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Soldiers captures 220 Boko Haram Insurgents In North-East
Nigerian Army, on Friday said its troops had captured 220 Boko Haram insurgents in various clearance operations in the northeast region. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Nwachukwu said that troops captured 167 insurgents after raiding their enclaves in Lake Chad Basin while 53 others were captured in northern parts of Borno State. He disclosed that troops also extricated 67 women and 173 children, who were family members of the insurgents.
Nwachukwu said that the troops have intensified offensive to clear remnants of the insurgents in the region, noting that the operation has yielded positive results.
"Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole have intensified offensive on Boko Haram enclaves in the Island around Lake Chad. The offensive which commenced about two weeks ago with coordinated air and artillery bombardments on Boko Haram enclaves is yielding positive results, as several insurgents have been killed while 167 fleeing insurgents have been captured by troops. Troops also extricated and profiled 67 women and 173 children who revealed during profiling exercise that they are family members of the insurgents who fled the troops' offensive," he said.
Nwachukwu explained that arrangements were ongoing to handover the women and children to authorities of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, after completing preliminary investigations.
According to him, troops in the past two months conducted long-range fighting patrols and ambushes. He disclosed that the troops cleared the insurgents' hideouts at Saada and Juwei villages in the fringes of northern Borno. "During the operations, troops intercepted and arrested 53 fleeing insurgents who have been profiled and are currently helping with investigations. Fifteen insurgents have also willingly renounced the sect and surrendered, dismissing it as futile struggle".
Nwachukwu further sympathised with families of troops and civilians, who died in the encounters and the callous suicide bombing attacks by the terrorists.
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By U.S. Embassy Lome | 15 October, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – (September 23, 2020)
As of September 22, there were 1683 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 41 deaths, 352 active cases, and 1290 recovered. These numbers are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . Having noted that the infected persons have had many contacts, and in order to prevent this spread from increasing further in the populations of certain, the …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 23 September, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (August 31, 2020)
As of August 30, there were 1396 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 27 deaths, 373 active cases, and 996 recovered. On August 24, the Government of Togo imposed a curfew in Sokodé (211 miles north of Lomé) and in the neighboring cities of Tchamba (19 miles east of Sokodé) and Adjengré (27 miles south). These measures are …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 31 August, 2020 | Topics: Alert
As of August 23 there were 1277 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 27 deaths, 340 active cases, and 910 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . On August 6, 2020, in close coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of State issued a Level 3 Health …
As of August 16, there were 1147 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 27 deaths, 277 active cases, and 843 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . We remind all U.S. citizens of the current Level 3 Health Advisory for Togo recommending against travel; U.S. citizens who choose to travel or to remain in Togo during the COVID-19 …
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Reconsider travel to Togo due to COVID-19. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. Read the Department of State's COVID-19 page before you plan any international travel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 3 Travel Health Notice for Togo due to COVID-19. Togo has lifted stay at home orders, and resumed some transportation options and business operations. Visit …
As of August 3, there were 976 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 19 deaths, 294 active cases, and 663 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that you or someone you know …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 4 August, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert — U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (July 16, 2020)
As of July 15, there were 740 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 15 deaths, 191 active cases, and 534 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that you or someone you …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 17 July, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (July 9, 2020)
As of July 9, there were 695 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 15 deaths, 205 active cases, and 475 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that you or someone you …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 9 July, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Health Issues
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (June 25, 2020)
As of June 24, there were 583 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 14 deaths, 177 active cases, and 392 recovered. These statistics are regularly updated on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that you or …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 25 June, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Health Issues
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Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (June 5, 2020)
As of June 5, there were 465 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 13 deaths, 239 recovered and 213 active cases. These statistics are regularly updated in French on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 5 June, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (May 29, 2020)
As of May 29, there were 422 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 13 deaths, 197 recovered and 212 active cases. These statistics are updated regularly in French on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 page . The Government of Togo has one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that you or …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 29 May, 2020 | Topics: Alert
As of May 22, there were 354 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 12 deaths, 118 recovered and 224 active cases. These statistics are regularly updated in French on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The Government of Togo is using one phone number, 111, for all questions regarding COVID-19. Do not hesitate to call this number if you believe that …
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By U.S. Embassy Lome | 20 May, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Notification, Visas | Tags: Consular Info, COVID-19
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – (April 30,2020)
As of April 29, there were 116 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with  nine deaths, 65 recovered and 42 active cases. These statistics are constantly updated in French on the Government of Togo's COVID-19 website . The newest cases show more geographical spread along several towns along the western border with Ghana and in the Savannes Region in Cinkassé and Dapaong. While most …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 1 May, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (April 16, 2020)
