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Detroit's Alaric Jackson earns starting tackle job for Iowa
David Goricki
Alaric "A.J." Jackson can't wait to get back to his home state of Michigan to play at Spartan Stadium Saturday afternoon.
Jackson, who was known more for his basketball play while at Detroit Renaissance, will be the starting left tackle for the Iowa Hawkeyes, who face the Spartans at 4 p.m.
Iowa (3-1, 0-1) came up just short of pulling off a big upset last weekend when Penn State scored on the game's final play to pull out a 21-19 win over the Hawkeyes.
At Renaissance, Jackson was finally talked into going out for football his junior year, then showed his potential by landing 15 Division I offers heading into his senior season, finally deciding on Iowa over fellow Big Ten programs Michigan State, Wisconsin and Nebraska.
Now, Jackson is a starter in his redshirt freshman season.
"I have to give a lot of credit to the older guys on the offensive line, guys like (seniors) Boone Myers and Ike Boettger," Jackson told The Detroit News this week. "The O-line as a whole is a close-knit group, along with Coach Ferentz, and they all have gotten me ready to play this year.
Jackson, who is now 6-foot-7 and 315 pounds, also gives a lot of credit to Iowa strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle.
More: Trieu: MSU's 2019 recruiting developing big in-state flavor
"I came here around 340 and shed 20 pounds, and I mainly now have a lot more muscle than fat," Jackson said. "He really helped me with my speed, conditioning, strength. I move better now and feel stronger."
Jackson says first-year Iowa offensive line coach Tim Polasek has improved Jackson's technique.
"I've done a lot of work with getting my steps down, run blocking with my first step," he said. "(Polasek) has done a great job with me. He's helped me in getting acclimated to how football goes. Really, all the guys have really believed in me with this being my first time starting."
Jackson is looking forward to playing at MSU.
"It's going to be fun to come home and see family and friends, get the chance to play Michigan State," Jackson said.
Cedrick Lattimore (Detroit East English), a 6-5, 295-pound defensive lineman, will also be getting some playing time for the Hawkeyes. He was one of 10 Hawkeyes to play as a true freshman last season.


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Promoting Strong Global Financial Systems
May 17, 2006By @BahamasFSBBFSB News
Promoting Strong Global Financial Systems@BahamasFSB2006-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
**Treasury Secretary John W. Snow**
The US Treasury Secretary testified today before the House Financial Services Committee on the International Financial System and the Global Economy. His presentation focused on the US Administration's international economic policy priorities, particularly those aimed at *"reducing risks and strengthening opportunities going forward"*.
**Compliance with International Financial Standards**
The House Committee was told of the importance of fostering compliance with international financial standards as a means of reducing the vulnerability of the global financial system. Secretary Snow said those countries where the institutional environment is well-regulated and transparent tend to demonstrate better economic performance and greater financial stability.
The US Treasury promotes compliance with international standards in bilateral dialogues, in multilateral fora such as the Financial Stability Forum, and in the IMF and World Bank through support for financial sector assessment programs and integration of financial sector reform priorities – identified by these programs – into broader surveillance and country programs. Treasury is also actively engaged with the standard-setting bodies, international organizations, and other national authorities in the process of creating and revising the international financial standards themselves. In this connection, the Treasury Department and U.S. financial regulators conduct bilateral dialogues with counterparts – with the objective of encouraging movement toward more competitive, better regulated financial regimes and mitigating actual or potential cross-border frictions in the financial services realm, thereby contributing to a stronger economy.
**Fighting Terrorist Finance**
Treasury's goal is to draw upon all available financial information to detect and disrupt terrorist money flows. The Secretary noted the Department has been at the forefront of a concerted effort to collect, share, and analyze all available information to track and disrupt the financial activities of terrorists. He noted that Finance ministries and central banks play a key role in this effort, as *"financial intelligence is among our most valuable sources of data for waging this fight."*
Comprehensive integration of the IMF and the other international financial institutions as part of the global war on terrorism has been a consistent policy priority for the United States, which has encouraged close collaboration between the international financial institutions and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to assess global compliance with the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing standards set by FATF.
In 2004 the IMF and World Bank Boards endorsed a common assessment methodology drafted by the FATF that provides a consistent framework for assessing compliance with FATF anti-money laundering and counter terrorist finance recommendations. That initiative was led by the US, says Secretary Snow. The respective Boards reaffirmed this decision in May of this year — agreeing that comprehensive anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism assessments will be included as a regular part of all financial sector assessments and on-going surveillance. By the end of 2005, the IMF and World Bank had conducted over 50 country assessments.
*"We will continue to emphasize that protecting the financial system from abuse is integral to international financial stability and to call on the international financial institutions to collaborate more closely with FATF toward this end,"* testified Secretary Snow.
The House Testimony also focussed on issues such as the promotion of international trade and investment, modernising the IMF, and supporting economic growth in developing countries.
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Circuit boards are shipped in sealed plastic. Once the sticker is broken, the circuit board is neither returnable nor exchangeable.
Balboa 54003 is a replacement Balboa Duplex Digital circuit board for Duplex Digital M-1 systems. Circuit Board has a Chip Number of DIGDUPR1x, and measures 6.6" x 6.12" with 6 metal tabs on one side.
Balboa 54003 works together with the 30274-2 Transformer, 30337 Sensor and Balboa Lite Duplex or Duplex Digital Topside Panels. Printed on label is BOARD BALBOA DIGITAL DUPLEX. This Balboa PCB can run 2 pumps, ozone and spa light.
Balboa 54003 can replace the following alternate spa Balboa boards and private labeled Balboa equipment part numbers: 51405, 51404, 51421, 50991, 50865, 51133, 51542 (DAK50), 51127 (6300DR1), 50830 (VIK100), 3-60-0049, 2500ESR1C, 50084-01R, 50911, 51405, 51569, 51586, 611311, 9710-09, ALP50R1C, BH50D, C11JDR1A, C11JDR1B, DAK50R1B, DIGDUPR1A, DS50R1A, DS50R1C, DYN100R1E, MAS125R1A, MOR100R1B, P295R1A, RET50R1A, SS23DR1B, SS23DR1C, VIK100R1B, ZX500DR1A, 50833 (SS23D), 50834 (SS33D), 6300DR1A, CS2000R1F.
Spa circuit boards should not be ordered by size or appearance, but only by matching the chip number and/or the manufacturer part number. Many circuits boards look alike, but are incompatible with circuit boards or topside controls. Feel free to give our helpful spa techs a call for help buying the correct spa pack circuit board.
Balboa Circuit Boards are shipped in sealed plastic. Once the sticker is broken, the circuit board is neither returnable nor exchangeable, due to the sensitive and fragile nature of printed circuit boards.


Who is entitled to an education in the United States?
There are many controversies concerning a free, public education for certain immigrant communities in America, related to language barriers, geographic stability, and the possibility that parents are not citizens of the United States.
The lack of stability in the lifestyle of migrant workers sometimes does not allow migrant children access to a traditional education, causing these children to be stuck in the middle between what society demands from them to be considered American citizens (i.e. learning English) and the economic needs of their family. Jeehyun Lim's article "Reimagining Citizenship through Bilingualism: The Migrant Bilingual Child in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus," talks about what the United States uses as an everyday proof of citizenship, which is often literacy in English.
In Helena Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus, Estrella, recalls some of her time in the United States educational system, and how her teachers were more concerned with her cleanliness than with what she was learning in the classroom. In many ways, Estrella becomes responsible for her own education, within a system that does not well accomodate a migrant, immigrant lifestyle.
Lim, Jeehyun. "Reimagining Citizenship through Bilingualism: The Migrant Bilingual Child in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus."Women's Stud Q 38 no1/2 Spr/Summ 2010 p. 222-43.


