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The Bay recap: What happened in series 1 and 2 and how the ending set up season 3 of the ITV drama
The show has become a hit for ITV with its twisting plots and coastal locations.
By Jaymi McCann
The Bay may be starting with a completely new leading lady, but many will still want to know what happened in the first two series before getting stuck in.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of series three.
Your guide to what to watch next - no spoilers, we promise
What happened in series 1?
Lisa Armstrong, played by Morven Christie, is the original hero of The Bay and is accompanied by the inexperienced DC Ahmed "Med" Kharim. She has been assigned to work with the Meredith family as a Family Liaison Officer in Morecambe. The Meredith's 15-year-old twins Holly and Dylan have disappeared.
Lisa, however, was having a romantic altercation with the Meredith patriarch Sean on the night the children vanished, and she interferes with the investigation to cover the tracks, tampering with CCTV.
Her children, Rob and Abbie, also go to the same school as the twins – it is a small town after all.
One of the twins, Dylan, turns up dead and Sean is taken in for questioning. He cannot use his alibi, but there isn't enough evidence to hold him. Local man Nick is the next suspect, and Lisa learns Sean was also with another woman on the same night.
Sean beats up Nick, but Lisa rules him out, instead looking at Ryan, a family friend.
Lisa's home life is also causing trouble, and her daughter Abbie is taken in by an older boy Vincent, who is in the drug trade, and Rob does risky dares for online clout and robs a food bank.
Holly's backpack washes up on the beach and shockingly it contains £8,000, a burner phone and her blood is found under her dead twin brother's nails – she becomes a suspect in his murder.
However, Lisa finds the teenager locked up in an abandoned holiday pool – and she is pregnant. Holly admits killing her brother by accident when they were arguing.
Lisa's daughter Abbie gets into trouble when a drug deal goes wrong and goes to her violent ex-boyfriend Same for help. Rob is also blackmailed by someone online and gets arrested when handling his grandmother's rings.
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Lisa's partner Med discovers the tamepred CCTV, and figures out what Lisa has been trying to hide, so she is suspended from duties after Sean's wife Jess hears them talking about it.
In the final episode, the real killer of Dylan is revealed to have been Abbie's ex Sam after Lisa discovers Holly's ultrasound scan in his wallet. Sam reveals how he and Holly were dating and Dylan didn't want them to run away – however Dylan did die by accident after he hit his head when he fell.
Sam faces four years in jail for the killing, even if it was accidental, Vincent is caught and faces a longer sentence for dealing drugs, and Sean Meredith is also arrested, after it emerges he was involved in the drug trade as well.
The series ends with Lisa's suspension still pending review.
The second series of The Bay took two years to air, and arrived in Spring 2021.
It started with Lisa, who was solidly back in the line of duty tackling the doorstep murder of local businessman Stephen Marshbrook.
Stephen was shot and killed at home, and a whole host of suspects could have done it, but enquiries were focused on looking for the 'man with the tattoo'.
Solicitor Stephen was killed in front of his young son.
Meanwhile, Lisa's home life is as complicated as ever, and her former husband Andy has had a child with another woman.
She also must be on her best behaviour in work after her affair, and she clashes with Med, who has been promoted while she was away.
In episode three Med, however, was shockingly killed in action while looking into Marshbook's business associates, Breakwater Developments.
At first it is thought his killing is connected to Stephen's, and that he was killed due to his dodgy busines spractices, but this is found to be untrue.
In episode five they discover Viktor Zima, who confessed to the murder, but we don't know who paid him to do it.
In fact, in the final episode revealed that Stephen's wife Rose was having an affair with scrap yard boss Frank Mercer.
Mercer had wanted to run away with Rose, but she had refused.
So Mercer paid Viktor Zima, who was revealed to be the man with the tattoo, to kill his love rival.
Mercer was then charged with conspiracy to murder after being caught on CCTV withdrawing the £400 he paid Zima.
There are lose threads though, as we still don't know who killed Med – although it is likely connected to Breakwater Developments gang connections.
Thomason, centre, joins the original cast of The Bay as the show's new lead (Photo: Jed Knight/Tall Story/ITV)
What happens in series 3?
The third series of The Bay, known as the "northern Broadchurch", sees a new police family liaison officer arrives in Morecambe following the departure of Morven Christie's DC Lisa Armstrong.
The ITV synopsis says: "DS Jenn Townsend, Morecambe's new Family Liaison Officer, is immediately thrown into the deep end when a body washes up in the bay on her first day on the job.
"She must get under the skin of a grieving and complicated family if she has any chance of solving the premature death of an aspiring young boxer, while also trying to fit in with Manning and the rest of the team. At the same time, she has to navigate her blended family, who are struggling to settle in their new environment."
When is series 3 on?
Series three of The Bay starts on Wednesday 12 January at 9pm on ITV.
It will also be available on ITV Hub.
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With eye on U.S. election, Republicans assail Russia's Putin
Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Something about Vladimir Putin makes Republicans in the U.S. presidential race see red.
The Russian president has emerged as a symbol for what they view as President Barack Obama's weak foreign policy, and an easy route for criticizing his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' likely choice for the November 2016 election.
With his bare-chested swagger and wily geopolitical moves, Putin is an easy target, the man whose aggression against Ukraine and annexation of Crimea have revived Cold War tensions that Republicans credit their hero, President Ronald Reagan, with having ended in the 1980s.
"What Putin is trying to do is market the strongman concept," Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, a U.S. senator from South Carolina, told Reuters. "He has a brand and his brand is to be in your face and say, 'We're not going to be pushed around by the West.'"
No leader abroad draws more Republican criticism than Putin does. The candidates' message is clear: If any of them are elected president, U.S. relations with Russia will turn even more negative.
