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Fesenjān (; also called fesenjoon in Tehrani dialect) is a sweet and sour Iranian stew (a khoresh) from Northern Iran. It is typically served over rice in the Iranian manner. Like other khoresh stews served over rice, fesenjan is common also to Iraqi cuisine. As a festive dish for special occasions, it has become part of Jewish Rosh Hashannah celebrations. Even though the typology of Jewish ethnic cuisines is imprecise, fesenjan may be considered part of Sephardic cuisine. In Azerbaijan, where it called fisincan plov, the stew is made with lamb meatballs instead of poultry.

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Fesenjān is flavored with pomegranate paste and ground walnuts (see bazha) and spices like turmeric, cinnamon, orange peel, cardamom, and rosebud. It is traditionally made with eggplant and poultry (duck or chicken). Fesenjān can also be made using balls of ground meat or chunks of lamb. Depending on the recipe, it can have a sweet or sour taste. Fesenjān is served with Iranian white or yellow rice (polo or chelo).

If the pomegranate sauce comes out too sour, sugar and fried onions may be added to sweeten it. Sometimes, a hot iron is applied to cause oxidation and darken the sauce's color.

It is a dish that is part of the dinner table on Yaldā Night celebrations.

History
The earliest known reference to fesenjān is in Mirza Ali-Akbar Khan Ashpazbashi's Sofra-ye at'ema from 1881, which lists ten different varieties of the dish: walnut (today the most common), almond, eggplant, kidney bean, quince, potato, carrot, pumpkin, fish, and yogurt. The first dictionary to mention fesenjān is the Farhang-e Anandraj, which calls it fasūjan and says that the dish originated in Gilan.

Culture
Fesenjān is an elaborate dish that is often reserved for special occasions. It is considered "a rich man's dish", which is referenced in the Persian expression "he behaves as if he has had partridge and fesenjān", meaning to show off or act pretentiously.

In the traditional Iranian system of garm and sard foods (i.e. "hot" and "cold", respectively), fesenjān is considered "hot" because it uses walnuts, which are also considered a "hot" food. In order to balance out this hotness, sometimes people will add coriander (a "cold" plant) to it; peeled pumpkin is also added for the same reason, as well as to act as a sugar substitute.

See also
 Ghormeh sabzi
 Gheimeh
 Iranian cuisine
 List of stews
 Pomegranate soup

References

External links
 Khoresh fesenjan recipe

Azerbaijani cuisine
Iranian stews
Afghan cuisine
Iranian cuisine
Rosh Hashanah foods
Sephardi Jewish cuisine
Talysh cuisine
Turkish stews
Poultry dishes
Walnut dishes

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Announced in April 2021 general conference, the Helena Montana Temple had its groundbreaking before the end of June — just 84 days later. That has to be among the fastest turnarounds for a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, doesn't it?
In reality, that span of less than three months barely breaks into an unofficial Top 20 of such timelines. But it is the fastest since 2002.
President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Helena, Montana, on April 4 — one of 20 temple locations he identified in the most recent general conference.
Elder Vern P. Stanfill, a General Authority Seventy, presided over the Helena Montana Temple groundbreaking on June 26, the 84th day after the temple's announcement.
The shortest duration between announcement and groundbreaking is 13 days, for the Oaxaca Mexico Temple in 1999.
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The Google has expanded support voice search in more Indian languages. In addition to Hindi and English, Google will now support eight more Indian languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Starting today, speakers of these languages will be able to use their voice to dictate queries — both in Gboard on Android as well as in Search through the Google App.
In order to perform a voice-based search, users will need to set their language in the Voice settings menu in Google app. The new language support will also enhance voice typing on Gboard, helping users to respond to emails on the go and send texts within messaging apps. To enable Voice Typing, users can install Gboard and choose their language from the Settings. You can tap the microphone to start speaking.
Google says it has worked with native speakers to collect speech samples, asking them to read common phrases. This process not only helped train Google's machine learning models to understand the sounds and words of the new languages but also improved the accuracy when the system encountered more examples over time. Voice input for each of these languages is expected to get better over time, as more and more native speakers use the product. Google supports voice search for 119 languages globally and is adding support for 30 new languages, eight of which are from India.
Google has been ramping support for Indian languages across its various products like Maps and Search. Voice search in eight more languages will be available in Google Search on iOS as well. These will soon be extended to other Google apps and products, including the Translate app.


