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Homeopathy is controversial.
Public figures from politicians to comedians frequently make strong statements against homeopathy, but very few people have actually had the chance to read the facts about homeopathy research for themselves.
Homeopathy Research Institute takes the most commonly repeated statements about homeopathy and sees how accurate they are according to the scientific evidence we have so far.
'There is no scientific evidence homeopathy works'
'There isn't a single good clinical trial showing homeopathy works'
'Scientists say homeopathy is impossible'
'There's nothing in it'
Find answers to your questions in English, French, German, Italian Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.
The Homeopathy Research Institute website offers an indepth resources area that provides accurate and reliable information to those who want the facts about homeopathy research. The widely used 'Frequently Asked Questions' take the most commonplace criticisms of homeopathy and gives clear, evidence-based answers to the most commonly repeated statements about homeopathy. Answers now available in English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Make sure you have the correct facts and find out what's behind the biggest stories:
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)'s Report on Homeopathy (Australian Report)
European Academies Science Advisory Council statement on homeopathy
The UK 'Science & Technology' report, 2010
The Lancet Paper, 2005
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VIVO to be title sponsor for IPL 2021
Chennai: Brijesh Patel, the chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Thursday announced that VIVO will be the title sponsor for this year's edition.
"Vivo is back, this edition to be announced as VIVO IPL 2021, welcome back Vivo," said Brijesh on Star Sports during the welcome speech of the IPL auction.
The IPL chairman also confirmed that IPL 2021 will most likely see fans return to the stadium.
"Cannot wait to have fans back in attendance, most likely they will be in attendance for this year's IPL, we held one season behind closed doors," said Brijesh.
The IPL "mini-auction" this year is witnessing 291 players going under the hammer as England pacer Mark Wood withdrew from the auction at the end moment. All these cricketers have been shortlisted by the eight franchises. A total of 164 Indian players, 125 overseas players, and 3 players from associate nations are up for grabs in the mini-auction.
Rs 2 crore is the highest reserve price and two Indian players – Harbhajan Singh and Kedar Jadhav – and eight overseas players – Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett, Jason Roy, and Mark Wood chose to be slotted in the highest bracket.
However, right on the eve of the auction, England pacer Wood decided to withdraw his name in order to spend time with his family, reported ESPNcricinfo.
12 players are on the auction list with a base price of Rs 1.5 crore. Hanuma Vihari and Umesh Yadav are the two Indian players in the list of 11 cricketers with a base price of Rs 1 crore. (ANI)
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> Newsroom > Press Releases > Vance Bell Transitions to Executive Chairman of Shaw Industries
Vance Bell Transitions to Executive Chairman of Shaw Industries
March 11, 2021 - "It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as CEO of this exceptional organization, and I look forward to supporting Shaw and its leadership well into the future." - Vance Bell
Shaw Industries Group Inc. (Shaw), a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., announced today that Vance Bell has been named Executive Chairman and will be stepping down as CEO effective April 5. The company said that in addition to his role as President, Tim Baucom will succeed Bell as CEO. After nine to 12 months as Executive Chairman, Bell will move to non-executive Chairman of the company.
"After 45 years as part of the Shaw organization and 15 years as CEO, it is time to provide room for another generation of leadership. I'm pleased that Tim Baucom will become our new President and CEO effective April 5. Tim has the character, experience and leadership skills to be an outstanding chief executive for Shaw. Under his leadership I have no doubt that the company will achieve new and higher levels of success," commented Bell.
As Executive Chairman, Bell will be directly engaged in corporate strategy, acquisitions and major capital deployment along with providing advice and guidance to Baucom and the leadership team. As President and CEO, Baucom will have full authority and responsibility for the day-to-day operations and financial results of the business.
Baucom joined Shaw in 1992 after spending the first 11 years of his career with DuPont, where he held positions in engineering, manufacturing, planning, sales and marketing. Since joining Shaw, Baucom has led residential and commercial sales and marketing, as well as the company's Spectra organization. He was instrumental in building the commercial business into the largest and most profitable commercial flooring entity in North America. As president, he has continued to drive Shaw's customer-centric approach.
"I am grateful for every opportunity I have been provided under Vance Bell's leadership to serve Shaw's customers, communities, and – above all – our more than 20,000 co-workers around the world. I have experienced first-hand, every day the difference our people make in the experience of our customers – and in the future of the places in which we live and work," Baucom said. "All of us at Shaw and within the industry will benefit from Vance's continued involvement and support as Executive Chairman."
Over the past 15 years, Bell has guided Shaw through rapid change in the flooring market, along with navigating challenging economic cycles. Shaw is a dramatically different company today than in 2006 when nylon carpet represented more than 90 percent of the company's revenues.
Through investment, acquisition and innovation Shaw:
is the market leader in residential carpet, making extensive investments throughout its manufacturing footprint, including state-of-the-art polyester fiber assets
is the market leader in resilient flooring, the industry's fastest growing category, utilizing both best-in-class global logistics and domestic manufacturing
has built one of the largest and most profitable commercial flooring businesses in the world, including global expansion with manufacturing in China and Scotland
has a leading market position in hardwood flooring
is an innovation leader in the artificial turf industry with significant growth prospects
Most importantly, Bell and the Shaw leadership team have enhanced and strengthened the Shaw culture by developing The Shaw Way, combined with a high-performance talent model that enhances organizational effectiveness and attracts the best talent in the industry.
"It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as CEO of this exceptional organization, and I look forward to supporting Shaw and its leadership well into the future," Bell said. "I am proud of the tremendous progress the company has made. Our talent and culture are widely respected, our focus on the customer is unrivaled, our products and markets are more diversified, and our profitability and access to capital have allowed us to make large investments for the future. I believe the company is in a uniquely strong position with its best days ahead of it, and I have no doubt that Tim and his team will take us to new heights."


The Old Foodie: How to Ornament a Tongue as a Dolphin.
Can food be art? To rephrase the question (or perhaps it is a slightly different question?) – can art be made from food?
Your butter must be tough, waxy, and as white as possible; old firkin butter is best, made from poor land; for this kind of work, wash it well in spring water, then work it on a marble slab, and put it again into fresh spring water; as the water gets warm, remove it for cold.
To Ornament a Tongue as a Dolphin.
Boil an ox tongue and lay it straight, except at the tip end, which you must bend a little; when cold, pare it neatly, and fix it upright upon a dish with a bit of butter; then model butter in the shape of the head and mouth of a dolphin, and fix it to the thick part of the tongue; make also the fins, eyes, teeth, &c., after which model a tail and fix it to the tip end; vein it neatly with a very small pointed skewer, anf fix two currants in the proper place for the eyes. You must use skewers to fix the butter.
To Ornament a Tongue with Flowers.
Boil a tongue and lay in in a small hair sieve. When cold pare it neatly and set it on your dish; force butter through the squirt; run some of the wires on the tongue to represent the stalk, and place leaves on each side; model rosebuds and roses – or any other sort of flowers your fancy directs – and fix them in different parts of the tongue. This will make a neat supper dish if well executed.
Take 1 ½ lbs. of butter, 2 lbs. of castor sugar, the yolks of 20 eggs and the whites of 10 eggs, 1 ¾ lbs. of flour, and the grated rind of 4 oranges; cream the butter and sugar together, add the yolks and the grated rind of the oranges, have the whites of the eggs well beaten. Then add the flour and stir all gently together; put into hoops nicely papered, and bake in a moderate oven; ice them over when cold, and pipe them with icing coloured with a little carmine.
Wow, that's a lot of butter on that tongue-dolphin. I suppose from what was said about old butter being best, you weren't expected to actually eat the butter; it would have been a sort of subtlety, or illusion food, like haslet.
Unfortunately, I don't think even butter flowers on a nice boiled tongue would persuade most of my friends to eat it (sigh). Although flowers would probably be easier for us artistically challenged types than a dolphin head!
I am with you on all points there, korenni!


