Cooking is an activity of making food ready for eating. Food must be prepared for it to be edible. It is possible to take food while raw or cooked. Fruits and vegetables are kinds of foods taken when raw. Foods prepared when raw or cooked have their importance.
Cooked food is always free from harmful microorganisms. It is impossible for microorganisms to live in high temperatures. It is easy to eat cooked food. Expect cooked food to be softer than raw foods. It is obvious for cooked foods to have a nice smell. Foods prepared by heating are healthy. Raw foods do not lose any nutrient as in the case of heated food. Raw food does not require much preparation when compared with cooked food. Raw food saves on time. There are many cooking devices and tools. Ovens, water heaters, bakers, and slow cookers as examples of cooking devices. We have spoons, knives, and handles as examples of cooking tools. Each and every cooking tool has its function.
The function of knives is to help in cutting foods into small sizes.
The function of spoons is to measure food ingredients when preparing foods. There are many kinds of cooking appliances. Expect cooking appliances to use charcoal, electricity, biogas, and solar as sources of energy. An oven has been designed to use electricity as a source of energy. The main source of an electric power is from water. The production of hydro-electric power is possible by running water turbines.
The production of biogas is possible by use of animal waste. Cooking appliances that use charcoal as a source of energy can also use biogas. Charcoal is gotten from dried wood. Charcoal has been known as a renewable source of energy. Expect solar energy to come from the sun. Expect solar panels to be used in the production of solar energy. Solar cookers are designed to use solar energy. Expect solar energy to be used in places where there is adequate solar energy. Slow cookers have been used in the preparation of foods.
Expect slow cookers to utilize electricity as their source of energy. Slow cookers as the name suggests is used to prepare food for a longer period of time as compared with other cookers. There are a couples of importance of using slow cookers in the preparation of foods. Slow cookers use less electric energy. Slow cookers save on time. You are given room to do other duties by using slow cookers. Expect slow cookers to keep the kitchen cool . Expect nutrients in foods to be reserved by using slow cookers. Expect to get used to the good eating habit by having slow cookers.


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New Prime Minister
Who will replace Johnson as UK head of government is revealed.
The vote was won by Liz Truss, with 62% of the vote against Rishi Sunak's 38%.
The new British Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Conservative Party is Liz Truss, a 47-year-old politician nicknamed Iron Lady 2.0 for copying Margaret Thatcher's image. Her "deeds" already have plenty: from an adultery scandal to an embarrassment at a press conference, from where Truss couldn't find a way out. British society is confused by many things about Truss' personality. For example, 65% of the country believes she is unable to communicate with people.
She cheated on her own husband with a party colleague and made many failures during public appearances. For example, she is often remembered for an odd speech about cheese, how she showed an ignorance of geography during a visit to Russia and lost her bearings during the campaign.
The victory came for Truss after two months of political uncertainty, with energy prices skyrocketing and tens of thousands of workers on strike.
The opposition Labour Party and other critics accuse the government of being "missing" during the hardest summer, when the country was torn apart by economic problems and almost all resources went to support the Zelensky regime in Kyiv.
Both Liz Truss and her opponent Rishi Sunak failed to offer substantial and unexpected proposals, presenting only slightly different approaches to fiscal and monetary policy. Both stated a desire to confront Russia and China and consequently to increase global tensions.
Regarding domestic policy steps, all experts agree that both candidates lack focus.
Will Liz Truss' aggressive rhetoric on Russia help solve the current energy crisis? The UK clearly faces a difficult time with a poorly educated diplomat trying to solve the country's systemic economic issues.
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If I use OnGrid interpolation with TimeStepping in PostOperation, the first timestep that is outputted has some small errors. I've modified the Simple_RLC example to demonstrate this. I output timesteps 90:101 and 91:101 of the vector current. When subtracting two equal time steps the difference can be seen for any subtraction that includes the first time step. Subtractions of later time steps results in zero as expected. See the attached screenshot.


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Unique Doctor of Economic Development program at NMSU looks to expand its reach
By cobadmin | Published July 8, 2014
July 8, 2014 by Amanda Bradford , NMSU News Center
Rodolfo Acosta-Perez is a graduate of the New Mexico State University Doctor of Economic Development program. He is now director of family empowerment at the Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico in Las Cruces, where he helps families become more self-sufficient and engaged in their communities. (NMSU photo by Robert Yee)
A doctoral program at New Mexico State University that is unique in the nation is looking to increase its visibility and expand its pool of qualified applicants.
The Doctor of Economic Development program was launched in 2008 and is offered jointly by the Department of Economics, Applied Statistics and International Business in the College of Business and the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
The degree is the only professional doctorate in economic development offered in the U.S. It is differentiated by its applied approach, which focuses on training professionals who can have a direct impact on their communities, rather than on producing strictly academic research.
To date, the program has awarded 15 doctoral degrees to students from the U.S., Mexico, Jordan, Cameroon, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Though it's a relatively young program, it has already established a strong international reputation.
Graduate Ndem Tazoh Tazifor grew up in Cameroon, where he saw firsthand how a society is affected by poverty and hunger. This sparked an interest in economic development, and Tazifor knew he wanted to find a program with a practical approach to these issues. That led him to NMSU.
Benjamin Widner, an associate professor in the New Mexico State University College of Business Department of Economics, Applied Statistics and International Business, teaches courses in the Doctor of Economic Development program. (NMSU photo by Robert Yee)
"This program bridges the gap that exists between research and real-world problems in economic development," Tazifor said. "The program thus prepares individuals with a broader, better and comprehensive approach to economic development-related issues."
Tazifor now works as an economist for the state of New Mexico's Economic Development Department, where he applies the analytical skills he learned in the program.
"One of my primary roles at my job requires extensive knowledge of demographic, social and economic data, their availability, and sources where you can find such data," Tazifor said. "Some other duties include conducting economic impact studies and working with cities to create economic development plans.
"These and other job requirements are directly aligned with NMSU's DED program of study," he said.
Now that the program's reputation is growing, the goal is to get its message in front of a diverse population of professionals who can become catalysts for economic growth in their own communities. An award of $35,000 from the NMSU President's Performance Fund is being used to develop and distribute print and online marketing materials and place advertisements in national and international trade journals.
A report released July 3 by the U.S. Labor Department indicates that the national unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in June – the lowest level since September of 2008 – but New Mexico was the only state besides New Jersey that actually saw a slight decrease in employment from May 2013 to May 2014. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report for the period from January 2011 to November 2013 placed New Mexico dead last among states in job growth at less than 1 percent.
Chris Erickson, a business professor who teaches in the program, said economic development success is not measured by these short-term comparisons of job growth, but he said the need for professionals to work in development is obvious. He said graduates of the DED program would be well-equipped to lead or develop programs in fields such as workforce development, infrastructure and business finance, business attraction and retention, community development, industrial rehabilitation, international trade and tourism development.
Faculty member Steven Archambault, an assistant professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, said the doctoral students get the opportunity to work on a variety of real projects. In one such project, students served in a consulting role with the downtown economic development organization in Las Cruces.
"They were looking for guidance on how to hand out small loans to businesses in the area, and we were able to help them figure out what to do with a revolving loan fund to make that more successful," Archambault said.
Another graduate of the program, Rodolfo Acosta-Perez is director of family empowerment at the Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico in Las Cruces, where he helps families become more self-sufficient and engaged in their communities. An industrial engineer, Acosta-Perez was interested in a better understanding of the business world when he sought his master's of business administration at NMSU. He went on to join the DED program because he was looking for a practitioner's degree that would open career doors in the private and public sectors.
"The program also helped me build upon my research skills, which are extremely necessary in my line of work," Acosta-Perez said. "I feel better-suited for quantifying the social and economic impact of our programs at a micro and macro level."
In June, Acosta-Perez presented his doctoral thesis, "Conspicuous Consumption and Drug-Trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico Border," at the first World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies in Joensuu, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Benjamin Widner, an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Applied Statistics and International Business, said the program allows for both faculty and students to examine economic development on a global scale.
"Because of the diversity of the students, we have discussions that move beyond the North American-centric examples and we get to see how things happen from an international perspective," he said.
For more information on the Doctor of Economic Development program, visit http://econdev.nmsu.edu.
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Editor & Publisher;09/20/97, Vol. 130 Issue 38, p39
Trade Publication
Reports on the lawsuit filed by former `San Francisco Examiner' newspaper artist Peter Spino against the newspaper and its parent company, Hearst Corp. Spino's claims against the newspaper's management; Laws allegedly violated by the newspaper.
History of Nuclear Energy Production
History of Border Walls in the U.S. and Around the World
Overview of the Gun Control Debate
Current State of the U.S. Healthcare System
An Overview of Key Terms and Definitions of Globalization
An Overview of Nuclear Power Plants
An Overview of Social Networking Websites
Development of New Cardiac Deformity Indexes for Pectus Excavatum on Computed Tomography: Feasibility for Pre- and Post-Operative Evaluation.
The 2009 Import and Export Market for Unsweetened, Concentrated Milk and Cream in Asia.
Singapore firm buys into `bust' Latvian fiber farm.
Equipment Forum: Kinze demonstrates Autonomy technology.
Black naval officer heads Navy's new medical clinic.
Petrochemiocals in Brief.
The 2013-2018 Outlook for Video Cassette Recorders (VCRs) in Japan.


