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French Study Finds Jihadist Terrorists Very Likely to Re-Offend
A study released by the French Centre for Terrorism Analysis (CAT) has revealed that 60 per cent of Islamic radicals who left France to fight abroad between 1986 to 2006 have gone on to commit terrorist offences.
Kurdish Forces Arrest One Hundred French Jihadis in Syria
Kurdish forces in Syria have captured one hundred French jihadis and the French government has said that the fighters will be not brought back to France and will stand trial in Syria.
French Jihadis Held in Syria and Iraq Will be Tried There, Says Minister
PARIS (AP) — French foreign minister Jean-Yves le Drian says the French citizens who fought with the Islamic State group before being arrested in Syria or Iraq will be judged by local authorities.
In Pics: One Year On, France Mourns Victims of the Paris Attacks
The people of Paris have come together in a day of mourning to mark the one year anniversary of the Islamic terror attacks which claimed the lives of 130 people. French President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo visited
French Army Investigating 50 Cases Of Radicalisation Among Its Ranks
The French army is currently investigating 50 cases of "radicalisation" in its ranks. A new report from the Directorate for Protection of Security and Defence (DPSD) says the threat of Islamic terrorism within the army is growing. The report stated
French PM Backs Security Forces After New Terror Attack
AFP – Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended France's security forces Wednesday after the first deadly jihadist terror attack on French soil since the Paris massacres last November. Valls rebutted criticism that the authorities could have thwarted the bloody assault. "I
The West Is Failing To Defend Its Values In the Face Of Islamic Terror
It was the second major jihad attack on France inside of a year. This one was far bloodier than the last, but it was otherwise near-identical. The slaughter of cartoonists in January was an attack on the democratic notion of free speech.
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French PM Warns Of More Attacks As Police Raid Suspected Islamist Homes
French police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across the country overnight in the aftermath of the Paris shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday as he warned of potential further attacks. Valls said that since this summer,
Turkey Nabs French IS Jihadist After Hair Transplant
Turkish police arrested a Frenchman suspected of being an Islamic State jihadist after he had a hair transplant procedure at a beauty salon, local media reported. The Dogan news agency quoted police sources saying the man, identified as Mehdibend Said, was
France Arrests Man In IS-Linked Plot To Attack Naval Base
Authorities in France have arrested a man with links to an Islamic State (IS) jihadist in Syria over a plot to attack military personnel at a major naval base, police and judicial sources said Tuesday. The 25-year-old, whom sources said
French Govt Launches Anti-Jihadi Ad Campaign Featuring Moaning Families Of ISIS Recruits
PARIS (AP) — A new French government ad campaign features mourning families to discourage young people from joining extremists in Syria — an attempt at a counter-narrative against an Islamic State publicity machine that churns out huge amounts of propaganda.


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Discussions, decisions and trivia: Library programs to enjoy
By Susan Carey Dempsey
The trivia Quizmaster Bob DeStefano (Credit: Reporter File Photo)
The one you've been waiting for is back.
Bob DeStefano's hugely popular Zoom Trivia Happy Hour returns on Saturday, Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. Match your knowledge to your neighbor's to win bragging rights. Visit silibrary.org to sign up.
For a more serene activity, an adult craft origami kit will be available on Saturday, Aug. 22. Email [email protected] to reserve your kit and schedule an appointment to pick it up. Supplies are limited.
Also on the 22nd, Troilus and Cressida is the subject of Shakespeare in Community Online, at 12:30 p.m. Visit the library website to register.
The Great Decisions series continues with Topic Six: China's Road into Latin America, on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. As the Trump administration continues to withdraw from the world stage, China is looking to fill the void.
How does Latin America fit into China's "One Belt, One Road" plan? Should the U.S. be concerned about China's growing "sphere of influence?" To view the video prior to the meeting, visit bit.ly/chinainlatinamerica. Please email [email protected] with questions or to be added to the Great Decisions mailing list.
"Americana: Farmhouses and Manors of Long Island" is the title of a book and a presentation by Kyle Marshall.
This Friday Night Dialogue on Aug. 28 at 7 p.m. will explore historic dwellings from the North Shore to the East End – including Sylvester Manor.
Mr. Marshall, who is Creative Director of Bunny Williams Home, will tell the stories of these intriguing farmhouses and manors. Visit silibrary.org to register. The Edith Wharton Book Club will discuss "Summer" on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 2 p.m. Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Will the pressures of heredity and society permit her to find happiness?
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AFTER watching her sister-in-law shed the pounds on a low fat diet, Sue Wishart was inspired to do the same, but her first weigh-in came with a nasty surprise.
Irish food group Greencore has posted a 14.3pc increase in after-tax profits tax to E30.5m (before exceptional items) for the six months to 31 March 2006.
Rising alcohol strength in wine is spurring the arrival of "reduced-alcohol" alternatives aimed mainly at women.
A fter a long day at work, Vincent Caiozzo and LaShanda Allen don't always feel like cooking a meal or chowing down a soggy fast-food burger.
SEATTLE--June 12, 2006--Avenue A | Razorfish, the largest interactive agency and an operating unit of aQuantive, Inc. , today announced it has won a Webby Award for the design and development of the Mercedes-AMG website, www.mercedes-amg.com.
AT 22 stone and 2lbs Ross Mackenzie knew he was overweight but always considered himself to be strong and fairly fit - until he took on a charity challenge to climb a Munro.