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British Strongman John Evans has broken his 99th world record by balancing a smoking chimney on his head, all while in a Santa suit.
Evans discovered his talent for strength and balance during his time working in construction as a teen. "I was about 17, 18. I used to carry bricks on my head on a board…taking 24 bricks on my head up ladders," he told Reuters.
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3 E-Commerce Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade
By Leo Sun – Oct 15, 2021 at 7:22AM
MercadoLibre dominates the expanding Latin American market.
Sea's Shopee leads the rapidly growing Southeast Asian market.
Coupang could expand far beyond its core South Korean market and become another regional powerhouse in Asia.
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MercadoLibre, Sea Limited, and Coupang are still great long-term investments.
Many e-commerce stocks soared last year as the pandemic forced more people to shop online. But as more businesses reopened, many of those stocks lost their luster as investors fretted over post-pandemic slowdowns.
However, investors shouldn't simply sell all of their e-commerce stocks as the pandemic passes. After all, the global e-commerce market could still expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16% from 2021 to 2026, according to Research and Markets, as the generational disruption of brick-and-mortar retailers continues.
Instead, investors should still buy and hold e-commerce stocks that could still head much higher over the next 10 years. I believe these three high-growth e-commerce stocks fit that description: MercadoLibre (MELI 2.75%), Sea Limited (SE 2.31%), and Coupang (CPNG 3.66%).
1. MercadoLibre
MercadoLibre is the largest e-commerce company in Latin America. It operates its marketplace across 18 countries, but it generates most of its revenue in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. It also processes digital payments with its Mercado Pago platform.
MercadoLibre went public in 2007 at $18 per share, but its stock is now worth more than $1,500. Investors might look at those massive gains and think they've missed the boat, but MercadoLibre could still head much higher over the next decade, for three simple reasons.
First, MercadoLibre's market cap of $75 billion is still tiny compared to the valuations of the world's other e-commerce titans. For example, Amazon and Alibaba are worth $1.6 trillion and $460 billion, respectively.
Second, MercadoLibre's main market is still growing. Latin America only has an e-commerce penetration rate of about 8% today, according to Morgan Stanley analysts, but that figure could double to 16% by 2025.
Lastly, MercadoLibre doesn't face any meaningful competitors in Latin America. Its smaller rivals can't match its sales, while Amazon and other overseas competitors have repeatedly failed to crack the market.
MercadoLibre's stock might seem expensive at 11 times this year's sales, but its long-term growth potential easily justifies that premium valuation.
2. Sea Limited
Singapore-based Sea Limited owns Shopee, the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and the Sea Money digital payments platform. It also owns Garena, the mobile game publisher that created the hit battle royale game Free Fire.
Sea supports the expansion of its unprofitable Shopee and Sea Money divisions with Garena's profits, which have skyrocketed ever since Free Fire's launch in 2017. It's also been gradually reducing Shopee's losses per order by dialing back its aggressive discounts, promotions, and subsidies.
Sea's business might seem wobbly since it's heavily dependent on Garena's ability to launch more hit mobile games in the future. Its upside potential might also seem limited since the stock has already soared from its IPO price of $15 a share to about $350 in just four years. But like MercadoLibre, Sea is still smaller than the industry's top dogs, with a market cap of about $190 billion.
Shopee's core market also has plenty of growth potential. A recent Bain & Company report estimates that e-commerce sales across Southeast Asia could still double from 2020 to 2026 as internet penetration rates and income levels continue to rise. That growth could be amplified by Shopee's planned expansion across Latin America and Europe over the next decade.
Sea's stock might seem a bit frothy at 21 times this year's sales, but a company that generated triple-digit percentage sales growth over the past three years arguably deserves that higher valuation.
3. Coupang
Coupang is the top e-commerce company in South Korea. It established a first-mover's advantage and built a massive logistics network. About 70% of the country's population now lives within seven miles of its logistics centers.
Coupang's Rocket delivery service can fulfill most of its orders within a day. Its expanding ecosystem includes Rocket Fresh for grocery deliveries, Coupang Eats for restaurant deliveries, and its Coupang Play streaming video platform. Taking a cue from Amazon, it bundles together its Fresh, Play, and other perks together in a Prime-like "Rocket WOW" subscription service.
