manages to make a fool out of her. Rudra comes in and they both hide their things. He asks what is happenning. Shashi jokingly refuses to tell him and sends Rudra off. Rudra asks Shashi not to be up to something yet again, but Shashi moves out hastily.
In the evening, while Urmi is trying to get hold of Shaurya, Kanchan comes in and helps her to manage Urmi, by luring him into story telling. She tells Urmi that Shaurya would be taken care by her, so that they don't have a problem in the night. Urmi complies and continues her work silently. Samrat remembers his Tauji's advise. He finds it difficult to be nice to her making an effort but then asks her if she eat anything, surprising her. She says that she didn't. He asks her to do so, as it's late. Shashi comes and finds him eyeing Urmi, and then takes out the bag that Amrit gave to her. She asks about his health, and then slides the bag under his pillow, pretending to adjust it nicely. Samrat tells her that Urmi doesn't need instructions from her, as she does her work much better. Shashi finds that her work is done and leaves. He continues to eye Urmi. Later, Samrat makes a face seeing the medicines, but silently opens his mouth, as he finds her staring sternly. She adjusts his pillows to sleeping position, making the bag fall on the ground and after having adjusted his to complete comfort, she lies before having asked if she needs anything. He says no and she doses off. He does too. Later in the night, she continues to tend to Samrat's pillow and adjusts it accordingly, and empties the bed pan while she is up. When Samrat wakes up, he already finds her awake and getting ready. He is surprised at her dexterity. The next morning, Urmi gets Shaurya's and Samrat's breakfast. Urmi continues to serve Samrat and seeing this he feels very happy. Shaurya asks why is she feeding his father. She says that he can't right now, as he is hurt. Shaurya says that he would be fed by his grandmom just like she feeds him. She asks Shaurya not to talk like that. Samrat watches smilingly. Shaurya insists that he wouldn't allow anyone else to be fed by her, as she is his mother and no one else's. Samrat says that she is his wife first of all. While Urmi is attending to Samrat, and Shaurya plays along, he and Samrat get into a verbal argument and a tiff about who Urmi loves more. Shaurya insists her to answer and asks his mother whether she loves him more or his father more. Urmi is at a loss for an answer. Tauji sees this from behind the curtains and is amused. Urmi changes the topic and asks Shaurya to come and feed him first. Samrat too asks her to answer the question as the child is curious and his query must be satisfied. After a long silence, Urmi replies her son by saying that she love her son more than her husband and to always remember that mumma loves him the most. Samrat is jealous. Tauji smiles. Urmi kisses him, and gets him to eat, after agreeing him to let his father have his breakfast from her too. She gives him the food sternly, and he gets jealous as she has a smile on her face when she feeds Shaurya. Tauji thinks that Samrat's got such a nice family, but he didn't have the maturity to keep it like that. Tauji thinks that he won't be able to do anything and he himself would have to intervene. He knocks on Samrat's door after sometime, when Urmi is gone. Samrat welcomes him in and he asks about his health now. Tauji comments that he is looking fresh now. Samrat says that he is feeling better too. Tauji says that he was concerned. Samrat asks questioningly what's the matter. Tauji asks if Urmi took care of him in the night. Samrat says that she did, as she is his wife after all. Tauji instigates him saying that he didn't want to upset him with his opinion. It irks Samrat and he instantly wants to know whats Tauji is trying to say.
At Anu's residence, Asha is crying and is upset as her husband Gaurav has refused to take her to the party along with her while Saroj and Granny are tensed, as they find her like that and making a mess of the flour. Granny asks her to shut up, but Asha continues to cry, while Saroj assures her that she would talk to Gaurav. They find that she is crying right into the flour that she is kneading, and decide to give this to the birds and animals. Granny finally shuts her up assuring that they would talk to Gaurav.
At a client's residence, Amrit takes a fake identity of Deepak Mahajan, Samrat's secretary, and goes to a lawyer recently settled in Bhopal, asking him to make a transfer deed for Samrat Singh Rathore's property to Amrit Singh Chauhan's name. The lawyer asks about their in-house advocate. Amrit makes an excuse of him having gone on a long vacation. He enquires how long would this work take. The lawyer says that they can be done by tomorrow too. He asks about the cost involved and is told that it would take 5000 and he instantly agrees to it, giving him 2000 advance asking him to keep the papers ready. the lawyer takes the money and complies.
At Samrat's residence, Tauji tells him that she may be doing the duties of a wife, but she considers the relationship on it's face value only, as he thinks about her as his wife still, and that she is doing him a favour now. Tauji tells him that she doesn't love him anymore from the heart. Samrat is shocked. Tauji says that she is merely fulfilling her duty now. He says that she told him clearly that she was leaving him, but just stayed back out of pity, after his accident. Samrat is shocked to hear this as he realizes that Urmi doesn't love him anymore.
Urmi sees Amrit talking rudely to one of his employee of the company on the phone, when he tries to find faults with the way Amrit is handling business by ditching old associations and finding new business partners. Urmi tells him that he does not have the authority to scold or fire any of his employees as this authority solely lies with Samrat who is the real owner of the company and asks him not to forget that the business is Samrat's and he is a mere replacement for sometime and asks him to retain the business as Samrat left to him. Amrit agrees silently. Urmi leaves.