With over five hundred smartphones in my collection, I have completed hundreds of projects centered around Android, Windows Mobile and iOS. Before smartphones became widespread, I worked on numerous projects involving flip phones, PDAs, etc.
Each phone in my collection is part of a unique project ranging from anything like acting as a bluetooth File server or acting as a remote IP camera, to serving as a full PHP/SQL/FTP/DHCP server or being the platform for the development of a custom ROM. At very least each phone is rooted and has a ROM I modified for that model specifically flashed to it. In the case a phone can't be rooted (ZTE has a couple that come to mind), I usually find these phones make great security studies. The ZTE phones, for instance, have a security measure similar to Deep Freeze by storing system critical files in a mounted and temporary RAM drive, leaving the real files always encrypted and hidden.
These examples involves major system alterations to the Android build that require rooting, partition resizing and flashing, init.d and kernel modifications, service modifications, apk decompile and recompile events, etc.
For example, here is the structure for a custom ROM built for the LG Esteem. In this example, this is deployed in CWM Recovery once the phone is rooted as shown further below.
adb shell "chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/zergrush"
adb shell "echo exit | /data/local/tmp/zergrush"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mount -orw,remount /dev/block/system /system"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mkdir /system/tmp"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "chmod 777 /system/tmp"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mv /system/tmp/flash_image /system/xbin/flash_image"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "chmod 777 /system/xbin/flash_image"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mv /system/tmp/recovery.img /system/xbin/recovery.img"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mv /system/tmp/su /system/xbin/su"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mv /system/tmp/Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "mv /system/tmp/busybox /system/xbin/busybox"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "chown root /system/xbin/su"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "ln -s /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "chmod 755 /system/xbin/busybox"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "/system/xbin/busybox --install /system/xbin/"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "/system/xbin/flash_image recovery /system/xbin/recovery.img"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "rmdir /system/tmp"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/sh -c "rm /system/xbin/recovery.img"
adb shell "rm /data/local/tmp/* 2>/dev/null"
DHCP, UPnP, DNS, Email (POP3 / SMTP), FTP Proxy, FTP, FTPS, FTPES, Load Balancer, MySQL, NFS, PHP, PXE, Port Forwarder, RTMP, Remote Control, SMB/CIFS, SFTP, SSH, TFTP, Telnet, Time, Torrent Client, Torrent Tracker, VNC, VPN, Wake On Lan, Web, X11!
For a time, this very portfolio website was hosted on a single smartphone! Here are some instances of different projects involving servers hosted on Android devices.


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Giano dell'Umbria és un comune (municipi) de la Província de Perusa, a la regió italiana d'Úmbria, situat uns 35 km al sud-est de Perusa.

L'1 de gener de 2018 tenia una població de 3.893 habitants.

Geografia
El municipi de Giano dell'Umbria conté la frazione de Bastardo.

Limita amb els municipis de Castel Ritaldi, Gualdo Cattaneo, Massa Martana, Montefalco i Spoleto.

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Enllaços externs

Municipis de Perusa

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Jusubali Jamylbaev, 48, a shepherd, fills a bottle with water from River Soh in Aktoprak, Kyrgyzstan.
A river near the village of Lyaily near Beshkent, Kyrgyzstan, which feeds an aryk, an irrigation canal.
A man drinks water from a muddy irrigation canal at a teahouse in Beshkent, Kyrgyzstan.
Nurjamal Alimbekova, 16, lives in the village of Lyaily where nearly all 300 families use water from an irrigation canal.
Children wash their hands before snack time in the village of Lyaily.
Talant Alibekov, 37, suffered from brucellosis, a disease that comes from water contaminated by sick animals.
Children return from school in the village of Lyaily.
"We drink the water and it's not good," explained Abdubana Raputor, who lives at the edge of a river near Beshkent.
A Soviet-era pumping station in the village of Andarhan. That water is not controlled for human consumption.
Atyrgul Tagaibekova, 12, at a hospital with symptoms of hepatitis. The hospital depends on water from an irrigation canal.
Zarina Nurai Kyzy holds her infant daughter, who is suffering from gastrointestinal distress.
A hospital worker holds a bucket she uses to gather water from an irrigation canal near the hospital.
In Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken Region there is a village called Beshkent, where 12,000 people depend on water delivered by irrigation channels called aryks. These channels are vulnerable to contamination from animals, debris and trash.
At the medical clinic in Beshkent, head physician Abid Madaliev treats numerous cases of hepatitis, gastrointestinal infection and brucellosis, a joint disease that is transmitted from livestock to humans through contaminated water. Cases of gastrointestinal infection in the village are double the national average.
Madaliev says that although vaccines are given to newborns, he sees many hepatitis cases – about 20 per month. Instances of waterborne diseases are "especially acute in autumn, when leaves falling in the aryk leads to the growth of bacteria," he said.
In Kyrgyzstan, lack of access to clean water is the cause of health issues in hundreds of villages like Beshkent. Each year, Kyrgyz officials record 30,000 acute intestinal infections, 24 percent of which are related to parasites. Up to 86 percent of typhoid cases occur in villages that lack safe drinking water. The Batken region, which borders Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is one of the worst affected areas.
"If we had a central system and a treatment plant, we could use chlorine to clean the water, and the number of sick people would definitely decline," Madaliev said.
Kyrgyzstan is blessed with an abundance of water thanks to glaciers, lakes and rivers. Still, 150,000 people in 390 villages in Kyrgyzstan depend solely on aryks for drinking water because supply systems function poorly or are nonexistent. In many rural communities, Soviet-era plumbing infrastructure has fallen into disrepair.
New supply projects must be financed locally. Area residents must raise the initial investment funds in order to partner with the World Bank, UNDP and other investors.
The biggest problems communities face is the initial funding, explains Vladimir Grebnev, Program Coordinator for Environment Protection for Sustainable Development at UNDP Kyrgyzstan.
Kanybek Alimbekov, a Beshkent politician and hydro-engineer, leads a team trying to bring clean water to villagers in Beshkent. Over the past decade, the village government has managed to set aside about $12,000 (or 5 percent of the overall estimated cost) for the installation of 20 kilometers of pipeline and a water treatment facility. Due to inflation, rising costs and other economic factors, the project has stalled.
Ultimately, the reliance on local financing is untenable. Local governments are capable of contributing funds, but in a country like Kyrgyzstan, where poverty is widespread, locals often lack the resources that would enable communities to finance such infrastructure projects on their own, Grebnev said.
"In a village with a population of 5,000, water infrastructure may cost at least $200,000," Grebnev explained.
Jodi Hilton is an independent photographer.


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Researchers discover ancient vessels at dig near biblical city of Ziklag. (Youtube/Screenshot) (Youtube/Screenshot)
WATCH: Biblical City of Ziklag from Time of King David Uncovered
Israeli archeaology
Ziklag is mentioned multiple times in the Bible in relation to David in the Book of Samuel.
Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, believe they have discovered the Philistine town of Ziklag, near Kiryat Gat, immortalized in the Biblical narrative.
Ziklag is mentioned multiple times in the Bible in relation to David in the Book of Samuel. According to the Biblical narrative, Achish, King of Gat, allowed David to find refuge in Ziklag while fleeing King Saul, and from there David also departed to be anointed King in Hebron.
According to scripture, Ziklag was also the scene of a dramatic event, in which the Amalekites, desert nomads, raided and burned the town taking women and children captive.
The excavation, which began in 2015 at the site of Khirbet a-Ra'i in the Judaean foothills – between Kiryat Gat and Lachish, was done in cooperation with Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Saar Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Dr. Kyle Keimer and Dr. Gil Davis of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Above the remains of the Philistine settlement was a rural settlement from the time of King David, from the early 10th century BC. This settlement came to an end in an intense fire that destroyed the buildings. Nearly 100 complete pottery vessels were found in the various rooms. These vessels are identical to those found in the contemporary fortified Judaean city of Khirbet Qeiyafa—identified as biblical Sha'arayim—in the Judaean foothills.
Carbon 14 tests date the site at Khirbet a-Ra'i to the time of King David.
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There is a surge of school garden programs in developing countries, but there is very little evidence to date that such programs drive children to make healthier food choices.
While previous studies demonstrated that school gardens can improve children's knowledge of and preferences for healthier foods, actual improvement in food choices may be constrained by low availability of healthy foods and the overriding influence of caregivers on children's diets. This project tests the hypothesis that school garden programs can nudge children aged 8-12 toward healthier diets, evaluating a randomized intervention in 30 schools from one district in Nepal are randomly assigned to a control and intervention group. The intervention also includes a home garden component that trains parents in gardening and nutrition and promotes parents and children to work together to improve family nutrition. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative method the study will provide a deeper understanding of the mechanisms through which school-based interventions can influence children's food choices and thereby contribute to better nutrition intervention designs globally.