A date like 28th of September 1999 probably evokes nothing for most of you new age gamers, but to me, that is the day I fell in love with Homeworld, a successful attempt by the new kids on the block Relic Entertainment, in their attempt to break into real time strategy games (set in space). Its sequel, Homeworld 2, had us fans wait four more years before the franchise broke radio silence. And as with some other type of gaming fossils, like Grim Fandango, Homeworld, Homeworld 2 were dusted out from the development attics back in 2013, thanks to 2K Games and Gearbox, which recovered the legal licence from the smoldering ashes of THQ, and announced the return of the space strategy game bundled in one pack, with redefined graphics and other features. Here's our review of Homeworld Remastered Collection.
If real-time strategy games was an overcrowded genre at the end of last century, with Starcraft, Total Annihilation and other title done by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires), Homeworld quickly stood out by its gruesome gameplay set in 3D space, where many have left – and still will – their teeth in. A decade and a few gray hairs later, the two episodes of the franchise, which show the same age, were still played by a few Kushans and Vaygr (the two game factions) diehard fans, with a hint of community based mods. Thus, were born Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars or even Star Trek mods, which weren't that amazing, but had the merit of fans in search of new content.
Now in 2015, Gearbox puts some order in this mess of mods and emulators, and release Homeworld Remastered Collection, the same two stories we loved, in both original and modern versions, properly accessible by a common app launcher. And this is how you start your journey with the Kushans, exiled for countless years on the arid planet Kharak, in their quest to go back to their Homeworld, the planet Hiigara.
The journey that follows, far from a leisure stroll around the galaxy as you could imagine, start with the outright annihilation of the planet Kharak by a sizeable opponent, the Taiidans. The second opus of the game, will take you a hundred years after these events, with our Hiigarans facing a new enemy that aims to claim supremacy of space: the Vaygr.
With a good ten hour campaign (per installment), I had flashbacks of the inherent difficulty in this game. Even after sixteen years, and finishing both episode when they were originally released, some missions are pretty darn difficult or even devious. There's lonely moments that haunt me when I accidentally moved my entire fleet on into radioactive area of the map, almost hearing the screams of my pilots when their frigates exploded.
But as discouraging these moments are, they are never deeply frustrating, and these solo campaigns always offer varied objectives: extermination, defend points of interest, destroy asteroids to protect our vessels, etc. Rather than rest on an eternal starting point and gruesomely harvest resources, this space sim always gave a little breath of fresh air in the economy system of strategy titles, and your actions (built ships, ressouces gained, destroyed units) will carry on the next mission.
This so-called gift, however, can quickly turn to anxiety because if you finish a mission with three poor harmless scout vessels as a fleet, it will be quite difficult for you to be successfull, when half a dozen ships heavy fall you the maple. I'll end up leaving the mission to restart it on a happier note, and save my chances of survival to the next. But I won't spoil the pleasure involved in making the campaign a truly fluid experience, where growth is emerging both in the missions as in the game as a whole.
Since it is in the old pots that make the best soups, Homeworld Remastered Collection kept the same mechanics, which were already difficult at the time. You begin with your Mothership, which will be your starting point for all actions, starting with the harvesting of few resource available in space nebulaes and asteroids. Yet this common factor postulate a large majority of RTS, you end up also scouting for other universal variables and upgrading technology. This will require you to juggle your production of hunters, corvettes, frigates and heavy vessels (cruisers, destroyers), by releasing the first production modules on the Mothership, and go through the improvements nodes, which will give a bit of a sizeable boost to your squadrons.
If it seems comfortable at first glance to rest on an imposing mass of vessels to get the better of his opponents, clashes against the AI or other players (i'll get into multiplayer later on) is more a slow and progressive style of play. Taking information with scouts or probes remains essential to unravel the intentions of the enemy, and thus respond with a suitable army composition, making the best of your weaknesses and strength. Trust me when I tell you that you can stupidly lose a cruiser, the pride of your fleet, against some anecdotal frigates because you were swarmed.
The specific multiple playable races in the game are as diverse visually as gameplay wise. It's meant mainly to facilitate a little micromanagement, not necessarily the most obvious, but quite accessible for veterans: control groups, ability to assign sequences of commands, specify training, etc. Many details will all have their importance and will push more or less different strategies. It even goes as precise as ship weakness points, for example, aiming at the destroying the most important vessels, or their turrets. It offer more cunning approach, where we will happily shoot from afar a destroyer's propellants, pitting it into place. However, the differences between the races of each title are few. The contrast will therefore largely be on the ability to disrupt the economy of the enemy by sending fast and inexpensive vessels to swarm them.
The movements will also be a prominent variable in Homeworld: maps are set in three dimensions, rather wide, allowing travel on all sides with even altitudes, by adjusting your ships' trajectory with "Shift". It's not easy at first, and can become quite demanding when you are under attack, but nothing beats a great use of strategics counter attack, and swift stealthy use of the map.
The Collector's Edition of the game has been designed based on the community. It features a 13-inch Pride of Hiigara mothership model, a A revised Historical Briefings and Artwork book and A die-cast Angel Moon Homeworld keychain. Totally worth the $100 price tag, especially if you are a Homeworld fan.
My only problem is visibility though, as it was the fundamental problem of the series. The same geometric code used to represent the different vessels (triangle for hunters, square for corvettes, frigates for diamond, etc.) are still present, but can be quite difficult to distinguish in the midst of a galactic battle. Since the general interface of the game received small upgrades, for a properly clear and intuitive result, it is yet minimally invasive, changeable on the fly, and does not break the flow of the game.
As it is with most game reviews, I cannot skip the sound factor, in this case giving an incredible ambiance; the original environment filled with a fine soundscape, are even more enchanting with Gearbox' maestro baton. The wide colorful space panoramas, are addorned with flattering lights, which obviously makes us gain immersion; but it is only truly mesmerizing when you hear missile exchanges, fire impacts, explosions, and electronic tunes filling your ears… All of it leaves a feeling of satisfaction particularly welcoming, in addition to a reworked soundtrack, which is marvelous in our industry evolution of game music, defying the sense of aged tunes.
On rare occasions though, Homeworld Remastered Collection might have some small minor hiccups, such a instances where the game crashes, and the HUD bugs out. This 2015 upgrade does not really change the game in depth, but offers us a contemporary vision of a monument of the space strategy genre, with successful visuals, and a Steam powered online mode, based on the work of community modders.
Homeworld Remastered Collection was reviewed using an PC copy of the game provided by 2K Games. We don't discuss review scores with publishers or developers prior to the review being published.
With a name like Homeworld Remastered Collection, there's not much to prove: this remake was essentially to put the license back in use with the graphics standards of our time, and adding a pair of fresh functions as well. Not that the collection is on top of the most ambitious productions visually, the atmosphere is particularly compelling and immersive. It mainly redefines the fact that Homeworld is the best example of a rich and deep genre: solid gameplay, a story that is easy to follow, a great atmosphere, by sprinkling some improvements with modern HUD and a multiplayer mode. A must have for those that played the game, and those who missed it.


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Property Market in 2021: Spring Budget Expectations
by Zuneth Sattar | Jun 2, 2021 | Property Investment
Around the UK, property developers, investors and other stakeholders waited with bated breath for the 2021 Spring Budget, which was expected to be delivered in early March. Many anticipated a few big announcements that would impact the property market, including...
Understanding the Help to Buy Scheme
by Zuneth Sattar | Mar 29, 2021 | Property Investment
The accomplishment of buying a home, especially for a first-time buyer, is a significant one. However, while the process is exciting, being successful at it requires getting all the details right. Besides the house's type and location, having the finances to...
Taking Advantage of the UK's Stamp Duty Holiday
Amid a serious economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced a temporary freeze on stamp duty taxes in early July 2020. For prospective real estate investors in England and Northern Ireland, the tax holiday,...
UK Commercial Property Registers Improvement
by Zuneth Sattar | Feb 17, 2021 | Property Investment
In its October Snapshot report, real estate advisory firm Colliers International highlighted a notable rise in commercial real estate investment, with transactions reaching £3.2 billion in September 2020. According to the company, this figure was the highest on record...
UK Property Investment: Best Places to Invest
by Zuneth Sattar | Feb 3, 2021 | Property Investment
UK property is considered among the most attractive investment options in Europe. For many investors, the potential for good returns in many of the UK's cities is a motivating factor, as is the opportunity to build a portfolio and maintain a steady income over...
Virtual House Hunting in a Pandemic
by Zuneth Sattar | Dec 21, 2020 | Property Investment
With the COVID-19 pandemic leading to lockdowns across many regions, stakeholders in the property sector have had to resort to other means to keep business flowing. Buyers have been unable to make visits to properties, but this hasn't stopped property agents and...
How COVID-19 Changed Our Housing Needs
What's Next? House Prices During and After the Pandemic
Independent Developers Will Play a Key Role in High Street Revivals
Property Investors Want More from the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy
The Housing Market in 2021 and Beyond
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Warning – piąty album studyjny polskiej grupy muzycznej Antigama. Wydawnictwo ukazało się 9 marca 2009 roku nakładem wytwórni muzycznej Relapse Records Nagrania zostały zarejestrowane we wrześniu 2008 roku w Progresja Sound Studio w Warszawie. Wszystkie utwory zostały zmiksowane i zmastwerowane w listopadzie 2008 roku w Elephant Studio w Olsztynie. W ramach promocji do utworu "Disconnected" został zrealizowany teledysk w reżyserii Bartka Rogalewicza

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 "Disconnected" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:15
 "Jealousy" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:33
 "City" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:32
 "Another" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:27
 "Not True" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:12
 "War" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:13
 "Heartbeat" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:12
 "Preachers Pray" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:17
 "Sequenzia Dellamorte" (Bentkowski, Rokicki) – 01:32
 "You Have The Right To Remain Violent" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:38
 "Lost Skull" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:53
 "Nightmare" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:50
 "Paganini Meets Barbapapex" (Bentkowski, Rokicki) – 01:54
 "Empty Room" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 02:15
 "Orange Pills" (Bentkowski, Rokicki, Zwoliński) – 01:04
 "Black Planet" (Bentkowski, Rokicki) – 07:02

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Opracowano na podstawie materiału źródłowego.

 Patryk Zwoliński – wokal prowadzący
 Sebastian Rokicki – gitara rytmiczna, gitara prowadząca
 Szymon Czech – gitara basowa, gitara prowadząca (utwór 11), inżynieria dźwięku, miksowanie, mastering

 Krzysztof "Siwy" Bentkowski – perkusja
 Łukasz Myszkowski – elektronika
 Orion Landau – okładka, oprawa graficzna, dizajn

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Whaaaaaaat is this! Who did this!
Black, steel-framed, glass, internal doors are definitely becoming a thing and I'm not mad at it one bit.
Steal this idea – huge long sink, with moveable shelves/ledges. I love this!
Love this! Square tiles are having a moment, but going anywhere anytime soon.
OK this is beautiful. It's a dedicated photography studio space for hire (Rye London), with floods of natural light, super-high ceilings, white exposed brick walls, white flooring… STOP IT. The founders wanted to create a space for local makers to be able to create and collaborate (and style and shoot). Can someone open one of these in NZ please?


