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66, 11 Liniya V.I.
St. Petersburg, Russia
"Russian Institute for Power Radioengineering", the first such company in Russia, is the leading designer of high quality radio communications, broadcasting and data transmission equipment for professional use.
The company offers integrated solutions starting with research, preproduction design and initial testing to manufacturing, maintenance, operation and modernisation.
RIPR is the only company in Russia and one of the few in the world whose unique expertise allows it to design and develop modern high power radio transmitting complexes. Our scientific innovations in the field of radio engineering are widely recognised.
RIPR, part of TIRA Corporation, is based in St Petersburg. It incorporates several research laboratories and provides opportunities for completing postgraduate studies with its own Scientific Council.
Research and preproduction design for knowledge-intensive industry
Repair, restoration and modernisation works
Installation, commissioning, support and warranty services
Development of system and application software
Military and civil transmitting/transceiving complexes both stationary and mobile
Automated operator workplaces
HF and MF antennae
Turnkey transceiving radio centres and aircraft landing systems
Communication equipment for inland waterway transport, maritime transport and Navy
ULF, ELF and VLF radio transmitting sets, dedicated power plants intended for communications with deeply submerged objects
ULF and ELF radio equipment for geological and geophysical survey
High capacity power supply units
Cathodic protection systems
Foundation of the first electronics research laboratory and the Kronstadt workshop of Popov, the Russian inventor of the radio
Transformation of the workshop into "Radio Telegraph of the Navy Department"
Development of spark-gap transmitters to enable radio communication of the Russian Navy
Renaming of the Maritime Department factory into "Komintern Radio Telegraph plant"
Development of high power electron tubes in Russia
Design and manufacture of vacuum tube based receivers
Development of the first unified system of transmitters and receivers for ships and onshore facilities of "Blokada-1"
Commissioning of the world's most powerful 100 kW VTsSPS radio station
Establishment of transmitting sets research laboratory as part of the factory's infrastructure
Demonstration of the country's first television equipment set, including a TV-set model and pre-production prototype, mechanical television transmitter and a television flying-spot transmitter
Production of the first Russian TV receiver
Design and development of the Komintern 500 kW radio station, at the time the most powerful in the world
Design and development of the first radar models
Establishment of Komintern Power Radio engineering Plant, the largest company in the country
Expansion of the company's interests into development of HF, VLF, ULF and ELF communication facilities, up to 5 mW
Evacuation of production facilities to Kuibyshev region; commissioning of 1200kW radio station
Placement of 100kW antenna inside Leningrad Buddhist temple with a balloon lifted antenna
Return to Leningrad and recommencement of operation
Development of automated complexes for communication with deeply submerged objects
Re-equipping of three TV centres in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour awarded for successful completion of the set targets
Renaming of the company into Pan-soviet Komintern Research Institute of Power Radio engineering with its own pilot plant
Merging of the companies into Komintern Research and Production Company
Defining the concept of ELF radio channel; development of methods for generating super-power ELF signals; research into design of ELF antenna systems
Obtained results are still considered fundamental and are widely used in designing and building ELF radio stations, both in Russia and abroad
Development of ELF radio transmitting complex "Zevs", the only one in Russia
Renaming of Komintern Research and Production Company into Russian Institute for Power Radio engineering
Privatisation of the company by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation with 30% of shares be handed over to the Property Fund of St. Petersburg
Development of the fourth generation radio communication equipment: the family of transistorized HF transmitters and transceivers
Design and development of a 1 kW modular HF transmitter
Upgrading of the automated adaptive complex for digital data and voice transmission via HF radio channels
Introduction of GPS/GLONASS receiver
Development of a mobile HF radio communication centre
Development of a 5 kW single-rack HF transmitter
Development of a containerized radio communication complex including HF, MF and VHF ranges for equipping small airports /heliports
Commencement of serial production of static power converters for ship hull degaussing
a control rack for the digital radio transmitting set including a new generation digital HF exciter
a rotating transceiving HF antenna
a new series of digital transistorised radio transmitting sets and transceivers
Introduction of a new version of homing HF radio station
Development of a HF radio station set for a mobile equipment room based on a Bogatyr type vehicle
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HF/MF/LF broadcasting
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Igor Pestovsky
Igor was born on 25 March 1969 in the town of Korkino, Chelyabinskaya oblast'. In 1991, he graduated from Leningrad Higher Military Engineering School of Signals with a degree in radio communications. He served in the army in the Far Eastern Military district as a radio system engineer.
In 1996, he graduated from the engineering school of S. M. Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps majoring in military radio design and production management.
From 1986 up to 2019, Pestovsky served in the Russian Armed Forces. He had risen through the ranks, starting as a chief engineer assistant and ending up as chief of a military representative office.
He was appointed RIPR JSC general manager in March 2020.
Retired Colonel, PhD in Technical Sciences, Honourable Radio Operator.
Aleksei Zaikin
Zaikin was born on 19 July 1964 in Orenburg. He graduated with distinction from Orenburg Pedagogical State Institute with a degree in Physics.
In 1985, Zaikin joined the Comintern Scientific Production Association where he started as an engineer and worked his way up to the Head of the science and technology facility.
In 1998, he completed his postgraduate degree in the Russian Institute for Power Radioengineering (RIPR).
Zaikin specializes in transmitting antenna-feeder devices, radio communications and radio-wave propagation.
As a renowned research advisor, chief designer of several civil and military R&D Zaikin was bestowed with numerous state and ministerial awards.
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Q: I am having trouble converting a linq list into a string list I have two lists. The first one is a list of strings that I then count the number of times a string repeats itself within the list. In the foreach loop I add convert those values and add them to my second list. However when I go to print out the items in the second list I get this "System.Linq.Grouping`2[System.String,System.String]" for every item in the list... I can not find a way to convert the linq values into string values.
        //LIST #1
        List<string> mlist = new List<string>(new string [] {"Line5","Line2", "Line3", "Line4",
       "Line6", "Line5", "Line5", "Line5", "Line6", "Line6", "Line2" });

        //LIST #2
        List<string> newlist = new List<string>();
        var g = mlist.GroupBy(i => i);

        foreach (var grp in g)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count());
            newlist.Add(grp.ToString());
        }

        foreach(string line in newlist)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(line));
        }

A: There are many solutions to this, however you can't just print an IGrouping<T> with Console.WriteLine(). You will need to access its properties
foreach (var grp in groups)
   Console.WriteLine($"{grp.Key} --- {grp.Count()}");

Output
Line5 --- 4
Line2 --- 2
Line3 --- 1
Line4 --- 1
Line6 --- 3

Another easy way, is to project to a ValueTuple, which has a special ToString override
var groups = items
   .GroupBy(i => i)
   .Select(x => (x.Key, Count : x.Count()));

foreach (var grp in groups)
   Console.WriteLine(grp);

Output
(Line5, 4)
(Line2, 2)
(Line3, 1)
(Line4, 1)
(Line6, 3)

Or customise
var groups = items
   .GroupBy(i => i)
   .Select(x => (x.Key, Count : x.Count()));

foreach (var grp in groups)
   Console.WriteLine(@$"My words = {grp.Key}, occurrence = {grp.Count}");

Output
My words = Line5, occurrence = 4
My words = Line2, occurrence = 2
My words = Line3, occurrence = 1
My words = Line4, occurrence = 1
My words = Line6, occurrence = 3

A: You already know how to convert it into a readable string, because you did this in the Console.WriteLine call above it.
    foreach (var grp in g)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count());
        newlist.Add(string.Format("{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count()));
    }

Since this question has a linq tag, lets do it in one line:
List<string> newlist = g.Select(grp => $"{grp.Key} {grp.Count()}").ToList();

A: Try this out

  List<string> mlist = new List<string>(new string [] {"Line5","Line2", "Line3", "Line4",
                "Line6", "Line5", "Line5", "Line5", "Line6", "Line6", "Line2" });