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Chevy Silverado ZR2 and Colorado ZR2 Clinch Racing Titles
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Chevy Silverado ZR2 and Colorado ZR2 clinched Best In The Desert class championships with respective wins at the Cal City Desert Challenge. It was the second consecutive championship for the Silverado ZR2 and the fourth straight championship for the Colorado ZR2, with both fielded by Chad Hall Racing.
"It has been another expectation-shattering season, with the championships for the Silverado ZR2 and Colorado ZR2," said Roger McCormack, director, Accessories and Performance Parts Marketing. "The successes for both vehicles, which are very close to the production models, wouldn't have been possible without the closely synced relationship between Chad Hall Racing and the Chevrolet engineering team."
Chad Hall Racing has been competing with a pre-production version of the Silverado ZR2 since 2019, helping Chevrolet test and validate the off-road technologies that went into the upcoming 2022 production model.
Similarly, the team helped test the Chevy Colorado ZR2 off-road technologies in competition — and is still going strong with them. The Chad Hall Racing Colorado ZR2 has been competing since 2017 in the Best In The Desert series and is the only truck in its class to have finished every race entered. It has accumulated more than 22,500 miles of racing experience.
"It has been very rewarding to field vehicles that are so well engineered," said Chad Hall. "The tests and refinements made over the years with the Colorado ZR2 and the new Silverado ZR2 absolutely prove the adage that racing improves the breed — making the production vehicles stronger and more capable because of it."
The Colorado ZR2 race vehicle also helped test and validate 15 factory race components that are available to Colorado owners through Chevrolet dealers. They include Multimatic long-travel DSSV dampers and long-travel leaf springs, jounce shocks, a steel driveshaft, a tie rod sleeve system, ball-spline half-shafts and other parts designed to optimize off-road driving performance and durability.
Similar components have been developed for the Silverado, including long-travel suspension parts and a steel driveshaft, which were recently introduced at the 2021 SEMA Show.
"Performance and personalization upgrades are increasingly popular with customers and Chevrolet has what they need to take their off-road vehicles to the next level," said McCormack. "Better yet, these factory-engineered parts are tuned and validated over thousands of combined off-road development miles, including unforgiving Best In The Desert race courses."
Chad Hall Racing and the Silverado ZR2 and Colorado ZR2 race vehicles will be back in action on Dec. 3, in the Mint 400, an independent race held on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The team will also attend the Best In The Desert awards ceremony on Dec. 11, capping another winning season and looking toward another in 2022.
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It's already starting to scare: Britney Spears posted a strange video
13.12.2022 13.12.2022 by Bob Jones
The latest publications of the 41-year-old Britney Spears so confused her fans that they were "on the verge". However, the new trick of the star is already seriously causing concern about her mental state.
On Friday, Britney shared a video with her Instagram followers that confused them. Thanks to this publication, shocked fans of the singer had the opportunity to see how Britney drinks champagne from a bottle and eats cake right off the floor. This video appeared, in particular, on the website of the publication Page Six.
"All this week it's my birthday!"
this is how Sam's wife Asghari commented on her behavior.
Note that the new publication was the first after the next removal of Spears' page from the social network, which has happened twice recently. At first, Britney was saying that I did it twice allegedly by accident, by mistake by pressing the wrong button. But now Britney has honestly admitted that she did it intentionally.
Some fans even decided that the singer was experiencing such an acute thirst for universal attention that she was trying to get it in every possible way.
By the way, before that Spears had already caused concern to fans by filling her page with photos in seminude, and then in the nude. Also, quite recently Spears told the whole world, also through a social network, that she "Married again – to herself."
If we take all this into account, then from the side the actions of the singer do not look very adequate. Britney herself claims that she simply enjoys the freedom she has been striving for 13 years, being under the care of Jamie Spears.
However, fans fear that her mental illness has worsened, because of which Spears has already been hospitalized several times. The situation is complicated by the fact that after being "freed from slavery", that is, the custody of her father, Britney is no longer controlled by anyone. After all, apparently, her young husband has no influence on his wife and cannot help her in any way.
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How to teach ...Citizenship
How to teach … social justice
World Day for Social Justice celebrates its fifth anniversary this week. To help teachers tackle the complex issues, here's a collection resources and lesson plans for students of all ages
Child poverty is just one of the topics World Day for Social Justice wants to eradicate. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.
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Mon 17 Feb 2014 12.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 17 Feb 2014 06.31 EST
The World Day for Social Justice celebrates its fifth anniversary this week.
Set up by the United Nations and first observed on 20 February 2009, the aim is to focus attention on efforts to eradicate poverty and make the world a fairer place.
Social justice is a topic ideal for use in the classroom as it touches on a wide range of themes including global citizenship, human rights and sustainable development.
Start by looking at how poverty affects the lives of people in Britain with this article from The Day. Many UK families live in greater luxury than almost anybody in the history of the world, the article states, but a study has shown that one in four families struggle to afford an "acceptable" quality of life. This resource, which is suitable for upper primary and secondary students, asks your class to consider how and why.
The issue of child poverty is covered in this lesson created by the charity CSV. Adaptable for use at all levels, it begins with broad questions including "what is poverty?" and "how should we define poverty?" before encouraging pupils to plan ways of raising awareness of poverty. The resource includes a number of case studies and a true or false quiz about poverty.
Oxfam has a wide range of lessons about social justice including an assembly presentation called What Does Oxfam Do? Designed for secondary pupils, the resource looks at how Oxfam works with partners to help lift people out of poverty. It explores the different elements of Oxfam's work around emergencies, development and campaigning, and it considers what young people can do to help make a difference. Other resources include Food for Thought, which looks at social justice in the context of the global food system, and Change the World in Eight Steps, a fact sheet that provides background on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) along with a brief overview of what needs to be done to achieve the goals by 2015.
A key MDG is to eradicate extreme poverty. Explore this and other targets with a photo resource by Global Dimension. The images have been sourced from the charity Practical Action and from the UN Photo Library and can be enlarged for use in class. The resource includes background information on each of the MDGs and suggestions for ways to use the photographs to explore issues of social justice and global development.
The MDG of improving maternal health is examined in the maths lesson Dying to Give Birth from Amnesty International. The aim is to develop students' skills in interpreting and representing statistical information through exploration of maternal mortality. Students are shown a five-minute video introducing them to the problem of women dying from childbirth in Sierra Leone. They explore the issue further by analysing a scatter diagram, which compares maternal mortality rates and per capita incomes in countries across the world. Students then create an infographic looking at infant mortality and its link to income levels. Other social justice-themed resources from Amnesty include a role play activity about refugees and asylum, a lesson plan about the death penalty, and tips on teaching citizenship through human rights.
For information about the United Nations, why it exists and what it does, check out a series of lessons for secondary schools called United Nations Matters. Topics covered include: the aims of the UN, the role of the UN Security Council, the importance of the MDGs in tackling poverty, and the work of the UN in protecting human rights. The resource, created by the United Nations Association UK, is accompanied by a teachers' pack. As a homework task, ask students to create a poster or leaflet about the World Day for Social Justice. Can they name any other special days that the UN holds to raise awareness of its work and achievements? They include the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty which is covered in this assembly by TrueTube.
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Snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) are primarily warm-season crops that grow best at average temperatures between 60 and 75 ºF. Snap beans can be tall-growing pole-type beans, half-runners, or the low-growing bush-type varieties. They are rapid growers that can produce large yields while requiring little attention.
Blue Lake 274 is a popular variety of bush-type green beans.
Plant beans in full sun in fertile, well-drained soil. Select varieties that are resistant to bean common mosaic virus and anthracnose.
Bean seeds do not germinate well in cold soil, and the plants are killed by light frost. Do not plant beans before the soil temperature is at least 60 ºF at the 4-inch depth. Plant in intervals of 10 to 14 days to have a continuous supply.
Plant bush-type beans in rows spaced 2 to 3 feet apart with the seed spaced 2 to 4 inches apart in the row. They can also be planted in a 4-foot-wide bed with two rows that are 18 inches apart. All beans should be planted 1 inch deep. It is best to use treated seed to help prevent seed rot, especially when seeds are planted early when the soil is cool.
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Coastal: Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, and Williamsburg counties.
Pole-type snap beans will require a sturdy trellis for support. Many types of homemade trellises work well as long as they provide the needed support. Trellises should be at least 6 to 8 feet tall and sturdy enough to withstand strong winds and rain.
Pole-type snap beans will require a sturdy trellis for support.
J. Powell Smith, ©2016, Clemson Extension.
One method of support is a teepee tripod with three wooden poles or large branches that are secured together at the top. Plant five or six seeds in a circle 6 to 8 inches from each pole.
Half-runner types have a growth habit between that of bush and pole beans. They produce runners that are about 3 feet long and are generally grown like bush beans. They may, however, produce higher yield if grown on a 3- to 4-foot trellis.
The Red Swan bush bean has deep rose-purple pods that turn bright green when cooked.
Snap bean cultivars used should be resistant to bean common mosaic virus and anthracnose.
Snap beans require moderate amounts of fertilizer. A soil test is always the best method of determining the fertilization needs of the crop. Information on soil testing is available in the fact sheet HGIC 1652, Soil Testing.
Follow the results of a soil test to maintain a soil pH between 5.8 and 6.5 and optimal fertility levels. If a soil test has not been taken, apply 5-10-10 at 3 pounds per 100 square feet before planting.
Sidedress snap beans and pole beans before the first bloom with 34-0-0 (ammonium sulfate and urea) at 1 pound per 100 feet of row or 2 pounds of 15.5-0-0 (calcium nitrate) per 100 feet of row. More frequent sidedressing may be required if the garden is sandy or if leaching rains occur.
Water the garden to provide a uniform moisture supply to the crop. The garden should be watered in the morning so the foliage is dry before dark. Water sufficiently to moisten the soil to a depth of 6 inches. Light sprinkles will encourage shallow rooting of the plants; therefore, watering less frequently but deeper will encourage a better root system. The critical period for moisture is during pod set and pod development.
Weed control is essential especially in the first six weeks after planting. Shallow cultivation and hand-pulling are the preferred methods to prevent root damage.
The Gold Rush bush bean is so tender that it can be eaten fresh.
Once beans begin to reach the picking stage, harvesting continues on a daily basis for days or even weeks with succession planting. Generally, snap beans will be ready to harvest 55 days after planting, depending on the variety selected.
Snap beans should be harvested before the enlarging seed can be seen through the pod, while the pods are still tender. Pods break easily with a "snap" when ready. To harvest beans, break off the stem above the cap. Quality is best if beans are harvested in early morning hours.
Beans are best when used as soon as possible after harvest, but they can be stored in the refrigerator for a few days if cooled immediately. This applies to freezing and canning as well. For best quality, canning and freezing should be done within a few hours after picking.
During hot weather when temperatures are above 90 ºF, blossom drop may be a problem, especially for snap bean varieties such as Blue Lake 274. The plants will usually start setting more pods when the daily temperatures become cooler.
Common diseases include root rot, rust, and gray mold. For more information on green bean diseases, refer to the fact sheet HGIC 2200, Bean and Southern Pea Diseases.
Insect problems may include Mexican bean beetles, thrips, aphids, corn earworms, and stink bugs. For more information on green bean insects, refer to the fact sheet HGIC 2201, Bean and Southern Pea Insect Pests.


