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It is important to note that just because a vehicle has been recalled doesn't mean it is defect-free and sometimes, it can take a motor vehicle crash for an auto defect to be discovered and a recall announced. In an ideal world, safety issues would be detected before anyone were to get hurt. If you believe that a car accident resulting in serious injury or death was caused by a vehicle malfunction or an auto defect, you may have grounds for pursuing a products liability lawsuit against the manufacturer. Contact our auto products liability law firm right away and ask for your free case evaluation.
Recent Auto Recalls:
Honda recently recalled 2.5 million vehicles because problems with the automatic transmission could cause the engine to unexpectedly cut out or the parking gear to malfunction. This risk is greatest if quick transmission shifts are made between the drive, neutral, and reverse positions. The transmission control modules in these autos will have to be reprogrammed. The automaker says that no injuries or deaths related to this safety problem have been reported. Affected vehicles include the 2005-2008 Element, the 2007-2010 CR-V, and 2005-2010 Accords (models with cylinder engines).
Meantime, air bag safety issues and pressure from the NHTSA have prompted Ford to recall another 1.2 million pickup trucks. The automaker had recalled approximately 135,000 F-150′s (2005-2006 models) in the US earlier this year over concerns that the air bag on the driver's side might deploy without warning. Although Ford had said the original recall was sufficient to address the problem, the NHTSA accused the car manufacturer of distorting the data and said that based on its own review, the Ford trucks had the most number of inadvertent air bag deployments it had ever encountered. Ford, however, refuses to call the problem an actual air bag defect.
Ford is not the only automaker to recently announce a recall recently over a problem with air bags. Chrysler has recalled over 367,000 2008 Dodge and Chrysler minivans because their air bags may go off without warning. This is an expansion of a recall announced earlier this year over the same auto defect.
It was just several days ago that Toyota is recalling 32 of its 2011 Lexus Rx350 vehicles because of a brake problem that could cause an auto accident. The SUVs brake actuators are not calibrated correctly, which could stop the brakes on the right front wheel from being applied properly when vehicle stability control or automatic anti-lock braking is activated.
Volvo is also recalling some of its vehicles. The automaker says over 8,000 of its S60s that were made between March 8, 2006 and May 16, 2007 are affected. Volvo says that the vehicle could become hard to maneuver if there is an increase of pressure that impacts the power steering reservoir hoses, which are not correctly routed. The car manufacturer will replace the hoses for free.
In other auto recall news, Nissan says no accidents have been linked to safety issue involving 20,000 of its Altima cars (2011, 2012) in the US. Some of the autos may have transverse link bolts that weren't correctly tightened. If they come completely loose completely, a driver could have a hard time controlling the vehicle.
While no injuries or deaths have been linked to these latest recalls, these safety problems can cause car crashes. You want to work with an auto defects law firm that knows how to determine and prove liability and isn't afraid to go after a major auto manufacturer to make sure that you obtain all the personal injury or wrongful death compensation that you are owed. At The Gilbert Law Group®, we represent clients nationally and have recovered over $150 million in verdicts and settlements for injured consumers. We even have an in-house engineering staff to assist our auto defects lawyers with their products liability cases.
Related Web Resources:
Nissan recalls about 20,000 Altima sedans in the U.S., Reuters, August 1, 2011
Toyota recalls 2011 Lexus RX 350 for brake issues, Consumer Reports, August 1, 2011
Honda To Recall 2.5 Million Cars on Software Issue, KTLA, August 6, 2011
Ford F-150 air bag recall expanded to 1.2 million trucks, Consumer Reports, April 15, 2011
Chrysler recalls 376,000 minivans for air bag defect, USA Today, August 4, 2011
Volvo recalls 8,406 S80s due to power steering problem, Consumer Reports, August 1, 2011
Air Bag Safety Issue Prompts Ford to Expand Recall of F-150 Pickup Trucks to 1.2 Million, Product Liability Law Blog, April 14, 2011
Toyota Recalls 245,000 Lexus in the US, Product Liability Law Blog, January 26, 2011
More than 19 Million Autos Recalled in 2010 in About 600 Campaigns, Product Liability Law Blog, December 29, 2010
Auto Defect


Are you looking for something nutritious and delicious? This Sweet Potato, Coconut and Chai Loaf is a wonderful alternative to your normal every-day cake. You can simply omit or reduce the sugar, and you have a wonderful breakfast bread that toasts beautifully, or lunchbox snack.
This loaf packs a nutritious punch with the base being sweet potato and ground almonds (see recipe for nut-free alternatives). This means that the loaf contains fibre for a healthy digestive system and will fill you up quicker than your average piece of cake. Sweet Potato has a low GI, which provides a good source of slow release carbohydrate to give energy. Much more nutritious than your average bakes goods made on white flour.
2 cups of almond meal or ground nuts (see method).
1/4 cup olive oil (you can substitute with coconut oil if you wish but before you do, read my view on coconut oil here).
2. For this recipe you can simply use almond meal (ground almonds), or finely grind your own whole almonds in a high speed blender.
13. Bake for 30 minutes, until brown and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
14. Remove from oven and leave in tin to cool.
Baked this delicious & healthy sweet potato, coconut and chai loaf with the kids this morning. Great recipe @thenutritionguruandthechef and super easy for the kids to make. I am a big believer in getting the kids involved in cooking at a young age, so many benefits from teaching them about different foods, scientific cooking properties, maths skills and the bonus with this recipe was extra Veges today! ??
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That looks delicious. I assume you could get away using almond flour?
This is fabulous! Made it yesterday with the almond pulp I had leftover from making milk and it is absolutely delish. Thank you.
Do you know if any egg substitutes work in this recipe?
Thank you so very much! It's a favourite in our house!
Yum! Just made these in muffin cases instead of a loaf- perfect treats to get me through the week!


I work with a friend who owns an AEC Regal (HHP755, ex-Greenslades of Exeter) that has been off the road for many years. We are in the process of restoring it, and putting it back on the road. We would appreciate some pointers as to what oils to use in the gear box (pre-selector), and in the diff.
For those who are curious about our vehicle, you can go to the flickr website and enter the registration (HHP755).
Back axle - a straight 140 worm gear oil NOT a Hypoid or EP which will eat out the phosphor bronze differential!
Really good to see your progress on restoring this fine coach which I remember well in service and once rode on a Greenslades mystery tour!
Thank you for your response, Philip. Stay tuned to our progress. We hope the AEC will make its public debut at the AEC Society rally at Newark at the end of May in 2016.


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Want to find out what does the word habiliment mean? We gathered all the possible definitions of the word habiliment on our website. Our definition dictionary is updated all the time with new definitions and is ready to help you.
An article of clothing; a garment.
The body is its habiliment. - "Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science", Hudson Tuttle.
Nowadays she thought with dreary wonder of that fascination, and had come to loathe every trapping and habiliment of war.	- "The Crown of Life", George Gissing.
He wore an old full-	bottomed wig, the gift of some dandy old Brown whom he had valeted in the middle of last century, which habiliment Master Tom looked upon with considerable respect, not to say fear; and indeed his whole feeling towards Noah was strongly tainted with awe; and when the old gentleman was gathered to his fathers, Tom's lamentation over him was not unaccompanied by a certain joy at having seen the last of the wig: Poor old Noah, dead and gone, said he, Tom Brown so sorry!	- "Tom Brown's School Days", Thomas Hughes.