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ICYMI: Len Wiseman Bringing "Swamp Thing" to DC Universe's Streaming Service!
Len Wiseman is set to executive produce the series "Swamp Thing", an upcoming show in the DC Universe based on characters created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Wiseman will also direct the pilot episode of the series. The show is slated to premiere in 2019 on the DC Universe digital subscription service.
This project comes to Wiseman after signing a deal with WBTV to develop, produce, and direct projects for the studio. He is quite the talent, as every pilot he's directed so far has gone to series, including shows like "Hawaii Five-0", "Sleepy Hollow", "Lucifer", and more.
"Swamp Thing" will follow Abby Arcane as she investigates what appears to be a deadly swamp-born virus in her small childhood hometown in Louisiana. She soon develops a strong bond and relationship with scientist Alec Holland, only to have him tragically taken away. She soon discovers that the swamp holds horrifying, mystical, and wondrous secrets, and that Alec may not actually be gone after all. When terrifying horrors emerge from the swamp, no one is safe.
The series is written by Mark Verheiden and It co-writer Gary Dauberman. Wein, Verheiden, Dauberman, Michael Clear, and Wiseman are all set as executive producers for the show.
Swamp Thing has previously hit screens a number of times, with varying success: first in 1982 as a cheesy B-movie, followed by a 1989 sequel starring Heather Locklear. There were also short-lived attempts at TV series in 1990 and 1991. Hopefully the 3rd time's the charm!
While the show won't premiere until 2019, we're anxiously awaiting to hear more about what (and possibly who?) will emerge from this ~spooky swamp~...
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- Brooke Sharland, YH Contributing Writer


We cannot fight the devil because fight is his invention.
There is no single magic. Everything is magical.
When we believe that being ignorant we are neutral, it is just a way to deceive ourselves. Ignorance is nothing but the devil in disguise.


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Ljusteröleden är en allmän färjeled mellan Östanå (vid Roslags-Kulla) och Ljusterö färjeläge vid Småskärsudd på Ljusterö i Stockholms skärgård.

Färjeleden utgör en del av Länsväg AB 1036 och trafikeras av Trafikverkets färjerederi med vägfärja (cirka 7 minuters restid). Trafiken bedrivs med två bilfärjor, M/S Jupiter och M/S Veronica (insatt från 2014). Färjorna tar 60 respektive 50 personbilar per tur.

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Vaxholmsbolaget, privata skutor och färjor hade länge transporterat fordon över till Ljusterös tre färjelägen mot fastlandet: Mörtsunda, Tranvik, Linanäs och nuvarande läge, Småskärsudd, när Vägverket den 11 november 1955 etablerades nuvarande färjelinje med färjor som kunde bära 22 bilar.

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 Trafikverkets information om Ljusteröleden
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Källor

Transport i Stockholms län
Österåkers kommun
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Type: EQUIPMENT. Detail: WOOD_SETS. Product Code: WCM18B325B.
Brown wooden pieces and cream coloured pieces. The king is the tallest piece at 3.25 inches or 8.2 cm. This elegant chess set is seen here on a Walnut board (NSP50450) which is sold seperately $99.


>> A jury weighing a murder charge against a former white South Carolina officer told a judge Friday they couldn't reach a verdict. Michael Slager is charged with killing an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, as the man was fleeing a traffic stop last year. The judge telling jurors who haven't been able to reach a decision after three days to quote, make every reasonable effort to reach a unanimous verdict.
If no verdict is reached, the judge would declare a mistrial and retry the case with a different jury. Prosecutors charged Slager with murder, but jurors could instead find him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. If they decide Slager killed Scott in the heat of passion, after provocation, rather than with malice.
Or they could acquit the former officer, if they believe he acted in self defense, because he feared his own death or serious injury. Slager who testified this week, appeared emotional at times, saying he felt total fear as Scott came toward him and that's why he pulled out his gun and opened fire.
But prosecutors argue Slager did not appear to be in any danger, when he fired eight shots at Scott.


Since I arrived at Main Line Health's Lankenau Heart Institute nearly three years ago, building a team with these characteristics has been my uncompromising focus. The ideal surgical team isn't just a collection of surgeons, but a group of constantly collaborating professionals – from the scrub nurse to the medical assistant to the perfusionist using the heart-lung machine – who maintain compassion for the patient as a primary focus.
For the patients I see every day, experiencing a cardiovascular problem – like almost every medical issue – can be life-altering and cause immeasurable amount of stress. It is for this reason that patients need to experience compassion from the time they call to make their first appointment until the patient is fully recovered, which can be months – even years – down the line.
Research has proven that patient satisfaction is linked to the cohesiveness of your team.2 Therefore, it is important for every member of the team to communicate with one another – and, possibly more importantly, feel comfortable communicating with each other – or it impacts the entire team's ability to function. Learn more from Becker's Hospital Review.


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The Turkish Collection at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland, consists of around 200 manuscripts, mainly produced in Turkey and written in Ottoman
The Turkish Collection at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland, consists of around 200 manuscripts, mainly produced in Turkey and written in Ottoman Turkish. Many of these manuscripts are illustrated poetry and history texts, and a large portion are beautifully illuminated (though not illustrated) religious texts, such as prayer books. The Turkish Collection includes several of the greatest manuscripts in existence produced in the 16th century, when patronage of the arts by the Ottoman sultans was at its peak. These manuscripts are of great international importance and are a valuable resource for scholars, students and interested members of the general public.
Conservation treatment priorities in the collection were decided based on the level of damage and deterioration of the manuscripts, whilst taking into account the curator's specific criteria. All treatments undertaken were carried out in light of current standards of best-practice in manuscript conservation, notably reversibility, and minimal intervention.
This talk will discuss the conservation of Turkish manuscript collections at the Chester Beatty, as well as the opportunities this work has presented to share experiences with colleagues at the conservation department of the Turkish Ministry of Culture's Public Authority for Manuscripts (Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı).
Kristine Rose-Beers ACR is  Senior Conservator at the  Chester Beatty  Library in Dublin,  Ireland, and  an accredited member of the Institute of Conservation (ICON). Kristine graduated from the conservation programme at Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2002 before beginning work at Cambridge University Library, where her fascination with Islamic manuscript material was cemented. In 2008 Kristine started work at the  Chester Beatty as book conservator for the Turkish collection, and in 2011 Kristine was appointed Assistant Keeper (Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. After four years in Cambridge, Kristine's passion for the unique Chester Beatty collections brought her back to Dublin.
Kristine is an active figure in the field of Islamic and Western manuscript conservation, maintaining an interest in historical methods of dye and pigment production, and their relevance to contemporary conservation. She has taught and lectured internationally, and is a regular tutor at the Montefiascone Project in Italy. She is also a member of the Institute of Conservator-Restorers in Ireland (ICRI) and a member of the Board of Directors of The Islamic Manuscript Association. Kristine has collaborated on several significant research projects, including the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Conservation Project at the National Library of Egypt and MINIARE at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.


COMMENTS Type species: Phthoropoea vibrata Meyrick, 1913. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 3: 335. By original designation.
crispa (Meyrick, 1920) Synonym of species Meyrick E. 1920c. Descriptions of South African Microlepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 17:273–318.
sceptica (Meyrick, 1910) Species Meyrick E. 1910b. New South African Microlepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 5:411–417.
vibrata (Meyrick, 1913) Species Meyrick E. 1913b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. IV - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 3(4):267–336.


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Antemasque è una rock band statunitense attiva dal 2014 che vede militare fra le sue file il cantante Cedric Bixler-Zavala e il chitarrista Omar Rodríguez-López. Entrambi i musicisti hanno in passato suonato nei disciolti Mars Volta (2001–2012) e precedentemente negli At The Drive-In (1993–2001 e 2011–2012). Nella formazione che ha registrato il loro album di debutto compaiono anche il bassista Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) e il batterista David Elitch (ex Mars Volta ed ex Daughters of Mara). Nonostante le dichiarazioni iniziali della stampa musicale, al momento Flea non è comunque inquadrato come membro stabile della band.

Storia del gruppo
Bixler-Zavala e Omar Rodríguez-López, collaboratori di vecchia data, avevano sciolto i Mars Volta, il loro progetto musicale principale, nel 2012. La nascita della nuova band è stata annunciata il 9 aprile del 2014, contemporaneamente al lancio del loro primo singolo, "4AM". Il giorno seguente, tramite la loro pagina Bandcamp, venne lanciato un altro pezzo, "Hangin in the Lurch", che vedeva la band alle prese con una commistione delle loro due influenze principali ovvero il progressive rock ed il post punk di matrice statunitense. Nelle info che accompagnavano il pezzo si anticipava l'imminente uscita di un album completo dal titolo eponimo. Altri due pezzi, "People Forget" e "Drown All Your Witches", anche questi usciti in aprile nel giro di pochi giorni, hanno preceduto il lancio dell'album, rilasciato in tutto il mondo il 10 novembre 2014.