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Why Almost Anything You've Learned About Dance Music Is Wrong And What You Should Be Aware Of
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Our Mission is to further early childhood growth and autism intervention through unbelievable, reasonably priced and enjoyable sensory-pleasant shows and concert events. With an increasing diversification (and commercialization) of dance music, the collectivist sentiment prominent in the early rave scene diminished, each new faction having its personal particular attitude and imaginative and prescient of how dance music (or in certain cases, non-dance music) ought to evolve. Some examples not already talked about are trance , industrial techno , breakbeat hardcore , acid techno , and pleased hardcore Less properly-known styles related to techno or its subgenres embody the primarily Sheffield (UK)-based bleep techno, a regional variant that had some success between 1989 and 1991.
Though Techno music is a product of the 80s. On various internet radio stations it prepares at present however still many listeners pleasure! With the increasing enchancment of the synthesizer and laptop technology at the moment made more and more bands pure laptop-oriented music. The basics of techno music shaped synth-pop, EBM, New Beat and the Detroit techno. Over time techno music was all the time professional.
He's a pure arduous and uncompromising sound and his commitment is intense. I point out basic disco and he seizes the chance to talk about classical music. Having just moved to a brand new home, Derrick tells me he cannot make music there, "I would like a window, something to look at something to consider." Driving slowly around the city, Derrick considers the impact his music has had.
This music saw its peak in the 1990s.
These netlabels distribute artistic commons techno music. The second best-selling British single of 1988 was an acid home file, the Coldcut -produced " The Solely Approach Is Up " by Yazz 59 60 One of the early club anthems, "Promised Land" by Joe Clean, was coated and charted inside every week by UK band The Style Council Europeans embraced house, and started booking important American home DJs to play on the huge golf equipment, akin to Ministry of Sound , whose resident, Justin Berkmann brought in US pioneer Larry Levan In the late Eighties, American-born singer Kym Mazelle relocated to London to sign a recording contract with EMI Data and her first album Sensible! in 1989, which was based on house music. 61 Mazelle's single "Wait!" that includes Robert Howard became one of many first worldwide home hits.
Moritz Simon Geist has considered a new technique to create techno music: sonic robots. Andrea Oliva: The good with EDM is that proper EDM music is made for radio, so it could possibly play actually huge and it became principally what we knew as pop again within the days. However I believe techno and house will never make it that far, which is also good as a result of it is nonetheless form of a subculture.
These labels additionally promoted UK dance music acts.
Our Mission is to additional early childhood growth and autism intervention by way of unimaginable, inexpensive and enjoyable sensory-friendly exhibits and concerts. One other model that developed within the 90s is drum and bass (or "DnB"). Most DnB has very deep bass sounds, jazzy breakbeat rhythms, and could be very quick and aggressive at around one hundred sixty to one hundred eighty bpm. Nicely-regarded DnB albums embody Goldie's Timeless and Ronnie Size & Reprazent's New Kinds. A method that developed from DnB in the mid-2000s is called dubstep. Like DnB, dubstep could be very bass-heavy, however at around seventy five bpm it's much slower and infrequently has a darker, extra atmospheric really feel. Some of the most highly-regarded dubstep is made by UK artists Benga & Coki, Digital Mystikz and Burial.
It began in Chicago's Southside in 1977, when a brand new sort of club opened. which have a well-known sounds that may accommodate everyone. For the past three years it has improved, promoters are approaching me to perform at their occasions". Of recent he has had a fantastic run being called to carry out electro mixes at varied events akin to Botswana Electronic Music Pageant, Chillstep Sunday and EDM Fridays.
The first identified use of techno as a term to define this specific genre of music came about in 1988, when British music entrepreneur Neil Rushton approached the Detroit based Belleville Three, as he wished to license their music to be released within the United Kingdom.
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Today's post contains a handful of selected tracks by British darkwave act Nagamatzu, essentially a two piece featuring Andrew Lagowski (Legion, Terror Against Terror) on synths, guitar, and drum machines and Stephen Jarvis (aka Terraform) on bass, synth, and projections. Andrew Fleck also contributed keyboards from 1982-1983.
A good portion of these tracks appear on the band's debut cassette release, 1986's Sacred Islands of the Mad, a true minimal synth classic. In fact, all of the tracks are represented here, except "Lift Off," the first track on the cassette. To make up for it, this collection contains three other tracks, including "Crackle Black," "Op-Dead Post A," and "Shroud," only one whose origin is known. All tracks sound nice and crisp, as loud and clear as can be.
Track 7 from Total Recess 3 comp.
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In love with this. thanks!
A good portion of these tracks appear on the band's debut cassette release, 1986's Sacred Islands of the Mad, a true minimal synth classic.
Thank you. I just ordered the LP.
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Are CCGs contracting with private firms to support them?
By Neil Durham on the 3 July 2012
Health Act opponents warned reform would lead to the privatisation of the NHS but how involved with private firms are clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)? Neil Durham reports
Dr Charles Alessi: 'I think the information CCGs need is really around what is the art of the possible?'
In May a survey of 141 CCGs for the NHS Commissioning Board (NCB) found a quarter are expected to source commissioning support exclusively, or almost exclusively, from NHS clinical support services (CSS); a third aiming for between 50 and 69%; with 27% aiming for 30-49%; and 17% expecting less than 30%.
With regard to exercising choice during 2012/13, the majority of emerging CCGs intend to carry on with the same NHS CSS, one in ten said they wanted to exercise choice and around a quarter didn't know. Around 60% want more information about the choice available to them.
Beyond authorisation and CCGs assuming PCT responsibility in April 2013, there is a high degree of uncertainty with a third wanting change and 29% don't know what their support will look like.
Up to April 2013, half of support was expected from CSSs, 32% in-house, 15% shared with other CCGs and just 3% sourced from outside the NHS.
Indeed only 32% of emerging CCGs expected to source any support from outside the NHS at all. Among those who did expect to source from outside the NHS, the average amount was only 8% (with the maximum for any emerging CCG not exceeding 25% of the whole).
CCGs that intended to secure commissioning support from outside the NHS were asked which services this would be for. Common themes included: organisational development, practice-level support, consultancy support, joint commissioning and IT.
NHS CSSs are able to source from and work with organisations outside the NHS to support emerging CCGs. The expectation among emerging CCGs is that support from these 'other sectors' will most commonly come from local government – 67% of emerging CCGs surveyed said they envisaged that this would be the case. Around half said they envisaged that NHS CSSs would source from the commercial sector (52%) and the third or voluntary sector (48%).
The art of the possible
National Association of Primary care chairman and Surrey GP Dr Charles Alessi said: 'I think the information CCGs need is really around what is the art of the possible? What can commissioning support do for them? People know what commissioning support has delivered for them in the past but now they don't know what they don't know.
'The new system is around clinical engagement with localities rather than at the centre.
'There is a need for a bespoke service to CCGs rather than this is what we have, you could buy it. Are models of care more sensitive to the needs of local populations? It's completely impossible to ascertain the care of local populations unless one has an understanding of local populations and information given is sensitive to the locality. In the past this never happened when the units of currency were SHAs. This needs to change. CSSs need to be far more locally focused. People are really wanting more information. CCGs need to be able to make appropriate choices.'
Shift outside the NHS
There is a shift towards services from outside the NHS with 45% of CCGs expecting up to 32% of services to be provided from outside the NHS in April 2013 (compared with 33% before this).
Some 42% were not confident that commissioning support would be delivered in a new and innovative way, one in 10 were not at all confident.
A quarter were not confident that leadership within their main NHS CSS would develop the organisation into an entity that could operate confidently in a commercial environment. The report adds: 'Ultimately, emerging CCGs will be able to source commissioning support from outside the NHS so it is essential that NHS CSSs are seen to offer a robust alternative to the commercial and third sectors as well as in-house sources. The survey findings suggest that emerging CCGs are not wholly confident in this regard.'
The report says: 'There are reasonable levels of confidence in the ability of leaders within NHS CSSs to deliver the core services that emerging CCGs require, namely commissioning support post-authorisation. However confidence is by no means universal. Emerging CCGs have lower confidence that leadership will help to deliver in an innovative way or provide vision and ambition. This suggests that leaders within NHS CSSs are regarded as competent rather than inspirational.'
Journey not easy
NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar gives credit to PCTs and CSSs for working hard in a short space of time to get up and running to offer the kind of support that CCGs want. He says: 'The journey has not been easy for CSSs which have been subjected to significant scrutiny so they meet the necessary service quality standards.
'CSSs will be a vital component of ensuring the NHS reforms are successful so it is pleasing to see that the overwhelming majority of CSSs have raised their game, focussed on the CCG as a customer and continue to improve their offer.