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New Kids on the Block star Donnie Wahlberg left a $2,000 tip at Waffle House after being treated 'like a king'
Waffle House is known for its low prices.
Waffle House is known for its delicious food — and low prices. So, when a celebrity leaves a $2,000 tip, it's a big deal.
Early Thursday morning, Donnie Wahlberg, a founding member of New Kids on the Block and a current star of "Blue Bloods," posted a photo on Facebook that showed a Waffle House receipt with a $2,000 tip.
"My mom waited tables, and my dad tended bars — for years," Wahlberg wrote in the Facebook post. "So, when I walk into a Waffle House, and the staff treats me like a king, you better believe I treat them like queens!"
The photo of the receipt showed that he had ordered $82.60 of food.
According to one commenter, Donnie also gave the Waffle House workers backstage passes and front-row tickets for the upcoming New Kids on the Block concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The post quickly went viral, with more than 52,000 reactions as of Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Wahlberg's fans have flooded the comments, sharing their own experiences with the boy band star.
"He was raised right! Back in the early days of NKOTB, I wrote a letter to Donnie. A few weeks later, I received a hand written reply... from Alma," Wahlberg's mother, one commenter wrote. "I knew back then that a mom who cares that much about her son to answer his fan mail by hand, was one amazing mom and was raising good men. This post warms my heart and proves what I suspected back in 1989."
Wahlberg has some experience of his own in the restaurant industry. He and his brothers, Paul and Mark, founded Boston-based gourmet burger chain Wahlburgers in 2011.
SEE ALSO: We visited Mark Wahlberg's rapidly expanding better-burger chain to see if it's worth the hype
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King of the Children () is a 1987 drama film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Chen Shaohua.  The film was based on a novella of the same name by Ah Cheng. The film competed for the Palme D'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot
A young man is sent to teach at a rural school in a poverty stricken area of Yunnan province.

Cast
 Chen Shaohua
 Xie Yuan
 Yang Xuewen

Reception
King of the Children received a highly positive review in Time Out, where a reviewer wrote, "There are echoes here of a film like Padre Padrone, but Chen's film is completely free of flabby humanist sentimentality. [...] By Chinese standards, this is film-making brave to the point of being visionary. By any standards, this follow-up to Yellow Earth and The Big Parade is also something like a masterpiece."

References

External links

 King of the Children from the Chinese Movie Database

1987 films
1987 drama films
Chinese drama films
Mandarin-language films
Films set in Yunnan
Films directed by Chen Kaige
Films based on Chinese novels

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Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Jet fuel sits atop the St. Marys River near Monmouth Road in Decatur on Saturday after a pipeline leak. Crews began cleaning up the leak after it was discovered Friday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette The St. Mary's River along Monmouth Rd. in Decatur, IN on Saturday September 8, 2018. A jet fuel leak has resulted in multiple roads closing in Decatur, Adams County emergency dispatchers said. Some 7,700 gallons discharged into the St. Marys River on Friday leading to road closures in the area, including Monmouth Road near the wastewater treatment plant.
Officials are cleaning up more than 8,000 gallons of turbine fuel that leaked into the St. Marys River in Decatur after a pipeline failed to contain the pollutant, officials said Saturday.
Cleanup started immediately after the leak was discovered at 5:17 p.m. Friday, according to Buckeye Pipe Line Co. L.P., which is responsible for the leak.
Booms were set up in the St. Marys River to contain the turbine fuel, also known as jet fuel. Several roads were also closed, including Monmouth Road near the city's wastewater treatment plant, officials said.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is monitoring air in neighborhoods and businesses near the river. The EPA said it is also monitoring water quality at several locations downstream.
No fires or injuries were reported, Houston-based Buckeye Pipe Line said, and the pipeline will remain shut down until it is repaired and considered safe to reopen.
"One of their workers discovered a pressure drop, went immediately to check on it and immediately shut it down," said Bernie Beier, Allen County Homeland Security director. Beier was monitoring cleanup activities by several contractors hired by Buckeye at the Allen County-Adams County line.
Beier said that while the booms contained the pollutant so it could not spread, contractors were using hoses to vacuum the fuel off the top of the water.
"So the goal is to get as much of the product or the fuel off the top of the river before the rains get heavier, the waters rise and the currents get faster," Beier said. "When the water becomes more turbulent, anything off the top tends to get sucked down with logs, sticks and debris.
"And they're really making great progress, they're getting a lot of fuel off the water," Beier added.
Decatur Mayor Kenneth L. Meyer said crews worked through the night to clean up the spill. He said there was an odor in the air, "but it's not toxic." The cleanup could take weeks, Meyer said.
As crews were busy cleaning up pollution on the St. Marys River near Decatur, volunteers from the Save Maumee Grassroots Organization had their annual fall cleanup on the St. Marys near the Wells Street Bridge in downtown Fort Wayne.
Hearing about the fuel spill, Abigail Frost-King, president of the Save Maumee Grassroots Organization, thought of a West African proverb.