Location: Lome, Togo Event: As of April 15, 2020, the Togo Ministry of Health confirmed four additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the total confirmed cases in Togo to 81 with no more reported deaths. As of April 11, 2020, all major cities in Togo, including Lome, have restrictions on passengers in taxis and on moto taxis. Inter-regional movement restrictions …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 16 April, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – (April 8, 2020)
Location: Lome Togo Event: On April 7, 2020 the Government of Togo confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 in Togo, bringing the total cases since March 6 to 65. Of the 13 new cases, five are in the city of SOKODE, which indicate that COVID-19 is spreading through community transmission in this city. In an effort …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 8 April, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (April 7, 2020)
Location: Lome, Togo Event: Current Status of Passport Applications Because of public health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, effective March 20, 2020, the U.S Department of State is limiting its passport operations. Effective April 2, the Department of State has further limited routine passport and citizenship services overseas. For U.S. citizens in Togo, …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 7 April, 2020 | Topics: Alert, U.S. Passports
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (April 6, 2020)
Location: Lome, Togo Event: On March 26, the Government of Togo issued a 14-day ban on any passenger disembarking in Togo. Upon the lifting of this ban, all incoming passengers to Lome International Airport will be quarantined for a period of 14 to 21 days at a government hotel with basic accommodations. The U.S. Embassy Lome …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 6 April, 2020 | Topics: Alert, U.S. Citizen Services
Location: Lome, Togo Event: The Government of Togo announced a nighttime, nationwide curfew between 8 PM and 6 AM, beginning Thursday, April 2, for the next three months, with reduced official working hours from 9 AM to 4 PM. The U.S. Embassy advises all U.S. citizens who are staying in Togo during the COVID-19 pandemic …
Health Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo (March 30, 2020)
Location: Lome, Togo Event: The Department of State issued a Global Level 4 Health Advisory for COVID-19 on March 19. The U.S. Embassy Lome urges U.S. citizens who want to return to the United States to depart Togo promptly. If you prefer to stay, then you should be prepared to remain in Togo for an indefinite period. We encourage …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 30 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert
Location: Lome, Togo Event: COVID-19 update (March 26, 2020) Ethiopian Airlines continues direct flights from Togo to the United States at this time.  Flights to Houston depart Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at noon. Flights to Newark depart Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday at noon. If you have traveled to Europe, China, or Iran in the …
Location: Lome, Togo Event: On March 20, 2020, the Government of Togo announced travel restrictions on entry into the cities of Lome, Tsevie, Kpalime, and Sokode, with checkpoints on the national road N1 in Tsevie, as well as on the tollroad N2 from Aneho and on the national road N5 (Kpalime Road). Actions to Take: …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 23 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, U.S. Citizen Services
Location: Lome, Togo Event: The Togo Ministry of Health confirmed twelve cases of COVID-19 in Togo. The Department of State has issued a Global Level 4 Health Advisory for COVID-19. We are not aware of any current restrictions by the government of Togo on departing or transit travelers to the United States. Travelers should be prepared for travel restrictions to be put into effect with …
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (March 20, 2020)
Location: Lome, Togo Event: The Togo Ministry of Health confirmed nine cases of COVID-19 in Togo. The Department of State has issued a Global Level 4 Health Advisory for COVID-19. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak the Peace Corps are in the process of evacuating their Volunteers from Togo. Many travelers worldwide have reported unexpected flight cancellations and limited flight …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 20 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Health Issues
Consular Notice — March 17, 2020
As of March 18, 2020, the United States Embassy in Lome has canceled routine immigrant and non-immigrant visa appointments. We will resume routine visa services as soon as possible but are unable to provide a specific date at this time. If you have a medical or other urgent reason to request a visa, please write …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 17 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Immigrant Visas, Non Immigrant Visas, Notification
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (March 6, 2020) Location: Lome, Togo Event: On March 6, 2020, the Togo Ministry of Health announced one confirmed case of COVID-19 in Lome. Actions to Take: Consult the CDC website for the most up-to-date information. For the most recent information on what you can do to reduce your risk of …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 6 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Health Issues, Security & Emergency Messages, Travel & Tourism
Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – February 18, 2020 Location: Land borders with Togo Event: Presidential elections will take place in Togo on Saturday, February 22, 2020. Togo's land borders with neighboring countries — Benin, Ghana, and Burkina Faso — will be closed for 24 hours on election day. Actions to Take: Avoid overland …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 18 February, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Notification, Security & Emergency Messages
There is heightened tension in the Middle East that may result in security risks to U.S. citizens abroad. The Embassy will continue to review the security situation and will provide additional information as needed. Actions to Take: Keep a low profile. Be aware of your surroundings. Stay alert in locations frequented by tourists. Review your personal …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 8 January, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Security & Emergency Messages
Un nouveau taux de change consulaire — 13 septembre 2019
Au cause d'un dollar qui est en hausse, le taux de change entre le franc de l'Afrique de l'ouest et le dollar augmente de 590 CFA à 620 CFA en dollar le 13 septembre 2019. On peut payer pour les services consulaires avec les dollars ou les francs. On peut payer pour les services citoyens, …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 6 September, 2019 | Topics: Alert, Messages for U.S. Citizens
Change in Consular CFA to USD exchange rate — September 13, 2019
Due to the increasing value of the dollar, the African Financial Community-West Africa rate will increase to 620 CFA for one USD from its current rate of 590 CFA on Friday, September 13. Either US dollars or CFA may be used to pay for consular services. Credit cards may be used for US citizen services only, …
Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – June 25, 2019