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 Antemasque (2014)

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I want to talk to you about living your entire life as a thank you note to God.
There's an old saying that your life is God's gift to you; but what you do with it is your gift to God. When we understand this, then Thanksgiving will no longer be just a holiday; it will be a lifestyle. God wants you to live your live thankfully, and make thanksgiving a lifestyle. If you live your entire life as a Thanksgiving gift or a thank you gift to God for all the things that he has done for you, it's going to increase your happiness in life. It's definitely going to increase your satisfaction in life. And it's going to make your life have more meaning and have more significance.
Psalm 50:23 GNT: Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors me, and I will surely save all who obey me.
What God wants more than anything else in life is an attitude of gratitude. Scientists have discovered that gratitude is actually the healthiest emotion. There's nothing better for your health than the emotion of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude.
Why should I live my entire life with a sense of thanksgiving and gratitude to God?
1. Because of Who God is!
2. Because of What God has Done!
Psalm 52:9 NLT: I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people.
Psalm 71:22 NLT: Then I will praise you with music on the harp, because you are faithful to your promises, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


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Situated within the eleventh district of Budapest, Hungary, in Madárhegy close to Budaörs, this minimalist penthouse envisioned by Adamdesign Belsőépítész Studio meets the fashionable dwelling wants of its house owners. The situation provides proximity and quick access to the middle of Budapest, in addition to breathtaking views of the Buda mountains. A part of a model new constructing consisting of four models, the one hundred fifty sq. meter penthouse is accessible by way of a personal elevator. The crib has a sensible and sensible format that separates the dwelling space and the bedrooms on the 2 sides of the unit.


When was the last time you cried at the movies? Well thanks to Disney's new film, THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS, I shed a few tears while watching the mystery and magic unfold. It made me think about my role as a Mother and what important lessons I would want my daughter to know, especially when it comes time for me to go.
In the film, which opened in theatres everywhere on Nov. 2, 2018, Clara (Mackenzie Foy) is dealing with the death of her Mother who has left her a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It's there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world.
Starring Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy and featuring a special performance by Misty Copeland, Disney's new holiday feature film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" directed by Lasse Hallström and inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic tale is a must see! But I'm telling you..HAVE. YOUR. TISSUES. READY!
We have seen the Nutcracker ballet [see past posts here] and even the Hip Hop Nutcracker and I have never had this reaction before. Maybe I cried because I am 45 years old, my daughter is 7 and I know one day she will have to deal with the loss of me. How can I prepare her for my death? More importantly am I doing enough to prepare her for life? Will she be angry, feel abandoned or perhaps lost like Clara?
Who you are is not determined by others. You decide who you are for youself. You hold the key to unlocking the magic, your unique gifts, inside you.
What do you do when you miss someone? REMEMBER them.
Where ever you go walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
How you love your life and the people in it will be your legacy. So live with passion, conviction, character, confidence and don't forget to DANCE!
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS is now playing in theatres everywhere!
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Home Chemistry This exotic crystal is fueling the quantum revolution
This exotic crystal is fueling the quantum revolution
Scientists have discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that could prevent supercomputers from frying and enable the production of low power electronics.
In the old days, theoretical scientists relied mainly on paper and pencils to do their calculations and understand natural phenomena.
Today, theorists rely extensively on powerful computers to perform calculations that predict phenomena and process large datasets in efforts that include forecasting the weather and spotting exoplanets.
But computing at that scale demands a lot of energy, and the electronics of today sometimes struggle to process huge amounts of information.
Some computers would simply melt if you loaded up a chip needed to execute computing functions with too many conventional processors.
Now, a team of researchers that includes Northeastern theoretical physicist Arun Bansil have discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that conduct electricity efficiently, and could prevent supercomputers from frying.
Bansil, who found these properties of bismuth concealed within the quantum world, says the discovery will rock modern technology harder than the internet revolution in the 1960s.
"This finding is really quantum mechanics becoming alive in completely new ways," Bansil says.
Most of the rules that control the world as we know it don't apply at quantum scales, the tiniest in the universe, where things behave very strangely. Down there, for example, a particle can be in two places simultaneously, and time can be reversed for a split second.
"So many hidden aspects of quantum mechanics are coming to the forefront," says Bansil, who is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics.
In a study co-authored with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Bansil used computer models to predict that bismuth has hallmark signatures of materials known as topological insulators, which get their name because they move electricity efficiently at the edge of their surfaces.
He says these qualities will be relatively easy to explore in the lab.
"It's probably one of the most spectacular success stories in theory prediction through modeling of new types of materials," Bansil says.
In solid materials carrying electricity, electrons tend to accelerate and scatter randomly until they no longer conduct energy in any particular direction.
As scattering occurs, electrons collide with other atoms, material impurities, and each other, heating the conducting material. But topological insulators such as bismuth heat much less because they do a much better job at conducting electrons with much less scattering.
Although crystals made with bismuth have been known to hold topological features, pure bismuth has been considered an ordinary metallic crystal with particularly high conductivity.
By definition, crystals are infinite periodic arrangements of matter guaranteed to have many types of symmetries. These structures protect certain types of properties using crystalline arrangements that move electrons fast and efficiently, as if using a railroad to transport energy.
If electrons flowing through a conductor are like passengers traveling in an old steam train, electrons moving on the surface of a topological insulator such as bismuth would be like passengers in a bullet train.
To unmask bismuth's superior conductivity, Bansil and his colleagues used a classical field in mathematics known as topology, which concerns itself with the shape of things and how they are related.
Take, for example, the classical proposition in topology that states that—strictly mathematically speaking—a doughnut is the same thing as a coffee mug.
Doughnuts and coffee mugs are the same to a topologist because the two objects have one main characteristic in common: their holes. In that world, a football would be a completely different thing because it has zero holes, so it is considered to have a different topological state.
In topology, the robustness of an object dictates whether an object is easy to convert into another thing—say putting a hole through the ball and converting it into a coffee mug, a doughnut, or anything else with just one hole. Topologically speaking, a ball with a robust state would be difficult to pierce.
Topological physicists such as Bansil apply the concept of robustness to describe materials with better conductivity. Based on Bansil's calculations, bismuth will remain highly conductive even after its shape gets slightly distorted.
The structure and symmetry of bismuth's electrons protect it from losing its superior conductivity and making it—topologically speaking—very robust. And that is a unique quality that will enable production of faster supercomputers and low power electronics, he says.
"Bismuth is even more rich than we thought it was, and we think we have now identified all of the topological features in it," Bansil says. "There's little doubt that topological materials will be one of the very key players in the ongoing quantum revolution."
Written by Roberto Molar Candanosa.
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Kerplunk (stylized as Kerplunk!)  is the second studio album by American rock band Green Day, released on December 17, 1991, by Lookout! Records. Kerplunk was Green Day's last independent release on the Lookout Records label, and was also the first album to feature Tré Cool on drums. Kerplunk officially includes only 12 tracks, but the versions released on CD and cassette also include the 4 tracks from the Sweet Children EP. One of those tracks is a cover of The Who's "My Generation". Green Day guitarist and singer Billie Joe Armstrong stated in a 2021 Vulture magazine interview that Kerplunk is his favorite album, citing it as "kind of autobiographical."

Music
Kerplunk's sound has been described as punk rock, pop punk, and indie rock.

Artwork
Kerplunk was banned from certain stores because of the cover art. The cover features a mostly white picture (with some green added in) of a girl with a gun that has been fired. On the back cover, there is a boy lying on the ground with a gunshot wound on his back.

Release
The album sold 10,000 copies its first day and became Lookout!'s biggest-selling release. After debuting it to their fans in the Berkeley, California, area and receiving much approval from the critical 924 Gilman Street crowd, the band packed up in a cramped, converted Bookmobile and headed east. Green Day developed a fan base on the east coast by way of the determined grassroots efforts of lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. The opportunity paid off, as album sales reached over 50,000 copies. Along with the successful live shows, major labels took notice of Kerplunks phenomenal popularity. As a result, many labels approached the band.  Green Day realized that they had outgrown their record distribution capacity with Lookout! and eventually signed with Reprise Records. With Reprise, Green Day recorded and released their next album Dookie (1994).