'The Checklist Manifesto' has applicability to buying tech for aging. I just finished reading "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right" by Atul Gawande, a surgeon who developed a checklist to improve surgery safety for WHO and his own operating room. Which brings me to the question of whether caregivers and organizations with caregiving responsibility -- like families, home care organizations, senior housing, GCMs, doctors, non-profits, etc. -- have a checklist they follow when purchasing a product or service? So here's a proposed checklist which needs revision, I'm sure. Input is most welcome!
You're considering buying tech -- first do an assessment. The first part of this checklist should clarify why, for whom, and what changes are implied by introducing technology.
Clearly define the problem's true nature. At the problem end of the spectrum, some take on a new degree of urgency for professional or family caregivers following a discharge from a rehab or when an individual has fallen repeatedly. But what may appear as a risk of falling is really a problem with medication non-compliance and low blood pressure. And on the opportunity end, perhaps a non-profit senior center wants to enhance the quality of life of center visitors, but could also help fix a budget shortfall.
Clarify the broader context around the solution. Organizations may want to implement a tool connecting caregiving aides to management to verify start and end times of visits, for example. While that problem may be well-defined, is there an opportunity to link in family members and provide them a status about- or a communication from the care recipient? Would that be a differentiator and even an upsell opportunity?
Document and gain advance agreement on new processes. Bought-and-not deployed is a characteristic of purchases since the dawn of technology optimism (defined as 'a solution exists, we need that, let's buy it!'). The biggest barrier is managing behavioral change to incorporate new tech into a day-to-day process. A rule of thumb -- expect 5 times the cost to fully deploy across a multiple person organization. If you're a family caregiver, of course, the only behaviors you need to change are those of siblings and care recipient. But if you attached a cost to that effort, no doubt it would be 5 times the cost of any tech you purchased. Just one scenario, who sets up the new solution, who is notified when there's a problem, what if they are not available, then who will be notified? If notified, what happens? Whose responsibility is it to do any of this?
Now you are scanning the market for alternatives. So the prerequesites for considering technology are all met and you or assigned organizational staff are looking out in the marketplace. What are your criteria for including an alternative in your search?
What solutions exist to solve the problem or seize the opportunity? Trade shows and consumer events, advertising, and web searches may turn up a number of choices in a particular domain. Ideally, there are multiple choices because vendors recognize a viable market they want to enter. But is the price (if it is visible) a reasonable fit with budget and expectation? How do you set an expectation of cost in an emerging market? (Answer, with extreme difficulty). Does the cost match the scope of the problem (think smoke alarm, for example) or opportunity? Does the required infrastructure match the existing environment (wireless network, broadband, landline phone, computer operating system, etc.)?
Is the manufacturer or solution provider reputable and competent? This is particularly vexing in a lengthy referral chain -- Organization A uses Organization B to source technologies, who in turn buys from Distributor C, who acquires technology from Manufacturer D. Or a family caregiver receives a recommendation from Doctor E about a product. In this multi-tiered world with no likely 'Consumer Reports' to verify quality, you're left with indicators -- consider robustness and recency of web content, the prior track record of executives, chats with call centers, proven product pilots, quantification of sales success, and best of all, verifiable references.
Is the customer service for the solution or product adequate? For those who have tried to get support for 'free' e-mail or mobile tools, it may be exclusively found in online support forums -- no one to call, no one else to ask. But for purchased technologies or services, there should always be staff, integrators, customer service personnel, or someone at the other end of e-mail or phone support to help buyers or first-time users.
What are the payment options? I always have a sinking feeling when I hear about solutions that cost multiple thousands of dollars per unit, where products are intended to help frail seniors who may be the neediest because of their chronic disease or frailty. Can these technologies be leased directly or through an intermediary for a defined and renewable term? Tried out with option to buy? Re-used for others than the initial recipients? Recycled as with cell phones? Terminated as a subscription service? Is the process for this well-documented or explained?
The product or solution has arrived or the subscription has begun. Meeting expectations is the next phase of the checklist, regardless of whether it is a business relationship, the product is delivered, or individuals are signing up for a new subscription to X or Y service.
Test to make sure that it works as described. Aquiring a technology solution or service should not be an unwelcome surprise, whether it is the packaging, the ease of startup and implementation, or the user experience. The good news is that initial research and process documentation identified who to call when a product or service doesn't match expectation.
Verify ongoing support processes or individuals. For any uncertainties or ambiguities, invoke the support processes identified in the solution research phase and verify that someone (or something) can help smooth out any problems or misunderstandings. This is even more critical when an organization is now in the business of reselling tech products to family members or seniors.
Communicate your experience to others. You've done the research for yourself or on behalf of an organization, you've acquired solutions and you're very happy (or not). Make sure that you communicate your experience back out and up to the sources that referred you -- it's absolutely vital as a resource to help others make similar selections.
Permalink Submitted by Susan Estrada (not verified) on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 20:25.
We've been spending a lot of time evaluating a variety of aging-in-place technologies in a lab setting and are getting ready to push some out to pilot volunteers. It's quite fascinating and, too often, disappointing to listen to the claims of manufacturers about the wonders of their technology and then compare it to real world practice. Some of the simplest tech gadgets may end up being the most effective.
With regard to payment options, we've been pleased that many vendors seem to have adopted a rental model with low upfront costs and many have a money-back trial period. This is truly a benefit for seniors as it gives them an opportunity to see if the tech can work in their environment.
But, all vendors should understand that lots of this gear is a high-touch installation and a $50 fee isn't going to cut it. We have a ways to go to make this a viable ecosystem for everyone involved.
Permalink Submitted by Paul Moseley (not verified) on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 09:57.
Laurie, Thank you for reminding us that the products and recommendations we make must solve a problem, provide a benefit or at least maintain the status quo. The thought of a good technology vendor should be the same as a doctor. The first rule should be "do no harm". It would also help if vendors draw a solid line between those products that meet the needs of a facilitiy and the adminitration, versus those that meet the needs of an individual. Requirements are very different in many cases and reasons for buying can be drastically different.
Our biggest challenge continues to be education. From the customer to the vendor and from the vendor to the customer. LEt's all try to listen better.
Permalink Submitted by Gael Tannenbaum (not verified) on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 14:41.
Checklists are not only important for high-tech solutions, but low-tech ones as well (from daily living aids to home modifications and remodeling). It's all about getting to the root of the problem and finding the solution that's right for you and your family. Aging in place is a complicated prospect and it differs for every family, every home and every situation.
At Dynamic Living Inc. we think checklists are absolutely the way to go. Just as Laurie points out, the first thing that needs to be done when coming up with a solution is a thorough assessment. We have recently developed a home assessment survey: a list of probing questions that will help you identify problem areas in your home so that you can plan a new home or remodel your current one more effectively for your specific needs and budget.
Like Laurie's checklist above, this is a work in progress and we welcome any comments or suggestions.


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import { browser, element, by } from 'protractor';

export class PwaPage {
  navigateTo() {
    return browser.get('/');
  }

  getParagraphText() {
    return element(by.css('app-root h1')).getText();
  }
}

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from collections import OrderedDict
from rpython.rlib.rsre.rsre_re import search
import os

from hippy.module.url import _urldecode

class CGIConfig(object):
    def __init__(self, w_get, w_post, initial_server_dict, cookie):
        self.w_get = w_get
        self.w_post = w_post
        self.initial_server_dict = initial_server_dict
        self.cookie = cookie

def unpack_query(dct, query, space):
    vars = query.split("&")
    for var in vars:
        l = var.split("=", 1)
        if len(l) == 1:
            dct[_urldecode(l[0])] = space.wrap("")
        else:
            dct[_urldecode(l[0])] = space.wrap(_urldecode(l[1]))

def setup_cgi(interp, argv):
    get = OrderedDict()
    post = OrderedDict()
    space = interp.space
    query = os.environ.get('QUERY_STRING')
    if query is not None:
        unpack_query(get, query, space)
    script_name = os.environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME')
    initial_server_dict = OrderedDict()
    if script_name is not None:
        initial_server_dict['PHP_SELF'] = space.wrap(script_name)
    if argv:
        initial_server_dict['argc'] = space.wrap(len(argv))
        initial_server_dict['argv'] = space.new_array_from_list(
            [space.wrap(x) for x in argv])

    cookie = os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE')
    content_length = os.environ.get('CONTENT_LENGTH')
    content_type = os.environ.get('CONTENT_TYPE')
    if content_type is not None and content_length is not None:
        m = search("[; ,]", content_type)
        if m:
            start = m.start(0)
            assert start >= 0
            content_type = content_type[:start]
        content_type = content_type.lower()
        if (content_type == 'x-www-form-urlencoded' or
            content_type == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'):
            content_length = int(content_length)
            stdin = interp.open_stdin_stream()
            post_data = stdin.read(content_length)
            unpack_query(post, post_data, space)
        else:
            interp.warn("Unknown content type: %s, ignoring post" %
                        content_type)

    return CGIConfig(space.new_array_from_rdict(get),
                     space.new_array_from_rdict(post),
                     initial_server_dict, cookie)