Location: Land borders with Togo Event: Local elections in Togo on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Togo's land borders with neighboring countries – Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Benin – will be closed. Please plan your travel accordingly. Actions to Take: Avoid overland travel to or from Togo on Sunday, June 30. Monitor local media for …
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Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – April 25, 2019
Location: Land borders with Benin Event: National legislative elections in Benin on Sunday, April 28, 2019. Benin's land borders with neighboring countries, including Togo, may be closed. Please plan your travel accordingly. Actions to Take: Avoid overland travel to Benin on Sunday, April 28. Monitor local media for updates. Assistance: U.S. Embassy Lomé, …
Location: Border region north and northeast of Dapaong Event: Due to recent activities of armed extremist groups in adjacent areas of southeast Burkina Faso, including attacks on a military vehicles, a school, and a car carrying U.S. citizens, the Chief of Mission has restricted U.S. government personnel from travelling in the border region north and northeast …
Demonstration Alert – U. S. Embassy Lome, Togo – November 29 and December 1, 3, and 4, 2018
Location: Lomé, principally the neighborhood of Bé, south of the airport, and possibly elsewhere in Togo. Event: Demonstrations are expected to take place on Thursday, November 29, Saturday, December 1, Monday, December 3, and Tuesday, December 4. Opposition parties intend to protest Government of Togo national legislative elections planned for December 20. Actions to Take: Avoid …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 29 November, 2018 | Topics: Alert
Demonstration Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo
Location: Announced gathering points in Togo include: Lome, Atikoumé/Akossombo (northwest Lome) Lome, ETS CCP (northern Lome) Lome, Bè Gakpoto (northeast Lome) Event: Demonstrations expected to take place Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday – January 31, February 1, and February 3 – beginning in the morning and continuing until the early evening. Opposition political parties intend to …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 30 January, 2018 | Topics: Alert, Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo
Health Alert – U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo (January 23, 2018) Location: Keran, Togo Event: The Ministry of Health in Togo confirmed cases of Lassa Fever, a rare but potentially life-threatening viral hemorrhagic disease. Actions to take: Consult a medical professional if you have been in direct contact with an infected person within the past three …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 25 January, 2018 | Topics: Alert, Messages for U.S. Citizens, Notification, Security & Emergency Messages | Tags: Health Alert, Keran, Lassa Fever
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Silence draped over us like a shroud, filled with quiet echoes of that word. Even the forest felt colder than before. Neither of us dared to speak or even breathe. Deirdre just looked at me with open eyes, still holding the horse with one hand but otherwise paralyzed. I wasn't sure what to say either. It wasn't like I could say sorry, I'd done nothing wrong. But... neither had she in a way. It was just a normal reaction nowadays, people needed scapegoats and the 'abominations' were all that was left now that they weren't allowed to fight each other. But what could I say to her?
Deirdre clasped her hand over her mouth. "Oh! I'm sorry."
I sighed. "It's alright. I'll still bring you to Dawnbridge, if you want to."
She smiled a little, to my surprise. "That's not it. I'm sorry for calling you an abomination, I shouldn't have done that. I've just... never seen someone use it before. It was... unique."
I blinked, even more surprised. "You're not scared?"
She still smiled. "No, should I be? You scared that guy without causing lasting wounds, using your powers very subtly and responsibly... That and you've been really accepting of me. The least I could do is return the favor."
I was relieved. "This is the first time I've used it on someone."
She giggled a little. "That wasn't bad for a first time then. I've seen many people do worse."
A strange idea popped into my head. "Will you teach me?"
Deirdre looked genuinely surprised, it was something that she, apparently, wasn't expecting at all. Even though it wasn't such a strange request, it made perfect sense for me to try and learn from someone who'd been taught Dark magic. But she didn't look sure, it was as if she was thinking about it but unsure of the implications. It would mean we'd spend even more time after we reached Dawnbridge, but that didn't bother me. Quite the opposite.
Deirdre spoke clearly, she'd reached a conclusion. "I will, on one condition."
I cocked my head, curious what the condition would be.
She looked at me seriously. "If I teach you, you must show me more Light Magic. I'm curious how it works and how it looks."
I smiled. "I'd love to."
She looked at the horse, which had been a lot more peaceful during this whole encounter than we had been. "We should be on our way again."
She was right, we should be, but there was something else I wanted to do now. Maybe catalysed because the secret was out, again, I decided that I wanted to open and read the letters. Somehow I had a feeling that the sender of the letter knew about me. The star had been odd, divided in two. It was kind of odd I only realized now that it might be the symbol for Twilight. Two sides... Light and Dark. Of course it could be something completely different, but I would read the letter for my own goals. It might be very dangerous, because knowledge is not easily unlearned. At least I should be able to do it without leaving a trace.
"Almost, I'm going to read the letters first. Now is as good a time as any."
Deirdre nodded, refraining from comment thankfully. I'd rather have her not say anything about it being bad because I was supposed to be an honorable messenger. However, something told me this was going to be very important. Though part of me was prepared to see incredibly boring stuff like 'financial troubles, made deal with town council' or something, another part was curious to see what all the fuss was about.
I retrieved my penknife again and opened my messenger bag to get the letters. I sat down, a little closer to the horse, in the sunlight to see what I was doing. It wasn't easy, but with the heat of the sun and some added heat on my knife using Light, I was able to loosen the wax enough. I worked very gently, because the paper wasn't allowed to tear even a little and the seal had to be completely intact, unbroken and unbent. It took about five minutes of careful and slow progress, using the knife to hold the seal while I peeled the paper away from it, never using too much strength as each mistake would spoil it all. It was finally open, I carefully pulled the letter out and was surprised to find it in very neat writing. The Master must have spend quite some time on it, with a few drafts, as no immediate corrections were visible.
It's contents, however, were almost scary. My eyes darted over the words and sentences in disbelief and fear. This was completely unexpected. My expression changed, my usual slight smile tainted by the scowl of worry and anger. Deirdre leaned forward curiously, wondering what the letter might say. I turned to her, still not sure what to make of all of this, but she had to know as well.
"This... is not what I expected, even if I didn't know what to expect."
She was as curious as I had been. "What does it say."


