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* Allow pin, passcode, and pattern authentication with `authenticate` method
* **Breaking change**. Parameter names refactored to use the generic `biometric` prefix in place of `fingerprint` in the `AndroidAuthMessages` class
  * `fingerprintHint` is now `biometricHint`
  * `fingerprintNotRecognized`is now `biometricNotRecognized`
  * `fingerprintSuccess`is now `biometricSuccess`
  * `fingerprintRequiredTitle` is now `biometricRequiredTitle`

## 1.0.0-nullsafety.3

* Update the example app: remove the deprecated `RaisedButton` and `FlatButton` widgets.

## 1.0.0-nullsafety.2

* Fix outdated links across a number of markdown files ([#3276](https://github.com/flutter/plugins/pull/3276))

## 1.0.0-nullsafety.1

* Update README for Android Integration.

## 1.0.0-nullsafety

* Migrate to null safety.

## 0.6.3+5

* Update Flutter SDK constraint.

## 0.6.3+4

* Update Dart SDK constraint in example.

## 0.6.3+3

* Update android compileSdkVersion to 29.

## 0.6.3+2

* Keep handling deprecated Android v1 classes for backward compatibility.

## 0.6.3+1

* Update package:e2e -> package:integration_test

## 0.6.3

* Increase upper range of `package:platform` constraint to allow 3.X versions.

## 0.6.2+4

* Update package:e2e reference to use the local version in the flutter/plugins
  repository.

## 0.6.2+3

* Post-v2 Android embedding cleanup.

## 0.6.2+2

* Update lower bound of dart dependency to 2.1.0.

## 0.6.2+1

* Fix CocoaPods podspec lint warnings.

## 0.6.2

* Remove Android dependencies fallback.
* Require Flutter SDK 1.12.13+hotfix.5 or greater.
* Fix block implicitly retains 'self' warning.

## 0.6.1+4

* Replace deprecated `getFlutterEngine` call on Android.

## 0.6.1+3

* Make the pedantic dev_dependency explicit.

## 0.6.1+2

* Support v2 embedding.

## 0.6.1+1

* Remove the deprecated `author:` field from pubspec.yaml
* Migrate the plugin to the pubspec platforms manifest.
* Require Flutter SDK 1.10.0 or greater.

## 0.6.1

* Added ability to stop authentication (For Android).

## 0.6.0+3

* Remove AndroidX warnings.

## 0.6.0+2

* Update and migrate iOS example project.
* Define clang module for iOS.

## 0.6.0+1

* Update the `intl` constraint to ">=0.15.1 <0.17.0" (0.16.0 isn't really a breaking change).

## 0.6.0

* Define a new parameter for signaling that the transaction is sensitive.
* Up the biometric version to beta01.
* Handle no device credential error.

## 0.5.3

* Add face id detection as well by not relying on FingerprintCompat.

## 0.5.2+4

* Update README to fix syntax error.

## 0.5.2+3

* Update documentation to clarify the need for FragmentActivity.

## 0.5.2+2

* Add missing template type parameter to `invokeMethod` calls.
* Bump minimum Flutter version to 1.5.0.
* Replace invokeMethod with invokeMapMethod wherever necessary.

## 0.5.2+1
* Use post instead of postDelayed to show the dialog onResume.

## 0.5.2
* Executor thread needs to be UI thread.

## 0.5.1
* Fix crash on Android versions earlier than 28.
* [`authenticateWithBiometrics`](https://pub.dev/documentation/local_auth/latest/local_auth/LocalAuthentication/authenticateWithBiometrics.html) will not return result unless Biometric Dialog is closed.
* Added two more error codes `LockedOut` and `PermanentlyLockedOut`.

## 0.5.0
 * **Breaking change**. Update the Android API to use androidx Biometric package. This gives
   the prompt the updated Material look. However, it also requires the activity to be a
   FragmentActivity. Users can switch to FlutterFragmentActivity in their main app to migrate.

## 0.4.0+1

* Log a more detailed warning at build time about the previous AndroidX
  migration.

## 0.4.0

* **Breaking change**. Migrate from the deprecated original Android Support
  Library to AndroidX. This shouldn't result in any functional changes, but it
  requires any Android apps using this plugin to [also
  migrate](https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate) if they're
  using the original support library.

## 0.3.1
* Fix crash on Android versions earlier than 24.

## 0.3.0

* **Breaking change**. Add canCheckBiometrics and getAvailableBiometrics which leads to a new API.

## 0.2.1

* Updated Gradle tooling to match Android Studio 3.1.2.

## 0.2.0

* **Breaking change**. Set SDK constraints to match the Flutter beta release.

## 0.1.2

* Fixed Dart 2 type error.

## 0.1.1

* Simplified and upgraded Android project template to Android SDK 27.
* Updated package description.

## 0.1.0

* **Breaking change**. Upgraded to Gradle 4.1 and Android Studio Gradle plugin
  3.0.1. Older Flutter projects need to upgrade their Gradle setup as well in
  order to use this version of the plugin. Instructions can be found
  [here](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Updating-Flutter-projects-to-Gradle-4.1-and-Android-Studio-Gradle-plugin-3.0.1).

## 0.0.3

* Add FLT prefix to iOS types

## 0.0.2+1

* Update messaging to support Face ID.

## 0.0.2

* Support stickyAuth mode.

## 0.0.1

* Initial release of local authentication plugin.


It was late at night and I was craving to eat chocolate cake. Too much mental work made my body hunger for sweet stuff. I procrastinated and took some time to prepare bundt cake as I was lazy to make layer cake.
1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius. Grease the bundt pan with butter and dust it with flour.
2. Combine cocoa powder, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a medium bowl, and in another bowl combine buttermilk and Greek yogurt together, set aside.
3. Cream the butter and sugar using a stand mixer on a high speed until creamy and fluffy (about 10 minutes). Add eggs one by one followed with a tablespoon of the flour mixture. Add half the flour mixture and mix until well combined followed with the buttermilk mixture and another half of the flour mixture.
4. Pour the batter into the bundt pan and spread the batter smoothly. Bake in the oven for 50 - 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out smoothly.
1. Melt the butter and brown sugar on a pot on a medium heat until the sugar dissolves, set aside.
3. Combine the caramel into the chocolate ganache mixture and sprinkle with sea salt.
4. Pour the ganache on the cooled cake.