FAS Colombia is writing a series of reports on the benefits and challenges of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA) between the United States and Colombia. This report analyzes the demand for dairy products (powdered milk, yogurt, butter, cheese, and processed dairy products) in Colombia and the country's use of the dairy product tariff rate quotas (TRQs), which will increase by four percent per year and be phased-out by 2019. Given a growing economy and increasing demand for dairy products, a promotional campaign by the U.S. dairy industry could increase sales in the country for U.S. dairy products.
Over the past six years the market for dairy products in Colombia has grown substantially because of the growth in the Colombian economy and the increase in income levels of Colombians. The retail market for U.S. dairy exports in Colombia has increased since the full implementation of the CTPA in 2012.
In addition, between January and July 2014, U.S. dairy exports reached $28.7 million, the highest level since 1970 (within that timeframe) and a 66.9% increase over the same period in 2013.
While dairy exports have increased in absolute terms, different categories of dairy products have been more successful than others, and many products continue to be well below the TRQ fill rate permitted by the CTPA.
The following sections offer information about trade of dairy products and the challenges exporters face in the Colombian market. In general, all of these products face similar challenges, including competition from other export countries including Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, and New Zealand. In addition, American products are considered premium quality and for many low-income Colombians they are very expensive. Thus, local small-farm dairy producers continue to dominate much of the Colombian dairy market.
Milk in powdered form (regardless of skim, whole, etc.) is one of the larger Colombian dairy imports. As of 2013, Colombia was the United States' 23rd largest powdered milk product export market. The TRQ allows for 6,655,000 kg to enter the Colombian market in 2014. As of October, 5,669,050 kg (85.2%) of the TRQ has been filled. The United States still faces stiff competition from Argentina. In fact, because of the surge in Argentine powdered milk exports to Colombia because of favorable prices, Colombia was forced to institute a quota on Argentine powdered milk imports. In addition, many Colombians still cannot afford powdered milk, which also has a lower demand as it is not an essential dietary staple. For example, according to Business Monitor International, whole milk powder has an estimated annual per capita consumption of only 1.0 kg. Nevertheless, as per capita income has increased, so have U.S. powdered milk exports to Colombia.
Colombia is also a large market that the U.S. cheese products. As of 2013, Colombia was the 18th largest export market for U.S. cheese products. The TRQ for cheese is 2,795,000 kg for 2014. As of October, the total amount utilized was 1,748,519 kg (62.6%). There is still a lack of demand for imported cheeses because of the dominant position of local Colombian firms, which offer affordable products for many Colombians who still consider U.S. imports to be high-quality but too expensive to consume on a regular basis. This disadvantage is combined with the fact that many Colombians do not use cheese for a large variety of meals. Rather, cheese is often eaten at breakfast and used for sandwiches. To tap into this market, U.S. exporters must be able to advertise to Colombians that cheese can be used for many other purposes, such as through recipe promotions. In addition, there is a growing population of Colombians that is focusing on healthy-eating habits and lifestyles. If U.S. producers can convince Colombian consumers to buy better-quality, healthy cheeses then there is a better chance that U.S. exporters can increase sales in Colombia.
Colombia ranks as the 69th largest market for U.S. butter exports. Of all the exports to Colombia, butter continues to be the least used TRQ. As of October 2014, only 780 kg (0.12%) out of 666,000 kg has been used. Like cheese, butter is more easily accessible via the local producers at extremely low cost. Nevertheless, there could be prospects for growth if growing income levels continue. Currently, heart disease is the third largest killer in Colombia after violence and cancer. With a growing demand for heart-healthy products, U.S. exporters could promote the fact that their products contain important vitamins for heart health along with omega-3. For Colombians who love butter but do not want negative cardiovascular effects, they may look to these healthy U.S. products.
After butter, yogurt is the second lowest-performing dairy product discussed, with Colombia being the 55th largest importer of U.S. yogurt products. In regards to the TRQ, as of October 2014, only 19,817 kg (14.9%) out of 133,000 kg has been used. One of the biggest reasons for this is culture. Many Colombians prefer easily-consumed yogurt products, particularly drinkable kefir-type yogurts. Yogurt eaten with a spoon is considered burdensome when looking for "grab-and-go" foods. Based on this, local firms maintain a comparative advantage in the Colombian yogurt market, producing 67% of drinkable products at the end of 2013. Nevertheless, yogurts considered to be of healthier quality continue to grow in demand. This includes pro-biotic formulas along with Greek yogurt. Although Greek yogurt is eaten with a spoon, it is low-fat and high in protein. The problem, however, is that there is a lack of general knowledge about the benefit of a high-protein diet, leading to difficulties in selling Greek yogurt. If U.S. exporters can follow the lead of Colombian firms and advertise the benefits of healthier yogurt, then U.S. products could gain a foothold in the market.
These products include malt extracts and infant formulas. Based on TRQ numbers, out of 1,331,000 kg available in 2014, 300,791 kg (24.8%) has been used as of October. Colombia ranks 26th as a market for U.S. processed dairy products, but sales have continued to grow substantially since 2011. According to Euromonitor International, total retail sales for food preparation products for infants increased by over 150% between 2011 and 2013, albeit at very low levels. During this period, for example, U.S. formula exports increased from $617,416 in 2011 to $1,589,456 in 2013.
Processed dairy product sales should increase as income levels increase. This is complemented by the fact that the increased levels of urbanization within Colombia have led to faster-paced lifestyles. Moreover, based on the growing demand for healthy products, U.S. products may continue to grow in demand as Colombians seek healthy dairy products. It should be noted however, that birth rates in Colombia are declining, particularly in cities, while poorer, rural areas are less apt to purchase processed formula products. But with greater income levels in the cities, less essential products like malt extracts will rise in demand as they become more affordable.