"I think it will resonate with Republican voters," said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University. "There's real concern about what Putin is really up to."
It helps them that the 62-year-old former KGB officer is deeply unpopular in the United States. A survey by the non-partisan Pew Research Center in February said Putin was viewed unfavorably by 70 percent of Americans.
Foreign policy does not always figure prominently in U.S. presidential elections. The quadrennial vote often hinges on the health of the U.S. economy. Republicans this time have seized on the daily drumbeat of news around the world: Islamic State beheadings in the Middle East, Chinese claims to disputed waters, Russia flexing its muscles.
Given the turbulent state of affairs, Republicans believe the "Putin as boogeyman" theme serves well as a way to rally the party's base of supporters.
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin could take the heat so long as the criticism did not go "beyond the limits of what is reasonable, if it's not an insult."
"Unfortunately, for probably the whole of modern history we have seen bilateral Russian-American relations being made a sacrifice on the altar of the election campaign, and being used as one of the tools of the campaign," Peskov said.
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Jeb Bush, soon to announce his presidential campaign, says he would like to make Putin "twitch a little." He will reinforce his message of a more strident foreign policy toward Russia on a trip this week to Germany, Poland and Estonia.
Another candidate, former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Carly Fiorina, calls Putin a "bad dude." She boasts of having sat face-to-face with Putin in 2001 to bolster her claim to having foreign policy chops.
Putin was the only leader outside the United States that former Texas Governor Rick Perry mentioned in his presidential candidacy announcement speech on Thursday.
"Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage," he said. "If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal."
Republicans link their criticism of Putin to the foreign policy record of Clinton, who as the chief U.S. diplomat carried out Obama's "reset" in relations with Moscow in 2009, soon after Obama succeeded George W. Bush as president. They say Obama and Clinton eased up on Putin when they should have applied more pressure.
"She's the one that literally brought the reset button to the Kremlin," Perry said in April.
Republican candidates generally favor increasing economic sanctions on Russia, sending arms and economic aid to Ukraine, boosting NATO defenses, especially in Poland and the Baltics, and increasing U.S. exports of natural gas to ease European dependence on Russian gas.
Obama has imposed a series of sanctions on Moscow in coordination with European allies, but he has stopped short of massive retaliation out of respect for European concerns that being too tough could trigger Putin's retaliation.
Relations with Russia were strained under President Bush, but Putin's actions and the reactions of Obama and Europe have brought about the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War. Nothing has worked to dissuade Putin, who seems indifferent, bemused and perhaps even politically invigorated by the denunciation from the West.
"The president is afraid of provoking Vladimir Putin," Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, told Reuters. "Vladimir Putin is on the move because he has paid no price for his aggression."
Campaign foreign policy advisers say Putin is singled out as a way of separating him from the Russian people, who may or may not share their leader's world view.
"It is better to tactically single him out than to blame 'nasty Russian policy,'" said John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who informally advises Republican candidates. "That way you don't have to alienate the whole country."
People attend a rally called "We are together" to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia in Red Square in central Moscow, March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Michael McFaul, who was Obama's first-term U.S. ambassador to Russia, said the Republican argument is faulty in that the reset led to some tangible benefits: A new nuclear arms control treaty, sanctions on Iran, the opening of supply routes for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Having said that, however, he said that singling out Putin for criticism is justified because Russia took its aggressive turn when Putin returned as president in 2012, succeeding Dmitry Medvedev.
"We had a period of cooperation with the Russians several years ago," McFaul said. "We're now in arguably one of the most confrontational periods we've been in since deep in the Cold War."
Reporting by Steve Holland in Washington, additional reporting by Dmitry Antonov in Moscow; Editing by Howard Goller


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Writing Ethnic Scores, Step 1: Research
How do you get started when scoring a film that requires ethnic influence in the music? Over the next couple of months I will be scoring a number of ethnic influenced films and I'll be sharing my process with you every step of the way. Our first step is the research, but it includes much more than music.
Films I will be scoring include an Irish influenced animated short by Grounded filmmaker Justine Howard, a Greek influenced documentary feature by director George Tsioutsioulas, and an Asian influenced Legend of Zelda fan film by A Boy Named Bellamy filmmaker Israel Combs.
Music plays a different role in almost every culture, from celebrations and ceremonies to spiritual healing. Understanding the culture outside of the music can help you understand how the culture views music and what role music plays in that culture. This will also save you any embarrassment you might suffer if you use music at an inappropriate time, such as playing music that traditionally is only played during funerals over a scene of celebration. While the audience may not pick up on this mistake, it's still important to be as accurate as possible when dealing with these situations as there may be audience members who do catch this and it could take them out of the scene.
You can't truly understand the current culture without knowing at least some of the country's history. Music has an incredibly rich history around the world and many instruments and musical conventions have traveled from country to country and have been adapted along the way. This can be especially important if the film takes place at a certain period in history.
Instruments & Ensembles
Probably the most identifiable aspect of certain ethnic music is the use of certain stereotypical instruments, such as the shakuhachi or sitar. But while it's important to understand the traditional instruments of a particular culture, it is equally important to understand the ensembles they belong to. Again, the audience may not catch that you're mixing instruments that traditionally were never on stage together, but if you are trying to capture an authentic cultural sound, you should research how various instruments were performed together in various ensembles as well.