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Could Yankees momentum-snatching win be start of something big? - New York Daily News Could Yankees momentum-snatching win be start of something big?
Could Yankees momentum-snatching win be start of something big?
On a day when there was every reason to give in to the inevitability of a season mired in mediocrity, the Yankees dug deep and pulled off the type of late-inning comeback that not so long ago seemed routine here in the Bronx.
Down 8-4 to the Rockies after blowing a 4-0 lead? It doesn't get more depressing than that, especially with players very much aware that every game at the moment can be viewed as a referendum on the endless talk of whether they should be sellers at the trade deadline.
So the 9-8 victory, which ended on a walk-off home run by Starlin Castro, was as gutty as they come — no one would dispute that.
Whether it can inspire the type of run for this team that Joe Girardi keeps talking about — that's likely wishful thinking.
In fact, for all the good vibes the win created, it's fair to suggest the most important sight in the post-game clubhouse was that of CC Sabathia wearing high-top basketball shoes and a wrap on his right ankle — limping noticeably as he headed for the door to go home.
Sabathia has been the feel-good story of the Yankee season, pitching with a dominance almost no one thought possible with his diminished fastball. It seems practically a gift from the baseball gods that has been largely wasted by all of the other issues nagging this team, but on Wednesday the 2016 magic wasn't there for the big lefty.
Maybe it was just a bad start, or maybe it had more to do with the ankle he twisted, first backing up home plate in the third inning, then again while landing in his pitching delivery in the fifth inning.
After the game, Sabathia admitted the ankle was sore, but said that wasn't an excuse for giving up six runs in 41/3 innings.
"I just couldn't make the big pitch today," he said.
Whatever role the ankle played, the concern for the Yankees now is whether it affects Sabathia in the days ahead. Watching him walk slowly and stiffly out of the clubhouse, you could see that it might be a problem.
After all, Sabathia is 300-plus pounds and he already has a bad right knee, for which the brace he began wearing last September has been something of a miracle cure, allowing him to pitch without pain.
Even a slightly sprained ankle could cause him to compensate in some way and mess with his mechanics.
Obviously the Yankees can't afford that right now, as they continue to try and climb into contention. But that's pretty much the story of their season so far: If it's not one thing, it's another.
For now they're just trying to keep hope alive, and at least in that regard this was a huge win.
After all, this is the stretch of schedule that gave them an opportunity for a hot streak, 11 games with the Rockies and Twins. Yet they were 3-4 in the first seven, including an ugly loss Tuesday night in the opener of a nine-game homestand.
With that in mind, Joe Girardi called Wednesday "an important day for us" even before the game, and reiterated the sentiment afterward.
"It's a really important homestand," he said. "We didn't want to start it 0-2."
Sweeping the terrible Twins this weekend is all but mandatory if the Yankees, now 35-36, are going to make any type of run. It won't change the fact they've been outclassed in their own division, going 10-17 against the AL East, but they have to start somewhere.
And at least they look dangerous offensively of late. Chase Headley, who hit a grand slam on Wednesday, is a factor again, having survived his horrific first month or so, and Carlos Beltran continues to have an All-Star season, with 19 HRs so far, including a three-run shot in the seventh that got the Yankees back in the game.
That being said, you can't ignore the ongoing struggles of Alex Rodriguez, who struck out three more times and now has 50 Ks in 158 at-bats, to go with only eight home runs.
A ll in all, however, the Yankees aren't the automatic outs with runners in scoring position that they were for a couple of months, and nine runs is nine runs, even against a lousy Rockies bullpen, and a walk-off home run is exhilarating.
As a result, Girardi was asked why he thinks this win could finally be the start of something for the Yankees.
"You have to believe," he said.


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Twitter conversation on labor historian job and irony, May 26, 2016. (screen shot Donald Earl Collins).
Irony/Ironic is a word that we in the West use a bit too often. It is ironic, for instance, that I left the job insecurity and financial instability of the nonprofit world after a decade, only to find myself part of the unstable world that is academia these days. But it isn't ironic that nonprofit organizations working for a better world exist only because their leaders have the task of constantly raising money for their work. The best of these leaders make high-six-figure incomes and their nonprofits make billions, in organizations like Educational Testing Service, College Board, and my former organization, Academy for Educational Development. This isn't an example of irony, at least not just. It's maybe a contradiction, it's maybe hypocrisy, it's maybe even straight-up bullcrap.
A week and a half ago, a colleague became part of a Twitter conversation about a labor historian job at Rutgers University. (Full disclosure: I'd already seen the job a week earlier on Rutgers' website, so no surprises for me). The job was for a non-tenure track position teaching a 4/3 load (four undergraduate courses one semester, three the other, with no summer courses, at least), the position potentially renewable after one year. The standard teaching load at most four-year institutions is between five and six courses (counting summers) per year. The ironic punch line was that it was the Labor Studies & Employment Relations Department that advertised this position, a department that ought to "know better."
The Cog in the Machine, June 8, 2016. (http://catholicreadingproject.blogspot.com).
The problem for me is that this isn't ironic at all. This department exists within the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. These schools are not exactly incubators for "workers of the world unite" types, and would be most likely to take advantage of the weak job market to hire a labor historian desperately in need of a one-year or more gig. This is naked exploitation to be sure, but I find no irony in this job search at all. This is typical of the majority of jobs in higher education these days.
It is definitely hypocrisy, at least on the level of academia at large. Especially in considering that supposed bastions of liberal ideals (which universities really aren't — they're capitalist business enterprises which sometimes house some leftist leaning faculty) have turned the secure work of the professoriate into non-tenured service industry work. That this has coincided with the plunge in the number of full-time positions and in the number of living-wage positions in the US labor force in general is telling. It says that academia is nothing special beyond the expensive education, that it isn't some sacred place for intellectual exchange and political mobilization. It is as firmly tied to capitalist pursuits as Wall Street and K Street.
I learned this lesson a quarter-century ago, thanks to the working-class history seminars at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Between Dick Oestreicher, Bill Chase, Reid Andrews, Joe Trotter, and Joel Tarr (among others), the level of hypocrisy was enough to make me sick. The distance between what these people wrote regarding leftist movements, ideas, ideals, and exploited workers and how they treated students and colleagues sometimes was breathtaking. It was like the distance between the Terran system (Earth) and Alpha Centauri (roughly 25 trillion miles).
Hammer & Sickle & Pitt Flag [symbolic of Pitt's history department], December 13, 2012. (Donald Earl Collins).
Sure, it's all "let's start a communist revolution" when discussing the 180th nuanced on E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working-Class. But when graduate students wanted to unionize to have their work recognized as workers, then these leftists suddenly became capitalists. "No, you're not workers," they said. "You're students." In the face of virulent racism, they said, "Get use to it. Shit happens." Heck, some of these so-called bleeding-heart-liberals were themselves harassing students, exploiting their work for prestige and profit, and playing favorites to promote yes-men and yes-women while keeping others from pursuing their doctorates.