The Mad Mile ctOS center is on the end of the Navy Pier and is enclosed between two buildings with gates on each side.
While access to the area can be obtained through the lower level, the best entrance is through the scissor lift in the southwest side of the restricted area. From this entrance you can either snipe the enemies with a Spec-Ops weapon from a safe distance or get a good view of the area below before you make your way down the planters and sneak around the area to eliminate the enemies by hand.
Due to the closed in nature of this ctOS center, being caught will result in being surrounded and usually killed. It is best to be stealthy via a sniping spot or aggressive after finding a good cover position. If the guards begin to investigating the upper level where you are located you can always jump back into the scissor lift and use it as cover.


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'I Am So Tired Of All This Wokeness And Anti-Americanism': 'Superman' Actor Dean Cain Blasts New Woke Captain America
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Getty Images/Handout Actor Dean Cain, famed for playing Superman in the TV series "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," went on Fox & Friends on Monday to rip the new woke incarnation of Marvel Comics' Captain America, blasting, " I am so tired of all of this wokeness and anti-Americanism."
"I believe the pendulum will swing back to openly appreciating American values, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights," he added.
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Will 2022 Be the End of America-First News Outlets?
Things are looking grim for conservative and population news sites.
There's something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren't "playing ball" with the corporate media narrative. It's being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from sites like ours. But that narrative isn't entirely true. It's not the advertisers themselves who are complaining for the most part. It's the ad networks who are "woke" and authoritarian that are actually taking down the ads.
Certain topics are anathema for the ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it's easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being "canceled" by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it's not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren't able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
We need help. I don't want to say "desperately," but the need is definitely great. If you have the means, please donate through our GivingFuel page or via PayPal. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We've had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
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All pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 in state-funded schools in England are eligible for 'universal infant free school meals'. This includes academies, free schools, pupil referral units and alternative provision as well as maintained schools.
Please complete the free school meals application form and send it to us using the details on the form to apply for free schools meals.
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You can apply for free school meals if you and your child live in Rochdale borough or if you and your child live in Manchester borough and attend a school in Rochdale borough.
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An income-related employment and support allowance.
Child Tax Credit (provided you aren't entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an income that doesn't exceed the current year's level).
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You, as the parent or guardian, must receive Child Benefit for the child you are responsible for.
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Is other financial help available?
Other help is available for pupils aged 16-19 in full-time education, from the Local Education Authority.
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Ultralife wins $8M contract
Ultralife Corporation (NASDAQ:ULBI) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $8.2 million to supply its Soldier Radio Waveform ("SRW") Vehicle Installed Power Enhanced Rifleman Appliqué ("VIPER") systems to Thales Defense & Security, Inc., a global leader in the development, manufacture, and support of combat-proven, software-defined radio (SDR) equipment, for the U.S. Army. The majority of the shipments are expected to occur in 2016 with modest initial shipments beginning in late 2015.The SRW-Appliqué is a single-channel radio system mounted within vehicles that will be added to the Army's current Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINGARS) and operated by Army Brigade Combat Teams, permitting the transmission of voice messages and data between the squad- and team-level Joint Tactical Radio System Rifleman Radios and the Army's larger tactical communications network.The Ultralife VIPER paired with the Rifleman Radio responds to the U.S. Army's requirement for a radio system that can be installed into a variety of vehicular or stand-alone configurations. Operating in both UHF and L-band, VIPER paired with the Rifleman Radio provides soldiers with improved operational flexibility; access to the government's classified networks for secret and below operations; and enhanced interoperability with currently fielded radios. It also provides "jerk and run" access to the installed Rifleman Radio, enabling a quick transition between mounted and dismounted operations without losing communications."Following extensive development and testing in partnership with Thales, we are very pleased that our system has been selected as a critical component for the U.S. Army's multi-phased modernization program providing enhanced digital voice and data communications to the dismounted soldier. This contract is an excellent illustration of our strategy of investing in product development and engineering ahead of revenue and the growing maturation of our pipeline of opportunities for our Communications Systems business," said Michael D. Popielec, Ultralife's President and Chief Executive Officer. "As we continue to develop new products across our business, our amplifier platform provides a technically advanced building block for the increasingly complex, secure integrated communications systems required for soldier modernization."About Ultralife CorporationUltralife Corporation serves its markets with products and services ranging from power solutions to communications and electronics systems. Through its engineering and collaborative approach to problem solving, Ultralife serves government, defense and commercial customers across the globe.Headquartered in Newark, New York, the Company's business segments include Battery & Energy Products and Communications Systems. Ultralife has operations in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.ultralifecorporation.com.
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The Resource The first galaxies in the universe, Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto
The first galaxies in the universe, Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto
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Furlanetto, Steven R.
"This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on early galaxies. The First Galaxies in the Universe starts from basic physical principles before moving on to more advanced material. Topics include the gravitational growth of structure, the intergalactic medium, the formation and evolution of the first stars and black holes, feedback and galaxy evolution, reionization, 21-cm cosmology, and more. Provides a comprehensive introduction to this exciting frontier in astrophysics Begins from first principles Covers advanced topics such as the first stars and 21-cm cosmology Prepares students for research using the next generation of large telescopes Discusses many open questions to be explored in the coming decade "--