In August 2005, Green Day pulled the album – as well as all of their other material released through the Lookout! label – due to unpaid royalties. It was reissued on CD by Reprise Records, who Green Day has been with since leaving Lookout!, on January 9, 2007. In Europe, the album was released by Epitaph Europe, and has remained in print. It was reissued on vinyl on March 24, 2009, by Reprise Records. There were no official singles released from the album, although "2000 Light Years Away" and "Christie Road" were released as mock-up singles in a Green Day singles box set entitled Green Day: Ultimate Collectors. In November 2017, to coincide with the band's second compilation Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band, a music video was released for "2000 Light Years Away". As of November 2013, Kerplunk has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in the United States and more than 4,000,000 copies worldwide.

 Reception

AllMusic regards Kerplunk as the "perfect dry run" for the band's later mainstream appeal, saying it contains "both more variety and more flat-out smashes than previous releases had shown." Pitchfork Media states "All in all, it's a magnitude better than its predecessor and only a hair behind the follow up."

In December 2007, Blender magazine ranked the album number 47 on their "The 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Ever" list.

 Track listing

 Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.Green Day Billie Joe Armstrong – lead vocals, guitar, drums and backing vocals on "Dominated Love Slave"
 Mike Dirnt – bass, backing vocals
 Tré Cool – drums, lead vocals and guitar on "Dominated Love Slave"
 Al Sobrante – drums on bonus tracks "Sweet Children", "Best Thing in Town", "Strangeland" and "My Generation"Production'
 Andy Ernst – producer, engineer, mixer
 Green Day – producers
 John Kiffmeyer – executive producer
 John Golden – mastering
 Chris Applecore – cover art, disc
 Pat Hynes – artwork
 Thadicus – art direction

Certifications

References

External links

Kerplunk at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

1991 albums
Green Day albums
Lookout! Records albums
Albums produced by Andy Ernst


There is a growing interest today in the healthcare field about the benefits that Lean can bring. This is especially critical in an environment faced with the challenges of climbing patient care needs and shrinking pool of skilled resources.
Without Lean, healthcare will continue to have difficulty meeting the pressure to serve an increasing number of individuals at less cost. As the population ages, healthcare must find new ways to meet the demand for their services. Turnaround time (i.e. patient cycle time, service Takt time) becomes a primary measurement that must improve whether it is in the hospital facilities, post care facilities or laboratories. Further, space is at a critical premium in running all the functions within a hospital facility. Only Lean can provide a solution to all these concerns with minimal expenditures but maximum benefits.
Healthcare today is not designed to make the value stream of care flow smoothly. As with manufacturing, healthcare services are often "batch and queue", with patients spending most of their time waiting until the right process (skilled healthcare practitioner) is available. As a result, the value added processes are disconnected leaving the patient and the caregiver all disillusioned. The working environment is one driven by shared values and passion in delivering top quality products and services to the patient.
Lean Healthcare can rapidly improve patient wait times, speed of test results, and create end-to-end process flow using proven Lean techniques and methodologies. It is all about results – servicing the patient better, faster, at less cost and being able to do more with less.
Lean Healthcare can eliminate many obstacles to excellence, such as cumbersome information technology systems, worker frustration, and inadvertent errors and oversights that can increase patient safety risks. Surprisingly few improvements require costly or sweeping high-tech "fixes." Most often, simple, well designed interactions based on scientific observations and experiments can bring about unimaginably fast improvements.
When done properly, Lean removes wasteful activities and allows healthcare professionals to focus on more patient value-based activities. The result is doing more with less – more people can be assisted with the same number of people, the same or less space, and reduced costs of providing services.
Lean Healthcare is indeed the answer to the challenges facing healthcare organisations today. It is a way to transform entire organisations into safe and high-quality, high-performing healthcare delivery systems.


Abstract or metaphysical thinking was alien to the world of the ancient Near East. Philosophy as we know it was introduced by the Greeks in an unprecedented flowering in the fifth century B.C.E. Although ancient man understood concepts like omnipotence and omniscience, he did not express them in philosophical terms. Instead, he did so concretely. Man's earliest attempts to express abstract, metaphysical concepts took a physical form.
One such form, I believe, is the composite mythical creature known as the cherub. The cherub symbolized not only omnipotence and omniscience but, as we shall see, a kind of completeness that included all else.
We can understand this from the Bible, but obviously it helps enormously to have physical evidence. We will focus here on one superb example of a cherub from the collection of the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem that is being published here for the first time.
The Bible frequently refers to cherubim—to be distinguished from cherubs, those adorable chubby winged infants with rosy cheeks that fly around in Western art.a Cherubim, for example, guarded the garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were expelled: "To the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim" ( Genesis 3:24 ).


Booting a computer from CD/DVD is sometime problematic. There may be the several problems like CD scratches, CD drive problem etc. So, it may be good choice to use USB boot option to boot the computer.
To boot from USB, some steps to be followed before making the USB bootable.
Have the ISO image file or problem free CD of windows.
Have a USB drive of minimum of the capacity that can store the entire boot files.
Insert the USB disk on the USB port.
On the first step (i.e. Choose ISO file), Click Browse to locate the ISO file.
After locating the ISO file, Click Next.
On step Two (i.e., Choose Media Type.), select USB device.
On step Three (i.e, Insert USB device), choose the appropriate USB device.
It will take several minutes to copy the files (depending on the system).
After completing the copy, click start over.
Finally the USB is ready as bootable disk.
Now configure the BIOS to boot from the USB.
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 must be installed. It can be downloaded.
Microsoft Image Mastering API v2 must be installed. It can be downloaded.


For $100 million, you can live like a king.
The King of Pop, that is.
Michael Jackson's former Neverland Ranch — which has been renamed "Sycamore Valley Ranch" — has hit the market for $100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sotheby's International Realty's Suzanne Perkins and Harry Kolb have the listing, together with Hilton & Hyland's Jeffrey Hyland.
The California estate is located about 40 miles from Santa Barbara. Jackson lived on the ranch for 15 years after paying $19.5 million for it in 1987. After the king of pop defaulted on a $24.5 million loan on the property, real estate investment firm Colony Capital bought the note for $23 million in 2008, the newspaper reported.


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Investigation triggered by complaints about tweets that referred to Hitler and the gas chambers.
Three men have been arrested for posting anti-Semitic comments on Twitter following Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League match against West Ham United in October, police said on Friday.
Two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested on Thursday in London and in Wiltshire, while a 48-year-old man was arrested at his home in Canning Town in London last week on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.
The investigation following the match on October 6 was triggered by complaints about tweets that referred to Hitler and the gas chambers.
Traditionally Spurs has had a large Jewish following and its supporters have been the target of abuse from opposition fans.
Supporters of the club often chant "Yid Army" and "Yiddo" at matches, using a term deemed offensive by some in the Jewish community, but fan groups say the term is used as a badge of honor rather than a derogatory remark.
However, the governing Football Association and police have warned that using the word "Yid" could lead to prosecution and a ban on attending matches.
All three men have been bailed until January while the police make further enquiries.
In a separate investigation also dealing with anti-Semitic tweets relating to the same match, a 55-year-old man from Hemel Hempstead north of London was arrested and cautioned on November 28 for malicious communications, police said.