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2016 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' DINNER By David Bianculli
This annual event is extremely entertaining for two different reasons – sort of like The Voice, which has the fascinating "blind auditions," followed much later by the final rounds of quality competition. In the case of this particular black-tie event, the fun is spread out the same way: very early and very late. The early part comes at 6 p.m. ET, with the arrival of guests at the red carpet. For years, press corps members have used their plus-ones to invite high-profile and of
JAZZ AT THE WHITE HOUSE By David Bianculli
This ABC special seems particularly ill-timed. Just as the White House correspondents are sitting down to dinner on live TV over on C-SPAN, ABC is presenting a taped special in which President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host a program of jazz from the White House, featuring Herbie Hancock and others.
2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY By David Bianculli
And while jazz is played at the White House, rock and roll, in another taped special, is celebrated on HBO. This is the 31st annual induction ceremony, and this year the honorees include Chicago (pictured), Cheap Trick, N.W.A., Deep Purple, Steve Miller and songwriter-producer Bert Berns. Included are salutes to performers who died during the year, including David Bowie and Prince. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA By David Bianculli
CONCLUSION: This repeat documentary miniseries concludes with a look at the decades after WWII (specifically, 1946-80), and charts the postwar increase in popularity of the national parks. Check local listings.
THE UNINVITED By David Bianculli
This 1944 movie is one of the best early cinematic horror films – a ghost story in which a brother and sister, played by Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey, buy a house by the sea, and soon get swept away by encounters with and stories of ghosts.
ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME HBO SPECIAL: TOO MANY HONOREES, TOO LITTLE SOLID GOLD By David Hinckley
The most poignant highlight of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame HBO special wasn't part of this year's induction night at all. It's a clip of the late Prince at his own 2004 Hall of Fame induction, talking briefly about his music, and then playing lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS By David Bianculli
PREMIERE: This Netflix movie premiere, written, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, is based on a 2009 French comedy, Envoyes Tres Speciaux, but is adapted and updated to fit Gervais' comedy styles and rhythms. He plays a nebbishy radio producer teamed up with a glamorous, vain radio reporter, who together are dispatched to cover a possible coup in Ecuador. When their passports and other travel papers and cash are accidentally trashed on the way to the airport, the two decide to hole u
TEAM FOXCATCHER By David Bianculli
PREMIERE: This is a new documentary about the murder of Dave Schultz, the wrestler allegedly killed by millionaire John E. du Pont in 1996. The real-life murder case already was dramatized in the 2014 movie Foxcatcher, with Steve Carell playing du Pont – but where that story ended, Team Foxcatcher keeps going. It also shows lots of home movies by the wrestlers befriended and housed by du Pont, bringing a sense of intimacy to the environment and case being reexamined. Very spooky – an
Part 5. This is a fascinating episode of this repeat documentary series, showing how the nation and its leaders responded during the Great Depression – with the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was a great idea then, and seems like a good one today as well. Check local listings.
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
Among tonight's guests: actor, director and political activist Rob Reiner.


A number of our High School students and parents have been looking for an email from testingnirvana.com related to the Spring Keystone Testing. Dispite our best efforts on our side, we have found that the email is landing in the spam folder for most of our user. If you log into your gmail account, you can use the following search term to find the email(s) in question.
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Tillett Tapiz
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The Tillett Tapestry of the Conquest of Mexico is a unique work of textile art conceived by the master textile designer Leslie Tillett, and embroidered by many hands. 100 feet long and 28 inches high, the work presents the full narrative of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec world by Hernan Cortez and his Mexica allies, along a single hand woven manta cloth. There are 230 scenes, 1,490 human figures and fifty-five million stitches. The result is a visual feast, celebrated not only for its immensity, intricacy and profound emotive power, but for the way in which it illustrates the clash of two great civilizations through their respective visual languages. Though largely composed of images culled from Aztec pictographic records, the assembly presents years of wide research by Tillett, as well as a close reading of the eye-witness account of Bernal Diaz. The borders of the work give a narrative of the conquest in Spanish and English. While visiting the Palacio Cortez in Cuernavaca in 1944 with the great muralist Diego Rivera, Tillett became enthralled with the artist's historical frescoes and with the subject of the Spanish invasion of Mexico. It was Rivera who suggested that Tillett consult the Florentine Codex to see the Mexica perspective on the conquest. After decades of research, a visit to the Bayeux Tapestry in 1962 gave Tillett the inspiration to narrate the Conquest of Mexico in an immense embroidery. The ground drawings began in that year and the stitching itself was undertaken in Mexico soon after. The work was completed in 1976 after fifteen years of effort. 'El Tapiz Tillett', as it became known, was widely exhibited during Tillett's lifetime, including at the Palacio Cortez, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the Museum of Natural History in New York. It was always Tillett's wish that the embroidery would find a home in a great institution and forever play a role in the teaching of the rich and tumultuous history of his beloved adopted country, Mexico.
Leslie Tillett
In 1940, two English brothers, Jim and Leslie Tillett, established a textile printing works in Cuernavaca and a shop in Taxco. Their vibrant fabrics were highly successful in Mexico and soon gained world renown. Sent by the New York magazine Harper's Bazaar to photograph the brothers, Doris Doctorow fell in love with Leslie and they were married in Taxco that year. In the hotbed of creativity in Mexico at the time, the Tilletts met Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Bill Spratling and others. Jim married Nieves Orozco, the brilliant model of Rivera and Nieves modeled the Tillett's prints on the undiscovered beaches of Acapulco. The Tilletts flourished in Mexico until 1946, when Leslie and D.D. went on to New York.
In New York they achieved extraordinary success as creators of custom fabrics and clothing, furnishing many of the grand houses of the period, most notably the Kennedy White House. Their designs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, The Smithsonian Institution, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2012 the Museum of the City of New York mounted a lavish exhibition celebrating their life and work.