            //LIST #2
            List<string> newlist = new List<string>();
            var g = mlist.GroupBy(i => i);

            foreach (var grp in g)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count());
                newlist.Add($"{grp.Key} {grp.Count()}");
            }

            Console.WriteLine("New List");
            foreach(string line in newlist)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(line));
            }

Use this link for confirmation: https://dotnetfiddle.net/GhK6Tl

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My "clothing, clothing everywhere, and not a thing to wear" wails led to me picking out a yawningly typical ensemble to wear out on Friday night.
In my defense, my Friday night plans involved a scavenger hunt with lots and lots of outdoor walking, so potential fantastical ensembles involving dresses and suede shoes were vetoed.
doctor's bag, vintage; boots, Aerosoles; cuff watch, Marc Jacobs.
Black, black, skinny jeans, boots. Yes, I am fine with how it looks, but I am mostly itching for spring and the ability to wear my capes in lieu of a parka, and to wear dresses without two layers of tights underneath with a pair of thigh-high thick socks over the tights.
However, I love these boots so hard. Comfy, shiny, able to withstand the slushpiles that line my street, and I'm about 6'1" in them. Merci, Aerosoles. Merci.
I am getting so tired of having to wear boots. I love my boots, but still. I want to wear ballet flats and pretty skirts and such. Spring needs to come soon.


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invited to return to Moscow to be formally anointed by the head of the KGB. A career spy, Gordievsky was tipped to ascend to the uppermost ranks of that vast and ruthless security and intelligence network that controlled the Soviet ...
Oleg Gordievsky emerged from school with a silver medal, head of the local Komsomol, a competent, intelligent, athletic, unquestioning, and unremarkable product of the Soviet system. But he had also learned to compartmentalize.
Every Soviet embassy contained a permanent KGB station, or rezidentura, with a number of KGB officers in various official guises, all under the command of a rezident (head of station in MI6 parlance, or station chief to the CIA).
The head of the section responsible for Britain and Scandinavia was sacked (the two regions were, for historical reasons, lumped together in the KGB departmental structure, along with Australia and New Zealand) and replaced by Dmitri ...
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Sabz Gezi (, also Romanized as Sabz Gezī) is a village in Jahadabad Rural District, in the Central District of Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 474, in 104 families.

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Populated places in Anbarabad County

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Lifestyle // Wellness
Children's Transplant nonprofit seeks to help families cope during procedure
Aaron West, CORRESPONDENT
May 20, 2019 Updated: May 20, 2019 9:41 a.m.
Rebecca Jones has received support from the nonprofit Children's Transplant Initiative while her 1-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, is undergoing care at Texas Children's Hospital. Brooklyn received a liver transplant in February.
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Ross Witty, from left, and Cheryl Witty visit with Rebecca Jones and her 1-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, inside the transitional ICU at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Ross and Cheryl Witty started the nonprofit Children's Transplant Initiative to give back to the organ transplant community after their daughter Kimmy underwent a kidney transplant in 2011.
Kimmy, left, Ross and Cheryl Witty
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The symptoms started with Kimmy Witty's hands when she was a kid.
One day in 2011, she found she could barely move her fingers and her hand felt stiff like a claw. She would soon find out she was suffering from a severe calcium deficiency — a result of a rare genetic kidney disease Witty had.
"When your kidneys don't function right, they can flush everything out," Witty, now 20, said. "The doctors at the hospital I went to told me something major was going on."
Witty's kidneys were functioning at around 20 percent of what they should be, and life changed overnight for her. Witty, who had been an active 12-year-old involved in athletics and school activities at the time, was suddenly not healthy enough to participate.
"Life got to be very hard," she said. "I sort of became different."
Instead of hanging out with friends, Witty had to deal with daily and weekly treatments for her kidneys — the only way she'd be able to survive her condition without a transplant. Then nearly six months later, doctors said she was ready for the transplant procedure, if a match could be found.
Witty's parents, Cheryl and Ross who live in Spring, immediately stepped up to donate, she said. And while both were a match for a donation, doctors told the family only Ross would be able to safely undergo the procedure.
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In November 2011, the operation took place, and Ross gave his kidney to his daughter.
"It's a special, intimate kind of thing," Cheryl said. "I gave birth to Kimmy, and then Ross gave her life again."
The entire experience led the Witty family, in 2016, to ask themselves how they could use what they had gone through to help others, Cheryl said. Cheryl had recently retired from teaching, and she said God was telling the family it was time to share their story. The Children's Transplant Initiative, the local nonprofit the Witty family founded to help families with children in need of organ donations, is designed to do just that.
Since an organ transplant and the lifestyle changes that go along with it can be such a dramatic experience, the Wittys said they wanted to be able to take their knowledge and help lead others through the process.
"These types of procedures can really have a huge impact on how people — especially children — are living," said Alyssa Gingrich, a social worker who assists liver transplant patients for Texas Children's Hospital. "It helps to have an organization like Children's Transplant Initiative to be there for them."
The way the organization works is like this: There are different programs that people undergoing an organ transplant can take advantage of, Cheryl said. For example, the mentoring side of the organization, called Hope Lifeline, gives children and teenagers who are scheduled to receive an organ donation the chance to ask questions and find out how the operation will affect their lifestyle. Meanwhile, living donors can ask how the procedure will affect them.
That's how it worked with Matthew Morgan, 32, who donated his kidney to his son Brannon in 2017.
"I had a lot of questions," Morgan said. "The Children's Transplant Initiative let me sit down with Ross and ask about what was going to happen, what the procedure was going to be like. Sure, doctors are great, but it helps to talk to someone who's already gone through it."
The Morgans participated in some of the other programs the Children's Transplant Initiative offers as well.
After Brannon's condition, which he has had since he was born, caused his mother, Sonja Morgan, to have to move to Houston from their home in Louisiana, expenses started piling up.
"Even just parking at the hospital can start to get scary when you do it so much," she said. "I felt like a single mom during the week when Matthew wasn't here."
Children's Transplant Initiative stepped up, however, to cover those incremental expenses that can add up so quickly.
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"It's those small things — parking, meals — that you don't really think about when you're so busy with everything else," Cheryl said. "We want to be able to offer financial assistance for those things."
Perhaps the most helpful service the organization offers, Cheryl said, is housing. Via donations from companies and money raised at annual fundraisers, Children's Transplant Initiative maintains four apartments that families undergoing organ transplant operations can live in rent-free throughout the donation.
"When Kimmy was going through her situation, the constant driving back and forth really took a toll," Cheryl said. "If we could have had a place closer to the hospital, even just to stay in, it would have helped a lot."
The apartment housing program is part of the organization that Cheryl sees evolving into an actual home where around a dozen patients could stay at a time. It's something that Children's Transplant Initiative is still working on getting off the ground — the nonprofit is looking for donations and property for the home — but at least the name is already settled on, Cheryl said.
"We'll call it Kimmy's Cottage," she said. "Kimmy is how this all started, after all."
Kimmy, who is studying at Lone Star College and will transfer to Blinn College in College Station next fall, is pursuing a degree in child psychology and wants to be a child life specialist at a hospital where she can help children with play therapy and music therapy to make them feel more comfortable in a clinical setting.
"They're a great liaison between children, families, and doctors," she said.
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It's Friday, which means the weekend is almost here!
To make your time off healthy and fun, we've come up with a brilliant matcha driven recipe from the lovely Miss Nicola Brown AKA Nourishing Nicola: Raw Matcha Pine Lime 'Splice' Ice-Cream Cake.
This soft and smooth matcha pine lime splice cake ticks all the boxes; it's clean, vegan, raw, gluten and sugar-free, and super delicious version of of everyone's childhood favourite - the classic Australian 'Street's Pine Lime Splice' icy pole.
Combining the tangy taste of fresh pineapple and lime and the vibrant taste of matcha, this recipe will refresh your mind and boost your energy after the working week is done.
With the tangy taste of fresh pineapple and lime and the vibrant taste of matcha, this vegan cake will refresh your mind and body, as well as boost up your energy after the long week of work!
What a beautiful looking ice-cream cake – and it's healthy so you can enjoy it guilt free!


