Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system to restrict fake profiles designed to con people on dating apps and websites.
The computing algorithms have been designed specifically to understand what fake dating profiles look like and then to apply this knowledge to scan profiles submitted to online dating services.
The algorithms, part of a wide-ranging research, have the capability to 'think' like humans to pinpoint fake profiles, said the researchers, including Tom Sorell, Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK.
Have you ever felt that some profiles on dating apps seem a little...off?
"Using AI techniques to help reveal suspicious activity could be a game-changer that makes detection and prevention quicker, easier and more effective, ensuring that people can use dating sites with much more confidence in future," said Sorell in a statement released on February 12 by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the UK government.
When tested, the research team found that the algorithms produced a very low false-positive rate (the number of genuine profiles mistakenly flagged up as fake) of around 1 per cent.
The new algorithms automatically look out for suspicious signs inadvertently included by fraudsters in the demographic information, the images and the self-descriptions that make up profiles, and reach an overall conclusion about the probability of each individual profile being fake.
According to the researchers, the aim is now to further enhance the technique and enable it to start being taken up by dating services within the next couple of years, helping them to prevent profiles being posted by scammers.
With Valentine's Day approaching, the news that these AI capabilities have the potential to help thwart so-called 'rom-con' scams will be very welcome to the millions of people who use online dating services in the UK and worldwide, the researchers said.
In these scams, fraudsters target users of dating websites and apps, 'groom' them and then ask for gifts of money or loans which will never be returned, they noted.


Smoothies are a convenient and portable filling meal, but if you tend to drink a lot of smoothies, preparation and clean-up can be a hassle. Here's a time-saving method: pre-make and freeze your smoothie ingredients in muffin tins for easy, breezy smoothies all week.
I found this coffee fig smoothie recipe from Muffin Tin Mania, but it was more her preparation method than the recipe itself that caught my eye. She spends one day blending together a batch of her ingredients, pouring it out evenly into a muffin tin (a silicone one, preferably), and freezing these "smoothie starters" for four hours. Afterwards, she transfers them to an airtight, freezer-friendly container and stores them for later. When it's smoothie time, she pops one or two smoothie starters into the blender, adds liquid, and — presto! — smoothie is ready and delicious!
Awesome, right? Alternatively, you can also pre-cut and pre-assemble all your ingredients into separate baggies, but smoothie muffins sound just a tad cooler.