I saw the same distance between noble liberal ideals and center-right realities in my decade in the nonprofit world, mostly working in social justice. Yes, some of the very people who had made it their calling to ameliorate racism and combat injustices were also knee-deep in their own contradictions. Gender-based, race-based, and intersectional harassment wasn't exactly uncommon. Exploitative labor practices like working two people full-time for the price of one, denying promotions based on gender or racial bias, even paranoia over power within a social justice organization. They all were the usual things I witnessed or experienced in the years between 1997 and 2008.
Wolf in sheep's clothing, a false prophet (a symbol of my ex-stepfather), November 2008. (Source/flickr.com)
There is nothing sacred and no safe space for those of us looking for such things. This belief in academia as being so different from the rest of the working world is an illusion cooked up by neo-conservatives who've made millions selling the idea that academia is a liberal bastion. We should all look for positions and places in which our work can thrive and we as individuals or even groups of people can grow. Those obviously still exist. But believe me, it's been years since I thought that academia was a place where being far left-of-center was a good thing. It's only good if you're good at acting like this is so. It's another illusion that others have chosen to create to cover up their hypocrisies. The irony is that people still believe in these ideals anyway.
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Daily Prompt, Spinal muscular atrophy
Posted on June 17, 2016 by Mark Aldrich
Public transportation is a wonderful thing. The Tri-State area surrounding New York City, where I live, is more than adequately served by public transit. All 20,000,000-plus of us who reside here live at maximum a short drive away from a train station or a bus stop that offers regular service to and from the Big City and parts in between; thousands (perhaps millions) of us live within walking distance of a bus or a train station.
The last vehicles that leave NYC leave well after midnight, and the earliest vehicles heading to NYC from the farthest reaches outside the city leave only a couple hours after that time, so public transportation runs almost 20 of the 24 hours a day.
If you live or travel in New York City, you know the official Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway map. NYC has 490 stops or stations spread among its five boroughs, and the picturesque map shows the lines snaking through the city:
NYC's subways. Click for full size.
A lawyer and blogger named Matthew Ahn decided in 2015 to visit each one of these 490 stops or stations, and he put together a map that shows the stops, stations, and lines that are wheelchair-accessible. Here is the map:
ADA Subway Map. Click for full size. Copyright Matthew Ahn.
His finding? That "barely more than 100 stations are accessible."
For ambulatory people, NYC is a city of staircases and escalators and escalators that have been mysteriously powered off if they ever were powered on. For those in wheelchairs, much of NYC is largely hidden for this same reason. For the non-disabled, there are those 490 subway stops and couple dozen lines, and rarely is a person more than a few blocks away from any everyday need.
A disabled person can get around NYC in a wheelchair, to be sure, but the line that might cover most of that person's needs between home and work or shopping may not be the nearest line with accessible stations, or the station nearest them may not be accessible, or the wheelchair-accessible stop that is closest to their office might in fact be many blocks away from their office.
One commenter on Ahn's post wrote, "Adding to this is the fact that sometimes one shows up to a station and the elevator's broken, or simply inoperable? That's happened multiple times with me and my partner. What is one to do, if one has planned one's trip around accessible stops? So frustrating." At any given moment, a station that official NYC claims is accessible, unofficially may not be.
Another commenter pointed out that some of the stations that are labeled as accessible are accessible only inside the station itself but that getting inside some of these stations involves negotiating a flight of stairs anyway. If you are at all familiar with cities in general, you have encountered the many two-or-three-step stoops up to a front door or the short flights of stairs on the other side of that door into a store or office that no map may identify.
Look at Brooklyn and Queens! Those are two very large boroughs. If you are in a wheelchair and need to be in any place away from the main lines and the main stations, enjoy your long roll through the streets.
My own experience of New York City as someone with ambulatory difficulties is that at its worst, the city can make me feel in need of adult supervision or an armed guard. Possibly everyone feels that way to some degree. Perhaps the only thing that unites people in crowds more than the fact of being in a crowd is each members' hatred of being in crowds. Crowds do not notice individuals. Crowds do not notice individuals who move deliberately and slowly. Crowds run over those people. On my last visit to the city, I almost wished I had a wheelchair, just to serve as a visual cue for everyone else to move around me. A cane does not serve this need. At least, not unless I use it to trip everyone around me.
At its best, walking the streets of New York with my particular mobility challenges can be surprisingly easy: Get into the flow of traffic, roll with it, manage expectations. (Somehow I just described my muscular dystrophy by way of an analogy to Steve Winwood's career. And I like Steve Winwood.)
Of course my response to this discovery was to overdo it the last time we traveled to NYC, and I strained my (surprised to be asked to do so much with no warning or stretching) knee within minutes.
According to Ahn, the train systems in Boston and Chicago are far more accessible than New York's 20% accessibility on a perfect day.
I have seen the limitations to NYC's train and subway accessibility first-hand. Even the flat platforms inside the train stations are a challenge, what with the crowd stopping and re-starting, moving to a rhythm no one is aware of. I try to move at my own pace, which is usually good advice anyway. My girlfriend walks with my slower rhythm all day, which is one of the thousand reasons she is The One. People dash around me at a direction rather than in a direction.
Someone dashing at a direction rather than in a direction came from slightly behind me that last trip to the city, and all Jen knew was that I was no longer anywhere near her. When I fall, everything flies away from me, and this has been true since long before my spinal muscular atrophy symptoms. Like a NASCAR car during a wreck, parts went flying from me: my backpack, my cane, even my glasses left my face. Jen turned to see a woman standing over me, yelling at me the one question that would identify her as not an EMT: "ARE YOU OKAY?" I wanted to reply, "I did not trip on my better-than-average hearing."
No one ever intends to make the phrase "trip to New York City" a literal one.
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loisajay · June 17, 2016
So what happens to those in wheelchairs who want to or need to travel in NY? Private transportation? I would love to hear the argument that they could not possible close down any one of the 490 stations to make them ADA compliant. That is a true shame.
camparigirl · June 17, 2016
And I think London is even worse…
angloswiss · June 18, 2016
My exprience of NYC was a week many years ago when I was younger and disability did not play a part in my life. You could go everywhere and do eveything. My illness is now a fact, although probably for the past 25 years, but MS sort of creeps up on you and suddenly it is there. After many examinations, now a proven fact and you look at the world with different eyes. I now have to walk with a cane, but who knows what direction it will take, I am only at the beginning. I now think twice before tackling anything different, and such information for the handicapped has now become important, whether New York, London, Zürich or even my little market town of Solothurn in Switzerland. The perfect surroundings will never exist, because our civilisation is built around the masses and not the exceptions.