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This week's AOB looks at the latest e-commerce trends including COVID-resistant fashion, the growing pet care market, and why brands shouldn't forget about the older generation.
Move over Millennials…
It's no surprise that global lockdown has been a catalyst for e-commerce's growth across the world. But perhaps what is more surprising is the demographic of these new online customers. A recent study1 by market research firm Mintel2 found that in the UK, the older generation is likely to be the main driver of continued e-commerce growth in the short and medium term.
In the survey of 2,000 internet users aged 16+, 43% of those in the 65+ age group said they have shopped more online since the start of the crisis. In comparison, in May 2019, just 16% of this age group shopped online at least once a week.
The older generation's switch to online shopping is likely a result of increased concerns about being exposed to the virus than other age groups. Additionally, they have been less financially affected by the pandemic, with Gen Z and Millennials more vulnerable to unemployment; of those surveyed, 38% of 16-34-year-olds said they will be cutting back on non-essential purchases, compared to 31% of over 65's.
Fashion fans treated to a behind-the-scenes exclusive
Like so many other brands who explored new digital opportunities during the pandemic, French luxury brand Hermès3 recently ventured online to present its Spring 2021 menswear collection. Rather than a traditional catwalk show, fans were treated to live streaming of a cinematic-style mini-film called Hors Champ, French for "Off Screen", which recreated the behind-the-scenes action of a real fashion show, featuring shots of the designers preparing the models and close-ups of the clothes.
"These classic off-camera moments of a show, the glimpses one usually never gets are precisely what will, for once, be visible to all," says Hermès designer Véronique Nichanian4.
Are you giving your customers the best returns service?
E-commerce sellers, listen up. New research has unveiled just how important the returns service you offer is. In a survey5 of almost 1,400 US consumers conducted by YouGov6 and Doddle7, respondents said they weigh returns as equally significant to delivery and payment in their overall e-commerce experience. 84% of respondents said a positive returns experience encourages them to shop with a brand again, whilst 60% said they may be deterred from doing so if the shipping fees to return an item were too high.
The returns process can be a huge and costly affair for the e-commerce sellers, with some analysts estimating that as many as 30% of all products ordered online are returned8. Read our dedicated returns guide for some simple and easy changes you can make to keep your rates lower.
Fashion joins the pandemic fight
With hygiene now a leading concern for consumers, a number of brands in the fashion e-commerce sector are experimenting with using virus-resistant textiles in their designs.
Denim specialists DL19619 and Warp + Weft10, who already have a deep investment in the sustainability of their products, are taking their conscientious commitment a step further for their Fall 2020 collection, using material that has been shown to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
They have partnered with Swiss performance textile company HeiQ11, which uses antimicrobial technology to produce a liquid solution that can be applied to denim, giving it a germ-resistant layer that lasts up to 30 washes.
"Our mission as a premium denim brand is to make products in a way that is good for the planet and the people on it," said Sarah Ahmed, Warp + Weft founder. "As safety is at the forefront of our consumers' concerns, we want to be there to help. Our jeans are designed to make you look good, and feel good about wearing them."12
Pet lovers drive up e-commerce sales
The global pet care e-commerce market size is expected to reach USD 54.95 billion by 2027, according to a new report13 by Grand View Research14.
North America holds the majority revenue share, whilst pet food is the largest product category in all markets, followed by grooming and medication. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given pet owner's preference for dogs, the canine segment held the leading revenue share in 2019 and is forecast to grow by 10% by 2027. But it's not all about our four-legged friends – the pet fish and exotic birds category is forecast to experience the fastest growth in the next few years due to increased demand for birdcages and fishbowls.
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1 – Mintel study, Essential Retail, July 2020
2 – Mintel
3 – Hermès
4 – Véronique Nichanian, Canvas8, July 2020
5 – Returns survey, Cision PR Newswire, June 2020
6 – YouGov
7 – Doddle
8 – Invesp, 2020
9 – DL1961
10 – Warp + Weft
11 – HeiQ
12 – Sarah Ahmed, Canvas8, July 2020
13 – Grand View Research Report, July 2020
14 – Grand View Research
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Matthias Ginter 'definitely' not coming to Chelsea
Borussia Mönchengladbach center back making it very clear what he wants to do with his career
By David Pasztor@D_Peezy Aug 5, 2020, 6:38am BST
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Borussia Mönchengladbach center back Matthias Ginter has become regarded as one of the best defenders in the Bundesliga, and thus, he's been generating some transfer market interest, including from Chelsea, a team that could certainly use a good center back.
But even if that interest has given rise to some truly creative rumor-mongering — Christensen plus cash swap! — Ginter himself isn't really looking to leave the team he's called home for the past three seasons, especially after securing Champions League football for only the third time in club history, and the first since 2016.
In fact, the 26-year-old told kicker magazine the other day that he's "definitely" staying.
"I'm definitely staying in Gladbach. Of course I heard of the enquiries and was flattered by this attention, but I've said often enough how good things are for me in Gladbach."
"This team has huge potential. And the coach gives us a great deal of added value. With the amazing fans and surroundings here, this club is currently in the process of building something. I share these big ambitions and I also have a contract here."
-Matthias Ginter; source: kicker via Bundesliga
Sounds like Ginter's quite happy with literally every aspect of his professional life in Mönchengladbach. That's not a definitely-maybe. That's a definitely-definitely. The team aren't looking to sell either, so we can safely scratch this possibility off the list.