Coupang went public back in March at $35 per share, but it's since dropped below its IPO price on concerns about the saturation of the South Korean market, its ability to expand overseas, and its lack of profits.
But I still believe Coupang's stock could head higher over the next decade, for three reasons. First, the expansion of its ecosystem with more services will boost its revenue per shopper in South Korea and offset its slower growth in active shoppers. Second, Coupang is gradually expanding overseas into Taiwan, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It could gain a lot more shoppers if it can replicate its success in South Korea in any of those markets.
Lastly, Coupang only has a market cap of $45 billion, or just 2.4 times this year's sales. That makes it much cheaper than MercadoLibre and Sea, and it strongly indicates its stock could skyrocket once its growth stabilizes.
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Leo Sun owns shares of Amazon, Coupang, Inc., MercadoLibre, and Sea Limited. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Amazon, Coupang, Inc., MercadoLibre, and Sea Limited. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2022 $1,920 calls on Amazon and short January 2022 $1,940 calls on Amazon. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Netflix's 'Dead to Me' Season 2 is the unhinged joyride you've been craving
🎶The girls are back in town, the girls are back in town 🎶
By Alison Foreman on May 8, 2020
Our girls are back.
After an agonizing, but totally standard year of waiting, Dead to Me has made its triumphant return to Netflix with another ten episodes of unspeakable mayhem. The twists and turns are back in full-swing with creator Liz Feldman once again at the unhinged helm. It's the glossy, gutsy murder mystery we fell in love with in 2019 — albeit with a new victim at its center.
It's the glossy, gutsy murder mystery we fell in love with in 2019.
In fact, the transition from Season 1 to Season 2 is so seamless you may struggle to keep up.
Dead to Me Season 2 picks up right where it left off. (If you're new to the series, stop reading now.)
With Steve freshly murdered in the Harding's pool, Jen and Judy, played once more by the incomparable Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, begin their next chapter by stashing a body. It presents a formidable obstacle that, in traditional Dead to Me fashion, the pair breezes through in a matter of episodes.
With the help of some heavily-filtered flashbacks and a few revelatory "I need to tell you something" chit-chats, Judy and Jen begin unraveling the events of Season 1 just in time for the story to hurl new torments their way. The ever-increasing stakes keep the series right in the sweet spot between soap and camp — it shouldn't work, but does. Plot-wise, it's a phenomenal second outing that I'll keep vague to preserve the magic.
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The true lifeblood of the series, Applegate and Cardellini dig even further into their formidable characters, as other recognizable faces fade in and out of the background with realistic frequency. This bonkers world feels just as real and as lived-in as it did the first time around with return performances from Diana-Maria Riva, Max Jenkins, Valerie Mahaffey, Brandon Scott, Suzy Nakamura, and James Marsden. (Oh yeah, he's back! But not in the way you think.)
This bonkers world feels just as real and as lived-in as it did the first time around.
Even Jen's kids get more to do, with Charlie (Sam McCarthy) and Henry (Luke Roessler) wreaking havoc in equally entertaining measure. It's not easy doing murders with little ones running around — a reality Charlie can't help but accent every opportunity he gets.
Frances Conroy, Natalie Morales, Katey Sagal, Marc Evan Jackson, and more killer performers join the cast for varied amounts of time expanding Feldman's universe in delightful ways that feel not only plausible, but important. It's rarely clear who will hold the key to the next wild surprise, so keeping an eye on each character becomes a matter of self-preservation. Of course, it's always the ones you aren't watching — and you'll be shocked anyway.
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That said, Dead to Me's breakneck speed takes off at such a clip this time around that you'd do well to rewatch Season 1 before diving into these episodes. Personally, I hadn't planned on making time for a full rewatch, but ten minutes in and I knew I'd be cheating myself if I didn't double-back.
'Dead to Me' is still the best joyride on Netflix.
Frankly, I envy folks discovering Dead to Me for the first time this weekend. Watching Jen and Judy's evolution from strangers to enemies to codependent buddies is more satisfying when appreciated as a whole, and ultimately this new installment feels more like a flawless extension of Season 1 than a season in its own right. No detail is left behind, no subplot is forgotten, and no dangling question goes unreferenced. It made me like the whole series more, a feat few sophomore seasons have achieved with yours truly.