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We are looking for someone experienced in shoe retail or has extensive knowledge of men's shoes, to join our team, working remotely, to gather product information about the many brands/styles we sell, create product descriptions for our online catalog of footwear, edit product images, and write blog posts and articles on various footwear based topics. We are located in the USA, the candidate does not have to be from the USA but must write fluently in English as this job requires a lot of grammatical accuracy.
We are looking for an experienced and fashionable sport-lifestyle designer.
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We would like to set up a manufacturing of handmade shoes with modern design here in Kazakhstan with using a very good quality component. For this case We are looking for experienced Footwear Technologist who can help us with this.
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Vol. 12, Issue 206 - Wednesday, July 25, 2007
UH astronomer is recognized for discovery about the universe
By Helen Altonn / haltonn@starbulletin.com
A University of Hawaii astronomer won a share of a prestigious international science award yesterday for his role in the astonishing discovery that the universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate.
Astronomer John L. Tonry was part of a research team working on Mauna Kea that won the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize, awarded annually for discoveries that alter our perception and comprehension of the universe.
He couldn't be reached immediately for comment, but UH astronomer Gareth Wynn-Williams said the idea that expansion of the universe is accelerating is "one of the biggest discoveries in science in the last few years. A very important part of the evidence comes from the work this prize is awarded for."
Tonry discovered supernovae explosions in distant galaxies using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in 1997.
He said in an Institute for Astronomy news release that the CFHT data coupled with data from the Keck Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope "were the key to identifying the accelerating universe."
Wynn-Williams said the $500,000 will be split between two groups that were working independently using different telescopes and came up with the same answer.
He said the acceleration of the universe's expansion implies "a new constituent of the universe which we call dark energy. We have no real idea of what it is at all. But it seems to resemble matter in the way that it follows the laws of gravity."
Brian Schmidt of Australian National University led one team; Saul Perlmutter of the University of California-Berkeley headed the other one.
The big surprise, Wynn-Williams said, is the astronomers expected to find the universe slowing down as it expands because of gravitational forces between galaxies.
Their finding that the expansion actually is accelerating instead was accepted quickly because it fits into Einstein's general theory of relativity, he said. "It was a very successful theory. It contained an odd little term that people kind of ignored. Even Einstein sort of ignored it. ... So this is perhaps why this was accepted. It hasn't required us to throw out a major theory. We just looked at it more carefully."
The Gruber Foundation in a news release said, "An accelerating universe was a crazy result that was hard to accept. Yet, two teams, racing neck and neck, simultaneously, came to the same conclusion. Their discovery led to the idea of an expansion force, dubbed dark energy. And it suggests that the fate of the universe is to just keep expanding faster and faster."
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Cosmos » Astronomy » Cosmic rays could have produced Titan's dunes
17 October 2019 /
Richard A Lovett
Cosmic rays could have produced Titan's dunes
New study challenges conventional wisdom.
The dark grains of sand on Titan are unlike those on Earth. Credit: Stocktrek Images
Sprawling fields of dark-coloured sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan may have been produced by eons of irradiation by galactic cosmic rays, scientists say.
The dunes, discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the ESA's Huygens lander, sprawl over 10 million square kilometres of Titan's surface, an area about the size of the US, including Alaska. They reach heights of nearly 100 metres.
But their grains are not like Earth's sands. Most probably they are made of a mix of water ice and complex organics, such polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are composed of multiple carbon rings linked together.
Historically, scientists have believed that the dunes' organic compounds were formed by the action of sunlight on methane and nitrogen in Titan's thick atmosphere, via a photochemical process akin to that which creates smog in polluted cities. Over time, they thought, these smog-like particles gradually settled on Titan's surface.
In a paper published the journal Science Advances, however, scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered that similar materials could be formed via irradiation from galactic cosmic rays.
Galactic cosmic rays are an extremely powerful form of radiation that enters our solar system from interstellar space. Earth is largely protected by its magnetic field, says principle investigator Ralf Kaiser from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.
Titan has no such magnetic shielding, although its dense atmosphere – much denser than Earth's – does block most of the radiation.
But if enough gets through that, over time, it has a major effect, Kaiser says.
In laboratory experiments, his team bombarded acetylene ice – a material known to exist on Titan – with high-energy electrons, which are a good stand-in for actual cosmic rays. They continued until the acetylene had received the equivalent of 100 years worth of space radiation falling on Titan's surface.
They then cataloged the reaction products, discovering PAHs with up to three or four rings.
"This is against conventional wisdom," Kaiser says, "because scientists think that to form aromatic structures you need high temperatures like combustion."
But the energy from the cosmic rays was so intense that these compounds formed at temperatures far below that of Titan's surface of -179 degrees Celcius.
The process, he adds, works very quickly, especially compared to geological time scales. "Lots of organic material could accumulate," he says.
More importantly, he says, it also works in a vacuum. That means that other acetylene-containing bodies in the outer solar system could also have PAHs, a possible explanation for why some of them have mysterious dark patches of organic compounds on their surfaces.
Kaiser's team hasn't proven that cosmic rays are the only ways by which PAHs can be formed on Titan, says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, who was not part of the study team. In fact, he says, there is evidence that these chemicals also exist in Titan's atmosphere.
"[But] they've shown that the chemistry story doesn't (completely) stop when material settles out of the atmosphere," he says. "It is interesting that future processing on the surface by the (small) flux of cosmic rays is possible."
Happily, Lorenz says, NASA recently green-lighted a return mission to Titan, called Dragonfly, scheduled for launch in 2026. "Dragonfly will initially land among sand dunes," Lorenz says. "So it should find out."
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BISHOP ROCHUS TATAMAI MSC AT PORT MORESBY MEETING ON VATICAN MEETING.
Published: Friday, 08 March 2019 23:44
Rochus Tatamai was present at the Vatican Meeting as President of the Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
The following meeting took place a week after the Vatican meeting. An immediate response - with speakers, both women and men.
Bp Rochus Tatamai MSC, Catholic Bishops Conference President spoke to a packed conference centre at CBC Gordons on Sunday 3 March, 2019. Present at the Press Conference and discussion were Archbishop Douglas Young, Archbishop of Mt Hagen; Bishop Anton Bal, Bishop of Kundiawa; Bishop Gilles Côté, Bishop of Daru Kiunga; Priests, sisters, religious, seminarians and lay faithful.
Bp Rochus shared the highlights of what took place recently in Rome when the Presidents of all the Catholic Bishops Conferences gathered in response to a call from Pope Francis. In a letter, August 2018, the Pope called for a meeting to find a way forward at this time of crisis in the Catholic Church. 'Learn first-hand from those in your own place who have been victims of sexual abuse,' he instructed each bishop 'If one member suffers, all suffer together with it …' 1 Cor 12:26. "Church leadership depends on authenticity. Leaders are now under scrutiny by victims of sexual abuse, the public, the wider society," he said.
Five testimonies from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia opened the summit. These awful testimonies; these very heart-rending stories were difficult to come to terms with. Most painful was often the fact that the leadership in the Church did not regard the victims as believable; rather the leadership accused them of being 'enemies of the Church'. Cardinal Taglia in his opening presentation recalled the story of Jesus inviting Thomas to touch his wounds and learn from the Risen Lord. "Go forth on a mission of reconciliation", concluded the Cardinal.
Bp Rochus, in referring to the summary of the work done in the discussion group, highlighted that there was clear recognition that they were not considering isolated cases but were dealing with sexual abuse as a global issue. It is essential then to call on the talents of laymen and women to contribute to a response. This concern was, later, emphasised during discussion time by Mr Paul Harricknen, who has himself served as Director of the Bishops' Conference Commission on Right Relationships. Other lay people present expressed the desire to see 'synodality' – based on the principle that all can make a contribution.
Fidelity to our baptismal call and that families play a major role to protect their children. There was also the need to reach out to survivors and not drive them away. Women and their distinctive voices should be welcomed as they have the major role and are the ones who care for children.
Bp Gill Cote was emphatic in the fact that all Bishops and priests are fully aware of their calling and are committed to follow the protocols that are in place. Recurring was the call for credible leadership that will elicit trust and increase faith. The need for qualified psychological counsellors to accompany seminarians as well as at institutions to accompany and deal with the family issues of every young person. With misconduct in rural areas, kept under wraps and a difficult geographical terrain, the needed capacity to ensure that points of contact are available and a proper follow up is undertaken.
While there may still be gaps, this time of grace is a step in the right direction. The afternoon was though provoking and emotional for all present.