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West to Mexico
On our passage from Costa Rica to Mexico, we had time to reflect on our visits to Panama and Costa Rica. Both countries have amazing and beautiful places to see but we were surprised to see such a difference in the amount of litter on the beaches.
The windward shores of the islands in the remote San Blas Islands were covered with trash.
Again and again, we saw the same story. Plastic bottles, bottle caps, plastic outboard motor oil bottles, shoes, flip flops and crocs. Just about anything you can think of that's made of plastic could be found here.
In Las Perlas on the Pacific side of Panama, the story was the same. We wondered where could all of this trash possibly come from?
Seeing this, we thought about the act of throwing trash in the ocean. We can't remember ever tossing trash in the "big blue litter bag" from Moonshadow, but here before us is testimony to thousands of individuals who have deliberately and perhaps habitually trashed our world.
The Survivor TV crew must have had quite a job cleaning this beach before filming here in Las Perlas.
On both the Caribbean and Pacific, Panama is on the receiving end of trains of debris that prevailing weather brings from elsewhere. In the Caribbean, the trade winds blow from East to West bringing everything that makes it into the water from huge trees and logs that float down swollen rivers in the South American continent to tiny plastic bottle caps. When this floating debris from all over the caribbean runs out of ocean it all comes to rest on the beautiful islands of San Blas where the Kuna Indians have no trash collection or land fills.
On the Pacific, Panama is at the end of the line for two giant ocean currents, the Humbolt current flowing north along the west coast of South America, and an equatorial counter-current flowing West to East. Both of these currents terminate in the Gulf of Panama depositing floating junk from far away on Las Perlas Islands.
Panama also is exposed to the more than fifty ships per day that transit the canal, so some of the litter on both sides of Panama no doubt comes from there as well.
But at Panama's remote islands in both the Caribbean and Pacific sides we were appalled to learn that Moonshadow's trash that we had paid the locals to dispose of for us was later just tossed into the water! Sadly, it is also evident that there's been little to no development of infrastructure on Panama's offshore islands to deal with even their own trash, let alone the floating junk that is blown their way.
By contrast, we saw none of this in Costa Rica. Besides being lucky enough not to be situated at the receiving end of two rivers of refuse, Costa Rica is taking very deliberate and conspicuous measures to deal with their basura.
Putting out trash cans seems like an obvious solution, but in Panama's islands, they don't appear to have the infrastructure or facilities to dispose of trash.
Costa Rica is building a healthy economy from attracting visitors to their country, and it's obvious they want to make a good impression.
We got a kick out of finding signs that provide a friendly reminder.
Besides signs and litter bins, Costa Rica has recycling systems in place.
Some signs were evidently intended for us visitors!
To us, it seems like Costa Rica's efforts are paying off.
We still loved Panama. We think they get a raw deal from the world's litterbugs. But it was great to see Costa Rica making the extra effort to keep from having their beautiful country spoiled by the sight of trash.
A pristine beach at Isla Pargo, Panama, near the border with Costa Rica and well away from the Pacific's "river of refuse".
On our passage to Mexico we skipped Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, leaving Costa Rica at dusk and arriving at Marina Chiapas, Mexico at dawn after almost 60 hours at sea.
Along the way we had time to marvel at abundant sea life, especially porpoise...
It is common in every ocean for dolphin to come over to check out passing yachts. They will often swim playfully under the bow, twisting their bodies to look up at us.
Here you can see how this pair exhales under water just before breaking the surface for a breath of air.
We never get tired of watching. You can't help but wonder what these amazing sea mammals think of Moonshadow and those funny looking creatures peering down.
But on this passage, the porpoise were performing acrobatics, jumping and even flipping somersaults in the air.
We were floored when first one then another jumped higher than our lifelines right in front of Moonshadow, each turning on their side for a look at us before splashing back into the water.
They seem to be just having fun like puppy dogs frolicking in an open field.
But the porpoise weren't the only sea life to keep us company. We also saw several very large sea turtles, some so close, they were lucky we didn't run them over. We also saw sea snakes, brown with bright spots, wiggling along on the surface, and hooked some fish. Finally we had these two Brown Booby Birds aboard adding to our growing list of freeloaders.
Here's a link to an ongoing collection of Moonshadow's other Stowaways.
A new marina opened last year at Puerto Medero, just across the border with Guatemala. As you can see below, our chart plotter's Mexico chart does not show the new Marina Chiapas or the channel that was dug to get there. The blue line is Moonshadow's track and no, we didn't drive Moonshadow across the land to get there!
Once in the harbor, we saw what became of some of the huge San Diego Tuna fleet. These massive seiners were a common sight in San Diego Bay back when we were dating. As we are approaching our 40th anniversary, I guess you could say these are pretty old tuna boats!
The Marina Chiapas is nice and new, and in a great location at the southern end of the Gulf of Tehuantepec where some fierce winds can blow. Fed by weather fronts far to the north, these winds come roaring across Central America through gaps in the Sierra Madre mountains. Just south of the band of wind they call Tehuantepeckers, yachts can now tie up at the marina here and wait for a good weather window before making their crossing of the Gulf. That's exactly what Moonshadow and several other American yachts are doing now. While watching WiFi weather forecasts and waiting, we arranged a spur of the moment Thanksgiving pot luck dinner which turned out to be great fun for all.
Next up will be a three day passage across the Gulf of Tehuantepec then up the coast to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, which is a little north of Acapulco. We'll go a lot further West than North!
We're hoping for more sunsets like the one we enjoyed before arriving here in Chiapas.
Would it be asking too much to hope for jumping porpoises in that picture too?


Office furniture is often bought in bulk. It is the only kind of furniture that demands more functionality and more utility than any other kinds of furniture around. Therefore, you must make sure that you have only the best kind of furniture for your office. In the old days, office furniture used to be the simplest and the most boring kind of furniture you would ever find. However, now the times have changed and even the office furniture has become way too stylish these days. There are modern concepts, great shapes and even better colors that make your office come to life. All you have to do is ensure that you are getting good variety and a good choice.
Function- the first and the most important quality of any kind of office furniture is its function. If the furniture has been designed practically, it would be able to provide you more utility than ever. Remember, good furniture options would be consisting of storage space, comfortable seats and adjustable heights. All these qualities make your furniture comfortable and functional enough to justify your choice.
Form or shape-the style of the office furniture is also very important. Gone are the days when a plain table or desk along with a wooden chair was enough for the offices. Modern workspaces are designed with style in mind. They come in various shapes and sizes so that they can easily fit into your office. There is a variety in the colors as well. The most important feature of an office furniture is that it has been designed with the modern office equipment in mind. There would be special provisions for PCs and laptops as well as some dedicated storage space.
Build- whenever you need to buy office furniture, you would always face the choice between custom made furniture and the mass produced furniture. The mass produced variety would come in some standard shapes, sizes, colors and designs, but the prices would be very cheap. If you wish to design furniture for your office, you would have to pay a good price but the results would be unique and commendable.
Buying new furniture for your office is often quite a tricky task. In order to buy the best pieces for you, you have to ensure that you visit a good furniture store. However, before buying anything, chalk out all your requirements and never buy what you don't need. This way, office furniture would become more functional and affordable as well.