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Struggle continues for real liberation
TREVOR NGWANE, a South African anti-capitalist activist, writes on the problems, and the resistance, in post-apartheid society as South Africans voted in a new general election
Published Sat 17 Apr 2004
WHEN SOUTH Africans went to the polls this week it marked ten years since black people won the right to vote. A cursory examination of South Africa today reveals deep cracks in the post-apartheid capitalist society. Despite big talk about what has been achieved, the rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer. The majority black ANC government wants South Africans to celebrate and relish the newfound peace, justice and national unity after centuries of conflict, division and injustice.
Brazenly cultivating a celebratory mood and atmosphere, the country's new rulers capture in one motto their contradictory claim to history: "A lot has been done, a lot has still to be done." President Thabo Mbeki, in a speech to open Freedom Park, where the main celebrations will take place on Freedom Day on 27 April, traces the struggle for freedom back to humanity's ancestors. Some of these people's remains, such as the famous skull of Australopithecus, were discovered on South African soil.
Freedom Park is a site on a hill overlooking Pretoria, the country's capital, that has been recently constructed as a "freedom theme park". This celebrates, according to the tourist brochure, the "seven events of conflict in South Africa's past: genocide, slavery, the wars of resistance, the Anglo-Boer wars, the struggle for liberation, and the first and second world wars".
The ceremony to open Freedom Park was preceded by "cleansing, healing and symbolic reparations" ceremonies held in the country's nine provinces. This involved the collection of small samples of the remains of people and soldiers who died in the seven events. The idea behind this historically puzzling, superstitious and mystifying treatment of past injustices-conducted by African "traditional healers" and other "religious leaders"-is attributed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The TRC gave amnesty to the perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the apartheid era as part of the reconciliation process. The ANC government rejected the TRC's more practical recommendations for reparations, such as financial payments to the victims of apartheid by corporations that profited from apartheid. No amount of symbolism can hide the reality of a nation increasingly divided along class lines in the last ten years.
The grudging admission that "a lot still needs to be done" by the ANC government is perhaps the understatement of the decade. All the major social indicators tell a story of immiseration and pauperisation of the vast majority of South Africans-the working class. Unemployment stands above 40 percent. Among certain sections of the population such as the youth, women and rural folk the rate of unemployment can be as high as 70 percent.
All the social ills and problems associated with eight million people sitting at home without gainful employment, on the back of a history of economic and social inequality, are asserting themselves with a vengeance. Like the US, South Africa's rate of jailing one person for every 4,000 people in the population is sending more black working class youth to jail than to college.
South Africa is the rape and child molestation capital of the world. The biggest number of people living with HIV/AIDS is in South Africa. The ANC government recently published a report on its achievements in the past ten years. Undisputed is the achievement of the vote for all regardless of race, freedom of speech and movement, and freedom to protest.
Then follow the highly debatable socioeconomic claims. The ANC says ten million people now have piped water and have access to electricity for the first time; pension and child maintenance grants extended to two million people; free healthcare services to all pregnant women and children under the age of six, and so on. But, given the great need existing and policies which undermine these gains, the overall result is far from satisfactory.
Ten million people live in informal housing. These are mostly corrugated iron ramshackle structures which periodically catch fire, leaving thousands homeless. Ten million people have had their water and electricity cut off because they cannot afford to pay. In its annual report, Telkom, a state telecommunications company recently privatised, admits to connecting 13 million new telephone lines and disconnecting ten million.
The contradictions of so called black economic empowerment paint a vivid picture of what is really happening in the new South Africa. While companies lay off hundreds of thousands of workers and government outsources thousands of workers from secure state employment into a life of casual low paid employment, a few black individuals have become filthy rich multi-millionaires.
The former National Union of Mineworkers and ANC general secretary, Cyril Ramaphosa, now owns some of the gold mines he used to organise workers in. Mine owner Brigitte Radebe is the richest black woman in Africa. She is the wife to ANC minister and South African Communist Party leader Jeff Radebe. Many commentators on the left in South Africa surmise that the struggle against apartheid was getting too hot for the capitalist class in South Africa. So the capitalists took a calculated gamble to hand over power to a black (capitalist/puppet) government.
Its social base would be a newly created black capitalist class and middle class.
This plan would also serve the important function of containing and diverting the working class struggle from dangerous revolutionary anti-capitalist lines into safe liberal-democratic constitutional lines. The bosses' gamble paid off. Today, in exchange for allowing the ANC and the working class its "freedom", the bosses won the right to take their money and run.
All the big corporations that made their money under apartheid have, with the blessings of the ANC government, listed themselves on stock exchanges abroad. The bosses' share of profit in 2003 was their biggest since 1981. Company tax has been brought down from 49 percent under apartheid to below 30 percent.
While government spending on education, healthcare and other social spending has remained static in real terms since 1995, South African capitalists, black and white, have been laughing all the way to the bank. The ANC government has been busy privatising state corporations such as Eskom, Telkom, Transnet and Denel. These companies dominate the country's electricity, telecommunications, transport and arms industries.
Privatisation means taking assets which were accumulated and developed by the labour of workers under conditions of severe exploitation and handing these over to the capitalists. This takes place at the historical moment which should have been payback (reparations) time. When Telkom was listed on the New York Stock Exchange it was workers who again paid with thousands of jobs shed.
Privatisation and other neo-liberal policies only serve to strengthen the bosses while undermining working class power. The ANC government's calculations about its achievements pale into insignificance if viewed from a class analysis of power relations. By embracing capitalist ideology and abandoning the working class politics that they espoused during the anti-apartheid struggle, the ANC leadership has given power to the capitalists.
Handing over all the commanding heights of the economy to capital has strengthened capitalism in South Africa and left little leverage and chance of the working class benefiting from the new situation. It is no wonder that there has emerged in South Africa a strong if small movement against neo-liberalism.
New social movements such as the Landless People's Movement, the Anti-Privatisation Forum, the Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jubilee South Africa and others have emerged to lead and coordinate the defensive actions of communities who are under attack.
People are taking full advantage of the democratic spaces won against apartheid. Working class communities are organising themselves against water and electricity cutoffs, evictions and forced removals, the failure of government to provide treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS, and other attacks. Recently these social movements have formed the Social Movements Indaba in which they will organise long term unity and solidarity in the face of increasing state repression.
The challenges faced by the working class in South Africa are immense. The new social movements are struggling to win organised labour to their side against the ANC government and the capitalists. Cosatu, the largest trade union federation, is still in a political alliance with the ANC. Cosatu was calling for the workers to vote for the ANC in the national elections on Wednesday of this week.
The ANC will have won this election, but the sceptical attitude of the working class towards this election is in sharp contrast to the enthusiasm of the first election in 1994.
Many workers will have sat at home and not bothered to vote because of their disappointment with the ANC and the absence of a viable alternative. Even those who will vote for the ANC will do it out of habit rather than hope. This will be a fitting if sad tribute to ten years of much-acclaimed democracy which benefited the capitalists at the expense of the working class. Freedom will not be assured by the ANC doing more of the same. What is needed in South Africa is a party which will take power and undo the damage the ANC has done by following capitalist policies.
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SAN DIEGO – ResMed has bought Ectosense, which makes the NightOwl home sleep test.
The NightOwl, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is currently sold in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, India and parts of Europe. ResMed has distributed the NightOwl, under the brand ResMed onesleeptest, in Australia, New Zealand and India since 2020, and has been a minority investor in Ectosense since July 2020.
"Sleep labs and home tests each have critical roles to play in expanding our reach and identifying the 936 million people worldwide who have sleep apnea," said Jim Hollingshead, ResMed president of sleep and respiratory care. "We believe Ectosense's digital and easy-to-use solutions in the hands of both sleep lab technicians and consumers worldwide can help significantly increase diagnoses, as well as general awareness of this highly prevalent, 100% treatable disease. For millions of people, their best night's sleep must start with a diagnosis."
Terms of the transaction, which will not be material to ResMed's consolidated financial results, were not disclosed.
Ecotosense will operate within ResMed's sleep and respiratory care business.
"ResMed has the global reach and passionate ambition to help increase patient access to Ectosense's proven diagnostic solution and a path to better sleep and overall health," said Frederik Massie, CTO and co-founder of Ectosense. "It will take the combined efforts of sleep labs and connected home solutions like NightOwl to identify a significant portion of the hundreds of millions of people suffering from this disease that don't even know it."
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Wu Ming-ming () is a Taiwanese academic and politician who served on the Legislative Yuan from 2006 to 2008.

Career
Wu earned a bachelor's and master's degree at National Chung Hsing University, and obtained a Ph.D in agricultural economics and rural sociology from Ohio State University. He returned to Taiwan and taught marketing at NCHU, as part of an academic career that spanned three decades. Wu was also active in the Taiwan Agricultural Academia-Industry Alliance. He took office as an alternate legislator-at large on 27 January 2006. As a lawmaker, Wu took an interest in Chinese violations of Taiwanese trademarks, and expressed concern about the quality of hairy crabs imported from China. He advocated for the end of a ban on the use of ractopamine in July 2007, but stated in August that restrictions on the feed additive should not be removed. After stepping down from the legislature in 2008, Wu became an honorary professor at NCHU. In a 2010 editorial published in the Taipei Times, Wu argued against signing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China. He later joined the faculty of Kainan University. Wu was found not guilty of subornation of perjury and corruption in 2013, and filed a counter lawsuit against Ministry of Justice investigators.