'There is an opportunity now to use the data from the survey to work on the areas that need improvement so CSSs are ready to succeed – offering truly innovative services based on strong business relationships with CCGs in an open marketplace.'
The challenge to offer bespoke services has been set by Dr Alessi. Whether CSSs rise to it will determine how 'privatised' the NHS becomes. Although, ultimately, all such services are to work in the openmarket.
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New Site Exposes Facts About Fluoride – Using Science
Posted April 10, 2017 & filed under Facts about Fluoride, Fluoride and Public Health, Partners in Fluoride.
March 2017 saw the debut of a new website taking a unique approach to fluoride science. FluorideExposed.org explores a broad range of science topics, using fluoride as a theme. The site aims to explore not only the science underlying the role of community water fluoridation (CWF) in oral health and cavity prevention, but also fluoride's role in a wide variety of sciences such as chemistry, drinking water treatment, freshwater ecology, toxicology, and public health.
A case in point is the site's debut feature on the place that fluoridation of drinking water has in the science of public health. An interactive infographic slide series offers an in-depth and humorous breakdown of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 1999 series on the Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the Twentieth Century. The feature puts CWF in context with other public health achievements, such as immunizations, motor vehicle safety, and family planning. But all ten public health achievements have a full complement of interesting infographics in the slideshow. The full exploration of each achievement offers practitioners from each of the ten featured public health sub-specialties a resource to share about the role of their sub-specialty in advancing people's health. Another goal of the feature is offering members of the public who are reading up on fluoride to also review a wider view of public health topics and accomplishments at the same time: community water fluoridation is a window into the large and rich field of public health.
See more at FluorideExposed.org and explore the interactive infographics of the 20th-century public health achievements specifically at: Fluoridation, One of Ten Ways We Beat Disease.
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The plasma archipelago: Plasma physics in the 1960s
Gary J. Weisel
Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
With the foundation of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society in April 1959, plasma physics was presented as the general study of ionized gases. This paper investigates the degree to which plasma physics, during its first decade, established a community of interrelated specialties, one that brought together work in gaseous electronics, astrophysics, controlled thermonuclear fusion, space science, and aerospace engineering. It finds that, in some regards, the plasma community was indeed greater than the sum of its parts and that its larger identity was sometimes glimpsed in inter-specialty work and studies of fundamental plasma behaviors. Nevertheless, the plasma specialties usually worked separately for two inter-related reasons: prejudices about what constituted ''basic physics,'' both in the general physics community and within the plasma community itself and a compartmentalized funding structure, in which each funding agency served different missions.
Physics in Perspective
Published - Jul 11 2017
aerospace sciences
ionized gases
Weisel, G. J. (2017). The plasma archipelago: Plasma physics in the 1960s. Physics in Perspective, 19(3), 183-226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0205-8
Weisel, Gary J. / The plasma archipelago : Plasma physics in the 1960s. In: Physics in Perspective. 2017 ; Vol. 19, No. 3. pp. 183-226.
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Seeing the Real You At Last
JOHN Lennon once wrote: "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans".
But, as I sit here, I am drawn by the words of his former writing partner and fellow Beatle Paul McCartney:
"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
And hung me on a line
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you
Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand."
Now, exactly five years since the nervous breakdown, which changed my life for ever, I am still looking to understand my life and the people who have been part of it!
As many readers will know, 2013 was personally an awful year, culminating in the complete breakdown on 12 June.
It was also the start of a recovery and realisation that only by honestly addressing my life, could I find a way forward.
So I began a journey of self-awareness and discovery.
The support of my lovely family was an immense part of this journey.
And the friends who were there for me when my life was at its bleakest also helped sustain me, and drive me forward.
Many years ago I helped an old friend who was facing a tough time. He has now sadly passed away, but he left me a letter with the immortal words: "A man is known by his friends and not his enemies, I am grateful to count you as a friend."
Today his words chime so clearly in my conscience.
You see, it is easy to know who you love and who loves you, but is less easy to appreciate who are true friends.
The ongoing atrocities in Palestine often make me realise how much evil exists in this world.
But there is still so much goodness and good people.
I could not have survived without such people… so many wonderful friends, who climbed out from behind the barricades to give help when they saw I was drowning.
It has always puzzled me how human chemistry works and how some people become such great friends while some others torture our souls.
It is almost as if you know who will be a friend when you first meet them… or is that only me?
Psychologists believe there are 16 distinct types of personality in human beings:
The Duty Fulfiller
Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living. Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable. Usually interested in supporting and promoting traditions and establishments. Well-organized and hard-working, they work steadily towards identified goals.
Quiet and reserved, interested in how and why things work. Excellent skills with mechanical things. Risk-takers who they live for the moment. Usually interested in and talented at extreme sports. Uncomplicated in their desires. Loyal to their peers and to their internal value systems.
The Nurturer
Quiet, kind, and conscientious. Can be depended on to follow through. Usually puts the needs of others above their own needs. Stable and practical, they value security and traditions. Extremely perceptive of other's feelings. Interested in serving others.
Quiet, serious, sensitive and kind. Do not like conflict, and not likely to do things which may generate conflict. Loyal and faithful. Not interested in leading or controlling others. Flexible and open-minded. Likely to be original and creative. Enjoy the present moment.
Quietly forceful, original, and sensitive. Tend to stick to things until they are done. Extremely intuitive about people, and concerned for their feelings. Well-respected for their perseverance in doing the right thing. Likely to be individualistic, rather than leading or following.
The Idealist
Quiet, reflective, and idealistic. Interested in serving humanity. Extremely loyal. Adaptable and laid-back unless a strongly-held value is threatened. Usually talented writers. Mentally quick, and able to see possibilities. Interested in understanding and helping people.
Independent, original, analytical, and determined. Have an exceptional ability to turn theories into solid plans of action. Long-range thinkers. Have very high standards for their performance, and the performance of others. Natural leaders, but will follow if they trust existing leaders.
Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others.
Friendly, adaptable, action-oriented. "Doers" who are focused on immediate results. Living in the here-and-now, they're risk-takers who live fast-paced lifestyles. Extremely loyal to their peers, but not usually respectful of laws and rules if they get in the way of getting things done.
Practical, traditional, and organized. Not interested in theory or abstraction unless they see the practical application. Have clear visions of the way things should be. Loyal and hard-working. Like to be in charge. Exceptionally capable in organizing and running activities.
The Performer
People-oriented and fun-loving, they make things more fun for others by their enjoyment. Living for the moment, they love new experiences. Interested in serving others. Likely to be the centre of attention in social situations. Well-developed common sense and practical ability.
The Caregiver
Warm-hearted, popular, and conscientious. Tend to put the needs of others over their own needs. Feel strong sense of responsibility and duty. Value traditions and security. Need positive reinforcement to feel good about themselves. Well-developed sense of space and function.
The Inspirer
Enthusiastic, idealistic, and creative. Able to do almost anything that interests them. Great people skills. Need to live life in accordance with their inner values. Excited by new ideas, but bored with details. Open-minded and flexible, with a broad range of interests and abilities.
Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis.
Creative, resourceful, and intellectually quick. Good at a broad range of things. Enjoy debating issues, and may be into "one-upmanship". They get very excited about new ideas and projects, but may neglect the more routine aspects of life. Generally outspoken and assertive.
Assertive and outspoken – they are driven to lead. Excellent ability to understand difficult organizational problems and create solid solutions. Intelligent and well-informed, they usually excel at public speaking. They value knowledge and competence, and usually have little patience with inefficiency or disorganization.
I guess we all fit into one of those categories… or do we?
But, the psychologists have missed two important personality types: the Psychotic and the Complete Bastard.
Because while we are loved and supported by our life partners, soul mates and good friends; there are others who seem hell-bent on ruining the lives of other human beings either at work, at home or any given social situation.
So the two things I have learned from my breakdown and recovery is:
Don't let the antagonists be part of your life… leave them behind.
Embrace your friends and those who love you.
Simple stuff really and I guess you don't need to be a psychologist to figure that out.
But don't let it get to a breakdown before you do!
I finish with an embrace for Helen, my confidante and best friend. She is the daughter and sister I never had, and my true soul mate.
She tells things as she sees them: "Fuck the bastards Nic, you are beautiful!"