So, grab a long-stemmed wine glass, snuggle up with your coziest blanket, and put on your freakin' seatbelt: Dead to Me is still the best joyride on Netflix — vehicular homicides and all.
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John Hancock official Bob Boyda warns investors against getting hung up On every little holding inside a target fund. "Getting the big stuff right is more important than the little fine-tuning," he says.
We agree. When you evaluate target-date funds, you want to focus on the big stuff: Are they broadly diversified? Are expenses low? And, of course, how have they performed?
Given these criteria, T. Rowe Price target funds remain our favorites, with Fidelity and Vanguard close runner-ups. The Price funds lead the performance derby occasionally, but their biggest selling point is that they score well in all three key areas. Price has kept up with the times by expanding the types of assets its funds hold, but it hasn't gone crazy loading up on foreign stocks.
One variable that fund companies can control is expenses, which are crucial when you invest over long periods. Consider $100,000 invested in two target funds for 20 years. Both funds earn 11% before fees. One fund charges 2% a year, so you end up with $560,000. The second, charging 1% a year, grows to $673,000. The difference isn't small potatoes.
Target-date-fund expenses range from super-low -- Vanguard's funds charge 0.19% to 0.21% annually -- to ridiculously expensive. Some Wells Fargo funds charge nearly 2% annually (that figure includes 12b-1 fees of 0.75% per year that are used to pay the brokers who sell the funds).
As for diversification, Price's retirement portfolios hold about ten funds. When target-date funds first came out, some observers criticized Price for being too aggressive. Now many other fund families have come around to its way of thinking. But Price makes a compelling case that its mix -- starting with 90% in stocks for target dates decades away to about 40% in stocks for funds when they reach their target -- is aggressive enough.
Meanwhile, what do you do if your employer's retirement plan contains only high-cost or poorly performing target funds? You can raise a ruckus with your benefits department, but until it sees the light, consider contributing enough to get the maximum company match, then invest in better target funds on your own outside the plan.
Funds from the no-load families listed below charge below-average fees and have produced good returns. The results of their 2015 and 2035 funds compare favorably with the three-year 9.7% annualized gain of the S&P 500 index and the 8.4% return of the average balanced fund.
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How did Buckmanville, Pennsylvania get it's name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Buckmanville, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
Small village on Street Road between Windy Bush Road (Route 659) and Jericho Mountain in Upper Makefield Township. The post office was established July 14, 1862, with Barclay J. Smith as the first postmaster. It was discontinued about 1933 after the store in which it was kept was destroyed by fire. Mail is now delivered by New Hope rural delivery. This once thriving village owes its name to George Buckman, an enterprising and ingenious mechanic, who built a blacksmith shop in 1843 and soon thereafter a house. In 1847 Benjamin Wiggins perfected a new plow and entered into an agreement with Buckman to manufacture the implements in his shop. Buckman enlarged the shop into a plow factory. As the plow was very popular, the factory soon became a busy place. The new Wiggins pattern was an improvement over the old Smith iron mould board, having a light draft and turning a furrow that completely covered the sod. Josiah B. Smith ((Manuscript Journal, No. 1, of Josiah B. Smith, now in the Library of The Bucks County Historical Society.)) says Wiggins made his pattern on strictly scientific principles, every curve of the mould board being determined by mathematical calculation. It was never patented. In a trial of plows of various makes at Pineville, the Wiggins product from the Buckman factory beat them all in lightness of draft and equaled them in all other respects. Within a few years Buckman moved his plant to what he considered a better location on the Durham Road near Anchor Tavern. In 1845 Josiah B. Smith built a wheelwright shop for John B. DuBree, who, after establishing a paying business, removed to Ohio. With the departure of Buckman and DuBree, the village's business activity declined and today only five dwelling houses remain. The Morris Map of Bucks County (1850) shows the store of "S. Atkinson," no doubt the property of Samuel Atkinson, Esq., who also owned a productive farm above the village on Windy Bush Road. Martha Smith, who lived in the neighborhood from 1830 to 1917, remembered the village's first store, which, she said, was built in the edge of a large tract of heavy timber. A "copper mine," marked on the Morris map as near the village, is an error. This mine was just northwest of Bowmans Hill. Buckmanville School was established by the Upper Makefield School Board in 1850.