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This report was prepared under grant #84ASPE150A between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP)) and Project HOPE. For additional information about the study, you may visit the DALTCP home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov/_/office_specific/daltcp.cfm or contact the office at HHS/ASPE/DALTCP, Room 424E, H.H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201. The e-mail address is: webmaster.DALTCP@hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Cleonice Tavani.
The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Department of Health and Human Services or Project HOPE.
There is an incongruity in the way noninstitutional services are subsidized in this country. Disabled persons in the general population with money make decisions daily so to the makeup of their living environments, buying a mix of goods and services which best promotes their independence. In contrast, most disabled persons without sufficient resources have very little freedom of choice: Rather than being provided with a cash supplement which they, too, could spend to maximize independence, the poor in general either are restricted to choices from a narrow list of services paid for by public monies (known as vouchers), or, more commonly, are limited to the type and quantity of services they can receive as dictated by agents of a public authority (known as in-kind transfer payments). Our society is implicitly saying that the financially needy disabled cannot manage their resources as well as all other disabled persons and should not be trusted to do so.
This is not the case in almost every other country in the world. In most countries, including virtually all industrialized nations, public subsidies for noninstitutional long-term care are in the form of cash as well as in-kind (Tracy, 1974). These cash disability grants for long-term care, called "attendance" or "attendant care" allowances in recognition of the need for assistance by another person, are usually the first, and sometimes the only public intervention used to help noninstitutionalized frail elderly cope with the additional burdens imposed by their functional disabilities (Grana, 1983). Recipients who qualify on the basis of medical need, and in most cases on the basis of financing need as well, receive unrestricted cash grants which can be spent on anything they wish.
Attendance allowances were generally adopted first by agencies charged with the affairs of war veterans. The U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) is no exception. The Housebound and Aid and Attendance Allowance Program of the VA provides cash grants to 220,000 disabled veterans and surviving spouses a year in lieu of formally provided homemaker, personal care and other services needed for assistance in activities of daily living and other help at home. VA has been providing these allowances for over 35 years--legislative authority for this program is provided by Public Law 82-149, enacted on November 1, 1951. The program is means-tested for nonservice-connected disabilities under the general pension program (185,160 beneficiaries in 1985); grants for service-connected disabilities are made on the basis of medical need only (35,422 beneficiaries in 1985). Implicit VA policy is to allow competent disabled persons to decide how best to meet their own needs, not to make all those decisions on their behalf.
The advantages of cash compared to in-kind benefits have long been noted by economists. Competent consumers know best how to allocate their scarce budgets among all possible commodities and services to maximize the satisfaction of their needs and wants; they are more efficient than any other person in promoting their own personal well-being, happiness and independence. The cash equivalent of an in-kind transfer will permit a beneficiary to achieve a higher level of well-being and happiness, and in this sense, the cash transfer is socially optimal and more efficient. A cash benefit has the additional advantage (in most cases) of being easier and less costly to administer.
Cash benefits are used extensively in other public programs in the U.S. For recipients of an old age or survivor's pension, or of supplemental security income, the government does not try to purchase housing, food and clothing in the right quantities for each individual. The task of equating the complex needs and preferences of each individual to a set of in-kind transfers is clearly an impossible one. Instead, the level of entitlement of need is set, and checks are sent to beneficiaries who spend their monies on needed goods and services just like everyone else. Since the need for long-term care also is multidimensional, why, then, should not assistance for help at home be in the form of cash?
Critics of cash disability allowances would argue that most old disabled persons don't know what they need in the way of services, or are not competent to judge what is good for them: that people will squander their grants on unnecessary items, purchase an insufficient amount of needed services, become more frail and ill, need more intensive acute and long-term care, and eventually fall back on the social safety net at an even greater cost to society. They feel that care decisions must be made on behalf of the elderly, and that subsidies should be in the form of in-kind services which leave little decision-making in the hands of the recipient. Others might argue that the number of claims for a cash benefit would be much greater than for an in-kind benefit, so that screening, and hence administrative, costs of the cash benefit could actually be greater.
This project had two major goals. This first was to describe the workings of a successful, large-scale, cash disability allowance program from an administrative perspective. The VA allowance program is described in detail, to provide a benchmark for future research and program design. The second goal was to examine the question whether recipients of a cash allowance for long-term care are worse off than similar persons who receive in-kind subsidies. This study does so by examining the life circumstances of 139 recipients of the VA Housebound Allowance or Aid and Attendance Allowance. The health, functional needs, and use of services of these persons are compared with those of 610 persons interviewed in the 1983 National Long-Term Care Survey who received services in-kind. This report represents the first outside evaluation of this program.
The analytical results of the study suggest that recipients of the cash disability allowance received similar levels of long-term care and were no worse off than the comparison group with regard to acute health care utilization. Evidence on hours of care per week and the direct (non-administrative) costs of the VA cash allowance program suggest that the cash benefit may be the more cost-effective alternative for many beneficiaries. One interesting by-product of the analysis was the finding that the substitution of subsidized, in-kind care for informal effort was significant and approximately one-to-one.
The full report is organized as follows: Section 2.0 lays out the conceptual issues underlying the use of cash versus in-kind subsidies, and summarizes the literature pertinent to these topics. Section 3.0 describes the VA Housebound and Aid and Attendance Allowance Program, including program benefits, eligibility criteria, and administration. Section 4.0 describes the study research design and methodology. Section 5.0 presents the analytical results and findings, including implications for policy and further research.
The Full Report is also available from the DALTCP website (http://aspe.hhs.gov/_/office_specific/daltcp.cfm) or directly at http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/vahbap.htm.