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12. The 21-cm line : Radiative transfer of the 21-cm line ; The spin temperature ; The brightness temperature of the spin-flip background ; The monopole of the brightness temperature ; Statistical fluctuations in the spin-flip background ; Spin-flip fluctuations during the cosmic dawn ; mapping the spin-flip background
13. Other probes of the first galaxies : Secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the cosmic dawn ; Diffuse backgrounds from the cosmic dawn ; The cross-correlation of different probes ; The fossil record of the local group
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The first galaxies in the universe
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Galaxies -- Formation
Stars -- Formation
Princeton series in astrophysics
12. The 21-cm line : Radiative transfer of the 21-cm line ; The spin temperature ; The brightness temperature of the spin-flip background ; The monopole of the brightness temperature ; Statistical fluctuations in the spin-flip background ; Spin-flip fluctuations during the cosmic dawn ; mapping the spin-flip background -- 13. Other probes of the first galaxies : Secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the cosmic dawn ; Diffuse backgrounds from the cosmic dawn ; The cross-correlation of different probes ; The fossil record of the local group

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Windsor volleyball team returns to playoff form after long dry spell
T.M. Fasano
It wasn't long ago when the Windsor Wizards were the state's volleyball power in Class 4A, but it probably seems like decades to Wizards coach LaVerne Huston and their fans.
The Wizards, 4A state champions in 1995 and the state runner-up in 1996, haven't qualified for the state tournament since that second-place finish six years ago. The glory days of the mid-1990s included sending three players — Esther Langley, Melody Friehauf and Castara Stroman — to Division I-A programs. Wizards setter/outside hitter Brittany Huston was in the fifth grade when her mother coached the Wizards to a state title.
"I was there the whole time being a cheerleader and it was awesome. I remember crying and being like all the girls out there," Brittany said. "The way I felt then is the way I feel now. It would be a great feeling for that to happen again."
The Wizards were clearly on a roll back then, but the well has run dry until this year. The 2002 Wizards were 7-0 in the 4A Tri-Valley Conference and 15-3 overall heading into their 15-4, 16-14 loss to Fort Morgan (8-0, 16-3) on Thursday which decided the conference title.
No matter the outcome, the Wizards look strong heading into the district tournament Oct. 26. Five seniors in the starting rotation — middle blocker Kassie Pemberton, setter Bonnie Purvis, outside hitter Kelly Kluck, defensive specialist Sara Hinrichs and Huston — have been playing varsity ball together since their sophomore years when the Wizards were 3-11 in conference, 4-16 overall.
LaVerne Huston said the Wizards have grown together as a team.
"These kids have been varsity players since they were sophomores. They don't like losing, and they just feed off each other," Huston said. "They get together off the court as well as on the court. I think that has a lot to do with winning."
Pemberton said it's taken a lot of hard work to climb back to the top of the pack.
"The last couple of years we have been working our way up from the bottom," Pemberton said. "You have to do that to be a good team, and right now we're a good team."
Brittany said everybody's making a contribution in the program.
"We all are in club volleyball. We all do extra things to make ourselves better," Brittany said. "Our practices have been so tough this year. We really work hard."
The Wizards started turning the program around last year with an 8-6 record in conference, good for third place, and a 13-10 record overall that included a shocking upset over previously unbeaten Fort Morgan in the district tournament.
"All of us have played together. We know how to play with each other, and we're all really close friends," Pemberton said. "We take it on the court, and we show each other how to play volleyball."
Entering the season, LaVerne Huston said this year's squad was the most talented she's had since the mid-1990s. After a victory over Greeley West on Monday, Huston reiterated that statement.
"Certainly this team is as good as the 1996 team," said LaVerne, whose teams haven't qualified for the state-qualifying regional tournament since 1996. "They just come out every night and practice hard and play hard."
LaVerne said she kept plugging away during the losing seasons.
"Eventually, you've got to rebuild. You know the kids are going to come around again. The athletes are going to be there," LaVerne said. "We just tried to keep volleyball alive. We do a lot of work in the summer and spring, and that has paid off."
Greeley West coach Josie Hemmings said the Wizards are a cohesive team.
"They are very determined. You can see that in their faces even when they're down," Hemmings said.
Windsor's balance throughout the lineup is a key.
"I think that's what makes us a better team. We don't have a superstar. Our setters do a nice job of distributing the ball from our outside to our middle to our backside," LaVerne said. "We are probably a little tougher team because we are balanced."
The closest thing to a headline player is 5-foot-11 sophomore outside hitter Jaime Strauss, who can hit with the best of them.
"She's a big kid, but we have three other kids to complement her. That says a lot about our teamwork right now," LaVerne said.
"We don't focus on just the one kid. We've got to have all six playing the game."
– WIZARDS SOCCER IN PUEBLO . The Windsor boys soccer team will take its show on the road when the Wizards (8-7) travel to Pueblo to take on Pueblo Centennial (13 1-1) at 2 p.m. Saturday at Roncalli Middle School in the first round of the Class 4A regional tournament. Centennial is the No. 1 seed from the South-Central League.To get to Roncalli Middle School, take Interstate 25 south to Pueblo. Turn west on Northern Avenue and follow that road to the middle school.
– BELL'S CLOSING IN ON 5,000 . Weld Central star tailback Kyle Bell is a long touchdown run away from reaching the magical 5,000-yard mark with another year left to play.Bell, who has run for 1,642 yards for the 6-1 Rebels, has 4,919 rushing yards in his career. Bell needs 81 yards against the Roosevelt Rough Riders at 7 tonight in Johnstown to hit 5,000 career yards. With a remarkable average of 235 yards rushing per game this season, Bell should hit the 5,000-yard mark midway though the second quarter. Former Fort Morgan running back and current University of Northern Colorado player Dusty Quick has the record for most rushing yards in Colorado high school history with 7,472 yards.
– HOW ABOUT THAT? . Has Weld County ever had two of the best football players in the state starting at backfield positions in the same year? Bell and Eaton' quarterback Chris Swain arguably are two of the best players in the state in any classification.
– SURGERY FOR VROOMAN . Platte Valley Broncos outside hitter Callie Vrooman, who was the co-most valuable player at the Class 3A volleyball state tournament last year, is out for the remainder of the season after injuring her right knee in a victory over Brush on Oct. 8. The 6-foot Vrooman tore the anterior cruciate ligament while celebrating a Broncos point. Alison Cheney, a 5-8 freshman, has replaced Vrooman in the lineup for the defending state champions.
Broncos coach Jared Rudiger said Vrooman is scheduled for surgery the Monday after the state tournament on Nov. 11, and it should take five to six months to recover. Vrooman still has another year left at Platte Valley, which is 16-2 this year.
"It was a damper for two days. I lost lots of sleep over it," Rudiger said. "We had a big team meeting last Friday about it. Everybody else just has to step up and work harder."