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Q: How can i handle the date when the input is NULL If I give the input as 06/2007 then it works fine.
Giving 2007/06 shows invalid input -- fine
NULL 'nothing' means it has give mandatory input. But it is giving invalid input which is wrong. How can I handle these two conditions?
PROCEDURE validateDate(v_InputDate IN VARCHAR2) is

  ErrorMSG  VARCHAR2(1000);
  v_tmpDate varchar2(20);
  g_dateInvalid EXCEPTION;
  g_dateError EXCEPTION;
  g_ErrorCode NUMBER;
BEGIN
  dbms_output.put_line('Input date is' || v_InputDate);
  BEGIN
    IF v_InputDate IS NULL THEN
      RAISE g_dateError;
    ELSIF v_InputDate IS NOT NULL THEN
      v_tmpDate := to_date(v_InputDate,
                           'MM/YYYY');
      dbms_output.put_line('Converted date is' || v_tmpDate);
    END IF;
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      RAISE g_dateInvalid;
  END;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN g_dateError THEN
    g_ErrorCode := -20002;
    ErrorMSG    := 'Mandatory input cannot be null. Enter a valid date in MMYYYY fromat';
    raise_application_error(g_ErrorCode,
                            ErrorMSG);

  WHEN g_dateInvalid THEN
    g_ErrorCode := -20001;
    ErrorMSG    := 'Invalid DATE should be in MMYYYY format. Please verify. ';
    raise_application_error(g_ErrorCode,
                            ErrorMSG);

END validateDate;

A: I think the way you are doing it at the moment is a little more complicated than it actually needs to be. There was no need to nest another block. I have tested the following and it works fine for me:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE validateDate(
   v_InputDate IN VARCHAR2
)
IS
   v_tmpDate varchar2(20);
   g_dateError EXCEPTION;
BEGIN
   dbms_output.put_line('Input date is' || v_InputDate);

   IF v_InputDate IS NULL THEN
       RAISE g_dateError;
   ELSE
       v_tmpDate := to_date(v_InputDate, 'MM/YYYY');
       dbms_output.put_line('Converted date is' || v_tmpDate);
   END IF;
EXCEPTION
   WHEN g_dateError THEN
       raise_application_error(-20002, 'Mandatory input cannot be null. Enter a valid date in MMYYYY fromat');
   WHEN OTHERS THEN
       raise_application_error(-20001, 'Invalid DATE should be in MMYYYY format. Please verify. ');
END validateDate;
 /

Tested with null and got error -20002, tested with 'text' and got -20001.

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The lot for Park By The Ports is located inside the Dania Beach Casino in the North West corner of the parking lot. Here we will check you into the parking lot and remove your luggage to be placed onto the shuttle. Please print out your receipt or have it ready on your mobile device. Display your receipt on the vehicle at all times.
PORT EVERGLADES CRUISE PORT CHECK IN: The lot for Park By The Ports is located inside the Dania Beach Casino in the North West corner of the parking lot. Here we will check you into the parking lot and remove your luggage to be placed onto the shuttle. PORT EVERGLADES CRUISE PORT PICK UP: Shuttles for pick-up from cruise port begin 7:00 AM. Shuttles make rounds approximately every 20 minutes from 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM and approximately every 40 minutes from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.


The MIA'S is a Music Award Show on National TV in Belgium. New Solid created the animations to follow and support the award ceremony on stage.
Everything was made according to the pixel-map specs of the LED configuration.
We did all the MIA branded animations and some custom made content for some songs.