There are many good products available and some excellent bespoke solutions have been created, elevating business processes, systems, data processing and other intellectual property assets to levels of high efficiency and effectiveness for many organisations. Businesses, however good these systems may be, need to take cognisance of the human impact of the changes that are made. Even though Michael Platt suggests elsewhere that "employee retention may be enhanced", (and it is true that much training takes place to upskill employees with the new processes and systems), whilst human resources processes and systems are even built into the architecture, organisations frequently neglect or are unaware of the emotional impact of the prevailing change on the employees. All change has emotional fall-out – even if that same change has only targeted information technology platforms, hardware and other business processes and systems.
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Electronic health record portals adoption by health care consumers
Jorge Tavares
Electronic Health Record (EHR) portals, also called EHR patient portals, have received great attention and investment at the government level worldwide, like the multi-billion dollar US initiative, named meaningful use program. According to the literature review, there is still a lack of studies that address the topic of understanding why people adopt and use EHR Portals, making this a field of knowledge that requires more research. According to the findings in the literature
review the complexity of EHR portals requires having a patient-centred model that should be able to cover additional dimensions related with health behaviour, confidentiality concerns, and innovation drivers. Potential adoption differences between countries with different regulations in their health care systems should also be tested. With this dissertation, we contribute to a better understanding of the factors that lead health care consumers to use and adopt EHR portals. To
this end we develop four empirical studies.
In the first empirical study (Chapter 3) we tested the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) in Portugal. Being a consumer- centred model, it was important to evaluate its feasibility to study the EHR portals adoption determinants by the health care consumers. Several constructs in the model helped explain the adoption of EHR portals:
performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and habit. With habit a consumer specific construct from UTAUT2 having the most relevant impact in both behavioural intention and use. UTAUT2 showed its importance as a consumer-focused model identifying the factors that drive health care consumers to use EHR portals.
In the second empirical study (Chapter 4) -also tested in Portugal- we extended the UTAUT2 model by adding a health specific construct, self-perception. This construct showed its relevance by being a statistically significant predictor of behavioural intention, demonstrating the usefulness of including a construct derived from the Health Belief Model (HBM), in a technology applied in
the field of health care.
In the third empirical study (Chapter 5) we performed a cross-country analysis between US and Portugal combining UTAUT2 with the Concern for Information Privacy (CFIP) framework. We made an assessment of the potential differences between the determinants of adoption between the two countries with different health care regulations and health care models. In the US there is no national health system (NHS) coverage and the patients need to have an expensive private
insurance or pay directly to the health care provider to have health care support, while in Portugal there is universal health coverage. It was hypothesized and confirmed via the price value construct that the value that the US health care consumers give to a tool like EHR portals is statistically significantly greater than the Portuguese health care consumers. It was also expected that confidentiality concerns in US are greater than in Portugal, due to the less strict regulation in US
regarding patient data confidentiality. This was measured by the CFIP framework, but confidentiality concerns were not an issue in either US or Portugal. Social influence, hedonic motivation, and price value were predictors only in the US group. With this study we verified the importance to perform cross-country evaluations when studying EHR portals adoption.
In the fourth empirical study (Chapter 6) we used the evidence from the previous empirical studies plus the literature review to propose a new research model that integrates constructs from UTAUT2, HBM, and the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory. In this study, we performed a national survey based on randomly generated mobile phone numbers, when in the previous empirical research, we targeted our sample to educational institutions. We used a two-phase
sampling approach. In the first phase, we asked potential respondents if they were users of EHR portals and if yes, if she/he was interested in replying to our main survey (second phase). From this sample regarding the question to identify the users of EHR portals, we obtained 8.6% EHR portals usage in the adult Portuguese population. A relevant contribution from our study to understand the usage of this type of technology at country level. All three theories contributed
with constructs that help to understand EHR portals adoption. The final research model obtained the best results from the all of the empirical studies executed in this dissertation with 76.0% of variance explained in behavioural intention and 61.8% of variance explained in use behaviour.
In this dissertation's conclusions (Chapter 7), we provide more detailed insights about the overall contributions of this dissertation, managerial implications to develop and implement better EHR portals, limitations and avenues for future research about EHR portals.
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A: One striking example, though perhaps considered "antique" by now, is Levi's 1906 use of a (true/correct!) minimum principle in Hilbert spaces, and forming what is now called $W^{1,2}$, to prove a (true/correct!) version of "Dirichlet's principle" (which, in effect, had been asserted for certain concrete Banach spaces, for which it did not actually hold...). Also Frobenius in 1907. As it happened, these true theorems, replacing arguably-more-natural Banach spaces by Hilbert spaces, sufficed to recover (=give correct proofs of) most of the classical applications of "Dirichlet's principle".
Subsequently, Sobolev's work (and Schwartz') vastly expanded this... not only in the Hilbert-space context. For my own applications, the Hilbert-space context is sufficient and extremely useful.