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School of Built Environment and Development Studies
Masters Degrees (Population Studies)
An examination of the determinants of sexual behaviour among young people aged 15-24 years in Zambia using the 2005 Zambia behaviour survey.
dc.contributor.advisor Nzimande, Nompumelelo Barbara.
dc.creator Mwale, Simson.
dc.description Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012. en
dc.description.abstract The health risks of unsafe sexual behaviour among young people aged 15-24, the stage when sexual activity including risky sexual behaviour is likely to begin, has been receiving growing attention. Researchers are attempting to identify factors which influence young people's sexual behaviour so that meaningful prevention and intervention programmes can be developed. Using the 2005 Zambia Sexual Behaviour Survey, this study examines the level and determinants of sexual behaviour measured according to age at first sex, age at first childbearing, and condom use at first sex, among young people in Zambia. A total sample of 2,813 young people, representing 57.16 percent females and 42.84 percent males, was chosen for the analysis. The study employed survival analysis techniques to examine the timing and determinants of first sex and first childbearing. In addition, logistic regression models were used to predict the drivers of condom use at first sex. The analysis established that age at first sex, age at first childbearing, and condom use at first sex among young people in Zambia differ by cohort, gender, urban/rural residence, marital status, educational attainment, and province of residence. The results show that more young women (69.15 percent) than young men (57.84 percent) had initiated sex aged 15-24 years; whereas 47.89 percent of young women aged 15-24 years reported having had a first birth. The level of condom use at first sex was less than a quarter for young men (23.63 percent) and young women (24.34 percent), posing serious health challenges. There was evidence that the strongest predictors of sexual debut among young men were current age, residing in Lusaka or Northern provinces, and living in a household with television; while current age and higher education were positively associated with condom use at first sex among young women. The important determinants of first childbearing were age at first sex, and educational attainment. Finally, being unmarried, with some level of education, residing in Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka or Northern provinces, and living in a household with piped water or flush toilet, were found to be critical predictors of condom use at first sex among young people. It was concluded that although Zambia has shown progress in delaying sexual debut and first childbearing, other areas such as condom use at first sex, show little change – indicating a need for renewed efforts in HIV and AIDS prevention and family planning programmes. en
dc.language.iso en_ZA en
dc.subject Teenagers--Sexual behaviour--Zambia. en
dc.subject Young adults--Sexual behaviour--Zambia. en
dc.subject Theses--Population studies. en
dc.title An examination of the determinants of sexual behaviour among young people aged 15-24 years in Zambia using the 2005 Zambia behaviour survey. en
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I've been with my husband for twenty-seven years (married for twenty-three, and have three children), and he still loves me and I love him, too. So why do I still feel jealous and want to be around him all the time? He was let go from the construction industry in March 2010. He didn't sit around waiting for something to turn up. Instead, he took a variety of courses in order to change careers. I was really happy for him.
Before he was made redundant, he worked long hours five days a week and went hunting every Sunday. The only time we spent together was on Saturday and an hour or two in the evening. When he was made redundant, we started spending more time together. Even though I was working, we built a closer relationship.
On July 1, I had major surgery, and was home for three months. We did everything together. Then he got a job in a nursing home caring for the elderly. I was so proud of him, but I started getting depressed because he was working weekends and long hours. I was working on the days he was off. I started getting jealous, too, that he was with all these women. He can be a charmer (in a nice way), but I know deep down he would never cheat on me.
He's upset that I'm on medication for depression, and wants to leave his job because he thinks that is what made me depressed. He's not sleeping at night, because he's worrying about me. He told me he hates going into work and coming home. I don't want him to get sick because of me. I don't see any of my friends outside of work. I come home and wait for him to come in from work and tell me about his day–yet, I have nothing to tell him. I don't know why I'm feeling this way when there is no reason. All he wants is a job to keep us ticking and to keep him sane.
At the start, I was scared of losing him. Now I feel that if I don't do something about the way I feel, I will definitely lose him.
You and your husband have experienced some very stressful changes over the last year, and that stress is manifesting in you as fear. Even though you try and sort through things with your logical mind, you're still thinking and fearing emotionally.
Your husband struggles because he doesn't know how to help you, and he wants to help you. He feels partly responsible for your anxiety and depression, and often thinks that he's failed you. You have no true reason to worry or fear that he will find affection with another woman. Your husband presents as completely loyal to you. However, he does miss the "old you," and wants his wife back. Fortunately, this man of yours does not give up easily, and he believes that your emotional unrest is yet another challenge that the two of you face, and will eventually conquer.
I strongly recommend that you enlist the aid of a counselor or therapist. All the changes and challenges you've been going through are emotionally taking their toll. Not only have you become extremely codependent on your husband, your self esteem has also been plummeting. You may also want to have a professional evaluate your medications, in order to make sure that your regimen is actually the best suited to your body, hormone levels and current issues.
Along with some independent therapy, talk with your husband. Let him know that you recognize your erratic behaviors, and that you will do what you need to in order to work through things. He will be incredibly supportive, not to mention relieved. He needs to know that you trust him.
Because the two of you don't have a whole lot of time together due to work schedules, make the best and the most of the time you do get to share. Also, make the most of the time you have to yourself. Falling back into old routines and associating with your friends can help you come back to a place of balance, because you aren't always waiting. Before things started to unravel, you were fairly independent and rarely bored. Now, it seems as if you have too much time alone, and too much time to think.
You, and your marriage, will come through this. It's just going to take a little bit of therapy, and some time.
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The Ben Carson Appeal
Dr. Carson's appeal is much more than the fact that he is "an outsider." He is an outsider to be sure, but he is a certain kind of outsider.
Mario Diaz
Ben Carson, Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, speaks during The Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, U.S., on Saturday, July 18, 2015. The sponsor, The FAMiLY LEADER, is a 'pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-life organization which champions the principle that God is the ultimate leader of the family.' (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
This is not intended to be a political piece on Ben Carson and his qualifications (or lack thereof) to be president of the United States. Let me emphasize that again: I do not want to weigh in on Dr. Carson's candidacy.
Rather, given his recent surge past Donald Trump (the undisputed front runner until now) in the Quinnipiac Iowa poll, I want to attempt to put into words that mystical appeal we can all see in him but so few can articulate, as a form of cultural commentary, rather than a political one.
It seems fairly obvious, despite what most political pundits regurgitate, that Dr. Carson's appeal is much more than the fact that he is "an outsider." He is an outsider to be sure, but he is a certain kind of outsider.
I also do not think it has to do with his exceptional intellect. He actually comes across as very humble (which points us in the right direction to ascertain his appeal) and does not speak in academic terms. He speaks in moral terms, which also (I think) helps us get closer to the answer. But many politicians speak in moral terms; it seems there is something different (deeper) about him.
The answer, I believe, is that Dr. Carson seems to be a man of character. In other words, we actually believe when he speaks in moral terms, because his character comports with the ideas he presents.
But what in the world does it mean to be a man of character? This is something we used to know, so there might be some vague idea in our minds, like the memory of a forgotten relationship in our subconscious, and yet we can't seem to put our finger on it.
We remember great men like Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., saying things like, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," and though it sounds good, we struggle to define this idea of "character."
Our Founding Fathers put enormous emphasis on character. Samuel Adams said, "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men."
Noah Webster, the father of American Scholarship and Education, and the creator of the famous Webster's Dictionary said, "The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head."
Those are powerful words. Webster puts character above all other attributes. In that sense, character knows no party; it goes deeper than philosophical and political ideas. Character has to do with honor and virtue and truth.
We sometimes talk about a "proven" character and that is because character goes deeper than words. It is about experience and endurance. Our character is better revealed under pressure.
This is what we read in Scripture. The Apostle Paul talks about it in Romans 5:3-4. Take notice of the progression he talks about: "[W]e rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."
It is through tribulation that we ultimately form our character. Life's trials — our failures more than our successes — reveal the type of person we truly are.
It is how Carson became who he is. If you want to understand Ben Carson's appeal, perhaps you should take an hour or two and watch, "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story" on Netflix. It explains a lot. This is a man who overcame incredible obstacles to get where he is.
This is Ben Carson's strength as a man. And it is also his strength as a politician. It is what is most appealing about him, that inexplicable quality of being a man of character.
I do not want to suggest in any way that other candidates are not men and women of character, only that Dr. Carson seems to excel in this most noble area. And it's incredibly appealing.
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Dawning sentence example
Maybe this is dawning on us.
Unfortunately, this was the dawning of the age of high technology and dumbbells were once again overshadowed by equipment with computerized readouts and other seemingly impressive features.
And it is all so simple, pale, and crude in the cold white light of this morning which I feel is dawning for me.
A damp dull autumn morning was just dawning.
That shift came with the dawning of a new century and Route 66 got a new turnpike to the ' Super Highway '.
Clouds and rain can represent loneliness while the sun breaking through the clouds may represent the dawning realization of love.
The Dream of Herod traces an evolution from dark, brooding introspection to dawning effulgence.
One was the dawning realization among some observers that economic growth was slowing down.
That shift came with the dawning of a new century and Route 66 got a new turnpike to the ' Super Highway ' .
When the Fifth Dimension sang about the dawning of the age of Aquarius, they probably had no idea what a resurgence the art/science of astrology would eventually enjoy.
The sound of the heavy firing coming from the eastward convinced him of what had been gradually dawning on him - that with barely 30,000 men he was in the presence of the whole French army, whose attitude at this moment sufficiently indicated their determination to fight.
We wait, however, for the Epistles of his captivity at Rome to find the full meaning of the idea of the church dawning u p on his imagination.
Morgan "seems to have discerned the dawning of a truer and better method" than the others.
So far only is it possible to speak with certainty, but it is permissible to take a few steps into the twilight of dawning knowledge and indicate the chief subdivisions which are likely to be established in the great crust-hollow and the great crust-heap. The boundary between these should obviously be the mean surface of the sphere.
N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday (born 1934) is recognized as one of the premier writers in the United States. In 1969, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction.
Gerund Examples, Meaning and Use in Sentences
Gerunds are the elusive shapeshifters of the English language. They are created out of verbs, but function as nouns. For example: "Do you mind my borrowing these supplies?" At a quick glance, borrowing could easily be labeled as a verb. However, when working as a gerund, borrowing is now a noun.
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I don't know whether you are my buddy or my soul mate. But I know that I love you.
I love you from the core of my heart, i love you insanely. I loved you when you feel emotional for me, i love when you wore your most beautiful smile. I had never seen someone with a smile like that in my life.
I loved you when i look at you and you *Blink your eyes. Every time I look at you, I fall in love with you.
I loved you when you listen me carefully and supported me for everything, but never judged me for even a second. I loved you when we talked over phone and chatted on WApp for a long time, and now you are totally busy on your work and life.
But sadly I also know that I can never be yours – not in this life at least.
I would have given up anything to spend my life with you. But it was a twist of fate that I met you at the worst possible time.
Like all Bollywood love stories, I met you in college when you were getting married to someone else in a month infact already engaged, and that time i was not able to say or do anything. Yet I couldn't stop myself from falling in love with you, and that time i was unable to do anything.
I still love you though you have been married for almost four years now.
There was a little turbulence in our friendship but the most beautiful part of it was that you know the truth behind my love. You knew how I felt for you, i love you even after your marriage, but you never left me. You decided to be there for me and support me like a friend, thank you for this.