Kids love yoga—and it's great for them, so much that the President's Council has added the practice to the fitness activities in the annual President's Challenge. For parents and caregivers looking for a fun and effective new routine for bedtime, innovative educator Mariam Gates presents Good Night Yoga: A Pose by Pose Bedtime Story (on sale April 2015), a playful yet wholly practical book for preparing for sleep.
For kids in early to middle childhood, this beautifully illustrated, full-color book tells the story of the natural world as it closes down for the night, while teaching children a simple flow of yoga postures inspired by their favorite characters from nature. Moving from "Sun Breath" to "Cloud Gathering" to "Ladybug & Butterfly," and more, readers learn techniques for self-soothing, relaxing the body and mind, focusing attention, and other skills that will support restful sleep and improve overall confidence and well-being.
The book also includes a guided relaxation segment—the "Cloud Journey Visualization"—the perfect accompaniment to any bedtime or relaxing time ritual. Good Night Yoga engages children in yoga in a creative and dynamic way and gives them their own yoga practice to do anytime, anywhere.
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Amica Mutual Insurance was founded in 1907 in Providence, Rhode Island, by A.T. Vigneron. The first incarnation of the company offered auto, theft and fire policies. The company has gone on to offer other insurance products such as home and life insurance. Unlike many other companies, Amica is a mutual insurance company with policyholders holding an ownership stake in the group, rather than stockholders.
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Modern Middle Eastern Studies Major and Minor
There has rarely been a time in which an in-depth understanding of the languages, cultures, history, and politics of the contemporary Middle East has been more important. This new interdisciplinary degree is designed to allow students to specialize in the Middle East as a region of the world and human experience by combining course work using both social scientific and humanistic approaches, underpinned by relevant language skills. Students will work with faculty committed to supporting interdisciplinary, applied, research-oriented advanced study. The major gives students opportunities to work on problems of politics, policy, history, ideology, social thought, economic development, and international relations.
Note: We currently do not offer graduate degree programs.
Click on the link below to download List of Courses Pre-Approved for MMES Major & Minor 2018-2019
MMES 18:19 Approved Courses.pdf
The Major
The major will consist of at least twelve course units to be distributed as follows:
(1) Disciplinary distribution: A selection of three courses that must include both the Social Sciences and the Humanities – three course units.
(2) Language: Four course units in one Middle Eastern language (for example, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish), including at least two course units at the intermediate (second year) level or above.
(3) Regional coverage: Three course units. Students must take at least one of the list of foundational courses in Modern Middle Eastern Studies approved by the associated faculty (here). At least one course should be centered on a culture other than that associated with the language selected in (2). One or two of these may also be courses about the Middle East region in general.
(4) Two seminar courses requiring significant research papers. [Must be approved in advance in consultation with the Middle East Center]
The Honors Program
PROCEDURES FOR MMES HONORS THESIS
Revised: April 2019
The Modern Middle Eastern Studies (MMES) Honors Thesis consists of a two-semester long sequence, usually beginning in the spring term of a student's junior year. Students interested in pursuing the option of an honors thesis must approach a prospective thesis advisor and the Middle East Center in order to do so and to submit a brief Letter of Intentno later than May 31st.
Once a commitment is made, the student must submit roughly a one-page Research Proposalno later than SEPTEMBER 15thto be reviewed and approved for academic merit by the MMES Academic Advisory Committee, usually no later than OCTOBER 1st. Students must have maintained a minimum GPA of 3.5 in the major to be considered, although other factors may also be taken into consideration, along with the GPA, to determine a student's participation in the MMES Honors Program.
After approval from the MMES Academic Advisory Committee, the student will then have the appropriate course registered on the worksheet. Research toward the thesis typically begins in the fall term, and the student must submit a brief Progress Reportto the advisor and to the Middle East Center, no later than DECEMBER 15st, indicating satisfactory work on the thesis. Honors candidates will receive one course credit each semester, for a total of two courses in the year, if satisfactory progress is made throughout the year. Grading will depend on the student's satisfactory progress each semester and after completion of the thesis.
The thesis should be submitted no later than APRIL 1st.Each honors thesis will be graded by two faculty members, one of whom will be the principal advisor, and one of whom will not initially be known to the student. If a second grader is not found, the Center Director will agree to serve as the second grader and help to determine the final thesis grade. The thesis must receive a grade no less than "A-" to receive "Honors."
May 31st– Deadline to Submit Letter of Intent in spring of Junior Year
September 15th– Deadline to Submit Research Proposal
October 1st – Decision from MEC Regarding Participation in Honors Program
December 15th– Deadline to Submit Thesis Progress Report
April 1st– Deadline to Submit Honors Thesis
The Minor
At least six course units on the Middle East including the following:
(1) Two courses from the Humanities
(2) Two courses from the Social Sciences
(3) Two elective courses (which may include two language courses in a single language)
For the Major Program up to four courses may be transferred from other institutions (including Study Abroad courses), subject to approval. For the Minor, two courses may be transferred. Language credits may only be transferred upon successful completion of a Penn-administered proficiency test.
Double Majors and Minors
For double majors the number of course units for the major remains at twelve. A maximum of four course units may be double-counted toward this major and another.
For double-minors the number of course units remains six. Two units may be double counted from another major/minor.
The advisor for the Major and Minor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies is Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Director of the Middle East Center and Professor of History: fks@sas.upenn.edu. Middle East Center Academic Committee is composed of four members: Dr. Paul Cobb (Arts & Literature), Dr. Eve Troutt Powell (Historical Studies), Ian Lustick (Social Sciences), and Jamal Elias (Religion). Affiliated faculty also play a vital role in advising students on coursework, independent studies, and the completion of an honors thesis.
Declaring a Major or a Minor
In order to declare the major or minor, fill out this form, and bring it to the Middle East Center. For further information, please email Dr. John Ghazvinian, Associate Director of the Middle East Center: ghazvini@upenn.edu.
Alumni on the MMES Major
"The MMES major provided me with the flexibility to pursue my own interests while giving me a solid and broad foundation for understanding the Middle East region. I cannot stress enough how very helpful the faculty, staff and graduate students were in guiding me to develop my many academic interests into something substantive and academically challenging." More...
Former MMES Honors Thesis
Jack Hostager (2019), "Understanding the Yemen Civil War through the North-South Divide: An Analysis of the Southern Transition Council"
Robert Vitalis
Joshua Kadish (2019), "Beyond a Global Intifada: Assessing the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement and its Rise in the United States through Supply-Side Mobilization "
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Synchronicity is a philosophical concept about events in ones lives. Synchronicity occurs when two or more seemingly unrelated events occur that then makes them meaningful in some way. Jung first coined the word synchronicity as the temporaly coincident occurrences of acausal events.
Certain things might happen that an everyday person would just deem as coincidence. For example when people say that something came out of the blue, or jumped out at me, or that they just got lucky. If two unrelated events happen that together form a rather surprising coincidence, a witch doesn't discount it as such. A witch believes that these events can be related and will recognize synchronicity.
If you look at the Wiccan rule of three, this core Wiccan tenet states that the worth of any good deed you do will be returned to you three times in this life. Similarly, any bad deed will be returned to you three times worse. A witch knows that random good luck may in fact be related to a prior seemingly unrelated good deed. Similarly, bad luck may not be coincidence but rather karma coming back to you.
Wiccans see synchronicity clearly. For example, lets say you tease and taunt another woman calling her ugly or criticizing for example her body or skin. Shortly after, you wake up with a cancerous growth on your own body or skin. Is this a pure coincidence of two unrelated events? A witch would believe that the two events together are synchronicity. In this case the law of three fold return was at play. If you attack the beauty of another, your own beauty might be affected would be the conclusion of a witch.
Many people think Wiccans are evil but their belief in synchronicity makes them far from it. Wiccans are well aware that their actions can have a seemingly unrelated consequence be it good or bad. They therefore avoid doing harm to people and are loathe to cast evil spells, criticize or wish bad luck on anyone. Wiccans know that good deeds are magnified back to the doer but so are ill deeds.
Many Pagans believe that synchronicity is aligned with a magical way of life. Witches are well aware of how seemingly irrelevant experiences can tie together in a meaningful way. For example, a witch will be in tune with their dreams and will look at any revealing messages or clues to learn a collective truth. They had that dream for a reason.
Wiccans also believe that events are interconnected sometimes through magical intent. Many spells focus on materializing wishes. When casting a spell a witch will trust her intuition and visualize the desired results. An awareness of interconnected events can be empowering because the messages gleaned can serve as guidance. Events often have symbolism but while a regular person might not make much ado, a witch believes strongly that nothing happens by mere chance.


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The red-fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted brown lemur or southern red-fronted brown lemur, is a species of lemur from Madagascar. Until 2001, it was considered a subspecies of the common brown lemur, E. fulvus.  In 2001, E. fulvus was split into several separate species, including Eulemur rufus, in which this species was included.  In 2008, E. rufus was split into two species, the red lemur (E. rufus) and the red-fronted lemur (E. rufifrons).  E. rufus covers the population on the west coast north of the Tsiribihina River and E. rufifrons covers the population on the west coast south of the Tsiribihina River and the population in eastern Madagascar.  The species split was based on genetic and morphological evidence.  Mitochondrial DNA analysis indicates that E. rufifrons may be more closely related to the common brown lemur (E. fulvus), white-headed lemur (E. albifrons) and Sanford's brown lemur (E. sanfordi) than it is to E. rufus.

The red-fronted lemur lives on the western coast of Madagascar between the Tsiribihina River to the north and south of the Fiheranana River and in eastern Madagascar from the Mangoro River and Onive River to the Andringitra Massif.  It lives in dry lowland forests.  It has a head and body length of  and with a  tail.  Its weight ranges between .  It has a gray coat and black face, muzzle and forehead, plus a black line from the muzzle to the forehead, with white eyebrow patches.  Males have white or cream colored cheeks and beards, while females have rufous or cream cheeks and beards that are less bushy than males.

There is considerable geographic variation in the natural history of this species. Western populations tend to have smaller home ranges and higher population densities than eastern populations, although group size tends to be fairly consistent (generally 4–18 animals, averaging 8–9). None of the studied populations show dominance hierarchies and aggression tends to be low.

Diet is diverse, encompassing leaves, seeds, fruit, nectar and flowers, but more so in eastern populations. Western populations tend to rely more on leaves for their diet. Western populations are primarily diurnal, but increase nocturnal activity during the dry season, while eastern populations show less such dichotomy.