A man is known by his friends and not his enemies and I am a very lucky man indeed.
Author seagullnicPosted on June 14, 2018 June 14, 2018 Categories My life, UncategorizedTags bastards, Enemies, Friends, Love, nervous breakdown, people types, Psychology, recoveryLeave a comment on Seeing the Real You At Last
Illegitimacy: once a shameful secret but now a celebration
UNTIL fairly recently British society placed great emphasis on the bonds of marriage, and those who deviated from this social norm faced condemnation from their community.
And having a 'bastard' child was a stigma too far for many families.
Such was the shame that families went to great lengths to keep their guilty secret under wraps.
"We don't think twice about illegitimacy now; it's really hard to get your mind around the idea that the shame was once so awful that women were prepared to kill their babies," says Ruth Paley, author of Was Your Ancestor a Bastard?
But that awful stigma of the past has given birth to two joyous reconciliations for me, my mother, my immediate family and a new extended family.
And here lies two stories:
My aunt Betty was my father's eldest sister, born in 1919 to my grandparents Tom and Alice Outterside in the tough mining village of Throckley, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her sister Win was born in 1922 and dad Ray and his twin brother Geoff came eight years later in 1930.
On the back of the Depression and in search of better job opportunities, in 1933 my grandparents and their four children, moved south to an expanding manufacturing town on the outskirts of London.
It was a good move all round as my grandfather quickly gained the prestigious job as clerk to the town council and over the next 13 years the four children acquired careers in aircraft design, nursing and civil aviation.
But while my dad, Geoff and Win soon found happy domesticity in married life, Betty was left as the spinster sister living at home with my grandparents.
She had got a good secretarial job, but true love and a husband was to pass her by.
But then, in 1946 Betty enjoyed a brief and loving relationship with a man she met through work. The problem was, this man was already married.
And as fate would have it, at the age of 27, Betty found she was pregnant.
The stigma of their daughter expecting a baby out of wedlock was too much for my grandparents and they sent Betty to live 50 miles away until the time came for the birth.
And in 1947 she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, whom she named Richard.
It should have been a joyous occasion, but my grandparents had already planned Betty and Richard's futures. And when the baby was just two weeks old he was given away for adoption, and Betty sworn by shame to NEVER mention the birth or speak of her now lost child.
So the years rolled by. And while family whispers of Betty's child perpetuated, they were only whispers.
And true to her promise, Betty never talked about her son. But she became an amazing aunt to five nephews and nieces and a great aunt to many more.
In 1997 she died tragically and suddenly after routine operation on an internal ulcer went wrong. She was 78 years old.
She died, never knowing her son.
Over the ensuing years I tried in vain to trace her child, but despite the growth of the internet, all I was ever able to find was confirmation of his birth.
Then two years ago something remarkable happened.
Out of the blue, a 67-year-old man got in touch with our family.
It was Richard – now called John – who had traced us!
His wife Sue explained: "John had a very happy and loving upbringing with his adoptive family and is now so happy that he has finally found his biological family.
"He didn't feel it was right to try to find his mother while his adoptive parents were still alive and so sadly it was too late to meet Betty."
Sadly for John the reconciliation was too late for him to know his real mother. And sadly too late to meet my father, who died in 2008.
But our family have showered John and Sue with photographs and personal treasures and he has visited and laid flowers at Betty's grave.
Family stories are exchanged and one by one he is meeting all his long lost relations.
Most importantly he has gained a new family and we have gained a new cousin.
And yesterday that truth came home again, in the most unexpected way.
My maternal great-grandmother Lucy Eastman was born in 1875 to a farming family in Hampshire, and after basic schooling began a life as a servant and seamstress, downstairs for an aristocratic family.
No-one now knows the circumstances, but she became pregnant while in service and gave birth to my grandfather Eric in 1904.
But rather than throw her into the workhouse or the streets, the family took care of her and her baby.
Then in 1907, aged 32, a stunningly attractive Lucy met and married my maternal great-grandfather Stephen, who helped her raise my grandfather like his own child.
Due to social pressures of the time, my grandfather was not told about his illegitimacy – he was given his stepfather's surname – until preparing for his own wedding to my grandmother in 1926.
Then confronted by the minister, and his hastily obtained birth certificate, the full truth began to emerge.
He lived the rest of his life never publicly acknowledging his illegitimacy until shortly before his death in 1978 when he confided in my mother and his other children.
And so it may have remained.
But something remarkable happened at his wedding all those years earlier.
He had invited two cousins to the event in downtown Chelsea: Gwen Eastman, who was his mother's niece from nearby Fulham, and Bill, who was his step-father's nephew.
And romance blossomed at the wedding reception… Gwen and Bill fell in love and three years later in 1926 were married.
For the ensuing years they were always my grandfather's closest relations, carrying the family blood of both his mother and stepfather.
I have fond memories as a child of my grandparents taking me for visits to Gwen and Bill's wonderful smallholding on the Hampshire/Berkshire border.
And then something remarkable happened again…
After six months of working for Momentum and the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party a small personal miracle occurred.
Among hundreds of new Twitter Followers, yesterday I suddenly acquired a new Follower, a lady called Liz with a surname I recognised… a surname that like Outterside, is rare and rather unusual.
A quick exchange of Twitter messages, plus a phone call to my mum, and Liz and I both realised we are related…. twice over!
She is the grand-daughter of Gwen and Bill, and like me has similar memories of visits to their small-holding!
Now 24 hours have passed and we share the same excitement of discovering long lost family.
If it wasn't for my great grandmother's illegitimate child and his wedding to my grandmother; neither of us would be here now!
I attach with this blog a copy of the memorial notice of our shared great-great grandfather!
Life can be remarkable at times.
Author seagullnicPosted on September 19, 2016 March 7, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags bastards, Eastman, miracle, Outterside, society, stigma, unwanted child3 Comments on Illegitimacy: once a shameful secret but now a celebration
A Tight Connection to My Heart
I have been meaning to update this blog since March and a whole summer has passed before I caught up with my own tail.
As regular readers will know, 2013 was an awful year for me. But 15 months on from the breakdown I am back where I feel alive, loved and comfortable.
And the support of my lovely family has been an immense part of this journey.
But it is the friends who were there for me when my life was at its bleakest who also really helped sustain me.
Many years ago I helped an old friend who was facing a tough time. He has now sadly passed away, but he left me a letter with the immortal words: "A man is known by his friends and not his enemies, I am grateful to count you as a friend." Today his words chime clearly in my conscience.
The events in Palestine this summer and elsewhere made me realise how much evil exists in this world. Even last Friday after the Scottish Independence Referendum we witnessed other forms of anger, thuggery and man's inhumanity to man.
I could not have survived without such people.
So thank you for being there during my darkest hours: Laura E and Jane CW, Karen B, my friend of 22 years Judith G, a friend of even longer Jane A, my warmest buddy Nicola B, the lovely Kay D, members of my extended Outterside family including Lorraine, Stuart, Nicky and Karen, the timeless Sue C (is that 9 year-old son of yours really now 36!), more recent friends Kate M and Andy, Janine and Pete J, Catheryn and Colin B, Adele, Nat and David, the wonderful musical pals Sandra, Carolyn and Fiona.
Jenny and Caryn plus former work colleagues Marcello, Stephen, Craig C (you are an amazing mate) Rachel R, Sarah B, Sophie C and Karen A and especially the two Hannahs (LT and B) who both have the capacity to reduce me to tears by the unexpected honesty and true warmth of their words. And there are Vonny and Sam H, two amazing friends. Another friend by chance Julia (who is coming to stay next weekend) and of course Angela and Alex, who over the past two years have become the closest of friends… the number of phone calls and emails from Bristol have really kept me going!
Then at the end of last week, Juliet, my business advisor for the past nine months and a simply lovely human being became a good friend too.
And it is a bit like meeting life partners, you don't necessarily need to have similar personalities for it just to work!
Psychologists believe there are 16 distinct types of personality in human beings, which in a nutshell are:
I reckon the psychologists have missed two important personality types: the Psychotic and the Complete Bastard.
Because while we are loved and supported by our life partners, soul mates and good friends, there are others who seem hell bent on ruining the lives of other human beings either at work, at home or any given social situation.
Now the two things I have learned from my breakdown and recovery is: (a) Don't let the antagonists be part of your life in any way at all… leave them behind and (b) Embrace your friends and those who love you.
Simple stuff really and I guess you don't need to be a psychologist to find that out. But don't let it get to a breakdown before you do!
As this blog turns full circle I finish with an embrace for Helen, my confidante and witness at my wedding to Gill. She is the daughter and sister I never had, and my true soul mate.
She tells things as she sees them: "Fuck the bastards Nic, you are beautiful!" A man is known by his friends and not his enemies and I am a very lucky man indeed.
Author seagullnicPosted on September 22, 2014 September 23, 2014 Categories My lifeTags bastards, breakdown, Family, Friends, Friendship, lessons, Love, soul mate, Thanks1 Comment on A Tight Connection to My Heart