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Sherri Papini lies to officers with a bandage over her nose in new video
September 30, 2022 Taiwo Gbolagade
Sherri Papini imitated the premise of "Gone Girl" by trying to carry out her own abduction, and new video from a 2016 interview with police shows the mother-of-two speaking to police with a swollen and bandaged nose in the immediate aftermath of the event.
Papini, 39, is shown in footage that aired on Good Morning America on Friday morning with a bandage covering her nose's bridge as she tells law enforcement authorities that she is afraid to talk about the abduction with them because she isn't sure whether they are "in my corner."
"I've never met you people," she said, "I'm not sure whether you're in my corner."
I am aware of my hubby. There were a lot of other things, and although I am aware that my spouse is on my side, you know, you guys are experts in all things. It's disgusting and humiliating, and that's strange for me.
The Vanishing Act, a brand-new 20/20 program that focuses on Papini's long-running farce, will premiere on ABC on Friday night.
The episode will include recently made public investigative data and interviews with former Redding, California, mayor Missy McArthur, former Shasta County sheriff Tom Bosenko, and co-founder of the Northern Hispanic Latino Coalition Alan Ernesto Phillips.
Papini vanished while out on a jog in her Redding neighborhood in November 2016. The married mother of two said she was kept prisoner for 22 days by two Latina women before returning weeks later, almost hundreds of miles away, "dazed, tortured and injured."
Papini had ties around her body and self-inflicted wounds, such as a swollen nose and a blurred "brand" on her right shoulder, when she was discovered. She suffered burns on her left forearm, ligature scars on her wrists and ankles, and several additional bruises and rashes all over her body.
Papini's abduction scheme fell apart almost six years later, and she was prosecuted in March for carrying out the fake.
In the end, she entered a guilty plea to one count of fraud and one count of misleading a federal official.
She admitted as much in court, saying, "I am profoundly embarrassed of my actions and sincerely sorry for the suffering I have caused my family, my friends, all the wonderful people who have unnecessarily suffered because of my narrative, and those who worked so hard to try to assist me."
Papini said, "I will labor for the rest of my life to atone for what I have done."
She was given an earlier this month sentence of 18 months in jail, which is more than twice what the prosecution had asked for. She was also ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution for the money the state used to support her research.
By November 8, the mother of two must turn herself in. Papini will serve a jail term as well as a 36-month probationary period.
After being faithful to her for the previous six years after the claimed abduction, Papini's husband, Keith Papini, filed for divorce from his wife of more than ten years in April.
Tyler, 9, and Violet, 7, are their two children, and he has applied for exclusive custody of them.
He has also asked for the right to exclusive possession of the couple's three automobiles, a Ford Majestic RV, and a Correct Craft wakeboard boat, as well as their rental property in Redding, California.
Papini was practically attacked by law officials during her arrest outside her children's school, according to the divorce documents, which also state that she and Keith broke up on the same day she was detained this year.
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NASA's Mars 2020 Rover in Test Chamber
This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 9, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the move of the Mars 2020 rover into a large vacuum chamber for testing in Mars-like environmental conditions.
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NASA has chosen a name for its next Mars rover: Perseverance.
NASA's Latest Mars Rover Has a Name
This impact crater has gullies incised into its walls on the north and eastern sides. A couple of gullies on the north wall are unusual because a segment in the middle becomes wider than the upslop...
Gullies with Varied Shapes on a Crater Wall (3-D)
The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture.
Testing NASA's Mars Helicopter
Ingenuity sits on a slightly inclined surface with about 6-degree tilt at the center of the frame, just north of the southern ridge of "Séíitah" geologic unit. The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z in...
Ingenuity at 'Airfield J'
NASA's InSight lander used a scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its seismometer to the spacecraft on March 14, 2021, the 816th Martian day, or sol of the mis...
InSight Starts Burying Seismometer's Cable
On June 21, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory install the main robotic arm on the Mars 2020 rover.
At Arm's Length
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the miss...
Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
Illustration of the Mars 2020 spacecraft, encapsulated in its protective aeroshell and en route to Mars.
Perseverance Cruises to Mars (Artist's Concept)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to capture the component images for this stereo, 360-degree panorama near the ridgeline of Endeavour Crater's western rim. The v...
Approaching a Target Deposit on Mars Crater Rim (Stereo)
Rohit Bhartia of NASA's Mars 2020 mission holds a slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars. This slice will likely be used here on Earth for testing a laser instrument for NAS...
A Martian Meteorite for Mars 2020
This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater from a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a single object and, at some point prior to impac...
Doublet Crater
With its heat shield facing the planet, NASA's Perseverance rover begins its descent through the Martian atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exac...
Entering the Martian Atmosphere with the Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover's robotic arm...
Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission) show doors opening and closing on parts of the Samp...
Perseverance Sample Caching System Doors
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flori...
Mars 2020 Perseverance Launches Off Florida Coast
This artist's concept is a simulation of what seismic waves from a marsquake might look like as they move through different layers of the Martian interior.
Seismic Waves Inside Mars
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a robotic arm transfers samples of Martian rock and soil from a fetch rover onto a lander.
Robotic Arm Transferring Tubes From Fetch Rover to Lander (Artist's Concept)
The nose cone containing the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sits atop a motorized payload transporter at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
Perseverance on the Move
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Opportunity Legacy Pan (True Color)
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Ingenuity's View from its Fifth Flight
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) is an exploration technology investigation that will produce oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover is MOXIE
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Andhra IAS officer Jawahar Reddy to take TTD executive officer charge on Friday
Reddy has played a key role in plugging the Covid-19 spike in the state and was instrumental in strengthening the information network to check the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state
Following the Andhra Pradesh government's transfer order issued late Wednesday night, senior Andhra Pradesh IAS officer K S Jawahar Reddy is set to assume the charge of executive officer (EO) of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) on Friday.
"His services are placed at the disposal of the Revenue (Endowments) department to post him as EO, TTD," the order issued by the state chief secretary Nilam Sawhney on Wednesday read.
KS Jawahar Reddy was currently serving as special principal secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare. The senior officer has played a key role in plugging the Covid-19 spike in the state and was instrumental in strengthening the information network to check the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state.
According to top government sources, the appointment order of Reddy was disseminated in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
Reddy will replace Anil Kumar Singhal who has been posted as the principal secretary, Medical Health Department. Singhal was appointed at the helm of TTD EO in May 2017. The 1993-batch IAS officer has also served as Resident Commissioner of AP Bhavan in Delhi.
Singhal's two-year term ended in 2019, yet the YSRCP government decided at the time to keep him as EO.
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'N' driver clocked going 187 km/h in 80 km/h zone