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OWW Daily News & Notes for 6/15
By Brad Dykens on June 15, 2008
[Submit News] Readers are encouraged to submit news for the "OWW Daily News & Notes" page to [email protected]. Compile the important aspects of your news item or upcoming event into one small paragraph, and the chances that I will use it are almost 100%. Thank you for your support and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
[Birthdays & Anniversaries] Brad Armstrong (47), Scott Norton (47), and Chuck Palumbo (37) celebrated birthday's today. Today in Memoriam: Dick Murdoch (49, 1996) and Sherri Martel (49, 2007). .. [reported by Rich Tate of www.GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com]
[Book News] It's been wrestling's big secret up until now, but Online World of Wrestling had obtained exclusive news that Bruno Lauer, known professionally as Downtown Bruno or Harvey Wippleman (WWF), has published his hilariously entertaining biography, entitled "Wrestling with the Truth" though Scott Teal's Crowbar Press (www.crowbarpress.com). The book was launched at this year's Cauliflower Ally Club reunion but will be available to the public through 1wrestlinglegends.com – I had the honor of being one of the proof readers for this book and I am thrilled to endorse the book and proclaim that Bruno's story will open your eyes to the world of pro-wrestling and make you laugh out loud.
[Merchandise] ROH has a 25%-30% off sale going on right now, covering all merchandise on their web site. This includes all SHIMMER DVD titles. The sale expires the morning of 6/20. You can now save 25%-30% off your order on all items listed on the ROH website with no minimum purchase. This sale includes all DVD's, videos, tickets, figures, books, apparel, japanese merchandise, & more. Besides ROH DVD's you can also save money on Non-ROH items. You can save money with every order you place at www.rohwrestling.com. All orders under $50 save 25% off the order. Orders that are $50 and up can save 30% off the order.
[Notes] From April Hunter: "I have spinal injuries from wrestling. Some days I can't walk, others aren't as bad. I've been in therapy for a year and the bills are REALLLLY adding up. I had insurance, but they dropped me when they found out I was a wrestler, so I'm paying everything out of pocket, which is sucking ass. Someone suggested I might be able to supplement my income doing this. I know I need an updated MRI ($1200.00 and $2000.00) worth of VAX treatments, asap, that I don't have. And (hard to believe, right?), not a single promoter has offered to do that token "benefit show" so I'm on my own with this." – Send donations via PayPal to [email protected]
[Radio] Tonight on Evan Ginzburg's Legends Radio at www.wrestling-radio.com co-hosted by Dr. Mike Lano will feature Larry Zbyszko, Dave Prazak, and Danny Inferno.
[SHIMMER] SHIMMER – WOMEN ATHLETES will film Volumes 19 & 20 of the SHIMMER DVD series on Saturday, July 5, 2008 at the Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL, just outside Chicago. Bell time will be 4pm for the taping.
[Radio] SHIMMER's Sara Del Rey was the guest on the 6/5 edition of DTA Radio. You can download the interview right now at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/DTAradio
[Website] Mercedes Martinez has launched her new web site. Check it out at http://www.thelatinasensation.com/
[Website] Earlier this week, it was announced that Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer and Bryan Alvarez's Figure Four Weekly web sites have merged into one. Memberships to the site are available at a cost of $9.95 per month, which entitles you to the full issues of both the Observer and F4W to be read online, plus tons of daily audio shows, a back issue archive, and more. This is noteworthy as it means the Observer is now offered online, whereas in the past the only option was to be mailed a hard copy of it. http://www.f4wonline.com/ is where you can find out more about the new merged Observer and Figure Four sites.. [reported by Dave Prazak]
[Misc News] To read an exclusive and highly controversial interview with Damian Demento as he talks more about his campaign against blood in pro wrestling and his views on steroids go to http://piledriver-online.co.uk/ccount/index.php
[TNA Event] TNA will be holding a house show at the Crossroads Arena in Corinth, Mississippi on August 9th, 2008.. [reported by Devin Cutting]
[TNA Events] TNA has announced the dates & locations for it's UK tour in January of 2009. The dates & locations are: 1/20th in Manchester, England at the Manchester Evening News Arena – 1/21st in Birmingham, England at the National Indoor Arena – 1/22nd in Glasgow, Scotland at the Braehead Arena – 1/24th in London, England at Wembley Arena.. [reported by Devin Cutting]
[Indy News] You can now access the CWF Mid-Atlantic website specifically for your mobile phone! Get all your news updates, schedules, and even reserves seats when you're away from home directly from your mobile phone! Our mobile phone website can be accessed from the cwfmidatlantic.com
[Indy Event] Nikita Koloff, The Midnight Express and Buff Bagwell will be appearing at the NWA Mid-Atlantic event in Chester, South Carolina on Saturday, June 21st, 2008. Go to http://www.midatlanticwrestling.com for info about NWA Mid-Atlantic.. [reported by Devin Cutting]
[Indy Event] MCPW "Make Or Break" on Friday. June 27th, 2008 at the Kalkaska Civic Center (1900 Fairground Road) in Kalkaska, Michigan — Visit www.MCPWrestling.com for more information.
[Indy Event] Wild Championship Wrestling Outlaws (WCWO) presents an "EVEN COLDER DAY IN JUNE" this Saturday at the Decatur County Parks Center in Greensburg, Indiana
[Canadian Event] Rhyno and Salinas will be appearing at the Pro Wrestling Xtreme event in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, August 16th, 2008. Go to http://www.prowrestlingxtreme.com for information about PWX.
[Int'l News] Osamu Nishimura will be wrestling on !BANG! TV in July and scouting wrestling talent for All Japan Pro Wrestling. On previous trips to the Funking Conservatory, Osamu Nishimura has signed Flyin' "Air" Mitchell and "Heart Throb" Antonio Thomas to wrestle for All Japan Pro Wrestling.
[Int'l News] The roof is blown off during the program 'Anda Pa'l Cara' when special guests Carlos Colon (Puerto Rican wrestling legend) and his son, Carlito (WWE RAW superstar), talk about their careers as professional wrestlers and how it affects them in their daily lives. The scene turns intense when El Condor shows up uninvited, along with El Paparazzi. Condor insults Carlito and takes off his mask revealing himself to be former WWC Universal Champion Ray Gonzalez, who has had a long standing feud with the Colon family and even dares to slap Carlos in the face right in front of his son. Here is the video – http://www.luchalibreonline.tv/video/253629-llo-tv-anda-pal-cara.html
[Plug] There are well over 100 interviews are available on ClubWWI.com for less than five dollars a month. Among the other guests you can hear from are: Jesse Ventura, Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Ahmed Johnson, Bobby Heenan, Kevin Nash, The Iron Sheik, Sid Vicious, Paul Bearer, Bruno Sammartino, Sean Mooney, Scott D'Amore, Tito Santana, Al Snow, Tod Gordon, Charlie Haas, Tom Prichard, Jacques Rougeau, Rick Martel, Tammy Sytch, Too Cold Scorpio, Ole Anderson, Kid Kash, Ivan Koloff, Jackie Gayda, John Heidenreich, Jimmy Hart, Jimmy Valiant, Bad News Brown, Nick Bockwinkel, Dory Funk Jr, Diamond Dallas Page, Rob Conway, Sylvain Grenier, Buff Bagwell, Christian Cage, Jazz, Demolition Ax and Smash, Koko B. Ware, Ricky Morton, Dustin Rhodes, Damian Demento, Fred "Shockmaster" Ottman, Cpl. Kirchner, One Man Gang, Scott Steiner, Shawn Stasiak, Ted DiBiase, Ivory, Chris Masters, Elix Skipper, Kamala, Samoa Joe, Giant Bernard, Bill DeMott, Juvi "Juice" Guerrera, Nora "Molly Holly" Greenwald, Nick Dinsmore, Harley Race, Bull Buchanan, D-Lo Brown, Road Warrior Animal, Missing Link, Slick, Nidia, George Steele, Christy Hemme, Disco Inferno, Paul Ellering, Vito, Steve Blackman, Bushwhacker Luke, AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, Dennis Stamp, Shawn Daivari, Kevin Sullivan, B.G. James, Ron Killings, Zach Gowan, Dan Severn, Earl and Dave Hebner, Spike Dudley, Rodney Mack, Larry Zybszko, Rick Steiner, Mae Young, and many, more.
[WWE News] Florida Championship Wrestling is the WWE's official training grounds and is where the biggest athletes and hottest woman in professional wrestling take stage. If you have the desire classes are filling up as we speak so check out www.fcwwrestling.com to find out more about this opportunity to be trained by the best.
[UK News] The latest edition of Piledriver Online can be downloaded free and in our most global edition to date features interviews with stars from the UK (Stixx and Joel Redman), Germany (The Alpha Female), Norway (Aron Frost) and Mexico (Mascarita Sagrada)plus a feature on Pro Wrestling NOAH, it can be downloaded at: http://www.piledriver-online.co.uk/issues/piledriver10.pdf
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Occasionally the stars align. And, when they do magic happens. This should happen in everyone's life at least once. I have been lucky; my stars have lined up a few times and they are about to align again before too long. I won't enumerate the circumstances, let's just say it's a good thing.
But, I will share with you one premise to my star-magic. So many I know are now living in "the pipeline", - i.e. that long dark tube called birth, education, career, marriage, mortgage, children, empty nest, living your golden years babysitting grand-kids, assisted living, death. For most, perhaps, this is the "American Dream" and exactly the life they've longed for. For some this is a simple, inescapable misery. For a few "the pipeline" is a glass-walled cage that must be shattered at any cost. I fall into the latter sort. A big house with a three-car garage, a pool and an electric creek in the backyard was never my dream.
But, there are frontiers. That said the last remaining frontiers remaining may be peace, dignity and freedom – those very virtues that we as a nation once fought for and won – but now have let slip away. Still, there are other frontiers and without giving too much of the plot away I'll simply say this: I want America and all of it's rivers. I have mountain dreams. John Gierach summed it up nicely, "The solution to any problem – work, love, money, whatever – is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be."