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Nicki Minaj has excitedly announced an important casting for her upcoming autobiographical TV series 'Nicki', which is set to begin filming in the coming weeks. Ariana Neal has just been chosen to play young Nicki, and thus has become the singer/rapper's protegee as she takes her under her wing to show her how to channel her inner Nicki.
Nicki Minaj hits the small screen in show about her life
Little more information has been revealed about the upcoming show so far, with an air date set to be announced in due time. For now, here's everything we know about the 'Anaconda' hitmaker's newest project:
1. Each episode will be a half-hour in length, and will begin filming in Queens, New York in January. The series, which has been marked as a comedy, will depict Minaj's life from her early years growing up in the 90s as an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago.
2. Adorable 11-year-old Ariana Neal will play the young version of Nicki Minaj. It was pretty much a no-brainer for the popstar, who admitted that she got a little over-emotional during the casting. 'I literally cried watching her taped audition', she admitted to her fans on Instagram. 'I demanded to meet her! Sat in a room with her teaching her how to rap by doing a beat on the table and forcing her to stay on beat!' Neal has previously appeared in 'Fruitvale Station', 'Get Hard' and 'Repentance'.
I literally cried watching her taped audition. I demanded to meet her! Sat in a room with her teaching her how to rap by doing a beat on the table & forcing her to stay on beat! Lol. Then pulled out all the attitude she had in her lil body. Haha! She's tough! And so sweet & cute. #ArianaNeal #LilNicki Welcome to the family lil lady bug! ?????????????? #ABCFamily #Freeform #Nicki
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3. Further confirmed cast members include American model Selita Ebanks as Minaj's mother Grace, 'The Soul Man' star Wesley Jonathan as her father Vincent, McCarrie McCausland from 'Army Wives' as her older brother Jaylen and Whoopi Goldberg who guest stars as Minaj's neighbour Miss Martha.
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40% of British adults want cycles lanes on every road
Research by retailer Halfords reveals that 40% of adults want to see dedicated cycle lanes on every British road
Nigel Wynn June 26, 2014 3:33 pm
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New research has shown that 40 per cent of British adults would like to see dedicated cycle lanes on every British road.
The research, undertaken for retailer Halfords, polled over 4,500 adults in May 2014 to gauge their opinion on what would encourage people to cycle more often in the UK.
Despite 40 per cent coming out in support for segregated cycle lanes, 28 per cent said that segregated routes would cause conflict between cyclists, drivers and pedestrians – proving that it is still a divisive issue.
According to the results, 30 per cent would like to see more places to securely park their cycles, 17 per cent would like to see tax benefits for cyclists and 19 per cent would like to see better facilities for cyclists in the workplace, such as showers.
Only one in 10 respondents wanted to see a lowering in speed limits for cars and better cycle safety products.
"Health, congestion, pollution, more liveable cites – whatever topic you want to choose, the bicycle can be a large part of the answer," said Chris Boardman, British Cycling policy advisor and co-founder of Boardman Bikes. "In fact, it's the only form of mechanised transport that actually contributes to our society – the UK gains £590 a year for every extra regular cyclist."
Halfords research: key findings
Dedicated cycling lanes on every road (40%)
More places to park and lock bicycles (30%)
Better facilities for cyclists at work (19%)
Tax benefits for cyclists (17%)
New York-style cycle 'super highways' (16%)
Compulsory cycling proficiency for all cyclists (16%)
Local cycle safety classes (15%)
Driving licence style accreditation for cyclists (12%)
Better cycle safety products (11%)
Lowering speed limits for cars (10%)