Harmonies & Melodies
As with stereotypical instrumentation, harmony and melody play a large role in ethnic genres. It's easy for Western ears to get stuck in our traditional chords and scales, but the world is full of incredibly complex harmonies and melodies, some even using microtones (tones between our traditional semitones). You may even need to tune your instruments differently to achieve an authentic sound,
Rhythm is often overlooked by many musicians and composers, but if you've ever studied ethnomusicology (the study of ethnic music) you know how incredibly important rhythm can be. I'll never forget my ethnomusicology course from the University of Oregon, where we had African percussion ensembles performing and were asked to identify the downbeat (beat 1). The professor made a fool of us all when he began clapping the downbeats, which in some cases were so far off from where we thought that we couldn't identify them even after the professor explained the rhythm. This type of research can open your eyes and ears to a whole new world of rhythmic exploration.
Do you know the history of your culture's music? Tell me where you're from in the comments and keep an eye out for the next segment of this blog series!
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Before leaving for work this morning I took two boneless chicken breasts out of the freezer and stuck them in the fridge. My intention was to grill them for dinner. But the more I thought about dinner the more I wanted something with an Asian twist.
I decided to do a new take on an old recipe - Spicy Chicken Cakes.
We both enjoyed the Asian version so much, I might never make the original recipe again.
Note: I didn't measure anything when I made these. So I wrote up the recipe as approximate. Use the recipe as an outline and adjust seasoning to suit personal taste.
Grind chicken breasts in Food processor until it looks like ground chicken. Do not over process. Empty in to large bowl. Add fresh grated bread crumbs.
Add egg, minced garlic clove and minced ginger to food processor and pulse. Add green onion, cilantro and splash of rice wine vinegar and chili pepper paste. Pulse to coarsely puree.
Add to chicken and bread crumbs. Mix by hand. Fry a taste test piece and adjust seasoning as needed.
Shape in to patties. Heat skillet, add peanut oil and saute until cooked. Patties should be lightly browned on both sides. Place in oven to keep warm while cooking remaining patties. (I used a cast iron skillet).
Add all salad ingredients together in a large bowl except for toasted sesame seeds.
Mix ingredients for salad dressing together in a small bowl. Pour over salad mix. Top with toasted sesame seeds.
These look delicious, Ann. I haven't made them in awhile - I'll have to make them soon. The Asian salad you made to go with looks perfect with it. This would be a great after-work meal!
Girl...this looks like a feast fit for a queen!
Ot is easy to see why these would become a new favourite. That's my cue to get into the kitchen.


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Users simply enter their zip code, tag topics they're interested in, be it sports and fitness, writing and literature, sci-fi and gaming, LGBTQ or many others. As Christian Rudder, an OkCupid co-founder, tells it, women who were rated very attractive were unlikely to respond to men rated less attractive. But when they were matched on Crazy Blind Date, they had a good time. Women who flirt for the camera or show cleavage are quite successful. Some of what we learned was pretty weird: Men did better when shown engaging in an interesting activity. We recommend the following: If you are a guy, take a shot of yourself spelunking in a dark cave while holding your puppy and looking away from the camera, without smiling.
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Happy Friday y'all! We are wrapping up our series of engagement sessions this week with Bobby & Liz's Baker Park Session in Frederick, Maryland! These high school sweethearts met after school one day as Bobby was heading to baseball practice. They fell in love over baseball & Liz continued to support Bobby at his games as their relationship grew. A few years ago, Bobby & Liz started going to New York City every year after Christmas with Bobby's family & it became an annual tradition of theirs. Last year, after Liz returned from a 3 month study abroad trip to Italy, Bobby proposed to her on their first night in NYC! How special is that!?
These two tie the knot next spring at Chesapeake Bay Beach Club and if their engagement session is any indication of how beautiful their wedding will be- I am in for a treat! I had the absolute best time exploring downtown Frederick on Sunday morning with these two (and their sweet pup Grady!!) Enjoy a little preview into their swoon worthy session!


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Successful All India General Strike of workers
Workers and working people from all sectors of the Indian economy participated enthusiastically in the All India General Strike of January 8, 2020. They were responding to the call of the central trade unions, the All India federations, and to hundreds of trade unions organising workers in different cities, industries and services, and amongst the rural workers.
Successive governments have imposed the capitalist program of globalization through privatization and liberalization on the Indian people since 1991. This is an anti-social and anti-national program. The opposition of workers, peasants and working people to this program has been mounting year after year. The strike of January 8, 2020 was the 19th All India General Strike organised by workers, since the launch of the liberalization program.
According to reports received by Mazdoor Ekta Lehar, an estimated 25 crore workers and working people all over the country participated in the strike. Their demands included minimum wages of Rs 21,000 per month, an end to contract labour, minimum pension of Rs 10,000 per month, halt to privatization, a modern universal public distribution system to provide foodgrains, pulses, and other essentials for all; a public procurement system to purchase all the produce of peasants at remunerative prices, waiver of debts of the peasantry, education and healthcare for all. Workers also demanded that the government stop amending labour laws in favour of the capitalists.
These demands are in the interests of the whole of society. This is why the strike received enthusiastic response not only from unionized workers, it received massive response from peasants and agricultural workers, as well as university students.
Reports coming in from various states indicate that the strike was complete in the country's massive public sector across sectors, such as steel, coal, other mining, defence production, port & dock, oil & natural gas, telecom, power generation, etc. Ancillary industries also were mostly shut.
Besides this, workers in the private sector across engineering, automobile and components, telecom, metals, textiles and garments, power and many other sectors were on strike.
15 lakh power sector workers, including engineers, participated in the strike under the banner of the All India Power Employees Federation. They were protesting against the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act as well as other privatisation policies of the government, which are against the interest of the consumers and employees.
Banking operations came to a grinding halt as the workers of Public Sector Banks and many Private sector banks joined the strike to protest against the privatisation of banking.
Petroleum sector workers participated in the strike in a massive way to express their opposition to the government's decision to privatise HPCL, BPCL, and other petroleum companies. They took out marches and held gate meetings in many towns.