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A CROWN OF DESPAIR
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Romantic Fiction • 9 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2013
Narrator Patience Tomlinson's performance breathes strength, honesty, and defiance into this heartrending story, told through the eyes of the sixth wife of Henry VIII. Tomlinson delivers Katherine Parr's narrative with a tone of earnest determination, describing the loss of her husband and the unrequited love of her torturous marriage to Henry VIII, who is portrayed as a nightmarish lout in this historic account. Tomlinson doesn't miss Katherine's gentle, self-deprecating humor, or the strong will that drives her, even during her darkest moments with Henry, making listeners feel as if they're hearing a private confession rather than a work of fiction. Tomlinson captures the supporting cast--particularly Katherine's first husband, John, and the odious Henry--with subtle shifts in tone that perfectly round out this noteworthy performance. B.E.K © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2015]
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Conference Paves Way for Jewish-Christian Cooperation on Temple Mount
by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz | Dec 5, 2018 | Christian Zionism
Ascending the Temple Mount (Credit: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz/Breaking Israel News)
The first Temple Jerusalem Convention took place at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on Wednesday, aimed toward educating Christians about the relevance of the Jewish Temples to their belief. The focus is not only on the Biblical Temples but also on the future Third Temple written about in prophecies.
In his opening address, John Enarson, the Christian Relations Director of Cry for Zion and co-organizer of the conference explained the ground rules for the conference.
"The conference will be a meeting place of Jews and Christians with different perspectives. This should be done with mutual respect, acknowledging differences, and finding common ground on important issues without signing up for any political or religious position. We ask that all participants show grace toward each other."
Doron Keidar, one of the organizers and the executive director of Cry for Zion, has high hopes for the event.
"This is like the first Zionist conference which brought people together to talk about their hopes and dreams for a Jewish state," Keidar told Breaking Israel News. "That led to the establishment of the modern state of Israel. We are bringing people together to talk about the Temple Mount. It is pretty clear what can come from this."
Rabbi Tuly Weisz, head of Israel365, addressed the crowd, emphasizing that it was powerfully appropriate for such a gathering to be held during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
"Many Jewish holidays are about 'they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat,'" Weisz jokingly told the crowd. "But Hanukkah is different. The Greeks did not want to kill us. The focal point of the holiday is about the non-Jews preventing the Jews from connecting to the Torah and about the Greeks defiling the temple. It is entirely appropriate to join in with Christians who have come to Israel to honor the Temple, the Torah, and the Jewish people."
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"If you were the Gentiles back then, there would never have been a need for Hanukkah," Rabbi Weisz concluded.
The conference focused on a theory that is gaining popularity which claims that the Jewish Temples did not stand on the Temple Mount. According to the theory, both Temples were located further south in an area now recognized by archaeologists as the City of King David. This theory was most recently put forth in a series of books written by Bob Cornuke, a former police investigator with no training in archaeology. Cornuke has also proposed that the Ark of the Covenant was taken out of Solomon's Temple and has been hidden away in a church in Ethiopia for hundreds of years.
Several of the speakers addressed this theory. Harry Moskoff, the author of the A.R.K. report, discussed the archaeological proof of the Temples' location as well as the lack of proof for the theory's claims.
Enarson believes the theory hides an insidious theological agenda.
"Rejecting the Temple Mount is the last stand of Replacement Theology," Enarson explained to Breaking Israel News in an interview in April. "Replacement Theology, a belief that Christianity replaced Judaism in the covenant between Abraham and God, was a core tenet of Christianity. Subsequent to, and because of, the Holocaust, some mainstream Christian theologians and denominations have rejected Replacement Theology."
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Groups collaborate to fill jobs in industrial distribution
Don Detore
CHICAGO—A group of industrial distribution associations is being proactive to fill jobs at their member companies.
Prospects don't need an advanced degree or a highly specialized skill to be qualified for these positions. A willingness to learn, enthusiasm, problem solving skills and—depending on the requirements of the position—some education and/or technical experience are all that's needed.
"As is the case with all industries, industrial distribution is experiencing a shortage of qualified candidates to fill the openings created by retiring baby boomers," said Mary Jawgiel, program director for Industrial Careers Pathway. "This shortage is caused by fewer people entering the work force and the skills gap of those in the millennial generation looking for employment. There is a disconnect between the skills needed for various entry level positions and the skills possessed by candidates."
Industrial distributors supply industry, manufacturers and government with products to operate businesses. Companies within this sector are seeking candidates for positions such as inside and outside sales; marketing; accounting; customer service; and warehousing, according to Jawgiel. The target age is 18-34.
"It kind of runs the gamut," she said. "You can be a welder and work for someone in industrial distribution, but you don't have to be a welder in order to be in industrial distribution. It's kind of nice that way, because you can move from area to area."
All kinds of those jobs—nearly 1,200 at last count—are listed on the job board posted at www.industrialcareerspathway.org, the website of the Industrial Careers Pathway, a collaborative, multifaceted North American work force initiative driven by four industrial distribution organizations.
The organizations—the American Supply Association; the Industrial Supply Association Education Foundation; NAHAD, the Association for Hose and Accessories Distribution; and Power Transmission Distributors Association—support the organization's mission, "to meet the need for a skilled industrial work force for today and tomorrow," Jawgiel said.
The ICP website is rich with resources. It not only includes informational videos to prepare prospective candidates, but it also offers detailed descriptions of industrial distribution careers; a guide for internships; advice for teachers and parents who might influence young adults into pursuing these careers; and a link to a database of industrial distribution employers.
The ICP job board includes jobs from members of the four associations as well as positions advertised through other job-seeking services. Interested candidates also may post their resumes.
The website isn't the only avenue that the ICP uses to carry its message to prospective job candidates.
The group pursues outreach in educational institutions, particularly at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Mich., and a couple of other community colleges in the U.S. It uses social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, to promote its message.
One of its most successful ways to reach its audience is through its Ambassadors Program. These are representatives from one of the four sponsoring organizations who volunteer their time and resources to spread the word about the job openings, through career fairs, trade shows and presentations at high schools or community colleges. The program currently has around 55 ambassadors across the U.S.
"(They) even talk with another business or a chamber of commerce, where maybe the moms and dads would be, about the great opportunity for younger kids to think about careers in industrial distribution," Jawgiel said. "Getting involved at the local level is really where things are going to start and how things are going to happen because it is so localized. If you have an industrial distributor in your area, they need to get out and tell people who they are."
Jawgiel suggests any interested job candidates peruse the ICP website carefully. She said some companies don't advertise positions, so if a job seeker is interested in working for a particular company that doesn't list openings, she suggests he or she call them to request an informational interview.
"Check the ICP job board, post your resume, put some alerts out there," she said. "So, for example, if you want an inside sales job in Chicago, make sure you have an alert out there so that once something like that is posted, it emails you back and says there's something out there for you.
"Overall, there are not enough qualified candidates to fill the open positions."
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La LNFA 2 2008 fue la V edición de la LNFA 2, disputada en 2008.