But animals on the other hand, are better in this respect. For instance, if an animal is attacked by a hunter it tries its best to save its life by running away/ escaping. Other animals which live by killing smaller animals do not brood if they are unsuccessful in catching their prey. They forget their failure immediately and try again. Suppose a deer is hurt and feels pain, it does not stop living to avoid the pain. It continues to graze peacefully in spite of the dangers around.
But human beings seem to have lost this instinct for self-healing. Suppose we are ill and are hospitalised. Instead of taking rest in hospital we waste all the time worrying about what is happening to the family in our absence. We seem to be incapable of getting rid of anxiety which even animals are capable of That is what Dr. Wicks pointed out in her analysis.
In the course of her lectures Dr. Wicks was once asked whether religion helps in overcoming mental tension. She said, "Yes, of course, it does, if we subscribe to some religious faith and if it is genuine." Then it does help in overcoming mental tension.
Thus, the first point of Dr. Wicks's three-point formula is "acceptance." We should be able to accept what we are, to meet any situation or difficulty without losing our balance. I am reminded of some lines by the American poet, Walt Whitman. They emphasise the point that unlike animals we often over-react and do not know the technique of avoiding unnecessary anxieties.
This is only to underline the fact that failure is a part of living. In spite of our sincere efforts we may not always be successful. Let us accept this situation gracefully. But it should not be mere passive acceptance. We should accept with joy. Genuine acceptance teaches us how to triumph over adversity and rejoice.
In the beginning this seems impossible. Suppose a person is in great difficulty, or pain, critically ill in hospital and knows that he is going to die soon. Is it possible to accept such a situation gracefully? It is a situation which tests our power of reconciliation to the maximum and a person who cannot reconcile himself to the inevitable has to suffer from tremendous anxiety and tension.
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Happy 60th birthday, Mini!
Conceived as the ultimate low-cost people's car, it also became a motor racing legend
04 April 2019 - 05:07 Stuart Johnston
The last of the round-nosed Minis, built here between 1959 and 1979. This is a special moonlight edition. Picture: SUPPLIED
Nothing prepared you for the first time you saw a Mini, if you happened to be around 60 years ago.
Here was a car so radically unlike anything else that had gone beforet that it was almost as if, with a few strokes of the pen designer Alec Issigonis had reinvented the wheel if not the concept of personalised transport.
Until then, the British Motor Corporation's small-car portfolio had consisted of the Morris Minor, a sort of grown-up Noddy car that your granny may have specced in the post-war years of petrol rationing and austerity, and the Austin A35, which resembled a sort of mobile teapot.
Here was a tiny box of a car with 80% of its overall size given over to the passenger compartment, about waist high to a Morris or Ford Prefect of the day and with a tiny 10-inch diameter wheel at each of its four corners.
It was launched as the ultimate low-cost British people's car, and it was so austere it came with rubber mats instead of carpets and perspex sliding side windows instead of glass wind-up items. The starter switch was a rubber button on the floor. There was no dashboard, just one round dial plonked in the middle of a parcel shelf below the windscreen. But the price was right — the British pound equivalent of R1,050 when it broke cover here in the final month of the 1950s.
The South African launch of the Mini here came just four months after its international launch at the BMC's Longbridge plant in England. Local Minis were built at the Austin plant in Blackheath on the Cape Flats, and at the McCarthy (Morris) plant in Durban. This was because Austin and Mini were still very much separate brands here, so the first Minis here were launched as the Austin 850 and the Morris Mini Minor. It took a few years (until 1965) before the name Mini was applied to both brands.
The two cars were identical except for badges and grilles. The Austin 850 (initially listed as an Austin Seven in its first few months of production) had crinkled horizontal radiator grille bars, while the Morris had a grille consisting of straight horizontal bars and two vertical bars. Both used the same 848cc engine mounted transversely, with the gearbox built in unity with the engine, and running on common oil.
An Austin Cooper S with Mk I grille shape. Picture: SUPPLIED
This transverse engine mounting with front-wheel-drive enabled the tiny nose dimensions of the first-gen Mini, and this car became the template for small front-wheel-drive cars produced by manufacturers all over the world.
The Mini's significance saw it voted as Number Two in the World Car of the Century competition in 1999 (the winner was Henry Ford's Model T which effectively put the world on wheels from 1908 to 1927).
The shape of the Mini, its ultra light weight and its front-wheel-drive layout were great at people accommodation, and in fact, you can get more people comfortably seated in the back seat of a first-gen Mini than you can into the (much, much bigger) modern version built by BMW. But what enthusiasts soon discovered about that original model was that it handled and cornered like nothing on earth at the time!
It didn't take local race drivers long to suss this out, and by February 1960, just two months after launch, the first Mini was already being raced at the Roy Hesketh track in Pietermaritzburg. Nor did it escape the attention of John Cooper back in England, then the constructor of the reigning world champion Formula One car. By mid-1961 the first Mini Cooper was introduced, sanctioned and built by BMC.