Watch the video of Janek Hermann-Friede of the Water Integrity Network on monitoring at the IRC Symposium on WASH Monitoring.
WIN's Janek Hermann-Friede, who takes care of monitoring and evaluation, attended the IRC Symposium in Ethiopia this month. Monitoring is crucial for transparency and accountability, and Janek explains in this video why and what WIN's approach is.
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If Lindstrom leaves: Eintracht Frankfurt only gets part of the transfer fee
Eintracht Frankfurt is having an extremely strong season, thanks in part to Jesper Lindmström's outstanding performance.
Eintracht Frankfurt is having an extremely strong season, thanks in part to Jesper Lindmström's outstanding performance. The Dane is already associated with some top clubs and could leave the SGE in the near future. However, ex-club Brondby would pocket part of the transfer fee.
This model is typical of Eintracht. The SGE already negotiated a corresponding clause with Luka Jovic to free the Serbian striker from Benfica. When Jovic later went to Real Madrid for almost 60 million euros, Frankfurt had to pay over 20 million euros to Benfica.
According to Danish EkstraBladet, Brondby IF has secured a resale stake in Jesper Lindstrom. This takes effect from a fee of seven million euros. Lindström, who is contractually bound to Eintracht until 2026, will be many times more expensive; his current market value is estimated by transfermarkt at 28 million euros. The seven million euros correspond to the transfer fee that Eintracht transferred to Brondby for Lindström in the summer of 2021. According to EkstraBladet, thanks to success-related bonus payments, the sum is said to have already increased by 400 to 600 thousand euros. Example: if Lindstrom were to leave Eintracht for a fee of 47 million euros, Brondby would receive 6 million euros (15 percent of 40 million). At the end of the season, on the other hand, those responsible at SGE would certainly listen to offers for the Danish attacker. Brondby will certainly follow this very closely.
This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as If Lindstrom leaves: Eintracht Frankfurt only gets part of the fee.
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'Lamest argument I've ever heard': Ex-acting solicitor general scoffs at Trump team's claim the president can't obstruct justice
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Former acting United States Solicitor General Walter Dellinger on Tuesday shot down the notion that the president cannot obstruct justice, calling it "the lamest argument I have ever heard."
Dellinger, who on Monday wrote a New York Times op-ed insisting a sitting president can be indicted on criminal charges, was speaking with CNN's Don Lemon about the most recent defense set forth by attorneys representing the president in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Several month before he abruptly resigned from his role leading Trump's legal team, attorney John Dowd argued the president "cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer" of the United States.
"Does that argument hold water, do you think," Lemon asked.
"I'm holding water now, and the answer is no," Dillinger joked. "The answer is absolutely no. That is the lamest argument that I have—that I have ever heard. A president has the power to appoint people, to fire people, but he can't do it for a corrupt reason without triggering criminal liability."
"A president who takes a bribe in order to appoint someone or fire someone is guilty of bribery and a president who fires someone for a corrupt motive can be guilty of obstruction," he added.
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A QuickBooks Desktop for Farm and Ranch Record Keeping workshops will be held March 5 from 9 a.m. -5 p.m. at the Panhandle Research & Extension Center in Scottsbluff. The cost to attend is $65 per person. To register call 308-632-1230. Classes are limited to seven participants each, so please register soon. Read more.
Nebraska Extension will offer an interactive workshop for child care center and family home providers, called Go NAP SACC, March 7 and 14 from 5:30 - 9 p.m. at the Scotts Bluff County Extension Office, 4502 Avenue I, Scottsbluff. Go NAP SACC (Go Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care) is a free in-service opportunity for child care providers that takes providers through five simple steps to make healthy changes to their programs to promote healthy child development by supporting healthy eating and physical activity for the children. To register, email Tammie Ostdiek (tostdiek5@unl.edu) or Erin Kampbell (ekampbell7@unl.edu) or call 308-632-1480. No registration fee. Registration is required by March 4. Read more.
Nebraska Extension will conduct chemigation certification training sessions through early April at Bridgeport, and Scottsbluff, as well as other sites around Nebraska, such as North Platte and Ainsworth. Producers who plan to apply crop nutrients and pesticides through irrigation systems during 2019, including those who need to renew their 2018 permits, are required to attend a training session and pass the test administered afterward. Attendees are asked to pre-register at the extension office whose session they plan to attend. More information and a complete schedule of training sessions throughout Nebraska is available at http://water.unl.edu/cropswater/chemigation . Read more.
Nebraska Extension will be offering training throughout western Nebraska, from January through April, for licensed pesticide applicators seeking first-time certification or recertification of their license for 2019.
A license is required to use or purchase or apply restricted-use pesticides. Extension provides training for several classes of certification, including commercial, non-commercial (such as local government or research purposes) and private applicators (such as ag producers). Read more.


MILAN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Italy's government is working on new measures for a state guarantee scheme aimed at easing bad loan disposals and is examining the possibility of extending it to unlikely-to-pay loans, an update to its economic and finance document showed.
The current so-called GACS scheme, introduced at the beginning of 2016, was conceived to help the country's banks offload their bad loans and expires in March next year.
"Discussions with the European Commission will start in the last quarter of 2018 in order to agree on the characteristics of the scheme and to avoid it being classified as state aid," the government said in the document, adding it would also proceed with the completion of the reform of co-operative and popolari banks.