Our purpose is to educate and adjust as many families as possible towards optimal health through natural chiropractic care. Patient education is taken very seriously at Goodwood Chiropractic. The workshops are our forum for what it takes to be well. This incredible curriculum includes dynamic workshops that outline specific strategies of a truly healthy life.
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The auto parts companies the province is partnering with on these projects are among the hundreds of Ontario businesses that play an integral role in the North American automotive supply chain. The auto sector is a critically important part of Ontario's economy, and its success relies on free trade and open borders. The province will continue to protect Ontario auto workers in the face of uncertainty and defend Ontario's position in the North American automotive sector.
Ontario is investing $1.8 million through the ASCIP program, with costs shared by the companies receiving the boost to the tune of $6.5 million.
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Political instability, tumbling currency values, economic uncertainty - they're common reasons why high net-worth foreign investors often try to extract funds from their home countries and search for financial refuge elsewhere. Many look to Canada as that safe-haven.
Why? Put simply, our $1.6 trillion economy is one of the largest and most stable in the world. The rule of law is strong and ethical business practices are de rigueur, creating a relatively level playing field for entrepreneurs of all stripes. The World Bank Group currently ranks Canada 16th in its annual ease-of-doing-business index. Part of the credit for that high placement goes to a workforce that is highly educated and entrepreneurial, as well as federal and provincial governments that maintain a steady hand on the economic tiller to help foster growth and ease market shocks in times of uncertainty.
For foreign investors, Canada is a smart bet. But not without understanding some of the unique characteristics of our business environment.
Indeed, while Canada maintains a welcoming approach to foreign investment, our economy is more regulated than other countries' - particularly in specific industries such as media, banking and energy. The rules that helped Canada navigate past the worst of the recessionary storms of 2008-09 can also pose challenges to investors used to operating in more laissez-faire environments.
With that in mind, here are four key points that every foreign investor should take into account before investing or doing business in Canada:
The rules that govern corporations vary by province. Most of Canada's ten provinces require corporations to appoint a Canadian tax resident as a local director. But when incorporating in Ontario, for example, the law requires that at least 25 per cent of the directors of a corporation (with the exception of a non-resident corporation) be resident Canadians. Where a corporation has less than four directors, however, at least one director must be a resident Canadian. Foreign businesses unable or unwilling to appoint a local director might consider incorporating in British Columbia instead. That's because B.C. doesn't have the same residency requirement for directorship. Remember that once incorporated - even in a jurisdiction with local resident directorship requirements - your company may apply for extra-provincial registration to continue operations in another province with more attractive operating rules.
Of course, there are other options for foreign investors looking to establish businesses in Canada, such as a branch operation, partnership or joint venture. Each has its own rules for compliance, which we'll explore in a future blog post.
Funding structure (investment loans vs. capital)
In many countries, individuals are required to make significant capital investments before they can form a company. Not so in Canada, where even a meagre $1 investment is enough to incorporate a business. After incorporation, companies can seek investment loans immediately. Many of these come in the form of intercompany loans from a foreign parent company. These loans can be interest bearing, meaning that a foreign parent company can charge a reasonable rate of interest on any loan made to a Canadian subsidiary. However, for the purpose of tax deductibility, you'll need to be aware of the Thin Capitalization Rule - specifically, when the level of debt is greater than its equity capital. In that case, certain interest expenses could be denied or deferred by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) if the debt-to-equity ratio is below a particular threshold, and certain other conditions.
Taxation Rates
If a foreign-owned company based in Canada is set up as a non-Canadian Controlled Private Corporation (CCPC), the corporate income tax rate is 26.5 per cent regardless of the source of income, which for certain forms of investments can be more advantageous than a CCPC. The tax rate on passive income earned by a non-CCPC is 26.5 percent, compared to the 53 per cent tax rate that a CCPC pays before dividends are distributed.
Stability of law and regulations
Again, the overall investment environment is stable in Canada, particularly when compared to some other countries where taxation and business law systems are still in a state of development or subject to rapid and unexpected change, leaving many investors at a financial disadvantage. Take China, where a new inheritance tax will soon come into effect, prompting many investors to consider repositioning their wealth outside of the country. Currency depreciation is another challenge for high net-worth Chinese, prompting many to convert liquid assets to U.S. dollars or other, more predictable currencies. At the same time, uncertainty over shifting regulations remains a concern in China and other non-Western markets.
While stability reigns supreme in Canada, so do the (often steep) penalties for disobeying provincial and federal laws - think costly fines or even imprisonment. That's why it pays to invest in the right legal, accounting, immigration and strategic business assistance to ensure that you remain on the right side of the law when doing business in the Great White North.
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Q: Bundling Jquery and other modules with webpack Noob here (also couldn't find proper documentation).
So I was trying to implement gulp.js with jekyll. In order to do so, I wanted to concat javascript files into a single bundle. Now I can do that by hand, hard-coding every dependency and piping it through gulp-concat. But, I found out webpack does this thing pretty neatly. (PS: I was following https://ixkaito.github.io/frasco/). So now I installed webpack via npm, and tried to run my site, but it threw uncaught expression error. My directory tree is like this:
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Now I want to make bundle.js files using this, so that webpack can automatically detect the correct dependency and import it. Am I supposed to require('jquery') and do the same for all dependency in main.js?
My webpack config is
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Inchathotty is a village located near Neriamangalam, Thattekad and Kothamangalam in Ernakulam District in Kerala, India. It is famous for its hanging bridge (suspension bridge) which is considered as the longest suspension bridge in Kerala, with a length of about 183 m and width of about 1.2 m (4 feet). The village is blessed with rich flora and fauna.

This village is located at a distance of about 10 km from Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary and 60 km from the world-famous Munnar hill station.
The famous Bhoothathankettu dam and park can also be conveniently accessed at about 11 km distance.

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Villages in Ernakulam district