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Q: HTTP Post fields are not received by PHP script I feel stupid asking this question, but I've been wrestling with it for hours and I don't know where else to turn.
I have a flash form that is making a POST request to a php script, and then displays the output of the said script. For the sake of simplicity, let's say this is the php script:
echo 'Mail sent to: ' . $_POST['recipientEmail'];

When I submit the form, I see this in Firebug's net tab in the line made by the POST request:
Referer: http://example.com/my.swf
Content-type: text/html
Content-length: 68

recipientEmail=example@example.com

All well and good on the surface. The post has been made, it sent the right variable to the script. But when the response comes back, this is what I see in my Flash tracer:
Mail sent to:

In other words, the $_POST['recipientEmail'] has been lost after the request went out of my browser.
What do you think is happening here? Both the script and the swf file are in the same domain, same server.
EDIT:  I just tried hitting the same script from an HTML form, and it catches the $_POST header. So it's only not catching it when it's sent by Flash. The post tab in Firebug looks a little different than it is with flash:
recipientEmail  example@example.com
submit          Submit

Notice each variable is in its own line.
EDIT: Here is the relevant AS3 code that makes the submission:
    var _gateway:String = Share.getGateway();
    var request:URLRequest;
    var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
    var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

    request  = new URLRequest(_gateway);
    request.contentType = 'text/html';
    request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

    variables.senderName = senderName.text;
    variables.recipientEmail = recipientEmail.text;
    variables.senderMessage = senderMessage.text;

    request.data = variables;

    try {
                 loader.load(request);
    }catch (error:Error) {
         Debug.trace("Unable to load requested document.");
    }

A: Carefully check the headers for the request made by the HTTP form against the request from your Flash applet.  At a glance, my first guess would be that "text/html" content type, which isn't correct for the data being sent — it should be "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".  Mind you, I've never tested to see whether PHP actually cares about that particular detail, but it's certainly suspicious-looking.

A: Can you var_dump($_POST); (or print_r($_POST); ) to see what it contains?

A: Try changing the $_POST to $_REQUEST.  I've had problems before where I was expecting the information in $_POST, but it wouldn't work.  Changing it to $_REQUEST brings in the values for POST, GET and COOKIE.