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Migrants vs Covid-19:an epidemic of emergency measures
Brief #13 - June 2021
Covid-19 has deepened structural inequalities. As a result, migrants from countries of the global South have been severely impacted by the pandemic and the measures aimed at curtailing its spread. People whose situation has been made illegal, displaced persons and those fleeing war or trying to get across borders to improve their lot have been hard hit by border closures. No longer able to "go home" and self-isolate, these people have endured a new form of warfare waged against them, in (...)
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On 24 November 2021, yet another shipwreck claimed the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach the UK from France, adding to the list of more than 300 people who have died since 1999 at this border. Like the Mediterranean, where more than 38,000 migrants have died or gone missing since the early 2000s, the English Channel has been turned into a graveyard by murderous European migration policies.
The horror of this tragedy is compounded by the authorities' unbearable hypocrisy, and the (...)
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Domenico Lucano: When welcoming with dignity becomes a crime.
Since his conviction on September 30th for 13 years and 2 months in prison, support protests in favour of Domenico Lucano, former Riace village mayor in Calabria, have multiplied in Italy and elsewhere. While "Mimmo" Lucano's welcoming policy had made Riace and its mayor the symbols of an alternative society based on mutual aid, his conviction is widely perceived as yet another attack on solidarity with migrants.
Although the details of the Locri Court's decision are not known - as it has (...)
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Video : freedom of movement for all
Since its creation, the Migreurop network has highlighted the harmful effects of the European Union's border management policy placed in the way of people's freedom of movement.
Yet, this freedom exists for a part of the world's citizens who, by chance resulting from their place of birth, have a passport or obtain visas without difficulty that allow them to easily cross borders. Accepting that others should be denied this means approving the existence of a world with two tracks, entailing (...)
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Migreurop is part of the Abolish Frontex international campaign, launched on June 9th, to end the mandate of the European border and coast guard agency - a key actor in the EU's war on people who move - and the EU's border regime!
Over 740 people have died so far this year 2021 trying to cross the Mediterranean, looking for a place of safety. The EU's border regime forced them to take dangerous migration routes, often on unseaworthy vessels; it enlisted neighbouring countries to stop them on (...)
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1. How realistic, would you say is it that anything in the Avengers could actually happen?
Iron Man's suit is within the reach of current technology. A number of research institutions across the world are developing powered exo-skeleton suits to increase the strength of the wearer. For example Tsukuba University in Japan has developed the HAL suit (hybrid assistive limb) for use by rescue workers as it can increase the muscle strength by 5 times. Hospitals are also interested in using it to rehabilate patients and for increasing the capabilities of disabled people.
Military Pilots now routinely fly with helmets that contain information, communication and augmented reality technology much like Iron Man's helmet. The latest innovations give the pilot "x-ray vision" through the floor of the plane or helicopter. This is achieved by tracking the pilot's head movements and projecting onto the helmet's visor the correctly orientated video images from cameras on the outside.
The giant S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier can turn invisible using stealth technology. One way this could be achieved would be to cover the hull of the ship with a vast array of Light Emitting Diodes that can be used to display images onto the outside of the ship. If the image matches the background the Helicarrier would appear to be invisible or at least have some degree of camouflage. The car manufacturer Mercedes recently produced a viral video of one of their cars turning invisible using this approach.
2. Which character portrays scientific elements most realistically? For example Tony Stark's inventions, Bruce Banner and Dr Erik Selvig as scientists?
For me the most realistic science comes from Tony Stark's inventions. The Iron Man suit consists of elements that either exist today or are in development; from rocket powered jet suits through to light weight body armour.
I have problems with the science around Bruce Banner changing into the Incredible Hulk. Gamma radiation does indeed cause changes in a creature's genetic code however the changes almost always cause damage to the cell that results in death or severe damage. I have seen no evidence to support the idea that radiation causes dramatic mutations; whether that's two headed fish swimming around nuclear powerplants or superhero stories like the Hulk, Spiderman and Fantastic Four.
Dr Eric Selvig is an astrophysicist. In both Thor and the Avengers the Tesseract opens a portal or "worm hole" between vast distances in space or even between different universes. In physics there are theories that "worm holes" can exist that link two points in space that are separated by a large distance. These theories are one solution from equations describing how space is curved by massive objects; equations first developed by Albert Einstein in 1915. However, there is no evidence to show that worm holes exist and the majority of current scientists don't believe they do exist. Even if they do, it's unlikely that humans would ever be able to see them, let alone control them.
3. With Thor being a God how effectively does he fit in to this universe and does he have any scientific link/background to him?
Thor travels through a "worm hole" that links Asgard to Earth even though there's a vast distance between the two planets. Worm holes are often used as plot devices in science fiction stories. They are theoretically possible as a solution to Einstein's famous General Relativity equations however most scientists do not believe they exist as they create a number of paradoxes.
Thor is also known for his incredible strength which could be caused by his race evolving stronger muscles and bones rather than him being a God. I have problems with how he uses his hammer though as quite often it defies the laws of physics. When he hits people with the hammer they go flying, however when he magically attracts it back to his hand at great speed it doesn't knock him backwards as it should do.
4. Bruce Banner's transformation into the Hulk is rather drastic, is there any link between mood and transformation?
When humans are scared or get angry the body starts producing chemicals like adrenaline which get the body ready for 'fight or flight'. The heart rate and breathing increases and blood is directed towards the muscles. The person's pain tolerance increases, reactions become faster and they become more aware of the surroundings. You can see the response in the person's eyes as the pupils become dilated. There isn't a dramatic change like the Hulk but there is a link between our mood and our body. And it works both ways! Try taking fast short breaths and you might find yourself feeling scared. And now try taking slow deep breaths and see if you feel more relaxed.
5. Talking about Captain America, his Shield is of great importance and is made of the Marvel universes 'Vibranium' how likely is it that a metal/substance like this could actually exist or be produced in the future?
Any object that hits Captain America's "Vibranium" shield, like bullets, are stopped dead in their tracks. When two objects collide you need to take into account two things that need to be conserved: the energy and momentum.
Moving objects have an energy associated with them called kinetic energy. Bullet proof armour is designed to dissipate the energy of the projectile into the armour rather than the human body. You want the threads that armour is sewn from to be both strong and have the ability to stretch. The best man made material at the moment is called Kevlar although it is inferior to the toughness of spider silk. It may be possible that Captain America's shield is excellent at dissipating energy but this doesn't help with the projectile's momentum.
The heavier and faster an object moves, the more momentum it has. (Being hit with a golf ball is much more painful than being hit by a ping pong ball.) When a projectile hits a stationary target, some of momentum is transferred across causing the target to be knocked backwards. A person who is shot by a bullet is still knocked backwards. In the Avengers film Captain America's shield is repeatedly hit by objects with a lot of momentum but he successfully deflects them without being knocked back.
6. The film focuses greatly on The Tesseract, but what exactly is it and how is it supposed to work?
The Tesseract, or the Cosmic Cube, is described as a source of unlimited power. In the Captain America film it was used by Red Skull to create incredibly destructive weapons and in Thor and the Avengers it was used to open a Worm Hole between two points in space separated by a vast distance. In the Marvel universe it is also said to be able to evolve its own intelligence from the energy contained within. The science explanation in both the comics and films is somewhat lacking. The Tesseract is meant to be a multi-dimensional object that contains the energy trapped within. The name comes from a shape in geometry that is the 4 dimensional analog of a cube, just as a cube is a 3 dimensional analog of a square.
A very active area of research in particle physics is concerned with trying to link together the extremely large scale effects like gravity and the tiny scale effects of quantum mechanics. One approach is String Theory which describes how our universe is not made of the 3 dimensions that we're used to seeing but 10 or more dimensions. If this is true, there's a lot going on in the universe that we're unaware of and maybe, as some science fiction writers have suggested, there's some hidden energy source that we can tap into.