Companies offer balance transfer services to make money, not to help you. Let's walk through with it does and does not make sense to transfer your credit card balance?
In finance, there's no such thing as a free lunch…credit card companies do balance transfers because it makes them money, not to be nice to you. Let's look at the math from the bank's standpoint and from yours so you can figure out if the math will work for you.
Transfer fees: These up-front fees can be pretty steep and the 5% in this example is on the high end.
Balance acquisition: in the competitive credit card business, transferring existing balances can be a quicker way to build up loan balances than waiting for you to charge up.
Finance charges: sure they're offering you a low intro rate, but they're counting on you to keep your balances past the intro period. If you're reading this column, you probably show a tendency to run credit card balances, so their bet may not be a bad one.
Current APRs are significantly high. Considering that you're paying 5% up front just to transfer your money, you need to save substantially on your rates to make this pay off.
The "regular" APR after the intro period is the same or less than your other rates.
You realistically plan to pay off all or most of the balance transfer amount before the intro rate expires.
If this describes you, a balance transfer may be for you. But before you leap, call your current card company and tell them what's on the table. Ask them to match the offer and waive the transfer fees. It's in their best interest to keep the balances and keep earning money on them rather than letting you go. If they decline, ask for just a straight interest rate reduction.
There is one thing that you should watch out for and it's why I'm always hesitant to tell someone to take a balance transfer. Lots of times, we confuse "motion for progress." We do the transfer and think we've solved the problem. We haven't—we've only made it slightly less expensive. If you think you've solved the problem, you might take your eye off the ball and run up even more debt than when you started or just not make much progress paying it off. That's what credit card companies are counting on.
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Emirati film-maker and the philosopher's tone
How Emirati film-maker Abdullah Al Kaabi got bitten by the film bug
Published: February 18, 2011 00:00 By Anupama V Chand, Freelance Writer, Friday
"My motto in life has always been - 'Give everything, expect nothing' - that way, you never feel regret," says Abdullah Al Kaabi. Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
The hue and cry surrounding 24-year-old Emirati film-maker and self-confessed movie aficionado Abdullah Al Kaabi's first feature film, The Philosopher, which premiered in December 2010 at the Dubai International Film Festival, has not quite subsided, with the film picking up three awards at the recently-concluded Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, and being selected for the Heart of Gold International Film Festival in Australia. Testimony perhaps that hard work and a single-minded pursuit of one's goals can help one achieve unparalleled, international success, whether one is Arab, American or indeed from any part of the world.
Not one to rest on his laurels Al Kaabi is already deep into directing his next project, which is now in pre-production and filming in Paris. Born and raised in the emirate of Fujairah, young Al Kaabi moved to Dubai when he was 16 years old to continue his studies at the American University of Sharjah.
While still studying he was scouted to present Green Light Charity, a prime-time reality show revolving around four Arab youths running a charity organisation in Dubai. The show was aired on Dubai TV in 2005, and he believes in many ways it fuelled his passion for the media. He then became a lead anchor on Male Box, another popular men's lifestyle show on Dubai TV, encompassing cars, men's fashion and sports.
Carrying on in his avatar of presenter, Al Kaabi presented Tawasol on Sama Dubai, a live prime-time weekly talk show, while also working as a full-time model/actor for print media and TV commercials in the region. Always certain that working behind the scenes, directing a film, was what he wanted to do most Al Kaabi moved to Paris in 2009 to pursue his master's degree in film-making and a career in cinema.
Al Kaabi knows exactly how he got bitten by the film bug. "From a very young age, my parents instilled in me the passion and curiosity to know more. I am a very curious person. It was I think a sort of combination of factors - my mother is an ardent reader, and her passion for collecting encyclopaedias of different kinds, which she lovingly arranged on the shelves of our library at home, encouraged us to read early.
"I studied at this exclusive British academy in Fujairah, and nearby was this amazing local VHS rental store from where I would rent five films each week and fly with my imagination. I was moved by the power of how films can touch the masses and communicate. So I resolved to become a film-maker with a message to impart through his craft."
Precisely the reason why he chose to adapt Baggio's Story by Charlie Fish into a screenplay for The Philosopher, his first full-length film. "The personal message behind the story is that friendship is a valuable resource to possess in life. Companionship, brotherhood and hospitality are some of the themes found in this story - all qualities that are rooted in the Arab culture. When I read the story, I related to the characters and I knew I would enjoy depicting the faces of Baggio and Leo into a script. In a world where there is so much discrimination of people based on their differences in class, age, sex, belief or race, I think it is important to showcase a story that speaks of the opposite as being true, and that encourages one to overlook the differences when meeting someone new, and look at that person for who he really is," Al Kaabi explains.
As a young man, still completing his master's degree in film arts, Al Kaabi currently lives between Paris and Dubai, juggling his time between completing his education, making his first international feature film and spending time with his family in the UAE.
"I guess I am fortunate, and blessed by God to have a loving family, to have got the best education and to have travelled the world at a young age. I love arts and culture, a big reason for being based in Paris," he says simply.
The Philosopher gave him the opening he was looking for as a director of repute, and he confesses to feeling humbled by its runaway success at DIFF and after.
"I really felt it wasn't me out there on the red carpet, when I saw the masses of people cheering and the press and photographers or the 1,300 audience who came to watch the film! [I was] humbled and delighted to see the pride in my parents' eyes when I was up on stage representing the film with Jean Reno. Perhaps that was the moment when I knew that all that hard work had actually paid off!"
Al Kaabi is generous in his praise for his predecessors, names like Ali F. Mustafa and Nayla Al Khaja, who have in many ways set the stage for their countrymen who wish to follow them into film-making.
"Nayla and Ali have worked very hard in building the infrastructure in this industry, I know them both personally, regard them as brother and sister, and am very proud of their achievements, here's wishing them every success in their future lives," he says.
Typically philosophical about his advice to fellow Emiratis who want to follow in his footsteps, Al Kaabi says: "Remember today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. The time is now. Regardless of which career choice you want to make, make sure your career is your passion and do not settle for second best."
I am a young man with a mission. I would describe myself as driven, committed, positive and determined. My biggest weakness is that I can be too nice sometimes!
I like reading autobiographies - it's a free lesson to learn from other's experiences! I believe in my generation and I believe in films.
I am passionate about the environment and consider myself an avid environmentalist here. I think challenges are an uphill struggle (with a purpose), things get better as long as you keep thinking of the view from the top. I try every day to stay true to myself.
I get really furious about wars, the unfortunate people with no one to care for them, the difficult living situations, discrimination, (those violating) animal rights and the (state of the) environment.
If I had to list my favourite things they would be: Yoga, Pilates, running in the early mornings, afternoon siestas, Sundays in Paris, sea trips, my friends, my collection of books and orange juice!
Me and my work: It doesn't feel like work. I see myself overworking myself to the point of exhaustion sometimes, but never complain since I love what I do and I am thankful for that.
My family is what I call home. My mum once told me when I was a child - 'You are like a bird, fly as high as you want because you will always know that you have this loving, warm nest waiting for you.'
My focus is always geared towards my goal, but on a daily level, I am usually always distracted and drifting off somewhere. It drives my friends and team nuts! I have a short focus span!
My secret to success: There is no secret really. It was a combination of setting yourself some clear goals and of course my family's blessings, faith in God and working twice as hard. I know exactly where I want to be in ten years!
My fondest childhood memory is of my family's fishing cruises in the Fujairah coast. How I love my hometown!
My best friends today are the same friends I had since I was a toddler. I regard them as siblings.
My mantra for keeping in touch with the world is to always make time to read the news, even when I have to read it on my mobile phone's screen. I am also an avid social networker.
My motto in life has always been 'Give everything, expect nothing'. That way, you never feel regret.
My biggest fans are my nieces and nephews, especially my beautiful ten-year-old niece, who has photos of me from different publications stuck above her bed!
My worst critic… is myself!
My great moment is when someone tells me - 'You make us proud'. When that happens, I know that I am a part of them and that realisation humbles me.
My most memorable and challenging experience in life so far has been to find almost 100 technicians, 7 trucks, 2 trailers, a full set, including the biggest crane in Europe, all waiting for my direction at 5am on the morning of the first day of the shoot (while filming The Philosopher).
The things I feel are essential to survive and excel in film-making today are vision and action. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. So set your goals to know which direction to take. As for the challenges, the film industry is a newborn in the UAE, so having faith in it is not as easy as in Hollywood. We have been number one in many fields lately, now it's time for film.
They say life is a great teacher. What I have learnt so far is that no matter how much people love you, you will always have one set of parents. Always remain true to yourself, keep it real and recognise that once you allow all this fame and celebrity status to get into your head, you are finished. Always stay humble and grounded and never forget to say 'thank you' and 'please'.
As a child I was, happy, curious. My influences in life I would say are Kubrick, Sofia Coppola , Yousuf Chahine, Godard and the whole French New Wave movement.
On a regional or local level, I am very impressed with the work of Lebanese film-maker Nadine Labaki. I am working on my first international big-budget feature film, Culture Shock. It will also star Jean Reno (in only my second film), Virginie Ledoyen (international audiences might know her from The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio). We are waiting for two other big names to give us the go-ahead for coming on board.
Abdullah Al Kaabi is working on a romantic comedy, set partly in Paris and partly in the UAE, it is in the tradition of films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, My Best Friend's Wedding and Notting Hill.
Al Kaabi directing The Philosopher. Image Credit: Supplied picture
Abdullah Al Kaabi at a news conference to announce the launch of the film, The Philosopher, which premiered at DIFF 2010. Image Credit: Supplied picture
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Q: Google maps in SharePoint Page I tried to embed Google map to a Sharepoint page by using the Incorporation Web Part, I past the code in the text zone, but the map doesn't work.
I get an error that the content can not be displayed in a frame, when i click on "Open in a new tab", it gives me this message: "The Google Maps Embed API must be used in an iframe."
Here's the code generated by google maps :