Leaders of coal workers unions said 600,000 workers, both permanent and temporary, at coal mines participated in the strike.
Farmers groups led by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee gave the call to farmers organisations across the country to make the All India Strike a success. A joint platform of 175 farmers and agricultural workers organisations also extended support and called for a simultaneous rural strike.. In many rural districts across the country, farmers, agricultural workers and youth organised rail and rasta rook of rail and road transport.
In addition, road transport workers of many state owned road transport corporations participated in the strike, ensuring that road transportation was crippled in these states. Rail and road transport was severely affected in states like West Bengal, Bihar and Punjab amongst others.
Students in over 60 universities and institutions, and their affiliated colleges, too, observed a strike with thousands joining protest marches after boycotting classes.
In addition to the long standing demands of workers and peasants, the workers and working people demanded the immediate repeal of the communal Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and withdrawal by the government of its proposal for a National Register of Citizens (NRC). Workers also condemned the state organised repression of students in Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Aligarh Muslim University, Jadavpur and other universities.
Thousands of workers, farmers and students came onto the streets and organised rallies and dharnas. The banking, insurance, port and petroleum sectors saw complete shut down while workers of textiles and weaving industries in Coimbatore and Tirupur districts participated in large numbers. Hundreds of activists were arrested for organizing rail and road rokos across the state.
The farmers and agricultural workers organised a rural strike in support of their demands. Students expressed their opposition to the privatization of higher education and youth came out demanding jobs
Workers unity was reflected in the powerful response to the call for General Strike. Twenty six unions, working in the industrial townships of the state, participated in the strike. Thousands of Asha workers gathered at Azad Maidan in Mumbai, alongside of bank workers and workers of other sectors. (see report on Maharashtra)
Thousands of activists took to the streets of Patna and all the districts of Bihar, to make the January 8 strike a success. Big marches were taken out everywhere. Dharnas were organised to block traffic and train and road services were brought to a halt. Banks, post offices, electricity offices, etc remained closed. Auto rickshaws were off the road in Patna.
Thousands of workers in Delhi NCR downed tools on Wednesday as part of the nationwide general strike. As a result, production in factories in and around the national capital was disrupted.
In Sahibabad industrial area of Ghaziabad district, production in thousands of small and medium establishments was severely affected. Among those that were hit by the strike were Central Electronics Limited (CEL), a public sector undertaking, whose workers observed a complete shutdown, protesting against its strategic sale.
Rallies were organised in different industrial belts of Delhi like Okhla Industrial Area, Wazirpur, Narela, Bawana, Jahangirpuri, Patparganj and Shahdara.
In the Gurugram-Manesar-Bawal industrial belt, thousands of workers came onto the streets to express their anger at the attacks on the working class and people. Automobile companies like Honda and Munjal Showa were brought to a grinding halt.
Majority of workers protesting in this belt were contractual workers. The struggle of the contractual staff in Manesar is being led by the casual workforce of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), who have been braving the cold and staying put for more than 50 days to protest against the retrenchments by the management.
At Shivam Auto Tech, another major name in Manesar, the workers demonstrated outside the plant against the forced "lockdown" by the management.
About 40,000 employees of Maha Gujarat Bank Employee Association participated in the strike. All India Railwaymen's Federation, Western Railway Employee Union, Income Tax Employees Federation, Income Tax Gazetted Officers Association (Gujarat Circle), Gujarat Federation of Trade Union (GFTU), Gujarat Majdoor Sangh (GMS), Mazdoor Adhikar Abhiyan took out rallies at
GFTU took out rally in Ahmedabad of workers of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Gujarat Transport Service, Gujarat Industrial Security Force, Employees of Madhya Bhojan, daily wage earners under MnREGA, workers of many private companies.
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Speech by Sucharita of Purogami Mahila Sangathan in Peasant agitation at the Singhu border of Delhi
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Speech of Santosh Kumar of Mazdoor Ekta Committee in peasant agitation at the Gazipur border on 16 Dec 2020
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'Delhi for Farmers' demonstration in Delhi on 14 Dec 2020
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Crude Oil and Natural gas are assets of society
Privatisation of Petroleum Refineries is Anti-People and Anti-National
Privatisation of petroleum companies and opposition of workers
FOCUS: 75th anniversary of the United Nations
World peace can be ensured only on the basis of the independence, sovereignty and equality of all states
Part-II: How and why did the United Nations come into being?
Part-III: Major developments since the founding of the UN
Part-IV: What is the way forward for the United Nations?
FOCUS: Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical Companies reap mega profits from Covid-19 Crisis
Pharmaceutical Industry and the Super-Exploitation of Workers
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FOCUS: On the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II
Imperialism was and remains the source of war and conflict in the world
Part I - Lessons from history
Part II - Who and what was responsible for the two world wars in the 20th century?
Part III - Strategy of major imperialist powers and the Soviet Union before World War II
Part IV - The main battles of World War II
Part V: The end of World War II and the aims of different countries and peoples
Part VI: The lessons from World War II
FOCUS: Privatisation of Banking Sector
Bank Mergers and the Opposition of the Workers
Lenin's teaching on the role of banks in the monopoly stage of capitalism
People are being made to pay for the crimes of capitalist loan defaulters
On the Real Aim of Merging and Privatising Banks
Concentration of Banking and Increasing Parasitism
Solution to the Problems of the Banking System
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Berkshire Carers Service ceased to provide direct services to carers from 31 March 2016. Since then, Trustees have been awarding grants to local organisations to fund projects and activities of benefit to carers. We are pleased to announce we have partnered with Berkshire Community Foundation (BCF) to help promote and administer this work more widely.