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At low tide, Godrevy beach is connected to Gwithian towans to reveal an expanse of flat golden sand that attracts everyone from horse riders to kite boarders alike. Please be aware at high tide the majority of Godrevy gets covered by the sea so remember to check the time of high water so you don't get caught out.
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The Domestic-Foreign Policy Linkage in Russian Politics: Nationalist Influences on Russian Foreign Policy
Roger E. Kanet, Susanne M. Birgerson
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Kanet, R. E., & Birgerson, S. M. (1997). The Domestic-Foreign Policy Linkage in Russian Politics: Nationalist Influences on Russian Foreign Policy. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 30(4), 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-067X(97)00018-4
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In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4, 12.1997, p. 335-344.
Kanet, RE & Birgerson, SM 1997, 'The Domestic-Foreign Policy Linkage in Russian Politics: Nationalist Influences on Russian Foreign Policy', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-067X(97)00018-4
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Aging Problems in Europe
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Aging is becoming a major problem in many developed countries around the world. Basically the problem comes about due to good medical services and such amenities result in the population which is healthy and these results in a long life expectancy. Due to the thriving economy majority of the population is working class, this combined with being busy and most concentrating on their careers and not wanting to settle down and have children results to a low birth rate or it maybe cause of a decrease in death rate both at infancy and grown adults resulting in a population boom. After a couple of years this becomes a problem because the result is majority of the population becomes the older generation and younger generation becomes thinner with each day (Population Action International, 2009). In the end an economy will be choked to decline because it will be left with an ageing population to care for while at the same time lack enough human resource or working force to support them and at the same time support a thriving economy this in long term can lead to serious decline of a nation. This presents a detailed discussion of aging problems in Europe but with particular focus on Germany Italy and France. The paper also explores the causes of increasing older people within the countries and the social welfare systems within the countries.
Sudnik (2009) observes that in Europe this is one of the major problems they are trying to tackle because averagely in the union the working hours per capita is around 35 hours and with increased periods for leaves and a generation that targets early retirement can result in an economy that is suffering from acute labor force deficiency or lack of enough labor force to drive itself forward leading to a decline or stagnation of an economy. Studies reveal that in most cities in Europe the birthrate is much smaller than the death rate; this signifies a shrinking population which in a period of about 40-50 years will result in the population in Europe shrinking by about 10% and will also result in the productivity of the EU in relation to contribution to the global economy drop by almost half and if these forecasts are true then the planners will have an enormous task at their disposal as they try to reverse this tendency before it out gets out of hand.
AGING PROBLEMS IN GERMANY
Population Action International (2009) states that Germany is the one of the countries with the highest population in western side of Europe but with one of the lowest fertility rates anywhere in the world. This is going to automatically result in a low birth in the country leading to a decline in population after a few generations. And unless the immigration rate increases annually then its one of the countries that's going to have a major effect due to the problem as at now most of the population is made up of older people who in a few years will need to be looked after and with no one to do that this is going to seriously incapacitate the economy (Sudnik, 2009).
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Another reason for the low birth rate is most couples tend to settle down when for example the man is already over 50 years old and they tend tom have low sexual drive which can also impede the rate of conceiving among couples of this age while most people are either married or engaged most women have a tendency to use contraceptives frequently and this could result in a low birth rate despite the fertility rate of the same women (Eric's World, 2010). And another fact is many Germans are leaving their homeland to other parts of the world and with its low immigration rate its clearly going to be crippled by the increased resources diverted to caring for a majority old age society. So unless the government manages the women who are fertile to give birth to more children the country has a pending economic disaster waiting for them.
Eric's World (2010) asserts that another indicant were that the learned a woman is in Germany the less likely they are to have kids like women from west Germany who are highly learned had less children than the ordinary woman. This is leading to the government trying to turn the nation into a more family like nation hence to attract immigrants which it isn't due to immigrants facing a lot of prejudice and other forms of stigma and try and make people build families through good healthcare systems. As the population ages fast the males tend to be less in number is comparison to the females. Also due to enough exposure on sex and birth control where teenagers are taught about some of the issues in society , teenage pregnancy in German is very low in comparison to other countries which though shouldn't be advocated could increase birth rate in the country.
Welfare system in Germany
The system in this country is subdivided into hree categories while catering for all situations. The first one caters for the loss of income or sometimes the expenditures that are accidental or illness but cost a lot, like for example when you grow very old or become disabled or in some cases unemployment as the country has a high unemployment rate. The second one is the usual like any other country where people contribute to the other social requirements like medical insurance and the pension scheme of which any working individual is obligated to do and this includes other kinds of benefits depending on the individual requirement and this can in handy when dealing with compensation especially issues that affect socially as a whole and this includes education funds for children and others that include house funding scheme (Population Action International, 2009). The final scheme is one that caters for those who are unable to pay the other two schemes hence unable to sustain a good life like people who are too old to work and their pension too little to support them or the mentally handicapped who cant fend for themselves and the assistance can be presented in various ways for example in can be given to cater for housing, for food or medical care.
Hence with the aging problem in the country and with time the number of people contributing to the first two schemes will decrease leading to the government sometimes needing to add to the social coffers and this will add to strain the government spending. At the same time the percentage or number of people depending on the third scheme which is more of aid will dramatically rise as most people will be of old age and on pension hence will require some kind of aid. This will put pressure and decrease the amount set aside for such causes and with the dwindling resource from the other two coffers the government will have to allocate more resources from its budget hence straining it and this will eventually affect the economy as the productivity will reduce while the expenditure continues to rise sharply (The Age Company, 2004).
Retirement rate in Germany
Most people in Germany are trying to retire early, and the basic retirement age for people in public service in Germany Is around 63 years. For one to retire you have to calculate the amount if money required to fund your pension scheme and if this is to be achieved one has to save a certain percentage of money ton achieve this and increase the percentage if you want to retire early. But with the aging problem the government was thinking of raising the basic age limit for retirement to 67 years. By doing this the government is trying to increase the people contributing into social funds and reducing the number who are dependent on the same (Population Action International, 2009).
So as to curb the aging problem the government needs to introduce some perks for like families with children by granting leaves for the same while being relieved some responsibilities like paying some of the social schemes by governments chipping in. This can encourage people to settle and children while at the same time the introduction of programs like encouraging young people to concentrate on as much families as much as their careers. And stress on the same in becoming successful rather than just on the career. By doing this what can be achieved is a nation full of people with careers and families and with such responsibilities early retirement for most may not be an option while at the same time instilling the need to have children and families and in the long run it will help in eliminating the aging problems as new generations will emerge (The Age Company, 2004).
Through this a co-relation will or is established where the working class take care of the elderly indirectly through contributing to the social schemes that will be used in the taking care of the elderly when they are too old to fend for themselves.
AGING PROBLEM IN ITALY
Italy is another country suffering from these where its birth rate is half the death rate. In some areas its characterized by empty playgrounds and parks where the children are not there or are scarce so they don't normally go to the parks and its like its become reverse and the same place is now meant for the elderly. The same can be even reflected in the nation's leadership where most of their national leaders are quite old and almost seventy which is a sharp contrast to other countries in the western world where majority of leaders are quite young (The Age Company, 2004). And to make it worse some efforts by the government to encourage a high birth rate by giving incentives like cash which was introduced due to low very low fertility have since failed. As far as immigration kind of make up for this some incidents like racism and discrimination are also hampering such options. By offering some of these additions the government is trying to encourage or increase the fertility rate and help solve the aging issue.
Welfare system in Italy
The country has introduced a welfare system which caters for universal health care for all though the contributions per month are steep it, has proved a major success. This with a complicated pension scheme of pay as you earn makes up the Italian welfare scheme although there are private schemes which are for the elite and more expensive (Eric's World, 2010). At the same time the government has tried to eradicate unemployment by introducing some cash handouts for the unemployed and by this leveling thing out. While giving out these handouts, there things put into consideration like family size hence the larger the family the bigger the handout. Another way to tackle the aging problem is maternity leaves are long, while the social need s are provided to the needy or the very elderly who can't fend for themselves.
Retirement age in Italy
The country has since raised its retirement age to 65 years old due the rapid ageing population which will result in lack of work labor as most will be retired and this may increase the number of people dependent on government payouts which will definitely affect the economy. By this it will reduce the ageing effect which creates loss of labor as most of the older generation will still be at work. While reducing the government expenditure on cash handouts or the money spent on social work of caring for the elderly (The Age Company, 2004).
AGEING IN FRANCE
In this country, it has one of the highest birth rates in Europe. And if the trend continues then it's going to have one of the youngest populations in the Europe. But for now France faces a big deficit in pension budget as the numbers are increasing rapidly prompting the government to put a mandatory retirement age of 60 years old which has since been raised to 62. And some reforms have been brought about that bear the burden for workers as they are deducted more to effect the deficits.
Welfare system in France (Sudnik, 2009).
The welfare in this country is based on a system that involves pension, the other services like health care and family. The system is in such a manner a worker continually pays into the scheme and it caters for the above services or in a case where he/she doesn't have a job so it assists in meeting the needs depending on the services the person requires.
Retirement in France
The age has since been increased to 62 by the government and this is as a result of increase retirees who benefit on the scheme set up by the government and this was straining the scheme as the dependants are almost exceeding those who are paying into the scheme and this has resulted in some changes that were not taken well by workers as thy feel over burdened (The Age Company, 2004).
PROBLEMS WITH THE ELDERLY IN THE U.S.A
Stibich (2009) points out that the number of elderly people in the US is rising slowly and in about two decades its predicted to rise to over 20% of the population. This is a large number considering the amount of pressure it exacts in the state economically as they are not productive. This is a result of better health care hence increasing the life expectancy which has risen to over 70 years for most individuals. This means double the resources employed now will be used in caring for them as the work force will also increase. All this will be supported by the social care which all citizens contribute to in other words to avoid these either the age of retirement will have to rise to increase work force or the fertility rate to go high (Stibich, 2009). This maybe accelerated easily if the women now are after more of success hence prefer to have less and less babies which will result in a low birth rate despite a high fertility rate resulting in the aging problem deepening even more and this will mean that the elders will be more that children under fifteen years old. And this will easily result in a population where the elderly who need to be cared for are more than the younger generation. The end result will mean either the nation will import manpower or labor for the same or there will be an acute shortage in staff.
All the countries above the problem might not be very visible now but in a few years its toll will begin to appear and with no action the result would be devastating. So some steps should be put in place to curb the aging effects or we may end up seeing the collapse or decline of these economic giants duel inadequate labor to drive the economies.
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National Geographic: Outlaw's Guide to Iceland
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It's Europe's last great wilderness, a land of geysers, glaciers, fjords and farmer-poets. A land where your best guide is a thieving, murdering outlaw who's been dead for a thousand years.
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"This boy Grettir—well, he was trouble from the very beginning."
High atop Drangey Island, Jón Eiriksson stands at the nub of a jagged rectangle of stones, looking out at the fjord and the mainland beyond. Above him, sea birds wheel in the salt wind over Drangey, a green-capped spike of rock thrust down, like an axe head, into a tongue of the North Sea. Jón pulls off his cap and runs his fingers through a tussock of white hair, then he sits down on a half-buried stone.
"Grettir is our neighbor, you know," Jón says. "He was born on a farm near Midfjord, a place called Bjarg. That means 'stone' in Icelandic. When he was young, he was a handsome boy, with red hair and a broad face. But very rough and mischievous. He made clever poems, but they were mostly scornful. His father and nearly everyone believed that he would amount to nothing."
Jón talks in the familiar terms one might use to describe a ne'er-do-well kid who squeals his tires through the subdivision. But at the age of 72, Jón isn't quite old enough to have known his juvenile-delinquent neighbor.
Grettir was born a thousand years ago.
I had arrived in Iceland three weeks earlier with photographer Michael Moore, determined to follow the path of Grettir Asmundarson—the warrior, poet, ghostbuster, and outdoorsman popularly known hereabouts as Grettir the Strong. This medieval Jesse James outwitted his pursuers for nearly 20 years, roaming and wreaking havoc across the harshest and most remote corners of 11th-century Iceland. As any Icelander will attest, and as Jón tells us, "Grettir was not only the strongest man who ever lived in Iceland, but also the greatest outlaw."
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Author Kenneth Oppel and illustrator Sydney Smith first met at the Canadian Library Association awards ceremony in Toronto in 2016. Smith had won the illustration award for Sidewalk Flowers, and Oppel book of the year for children for The Nest. Noticing Smith had his sketchbook with him, Oppel asked if he could take a peek. "I always want to look at artists' sketchbooks because they're magical," Oppel says. He was amazed at how Smith could conjure a person, a movement, or an emotion with just a few lines. Not long after, Oppel finished the first draft of his new novel Inkling(HarperCollins, Sept.), about an inkblot that escapes a sketchbook and shakes up a family of three – artist/single dad, 11-year-old Ethan, and younger sister Sarah – for the better. He knew Smith had to illustrate it. Here, the two talk collaboration, tough topics in Inkling, and what they would ask the inkblot to do for them.