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In this first of two parts (Part 2 is here), David Rosenthal joins us to talk about his amazing career, including nearly 30 years as Billy Joel's keyboard player. As you'll hear, that's only one aspect of what continues to be an amazing career in music.
2022 and continuation of Billy Joel's amazing residency at Madison Square Garden
Having nearly 90 songs ready to go on a keyboard rig
Billy Joel's You May Be Right / Led Zep Rock and Roll combo
Billy Joels' River of Dreams / Dancing in the Street combo
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Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out and Born to Run
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Billy Joel and Paul McCartney at Shea Stadium – Let It Be
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Is This the Future of Speech and Language Therapy in Schools?
There is immense pressure on teachers to meet the needs of children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). At the same time, support services in the NHS are becoming more and more scarce.
NHS speech and language therapists are doing their absolute best, I know they are…until October last year, I was one of them. I certainly didn't go to University for four years to print off a stack of Black Sheep Press, come in once a term and tell you to get on with it.
No, of course not. NHS therapists are stressed and often have caseloads that are unmanageable – they are desperate to meet the needs of children but don't have the resources to provide the level of intervention that is needed.
Well, some forward thinking schools such as Ivy Bank in Macclesfield and Haworth School in Bradford are beginning to adopt teletherapy as a way of meeting pupil's speech and language therapy needs. Teletherapy has been effectively used in Australia and the U.S for years and seems to be finally making its way over to our shores.
Teletherapy or Telehealth as it is described by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists as the remote delivery of professional health services via the use of telecommunications technology – take a look at this video to see how it works.
In short, it means that If your school has an internet connection, pupils now access to unbridled audio and video interactions in real time with speech and language therapists, it allows an array of speech, and language services to be provided remotely.
Ok, but does it really work?
Research shows "Diagnoses and assessment performed remotely is equivalent to those conducted in traditional face-to-face settings" (ASHA 2015). Validity and reliability has been established for the use of telehealth in a number of screening and formal language, oromotor, articulation and literacy assessments 1. it has also been successfully used by multidisciplinary teams to assess young children with multiple disabilities 2.
The use of telehealth in speech and language therapy with school-aged children has been reported, with a randomised controlled trial providing evidence for the provision of speech sound treatment 3. and other speech and language interventions 4.
Remote training has also been studied extensively, with parents and teaching staff supporting children with Autism feeding and swallowing difficulties and communication impairments 5 Research shows gains obtained were maintained for longer and even exceeded in effectiveness by using a treatment model that used telehealth. In addition, parents reported that they perceived telehealth sessions to be as valuable as those delivered directly by a therapist.
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'III: Chroma/Contour' by Billow Observatory
III: Chroma/Contour is the third album from Billow Observatory, the collaborative project of producer Jonas Munk (Manual) and Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull). The album's nine tracks eschew the pulse and rhythm that defined the duo's previous effort (II:Plains/Patterns) in favor of sparse melodic possibilities and a more abstract palette of sounds. Chroma/Contour suggests looking both 20 years forward and twenty years back, while forgetting the present altogether.
III: Chroma/Contour by Billow Observatory
Much of the album plays out as a study in minimalism: the texture and colour of each sound is being explored in minuscule detail, with enough space in the soundfield to allow each sonic constituent to breathe fully. There's a conceptual dimension to several tracks on the album, with guitars, analog synths and voices being mangled by samplers, computer software and a broken dictaphone into pure abstraction. But simultaneously there's a melodic undercurrent, revealing a deeply emotional aspect of the music.
III: Chroma/Contour is now available for pre-order. Limited edition of 300 on transparent light blue vinyl. Comes shrink-wrapped with obi-strip and includes download card. LP ships out on or around February 8, 2019.
Billow Observatory is a trans-Atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Denmark's Jonas Munk (Manual). They have been working together since 2006.
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Most World Maps Are Wrong And Racist: Predominantly 'White' Countries Are Enlarged To Appear Superior
on October 11, 2020 April 27, 2021 By Jason Williams (@thereallordtru)
Most of the world maps you've seen in your entire life are wrong.
This is because our current "standard" of world maps is based on the Mercator projection. Even Google uses this format.
The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes.
Although we grown accustomed to seeing Greenland as large as South America, Alaska larger than Mexico, and Russia 2 to 3 times the size of Africa, this is certainly a lie.
The system of white supremacy, a system created within the conscious or unconscious collective Caucasian mind, is created and maintained for the sole purpose of white genetic survival amongst the genetically dominant melanated masses. In order for Caucasians to appear and feel superior it was necessary create a false image of the world to counter the obvious reality of black and brown people being EVERYWHERE as well as being the global majority.
By changing the map it subconsciously impacts how people think of themselves and their country of origin. In this case, shrinking countries with mostly melanated people and enlarging countries with mostly non-melanated people plays right into the narratives of systematic white supremacy.
James Hitchings-Hales explains this misleading phenomena in an article found on globalcitizens.org:
"For the last 500 years, a certain kind of world map has been used to teach children about our planet. But forget everything you know. The world is not as it seems, humanity has been brainwashed by a Flemish mapmaker, and we're (probably) living in a colonial Matrix. I hope you're sitting down. That world map is wrong. Most might recognize the old world map from faded school textbooks. It's called the Mercator projection. In 1569, Gerardus Mercator built a whole world drawn along colonial lines — literally. Every straight squiggle between continents depicts a shipping route for trade, with the biggest economic powers given the space on paper to flex their border biceps.
Photo: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
The problem? It's nowhere near to scale. Europe is not the center of the universe — Mercator just moved the equator. North America is nowhere near that big — although it might feel that way if you watch the news. In reality, South America should be twice the size of Europe. Greenland should be 14 times smaller than Africa and three times smaller than Australia, whilst Alaska appears three times larger than its actual big sibling, Mexico.
The Mercator projection vastly exaggerates aged imperialist power, at the expense of developing countries and continents like Africa that are shrunk to inferiority. There's a reason why the Northern Hemisphere is associated with wealth and significance — it's because it's literally on top, permanently etched into our subconsciousness as superior from our earliest encounters with learning."
Also Jane Elliot, an American diversity educator that became known for a "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise that taught the realities of racism to school children, also acknowledges the racism behind the 'standard' world map.
Once again proving that the philosophy of "white supremacy" is nothing more than an illusion, a groundless philosophy, a desperate attempt by the caucazoid to erase the legacy and circumstance of the original peoples of planet earth.
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Four planets are still visible at dusk, until Venus departs in early October. Venus is very low in the west-southwest, with Jupiter in the southwest, and Mars in the south-southeast, standing out in brilliance. As Earth recedes from Mars, the red planet slips to third place in brightness, after Venus and Jupiter. Saturn, in the south, ranks sixth, a little fainter than the stars Arcturus in the west, and Vega just north of overhead.
Other bright stars: Spica is 1.3 degrees to the upper right of Venus on Sept. 1 and sinks into bright twilight to the lower right of Venus by midmonth. Use binoculars to keep seeing Spica for a while longer. Antares is below a line joining Jupiter and Saturn. Altair and Deneb complete the Summer Triangle with Vega.
Follow the moon from a thin crescent very low in the west on Sept. 10, to full, low south of east, on Sept. 24. Watch the moon pass four planets and two first-magnitude stars Sept. 11-20.
1. See Venus as a crescent, 40 percent full on Sept. 1, narrowing to 17 percent on the 30th. Venus reaches peak brilliance late in the month, and the crescent becomes ever more impressive: On Sept. 1, the disk is 30 arcseconds across—1/120 of a degree, big enough for a 32-power telescope to make it appear as large as the moon with the unaided eye—and grows in apparent size by more than 50 percent by month's end, as Venus decreases its distance from Earth by more than a third. To reduce the planet's glare against a darkened sky, look in daylight, or very soon after sunset, and even ordinary 7- or 8-power binoculars will reveal the crescent!
2. Just 23 to 14 degrees to the upper left of Venus, find Jupiter. A telescope may show up to four of its bright moons, discovered by Galileo.
3. Next, 45 to 41 degrees to the upper left of Jupiter, find Saturn. A telescope shows its rings now tipped nearly 27 degrees into our view—this year's best view, and the best until 2032—and Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, in a 16-day orbit nine times farther out than the rings' outer edge, in the same plane.
4. Finally, 27 to 33 degrees to the lower left or left of Saturn, find Mars. After nightfall, binoculars show an attractive, compact, 2-by-1 degree, kite-shaped asterism of four stars, the "Territory of Dogs," just west of Mars, in the same field. Through a telescope, the red planet may still show a tiny remnant of the south polar cap of frozen carbon dioxide, greatly shrunken in its late spring season, and dark surface features, such as Syrtis Major, provided that Martian dust storms don't obscure our view. Visit the Sky Calendar extra content page at abramsplanetarium.org/msta to read the Chinese legend about the Territory of Dogs, and for details on observing Mars close up, explanations of the graphs of planet rising/setting times, the evening and morning twilight charts, January's total lunar eclipse, and more.
Autumn begins on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 6:54 p.m., as the sun passes directly over Earth's equator. On Monday, Sept. 24, the full harvest moon rises just 4 degrees south of due east at 6:52 p.m., within a quarter-hour after sunset. The moon rises in twilight on next two nights in Palm Springs, at 7:24 p.m. on Sept. 25, and at 7:57 p.m. on Sept. 26. Rising later and farther north each evening, by Sept. 29, the moon rises in the east-northeast at 9:53 p.m., and two nights later, on Oct. 1, the northernmost moonrise occurs at 11:35 p.m.
The best dates for the early-evening viewing of the Milky Way at the end of evening twilight, with little or no moonlight, are through Sept. 11, and Sept. 28-Oct. 11. From a dark location, follow the Milky Way band from the "cloud of steam" (Greater Sagittarius Star Cloud) just above the spout of the Teapot, through the Cygnus Star Cloud along the neck of the Swan within the Summer Triangle, and beyond. Viewed through binoculars, the Cygnus Star Cloud, part of our own spiral arm, easily resolves into stars.
September in morning mid-twilight: Early this month, bright Mercury is still visible low in the east to east-northeast, getting lower each morning as it heads toward the far side of the sun, while faint Regulus, heart of Leo, emerges higher daily, owing to Earth's revolution around the sun. Mercury and Regulus appear closest, 1.2 degrees apart, on Sept. 6. Binoculars will come in handy for seeing the pair in same field low in twilight for a few mornings around that date. The old crescent moon appears near Regulus on Sept. 8.
Stars: Beginning with the brightest star, Sirius, in the southeast, go clockwise around the "Winter Hexagon" to Procyon, Pollux, Castor, Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel and back to Sirius. (If you count the Twin stars Pollux and Castor as one vertex of the polygon, then it's a Hexagon, with Betelgeuse inside.) Regulus in Leo is chasing the Hexagon across the sky. The only other bright star up in morning twilight, in the northwest, is Deneb, the last Summer Triangle star to disappear.
Follow the waning moon in the morning sky Sept. 1-8. Watch it leapfrog over the Hyades cluster and Aldebaran Sept. 2-3, and pass 10 degrees south (to the lower right) of Pollux on Sept. 6, and 1.4 degrees north (to the upper left) of Regulus on Sept. 8. Bright Mercury is 4.5 degrees to the lower left of the moon-Regulus pair that morning. The moon begins another pass through the morning sky on Sept. 24, with the not-quite-full moon setting just south of west. On the morning of Sept. 30, the 70 percent waning gibbous moon is 3 degrees east of Aldebaran. Binoculars will easily show the bright star in the same field, and some stars of the Hyades cluster a little farther from the moon.
The website of the Astronomical Society of the Desert at www.astrorx.org has a listing of our evening star parties at two locations. Sawmill Trailhead (SMT), our high-altitude site (elevation 4,000 feet), will have star parties starting at dusk on Saturday, Sept. 8 and Oct. 6. Monthly star parties resume on Saturday, Oct. 13, at our more accessible site, the Visitor Center of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, on Highway 74, within 4 miles south of Highway 111 in Palm Desert.
Abrams Planetarium publishes a monthly Sky Calendar with an evening sky map Subscriptions are $12 per year, for three printed issues mailed quarterly. The current set includes the 50th anniversary issue, for October 2018. Subscribe or view a sample back issue at www.abramsplanetarium.org/skycalendar.
Robert C. Victor was a staff astronomer at Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University. He is now retired and enjoys providing sky watching opportunities for a variety of groups in the Coachella Valley. Robert D. Miller did graduate work in planetarium science and later astronomy and computer science at Michigan State University and remains active in research and public outreach in astronomy. Dr. Jeffrey L. Hunt, a retired planetarium director now living in the Chicago area, made the rising/setting sky charts below; he has taught astronomy and sky watching to all ages. He studied astronomy education at Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University. Jeff writes an astronomy blog at jeffreylhunt.wordpress.com and can be followed on Twitter at @jeff_hunt.