A: Are you using .htaccess? Make sure that .htaccess isn't re-writing your request url. If you're sending to http://example.com and .htaccess is re-writing it to be http://example.com/, for example, you'll lose your variables.

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Strasburg, Va. – Mercury Paper is donating over $27,000 worth of supplies to healthcare workers and those in need this week in response to the demand for the products during the fight to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the region. The supplies include toilet paper, facial tissue and paper towels, totaling over 65 pallets.
"We have been a part of this community for over 10 years now and value the people, the culture and the area," said Adam Boulware, Director of Manufacturing Operations at Mercury Paper. "We are fortunate to be able to provide help during this challenging time and do so with gratitude to the community."
The supplies will be given directly to Valley Health, with surplus going to United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley (NSV), which will distribute the essentials to nonprofits that serve veterans and others who have struggled to find and afford necessities.
"It's gratifying that Mercury Paper has donated so much of its product to help meet the needs in our regional community due to economic and supply chain challenges posed by COVID-19," said Mark Hurlburt, Valley Health Director of Distribution for Materials Management. "Valley Health will use these supplies and coordinate with our partners at the United Way to make sure these essential items go to Shenandoah Valley families most in need." "We are working with our vast network of partner agencies to deploy supplies when they become available," said Nadine Pottinga, President and CEO of United Way NSV. "In addition to these resources, we've been providing funds to local non-profits to help them meet the needs of the community through our COVID-19 Relief Fund."
"We are all stretched thin during this stressful time," said Vice Mayor Scott Terndrup, who has led the Strasburg Town Council effort on connecting social services to members of the community. "But we are working to do all we can through partnerships with businesses and nonprofits to ensure that folks in Strasburg can access what they need to live in a healthy and safe manner during this time."
Mercury Paper, Inc., with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, is a rapidly growing bath tissue, paper towels and facial tissue products company located in Strasburg, Virginia. The company's goal is to become one of the leading producers of paper products in North America. Mercury Paper promotes environmental awareness and is conscientious when it comes to sourcing raw materials, process efficiency, minimizing waste and managing the supply chain.
Mercury Paper management is committed to participating in the everyday life and activities of Shenandoah Valley organizations as a community partner.
For additional information on or to donate to the United Way NSV Relief Fund, go to https://www.unitedwaynsv.org/covidrelieffund.
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Converging Roads is a regional conference series offering continuing education for health care professionals that equips them to practice the highest ethical and medical standards of their profession. Converging Roads provides health care professionals, chaplains, students, and administrators with the most up-to-date training in health care ethics enabling them to more effectively care for their patients. An initiative of the St. John Paul II Foundation, Converging Roads is deeply rooted in the Catholic moral tradition and is presented in multiple local or regional conferences. Health care professionals receive continuing medical education credits, insight from national level speakers, and the opportunity for networking with local health care professionals.
Converging Roads™ is an initiative of the St. John Paul II Foundation and presented in collaboration with the Archdiocese of San Antonio, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System, and the University of the Incarnate Word. To learn more about Converging Roads, click here.
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Includes 1 exhibitor booth and admission for 1 organizational representative
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End of Life Decision Making: Ethical Decision Making in Sickness and Compromised States
*Lecture & case study presentation with small group facilitation
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The Life Which Has Left God Out Of The Reckoning
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1:28-32 Just as they have given themselves over to a kind of knowledge that rejects the idea of God, so God has given them over to the kind of mind that all reject. The result is that they do things which it is not fitting for any man to do. They are replete with all evil, villainy, the lust to get, viciousness. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, the spirit which puts the worst construction on everything. They are whisperers, slanderers, haters of God. They are insolent men, arrogant, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to their parents, senseless breakers of agreements, without natural affections, pitless. They are the kind of men who are well aware that those who do such things deserve death, and yet they not only do them themselves, but also heartily approve of those who do them.
There is hardly any passage which so clearly shows what happens to a man when he leaves God out of the reckoning. It is not so much that God sends a judgment on a man, as that a man brings a judgment on himself when he gives no place to God in his scheme of things. When a man banishes God from his life he becomes a certain kind of man, and in this passage is one of the most terrible descriptions in literature of the kind of man he becomes. Let us took at the catalogue of dreadful things which enter into the godless life.
Such men do things which are not fitting for any man to do. The Stoics had a phrase. They talked of ta ( Greek #3588 ) kathekonta ( Greek #2520 ), by which they meant the things it befits a man to do. Certain things are essentially and inherently part of manhood, and certain things are not. As Shakespeare has it in Macbeth:
"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none."
The man who banishes God not only loses godliness; he loses manhood too.
Then comes the long list of terrible things. Let us take them one by one.
Evil (adikia, Greek #93 ). Adikia is the precise opposite of diaiosune ( Greek #1343 ), which means justice; and the Greeks defined justice as giving to God and to men their due. The evil man is the man who robs both man and God of their rights. He has so erected an altar to himself in the centre of things that he worships himself to the exclusion of God and man.