I'm using Sharepoint Online

A: If you are using SharePoint Modern page, please use Embed Code web part:

And then paste the code into the textbox right side:

A: I have added the same iframe code in a Script Editor Webpart and it seems to be working as expected. Can you please tr the same. To embed the script editor :

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*Edit the page where you want to Embed the above mentioned code.

*Insert a Webpart from Top and Select Script Editor from the section Media and Content.

*Edit the web part and click on Edit Snippet.

*Paste the needed iframe code and click on Insert.

*Save the changes.

You can take the reference from below answer in order to insert Script Editor
Insert JavaScript into Web-Part
Note : You might need to activate Publishing feature in order to use it if not already activated before.
I hope this helps.

A: In SharePoint online, specifically in the Modern Page,  the best option that used to hold IFrame is Embed web part
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*Click Edit at the top right of the page.

*Below an existing web part or under the title region, click  Circled plus sign used to add a modern web part to a page, and then select the Embed web part.

*In the toolbox on the right, add your code

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*Only secure web sites can be embedded

*Not all websites allow their pages to be embedded, even when they are secure and use iframe-based embed code. so check with the website to see if they allow embedding.

*Site collection administrators can control whether users can embed content from external websites.

*No need to activate the publishing features! and before you do that for any other reason, I prefer to check this article first MISSING "SAVE SITE AS A TEMPLATE" IN SHAREPOINT
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Муниципальное общеобразовательное бюджетное учреждение средняя общеобразовательная школа № 10 г. Ишимбая Республики Башкортостан — одно из старейших образовательных учреждений города.

В школе обучается 230 человек, педагогический состав — 30.

Школа работает по теме: «Стимулирование познавательной деятельности как средство развития и самореализации личности».

История
Корпус школы сдали досрочно и 6 декабря 1962 года стал первым учебным днем для 747 учащихся и их учителей, скомплектованных из средних учебных заведений № 8, 11, 16, 24. Директором школы назначен Борис Петрович Шмельков (Отличник народного просвещения, Заслуженный учитель школы РСФСР, участник Великой Отечественной войны). Он возглавлял школу с 1962 −1979. Второй директор Идрис Абсаттарович Мухтаров (1980—1987), третий — Лилия Шамильевна Преснякова (1988—2001).

В 2010 году существовали планы реорганизации школы.

Знаменитые ученики
Количество медалистов — 89 человек.
 С. М. Першин — доктор физико-математических наук, институт космических исследований РАН и НАСА,
 П. М. Бурдаков — доктор медицинских наук, г. Пермь,
 В. И. Бачурин — кандидат экономических наук, г. Москва.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт школы.

Литература
 Ишимбайская средняя школа № 10 // Ишимбайская энциклопедия. Уфа: Башкирская энциклопедия, 2015, С.253-254.

Школы Ишимбая


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Box-office forecast: How will Exodus: Gods and Kings perform theatrically compared to Noah?
The Hollywood Reporter says Exodus: Gods and Kings may gross between $25 million and $30 million when it opens in North America this weekend.
To look at this another way: Son of God opened to $25.6 million and grossed $59.7 million in total, and Noah opened to $43.7 million and grossed $101.2 million in total, so both films made about 2.3 times their opening — but there is good reason to believe that a film released just before Christmas can have a bigger multiple than that.
An opening of over $25 million would give this film the sixth- or seventh-best opening of Ridley Scott's career. The top five, all of which opened to more than $34 million, include two sequels (Hannibal, Prometheus) and three Russell Crowe movies (American Gangster, Robin Hood, Gladiator). A sixth film, Black Hawk Down, opened in limited release but then earned $28.6 million in its first weekend of wide release. The other fifteen films directed by Scott all opened to less than $20 million.
An opening of over $25 million would also give this film the fifth- or sixth-best opening of Christian Bale's career, or possibly even the seventh-best, behind the three Batman movies, the Terminator movie, and possibly Public Enemies (which opened to $25.3 million in 2009). The animated film Pocahontas, which opened in limited release, also earned $29.5 million in its first weekend of wide release.
It was a bit late, thanks to computer problems and a power outage and a few other things, but it's up now. I might tweak it later.