Driver, 18, charged with excessive speeding in Abbotsford
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An 18-year-old male "N" driver has been charged after being clocked going 187 km/h in an 80 km/h zone in Abbotsford.
Abbotsford Police Sgt. Judy Bird said the teen was travelling in an Audi A3 last Thursday (July 4) at about 7:30 p.m. when he was clocked by a traffic officer in the area of Highway 11 (the Abbotsford-Mission Highway) and Clayburn Road.
Bird said a 17-year-old passenger was also in the vehicle.
She said the vehicle was towed and will be impounded for seven days. The teen's driver's licence will also be reviewed by the superintendent of motor vehicles.
The driver has been charged with excessive speeding – going 40 km/h or more over the speed limit – which results in an automatic three demerit points and a fine of between $368 and $483.
Sgt. Desi Sansalone with the Abbotsford Police Department's traffic enforcement unit said speeding isn't worth the risk.
"You may think you're in control at these high speeds, but should you need to take evasive action, or react to another driver, you may find yourself unable to respond effectively. The results can be deadly," he said.
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Halfway through our South-wide road trip, writer Valerie Rains makes a Delta prilgrimage en route to the state capital.
Seven Chimneys Farm outside Clarksdale, Mississippi.
The first 950 miles of our journey across the South have been quite a trip indeed. We've filled our days with cultural journeys and outdoorsy exploration—and our bellies with barbecue and fresh-picked peaches—all the way from Charleston, South Carolina, to North Mississippi. And now, my partner in crime, Tim, and I are both ready to put on the brakes. Today, we're only tackling an hour and a half-long drive from Oxford to Clarksdale, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta blues town with just the sleepy, sun-dazed pace we're after.
As we approach Clarksdale, the irregular patches of trees and scattered houses we left behind in Oxford are replaced with orderly, right-angled fields of cotton, rice, corn, and soybeans. And Seven Chimneys Farm (sevenchimneysfarm.com; rooms from $85), our lodging for the night, lands us square in the middle of 6,000 acres of them. The 1840s main house was the original hub of the vast Stovall plantation, but guests bunk in more modest digs—one Airstream trailer and three sharecropper-style shacks built from salvaged materials and decorated with vintage license plates, cowhide rugs, and folk art portraits of country, gospel, and blues musicians. The welcoming committee? A pack of exuberantly friendly rescue dogs race across the lawn to lick our hands and generally make a happy fuss when we pull in.
After hauling in our bags, we get the lay of the land: Guests have access to a good-size swimming pool and, for a little extra, a pottery studio and dark room. A newly constructed cypress barn with an upstairs loft also hosts artists-in-residence. Then it's a 10-mile drive into the heart of Clarksdale, with a stop on the way to read the Blues Trail marker by the patch of land where Muddy Waters' cabin (msbluestrail.org) once sat—and where Alan Lomax first captured Muddy's voice in field recordings for the Library of Congress in 1941 and 1942.
or so. Newcomers including Oxbow Restaurant (oxbowclarksdale.com), a weekends-only dinner spot run by a Clarksdale-born, New Orleans-trained husband-and-wife team, and the New Roxy (newroxy.com), an alfresco performance space, have joined an earlier wave of revitalizing spots. Take, for example, Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club (groundzerobluesclub.com) and Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, Inc. (cathead.biz), a one-stop shop for folk art, blues albums, and good-hearted gossip. Owner Roger Stolle is Clarksdale's un-official ambassador, and as we browse the shelves, he gives us the lowdown on local characters and the night's live music offerings.
On his advice, we head to Red's Lounge (395 Sunflower Avenue), the one sure thing on almost any night of the week in Clarksdale—even Sundays, when many other spots shut down. Inside, a crowd of European Blues Trail tourists and a half-dozen Clarksdale residents have gathered in loose rows of chairs around the center of the wood-paneled room. All eyes are on gray-haired guitarist Watermelon Slim, who runs through a set of blues, country, and folk songs while writhing and wriggling in the crimson glow of the stage lights like a man one-third his age. When he takes a breather out front around midnight, Slim flirts in broken Italian with some foreign fans, and a receiving line of admirers begins to form. From the stage antics to the back-alley banter, it's clear this isn't Slim's first rodeo.
Getting home after the show isn't the easiest: We feel our way down the road at a near-crawl in the pitch dark, squinting for the farm's turnoff, and when we arrive, we're greeted by a booming symphony of summer insects. I'd almost forgotten bugs were capable of such a glorious and overwhelming sound, and so we collapse into the chairs on our front porch, stare up at the stars, and let nature sing us half to sleep.
For the rest of our drive to Jackson, Mississippi, we opt to stay on U.S. 61 (aka the Blues Highway) rather than cutting over to the interstate, and thus have plenty of time to take in the pancake-flat landscape, desolate-looking cotton gins, and row after row of cornstalks as we chug along behind a massive, slow-moving plow there's no way we're going to attempt to pass. Once we reach the city, we're ready to pick up the pace again. And the Fondren district, an artsy area 2 miles north of downtown with good shopping and a flurry of new bars and restaurants, seems like just the place to do it.
I manage to clock a half hour at both Blithe and Vine (blitheandvine.com), a light-washed storefront stocked with tunics and Italian denim, and the vintage store Fondren Muse (601/345-1155), set in a converted house on the north edge of the district (best find: a giraffe-print old-Hollywood bathing suit with the size marked in weight), before I take pity on Tim. At Fondren Public (fondrenpublic.com), one street over, bocce and snacks await. We try fried pepper Jack cheese nuggets topped with candied bacon and hot sauce, and order a couple of spicy-sweet Mississippi mules, made with ginger beer, lime, and Mississippi's own Cathead Honeysuckle vodka (catheadvodka.com). Come dinnertime, we treat ourselves to an indulgent feast of pan-roasted Gulf grouper with crawfish-corn salad and a side of truffle fries at Walker's Drive-In (walkersdrivein.com), a Fondren mainstay since before the area was buzzy.
The dressed-up diner's low-lit, date-night vibe sets us up for after-dinner cocktails at the even-dimmer Apothecary (apothecaryjackson.com), a speakeasy-style bar at the back of the 1940s relic Brent's Drugs. Up front, it's a marvel of turquoise booths and checkered floors, which make up a fully operational lunch spot by day. But now, when the brightest light comes from a neon sign advertising "Angel Food Ice Cream," it looks like an elaborate camouflage. Behind the curtain, old-school druggists' shelves form the backdrop for the bar. The soul-music sound track and expertly prepared cocktails—like the Mortar and Pestle, made with vodka, Bénédictine, strawberry, and lemon— are, yes, just what the doctor ordered.
We'd been in such a hurry to explore the day before that it's not until we're packing up that we really take in the views from our room at downtown's Old Capitol Inn (oldcapitolinn.com; rooms from $139), a boutique hotel with 24 individually styled rooms, most of which are suites. Directly below us, the quiet courtyard, with its koi pond, wooden footbridge, and umbrella-topped tables, beckons for morning coffee; off to the side, you can see the imposing facade of the Mississippi state archives. True to its name, the hotel sits just a block from the state's original capitol building, the 1839 Greek Revival limestone structure that now hosts the free Old Capitol Museum (mdah.state.ms.us/oldcap). From there, it's less than a 15-minute walk to another Jackson landmark with nearly as much history—the Mayflower Cafe (mayflowercafems.com), an institution since 1935 and the city's oldest operating restaurant. Its claims to fame are many—a star turn in the 2011 movie The Help, excellent seafood (particularly the buttery redfish), and its spicy, garlicky Comeback Sauce, a now-iconic salad dressing that may have been invented in this very corner restaurant. It comes out in a little plastic container with my pot roast plate lunch and a tiny side salad (although it's used just as often as a dip for crackers as to actually douse greens). Outside, the downtown streets are quiet except for the ongoing roadwork, an attempt to bring some new life to the faded but once-vibrant area. It's almost a miracle that the Mayflower has held on this long, but it does, and will, as long as folks heed the sauce's call and come back, come back, come back.