The old project could get boring, or maybe the potential of a new platform just seems too good to pass up. You have to really know what you want and what it really takes to get there.
I would say as it gets faster, knowing what you know now, and what you do differently, I find myself wanting to do something more. And that's the interesting thing, because I could actually stay with the Talon chassis—kind of.
I'm not saying I'm not happy. Frankly, I really love the car. And as a matter of fact—this isn't really well known—I actually got into an accident with this car in 2015 and smashed the front end of the car in pretty good at the track.
That was another instance where, you know, maybe I pack it in, maybe I call it a day and do something else. And so I think that temptation is always there. It's perpetually there.
I think that, even from the beginning of this conversion to RWD, you're basically taking a perfectly good car and your taking a Sawzall to it. And you're not just taking a Sawzall to it to make it a little lighter. No, you're cutting the frame out of the car. It's a weird feeling. It's a weird sensation. It's kind of, like, am I doing this right?
Some of those are benign. "Oh, wheel wells. Big deal." If you really wanted to you could fashion up new ones, weld those back in, and that's kind of insane, right? But when you get to where you've cut out the entire car on the inside behind the driver and passenger seats. That is irreversible action.
You could go one of two ways. You either end up with a successful conversion where you have a back-halved car—or you have a car you kinda have to throw away. Which is weird—to say you just have to throw this car away. It fell off the jackstands or it wasn't level or all this stuff got bent up while you were doing this or you cut one inch too far and now you have to replace so much more.
But those are microdoubts where you have these things that are amusing to look back on—and I'm smiling as I'm saying it, but at the time, when you're doing your first car, it's all new. Everything is new, so you don't know if you're doing it right or doing it wrong.
When I say walking away, you know, when you have a long-term project, you have these instances where you get ebbs and flows. For me, in the Talon, the initial conversion, I spent about nine months working on the car, and in that time frankly got to a point where I couldn't continue to spend that kind of time on the car—especially with this car.
I borrowed my friend's garage to make this car rear wheel drive. I didn't even have my own garage and had to borrow a friend's garage. I took it over for nine months and I spent I spent two or three nights a week after work, I spent all weekend there. He was so gracious to allow me to do that—to let me work on the types of things that we did there was crazy—but I basically got the car up in the air all apart replaced all sorts of things and got it so that it was actually a rolling car again in this nine month time.
And then I was like, "You know what? I have to walk away. I have to walk away." It's not so much burnout as it is the project is so large. And there was a lot of scope creep on this on this car for sure, but I moved to a new city. I got married. I bought a house.
All of those things where you have life and life still has to happen. Sometimes life happens in weird ways you don't expect or you don't plan for. For me, the unplanned for part was meeting a girl and moving to another city and and buying a house and all those things. I had to stop, walk away from the Talon, and then pick it back up after those things were completed.
I say those things like it was a checklist, but it really wasn't. It was just day-to-day stuff and life happened and then I met my wife. Those types of things make the Talon take a backseat to everything else that's going on, so there are definitely times where you have to be persistent and know what your end goal is because otherwise you're going to give up.
And that was maybe 10 minutes of our 80-minute conversation.
Scott's got one of the nastiest DSMs in the world these days. And his journey with this machine has lead him in directions he never imagined all those years ago when he and a friend sketched out the build on napkins in a restaurant over dinner.