Reproduction is seasonal. In western populations one male usually monopolizes all the females in the group, while in eastern populations such monopolization is less typical.

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True lemurs
Mammals described in 1833
Taxa named by Edward Turner Bennett

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Eurylepis poonaensis, the Poona skink, is a species of skink found only in Maharashtra, India.

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 Griffith, H., A. Ngo & R. W. Murphy. 2000. A cladistic evaluation of the cosmopolitan genus Eumeces Wiegmann (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 7(1):1-16.
 Schmitz, Andreas; Patrick Mausfeld and Dirk Embert. 2004. Molecular studies on the genus Eumeces Wiegmann, 1834: phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic implications. Hamadryad 28(1-2):73-89.
 Sharma, R. C. 1970. A new lizard, Eumeces poonaensis (Scincidae) from India. Rec. Zool. Survey India, 62:239-241.

Eurylepis
Reptiles described in 1970
Taxa named by Ramesh Chandra Sharma


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Day 2 was the main highlight of our journey to India as we will be spending a longer period of time in a place called Tiruvannamalai. Surrounded with Hindu temples, ashrams and the revered Arunachala mountain at it's core, Tiru as the locals call it, is a place where people from all over India and the rest of the world come to seek peace and enlightenment. For us, we are simply looking for a fast break from the 1st world facilities in Singapore where we often took things for granted. Here, cold drinking water, undisrupted electricity, internet and hot showers are luxuries that one shouldn't take for granted.
Arunachaleswara Temple aka The Big Temple is the main attraction here in Tiruvannamalai.
A systematic way of life is non-existent here. In short, there's order in disorder.
You have to give it to these Indians on how they find a way to adapt in this congested and polluted chaos of a town. What's even more respectable is after a close shave with death on the road, they are back to normal after a few seconds.
Oh, and in Tiru, the Kashmiri boys are the hotties for obvious reasons (hmm, i think i should take a picture with one of them and show u guys how delightfully chaming they look). They are like the Jersey Shore boys from The States (without the muscles). lolz.
Tailor-made quality clothes for only SGD 18. A knock-out price as compared to the ones back in Singapore. We manage to tailor 4 pairs each. whahahahahaha! Waiting for the suits to be done may take awhile, but it's worth it.
Petrol is SGD 5 for 4 litres consisting of a dirty mixture of low-grade petrol and mineral oil. Yupz, u read that right. MINERAL OIL. The outrageous thing is that 4L can bring us around for 200km. What we're afraid of is that we're not sure if we can still be alive to top-up the next round of petrol after 200km here in India's traffic.
Ever wished of having a semi-detached 2-bedroom house with a rooftop overseeing a countryside? Here, you can get it for as low as SGD 100 per month, fully furnished. Yupz! you read that right. SGD 100. Imagine renting your claustrophobic 4-room flat earning SGD 2000 and exchanging it for a house made for a Singaporean elite for only SGD 100!! Oh, we forgot to mention, because of a kind Singaporean samaritan, we sealed this house for the whole of September FREE OF CHARGE!
OK, now time for the ugly side of Tiru (and maybe the whole of India). Firstly as I've mentioned, the traffic is horrendous and it's generously laden with cow dung both on the roads and walking pavements. Secondly, power disruptions are so common that you need to sleep with a working torchlight and a Chinese hand fan. Not forgetting you'll be sweating due to humidity (way worst than Singapore). Thirdly, the tap water is saturated with so much lime that calcium spots emerge out immediately once the water evaporates. Speaking of which, you need to brush your teeth and only drink bottled water. Lastly, Tiru is quite suppressed in gender equality. Women are not allowed to exercise in gyms and pray in mosques.
Sidenote: On Day 7, we went to the Orchard Road of Tiruvannamalai called Pondicherry. A 2-hour drive which can cure any depression or suicidal thoughts due to the constant surges of adrenaline thanks to the traffic. Pondicherry is a small French colonial town. Giant supermarkets much like Sheng Shiong and unisex gyms are available here. The locals had nicer rides and there were definitely more tourists compared to Tiruvannamalai. Cafes lining the beachfront pampered by a soothing sea breeze made walking down The Promenade parallel to the beach a de-stressing affair. Ironically, we began to miss Tiru (weird) and headed back Home.
So far we are getting used to the horrendous traffic and their general way of life. I think people in Singapore can learn more about riding and driving here in one day than wasting your money in our exorbitant driving centres. So far that we are here, we have yet to see any road accidents despite the massive chaos.
Unfortunately, we are still not accustomed to the ridiculous humidity, biting bugs, frequent and long electricity distruptions. We came from a ridiculous climate as well but Singapore's torturous humidity and heat is heaven compared to this. Even with two fans blasting at maximum, we are still feeling the heat. So once the electricity disruption starts, the whole body sweats in 5 seconds. I swear I'm not exagerating. And when you sweat, you attract bugs which carve beautiful scars on your skin. Thank God they spared the face. A nice cycle of torture don't you think?
On a positive note, we have become more thankful during our stay here. Observing the people around, we've come to conclude that Singaporeans are spoilt brats who take many things for granted. You just cannot fathom how old women help in physical labor building houses under the impossible heat, the young kids maneuvering motorbikes in the suicidal heat and makes you wonder how the poor and homeless survives here. I think you'll be either hospitalized or dead in less than a month if you were to trade shoes with them. Again, I swear I'm not exaggerating.
Below are pictures of the angels we met in Tiruvannamalai. Each one of these people had an exceptionally positive aura around them and you just feel so comfortable with them in an instant as if you have known them for years.
The bald woman is Shah. A retired teacher from a private school in Singapore (what are the chances?), she had enough of office politics, quitted her job and went to shuttle between Tiruvannmalai, Malacca and Singapore (of which Singapore is the shortest stay within the 3). Her quest for spiritual enhancement is awe-inspiring for you feel a strong sense of moderation and balance in her ways unlike most of the extreme foreigners here. We met her by 'chance' here in Tiru on the very first day and she became our tour guide for 10 days. She even negotiated for us to stay at her friend's luxurious house for free.
The Italian woman is called Rupa. Her life story was full of twists and turns. Excellent enough to be a brilliant plot for a blockbuster movie, she is staying long term here in Tiruvannamalai as she feels that this is the place where her soul belongs. Disobeying her parents to lead the normal rat race life like the one we have in Singapore, her journey took her to Holland in which she married a Danish guy which did not end well, married another Danish guy which failed too before she had enough and decided to do an all-out travel in the whole of Asia.
Having her third and final divorce, she went around Asia until she landed in Indonesia where she felt at home. She stayed there for many years but soon got frustrated as her visa kept running out every 2 months. That was her catalyst to look for something more permanent, guiding her to India before she found home in the disguise of Tiruvannamalai.
Last but not least, our Santa Claus in Tiru is called Tannabal. A Malaysian Indian who migrated to Tiru 35 years ago due to the magnetic pull of the Holy Mount Arunachala, he set up an Internet Cafe. An extremely warm guy who's energy level just permeates positively through your veins, he is one of those people whom you know could make any rainy day become sunny.
In all, I'll summarize Tiruvannamalai as a crash course in acceptance, not having too much expectations and more importantly, to go with the flow. We find Tiru the perfect place to kickstart our world journey with these life lessons ingrained within us.
Overlooking Arunachaleswara Temple from Mount Arunachala.
The revered Mount Arunachala. It takes 4 hours to hike all the way up to it's peak.
India is a truly unique place, as I'm sure you discovered! Off now to read your post about Pushkar.