Grants of up to £6,000 are now available via the Berkshire Community Foundation. The Berkshire Carers Service Fund aims to help organisations develop and set up new sustainable services for carers and/or regular events for carers.
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Roles of Cryogenic Cooling in Turning of Superalloys, Ferrous Metals, and Viscoelastic Polymers
Yap, T. C., 5 Sep 2019, In : Technologies. 7, 3, 63.
Carbon (CO2) Footprint Reduction Analysis for Buildings through Green Rating Tools in Malaysia
Ramachanderan, S. S., Venkiteswaran, V. K. & Chuen, Y. T., May 2017, In : Energy Procedia. 105, p. 3648-3655
Surface roughness and cutting forces in cryogenic turning of carbon stee
Yap, T. C., Sivaraos, Lim, C. S. & Leau, J. W., Jul 2015, In : Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. 10, 7, p. 911-920 10 p.
Cutting forces, friction coefficient and surface roughness in machining Ti-5Al-4V-0.6Mo-0.4Fe using carbide tool K313 under low pressure liquid nitrogen
Yap, T. C., El-Tayeb, N. S. M. & Von Brevern, P., Mar 2013, In : Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. 35, 1, p. 11-15 5 p.
Correlation of wear debris morphology and wear mechanism of Ti-5Al-4V-0.6Mo-0.4Fe slides against tungsten carbide under dry and cryogenic conditions
Yap, T. C., El-Tayeb, N. S. M., Brevern, P. V. & Sim, K. S., Dec 2011, In : International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering. 5, 5-6, p. 463-481 19 p.
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On the tribo-cryogenic characteristics of titanium alloys
El-Tayeb, N. S. M., Yap, T. C. & Von Brevern, P., 1 Apr 2010, In : Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology. 224, 4, p. 395-409 15 p.
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Wear characteristics of titanium alloy Ti54 for cryogenic sliding applications
El-Tayeb, N. S. M., Yap, T. C. & Brevern, P. V., Dec 2010, In : Tribology International. 43, 12, p. 2345-2354 10 p.
Modeling of cryogenic frictional behaviour of titanium alloys using Response Surface Methodology approach
El-Tayeb, N. S. M., Yap, T. C., Venkatesh, V. C. & Brevern, P. V., Dec 2009, In : Materials and Design. 30, 10, p. 4023-4034 12 p.
Tribological studies of polyester reinforced with CSM 450-R-glass fiber sliding against smooth stainless steel counterface
El-Tayeb, N. S. M., Yousif, B. F. & Yap, T. C., 30 Aug 2006, In : Wear. 261, 3-4, p. 443-452 10 p.
Two-dimensional analysis of tandem/staggered airfoils using computational fluid dynamics
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Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux est un gestionnaire de réseau de distribution d'énergie assurant la gestion du réseau électrique de plus de 400 communes dans le Bas-Rhin, en France.

Avec  points de livraison, Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux est le plus grand opérateur régional du système de distribution d'électricité en France.

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There is no bad blood between former-Letranite Kevin Racal and former-Bedan Rome Dela Rosa.
NLEX held on despite a huge comeback attempt by Alaska and took a 96-89 win in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on Sunday night.
Alaska clawed back from 13 points down and held off GlobalPort, 105-98, in the first overtime game of the PBA Philippine Cup at the Ynares Center on Sunday night.
A team gunning for a repeat this season turned into a heartbreaking early title-defense exit.
Calvin Abueva and Alaska Aces is in big trouble as he committed his fourth personal foul as early in the first half.


Unlike most other outlet malls, this one is indoors and features art installations. Developer Arthur Weiner says this could be the future of outlets.
A retail experiment opens Thursday in Rosemont near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Most outlets are in remote areas, but the Fashion Outlets of Chicago is next to the Kennedy Expressway, the airport, and not too far from downtown Chicago.
Retail consultant Neil Stern says mall developers nationwide will be watching this experiment.
"Not only is this the most well connected outlet mall in Chicago, it might be the most well-connected outlet mall in the country," Stern says.
Unlike traditional outlet malls, this one is indoors, features art installations from a group of 11 artists, and services for travelers. For example, flyers can print boarding passes and check bags directly to their flight from the mall.
But these amenities come at a price: more than $200 million.
Stern says the experiment comes at a time when outlet malls are growing quicker than traditional malls. He adds that if it pays off, we could see similar developments around the country.
Developers say this outlet is meant to function differently than other outlets. Retailers and manufacturers used to build outlets either to get rid of merchandise they can't sell, or separate the customers who will pay a premium for cutting edge products and those will travel to buy for the same brand at a lower price, says Jean-Pierre Dubé, a marketing professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. That's why outlets aren't particularly close to major cities.
Stern says manufacturers now have a different reason to sell at outlets -- they want direct access to their customers for greater profits. He points to companies like Coach, Apple and Tiffany, businesses that rely on selling directly to customers and as a result, became some of the most successful retailers.
Arthur Weiner, chairman of Fashion Outlets of Chicago developer AWE Talisman, agrees. He says the artwork and other services not found at other outlet malls give businesses a greater opportunity to show brand pride. He also sees this as the outlet to change all outlets.


Although technically, this is a bike path, there are extended sections of singletrack that dart in and out of it with some surprisingly technical spots. For maximum singletrack/pavement ratio, start just south of the Holly intersection and look for the little paths that drop off the pavement towards the river. This place can get really busy so ride friendly! For people who live in Denver, this is an awesome place to go after work and hone your skills and have some fun, plus you can ride it for all but three or four months of the year. I\'m rating it as a 7 with the caveat that this is the highest rating I could ever give a city ride.
Review: Directions appear to be off. Just tried driving there and found myself at a light rail station and didn't see a trail anywhere near the address. Does anyone have an updated address to find the trail?