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Carton ondulat este un tip de carton folosit pentru ambalaje.

În România
În anul 2001, în România s-au produs 110.000 de tone de carton ondulat.
În anul 2004, piața românească a cartonului ondulat era estimată la 80 de milioane de euro anual iar producția totală de carton ondulat a României depășea 140.000 de tone.
Cei mai mari producători de carton ondulat erau SCA Packaging, Vrancart Adjud, Romcarton București și Rondocarton Cluj.

În anul 2006, piața cartonului ondulat și a ambalajelor de acest tip din România era estimată la aproximativ 120 milioane euro, în timp ce producția anuală era de 210.000 de tone.
În același timp, nivelul consumului anual de ambalaje de carton ondulat pe cap de locuitor era cel mai scăzut dintre țările care înregistrau statistici de acest fel, ajungând la circa 8 kg, în timp ce în Ungaria era de 30 kg, în Germania de 65 kg, Olanda și Belgia de aproximativ 82 kg, media totală în Europa fiind de 38,8 kg.

În anul 2007, în România s-au produs 210.000 de tone de carton ondulat
iar piața s-a ridicat la 420 de milioane de metri pătrați, având o valoare de 135 de milioane de euro.

În anul 2009, producția românească de carton ondulat a scăzut la 172.000 de tone.
În anul 2011, producția a ajuns la 240.000 de tone.

Consumul anului 2013 s-a ridicat la 271.000 de tone, adică 37% din totalul capacităților de producție (723.000 de tone anual).
În anul 2014, aproape 40% din ambalajele de pe piața românească erau din carton ondulat.

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"It's been a long 16 days, especially for those Americans directly impacted by the shutdown. From day one the solution was simple: allow Democrats and Republicans to work together to achieve consensus and pass a bipartisan bill to reopen the government and to prevent default on the nation's debts.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose, Calif.) announced today that two San Jose based community development organizations will receive federal grant funding totaling nearly $2.7 million for small business development and affordable housing. The two grants, each valued at $1.347 million, are being awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institution's (CDFI) fund to the Opportunity Fund and the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County.


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Despite little work at World Cup, Braden Holtby looking sharp in early preseason action
By Isabelle Khurshudyan
October 4, 2016 at 11:28 a.m. EDT
Braden Holtby pokes the puck away from Blues center Landon Ferraro during their exhibition game Monday night. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)
Because the Capitals' workhorse goaltender was largely idle for the past month at the World Cup of Hockey, there was some concern over how he'd rebound. Braden Holtby, Team Canada's No. 3 goaltender, did not play in the tournament and split practice time with Corey Crawford.
Washington's Philipp Grubauer was in a similar position; the No. 2 netminder for Team Europe also did not play.
"One of my fears was that in a tournament like this, if you're not playing, you can very easily lose your conditioning, lose your sharpness or not get sharp," goaltending coach Mitch Korn said at the start of training camp. "That's why we talk a lot about how hard it is for a backup goalie in the National Hockey League not to play for two weeks, three weeks, whatever it is, and then he's got to go in and he's got to get it done. It's not easy.
"Holts has not been used to that, and now he's been watching for quite some time. Three goalies in practice lends itself to less pucks, less shots, and not playing is not playing. I'm not sure he went there with a great foundation — nobody had a great foundation when they went there. It's training camp time, and they have to play this tournament. So, he's probably chomping at the bit because that's in his DNA."
Holtby was indeed eager to see game action when he returned to Washington, playing a full exhibition game on Saturday and then starting again on Monday night against the St. Louis Blues. But any concerns of rust have been tabled by two strong outings. Playing the full game on Saturday against the Islanders, Holtby saved 24 of 25 shots against, and in half a game on Monday, he again allowed just one goal, stopping 13 of 14 shots against.
Grubauer played the second half Monday and pitched a shutout, stopping all seven shots he faced through the overtime period, and his saves in the shootout delivered the 2-1 win.
"I think he's played quite well considering he hasn't had the … quantity of shots that he's normally getting," Coach Barry Trotz said of Holtby. "And also the game reps that he usually gets with traffic and the concentration over long periods of time. I thought both our goalies looked sharp, and that's great for us."
Holtby played in 66 games last season, tying an NHL record with 48 wins, and he won the Vezina Trophy for his impressive season. After Monday night's game, he was typically critical of himself.
"There's been plays where I haven't been that sharp, they just haven't gone in the net," he said. "Still things I'm trying to work on. I'm just trying to get back in the swing of things. Guys have been playing really well, especially defensively. It makes it easier for us to get into it."
He said being in a shorthanded situation has been one thing that's "coming pretty naturally," as he got a lot of work on that in Team Canada practices against some of the world's top shooters. With three goaltenders left on the training camp roster, Holtby is expected to continue seeing time in Washington's last three exhibition games.
"I'd like to play them all," he said. "But obviously we both have to get ready for the season ahead, and that's going to be the goal. And the coaches will figure out the best way to do that."
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Joel is currently touring his sell-out stand up show, Blonde Bombshell! He's performed in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and now it's Melbourne's turn! Not to worry London, Sydney and Perth, Joel's making his way to you next. During the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Joel will be performing at the Fairfax Theatre, Arts Centre from Thursday 29th – Sunday 22nd April. Strap yourselves in for a night of anything-goes with this blonde bombshell as he rips back the curtain to fill you in on all the juicy behind the scenes action. Joel's rule always stands… anyone not in the room… is a target! You have been warned. Tickets are selling fast, so be sure to get in quick!