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There's a few jokers in this pack
November 18 2012 6:00 AM
The Godfather Part II (1974)
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/theres-a-few-jokers-in-this-pack-28902915.html
Francis Ford Coppola somehow managed to top his Oscar-winning achievements in the original Godfather with this beautifully made sequel, which simultaneously tells the stories of a young Vito Corleone and son Michael.
James Cameron took over from Ridley Scott for this potentially tricky sequel, and came up with one of the best action films ever as Ellen Ripley returns to Planet LV-426 to battle a small army of marauding aliens.
If Christopher Nolan's 2005 Batman Begins showed flair and promise, The Dark Knight (2008) is now regarded as perhaps the finest superhero picture ever made.
And the three worst
Jaws: The Revenge
Considered one of the worst films ever made, Jaws 4 really scraped the bottom of the chum barrel when it came to plot, as Ellen Brody becomes convinced a shark has followed her to the Bahamas to avenge its fallen comrade.
Grease 2
Full of terrible songs and lacklustre performances, Grease 2 wasn't a patch on its perky predecessor and bombed at the box office. But a young Michelle Pfeiffer emerged from the experience relatively unscathed.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
This deeply disappointing 1999 reboot featured a miscast Liam Neeson and a massively irritating animated creation called Jar Jar Binks. The Phantom Menace was a pompous bore, but it made a lot of money.
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Reading Is My Secret Power!
The theme for the CBCA National Children's Book Week 2019 has been announced! Now is the time to book your speakers for the busy August / September period. Further information regarding the 2019 CBCA National Book Week can be viewed on the CBCA website.
In exciting news – Jane Godwin is now available for bookings through Lateral Learning. Jane will be visiting Sydney during the week after Book Week, Monday 26th – Friday 30th August 2019.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and illustrators, including the following Lateral Learning speakers: Donna Rawlins Freya Blackwood Tohby Riddle Alison Lester Stephen Michael King Jaclyn Moriarty Ursula Dubosarsky Andrew Joyner A full list of the shortlisted titles can be downloaded here.


I read that somewhere a while back, and I could've died laughing.
I can read well enough, thank you very much.
As it turns out, that line is actually the title of a cookbook.
I've never read that particular cookbook.
But I'm way beyond the point of help, anyway.
As far as I'm concerned, the need to "refuel" is not only a major inconvenience, but an unfortunate human inefficiency as well.
It's a necessary evil, at best.
And how utterly ironic that I am always hungry, yet I don't want to be troubled by stepping into the kitchen to prepare anything that might take longer than 30 seconds.
Every time I open the fridge, I secretly wish that my next meal will magically materialize before my eyes.
I'm usually able to follow those directions well enough.
Unless I don't have all the ingredients and end up having to do a little experimental substituting.
Who needs a stick of butter anyway when you've got a whole tub of rice pudding?
I have no business being in the kitchen.
If I had a personal chef, I could probably get out once and for all.
Before somebody really gets hurt.
I've almost been knocked out by the freezer door on several occasions.
And I'm convinced the ice maker on the fridge is also trying to kill me, as it spastically fires off sharp-edged ice cubes at random angles across the kitchen.
There's also The Oven Fire Incident, but we'll get back to that in a moment.
Onions aren't the only things that can bring tears to my eyes.
For the record, I can tell you from experience that if you accidentally rub your eyes after handling an onion, you're in for a world of burning inferno waterworks.
On the rare occasions I wander into those kitchen stores at the mall out of morbid curiosity, I can't figure out what most of those gadgets even are, let alone what purpose they could possibly serve.
Cookie cutters are fairly self-explanatory, but all of that other stuff?
Some of these bizarre looking items look like they belong in a science lab.
Butter churners look downright dangerous.
And yet, it's all so useless to me.
I can slice and dice things just fine.
Oh, and I do excel at making mixed drinks. I'm a natural at that!
Surely, that's got to count for something.
Speaking of drinks, Baileys is the ultimate utility player in the kitchen.
I've used it to transform random ingredients into a work of… well, a real piece of work.
Baileys is a delightful addition to cereal, yogurt, and strawberries.
Instant meal, with a little added bonus.
In my house, we tend to plan our meals based on what's about to expire.
Oh, the eggs are at their sell by date, the twisty tie for the loaf of bread mysteriously disappeared, and the plums are starting to shrivel?
Guess we just solved the dinner dilemma.
If the produce is getting too soft and the yogurt is a couple of days past the sell by date, it's definitely smoothie time. It is the ultimate saving grace, the fabulous Waste Not, Want Not approach.
Smoothies are easy, sometimes delicious, occasionally nutritious, and most importantly, a great way to use up all those bananas, blueberries, avocados, and brussel sprouts that are a mere 6 hours away from turning into moldy mush because they've been hiding in the ghastly shadows of gallons of milk and apple juice for the past two weeks.
Perhaps the best part about smoothies is that if you're feeling lazy and think chewing might take more effort than it is worth, all you have to do is gulp it down.
Which may be especially beneficial, depending on the alarming mixture of foods you just dumped into that blender.
On the plus side, you can drink it out of a cocktail cup to make it feel like an extra special treat.
I once forgot to put the coffee pot under the machine before flipping the switch and wandering out of the room. I returned a few minutes later to the sight of coffee spewing out of the machine, across the counter, and forming a muddy lake that snaked all the way across the kitchen.
There was also that time I reached over to unplug the toaster. It was still hot, and it burned my arm. Yes, I actually got beat up by a toaster.
And I'd once forgotten to coat a pan with oil before pouring the brownie mix in, and ended up eating the brownies all by myself right out of the pan with a fork because it just wouldn't come out otherwise, and I hate wasting perfectly good food.
The blender also literally blew up on me while making a smoothie. In my defense, it was pretty old.
When I was in junior high, I attempted to turn pita bread into pita chips by tossing it into the oven for a few minutes. When I reached in to grab it, it was hotter than hell.
The next thing I knew, the oven mitt went flying into the oven.
It came out engulfed in flames.
Seriously, if that doesn't' make my point for needing to stay out of the kitchen, I don't know what will.
Needless to say, the smoke alarm and I are old buddies.
From your post the kitchen and cooking is not your calling.
I function pretty decently in the kitchen, but I somehow always manage to burn my hand on one of the oven racks!
I honestly have never actually thrown Brussels sprouts into a smoothie, but I have considered it a time or two. I hate wasting food.
Such a cute and funny post!
If you can read, you can cook. I'm assuming their talking about being able to understand which buttons on the microwave to press to nuke dinner….
lol I would have to join you in avoiding the kitchen … one friend accidentally made tea from lemonade … a bit sweet … I have cooked the same dinner for about four years now. Suits me and I know just what groceries to buy!
I hope you did not get a detention for the flammable oven mitt incident?
Angelica, your humor is so on point on this. I can truly relate to your experience. For me I tend to cook the same things for my family all the time because past failures helped me to make it much more delicious. The thousand attempts at making lasagna helped me to make a killer dish now. Don't think I'll venture into making something else.
I so hear you on this one. Why don't they just make a packet roast, a packet instant French cuisine, or even a packet stirfry? And people wonder why I eat so much cake!
Baking and cooking are very different. Some folks succeed in baking because of the strictness of it all while others enjoy the more free-wheeling aspects of cooking.
I loved this post. It was the perfect mix of humor, and subtle reminders of my own pitiful cooking skills. I'm glad you're good at mixing drinks. How about a toast to all those wonderful smoke alarms. Thank you for putting a smile on my face. Take care.


The goal of this sequence of courses is to develop the essential ideas of single-variable calculus: the limit, the derivative, and the integral.
Understanding concepts is emphasized over intricate mathematical maneuverings.
The mathematics learned are applied to topics from the physical, natural, and social sciences. There is a weekly lab/discussion section.
Evaluations are based on homework, participation in class and lab, and tests.
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Фоні Бінтанг-Карена — один з 6 районів округу Західний Гамбії. Населення — 15 994 (2003). Фульбе — 4,84 %, мандінка — 22,37 %, 66,28 % — Діола (1993).

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During class we took a tour of NYU's Advanced Media Studio (AMS) and their 3D printing systems. We saw some models produced on the various systems, many of which were printed in 24-bit color. They have MakerBots, of course, but they also have some "professional"-grade laser printers including the ProJet 7000 which prints at a resolution of 4,000 layers per inch.
After we returned to ITP, Peter pulled out some aerogel, which was truly incredible. It feels like styrofoam but weighs almost nothing, and is semi-transparent. It was probably the strangest material I've ever seen and touched, and I couldn't stop taking pictures. Neither could anyone else.