East Maui is a lush tropical paradise with waterfalls and black sand beaches! Find out how to make the most of your East Maui tour on the Road to Hana. On the map it will be marked Hana Highway, Hawaii Route 36 and 360. 12 tips to make the most of the Road to Hana!
But so you don't get stranded like the unlucky travelers in that van, read on for my tips to make the most of the Road to Hana!
The Road to Hana, called the Hana Highway, or Hawaii Roue 36 and 360 goes along the eastern coast of the island in East Maui.
1. Stay the night on the tropical East side of the island, preferably two nights.
If you can make the time, definitely make reservations to spend 1-2 night on the east side of Maui. If you do, you'll have time to hike to the Bamboo Forrest. If not, I suggest you not try to drive that far to avoid rushing.
2. Don't leave anything in your car unattended.
We saw and heard multiple warnings about this. This is tricky if you spend the night on East Maui, as it means you can't leave your car unattended until after you stop at your destination for the night.
3. Check your credit cards for included car rental insurance, or get extra insurance on your auto rental.
Yes, I know you're an excellent driver!
But not everyone else is.
If you're hugging the side of the rock wall, and the car in the outside lane is scared of tumbling off the edge, they may crowd you. That doesn't even begin to account for the tour buses that are WIDER than their lane. Drive with care, and get the extra insurance.
4. Prepare for mud on hikes.
It is a "rain" forest. When you see signs in the restroom asking you please to not wash off mud and clog the sinks, you know you are in for some serious mud.
5. Pack snack, water, and even full meals.
6. Eat at the Flat Bread Company in Puau before you set out.
If you plan to stay the night, you can afford to get a late start. You'll miss the morning crowds. And you'll have an excellent excuse to stop in Puau for lunch. So good, it was the only place in Maui we ate twice! On a one day trip, eat there on the way back.
7. Carry water on any hikes.
You will need more water than you think.
8. Stop at a fruit stand.
Some stands are serve yourself. These are best and cheapest for produce.
Here's the fruit we picked up on our drive to Hana.
The ugliest passion fruit tasted the best. The huge, beautiful, avocado? Tasted like soap. The palm-sized pineapple was amazing!
Lots of people rush, or skip this all together. Don't skip it! The Garden of Eden on Maui [link] is one of the best places to experience the rain forest.
10. Stop at a waterfall.
Look for waterfalls where you can park and snap a photo. We did see some people swimming at some of the falls. Be prepared for a hike to get to them. Before you go, research which ones are legal and safest for a dip. Beware of rocks going over the falls!
11. See a black sand beach.
Road to Hana – black sand beach – photo taken with with GoPro.
Waianapanapa State Park black sand beach is quite a beauty to behold! If you aren't spending the night in Hana, this is a good end destination. It's just before you reach the actual town of Hana. On the island, it's north of the town. Turn around at Waianapanapa State Park and enjoy the road back.
The Bamboo Forest is the ultimate destination of the road to Hana!
It is the goal of every itenerary I read to get you there and back to your West Maui or South Maui resort in a day. But if you read the accounts carefully, those who try this merely stop briefly and turn around. The hike to the Bamboo Forrest was a highlight of the trip for my teens. If you do hike it, don't miss my supply list for the Bamboo Forrest Hike. It's going to take you several hours.
The road to Hana is a must see to really experience the island. It was my husband's favorite part of the trip! Don't have time to drive the whole route? I'll be writing a shortcut post for the Road to Hana.
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Thursday 12 June 2014 – Deepest Cheshire – An Evening Walk Around Mobberley
Leaderless due to our resident guide to Deepest Cheshire having decided to put his feet up for the duration of the World Cup, a trio of lost souls lined up in the comfort of the Church Inn's beer garden.
Refreshed from a couple of pints of 'Mallory Ale', aka Dunham Massey Brewery's 'Big Tree Bitter', we decided to stumble off into the hinterland of Deepest Cheshire.
"Come back Andrew" was the cry as the ill prepared trio stumbled and scratched their way through the undergrowth. But all was not lost, we emerged at another watering hole with a lavish beer garden. Another couple of pints were sunk as we watched Mr and Mrs Rich down their lobsters.
Continuing blindly on through more mud, we came across this small pond on a corner, from which we were able to locate our position – something of a miracle given the absence of our guide and his failure to provide a route.
Warford Grange Farm does not welcome visitors. Everything is marked 'Private'. Perhaps there are hidden secrets. However, some kind person had painted a line of green dots, which we followed to Mountpleasant Farm, where those helpful signs of guidance all merged into one in the field pictured below.
It didn't help that the green dots had pointed directly westwards, exactly to where the sun was setting, and only one of us had sunglasses. Anyway, we splashed onwards, taking turns with the glasses and using the occasional tree (see header image) to protect our eyes from the glare. Any footpath was well hidden, but occasional yellow markers on stiles did give us some comfort.
We passed a nice looking tree.
Looking around, we all agreed that we must be in the right place. Somewhere in deepest Cheshire.
Walking backwards proved to be a good tactic – here I'm waiting for Graham (he's generally fairly slow) whilst almost walking backwards into a 'farmyard classic' – you know the sort of car I mean, something like an E-type Jaguar used as a pig trough.
Pavement Lane saw us back on a less soft surface where Sue complained about the hard tarmac causing her feet to hurt. Some curious barn conversions next to typical farmyard detritus remain unsold. A ginnel about a metre wide led for some way through a newish housing estate and across the B5085 to a path beside a series of factories, before taking three sides of a square to reach Valewood Farm and re-enter Deepest Cheshire. Between here and curiously named 'Dairy Farm' (surrounded by fields of wheat), there were fine skyscapes if you didn't mind the aircraft that seemed intent on a bird's eye view of Deepest Cheshire.
Over to the west the sun, having dazzled us all the way to Valewood Farm, gloatingly dipped behind the horizon.
We were now heading east. "Gotcha" screamed the moon, as it jumped out from behind a tree and tried to blind us.
We were getting quite thirsty again, so we paused only briefly at St Wilfred's Church where there's an important window in memory of George Leigh Mallory who died on Mount Everest in 1924. The church has had a long connection with the Mallory family and contains numerous windows and memorial plaques to the family.
We noted from a random piece of gadgetry that we'd probably covered about 8.5 km and ascended around 75 metres. "That's why Andrew didn't come" we all realised at once –"It would have been too hilly for him".
So, two hours after leaving the Church Inn's beer garden, we were back there for another couple of pints of 'Mallory Ale', aka Dunham Massey Brewery's 'Big Tree Bitter', listening to Mr and Mrs Richer discussing the finer qualities of the Menu.
What a pleasant evening – sorry you missed it Andrew (and anyone else) and we hope your broken leg is better soon.
Labels: Cheshire, Evenings, Walks
The Changing Face of the Mersey Valley and the Cheshire Ring Canals
Today is one of those calm, sunny, t-shirt but not too hot, days that scuppers the best laid plans for staying at home and getting jobs done. Whilst it was tempting to drive somewhere, I opted for a 40 mile round trip from home, on Stumpy, more or less all off road, and leaving the afternoon to get 'stuff' done. Like this report for instance!
The canal/Trans Pennine Trail circuit from home is an easy (only 200 metres of ascent in 40 miles) four hour trip that, whilst being mainly in Greater Manchester, makes the most of the countryside that extends almost into the city centre.
There are always changes to observe. These days there is a 'wheelchair' ramp at Jackson's Boat bridge.
The rough and muddy path beside the River Mersey between Chorlton and Didsbury seems almost to have been converted into a roadway.
But further on the nice old track survives.
I'm sure that in days past we used this section of previously disused railway in East Didsbury as a (muddy and overgrown) cycle route. Today it has been reclaimed by the tram line, but at least there is a good cycle path next to the line.
Some of the muddy tracks in Reddish Vale have been coated with green tarmac!
To the east of the M60 motorway, crossed by a high footbridge, old signage remains from the early days of the Trans Pennine Trail, which opened in 2001.
Beyond Haughton Green, the TPT heads further east and the Peak Forest Canal is joined by those with a desire to return to Timperley for lunch. In places the towpath has been renewed (Sustraned?). You can also see that I've now got a bike mount for the Garmin eTrex10, to which I'd downloaded the route. It worked very well, but can you spot the temporary glitch?
In other places the towpath was extremely muddy, and having binned my mudguards (they kept falling off) I returned home covered in mud. Dukinfield Lift Bridge remains in pristine condition.
There's a canal basin at the junction of the Peak Forest and Ashton Canals, with fairly newly converted mill buildings and old cobbled bridges sitting cheek by jowl.
A left turn saw me zooming along the Ashton Canal towpath, muddy in places, and cobbled in the area of the many locks on the route into Manchester. The bike's suspension finally came into use on the fast cobbled descents enjoyed at each lock.
Large families of Canada Geese and their young were seen at frequent intervals, as were quite a number of barges heading towards Manchester.
In a previous posting 'Some Bike Rides from Timperley', I published a photo that enjoyed a view across the whole (construction) site near the City of Manchester Stadium. Privacy for footballers in training seems to have taken precedence over the view, as huge banks have been constructed, and trees have been planted since I was last here.
I passed barges going into Manchester, and I met some coming through Manchester, but the canal seemed to be almost empty of water north of Piccadilly. Those coming in from Ashton may have been able to exit via the Rochdale Canal, but I'm not sure how those coming from the direction of the Bridgewater Canal could get through.
A pause in Castlefield saw me finishing the flask of tea and other provisions that I'd half eaten outside the Visitor Centre at Reddish Vale.
Not long ago, the bridge below hadn't been painted and the trams were all blue (the new ones are yellow).
After a long standing canal diversion at Old Trafford, the towpath that is re-joined is narrow and muddy. There ought to be future changes here, as this is the perfect venue for a cycleway away from busy roads all the way into Manchester's City Centre. Currently only a brave few use it to commute.
I was back home by noon, and after a quick hose down I was ready to move on to the next job.
Here's a rough idea of the route – 62km with 200 metres ascent, taking 4 hours, including a couple of 15 minute breaks. Basically – follow the Trans Pennine Trail until you reach the Peak Forest Canal, then follow that around to where it crosses the Trans Pennine Trail in Stretford. And there are other options.
Labels: Bike rides, Bridgewater Canal, Cheshire Ring, Manchester
Sunday 8 June 2014 – A Stroll Around Foolow
Apologies for any typos in this entry – our swifts have just fledged and are carrying out very noisy practice flights right outside the study window. Not that I'm complaining, they are wonderful birds.
A select group of five assembled by the duck pond in Foolow at 10.15, as planned, but where was the organiser of this walk? Where could we go, what could we do, with no leader?
However, after much cursing about huge traffic jams on the M6, our talisman leader arrived from distant Bonsall with some passengers, and by 10.30 the day's team of eight was complete, and ready for the off. The Foolow ducks were left to laze the day away in the shade of a blossom laden tree.
We headed past Roods Farm towards Great Hucklow, gliders from Abney soaring above us as we sloshed through fields of buttercups. It had been raining earlier, so the grass was pretty wet.
Great Hucklow came and went and during a pause for navigational indecision I noticed some well travelled Russian Comfrey, prominent in the hedgerows.