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Queen Victoria Eugenie's Diamond Bracelets
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Queen Letizia of the Spain will be celebrating her 50th Birthday next week! Having access to the Spanish Jewellery collection, Queen Letizia has worn many pieces from sizeable personal collection of her mother-in-law, Queen Sofia, as well as a variety of heirloom jewels, so to mark her birthday, in a staggered coverage, we are featuring the most prominent of those Jewels, beginning with Queen Victoria Eugenie's Diamond Bracelet!
Queen Victoria Eugenie's Diamond Bracelets | Spanish Royal Tiaras | Spanish Royal Jewels
Amongst the magnificent jewels that King Alfonso XIII Spain commissioned for the corbeille de mariage of his wife-to-be, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg , was a beautiful coronita, ie. small crown, of diamonds, rubies and emeralds. There is an obvious resemblance to Queen Victoria's Diamond Crown, probably a little detail the groom had towards the bride's family heritage.
The press describes the petite crown as having "seven and a half centimeters in diameter at the base and twelve centimeters from end to end of the fleurons. The base is set with four rectangular emeralds, four oval rubies, and eight diamond elements. On the upper edge, eight brilliants alternate with eight strawberry leaves, from which the corresponding diadems rose, terminating in the world globe with cross, all studded with diamonds". Queen Ena debuted her Diamond Crown at a reception held at the Royal Palace of Madrid after the couple's religious celebrations, which had been marred by a bomb narrowly missing the couple's carriage.
Queen Victoria Eugenie wore this crown often during her 25-year tenure as Queen of Spain. She was officially portrayed with this ornament several times and always wore it on top of her white mantilla for the Opening of Parliament. When the Bourbons went into exile in 1931, the Queen took her splendid jewellery collection with her to her new home in Switzerland. As the Countess of Barcelona notes in her memoirs:
I have been asked about what happened to that closed royal crown that the Queen wore in the superb portrait that Sotomayor painted of her, and that is at the Royal Palace. When she was in Switzerland, she thought that she was never going to wear it again and had it disassembled. She commissioned something new for herself and gave part of the stones to her daughters".
With some of the stones, Queen Ena commissioned Bulgari to create a pair of diamond bracelets representing two twisted ribbons – las pulseras gemelas. Those Bracelets can be often spotted on the Queen's arms on photographs from the many gala events she has attended in the 50s and 60s.
Queen Victoria Eugenie also paired the Twin Diamond Bracelets with some of her favourite jewels, such as the Cartier Pearl Tiara, her godmother's Emeralds or the Diamond Stomacher, while sitting for various of her legendary portraits. In April 1969, the elderly Queen took her last breath. Her last wishes established that these Diamond Bracelets (with several other pieces) should be given to her son, Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, with the intention that they must stay in in the possession of the head of the Borbon Dynasty, becoming part of a collection of Jewels to be passed on from titular to titular- las "Joyas de Pasar". Until now, no evidence of Doña Maria de las Mercedes, the Countess of Barcelona wearing the Twin Diamond Bracelets has been found.
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In accordance with Queen Ena's wishes, the next wearer of Las Gemelas was Queen Sofia, who received the lot of "Joyas de Pasar" some time after the Proclamation of Don Juan Carlos as King of Spain in 1975, with the first appearance coming during the Swedish State Visit to Spain in 1983.
For more than 30 years, Queen Sofia was the sole wearer of the splendid pair of Diamond Twin Bracelets. They were worn for a plethora of events, including State Visits, such as the Swedish State Visit to Spain in 1983 , the Spanish State Visit to Nepal in 1986 or the British State Visit to Spain in 1988, as well as other glittering events, like King Bhumibol of Thailand's Diamond Jubilee Banquet in 2006.
Usually, Queen Sofia opted to wear both Diamond Bracelets at the same time, just like Queen Ena did. Nonetheless, there were occasions when she opted to wear only one of them, such as for the Wedding of Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz in 2004.
When King Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014, the Twin Bracelets, and the rest of the lot of Joyas de Pasar lot, was handed over to the new King and Queen, with Queen Sofia wearing the whole lot one last time for a Mexican State Visit just weeks before the Abdication.
Queen Letizia first wore Las Gemelas in 2017 for a banquet during the Argentinian State Visit to Spain. Since then, we have seen her wearing the bracelets numerous times and they have become a favourite for State Banquets, including for the Spanish State Visit to Japan, the Spanish State Visit to Britain, the Chinese State Visit to Spain in 2018 or the Spanish State Visit to Sweden in 2021.
The Queen has also worn Queen Victoria Eugenie's Bracelets during some less formal events like prize ceremonies or concerts, such as the 2019 Opening of the season at the Teatro Real, the Princess of Asturias Awards in 2021 or a Dinner for the participants of the 2022 Madrid Nato Summit.
Unlike her predecessors, Queen Letizia has often opted to wear both Diamond Bracelets on the same arm, namely during King Willem Alexander's 50th Birthday in 2017 and Emperor Naruhito's Enthronement Banquet in 2019 (when she entered wearing one on each arm and change afterwards). It surely makes the pieces much more prominent. However, this is not free of criticism as some feel it may be damaging the stones. There is no doubt we'll continue to see Queen Victoria Eugenie's Diamond Bracelets for years to come!
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We read with interest Scott Hovanyetz's story ("AT&T Selected to Build FTC's No-Call List," March 3) on the fact that the Federal Trade Commission awarded AT&T Government Solutions the contract to develop and implement its do-not-call registry. And, although it's understandable some in the industry are surprised we won, the comment by one of those you quoted deserves a rebuttal.
One person asserted that AT&T Government Solutions appeared to lack the experience in database management compared with vendors who've worked on DNC lists at the state level. While it is true we have not implemented a state DNC system, AT&T Government Solutions has extensive IT and database development experience on government programs.
Our staff includes more than 2,500 scientists, engineers and analysts dedicated to government IT professional service projects, many of which involve developing large, mission-critical databases. It's a core skill of ours and obviously one of the reasons we were chosen for the FTC job against stiff competition.
Some may mistakenly think of AT&T Government Solutions as just a telecom supplier, but for our government customers who rely on us for enterprise architecture development, database management, Web-portal development, software development and scores of other critical IT tasks, we're anything but just the phone company. We're a long-standing, trusted supplier of integrated IT solutions.
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Greek and Spanish patients can now read EAU Patient Information in their native language
Greek and Spanish-speaking patients with kidney or ureteral stones can now read EAU Patient Information in their native language. The Endourology, Laparoscopy and Urotechnology Section of the Hellenic Urologic Association (HUA) has provided the Greek translation and the Spanish translation is the result of a collaboration between the Spanish Association of Urology (AEU) and the Dominican Republic Society of Urology (SDU).
EDAP announces placement of first Sonolith i-sys electroconductive lithotripter in South Africa
EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, reported today placement of the first Sonolith i-sys electroconductive lithotripter in South Africa.
Olympus PlasmaButton- vaporization technology now usable with Gyrus ACMI SuperPulse- Generator platform
Olympus, a precision technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions in Medical and Surgical Products among other core businesses, announced today that its revolutionary PlasmaButton- vaporization technology can now be used with the Gyrus ACMI SuperPulse- Generator platform. Together, the PlasmaButton electrode and SuperPulse Generator provide physicians and patients with a new, virtually bloodless treatment option for benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) or enlarged prostate.
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JMC Professor wins Karl Storz Lifetime Achievement Award in Endourology
Demetrius H. Bagley, M.D., the Nathan Lewis Hatfield Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology at Jefferson Medical College (JMC) of Thomas Jefferson University was recently honored as the 2010 recipient of the Karl Storz Lifetime Achievement Award in Endourology at the World Congress of Endourology. He is also a full Professor of Radiology.
EDAP reports clinical outcomes of Ablatherm-HIFU treatment in prostate cancer patients
EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, today reported favorable clinical outcomes for patients treated with Ablatherm-HIFU.
Robotic prostatectomy has low complication rates: CINJ study
According to a new study by The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), new evidence proves the safety of a robotic prostatectomy with the lowest complication rates in prostate cancer treatment. This comes as no surprise to Dr. David Samadi, Chief of the Division of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, who has performed over 3,000 successful robotic prostate surgeries in the fight against prostate cancer.
New laser technology for robotic prostate cancer surgery
One of the challenges of prostate cancer surgery is removing the cancer-affected gland without side effects. The procedure is estimated to cause long-term sexual dysfunction in half of men.Now, new published research by urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center presents evidence that a new laser technology used with robotic prostate cancer surgery may reduce the risk of damaging the crucial nerves necessary for erections and urinary continence.
Researchers recommends robotic prostatectomy over traditional open surgery method
While sharp debate continues among medical professionals as to whether a radical prostatectomy performed with the assistance of a robotic device is more beneficial than the traditional open surgery method, research just published by investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) shows new evidence supporting the safety of the robotic procedure - including what is believed to be one of the lowest complication rates to date. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Mary Ann Liebert launches Videourology journal for urologists
Videourology- is the first and only videojournal for urologists, publishing fully peer-reviewed surgical and micro-invasive video demonstrations of the latest techniques and technologies used to optimize surgical patient care.
Urologists use robot-assisted surgery to cut off average surgery time for vasectomy reversal
University of Florida urologists have used robot-assisted surgery to cut about 20 minutes off average surgery time for conventional vasectomy reversal using a microscope.
Cook Medical to feature a series of product demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan
In an ongoing effort to drive innovation in endourology, Cook Medical will feature a series of product demonstrations with a special emphasis on the PERC NCircle® Nitinol Tipless Stone Extractor, Flexor® Ureteral Access Sheath and the Ultraxx™ Nephrostomy Balloon at the 23rd Congress of the Japanese Society of Endourology and ESWL (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy), in Tokyo, Japan.
LMA Stonebreaker and Holmium Lasers to feature at 27th World Congress on Endourology
Continuing to drive innovation in endourology, Cook Medical will feature a series of product demonstrations and interactive presentations with a special emphasis on kidney stone management solutions, including the LMA Stonebreaker and Holmium Lasers at the 27th Annual World Congress on Endourology and SWL (shock wave lithotripsy) at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Munich, Germany from 6-10 October.
Surgeon removes a diseased kidney through the belly button
A surgeon at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is one of the first in the Midwest to use a new surgical technique that requires only one small incision to remove a diseased kidney.
Cutting-edge treatments for kidney and prostate cancer
Cancerous tumors on the kidney once meant surgery to remove the kidney.
New colorectal module from Simbionix advances laparoscopic cancer treatment
Simbionix USA Corp, an international company using leading edge simulation to advance clinical performance, announces the world-wide release of a breakthrough training simulation of the laparoscopic colorectal procedure.
Review of pediatric shockwave lithotripsy
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Cook device improves kidney stone removal procedures
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Shock wave lithotripsy for renal calculi patients may increase the risk of hypertension and diabetes
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Patent issued for non invasive treatment of kidney and ureteric stone technology
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Aryeetey Isaac (born 13 july 2000) know professionally as Elkiddo, is a known Ghanaian singer and songwritter.In 2020,he signed a record deal with Classic Rock Entertainment ,a subsidiary of Vision Music Group (VVIP)Aryeetey Issac was born in Nima a residential town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Elkiddo grew up singing whiles in Presec Legon where he had his secondery Education
The Classic Rock Entertainment signee Elkiddo is currently promoting his new tune "TORO" which he premiered the visuals on November 25 on the label's Youtube channel. The video was directed by Dialllo.
The singer is well known for songs like "Booboo", "Another You ", "Bless Me" and many other features as well.
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Perez Musik, the Blema Teasaa hit maker is back with another beautiful song titled Hewale Lala.
'Hewale lala' which mean Song Of Strenght in English is the first Ga song off a 5 track gospel EP titled Delivered by Perez musik.
This single, just like the other songs off the EP is inspired by a series of life experiences and the ultimate realization that life is best lived when one totally submits to the Holy Spirit.
The beauty of the song is expressed in a creative use of the Ga language garnished with an english hook. The song is indeed soothing and inspiring. The sound is different and awakening. It is a "must have" on your gospel Playlist.
From the sound released on this single, worshipers and music listeners should prepare to be dragged into the presence of God because Perez Musik is surely carrying some fresh fire this year.
Perez Recounts in an Instagram post;
"One night, on my way to my studio after a very unexpected rough and tough morning. I started to wonder about the true purpose of life as I felt frustrated on every side. I wanted to give up but suddenly the Holy Spirit ministered this scripture in my heart- "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
I immediately felt this song drop in my spirit. I began to sing the lyrics and melody with so much ease, I felt a positive shift in my physical, emotional and mental state.
It is my heart desire that this song will affirm your faith in Yahweh and restore faith if you have lost it."
The other titles on the EP are Ayeyi Ndwom, Made for you, Giver of My Life and Tse Ofe(Almighty Father) .
other songs from Perez Musik includes
1.Blema Tesaa https://youtu.be/k1D5CRV6TZc
2.Gborbilor https://youtu.be/3w9yIgVHjtY
3.Goodness of God(Cover) https://youtu.be/_I7ZVkpG8pk
4.Kadosh and All that matter medley https://youtu.be/nylCTKRj2zY
5.Aseda ft @Efe Grace
https://youtu.be/_Mx0oEHUeZA
6. Consuming fire ft Dave da Music Box
https://youtu.be/ly-OntV329o
7. Deeper
https://youtu.be/L3XuvZ-STTI
8. Purge Me
https://youtu.be/dGTJZQEWlJE
9. Amen
10. I exalt You
https://youtu.be/EDzMxWHxgwM
Michael 'Emm' Acheampong-Boateng, President of Highbridge the Label, has explained that it makes sense for African musicians do push the Afrobeats agenda into the US market, since that is what is hot at the moment.
"Afrobeats is not new, but in the US, it is. For example, Pop Smoke made drill music with UK beats, that's how he was introduced to the market. The plan before he died was to transition to more traditional music for people to enjoy. You saw that in his first album after he passed away. If you are a good businessman, the first thing to remember is that you are a business so you position yourself well in order to be successful. If there's a market for Afrobeats in America and you're looking into breaking into the market, then you need to come in with what they want and slowly transition to whatever you are looking to bring and see how the market reacts to that," he said in an interview with Ameyaw TV.
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Asked whether the Asaaka drill music from Ghana was making similar waves in the US, Emm said it wasn't the case yet.
"I didn't see it in the US. If I did, I saw it in the African community in the US. If there was an African party, then that's where you would see it but if you move from the subset of that population, then it didn't really travel. Afrobeats however, is traveling outside of the African community. So again, I don't think rappers doing Asaaka should abandon it. But they should be aware that if they want to get a commercial appeal, they should lean towards Afrobeats. Because with rap, Americans speak English, so if they can't understand what you're saying, then it's a little bit tricky."
Highbridge the Label is an American record label founded by A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Don Q, Quincy "QD" Acheampong and Sambou "Bubba" Camara in 2016, based in New York City.
Former Vodafone Icons and MTN Hitmaker contestant Derrick Music has revealed he is a self-taught piano and acoustic guitar player.
The musician who has countless performances and a few singles to his credit made the shocking revelation when he made an appearance on the maiden edition of Live Lounge, a newly introduced segment on growing YouTube channel BTM Afrika.
"Generally I have a passion for music. Anything about music intrigues me. At first, I used to play the grand piano (that was also self-taught). I was playing at dinners, weddings etc but the problem I had was transporting a grand piano (it's huge) so I contemplated on getting an instrument that is portable and that's when I settled on the guitar. I took that bold decision and bought the first guitar and it's been massive since then," he said.
Derrick Music brought his A-Game to life as he made an appearance on the maiden edition of Live Lounge.
Starting off with an acoustic rendition of his newly released single Kpalanga, the former Vodafone Icons and MTN Hitmaker star quickly transitioned into performing Anadwo by King Promise and other subsequent songs.
Radikal's real name is Stephen Abalungo and he proudly hails from Kandiga, a popular community in the Kassena Nankana East District of Upper East Region.
RDK drew inspiration from U.S rapper Pop Smoke's "Dior", Shatta Wale, and Kumerica stars to cook his monster hit song. Download Supah Radikal Kandimerica.mp3 and listen to the talented Frafra rapper's new track below.
Having graduated from ZAMSTECH SHS recently, Supah Radikal,22, is highly determined to make his mark in the Ghanaian music scene with the hope of taking hip-hop rap to new heights. He believes that music is a vital tool to transform the lives of the ghetto youth.
"Rapping Machine, Am the beast from the East..go ask Aziz how we set records like Kilah Bee..no time to waste, prepare for the massive hip-hop banger from RDK..it will be my first release of the year 2022.. Africa punches Kilah
", Supah Radikal tweeted about his new project.
Radikal is the rapper behind popular hit songs likes "Destiny" and "Bemsoe", which you can stream on SoundCloud". As an avid lover of entertainment, RDK is the real deal when it comes to the rap game. The self-styled African punchline killer is here to stay.
"LET'S TRY TO BUILD UP N IMPROVE OURSELVES FROM THE INSIDE.. DON'T THINK ABOUT ONLY THE OUTSIDE WORLD.. IT'S GOOD U WORK SECRETLY INSIDE.. SUCCESS WILL BRING IT OUT 1DAY…#SUPAH #RDK #DTB
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Michael 'Emm' Acheampong-Boateng, President of Highbridge the Label, has explained the need for African artists to explore ways of breaking into global music markets such as the US.
Speaking about how Afrobeats has managed to break into mainstream American music in recent times, Emm told Ameyaw TV that it didn't happen by chance. According to him, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's 2018 single, 'Way Too Fly' featuring Davido; and other strategic collaborations have helped contribute to the phenomenon.
"That's not a mistake, it's not by chance. I think back in 2018 when Boogie was on fire, he did a song with Davido and prior to that they didn't really play afrobeats music on the radio. After Boogie did that song with David, we started to hear more Afrobeats on the radio in America, specifically in New York City."
"The rest of the guys had good music, but they had to be introduced into the marketplace. We helped introduce them to the marketplace. And I think as Africans we should be proud of the music we are making; it is feel-good music and it's the next breaking sound. I can see Afrobeats Record Labels that are going to come up in United States soon, if they haven 't already because that sound is really big. They play the Wizkid and Tem's song every hour on the hour in New York City. So, it's been accepted completely and fully," he adds.
Oduma Essan hires East African hip-hop, Fid Q for the official 2022 banger
The mid-tempo laid-back vibe is an Afrobeat tune that is set to deliver it's sonic ambiance throughout the entire room or outdoor space that is being played.
Featuring Fid Q, the tune is an attempt by the talent to expand his horizon and music appeal following the release of his initial hits such as Bigi Bigi, Show Body, among several others.
Fid is said to be one of the artists who brought honor to Hip hop in Tanzania and East Africa with his well-known song Mwanza Mwanza wherein there is unique writing that has been different from the usual one (narratives/streams)
He has repeatedly been named the best hip-hop artist of all time in Tanzania and East Africa (by Felix Nyaumbu).
In commenting on his latest release, he stated, "The reason for this collaboration was to expand my career to other parts of the continent and the world at large.
It's for the fans to know that we have something better to give the people for the Christmas and new year to make them happy and bring them fun".
Get interactive with Oduma across his socials and stream now across all digital streaming platforms here – https://song.link/i/1601233440
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