Villainy (poneria, Greek #4189 ). In Greek this word means more than badness. There is a kind of badness which, in the main, hurts only the person concerned. It is not essentially an outgoing badness. When it hurts others, as all badness must, the hurt is not deliberate. It may be thoughtlessly cruel, but it is not callously cruel. But the Greeks defined poneria ( Greek #4189 ) as the desire of doing harm. It is the active, deliberate will to corrupt and to inflict injury. When the Greeks described a woman as poneria ( Greek #4189 ) they meant that she deliberately seduced the innocent from their innocence. In Greek one of the commonest titles of Satan is ho poneros ( Greek #4190 ), the evil one, the one who deliberately attacks and aims to destroy the goodness of men. Poneros ( Greek #4190 ) describes the man who is not only bad but wants to make everyone as bad as himself. Poneria ( Greek #4189 ) is destructive badness.
The lust to get (pleonexia, Greek #4124 ). The Greek word is built up of two words which mean to have more. The Greeks themselves defined pleonexia ( Greek #4124 ) as the accursed love of having. It is an aggressive vice. It has been described as the spirit which will pursue its own interests with complete disregard for the rights of others, and even for the considerations of common humanity. Its keynote is rapacity. Theodoret, the Christian writer, describes it as the spirit that aims at more, the spirit which grasps at things which it has no right to take. It may operate in every sphere of life. If it operates in the material sphere, it means grasping at money and goods, regardless of honour and honesty. If it operates in the ethical sphere, it means the ambition which tramples on others to gain something which is not properly meant for it. If it operates in the moral sphere, it means the unbridled lust which takes its pleasure where it has no right to take. Pleonexia ( Greek #4124 ) is the desire which knows no law.
Viciousness (kakia, Greek #2549 ). Kakia is the most general Greek word for badness. It describes the case of a man who is destitute of every quality which would make him good. For instance, a kakos ( Greek #2556 ) krites ( Greek #2923 ) is a judge destitute of the legal knowledge and the moral sense and uprightness of character which are necessary to make a good judge. It is described by Theodoret as "the turn of the soul to the worse." The word he uses for turn is "rope" which means the turn of the balance. A man who is kakos ( Greek #2556 ) is a man the swing of whose life is towards the worse. Kakia ( Greek #2549 ) has been described as the essential viciousness which includes all vice and as the forerunner of all other sins. It is the degeneracy out of which all sins grow and in which all sins flourish.
Envy (phthonos, Greek #5355 ). There is a good and a bad envy. There is the envy which reveals to a man his own weakness and inadequacy, and which makes him eager to copy some great example. And there is the envy which is essentially a grudging thing. It looks at a fine person, and is not so much moved to aspire to that fineness, as to resent it. It is the most warped and twisted of human emotions.
Murder (phonos, Greek #5408 ). It has always to be remembered that Jesus immeasurably widened the scope of this word. He insisted that not only the deed of violence but the spirit of anger and hatred must be eliminated. He insisted that it is not enough only to keep from angry and savage action. It is enough only when even the desire and the anger are banished from the heart. We may never have struck a man in our lives, but who can say he never wanted to strike anyone? As Aquinas said long ago, "Man regardeth the deed, but God seeth the intention."
Strife (eris, Greek #2054 ). Its meaning is the contention which is born of envy, ambition, the desire for prestige, and place and prominence. It comes from the heart in which there is jealousy. If a man is cleansed of jealousy, he has gone far to being cleansed of all that arouses contention and strife. It is a God-given gift to be able to take as much pleasure in the successes of others as in one's own.
Deceit (dolos, Greek #1388 ). We best get the meaning of this from the corresponding verb (doloun, Greek #1389 ). Doloun has two characteristic usages. It is used of debasing precious metals and of adulterating wines. Dolos ( Greek #1388 ) is deceit; it describes the quality of the man who has a tortuous and a twisted mind, who cannot act in a straightforward way, who stoops to devious and underhand methods to get his own way, who never does anything except with some kind of ulterior motive. It describes the crafty cunning of the plotting intriguer who is found in every community and every society.
The spirit which puts the worst construction on everything (kakoetheia, Greek #2550 ). Kakoetheia ( Greek #2500 ) means literally evil-naturedness. At its widest it means malignity. Aristotle defined it in a narrower sense which it has always retained. He said it was "the spirit which always supposes the worst about other people." Pliny called it "malignity of interpretation." Jeremy Taylor said that it is "a baseness of nature by which we take things by the wrong handle, and expound things always in the worst sense." It may well be that this is the commonest of all sins. If there are two possible constructions to be put upon the action of any man, human nature will choose the worse. It is terrifying to think how many reputations have been murdered in gossip over the teacups, with people maliciously putting a wrong interpretation upon a completely innocent action. When we are tempted so to do, we ought to remember that God hears and remembers every word we speak.
Whisperers and slanderers (Psithuristes, Greek #5588 and katalalos, Greek #2637 ). These two words describe people with slanderous tongues; but there is a difference between them. Katalalos ( Greek #2637 ), slanderer, describes the man who trumpets his slanders abroad; he quite openly makes his accusations and tells his tales--Psithuristes ( Greek #5588 ) describes the man who whispers his malicious stories in the listener's ear, who takes a man apart into a corner and whispers a character-destroying story. Both are bad, but the whisperer is the worse. A man can at least defend himself against an open slander, but he is helpless against the secret whisperer who delights in destroying reputations.
Haters of God (theostugeis, Greek #2319 ). This describes the man who hates God because he knows that he is defying him. God is the barrier between him and his pleasures; he is the chain which keeps him from doing exactly as he likes. He would gladly eliminate God if he could, for to him a godless world would be one where he would have, not liberty, but licence.