El ganador fue Valencia Giants.

Estuvo compuesta por 16 equipos divididos en 3 conferencias:
Conferencia Norte
Conferencia Este
Conferencia Oeste
Es de destacar que en la Conferencia Oeste compitieron por primera vez dos equipos de Portugal, procedentes de Oporto y Lisboa.

Play-offs

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According to the Southeast Sports Information department, Carpenter is transferring to Wabash Valley College to be closer to home due to his mother's health issues.
The 6 foot, 9 inch forward from Mount Carmel, Illinois started 23-30 games for SEMO where he averaged over eight points and four rebounds per contest as a freshman.
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Betsy DeVos Ends Obama-Era Title IX Guidelines On Sexual Assault
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Updated Sep 22, 2017 at 2:44pm
Getty	Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill June 6, 2017 in Washington, DC.
The Department of Education released new, temporary guidelines for public schools and universities to investigate allegations of sexual assault, overruling previous guidelines issued during the Obama administration.
"In the coming months, the Department intends to engage in rulemaking on Title IX responsibilities arising from complaints of sexual misconduct. The Department will solicit comments from stakeholders and the public during the rulemaking process, a legal procedure the prior administration ignored," read a press release from the department.
Under the Obama administration, the Department of Education released a memo in 2011, in which educators were given a new set of guidelines for investigating sexual assault complaints.
The guidelines mandated that all complaints be investigated in an effort to correct what some perceived as a system that favored the accused instead of the accuser. They also lowered the burden of proof required for students to be found guilty and threatened non-complaint schools with sanctions.
GettyA plane flies over Stanford University with a banner reading "Protect Survivors. Not Rapists. #PerskyMustGo" during the commencement ceremony at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, on June 12, 2016.
Since the Obama-era guidelines were put in place in 2011, they have been criticized for going too far. "[E]fforts to protect women from a putative epidemic of violence have led to misguided policies that infringe on the civil rights of men," wrote Emily Yoffe for Slate Magazine in 2014.
Elizabeth Foley, a law professor at Florida International University, told the Washington Examiner in 2014:
The Department of Education under the Obama administration has adopted shockingly broad new guidelines under Title IX that not only encompass off-campus behavior — that should be no business of a college or university — but also require the use of a low 'preponderance of the evidence' standard for sexual assault claims.
In 2016, an unprecedented number of lawsuits were filed against universities by students who had been accused of sexual assault.
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"In over 20 years of reviewing higher education law cases, I've never seen such a string of legal setbacks for universities, both public and private, in student conduct cases," Gary Pavela, who edits the Law & Policy's Report for the Association of Student Conduct Administration, told Inside Higher Ed.
"As I said earlier this month, the era of rule by letter is over. The Department of Education will follow the proper legal procedures to craft a new Title IX regulation that better serves students and schools," said Education Secretary Betsy DeVos upon the announcement of the new regulations.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its plans to rescind the regulations put in place under the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX; DeVos gave a speech on September 7 announcing the department's intention to review the guidelines, and met with a series of activism groups—including men's rights activists—to discuss the topic earlier this year.
Betsy DeVos's full speech on Title IX and campus sex assaultEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Sept. 7 changes to the process of investigating and prosecuting sexual assault at schools and universities. Here is her full speech. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: bit.ly/2qiJ4dy Follow us: Twitter: twitter.com/washingtonpost Instagram: instagram.com/washingtonpost/ Facebook: facebook.com/washingtonpost/2017-09-07T21:20:00.000Z
Other Obama-era education guidelines have also been targets for the Department of Education, including a 2016 directive that was rescinded in February telling educators that Title IX's language protecting against gender discrimination must also be applied toward transgender students.
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Crawley CCG and Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG revise deficit forecasts
NHS England legal directions include producing a financial recovery plan
Accountable officer says "challenge we face is significant"
Two clinical commissioning groups in Sussex have been given legal directions after their forecast deficits increased by millions of pounds after just seven months of the financial year.
Crawley CCG and Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG had originally agreed full year deficits of £4.1m and £13m respectively with NHS England. However, within five months it was apparent that they had significant unmitigated risks.
The CCGs confirmed yesterday that the forecasts had been significantly revised.
A statement said: "The CCGs have reported at month seven a forecast deficit of £7m for Crawley and £27m for Horsham and Mid Sussex reflecting the crystallisation of risks previously reported. The CCGs continue to work with NHS England to mitigate these deficits as far as possible."
The forecast represents 10 per cent of turnover for Horsham and Mid Sussex and 4 per cent for Crawley.
Both CCGs were rated inadequate in NHS England's annual assessment for 2016-17 and agreed to appoint a turnaround director, and to carry out a review of capability and capacity. The legal directions require them to produce a financial recovery plan.
Earlier this month, the CCGs, together with High Weald Lewes Havens and Brighton and Hove CCGs, announced they would form the Central Sussex Commissioning Alliance in January and share an accountable officer – Adam Doyle from Brighton and Hove CCG.
Geraldine Hoban, the current accountable officer for Crawley and Horsham and Mid Sussex, said: "The challenge we face is significant. In the long term, the change we need to see lies in a health system where there is a greater emphasis on helping to keep people well and providing care at home and in the community, relieving the pressures on our hospitals. The East Surrey and Sussex sustainability and transformation partnership that we are involved with along with our partners will be a key part of that."
The CCGs said they were already working on a "robust" plan to return to full recovery before being placed in directions.
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HBO's "Watchmen" leads Emmy nominations with 26
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HBO's dystopian superhero series "Watchmen" has earned a leading 26 Emmy nominations, the Television Academy announced Tuesday.
The big picture: TV shows are under a different spotlight this year, with streaming services reaping the benefit from America staying home in 2020. Netflix broke the record for most nominations of any network with 160, while shows from Disney+ and Apple TV+ received their first-ever nods.
Amazon comedy "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is the second most-nominated series with 20. Netflix's "Ozark" came in third with 18.
Disney+ series "The Mandalorian," set in the Star Wars universe and featuring the adorable "Baby Yoda," was nominated for best drama.
What to watch: The Television Academy has provided no information on whether the Emmy awards ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sept. 20 on ABC will have a live audience.
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Viewership of Sunday's 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards dropped 11% year-over-year to 6.1 million viewers, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen. Viewership from people ages 18-49, the prized advertising demographic, fell to a new low of just 1.2 million viewers.
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Battle for the Sole of America
David Moon September 14, 2018 Blog
In 2017, Nike announced a corporate realignment that included a focus on customers in 12 key cities: New York, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City, Barcelona, Seoul and Milan. In a June 2017 press release, the company said it expects these cities to produce 80% of Nike's growth through 2020.
My rural hometown of Hazel Green, Alabama, where I suspect kneeling for the national anthem is a code-red offense, did not make Nike's city-focus list.
In a brilliant marketing move, Nike's latest ad campaign received hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity, offending people who, on balance, are not their core customers, while creating a stronger bond with the demographics who spend the most on athletic footwear and apparel.
Approximately 55% of Nikes sales are international. Old, white Americans aren't Nike's target market. If you are reading this, you likely aren't in a preferred Nike demographic. You are likely to be white, have above average household income and be over the age of 50. You are also likely to own three or fewer pairs of sneakers and not know that Adidas has a number of shoe models that retail for more than $1,000. You have never paid $1,000 for a pair of tennis shoes. But the Adidas Kanye West brand, YEEZY, is one reason Adidas has doubled its U.S. market share since 2015 – almost entirely at Nike's expense.
Baby Boomers select footwear based on comfort. Between the ages of 19 and 29, the most important factors are brand name and trendiness. I've worn the same style dress shoe five days a week since 1995. These shoes are comfortable, but no one ever camped out in front of an Allen Edmunds store hoping to score a pair of cap-toe dress shoes.
The kneel-vs-stand controversy handed Nike both an issue and an icon to combat Adidas' growth among Nike's growth target: urban, young and non-white consumers. While 53% of all Americans say it is never appropriate to kneel during the national anthem, only 22% of African Americans agree. Regardless of race, only 38% of Americans between ages 18 and 29 objects to kneeling during the anthem. Millennials, which now outnumber Baby Boomers as the largest American adult demographic, purchase 1.6 pairs of sneakers per year, compared to one pair every three years for Baby Boomers.
This partially explains, of course, why 15% of Millennials live with their parents, compared to the only 8% of Baby Boomers who so did at that age.
If Nike cares, it can take solace that most socially irate consumers quickly forget who they dislike and why. If assembling shoes in child sweatshops didn't hurt Nike sales, neither will idealizing a former pre-game kneeler.