We are a Full Service Hunter/Jumper barn that offers training, boarding and riding lessons in Central Kentucky. We train kids and adults at all different levels and work with all breeds of horses from 2 to 20+ years old. We are located just 10 minutes from Downtown Lexington, University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Horse Park. We are just minutes from Midway University.


Variety has received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for overall magazine coverage of LGBTQ issues.
In addition to Variety's almost daily coverage of LGBTQ stories across its digital platforms, the magazine published its first transgender issue in August featuring a cover with Hollywood trailblazers Chaz Bono, Laverne Cox ("Orange Is the New Black"), and Alexandra Billings ("Transparent"). The three also participated in a roundtable discussion along with Trace Lysette, Jen Richards, and Brian Michael.
The issue's 20 trans and non-binary actors to watch list included "Pose's" Mj Rodriguez, Asia Kate Dillon of "Billions," "Sense8" star Jamie Clayton, Alexandra Grey, Ian Harvie, Hari Nef, Alex Blue Davis, and Scott Turner Schofield.
Most recently, the current issue of Variety includes "Broad City" star Abbi Jacobson discussing "discovering [her] queerness" after dating a woman for the first time.
GQ, Ebony, Entertainment Weekly, and Billboard are also vying for the overall magazine coverage award.
Nominations for the 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced live on Friday by Rodriguez and funny man Nico Santos ("Superstore" and "Crazy Rich Asians") during a livestream from the Sundance Film Festival. There are 151 nominees among 27 categories. The nominated films include "The Favourite," "Crazy Rich Asians," "Love, Simon," and "Deadpool." As Variety first reported, GLAAD dropped "Bohemian Rhapsody" from the outstanding film category in the wake of additional sexual assault and misconduct allegations made against director Bryan Singer.
The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in Los Angeles on March 28 at the Beverly Hilton, and in New York on May 4 at the Hilton Midtown.


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Engineering in period of growth, dean says
By Keegan Bales May 16, 2010
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences David Dolling reminded graduates that engineers and computer scientists are in high demand, during his address at the SEAS graduation ceremony Saturday evening in the Smith Center. Dolling said graduates will enter the world during a period of growth for engineering, which demand the skills students […]
Makeup schedule poses problems
By Keegan Bales April 21, 2010
Junior Melissa Henderson planned to use April 29 and April 30 to study for finals this semester. Those two days – previously designated as reading days – were going to give her time to spread out her studying and writing assignments, two tasks that often take over the lives of students at the end of […]
Elderly and students dance night away at annual Senior Prom
By Keegan Bales February 28, 2010
Web Exclusive More than 200 senior citizens from the D.C. community traveled to the Marvin Center Grand Ballroom to chat, eat and dance with GW students for the eighth annual Senior Prom Sunday afternoon. Hatchet Video Students and seniors clad in shiny masks and colorful beads attended the event – which was Mardi Gras-themed this […]
Best cure for heroin addiction is… heroin?
By Keegan Bales January 20, 2010
Web Exclusive Correction appended A D.C. councilmember joined doctors and drug experts to discuss a controversial treatment for heroin addiction Wednesday night in the Jack Morton Auditorium. Councilmember Tommy Wells, who represents Ward 6, said that the surge of heroin use and cases of HIV in the District is a crisis that demands an aggressive […]
Chertoff discusses emergency planning
By Keegan Bales December 2, 2009
Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security and co-author of the USA Patriot Act, encouraged nations to work together to combat terrorism and natural disasters during a conference hosted by the University Tuesday. Chertoff was the keynote speaker at the third annual Homeland Security Workshop where this year's topic was emergency preparedness and crisis management. […]
Heat in residence halls prompts student complaints
By Keegan Bales October 25, 2009
The University turned on the heat for the winter months in buildings across campus this week, but with outside temperatures in the District reaching 80 degrees at times, students interviewed said the heat in buildings have made them uncomfortable and frustrated. Juan Ibanez, associate vice president for Facilities, said the heat was turned on the […]
Most of freshman class attends Convocation
By Keegan Bales August 30, 2009
University President Steven Knapp urged freshmen to participate in public service and take advantage of GW's extensive alumni network and accomplished faculty at Freshman Convocation Sunday afternoon in the Smith Center. A majority of the more than 2,500 freshmen attended the event, which was followed by a barbecue in University yard. "No matter what you […]
A presidential summer
University President Steven Knapp spent the summer as many GW students do: working and finding time to escape D.C.'s legendary humidity. Knapp enjoyed a busy summer, participating in the GW Leadership Retreat, vacationing with his family in Utah and visiting his private farm in Sparks, Md., where he raises sheep. The retreat, which is held […]
Reporters tell war stories at ESIA
Sunday, May 3 A panel of journalists shared the horrors and difficulties of war reporting in a discussion Thursday night at the Elliott School. The event, hosted by the GW chapter of Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, was designed to promote freedom of the press, particularly in war zones. The journalists on the panel […]
Latina sorority returns to campus
Sigma Lambda Upsilon Inc., a traditionally Latina sorority, returned to GW after a three-year absence with a lively ceremony Thursday night in Kogan Plaza. Members of the Greek-letter community came out to satisfy their curiosity Thursday night after receiving a vague e-mail from Director of Greek Life Dean Harwood saying that there would be a […]