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To avoid any additional black eyes, the league took a hands-off approach toward betting for years and presented the public stance of frowning upon it. In April 2021, the NFL agreed to a "tri-exclusive" deal to make DraftKings, FanDuel, and Caesars its official sports betting partners. The companies receive different access to league rights and properties to promote their sports betting products. In addition to the two-sided options listed above, there are also multiple-choice props, such as which player will score the game's first touchdown. If a player fails to suit up for a game, then sportsbooks will take all props involving that player off the board.
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Each parlay is treated independently, then at the end, you net the winning parlays against the losing parlays to find your total payout. Fortunately, the software does all the math, so you can adjust your round robin to get the risk level and potential winnings you are looking for. In Florida, the market would be hammered without Florida and Florida State on the menu. All the most popular US sports will be available, plus a whole string of sports and betting events that draw smaller audiences. The limitations on what sports can be offered and what competitions can be covered are based on the availability of reliable data. ACH e-checks — A cheap and easy alternative is to use e-checks.
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Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal has suffered several upset defeats, none more dramatic than his second round loss to world no.100 Lucas Rosol in 2012. In 2014 Rafa was again stunned when he lost to 19-year old Aussie Nick Kyrgios in four thrilling sets in the fourth round. Kyrgios was ranked no.144, but unlike Rosol, he has lived up to the hype that win suggested and become a top-20 player. The Wimbledon schedule features a 128-player main draw for both the men's and women's singles events.


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Home / Money / Personal Finance / Bharat Bond ETF 2032: Low-risk, but perhaps not for everyone
Bharat Bond ETF 2032: Low-risk, but perhaps not for everyone
3 min read . Updated: 03 Dec 2021, 12:19 AM IST Neil Borate
A new tranche of the Bharat Bond exchange-traded fund maturing in 2032 opens today
A new tranche of Bharat Bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) maturing in 2032 opens on 3 December. The new fund offer (NFO) for the ETF will run till 9 December. As with the other four Bharat Bond ETFs maturing in 2023, 2025, 2030 and 2031, this ETF will invest in AAA rated bonds of public sector companies and hold them to maturity. For investors who do not have demat and trading accounts, the ETF is accompanied by a Fund of Funds (FoF). The FoF will invest in units of the ETF and give investors similar returns as the ETF. However, it has a higher expense ratio. The ETF expense ratio is 0.0005% and the FoF expense ratio is 0.05% (5 basis points). The minimum investment amount in the FoF is as low as ₹1,000.
The Bharat Bond series of ETFs was launched in 2019 with two ETFs of 2023 and 2030 maturity and this was supplemented in July 2020 with two more ETFs of 2025 and 2031 maturity. Collectively, the ETFs now have assets under management of ₹36,359 crore. With the latest tranche, Bharat Bond ETFs have made available a ladder for investors with different time horizons to invest. Those with short time horizons can buy the 2023 or 2025 ETFs while those with long time horizons can buy the 2030, 2031 or now, 2032 ETFs. The older tranches have delivered returns of 7.76%, 5.25%, 9.5% and 4.91% CAGR since inception for the 2023, 2025, 2030 and 2031 ETFs respectively (as of 30 November).
The current tranche has bonds issued by Power Finance Corporation (PFC), Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC), Power Grid Corporation of India, NTPC, NABARD, EXIM Bank, NHPC and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. Exposure to a single issuer is capped at 15%.
The Bharat Bond ETFs follow a 'target maturity' structure. This means they buy and hold bonds corresponding to the target date of the ETF. The ETFs expire on maturity, paying investors the value of their investments as per the net asset value (NAV) of the fund. Being open ended, investors can also exit before the target date. The idea behind such funds is to give investors a predictable rate if they buy and hold the fund till maturity. For example, with a yield of 6.82%, a buy and hold investor should get a return close to this figure since these ETFs have very low expense ratios. However, the fund's NAV can move up and down in between, due to interest rate risk. Credit risk is also possible but is low in funds that invest in PSU bonds.
The NAV of the Bharat Bond funds is sensitive to interest rate movements, particularly for the longer dated funds (2030, 2031 and 2032). When interest rates rise, the NAVs of long dated funds fall. This can particularly hurt those who want to exit before maturity. Holding on to maturity, however, will iron out these movements. For investors worried about the impact of rate hikes, Edelweiss Mutual Fund has pointed out the large gap between the repo rate and the 10 year bond yield which can cushion investors in its funds from rate hikes. The structure is also tax efficient, compared to directly holding government bonds. In case of the latter, the interest is fully taxable at slab rate. However, for debt mutual funds like the Bharat Bond series, capital gains tax is at slab rate only if the holding period is less than 3 years. After three years, capital gains tax drops to 20% and you are also given the benefit of indexation. While bank fixed deposits (FDs) are much safer since they do not get affected by market forces, those with a risk appetite can get higher yields in Bharat Bond funds for similar time horizons. However, some experts take issue with the volatility of the Bharat Bond series. "For a retired individual who wants regular income, a systematic withdrawal plan (SWP) from Bharat Bond will not measure up. This is because the NAV will rise and fall as per interest rate movements over the years. Hence, SWP withdrawals in the 'down' years will eat into the investor's capital," said Harshvardhan Roongta, joint-chief executive officer, Roongta Securities, a mutual fund distributor.
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However, those investors who can defer their withdrawals at least by a 3-4 year period to get the benefit of long-term capital gains tax and can stomach volatility, the fund may provide a predictable and low-risk return.