Insolent men (hubristes, Greek #5197 ). Hubris ( Greek #5196 ) was to the Greek the vice which supremely courted destruction at the hand of the gods. It has two main lines of thought in it. (i) It describes the spirit of the man who is so proud that he defies God. It is the insolent pride that goes before a fall. It is the forgetting that man is a creature. It is the spirit of the man who is so confident in his wealth, his power and his strength that he thinks that he can live life alone. (ii) It describes the man who is wantonly and sadistically cruel and insulting. Aristotle describes it as the spirit which harms and grieves someone else, not for the sake of revenge and not for any advantage that may be gained from it, but simply for the sheer pleasure of hurting. There are people who get pleasure from seeing someone wince at a cruel saying. There are people who take a devilish delight in inflicting mental and physical pain on others. That is hubris ( Greek #5196 ); it is the sadism which finds delight in hurting others simply for the sake of hurting them.
Arrogant men (huperephanos, Greek #5244 ). This is the word which is three times used in scripture when it is said that God resists the proud. ( James 4:6 ; 1 Peter 5:5 ; Proverbs 3:34 .) Theophylact called it "the summit of all sins." Theophrastus was a Greek writer who wrote a series of famous character sketches, and he defined huperephania ( Greek #5244 ) as "a certain contempt for everyone except oneself." He picks out the things in everyday life which are signs of this arrogance. The arrogant man, when he is asked to accept some office, refuses on the ground that he has not time to spare from his own business; he never looks at people on the street unless it pleases him to do so; he invites a man to a meal and then does not appear himself, but sends his servant to attend to his guest. His whole life is surrounded with an atmosphere of contempt and he delights to make others feet small.
Braggarts (alazon, Greek #213 ). Alazon is a word with an interesting history. It literally means one who wanders about. It then became the stock word for wandering quacks who boast of cures that they have worked, and for cheapjacks who boast that their wares have an excellence which they are far from possessing. The Greeks defined alazoneia ( Greek #212 ) as the spirit which pretends to have what it has not. Xenophon said that the name belongs to those who pretend to be richer and braver than they are, and who promise to do what they are really unable to do in order to make some profit or gain. Again Theophrastus has a character study of such a man--the pretentious man, the snob. He is the kind of man who boasts of trade deals which exist only in his imagination, of connections with influential people which do not exist at all, of gifts to charities and public services which he never gave or rendered. He says about the house he lives in that it is really too small for him, and that he must buy a bigger one. The braggart is out to impress others--and the world is still full of his like.
Inventors of evil (epheuretes ( Greek #2182 ) kakon, Greek #2556 ). The phrase describes the man who, so to speak, is not content with the usual, ordinary ways of sinning, but who seeks out new and recondite vices because he has grown blas? and seeks a new thrill in some new sin.
Disobedient to their parents (goneusin ( Greek #1118 ) apeitheis, Greek #545 ). Both Jews and Romans set obedience to parents very high in the scale of virtues. It was one of the Ten Commandments that parents should be honoured. In the early days of the Roman Republic, the patria potestas, the father's power, was so absolute that he had the power of life and death over his family. The reason for including this sin here is that, once the bonds of the family are loosened, wholesale degeneracy must necessarily follow.
Senseless (asunetos, Greek #801 ). This word describes the man who is a fool, who cannot learn the lesson of experience, who will not use the mind and brain that God has given to him.
Breakers of agreements (asunthetos, Greek #802 ). This word would come with particular force to a Roman audience. In the great days of Rome, Roman honesty was a wonderful thing. A man's word was as good as his bond. That was in fact one of the great differences between the Roman and the Greek. The Greek was a born pilferer. The Greeks used to say that if a governor or official was entrusted with one talent--240 British pounds--even if there were ten clerks and accountants to check up on him, he was certain to succeed in embezzling some of it; while the Roman, whether as a magistrate in office or a general on a campaign, could deal with thousands of talents on his bare word alone, and never a penny went astray. By using this word, Paul was recalling the Romans not only to the Christian ethic, but to their own standards of honour in their greatest days.
Without natural affections (astorgos, Greek #794 ). Storge (compare Greek #794 ) was the special Greek word for family love. It was quite true that this was an age in which family love was dying. Never was the life of the child so precarious as at this time. Children were considered a misfortune. When a child was born, it was taken and laid at the father's feet. If the father lifted it up that meant that he acknowledged it. If he turned away and left it, the child was literally thrown out. There was never a night when there were not thirty or forty abandoned children left in the Roman forum. Even Seneca, great soul as he was, could write: "We kill a mad dog; we slaughter a fierce ox; we plunge the knife into sickly cattle lest they taint the herd; children who are born weakly and deformed we drown." The natural bonds of human affection had been destroyed.
Pitiless (aneleemon, Greek #415 ). There never was a time when human life was so cheap. A slave could be killed or tortured by his master, for he was only a thing and the law gave his master unlimited power over him. In a wealthy household a slave was bringing in a tray of crystal glasses. He stumbled and a glass fell and broke. There and then his master had him flung into the fish pond in the middle of the courtyard where the savage lampreys devoured his living flesh. It was an age pitiless in its very pleasures, for it was the great age of the gladiatorial games where people found their delight in seeing men kill each other. It was an age when the quality of mercy was gone.
Paul says one last thing about these people who have banished God from life. It usually happens that, even if a man is a sinner, he knows it, and, even if he allows something in himself, he knows that it is to be condemned in others. But in those days men had reached such a level that they sinned themselves and encouraged others to do so. George Bernard Shaw once said, "No nation has ever survived the loss of its gods." Here Paul has given us a terrible picture of what happens when men deliberately banish God from the reckoning, and, in due time, Rome perished. Disaster and degeneracy went hand in hand.
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