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C) can probably be found in your own kitchen.
To help solve this puzzle, read the ingredients on most any package of American cheese. The answer: Annatto! And it makes a beautiful garden or landscape addition.
For years I had read the ingredients of many foods and wondered what this mysterious ingredient known as annatto could be. It is found in cheese, margarine and many things that need to be tinted yellow, orange or red. Now I am not exactly sure why cheese needs to be dyed to look more like cheese, but I can tell you annatto is a subtropical tree. More specifically, the coloring is derived from the red aril surrounding the actual seeds.
Bixa orellana, aka annatto, is a smallish tree, or shrub, native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central and South America. It's also found, possibly naturalized, in the Caribbean, and has been introduced as a cash crop in many other tropical parts of the world. It makes an ideal ornamental addition to any landscape found in USDA zones 10–12. That's us, South Florida, but also Hawaii, Puerto Rico and parts of Southern California.
Though not a native, have no fear as it will not overrun your garden—the example at Fairchild is very well behaved. Bixa will grow to a very workable 20 to 30 feet tall, forming a nice shady but open canopy, while not growing so wide as to out compete nearby plants. Some of its attractive features include its foliage, with fairly large leaves shaped like rotund Valentine hearts. Flowers are pale pink with profuse pink stamens, an appealing source of food for bees.
But undoubtedly its greatest selling point is its striking fruit. After its flowers fade, they give way to seed pods about the size of a smallish lime. Tapering to a slight point (known as acuminate), the pods start out an optimistic bright green and covered with soft spikes. They mature to a deep fiery red. Set against the green foliage and blue sky, these crimson pendants are a striking standout. Unlike the color of most flowers, the red pods remain vivid for quite a while, and mature to a mahogany brown. They then fall to the ground and open to release the pyramidal red seeds within. These are pulverized and used to color foodstuffs, as well as in soaps, cosmetics, candy, popcorn and the wax rind covering on some kinds of cheese. Annatto coloring can also be used as ersatz saffron to yield a similar color without the high price.
Bixa orellana is named for explorer Francisco de Orellana, the first person known to have navigated the entire length of the Amazon River, known at one time as the Rio de Orellana. The native people of the tropics traditionally used the Bixa leaves, seeds and an oil derivative medicinally for myriad ailments, and it is still used today in Central and South America. It indeed seems promising, based on many modern studies, as a source of medicines treating problems ranging from irritated skin to renal functions. With high carotenoid content, annatto may serve as an antioxidant as well. In the wonderful book "Tropical & Subtropical Trees," Margaret Barwick says annatto once yielded the fabric dye Congo red, long since replaced by synthetics.
Prune your annatto to keep it small and shrubby, or let it grow into a small tree. It prefers full sun, with bright shade acceptable. Adding some compost and mulch to our poor South Florida soil—and keeping it away from salt water or spray—will help keep your annatto happy. Fairchild's upcoming Spring Garden Festival & Plant Sale on April 11 and 12 will offer annatto plants for sale.
Annatto stays compact and open.
The mature, brown annatto pod opens to release its seeds.


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Bai Chongxi (; Großjährigkeitsname ; * 18. März 1893 in Kreis Lingui, Provinz Guangxi; † 1. Dezember 1966 in Taipeh) war ein chinesischer Militär und Politiker. Von 1927 bis 1949 war er Generalstabschef der nationalchinesischen Streitkräfte.

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Bai Chongxi war Hui-Chinese und Muslim. Er wurde 1924 während der Ära der Kriegsherren berühmt, indem er sich mit Huang Shaohong (dem stellvertretenden Kommandeur der Guangxi Division) und Li Zongren zur Unterstützung von Sun Yat-sen verbündete. Während der Nordexpedition 1926 bis 1928 war er Stabschef der Nationalen Revolutionsarmee und führte zusammen mit Li Zongren die Guangxi-Amee und kämpfte erfolgreich gegen die nördlichen Warlords. Am 30./31. August 1926 startete er einen heftigen Angriff gegen die Truppen von Sun Chuanfang und siegte in der Nähe von Longtan. 1928 verfolgte er die Fengtian-Truppen unter General Zhang Zongchang in die Mandschurei, dabei gelang es ihm fast 20.000 Soldaten gefangen zu nehmen.

Sein Verhältnis zum Präsidenten Chiang Kai-shek war wechselhaft. Am 10. Februar 1930 ging er mit Feng Yuxiang, der noch 100.000 Mann unter Waffen hatte, mit Yan Xishan und Li Zongren ein Bündnis gegen Chiang Kai-shek ein. Es kam zu einem extrem blutigen und teuren Krieg in der chinesischen Zentralebene, den Chiang für sich entscheiden konnte.

Bai Chongxi  unterstützte Chiang später im chinesisch-japanischen Krieg und im Chinesischen Bürgerkrieg gegen die Kommunisten. Der Widerstandskrieg gegen Japan brach am 7. Juli 1937 aus. Am 21. Juli riefen Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren und Huang Xuchu gemeinsam die nationale Regierung auf, den Widerstand von Chiang Kai-shek gegen Japan zu unterstützen. Am 2. August rief Chiang Kai-shek Bai Chongxi an und bat ihn nach Nanking zu kommen, zwei Tage später wurde Bai von Guilin nach Nanking geflogen. Am 20. August wurde er zum stellvertretenden Stabschef und Leiter der Militärkommission für militärischen Ausbildung ernannt. Nachdem sich der Verlust von Shanghai (November 1937) an die Japaner abzeichnete, bestanden Bai, Li Zongren und Zhang Fakui darauf, dass die chinesischen Truppen sofort in die Verteidigungslinien zwischen Wufu und Xicheng besetzen sollten, um das bedrohte Nanking halten zu können. Chiang lehnte diesen Vorschlag ab und ließ die chinesischen Truppen weiter am südlichen Ufer des Flusses Suzhou weiter kämpfen. Im Frühjahr 1938 war Bai Generalstabschef des von Li Zongren geführten 5. Militärbezirks und hatte entscheidenden Anteil am chinesischen Sieg in der Schlacht um Tai'erzhuang. Am 14. August 1944 wurde ihm das Oberkommando über die chinesischen Truppen in den Provinzen Hunan und Guanxi übertragen, als Stabschef wurde ihm General Zhang Fakui beigegeben. Bai Chongxi sollte er versuchen die ihm unterstellten Truppen zu reorganisieren, um die Verteidigung der Städte Guilin und Liuzhou vorzubereiten, unterlag aber bis Mitte November 1944 der japanischen 11. Armee.

Von Juni 1946 bis 1948 fungierte er als Verteidigungsminister, der Bürgerkrieg mit den Kommunisten verlief für die Kuomintang aber schlecht, da Chiangs Strategie, die Provinzhauptstädte zu behalten und das Land den Kommunisten zu überlassen, schnell zum Zerfall der Streitkräfte führte. Bai geriet mit Chiang endgültig in Gegnerschaft, als er Li Zongren für die Vizepräsidentschaft bei den Parlamentswahlen 1948 unterstützte, die Li gegen Chiangs Kandidaten Sun Fo gewann. Chiang entfernte Bai darauf vom Posten des Verteidigungsministers und übertrug ihm die militärische Verantwortung für Zentral- und Südchina. Bais Streitkräfte waren am Ende des Bürgerkrieges auch die letzten, die das chinesische Festland verließen, Hainan erfolglos verteidigten und sich schließlich nach Taiwan zurückziehen mussten.