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Fracture Technology Expedites Materials Testing
From airplanes to cell phones, this new equipment finds the flaws in everything.
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers in the Mechanics of Materials department utilize the new fracture testing hangers for traditional interlaminar composite fracture testing as well as advanced hybrid composite laminates, as shown here.
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Tim Briggs has built a career at Sandia National Laboratories tearing and breaking things apart with his team of collaborators. Now, he's developed a fracture-testing tool that could help make everything from aircraft structural frames to cellphones stronger.
Briggs has filed a patent for a device associated with bonded structural composite materials with the deceptively mundane title "Mode I Fracture Testing Fixture."
The device, a small set of two hangers no larger than a hand, fits into a precisely drilled hole through the middle of two structural materials bonded together. The hangers then attach to a traditional testing machine designed to pull the bonded sample apart to measure how tough it is. Before Briggs's innovation, sample preparation and conducting a series of such fracture tests might take days or even weeks longer.
"We pull the fracture specimens apart in a very controlled manner," Briggs, who works in Sandia's Lightweight Structures Lab, said. "Then, we're able to measure the response of the material and quantify the relevant fracture properties, which informs us how cracks might actually grow when used in finished products under various loading conditions."
In every industry and consumer product, things break. This can lead to property loss, litigation, injuries and loss of life. Sometimes the fracturing happens because a design is engineered without a full understanding of how the materials perform in certain conditions.
"Think about critical applications like a pressurized aircraft at 30,000 feet with 300 or more souls on board relying on bonded surfaces as part of a critical load path," Briggs explained. "That can never fail. But people also don't want their very benign carbon-fiber hockey stick or mountain bike that they paid hundreds or even thousands of dollars for to break."
The device and methodology can be applied "to everything in between -- medical devices, aerospace, automotive crash worthiness, civil structures, pressure vessels, recreation and sporting. Every structure is likely affected by fracture-based failure mechanisms, and testing is difficult. This new device and approach aim to make it a bit simpler," he said.
Before he developed his hangers, Briggs and his team would have to align and bond hinges to the specimens, which added significant time and cost to the process before you could even set up and perform the experiment.
A drill hole jig designed at Sandia (left) and Sandia's solution for Mode I Fracture Testing (right).Sandia National Laboratories
"As simple as it is," he said of the new approach using the free-rotation hanger system, "this is kind of the novelty of this device. There's a beauty and simplicity here. Now you can completely abandon the old, laborious process of bonding hinges to the surfaces of the specimen. I can't tell you how much work it was for us to cut hinges, abrade and clean all the bonded surfaces, mix adhesives, precisely align the hinge to the specimen face, glue the hinge to one side of the specimen, allow it to cure, clean up the mess, then do it all again to the other side. Now it's literally just drill a hole and go."
Briggs' patent-pending device allows for a much quicker and inexpensive turnaround for his team to obtain these critical-fracture properties, which allows for much greater insight into the conditions that could cause materials to fracture and fail.
Because the time for testing is significantly reduced, engineers will have an opportunity to make things better by subjecting samples to wider array of environmental and loading conditions, ensuring more predictable performance to improve reliability and safety while reducing research and development costs.
Businesses can not only make their products safer and more reliable with this new approach, but the cost savings realized in more efficient research and development as well as reductions in liability litigation could be passed on to the consumer.
Briggs said, "I hope this new approach, and the work it could enable for others, can have a broad reach and impact beyond Sandia's national security mission, touching people's everyday lives more visibly in their day-to-day activities."
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Tim Briggs invented a set of fracture testing hangers to help his team perform fracture tests, rapidly accelerating the speed of such testing.Tim Briggs
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Avoiding a psychopath or narcissist is apparently easier than you thought.
You just have to communicate with them online first, according to a study from the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
It turns out those who show dark triad tendencies (psychopaths, Machiavellians and narcissists) send rubbish emails and social media messages and normally depend on their looks to charm people in person.
'The results of this study are pretty clear – once you remove non-verbal cues such as body language from the equation, the ability to smoke out narcissists and psychopaths becomes easier,' said UBC's Michael Woodworth, who is lead author on the research.
The researchers tested this out by making 200 Canadian students attempt to negotiate the best possible price for concert tickets as either the seller or buyer.
But there was a catch, some were allowed to do it online but others had to do it in person.
Students determined to have dark triad traits were better face-to-face.
The research can be found in the Personality and Individual Differences journal.


The Keup hotel is a 4 star hotel situated at 10 minutes by foot from the center of Weiswampach, a small town located in the northern part of Luxembourg, at 4 km respectively 8 km from the Belgium and German border. The hotel's location allows guests to enjoys a quiet vacation or to do one day trips to other major tourist destinations in the area such as Clervaux, Luxembourg City, Malmedy and Bastogne. Some of the most important tourist destinations close to Weiswampach are the Clervaux Castle that hosts the famous photo exhibition The Family of Man, the Mardasson Memorial, erected near Bastogne to honor the memory of the American soldiers wounded or killed during the Battle of the Bulge and the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, the place where the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix and the Spa 24 Hours endurance race take place. The 25 elegant rooms are equipped with color TV, telephone, mini-bar and a private bathroom with shower. The hotel offers a pizzeria that serves Italian dishes, a restaurant that serves international specialties as well as a wide list of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, meeting facilities, free wireless Internet connection and a free private parking. Facilities for fishing, hiking, skiing and skating are also available for the hotel's guests.


It seems like everyone has their favorite navigation form for planning cross-country flights. Sporty's lists at least five. My CFI has his own favorite. Based on his, I have taken the liberty of creating one myself.
Yes, it's half upside down. This is intentional. If you fold it in half, it fits perfectly on a kneeboard or small clipboard. You keep the navigation side facing up, but can easily flip to the more useful parts (fuel, ATIS) if you have the clip on the top part.
Compactness: I designed it for 5x9" clipboards. Even if you don't have a fancy-schmancy kneeboard, it's still the ideal size for holding in one hand.
Visually clean design: I've attempted to minimize the weight of distracting lines and other clutter, while at the same time maintaining attractors so the eye can gravitate to critical areas. Have I succeeded? Let me know.
Layout: Information most often required is on front of page, laid out in a format which is admittedly quite confusing at first, but works extremely well (for me) in the cockpit.
Customizability: The form is written in hand-developed PostScriptTM, making it easy to move blocks around, add or remove features, add checkpoint lines, etc.
Reference: the tables for looking up special navigational equipment (eg, mode C transponder with DME) is designed for simplicity of use, as is the conversion to Zulu.
The form is available in PostScriptTM format only. Any laser printer should handle it, but unfortunately most Wintendo and MacInTrash machines can't deal with raw PostScript files. If someone wants to send me instructions for DOS/MAC weenies, I'll be glad to post them here.
The latest revision of the form is 1.32, dated 24 October 2003, and is available as PostScript or PDF.
The form prints on 8½x11" paper, with a half-inch margin for inkjet printers. It should work on A4 paper, although the fold line may be weird.