Review: was wondering the same thing - where do you pick up this trail?
Review: A nice path ride when the Greenwood Village Mountain Bike Park is too muddy to ride.
Review: Good beginner track. Also good afterwork ride if limited on time. Small hill work and some good obstacles with the option to go around or over. Was not crowded at all on a 70 degree Saturday. Watch out for flying discs from disc golf course.
Review: Great Evening ride. Start near Holly, then dart off into some singletrack. Smooth riding, nothing technical. This was my first trail.
Review: The trail is very clean and also you can do a nice workout. If you like to ride in different roads this trail will be your best choice.
Review: This is the equestrian pathway that parallels the main paved trail. This is not a trail to drive to just to ride, but if you're in the aree, have your bike, and are bored...have at it. My work commute used to take me this way and on the way home I would drop off the paved trail and ride sections of this. There are some obstacles and technical sections and you can hop back onto the pavement at any time.
Review: This can really be quite entertaining at night, I only saw less than 10 other people two of which were bikers. most of the time your riding on about a 6' swath of paved trail, I only pulled out the flashlight a few times. when coming to the sections where you pass under bridges, otherwise ambient lighting is nearly enough if you enjoy that sort of thrill :) also if you end your ride around the reservoir keep your eyes out for a small herd of 4 mule deer bucks.
Review: This trail has some potential but it is terribly overgrown making visibility tough over a very large portion of this trail. This would not be an issue 99% of the time but this trail rides VERY close to some rather high ledges along the creek. Very sandy in spots and goatheads are everywhere; do not ride this trail without a pump and a patch kit.
Review: Nice wide concrete bike path with minimal street crossings from Cherry Creek Mall to Cherry Creek Reservoir. The reservoir end has a long climb (for the old people reading this). I rate it high for its 'easy' category. On weekends there are speed racers but the trail is wide enough to accomodate most everyone.
Cherry Creek MTB Trail 3.29 out of 5 based on 14 ratings. 14 user reviews.


This is my day off (or is that "off day"?). I went to the Cinema. I saw "Valkyrie", and was surprised at how good it is. In fact, in my opinion, it is excellent. Tom Cruise plays the real-life character Colonel Klaus Von Stauffenberg. He eventually became the leader of the plot to assassinate Hitler (July 1944). The story is pure tragic-opera. There is no singing until the wonderful music at the closing credits, but Wagner has a part to play.
Coming out of the cinema I was suprised to find myself moved (as they say). Questions arose as to how we are any better now than then. Whatever were the mixed motives of the conspirators (and they were truly mixed), whatever we may say about the mistaken way they went about their business, some of them, at least, were sickened by the continuing brutality of the war and, certainly, Stauffenburg was alarmed at the useless loss of life in the German Army.
The film suggests that he was also concerned about the plight of the Jews, but there is no proof of that. Still, the question is unavoidable; are we any better now?
Having seen a film like this, which is good enough to make me think about the horrors of Nazi Germany, and the plight of so many who wanted to live in peace and know the "good times" once again, I cannot help focusing on the tragedy of abortion. If governments uphold and promote the so-called right of parents to kill their own unborn children, can abortion be classed as a systematic act? Theologically I think there is a case to be made for this. If God "respects" the use of human authority - in the sense of "respecting" the freedom of will and the choice of citizens to agree with the rule of their governments - then what we have in legalised abortion is a systematic sentence of death against the most vulnerable members of human society. I have in mind Our Lord's words to Pilate; "You would have no power over Me unless it had been given you from above", and it is clear that the consequences of King David's sins could be visited on the people.
No, we are no better. When we consider the dreadful sufferings of the people of Zimbabwe, and the situation in Gaza, we can easily admit that human lives are being used, abused and destroyed for the vain material and "political" ambitions of a few. The uniforms and vehicles have changed, the names look very different, the methods used are just as barbaric, (even if sometimes more refined), and brutality, torture, murder, false imprisonment and hatred are still with us, and they are just as bad - if not worse - than before. There is some concern that anti-semitism is still with us, but what we have in abortion is worse than that. This is not an attack against a particular people within the human race; this is fundamentally an attack on the human race itself. Just as much as the Nazi Party, it is the work of Satan. The unblinking inability to hear the truth of those who perpetrate this madness suggests the presence of another intelligence. It is the same as that which inspired the madness of Hitler, and just as well-hidden from the minds and hearts of the majority of people as it ever was. The light and truth of the Gospel have never been more needed.


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ANOTHER TIME
We mentioned a bit ago that Cheap Time had a new single coming and it's finally here. Number four in the Cheap Time singles series [don't know when they started cataloguing themselves like that, but we're down] just saw release from Cass Records. It features two new songs, one of which there's a video for below. The single is a total jam so we can't stress enough how badly we think you ought to pick it up. We also think we might enjoy Cheap Time/Jeffrey Novak videos more than any other videos. For real. That Snakeman video and the Glitter and Gold video and now this? The guys are killing it. They just got home from a tour around the nation and are heading out on another one soon enough with the legendary Guitar Wolf. No Nashy date, but we'll split on gas for the trip to Memphis. Check it…
Cheap Time "Another Time" from Chris Anderson on Vimeo.
We mentioned a bit ago that Cheap Time had a new single coming and it's finally here. Number four in the Cheap Time singles series [don't know when they started cataloguing themselves like that, but we're down] just saw release from Cass Records. It features two new songs, one of which there's a video for…


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Day 14- Women's Activism in North America and Oceania
North America and Oceania may seem like a strange pairing, but especially because much of the activism of the women in the United States has already been covered, grouping some of the original commonwealth countries–Canada, Australia and New Zealand–together seemed logical. Oceania is comprised of dozens of small island nations that make up Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, in addition to Australia and New Zealand. Not to diminish the rights and struggles of the peoples of small nations or under foreign control but for our purposes, any location we consider will be an independent country with a population of more than 100,000.