The Mini Cooper, and especially the Cooper S that followed, was a giant killer of massive proportions. This little car could accelerate to 100 km/h in about 12,5 seconds and top out at just under 160 km/h, in its final 1,275cc, 70hp Cooper S form. You could instantly recognise the South African Cooper and Cooper S models by their British Racing Green colour scheme, with a white roof and gold wheels.
A wonderfully crisp exhaust note, plus snorting induction noise from the dual SU carbs, and even better handling thanks to disc front brakes and slightly wider wheels and tyres, completed the package.
By the time of the Cooper S introduction here in late 1963, all Mini production had moved to Blackheath in the Western Cape. In SA, 1,071cc and 1,275cc versions of the Cooper S were built, with both Morris and Austin trim detailing. By the time the Mini was upgraded here to Mk II form in late 1968, with squared-off grille and larger tail lights, all Minis had the same grilles, and just the small Morris and Austin badges were different.
The Mini's agile handling was made for motor sport. It gained immortality with a trio of victories in the Monte Carlo Rally between 1964 and 1967. Picture: SUPPLIED
Of course, the Mini Cooper S had already gained immortality with a trio of overall victories in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964, 1965 and 1967. It would have won in 1966 too, but the (French) officials disqualified the factory-entered cars for using the incorrect headlight globes!
SA marched to its own Mini tune in many respects. The original 848cc round nose Minis were produced here in station wagon, van and pick-up form as they were in the UK, but a South African-built engine of 1,000cc was introduced in the mid-1960s, replacing the original 848cc unit. This was the very first locally cast South African engine.
Other SA-specific notables that we produced here included a more expensive Wolseley-nosed Mini that used the original body, whereas in Britain it had a tiny boot. Then SA introduced its own version of the Mini Mk III in late 1969, which had a round-nose front, and the extended boot found only to be found on Riley and Wolseley models in the UK. Another variant we built here, mainly for military use, was the open-bodied Mini Moke (this also built in Britain and elsewhere).
In the early 1970s, the locally built long-nosed Clubman and 1275 GTS models were introduced, while the original round-nosed car continued to be built. In fact, round-nose Minis continued to be built into early 1980, when the final models were sold as special versions, such as the Sunshine Mini, the Moonlight Mini (both with factory sunroofs) and the specially-trimmed Van den Plas Minis, which had wooden dashboards!
The last South African-built Mini rolled off the line in the Cape flats in 1984 after which some 92,000 Minis had been produced here since late 1959. Countless race victories and production car championships had been notched up in a period of over 20 years.
In the UK, Minis continued to be produced well into the 1990s, notably the special Cooper versions.
Here we had a Mini-less hiatus of almost two decades before BMW launched the new, much bigger Mini in 2002. This car (built in the UK) continues the Mini tradition and has been a global success story, mainly because it embraced the core Mini attributes of cute styling and amazing front-wheel-drive "go-kart-like" handling. And today there are again many variants of the Mini you can buy, including the Countryman SUV, which is probably three times the size of an original Mini!
• At the end of this month, SA will be getting in early by celebrating 60 years of the Mini at the Knysna Motor Show on April 28. The following weekend there will be a similar tribute to the Mini at the Simola Hillclimb in Knysna, and Mini enthusiasts from all parts of the country will be making the week-long pilgrimage to the Garden Route for these events. The official 60th birthday of the Mini will be on August 26.
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42-2806. Contracts — Procedure for making similar to that in irrigation districts — Exception — Approval of director. In making contracts for the construction or purchase of irrigation or drainage works or the right to the use of works constructed or to be constructed, the county commissioners shall proceed in similar manner as provided by law for the making of similar contracts by irrigation districts, but no election shall be required to authorize any such contract: provided, however, that the aggregate of all contracts entered into for the purchase or construction of works on any project under the provisions of this chapter shall provide for the ultimate completion of the project in accordance with the approved plans referred to herein at a total cost not exceeding the total sum of money derived from the sale of bonds issued for such project, and the contractor or contractors (except in cases where the United States government is the contractor) shall give the bond required by section 45-502.
The plans and specifications and all contracts for construction work contracted for by boards of county commissioners under this chapter shall first be approved by the director of the department of water resources, and any construction contract entered into by such boards shall by its terms provide that such construction work shall be completed in accordance with such plans and specifications to the approval of the director of the department of water resources except in the case of contracts with the United States government. It shall be the duty of the director of the department of water resources, upon the completion of the work under any contract entered into under the provisions of this chapter to issue a certificate of such completion to the board or boards of county commissioners.
[(42-2806) 1921, ch. 222, sec. 6, p. 492; I.C.A., sec. 41-2406.]