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Ali is the inventor of the FlowIO Platform for and the founder of SoftRobotics.IO. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at MIT Media Lab and a Research Scientist intern at Meta Reality Labs . Previoulsy, he earned two bachelor degrees in Physics and Electrical Enigneering from Lehigh Univeristy with highest honors (top 1%), and also a Master's Degree in Media, Arts, and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is now pursuing his PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and focusing on system design and platform deployment.
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Ali Shtarbanov's works have been internationally recognized and have been presented at leading academic conferences, featured in major news outlets and magazines, and have won the top awards at many of the world's most well-known design and engineering competitions. Academic conferences where Ali has presented his work include CHI ('18, '19, '21, '22), SIGGRAPH'20, IROS'20, UIST'21, IROS'22, and ASCEND'22. Some of the awards he's won include the 2022 Tech Briefs Grand Prize Award, the 2021 Hackaday Grand Prize Award, Gold Medal at ACM CHI'21 Student Research Competition, Core77 Design Award, iDA Gold Award in Robotics, iDA Silver Award in Education, and many others. Ali frequently gives talks on topics related to Development Platforms, Soft Robotics, Hardware Deployment, Creative Community Building, Open Source Hardware, Making and Prototyping, etc. Ali has also served as a reviewer for several ACM and IEEE conferences, as well as a judge for contest like Hacking Arts and MIT Technology Review "35 Innovators Under 35, Europe".
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Young Superstars missing out on Russia 2018
It's true that groups of players begin careers and end careers on a constant basis, but, to make a sweeping generalization, football as a whole seems to be in a state of transition right now. Many of the greatest players are getting older, and teams are slowly integrating the younger generation of athletes into greater roles of responsibility.
Perhaps, that's why many expected several national teams to include younger players in their 2018 World Cup squads. It's come as a shock to the world that German starlet Leroy Sane didn't make the final cut.
His personal career couldn't be going any better at the moment. Sane was a contributing member of the Manchester City squad that was recently crowned Premier League champions. So why wasn't he included in the World Cup squad?
Let's remember that we are discussing the German national team here. This is the reigning World Cup Champion with plenty of talented players who are making names for themselves all over Europe. The team's manager, Joachim "Jogi" Low, said that his final decision came down to a choice between Leroy Sane and Julian Brandt. Low remarked that he stills considers Sane to be an amazing player, but he just wasn't the right man for the job this time.
A side by side comparison of the two player's performance for World Cup Qualifiers, shows Brandt as being just a notch above Sane. Although both players made an assist during that period, Brandt was the only one to score a goal. Brandt also competed in two more matches than Sane, perhaps signaling that Low has seen him as a better fit for the team for some time now.
Renato Sanches is another up and coming star that has been left out of the World Cup. The situation may have been different last year, but, Sanches' absences is not as shocking as Sane's. Despite not making it into the squad this year, Renato Sanches, at the tender age of 20, has already seen more minutes with the Portuguese National Team than some players get in their entire career. So what went wrong?
Perhaps, Sanches' career moved too far too fast. He has been incredibly talented from a very young age. He's already signed with Bayern Munich, which was a great move at first. Throughout managerial shifts, he struggled to remain an integral part of the team. He has been loaned to Swansea and Benfica, and neither sting has been particularly promising. In fact, he's been recalled from Benfica early than he was supposed to. Some news agencies report that Sanches is trying to make a permanent move to Benfica. Others report that Bayern Munich will give him a final chance to prove himself before shipping him off for good. Although the past season hasn't been a great one, Renato Sanches is still just 20 years old. As long as he doesn't lose his credibility with managers, he still has time to get his career back to being upwardly mobile.
Sometimes great players just don't fit into a particular system. Every player is not suited to every playing style, and it takes an advanced, versatile athlete to fit seamlessly into any system. Perhaps, with more domestic experience, both of these players will eventually become mainstays with their respective national squads.
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Social media posts represent the good, the bad and the ugly. But every now and then, a post will represent the truly absurd. Al Jazeera Arabic pushed out a tweet saying that a photograph of a Buddhist sculpture in Abu Dhabi has led to "commentators saying there is a return of idol worship to the Arabian Peninsula". The Qatar-owned news organisation was insinuating that the sculpture was against the teachings of Islam, and invited comments about the statue. It did not, however, bother to explain what is behind it.
As The National reported, the statue, which sits on the side of the Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway is not a religious monument. It is, in fact, a reproduction of a 1,000-year-old artefact currently on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi. It is part of an initiative by the museum to bring the best of the world's cultures to the UAE and to raise awareness of historic artefacts. It also seeks to liven up people's commute, and is joined by nine others along the E11 route. Starting on Sunday, drivers will be able to hear a 30-second story on the radio about each artefact as they cruise along the road.
Some on Twitter sought to dispel these ridiculous rumours and bring much needed clarity. However, even in the face of the facts, some remain unconvinced. Misinformation must not be allowed to turn a cultural initiative into a tool for baseless fear-mongering. From Iraq and Lebanon, to Egypt and the Gulf, a wide array of communities have traditionally coexisted peacefully. The UAE is home to Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist residents, among others, and has actively promoted inclusivity with initiatives such as the 2019 Year of Tolerance. It was also the first Gulf nation to welcome the head of the Catholic Church, when Pope Francis visited Abu Dhabi in February. Such divisive rhetoric is an unwarranted threat at a time when the world is tackling extremism and xenophobia. We all have a responsibility to call it out both online and in our daily lives.