After a period of uncertainty about the route around new buildings at Quarters Farm, we settled down for elevenses, at noon, by a disused tip near slurry, the fumes from which wafted across this otherwise pleasant spot. At least the shortbread tasted normal.
Bradwell was soon reached. Our leader confirmed that there are four excellent pubs here, apparently. Unfortunately due to more route indecision she failed to find any of them.
Soon we were ascending Bradwell Edge, with views back to the Dark Peak, from Mam Tor to Lose Hill, with Kinder behind, all beyond Bradwell.
Up near Robin Hood's Cross, this dew pond seemed full of life.
Lunch was taken on the nice benches at SK 183 801.
Sue photographed some skyscapes from her bench.
Many fields were laden with buttercups, here looking towards the Edges around Hathersage.
A lot of effort had been put into placing numerous signs about the closure of a vital path, for which no alternative route is available, due to a 'defective footbridge'. Lots of paths meet at the busy junction where Abney Clough meets Bretton Clough - numbers 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 14 are all involved, though how many people would recognise these paths by their numbers? The notices were pinned to a path number 99 sign, but there was no reference to path number 99 in the notices.
Here's the 'defective bridge'. Scary!
If the effort needed to produce and place all the signs had been directed towards the actual bridge, it would have been replaced with no fuss.
Anyway, we made it safely to the Bretton Clough path, where a sharp left turn took us past the some sheep, following which Eyam, which from this direction seems to be almost surrounded by quarries, soon came into view.
At the site of Highcliffe Lead Mine, which dates from 1715, Sue went in search of 'plant communities of international conservation importance', including 'Derbyshire Leadwort', and found this - Spring Sandwort, perhaps?
Down in Eyam, we passed by Marshall Howe's house – he survived a dose of the plague, but sadly his wife and son both died from that in 1666.
The walk then concluded with a pleasant stroll through buttercup meadows to Foolow.
Q. Will the village hall be open for tea and cakes? A. Yes, and very good the cakes were as well.
Here's our route – 18km with 500 metres ascent, taking five and a half hours. An excellent route – thanks go to Sue W for discovering it as we went along.
A fine little bimble, advertised as 9 miles, but turning out to be just over 11 miles, and there's a slightly more extensive slideshow here.
Labels: Peak District, Walks
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Arjan Singh, India's sole Marshal of the Air Force, dies at 98
Singh was a pioneering combat pilot who formed the nucleus of an independent India's air force
by Saikat Datta September 18, 2017 February 18, 2020
India's President Ram Nath Kovind pays tribute to Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, who breathed his last on September 17 in New Delhi. Photo: Courtesy Rashtrapati Bhawan
India's sole Marshal of the Indian Air Force, Arjan Singh passed away just two years short of a century in New Delhi on Saturday. Singh, was the first and the only Chief of the Air Staff to be awarded this rank, a rare honor bestowed to only two army chiefs since independence.
Born on April 15, 1919 in Lyallpur, Punjab, now in Pakistan, Singh was a legend in the Indian Air Force throughout his career. One of the early pioneers who joined the Royal Indian Air Force, he took part in the Arakan campaign in Burma (Myanmar), before being posted as part of the force sent to defend the city of Imphal in India's North East against the advancing Japanese Imperial forces.
Born in a traditional military family, Singh's father had served in the Hodson's Horse, a reputed cavalry unit that was converted into a armored regiment in independent India. Trained at the Royal Air Force College at Cramwell, Singh spent a few years in the North West Frontier Province, (now in Pakistan) before moving to the Arakan campaign. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he was one of those handful of Indian pilots who would form the nucleus of the Indian Air Force.
A pioneer combat pilot
Singh was also known for his exceptional leadership as the Chief of Air Staff, when India and Pakistan went to war in September 1965. Using a motley fleet of fighter aircraft, Singh marshaled his outdated resources to take on the Pakistani Air Force, which was then armed with the modern F-104 Starfighter and the F-86 Sabres. However, the Indian Air Force gave a better account of itself with the tiny Gnat fighters earning the sobriquet of "Sabre killer". After the war, Singh's rank was upgraded to Air Chief Marshal, a first in India, and made equivalent to a full General of the Indian Army.
In 2002, the government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee took the historic decision to appoint him as India's first Marshal of the Indian Air Force. Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy was the Chief of Air Staff when the decision was taken. Krishnaswamy spoke to Asia Times, reminiscing about how the decision came about, and what it meant for the Indian Air Force.
"His appointment did occur when I was the Chief, but the process had started years before I took over," Krishnaswamy recalled. "My predecessors had taken up the issue and worked with the government to get it approved. By the time I had become the Chief, the decision went to the Cabinet and it was approved immediately," he said.
"In the Services, we always look to our history and veterans as our anchors. We needed someone who exemplified all that was the best of the Air Force and its values, and Marshal Singh was easily one such personality. We had seen the impact of the earlier appointments of Field Marshals Sam Manekshaw and K M Cariappa on the Indian Army. Marshal Singh, matched their contribution as one of the key architects of the modern Indian Air Force."
In fact, the Indian Air Force had not seen much combat since independence and was forced to sit out the war with China in 1962. Unsure how it would fare against the Pakistani Air Force, Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Air Marshal Asghar Khan had reached an agreement not to engage in the air and prevent any escalation of bilateral tensions. But once war declared the two air forces took to the skies.
"I was a young Flight Lieutenant with barely four years of service when the war broke out," Krishnaswamy recalled. "I was in the 23rd Squadron, flying the Gnat out of the air base in Pathankot in Punjab and the Chief was too big a personality for us pilots in the cockpit. My squadron engaged the first Pakistani Air Force and I was the wing-man to Trevor Keelor, who shot down the first Sabre. But as the euphoria dissipated, we realized that it was Singh's ability to carry out joint operations with the Indian Army that swung the war in our favor."
Legend has it that the then army chief, General Jayanto Chaudhury and Air Marshal Singh jointly walked up to then defense minister Yashwant Rao Chavan and sought his permission to go to war. "The permission was promptly given and saw the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force carry out joint operations for the first time in the history of independent India." Reportedly, when asked how long it would take the Indian Air Force to prepare for war, Singh quipped, "an hour".
Philanthropist in uniform
Krishnaswamy worked closely with Marshal Singh at a time when India was on the brink of another war with Pakistan. "The attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001 saw us scramble to the border, and it was a tense period for us when I took over as the Chief. We had just launched Operation Parakram and we were all set to go to war. While the Marshal never sought any information on operational matters, he was constantly worried about the welfare of the air force personnel and their families," Krishnaswamy said.
Known to only a few people, Singh started a Foundation with a generous grant of $317,400 (INR 2 crore) for the welfare of the air force personnel and their families. "The fund is very well managed and has grown significantly now, and helps scores of air force families every year," said Krishnaswamy.
"He was a man of impeccable ideals and integrity, and while he was a disciplinarian, he would also ease up if he knew that the mistakes were genuine. He was one of those rare Chiefs who had flown every aircraft in independent India's inventory, from the Canberra to the Hunter and the MiG-21s as they arrived just before his tenure and were pressed into service. In those days, taking over as the Chief at the age of 45 was rare, but he earned the respect of his peers at a critical juncture of India's history," Krishnaswamy said.
After retirement Singh was appointed as India's ambassador to Switzerland and the Vatican and then the High Commissioner to Kenya. Years later, he was also appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi for a year, before being appointed as India's first Marshal of the Indian Air Force in 2002.
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4 replies on "Arjan Singh, India's sole Marshal of the Air Force, dies at 98"
Michael Planchunas says:
During the 1965 War, The Indian air force would use the water tower at USAF Badaber as an aiming point for attacking Peshawar airport. Pakistani army made us mud up our buildings and watertower for the duration.
Perry Kamath says:
Sir: You are simply unclear. How come IAF used water tower for aiming? It is strange!
Perry Kamath PAF had its HQS at Peshawar. Our base 4 miles south of Peshawar was used as the initial aiming point to start their bomb runs. Look up 6937 Comm Gp. It was also the only high structure for miles around it was all farm land.
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How are we to be understood and recognized as the 'Image of God'?
Any donation of body tissue or an organ is a kind of self-sacrifice. Despite this, it would be untheological to consider such an action to be in imitation of the sacrifice of Christ. Christ offers His Body and Blood to give people, not some transitory existence, but real life, which might, in fact, involve the sacrifice of this temporary existence. This fleeting existence should not be separated from real life and become independent. But adherence to this transitory existence extinguishes the desire for eternal life. 'For those who want to save their soul will lose it, and those who lose their soul for my sake will find it'ose who love their soul will lose it, and those who hate their soul in this world will retain it for eternal life'.
In other words, those who love their life will lose it. And those who care nothing for their existence in this world, will preserve it for eternal life. This path of the Gospel, which is so paradoxical in terms of human reason, the path which was first trodden by Christ, certainly can't be applied on the level of reflections about transplants. Nevertheless, the charitable or heroic feature which is part of the voluntary donation of tissue or organs for transplantation is still of value. Nor can the pastoral support for people who are in critical condition be ignored.
The considerations presented by some concerning the bodily integrity after death of those who give organs are of a Scholastic nature. As persons, we are not to be equated with our body, nor with our soul, nor with an admixture of the two, nor with a summation of the two. We are something which transcends all of that and holds them together, without being held together in any way by them and without being defined by any of them. As people created in the image of God, we are always to be understood as such and recognized as such. And this comprehension and recognition of our nature as image is true of the whole of mankind, as it is of each one of us and our individual actions. Beyond any divisive distinction between matter and spirit, individual and society, as images of the Divine Word, we people, by observing His commandment of love, reside in God, Who is love, and all together make up the one body of the Church of Christ.
Within this dynamic and multi-dimensional view of the human person, every drop of blood offered to our neighbour is an all-encompassing offering of the whole person. So every pedantic investigation regarding the repercussions which the donation of tissue or an organ might have on bodily integrity loses its meaning. And, at the same time, it becomes apparent just how irreconcilable with the Church's view of the person is this mechanistic view of people and the handling of tissues and organs of the body merely as curative or replacement matter.
 Matth. 24-5; cf. Mk. 8, 35. [It is curious that the ancient authorities both say 'soul' (Greek ψυχή, Latin anima), yet in this and other passages, such as the next, where there is a clear distinction between 'soul' and 'life', the word is universally translated in English as 'life', even as far back as Wycliffe. WJL].


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