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import org.openforis.collect.android.SurveyService;
import org.openforis.collect.android.viewmodel.UiDoubleAttribute;

import java.text.NumberFormat;

import static android.text.InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER;
import static android.text.InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_DECIMAL;
import static android.text.InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED;

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    @Override
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    @Override
    protected String format(Double value) {
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    @Override
    protected void setValueOnAttribute(Double value) {
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    protected void onEditTextCreated(EditText input) {
        super.onEditTextCreated(input);
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        input.setKeyListener(new DecimalSeparatorAwareKeyListener());
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Malaysia will resume work on the multi-billion dollar east coast rail link after months of negotiations with the China Communications Construction Company and the Chinese government brought the cost down by a third.
Malaysia said it welcomed the signing of a supplemental agreement which would pave the way for construction of the 700 km railway to resume.
Critics say it benefited china more than Malaysia.


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No smoke alarm, faulty cord contributed to fatal B.C. fire
Faulty electric cord and power source connected to space heater believed to have caused flames
Ashley Wadhwani
A fire that left one man dead in a Vancouver home last weekend could have been prevented, officials say.
The man, in his 70s, died following the fire in the 2600 block of East 47 Avenue on Sunday. He'd been living in an illegal suite that did not have a fire alarm.
Crews arrived to find heavy smoke flowing out of the front and rear of the single-detached home. Three other people in the house were able to escape.
The flames are believed to have been caused by a faulty electric cord and power source connected to a space heater on the main floor, where the man was found. Investigators are still determining exactly how the heater failed.
"This was just a failure on every level," Capt. Jonathan Gormick said Wednesday. "There's not much reason to not have a working smoke alarm."
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Smoke alarms should be tested every six months, Gormick said. Optimally, alarms should be installed outside every room, or on every floor at the very least.
Space heaters can also draw a lot of current, he added, and should be plugged into an extension cord that can provide an adequate power supply – such as a UL cord – or into the wall directly.
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The 1924 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1924. Despite being a Republican year nationally, President Coolidge's election in Arizona was rather close. He only took Arizona with 40% of the vote against Davis' 35% and La Follette's 23%. The closest Arizona gubernatorial election since 1916, Hunt's lead in votes would continue to decline.

With barely a percent separating the two, Hunt narrowly beat owner of the Arizona Republican newsletter, Dwight Heard. Heard had in fact previously backed 1914 Progressive nominee George Young against Hunt over the Republican, Ralph Cameron, and had been an enemy of Hunt for over a decade at this point.

Governor W. P. Hunt was sworn in for a fifth term as Governor on January 5, 1925.

Democratic primary

Candidates
George W. P. Hunt, incumbent Governor, former Ambassador to Siam
Sidney P. Osborn, former Secretary of State, former primary candidate for Governor
Edward W. Samuell, farmer, resigned as Secretary of the Board of Directors of State Institutions to run in primary

Results

General election

References

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What Do Employers Need to Know About Deferred Action?
I was recently asked this question by a reporter from "Biz941". Employers should definitely be aware of Deferred Action. It creates a path for those who previously could not work legally to join the labor force.
To review, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is a new government policy announced by President Obama on June 15th, 2012 and enacted on August 15th, 2012. In essence the President announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer pursue children of illegal immigrants who arrived in the US while minors as priority targets for deportation if they are granted Deferred Action. The executive order also created a path for people who meet the Deferred Action requirements to apply for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and a Social Security Number.
This is important because it means that immigrants who previously could not work due to their legal status can now do so legally. This has the potential to widen the labor pool. But there still exists the potential for fraud. Some workers who are not legally employable may present a false Social Security number when applying for a job. It is illegal to hire anyone who does not have a valid Social Security number. Employers should be aware of this and understand that a person who has been granted Deferred Action will also have a valid Social Security number and is legally employable.
One way to test whether an individual is legally employable is by using E-Verify, the web-based government program that allows employers to verify the legal status of their prospective workers, in most cases immediately. The idea is that E-Verify will make it easier for employers to obey the law and hire legal workers.
But, there is a small error rate. Sometimes the information entered into E-Verify does not find a match in either the Department of Homeland Security's or the Social Security Administration's databases. That is why it is important for employers who use E-Verify to make sure they enter their prospective employees' information correctly and that they notify their prospective employees immediately if E-Verify returns what's called a Tentative Non-Confirmation (TNC). Understand that it is possible that an individual recently granted Deferred Action and a valid EAD and SSN will still produce a Tentative Non-Confirmation with the E-Verify system.
At this point E-Verify is voluntary for most Florida businesses. Florida state agencies and contractors are required to use the program.


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On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion.
On Jan. 22, 1890, Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States, was born. Following his death on Sept. 8, 1953, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne.
Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
Pope Benedict XV died.
Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J.
Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC.
The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.
The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.
Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges.
President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. (The prison remains open.)
Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
Fred Vinson 1/22/1890 - 9/8/1953 Chief Justice of the United States.Go to obituary »
Lord George Gordon Byron 1/22/1788 - 4/19/1824
English Romantic poet
August Strindberg 1/22/1849 - 5/14/1912
Swedish playwright/novelist
Robert Brookings 1/22/1850 - 11/15/1932
American businessman/philanthropist
D. W. Griffith 1/22/1875 - 7/23/1948
American film director
Marcel Dassault 1/22/1892 - 4/18/1986
French aircraft designer
Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897 - 5/25/1981
American coloratura soprano
George Balanchine 1/22/1904 - 4/30/1983
Russian-bn. American choreographer
U Thant 1/22/1909 - 11/25/1974
Myanmar 3rd U.N. Secy. General
Howard Moss 1/22/1922 - 9/16/1987
American poet/editor of The New Yorker


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Q: Span created at run time In script not working Properly in mvc I have one MVC project , In BusinessPosition.cshtml, i am creating a tree view at run time. by default at page load it will display main child of root node.like,

  @foreach (var i in Model)
  {
      if(i.ChildCount<3)
      {

      @i.ConsumerNo_

      }
      else{

      @i.ConsumerNo_

      }

  }

I used  tag to display it. Now I want to display Modal popup when user will click on that span. mainly span have two classes one is 'Menuspan' and another is 'LessMenuspan'. i write a code in script like
$('.Menuspan').click(function () {
    var this1 = $(this).attr("id");

    alert(this1);
});

$('.LessMenuspan').click(function () {
    var this3 = $(this).attr("id");
    alert(this3);

});

At page load it will fire alert when i clicked. fine but in script i written the code like
 $.each(d, function (i, ele) {
    if (ele.ChildCount < 3) {

        $ul.append(
        $("

", { "id": 'treeLi' }).append(

          " " +
          "" + ele.ConsumerNo_ + ""

              )
         )
    }
    else {
        $ul.append(
        $("

", { "id": 'treeLi' }).append(

          " " +
          "" + ele.ConsumerNo_ + ""

              )
      )
    }

});

Now , that runtime created span is not working, because when I expand tree and new children are generated (script span tag). which have both of class (mentioned above). but when I click new one, no any alert appear on screen. Please tell me what is problem here.