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Shettima: My Presidential Posters, Plot To Sabotage Fight Against Boko Haram
TanimuJune 2, 2016 7:15 am 0
Kashim Shettima Governor Borno State
Isa Gusau, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has written to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase requesting for an immediate investigation into the sources campaign posters bearing his picture and that of Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, aspiring for the 2019 Presidency with Shettima as President.
The Governor said while he wasn't worried about whatever political objective aimed by those who "fraudulently" produced and pasted the posters in many parts of the FCT and Kaduna on Sunday, but his major concern was his believe that sponsors of the posters had a "wicked agenda" of undermining the current cohesion between the Borno State Government and Buhari led administration "working together in the last one year for the collective goal of ending the Boko Haram insurgency".
Shettima's letter clearly alluded to an openly bad relationship between his Government during his first term and the Goodluck Jonathan administration from 2011 to 2015, a situation the Governor's office, in 2014, attributed to an executed plot by political group which allegedly worked against collaboration between the Shettima Government and the Jonathan administration in fighting the Boko Haram insurgency making the insurgents to grow stronger.
The letter to the IGP with reference number BOSLO/ABJ/14/IV/407 and signed by Permanent Secretary in charge of the Borno Government House and Security, Mr Ahmed Sanda was dated May 29, 2016, dispatched from the Governor's office.
"I have been directed by His Excellency, the Executive of Borno State, Kashim Shettima to bring to the IGP's notice, dozens of fraudulently produced posters bearing his name and picture claiming he is aspiring for the 2019 Presidency. The posters have been pasted on some routes in Abuja and Kaduna.
2. Governor Kashim Shettima regards this development as a highly mischievous plot that is aimed at destabilizing the emerging peace in Borno State through creation of unnecessary political tension while on the other hand it might aim at creating gap between the Borno State Government and the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration (which just marked it's first year in office) with a wicked agenda of undermining the current cohesion between the two arms of Government working together in the last one year for the collective goal of ending the Boko Haram insurgency.
3. From a different information we have gathered, the posters are suspected to be the handiwork of a particular group of politicians trying to set the Borno State Government and the APC in the State against the National headquarters of the APC and the Federal Government so as to lay a ground for a plan by the group of politicians to join the APC in Borno State and hijack the party's machinery.
4. His Excellency, Governor Kashim Shettima has directed me to most respectfully request the following:
i. The Inspector General of Police authorizes an immediate investigation to establish the source of the posters and the purpose for which the plot is meant with appropriate steps taken to arrest and prosecute those behind the posters under relevant provisions of the law.
ii. Any person at all seen pasting the posters in whatever form and on any place in all parts of Nigeria be it private or public should be arrested and prosecuted by the Nigeria Police Force for impersonation and attempts to undermine public peace and other provisions of law.
5. Governor Kashim Shettima finds these posters embarrassing and assures the Inspector General of Police that whoever is seen pasting any of them any where, does so without his prior knowledge and approval.
6. The Governor is of the strong opinion that what is needed in the country now is for all Nigerians and tiers of Government, particularly the Borno State Government, to support and work with the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration in a clearly determined effort to restore peace in Borno State.
7. Governor Shettima feels Nigeria neither needs nor deserves ridiculous and immoral campaign and it's associated distractions for 2019 elections when the sitting President has just marked his first year in office managing serious challenges inherited from the previous administration" the letter reads.
The letter was received by the IGP's office on Tuesday and copied to the Director-General of the Department of State Security. It is not clear if any arrest has been made yet.
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With a generator providing the only power, Ligia Siguencia (right) was able to serve food by candlelight to friends who gathered at her Moonachie, New Jersey home several days after Hurricane Sandy. More homeowners are investing in emergency power, but experts say better solutions are needed.
Backup power generator sales have surged in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and other big storms. Go-it-alone solutions are moving faster than needed electric grid upgrades.
Generac Chief Executive Aaron Jagdfeld insists his company is not just watching the weather.
The leading U.S. maker of home and business standby generators said it was impossible to trace the company's recent trajectory of success to last year's Hurricane Sandy, the surprise "snowtober" blizzard of 2011, or any one of a number of other East Coast storms.
"We're trying to create our own awareness, to create our own storm, if you will," Jagdfeld told Wall Street analysts last Thursday in announcing an 85 percent increase in profits for the quarter. "It's a really bad strategy to sit around and watch the Weather Channel. That's not a strategy for a business."
"It's not?" deadpanned Christopher Glynn of Oppenheimer. After all, the company points to weather—and the state of the power grid—whenever it explains its financial results or its data showing 20 percent average annual growth in market penetration of home standby generators over the past decade.
"We believe continued underinvestment in the electric grid, an aging population, an increased reliance on uninterruptible power and data, and more severe weather will drive demand for our residential and industrial backup generators well into the future," said Jagdfeld.
For many homeowners, the availability of diesel-powered or increasingly common natural gas generators provides peace of mind amid ever-more-common power outages. Author Anna Quindlen, who lives in rural Pennsylvania, penned a prose ode to her generator in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year. And in the immediate wake of Sandy, the Daily Beast suggested that backup generators had taken on a status-symbol aura, quoting a Westport, Connecticut, real estate broker who recommended emergency power boxes to all of her clients: "For the kind of money that these houses cost, to spend $8,000 or $10,000 on a generator isn't a significant extra investment," she said.
"We've gone to this pioneer mentality," said Richard Little, who before retiring was director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy at the University of Southern California, in an interview following Hurricane Sandy last year. "Everybody's got to have a generator. If I lived in New Jersey, I'd have a generator too. But not everyone can do that. We've got to find better solutions."
Just as Generac was announcing its earnings, in fact, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz was focusing on U.S. electric grid problems in an address in Washington, D.C., to mark the 40th anniversary of the Arab oil embargo. Although the nation may be less vulnerable to hostile acts abroad than it was in the 1970s, he said a home-grown problem—the insufficiently resilient electric grid—must be viewed as one of the major energy security risks today.
As financing modernization of the big grid continues to be a challenge, energy experts are talking more about the important role such microgrids could play. The Brookings Institution Energy Security Initiative has said there is a strong case for such "distributed power systems" for U.S. military installations. The backbone of most of such existing power systems, according to Brookings' research, is the standby or emergency generator, with the overwhelming majority powered by fossil fuel, either diesel fuel or natural gas.
As for the areas hit by Hurricane Sandy, there are some efforts under way to put into place backup power systems for entire communities that are cleaner than typical fossil-fuel-powered single home generators.
"This is not power from some distant station where it has to travel 100 miles," Luévano said. "This will be generated on site."
Of course, diesel or gas standby generators have the same advantage, and are generally cheaper and quicker to install than solar systems. But Luévano said Global Green USA, which worked on several solar rebuilding projects in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, has watched the cost of renewable energy systems drop dramatically. (See related story: "For Hurricane Katrina Victims, A Solar Restart.") "Our hope is that they become the standard practice rather than the exception to the rule," she said. "Solar panels are a little harder, but they're a longer-term answer to your energy needs."


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