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Abdulai Hindolo Bell-Baggie (born 28 April 1992) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays as a winger for  club Gosport Borough.

Born in Sierra Leone, Bell-Baggie represented both the England under-16 and England under-17 national teams before winning his first cap for Sierra Leone in 2013. A former Reading player, he has played on loan for Rotherham United, Port Vale, and Crawley Town and was briefly contracted to Yeovil Town and Hayes & Yeading United. He joined Salisbury City in January 2012, before switching to Tranmere Rovers seven months later. After spending three years at Tranmere, he was released before joining Bristol Rovers in March 2015 but failed to make an appearance for the club. He joined Stockport County in June 2015, and moved on to Poole Town in March 2016. He joined Weymouth in October 2017 and helped the club to win the Southern League Premier Division title in 2018–19. He signed with Eastleigh in June 2020 and moved on to Havant & Waterlooville 12 months later. He signed with Salisbury in January 2022 and moved on to Gosport Borough five months later.

Club career

Early career
Bell-Baggie was born in Sierra Leone, and moved to England with his family in 1999, remaining in England with a foster family when his parents returned to Sierra Leone in 2005. He attended Hillside and Bulmershe College in Berkshire as a youth, and became a part of the set-up at Reading at age nine. Though he spent some time at Southampton's youth team, he returned to Reading in 2007. He was awarded a club number in December 2009.

He joined League Two side Rotherham United on a one-month loan in March 2010, making his professional debut as a substitute on 16 March 2010 in a 2–1 defeat at Accrington Stanley, replacing Marcus Marshall a few minutes before full-time. His first start came in a 3–0 defeat at Aldershot on 5 April, after this game the loan spell was extended until the end of the season. However his twelfth and final match for the club was the most significant game of his season, as he replaced Kevin Ellison late into the play-off final defeat to Dagenham and Redbridge at Wembley on 30 May 2010.

In August 2010 he was brought in by Port Vale's Micky Adams on a one-month loan to cover for Lewis Haldane, who was recovering from illness. This move came despite an offer of another loan spell from Rotherham United, and talk of Aldershot expecting the winger to join them on loan. After one substitute appearances he stated his aim to win a place in the starting eleven, however he finished his loan spell with only one start – in the League Trophy, and four substitute appearances to his name. At the end of November he joined Conference National high-flyers Crawley Town on loan, but only made one FA Cup appearance. At the end of the 2010–11 season Bell-Baggie was released by Reading.

In August 2011, Bell-Baggie signed a contract with Yeovil Town to keep him at the League One club until January 2012. In December 2011, Bell-Baggie was informed his short-term contract would not be extended and he was released without making a single appearance. He signed with Conference club Hayes & Yeading United on 6 January, and played in the club's 3–1 defeat at Kidderminster Harriers the next day. On 16 January his ten-day spell at the club came to an end when he was signed by Salisbury City manager Darrell Clarke.

Tranmere Rovers
In July 2012, he joined Tranmere Rovers on trial. Manager Ronnie Moore, who was also manager during the winger's time at Rotherham, was impressed enough to offer Bell-Baggie a one-year contract, which was duly signed. Having featured regularly for the club since his arrival, he signed a new contract on 7 March 2013, keeping him at Tranmere until 2015. He scored two goals in 34 appearances across the 2012–13 campaign. Bell-Baggie played 15 games at the start of the 2013–14 season, but did not make an appearance for Rovers after November as the club suffered relegation out of League One. He was named in the Football League team of the week for his performance in a 3–2 defeat at Accrington Stanley on 6 September 2014, having a bagged a brace in the second half. He was placed on the transfer list in January 2015 by new manager Micky Adams, who had previously coached him at Port Vale, before having his contract cancelled by mutual consent a month later.

Non-League
In March 2015, Bell-Baggie joined Conference Premier club Bristol Rovers on a deal until the end of the 2014–15 season. Rovers won promotion out of the play-offs, though Bell-Baggie never made an appearance for the club. He was released at the end of the season. In June 2015, Bell-Baggie signed for National League North side Stockport County, and was described by manager Neil Young as "an exciting and excellent" player. He was released by new "Hatters" manager Jim Gannon in February after struggling with a series of niggling injuries.

He signed with Poole Town in March 2016. He played four league games towards the end of the 2015–16 season as the "Dolphins" won promotion into the National League South as champions of the Southern League Premier Division. He scored two goals in 35 league games in the 2016–17 campaign, however Poole were barred from competing in the play-offs as Tatnam Ground did not meet National League standard regulations. He left the club on 10 October 2017, following the establishment of home grown talent Ollie Balmer in the first-team.

On 28 October 2017, Bell-Baggie joined Weymouth of the Southern League Premier Division. He made his debut for Mark Molesley's "Terras" later that day in a 4–1 FA Trophy defeat at Hereford on 28 October. He ended the 2017–18 season with five goals in 30 league appearances at the Bob Lucas Stadium, helping Weymouth to secure a place in the play-offs, where they were beaten 3–0 by King's Lynn Town at the semi-final stage. He featured 51 times in the 2018–19 season, scoring five goals, to help Weymouth to win promotion as champions of the Premier Division. He scored ten goals in 33 appearances in the 2019–20 National League South season, which was permanently suspended on 26 March due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, with Weymouth in the play-offs in third-place.

On 23 June 2020, Bell-Baggie signed for Eastleigh of the National League; manager Ben Strevens said that "He's stood out on the occasions we've watched him. He carries the ball really well and has a really strong attacking threat. I'm really pleased to get it over the line so soon." He scored one goal in 20 league games across the 2020–21 campaign. At the end of the season, it was announced that Bell-Baggie's contract would not be being renewed and he would subsequently be released.

In June 2021, Bell-Baggie joined National League South side Havant & Waterlooville. He scored two goals in 16 games in the first half of the 2021–22 season. On 22 January 2022, Bell-Baggie joined Southern League Premier Division South side Salisbury. Steve Claridge's "Whites" ended the 2021–22 season in 15th-place, with Bell-Baggie scoring one goal in 18 appearances.

On 21 June 2022, he signed with Gosport Borough of the Southern League Premier Division South.

International career
Bell-Baggie turned out for England at both under-16 and under-17 levels. He lifted the Victory Shield in 2007 with the under-16s, Bell-Baggie starting in the 2–0 win over Wales and the 2–1 win against Scotland. In August 2008 he made two appearances for the under-17s, in a 2–1 defeat by Portugal and a 2–0 win over Italy. Bell-Baggie made his senior debut with Sierra Leone in a 1–0 defeat to Cape Verde at the Estádio da Várzea in a World Cup qualifier on 15 June 2013.

Style of play
Rotherham United manager Ronnie Moore considered him to be an "impact player". He went on to say "he's got electric pace. He's brave and strong and has got a lot of goals for the Reserves and kids. He's two footed and can play on the left wing and gets into little pocket. He turns and twists and, even at his young age, he knows the game."

Personal life
In 2011, Bell-Baggie was living with his girlfriend, Natalie, sister of Adam Lallana.

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Honours
England under-16s
Victory Shield: 2007

Weymouth
Southern League Premier Division: 2018–19

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