A: You have to use delegate event binding. .click not works for dynamically added element/ It only works for element already in DOM.
use
$(document).on("click",".Menuspan",function () {
 //do stuff
 });

A: When you run that JavaScript it binds to the DOM as it exists at that time. New elements do not hence have the event in the DOM.
Changing it to something like this would bind the event to an existing element, but fire on any child element.
$(document).on('click', '.Menuspan', function () {
    var this1 = $(this).attr("id");

    alert(this1);
});

You could bind this to the UL element, rather than document if you give that an ID.

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Same-Sex Unions In Animal Kingdom Set A Precedent 560 Million Years Ago
Posted by Ron Callari on June 28, 2015
While it just took 9 judges (with a 5-4 vote) to deliberate on the historic decision allowing same-sex marriages in the United States, there's been no need for such formality in the animal kingdom. In fact, homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom has been around since our co-inhabitants first walked the Earth some 560 million years ago.
Nurture vs Nature?
Prevalent throughout the animal kingdom and in practically every species, perhaps all those four dissenting Supreme Court justices needed to consider was the precedent established in the natural world since the dawn of time.
Yes, love is blind among all animals, and same-sex partnerships are more common then you might be aware. The endless argument predicated on nurture versus nature has been an ongoing debate for man leading up to this historic decision. But, in actuality homosexuality is not a learned behavior as anti-gay rights movements have been adamant about trying to prove.
Sheep to Mites
As far as homosexual percentages, every species is different. But according to a Global Animal report, about eight percent of rams are gay (and copulate with same-sex rams exclusively), a percentage very similar to that of humans.
The Oregon Health and Science University's findings on homosexual rams revealed the "gay" rams to have visibly different brain structures than their ewe-wooing counterparts.
While almost 1,500 species of animals have exhibited homosexual behavior, sheep seem to be the most extensively studied and have "proven themselves out and proud, so to speak."
The study goes on further to note that when it comes to homosexuality, it appears that every corner of the animal kingdom is in sync with these findings. Even the smallest insects from the mite to the Monarch butterfly have been outed. The elegant pink flamingo and scaly bearded dragon are both known to take same-sex partners, along with the Bluegill sunfish, emu, chicken, buffalo, and domestic cats.
Judgemental to a Fault
So by Chief Justice John Roberts and his fellow justices (Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia) not factoring 'sexual behavior in the animal kingdom' when they made their momentous decision this past week, it seems fairly obvious they really only looked at half of the evidence.
As the highest judges in the land, it seems remiss they didn't consider a precedent that dates as far back as 560 million years. What were they thinking? Certainly not, what's good for the goose, is good for the gander!
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European airport sector raises its ambition by doubling earlier pledge on carbon neutrality
Wed 14 Jun 2017 – The European airport sector has agreed to double the number of carbon-neutral airports from an original target of 50 airports by 2030 to 100. Currently, 27 airports have reached this status and at their industry's annual congress that started today, a further 26 airports in the region announced their commitment to join them. The European airport association ACI Europe first launched its Airport Carbon Accreditation programme in 2009 and since then 116 European airports have been certified at one of the four levels, with carbon neutrality the highest. The programme has now been rolled out globally across all ACI regions with 190 airports now taking part. ACI Europe also reported at its meeting the CO2 reductions for the past year from participants and announced Munich Airport had been adjudicated by the programme's independent advisory board as this year's winner of its Eco-Innovation Award.
The pledge to have 50 carbon-neutral European airports by 2030 was made during the UNFCCC COP 21 climate negotiations in 2015 held in Paris. With its annual congress taking place in the French capital eighteen months on, ACI Europe's President, Augustin de Romanet, who is also CEO of French airport group ADP, said: "Europe's airports are fully behind the objective of keeping global warming well below 2ᵒC and aiming to reach 1.5ᵒC. For its part, the airport industry has already moved from words to actions a while ago through our independent carbon management programme.
"We are already more than half way to our initial commitment, so we thought we could do even better. And looking at how some have just stepped out from the Paris Agreement, we thought we could definitely do better. So I am extremely proud to announce that we are doubling our commitment."
Among the 26 airports that announced their neutrality intentions are London Heathrow, Brussels, Zurich, Munich and London City, as well as the ADP group of airports.
The ACI carbon programme is independently administered by WSP and its advisory board includes representatives from ICAO, UNFCCC, UNEP, ECAC, the European Commission, US FAA and Manchester Metropolitan University.
"Less than two years ago here in Paris, 195 countries signed the Paris Agreement under the motto of 'we can, we must, we will'. Today's announcement by ACI Europe about its increased climate neutral ambition is very much in the same spirit and sets a great example for other industries and sectors to follow," said Niclas Svenningsen, head of the UNFCCC's Climate Neutral Now initiative. "We at UNFCCC welcome the continued efforts of the airport industry and support all the airports that are taking action to combat climate change."
Under the programme, European airports saved a total of 154,351 tonnes of CO2 during the past year of certifications.
"For airports, carbon management is as much about being at the forefront of corporate and social responsibility as it is about business continuity," said de Romanet. "Climate change poses a significant risk to the airport industry – changes in rainfall, temperature variations, sea-level rise, changes in wind patterns. All of these have potentially severe implications for our industry, for the wider transport sector and for European connectivity."
ACI Europe's Eco-Innovation Award went to Munich Airport "for its comprehensive and systematic approach to environmental management and sustainability across all its operations and in relation to all its impact." The independent jury commended the airport's management involvement strategy, including the correlation between management remuneration and sustainability KPIs, the cooperation with the German sustainable alternative fuels group Aireg, and the biodiversity engagement through measures to protect flora and fauna around the airport. The jury also noted the airport's implementation of extensive noise and emissions monitoring, including bio-monitoring of air quality. Budapest Airport was highly commended in the same awards category.
Munich Airport CEO Michael Kerkloh was elected at the Paris meeting to succeed Augustin de Romanet as President of ACI Europe.
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Eco-Innovation Award presented to Hermann Blomeyer, Head of Environmental Protection (left), and Michael Kerkloh, CEO (centre), of Munich Airport by Filip Cornelis, Acting Director, Air Transport, DG MOVE, European Commission (right):
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Airport carbon programme continues to grow as industry sees climate as an increasing concern
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Climate action and climate resilience are two sides of the same challenge for airports around the world, says ACI
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This richly layered novel is in turn funny, mysterious, and touching. Sharon Creech's original voice tells a story like no other, one that readers will not soon forget.
Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.
Beneath Phoebe's stories Salamanca's own story and that of her mother, who left on April morning for Idaho, promising to return before the tulips bloomed. Sal's mother has not, however, returned, and the trip to Idaho takes on a growing urgency as Salamanca hopes to get to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday and bring her back, despite her father's warning that she is fishing in the air.
Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true. I have lived most of my thirteen years in Bybanks, Kentucky, which is not much more than a caboodle of houses roosting in a green spot alongside the Ohio River. just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true--he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.
"No trees?" I said. "This is where we're going to live?"
"No," my father said. "This is Margaret's house."
[This] engaging story of love and loss, told with humor and suspense...[is] a richly layered novel about real and metaphorical journeys.
The book is packed with humor and affection and is an odyssey of unexpected twists and surprising conclusions.
This book was so awesome!
l totally love Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. It taught me to appreciate life and the relationshps you have. l cried in the end when l finished the book, it was so sad and poignant. l hope everyone will enjoy this awesome book like l did.