Australia: The land down under is paying tribute to four women who have pushed to advance gender equality in Australia by immortalizing them in stamps: Germaine Greer, Eva Cox, Elizabeth Evatt, and Anne Summers will all be awarded the Australian Post Australian Legends Award for 2011. Last year Australia elected it's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who is currently on the losing side of public opinion with regards to marriage equality. Fifty-seven percent of Australians support marriage equality but she remains opposed to it. This page offers interesting insights into other battles women, especially migrant women, in Australia have historically faced.
New Zealand: The first nation in the world to grant all women the right to vote, in 1893, and to elect a transgender person to parliament, in 1999, New Zealand prides itself on a (slightly misleading) image of gender equality. The youngest person ever elected to the NZ parliament (and editor of the below mentioned book written by women of the Solomon Islands), Marilyn Waring, recollects her journey to political power here. Issues of domestic violence, the gender wage gap, underrepresentation in politics, and discrimination against the indigenous Maori people all still affect Kiwi women. And while the LGBTQAI community in New Zealand does enjoy most human rights, including some representation in government offices, marriage and adoption are still hurdles to be overcome.
Fiji: An innovative technique for raising awareness of young, rural women's issues in Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands is coming through community radio in Fiji. A weeklong training session, held annually, was arranged by FemLINKPACIFIC, which also address issues of disability, and peace and security through their inclusive, and intelligent approach. FemLINKPACIFIC's Executive Director is personally breaking the silence around women's health issues in Fiji by blogging with humor and poignancy about her experiences with breast cancer. Recently, Fiji islanders have had to deal with significant political violence, and Christian extremism which left women without governmental allies in the fight against domestic violence. Marital rape and lack of decision-making capabilities also leave many women in Fiji without a say in their own contraception and pregnancy options. Despite these obstacles, the women of Fiji have a long history of virulently demanding their rights.
Papua New Guinea: In a country where sorcery is blamed for deaths caused by AIDS, women suffer tremendous violence in the name of eradicating witchcraft. Nearly 2/3 of women in Papua New Guinea experience domestic violence at some point in their lives and fully half of all women there are raped, partly because there are no laws against these crimes. Sometimes crime goes the other direction and men and boys are victimized, showing how seriously a culture of rape affects everyone involved. But women in Papua New Guinea are courageously combating both physical violence and the spread of HIV though activism. Environmental issues such as mining, logging, fisheries, and palm oil production also have a significant impact on the lives of women in Papua New Guinea and so they speak out about those issues too.
Solomon Islands: The voices of the women of the Solomon Islands have rarely been heard, either within their country or by outsiders, but the book Being the First broke that cycle of silence. Women in this island nation have been an integral part of the use of restorative justice in peacebuilding after years of ethnic tensions and violence. Violence against women is a serious issue in this country and women have been vital in PeaceWomen to combat injustices. Young women in Solomon Islands are also speaking out about climate change and its disproportionate effects on women and indigenous peoples. The women of the YWCA are also critical in the fight for equality.
Samoa: Transgender activist and community leader, Dr. Vena Sele, has continuously fought for equality while expressing one of the traditional gender roles in Samoa as a fa'afafine. Some Samoa bloggers are taking on tradition by speaking out about taboo subjects. This article explains current laws with regard to human rights in Samoa, and this article is a witty explanation of how damaging misconceptions can be.
Tonga: At least one women's rights activist in the Kingdom of Tonga has raised concerns that the November 2010 election of Lord Tu'ivakano was not the victory for democracy that it was touted to be. Women activists have every right to be weary of the men in politics in Tonga, especially since the country refused to ratify CEDAW and the newly appointed Police Minister was previously charged with assaulting his wife. The Women and Children Crisis Center WCCC, a Mama Cash grantee, is one group working to change the acceptability of domestic violence in Tonga. They have been internationally recognized for their work and won the Pacific Human Rights Award in December 2010, and the Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute Activist Award for their work in the film Paradise Glossed: Women, Violence and 'The Friendly Islands'.
Canada: One look at Amnesty International's Canada blog shows how determined Canadian women are in fighting for all women's rights everywhere. Canada is a much more liberal, accepting and equal society than are we to the south, but no nation is perfect. Gender-based violence and blatant discrimination, including uninvestigated disappearances, against indigenous people still rock Canada on a regular basis. The government has not done much to address these inequalities but activists continue to speak out. On a side note–if you are a Canadian reproductive rights activist, age 19-30, go here to participate in a survey, please.
Mexico: While the Mexican government is sending women to jail for having an abortion, the femicides of Juarez, Mexico have been a disgrace to the world for years. More than 1,000 women have been killed there in the past 18 years. Many groups including Women of Juarez and Nuestras Hihas de Regreso a Casa (which has pages in many languages), fight to end the impunity in the brutal rapes, torture and murders of the women of Ciudad Juarez. Aqui hay un gran coleccion de articulos sobre los feminicidios. Y aqui Patricia Sanchez-Espinosa escrita que Ni Una Más será aceptable. And despite activists who speak out against this overwhelming violence being murdered as well, women in Mexico and around the world continue to raise their voices for justice for these women.
Join the discussion for the next 7 days as we explore the many forms of violence against women and the incredible activists and organizations that are working to change the world.