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Person der Warlord-Ära (Republik China)
Person im Chinesischen Bürgerkrieg
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14 German folk songs sung by an American singer. Each album contains lyrics, for those who want to sing along.
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PERSPECTIVE PLANNING DIVISION
Through the Plans
Five Year Plans : First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh
The primary role of the Perspective Planning Division is to analyse, assess, estimate and make projections relating to quantitative dimension of medium term and long term development plans. The projection exercises ensure that the quantitative dimensions of the plans are consistent between sectors and between various macro economic aggregates. The Division is responsible for making the projection of economic growth and its sector-wise distribution, projection of levels of living, estimation of poverty ratios, projection of Governments' fiscal balance, assessment and estimation of external sector balance. The Division has a formal economic modeling unit for providing sectoral growth profiles of the economy under alternative assumptions. The activities of the Division cover:
(a) Macro-Economic Modeling
Macro-balance in National Accounting Frame under alternative assumptions of growth profiles and (a) formulating appropriate macro-economic model (b) analyzing sectoral growth and investment profiles/requirements and the emerging structures of the economy, (c) inter-sectoral flow of funds including alternative savings instruments. Analysis of input-output structure; sectoral projections based on consistency-cum-investment planning model for estimating mutually consistent growth targets of various sectors. Analysis of State level income aggregates and its sectoral distribution; measurement of inter-state economic disparity and their inter-temporal variations.
(b) Fiscal Issues
Preparation of the fiscal sub-model of the macro-economic model for medium term plans. Assessment of the fiscal position of the Government in the medium term. Analysis of various components of government finances and measures of the deficits and policy implication for macro economic stability and growth.
(c) External Sector
Short and medium-term projections for imports, exports at sectoral level; policy issues associated with the WTO agreements. Projection of imports, exports, invisibles, current account balance and balance of payments, using a model for the external sector. Status papers on trade and customs tariff policy. Technical appraisal of WTO agreements and issues of concern for India based on developments in the global economy.
(d) Consumption and Levels of Living
Assessment of class distribution of consumption and indicators of levels of living. Estimation of poverty line and incidence of poverty for which the Planning Commission is the nodal agency in the Government of India. The incidence of poverty and inequality estimated at national and state level at regular intervals. Analysis of issues relating to human development and their measurement; preparation of the National Human Development Report.
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Steering Committee/ Wokring Group on 11th Plan
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This articulated ring is sterling silver with a bone motif. The three rings are adjustable, so they will fit from a size 8 - 12 with no problem. I was only able to get one. One this one is gone, it's gone.
Sterling Silver King Chain accented with enameled red copper. To see the close-up of the pattern click on the top picture at left. The pattern is really quite striking. Both the 18" necklace and 8" bracelet feature a sterling silver lobster clasp and can be combined to really make the neighbours jealous. These pieces are featured in theChain Mail Jewelry book.
Titanium and rubber bracelet knitted with 3 rows of rubber and 2 rows of titanium. Rings are all 5/16" X 1/16". If you have metal allergies, this is a cool accessory that won't cause you to break out and won't break the bank. Available in a variety of colours.
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Titanium and rubber bracelet knitted with 4 rows of rubber and 3 rows of titanium. Rings are all 5/16" X 1/16". If you have metal allergies, this is a cool accessory that won't cause you to break out and won't break the bank. Available in a variety of colours.
The following are some of the knits you can choose from in pretty much any material. Some knits are not possible in certain rings because the ratio of wire diameter to ring diameter makes for an impossibly tight weave. If you want to knit it yourself, these knits are described in Chain Mail Basics 3rd Edition.
Here's an extreme close-up of sterling silver 18AWG 1/8" diameter rings. The knit is double-knit cable chain.
This is Knit-3-Drop-1, done in 14K gold-filled 20 AWG 1/8" dia. rings. It makes a gorgeous bracelet that's reminiscent of flowers.
Here we have a French Rope knit, again in the 1/8" gold-filled rings. Note that this knit is not available in 18AWG wire & 1/8" rings, because the knit is just too tight. It will work, however, in 18AWG 3/32"rings.
This knit is Foxtail. As you can see it's awfully tight in the 20AWG 1/8" ring, but it's still flexible.
This knit is known as King Chain, King's Braid, or Byzantine. It's deceptively easy to knit. Despite its look, it's a close cousin to Foxtail.
Sterling silver double-knit cable chain, 1/8" dia. loops. Unlike a normal hard ring, these move and give with you. They feel like a living ring. If you can't wear rings at work because of a crushing or catching hazard you can safely wear these. The joints in each loop are butted instead of soldered; if a machine grabbs your finger by the ring, the ring would break loose instead of the finger.
Sterling silver 3 row and 4 row 4-in-1 knit living rings. 1/8" dia. loop, 1 mm wire.
14K Yellow gold-filled double-knit cable chain, 1/8" dia. loops. Unlike a normal hard ring, these move and give with you. They feel like a living ring. If you can't wear rings at work because of a crushing or catching hazard, you can wear these. The joints in each loop are butted instead of soldered; if a machine grabs your finger by the ring, the ring would break loose, instead of the finger.
14K Yellow gold-filled 3 row and 4 row 4-in-1 knit living rings. 1/8" dia. loop, 0.8 mm wire.
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Counting this post, I blogged 11 times this year. I couldn't even manage a measly post a month. It wasn't for lack of things going on. I mostly hated the format of my blog and my whole media workflow. Photos on Flickr (and now Brizzly), status and jokes on Twitter (synced to Facebook), videos on YouTube, everything on Friendfeed, Reader and Tumblr. It's a mess. It's a mess I hope to sort out in 2010 but it's neither here nor there. I did give shellen.com a little makeover so maybe I'll stop hating it so much. A big help along the way, I'm using Typekit to give it a fresh new feel. Instead of an empty promise to blog more in 2010 maybe I should just plan to sort out this mess for you, me and everyone. Happy New Year and happy new media!


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Christian boarding schools in Clarksburg, West Virginia — Agape Boarding School May be the Best Choice. – military schools and therapeutic boys homes.
Christian Boarding Schools in Clarksburg, West Virginia
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Looking for a Christian Boarding School in Clarksburg, West Virginia for Your Boy?
While you search for a Christian boarding school in Clarksburg, West Virginia for your teenage son, would you also consider a program in a different place that is affordable, and has helped struggling boys to turn their lives around for the past 21 years?
Conveniently situated in the center of the country, Agape Boarding School accepts at-risk boys from all over America. We are also certified to enroll international students. A number of boys typically come to our Christian boarding school from the West Coast, Texas, New England, Illinois and Florida, and even Clarksburg, West Virginia.
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Typically, the boys who come to Agape are exhibiting behavior issues such as defiance of authority, lying, lack of motivation in academics, associating with the wrong crowd, anger, ADHD, experimenting with drugs or alcohol, or otherwise following the wrong path in life that could lead to serious problems if it were to continue.
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Even though our main focus is on dealing with inappropriate behavior and mentoring these boys, as a Christian boarding school, we also provide an accredited education, competitive sports and an array of daily activities — all at a very cost-effective price. Agape helps teenage boys become respectful, disciplined and educated young men. Real change comes from our emphasis on the power of God to change lives. And our structured environment away from their peers, helps the boys learn positive new patterns and habits for living.
teens who attend the Agape Christian boarding school have an opportunity to catch up and complete their high school coursework and prepare for college. Boys follow an accredited curriculum to earn high school graduation. Boys also study a variety of vocational skills at Agape, including automotive repair, painting, electrical, tiling, laying carpet, cement work, construction, landscaping, welding, and more. Students are well-prepared for college or entry into initial jobs in the workforce, having gained these skills, as well as the self-discipline that will serve them all their lives.
Boys also enjoy daily activities and athletic programs. The campus boasts a full-size gymnasium and well-equipped indoor recreation center; baseball, football, and soccer fields and a volleyball court and boxing arena; a fishing pond and a small lake; horse barns and an outdoor riding arena; and an in-ground swimming pool, among other facilities. The ranch also is home to a wide variety of exotic animals, from alpacas to zebras.
Though not located in Clarksburg, West Virginia, Agape Christian Boarding School Enrolls and Helps Boys from Around the Country, Including Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Many teen boys from Clarksburg, West Virginia have turned their lives around with the assistance of Agape Boarding School and anticipate a promising future.
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