If you want to create an air of charm and exclusivity on and around your wedding, there's no better way than investing in custom designed wedding invitations and stationery. Your wedding is one of the most auspicious days of your life, so your wedding paper goods need to be extra special too. That being said, finding the right stationer who will help you celebrate the day in your own special way is a challenge you will most likely face.
This is where RSVP Love can help you.
RSVP Love is a custom invitation and stationery home studio owned by Ashley Kendall that can help you get custom paper items to make your special occasion even more meaningful and beautiful.
When you choose this female-owned small business, you can expect a true blue custom experience. Every single invitation and stationery item that they design is unique and customized for every couple's individual tastes, styles and budget. Whether you're looking for customized save the dates, invitations, place cards, menus, or thank you cards, Ashley can transform your vision of the perfect wedding stationery into reality by using the finest-quality paper, time, patience, perfection, and a whole lot of love. She can also help with wording, etiquette, and making sure no detail is passed up on so that you have elegant and cohesive pieces to commemorate your big day.
If you want to have more "date nights" talking about your marriage, instead of just stressing over your wedding preparations, you must get your invitations designed from RSVP Love. Why do I we say this? Well, because Ashley will do all the legwork for you so you don't have to. From creating a custom timeline and guest addressing to affixing postage and personally dropping your invitations off at the post office, Ashley will be happy to do anything to relieve you of the wedding planning stress, while ensuring your invitations are properly handled and delivered to your awaiting guests timely.
A graduate in Graphic Communications from Antonelli Institute, Ashley realized her passion for paper and stationery in her days at the visual arts' school back in 2007. She took the first step towards becoming a stationer a year later, in 2008, when she designed invitations for her own wedding to her high school sweetheart. This is also when RSVP Love was established. Finally, in 2018, she opened her home studio in beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
With over 11 years of experience, Ashley knows the attention of detail and the level of craftsmanship it takes to design truly exquisite and unique invitations and stationery. No wonder her business has already accumulated many prestigious awards, including the Knot Best of Weddings, Wedding Wire Couples Choice Award, and LNP's Reader's Choice Favorite Wedding Invitations 2018.
You are one of a kind, so why should your wedding invitations and stationery be run-of-the-mill? RSVP Love can help you create the wedding invitations of your dreams that you'll love and your guests will have a hard time forgetting.
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If you've applied for Target REDcard, you'll be really looking for the application status. Checking if the Target credit card application is approved or not, is very important to schedule your future. Because, although Target REDcard is easy to approved, but at times your application is disapproved by the company.
In that case, you may be inform too late. So, checking Target card application status is essential to save time and money as well.
There are many ways customers can adopt to check the application status of their applied Target card (often known as REDcard). These method includes such as check application status with Target Account Login, via phone number, by visiting the store, or through mail using USA postal service.
However, the best way is to check Target card application status online. If you're already an account holder, you can simply login to My REDcard account check the status. Follow the following steps to check status.
Here, Application ID is sent to customer after the customer submit Target credit card application. However, if you do not receive the Target credit card application ID, you will receive a response in mail in 7 to 10 business days.
What if I do not enter Application ID and SSN# ?
Note: For your security, you can successfully obtain your application status online only once. However, you will also receive a response in the mail within two weeks of submitting your application.
You can also contact Target Customer Service to get instant help and assistance regarding Target credit card application status.


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Reactions in Droplets: New Ways of Producing Hydrogen Gas
By SAYAK SUBHRA PANDA
Title: Accelerated Formation of H2 Nanobubbles from a Surface Nanodroplet Reaction
Authors: Brendan P. Dyett, Xuehua Zhang
Journal: ACS Nano
Hydrogen gas (H2) is touted as a leading clean alternative against petroleum and coal. The Olympic torch at Tokyo-2020 game was supposed to be powered by hydrogen gas to boost awareness of environmental issues. The key reason why hydrogen is so highly valued remains in the by-product that formed upon burning. While the traditional sources of energy, carbon-based liquid and solid fuels produce poisonous carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases, hydrogen produces water which is a much cleaner alternative! However, the major barrier has been to obtain clean hydrogen gas in sufficient quantity that can be used as an alternating source of energy. Hence, there is currently a push to develop new methodologies for the synthesis of pure hydrogen gas.
In this work, researchers from RMIT University, Australia and University of Alberta, Canada resorted to reactions within a droplet to accelerate the production of hydrogen gas. Usually, liquid droplets are formed from two immiscible (i.e. mixture of liquids which do not form a clear solution e.g. oil-in-water) liquids where one of the liquids dispersed in the other one as 'droplets'. Each droplet is generally 1-100 µm in diameter with typical volume in nano- to attoliters (10-9 L and 10-18 L respectively) region. Chemical reactions are known to be accelerated within a droplet because of the small volume and higher surface area of the reactor leading to more collisions among the reagents.
A general approach to monitoring the reaction dynamics within droplets are confined to liquid-phase reactions. But, in this case, the researchers demonstrated the synthesis of a gaseous product (i.e. H2)that formed as bubbles (like a soap bubble) within the droplets. H2 gas is produced from the reaction of Polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMH) polymer and water, which is catalyzed by a NaOH base (Figure 1). The hydroxide (OH–) ion attacks the PMH polymer to replace one of the hydrogens (blue color coded) leading to the formation of H2 gas.
Figure 1. Schematics of hydrogen gas formation reaction. The droplets are shown as large blue color caps, and the hydrogen bubbles are color coded as violet. Reprinted with permission, Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society.
Optical microscopy enabled the visualization of the bubbles within the droplets. Figure 2 shows formation of H2 gas bubbles over time. The initial droplet is highlighted in purple at t0, and the newly formed H2 gas bubbles are indicated in yellow at t1. Gradually, the bubbles become more apparent over time forming at the perimeter of the droplet.
Figure 2. Optical microscopy image of H2 gas bubbles formed within the droplet. The relative times for t0-5 are: 0, 320, 640, 960, 1280 and 2560 s. Scale bar – 2 µm. Reprinted with permission, Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society.
Researchers further investigated the formation rate of H2 gas with different factors such as the size of the droplets, the concentration of NaOH and PMH polymer. The rate of formation of H2 gas was monitored by the growth in size of the bubbles. The bubble growth rate was proportional to the concentration of both the reactants i.e. NaOH and PMH, as expected. However, the growth rate of bubbles varied inversely with the size of the droplets. Figure 3 shows evolution of bubble radius with time inside droplets of size 5, 3, and 1 µm respectively. It is clearly observed that the growth in size of the bubble is much higher within 1 µm droplet (figure 3c) where the maximum size (i.e. around 0.5 µm) is achieved within 7 seconds as compared to the other two larger bubbles (̴ 60 s).
Figure 3. Plot of the radius of bubbles with time formed in a droplet of radius 5 (a), 3 (b), and 1 (c) µm respectively. Represented with permission, Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society.
The results show that the formation of H2 gas can be accelerated unexpectedly when the reactions are carried out in droplets. Future studies will focus on further elucidating the mechanism of bubble growth within droplets. Ultimately, if these reactions could be scaled up and performed commercially, that would provide us with a new methodology to form H2 gas and help us to take another step towards a cleaner environment.
Cover image by A_Different_Perspective from Pixabay
Sayak is a Chemistry PhD student at Johns Hopkins University. His research is focused on development of novel self-assembling bioelectronic materials.