Canada 6th best country in world to be born a girl: study (calgaryherald.com)
Women activists to feature on Aussie stamp (news.theage.com.au)
Room for improvement in Canada's sexual equality: Global report (canada.com)
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Wales and the British Overseas Empire: Interactions and Influences, 1650-1830 / ed. Hugh Bowen
The mid-1980s saw the launch of the 'Studies in Imperialism' series. As outlined by the general editor, John M. MacKenzie, the main concept behind this has been that 'imperialism as a cultural phenomenon has as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies'.
The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the 'Domiciled Community' in British India 1858-1930 / Satoshi Mizutani
Some years ago, in the midst of a conversation about tourism and travelling, a friend from one of Britain's former colonies remarked how shocked she had been to see 'white people begging' during her first trip abroad to Australia.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online / ed. Ray Abruzzi
If we survey the historical profession at the moment, there are plenty of academic squabbles going on, but the great debates that once divided historians seem to be in short supply. Time was when contests over the standard of living during the industrial revolution or about post-modernism and its application to the study of history would drive scholars into a frenzy of position taking.
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European Anti Vaccination Group Tests Limits of Platforms' Disinformation Checks
European Anti-Vaccination Group Tests Limits of Platforms' Disinformation Checks
Law enforcement and extremism researchers say there's evidence that far-right groups are using scepticism about COVID-19 and vaccines to expand their reach.
By Associated Press | Updated: 20 August 2022 02:49 IST
Photo Credit: Reuters
Researchers identified more than 15,000 abusive or misinformation-laden Facebook posts from V_V
Anti-vaccination groups are thriving on social media platforms
They have begun to branch out into climate change denialism
There are limitations to platforms' abilities to curb disinformation
Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated. He was soon swarmed by dozens, then hundreds, then more than 1,000 hateful messages from an anti-vaccine extremist group known as V_V. The group, active in France and Italy, has harassed doctors and public health officials, vandalised government offices and tried to disrupt vaccine clinics.
Alarmed by the abuse of its platform, Facebook kicked off several accounts tied to the group last December. But it didn't stop V_V, which continues to use Facebook and other platforms and, like many anti-vaccine groups around the world, has expanded its portfolio to include climate change denialism and anti-democratic messaging.
"Let's go and get them at home, they don't have to sleep anymore," reads one post from the group. "Fight with us!" reads another.
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The largely unchecked nature of the attacks on the indisputable health benefits of the vaccine highlight the clear limits of a social media company to thwart even the most destructive kind of disinformation, particularly without a sustained aggressive effort.
Researchers at Reset, a US-based nonprofit, identified more than 15,000 abusive or misinformation-laden Facebook posts from V_V — activity that peaked in spring 2022, months after the platform announced its actions against the organisation. In a report on V_V's activities, Reset's researchers concluded that its continued presence on Facebook raises "questions about the effectiveness and consistency of Meta's self-reported intervention."
Meta, Facebook's parent company, noted in response that its 2021 actions were never meant to eliminate all V_V content but to take down accounts found to be participating in coordinated harassment. After The Associated Press notified Facebook of the group's continued activities on its platform, it said it removed an additional 100 accounts this week.
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Meta said it's trying to strike a balance between removing content from groups like V_V that clearly violate rules against harassment or dangerous misinformation, while not silencing innocent users. That can be particularly difficult when it comes to the contentious issue of vaccines.
"This is a highly adversarial space and our efforts are ongoing: since our initial takedown, we've taken numerous actions against this network's attempts to come back," a Meta spokesman told the AP.
V_V is also active on Twitter, where Reset researchers found hundreds of accounts and thousands of posts from the group. Many of the accounts were created shortly after Facebook took action on the program last winter, Reset found.
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In response to Reset's report, Twitter said it took enforcement actions against several accounts linked to V_V but did not detail those actions.
V_V has proved especially resilient to efforts to stop it. Named for the movie V for Vendetta, in which a lone, masked man seeks revenge on an authoritarian government, the group uses fake accounts to evade detection, and often coordinates its messaging and activities on platforms such as Telegram that lack Facebook's more aggressive moderation policies.
That adaptability is one reason why it's been hard to stop the group, according to Jack Stubbs, a researcher at Graphika, a data analysis firm that has tracked V_V's activities.
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"They understand how the Internet works," Stubbs said.
Graphika estimated the group's membership to be 20,000 in late 2021, with a smaller core of members involved in its online harassment efforts. In addition to Italy and France, Graphika's team found evidence that V_V is trying to create chapters in Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Germany, where a similar anti-government movement known as Querdenken is active.
Groups and movements such as V_V and Querdenken have increasingly alarmed law enforcement and extremism researchers who say there's evidence that far-right groups are using scepticism about COVID-19 and vaccines to expand their reach.
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Increasingly, such groups are moving from online harassment to real world action.
For instance, in April, V_V used Telegram to announce plans to pay a 10,000 Euro bounty to vandals who spray painted the group's symbol (two red Vs in a circle) on public buildings or vaccine clinics. The group then used Telegram to disseminate photos of the vandalism.
A month before Facebook took action on V_V, Italian police raided the homes of 17 anti-vaccine activists who had used Telegram to make threats against government, medical and media figures for their perceived support of COVID-19 restrictions.
Social media companies have struggled with responding to a wave of misinformation about vaccines since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Facebook and Instagram suspended Children's Health Defense, an influential anti-vaccine organisation led by Robert Kennedy Jr.
One reason is the tricky balancing act between moderating harmful content and protecting free expression, according to Joshua Tucker of New York University, who co-directs NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics and is a senior advisor at Kroll, a tech, government, and economic consulting firm.
Striking the right balance is especially important because social media has emerged as a key source of news and information around the world. Leave up too much bad content and users may be misinformed. Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
"It is dangerous for society for us to be moving in a direction in which nobody feels they can trust information," Tucker said.
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