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In order to excel at her job, Isabelle needs to truly understand the treatments she spends her days working with. This means a lot of theoretical knowledge, but also experiencing them first hand. We thought it would be interesting to hear her views on, and experience of her favourite at-home treatments.
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I performed the treatment in the evenings: The area you are targeting, will be slightly red after treatment. As you can cover most body parts with clothing, you can theoretically do it anytime of day, but I liked doing it before bedtime. The one non-negotiable bit is that the skin has to be perfectly clean before treatment. Either shower, or clean the area manually!
The treatment: I systematically used the Roller on the area, back and forth in all different directions on the area with stretchmarks. My targeted area was the insides of the thighs. Each thigh took me about 5 minutes. Wow, when I think about that now, it's nothing! Once done with the microneedling aspect, I applied the Serum to the treated zone, taking special care to make sure the entire area was properly covered. You cannot see any of the microchannels the Roller has created, but you can really feel the serum working in them – truly penetrating the skin.
Consitancy is key! I treated my problem area every evening for a week, and then let the skin 'rest' for the same amount of time. After the week off, I started over and went on like this for the entire course of treatment. If I missed a treatment for some reason, I simply went on the next day. If I wanted to make the day up at the end of the week, I did so. Ultimately, just follow the instructions in the pack!
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Just a few months later, KWTX is reporting another student has brought a weapon to the same school.
This time it was a Killeen 5th grader who showed up with a BB gun. The incident happened Tuesday (1/30) at the Elementary School. The student carrying the BB Gun was turned in by fellow students, and the school then notified the police. School officials notified parents by letter of the incident.


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Hourihane form a silver lining from a difficult night for Aston Villa
by Christy Malyan @ChristyMalyan share
2 minute read 16/8/2017 | 02:17pm
Aston Villa's start to the season hasn't gone as planned.
The arrival of John Terry from Chelsea offered hints of the Birmingham outfit turning a corner and heading back towards the promised land of the Premier League. But the Villans have picked up just one point from their opening three games, including a 2-1 defeat at the hands of promotion hopefuls Reading last night.
Steve Bruce's side produced just three shots on target throughout the 90 minutes and finished up with just 33% possession.
But if there was one positive to take from the loss at the Madejski Stadium, it was the form of midfielder Conor Hourihane, who moved to Villa Park from Barnsley in January.
Of course, the Ireland international netted Villa's only goal of the evening, but his all-round performance was impressive as well – racking up the most created chances and the most tackles of any Villa player, whilst ranking second throughout Bruce's XI for touches of the ball.
They say every disappointment has a silver lining and amid a poor start to the season, Hourihane's impressive performance on his first start of the campaign at least gives Bruce something to build on ahead of Villa's next Championship outing – a difficult clash with Norwich at Villa Park.
https://video.footballfancast.com/video-2015/PL25(04-05).mp4
Article title: Hourihane form a silver lining from a difficult night for Aston Villa

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Q: Charging a capacitor using a capacitor? I recently did an experiment using a fully charged capacitor (assumed) and charged a separate capacitor through fixed resistor. We measured the potential difference of the capacitor being charged. We produced a graph of the potential difference against time. I expected the the graph to follow a normal charging graph with a gradient similar to a logarithmic graph which is true however the gradient of the graph at the end will become negative which suggested there is potential difference lost in the capacitor. Is there any reasons for this?
I cant show the circuit but it is similar to a charging circuit but the cell is replaced with a fully charged capacitor.

A: Comment on the question (v1): If you're confused by long-time behavior of your circuit, its behavior may be sensitive to details which are safe to neglect when describing short-time behavior. If you want a real answer, you should edit your question to include a complete circuit diagram, and perhaps a plot of your data.
For example: in one of my labs I have students charge a 200 µF capacitor through a 500 kΩ resistor, which has a time constant of 100 seconds.
However, the voltmeter they use to monitor the capacitor has an input resistance of 10 MΩ.
Students (and sometimes faculty, ahem) who disconnect the power supply while the capacitor is charged and monitor the "unconnected" voltage on the capacitor are surprised to see the charge on the capacitor trickle away; it trickles away through the voltmeter, with a time constant $\rm 10\,M\Omega \cdot 200\,\mu{}F \approx 30\,minutes$.

A: In the real world you can never rid yourself of resistance in an electrical circuit. There is resistance in the connecting wires and resistance internal to the capacitor itself. So once you close the circuit and current starts moving, some of that electrical energy will be lost to heat, dissipated by resistance.

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Here's the trailer for Apple's Planet of the Apps, which is like Shark Tank but for product managers, and there are some famous celebs involved. Is it possible to be too excited? Developers have to pitch their earthshaking app idea to "four of the world's most culturally influential entrepreneurs." Those entrepreneurs are Jessica Alba, Gwyneth Paltrow, will.i.am, and … Gary Vaynerchuk. Sure!
"You've completely sold me on the tech advantage," Vaynerchuk tells a guy with hair that is, frankly, too big. No clue what the tech advantage is here. "As consumers of news, we have a real trust issue," says Gwyneth Paltrow, a comrade in the fight against fake news. She also sells $185 jean shorts.
"I have that gut and that intuition, and so far, it's been right," asserts Jessica Alba, whose Honest Company has been sued multiple times for misleading products, and which issued a voluntary recall for its baby powder just last month.
"Developers are the rock stars of right now," declares Davos-attendee will.i.am, incorrectly. Developers have 60 seconds to make [long exhale] an "escalator pitch" to the panel. If selected, they are then mentored by the celebs, or Gary Vaynerchuk, who I bet are very hands-on. They also get advice from special guests from companies like Yelp and Uber, which is having a great moment currently.
But then there's a second twist that is actually pretty good. After the app is complete, they have to pitch it again to a venture-capital firm — in this case, Lightspeed Venture Partners. If you have ever wanted to see Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow answer questions like "what's your burn rate," then this is definitely the show for you.
And, duh doy, you will be able to download the apps once they're placed front and center in Apple's App Store. Planet of the Apps will be available only on Apple Music later this year.


I'm officially done at MTV – well not really, my official last day is the 2nd of May, but I took holiday time so that I could get my relocation stuff done. The last week was highly emotional for me – not because I was terribly sad to be leaving, but because I was overwhelmed with everything I had to do – professionally and emotionally.
It was so bad, I was worried I was going to have a break down. Add to that stress, my father wasn't well and I was so worried about his prognosis, it was hard to focus. I also suddenly had people I'd barely worked with questioning my decisions – that really irked me. By end of day Thursday, I thought I was going to explode. I actually wondered if that was who people with high blood pressure felt. I worried for a bit what was happening to me.
So despite Friday being my last day, I decided to work from home in the hopes of helping calm me down. I spent the morning doing emails and still felt stressed. So I took time out and did some gardening. Ok, I attempted to mow my lawn. Despite doing a very bad job – patchy, wasteland is what it ended up being – but I felt so relaxed after that. I'd always heard that gardening was therapeutic, but being your typical city girl (despite being partly brought up on a farm), I didn't think it would work for me.
I guess it was just the process of shutting myself out from the world and focusing on, well, nothing. My therapist says I'm too empathetic (can you be too empathetic?) and that it drains me of energy – not the energy that you use for physical activity, but the spiritual energy that sustains us. As the last couple of weeks have been intense to say the least, I guess I'd used up all that energy and was burnt out.
Too often in life we keep moving, even when we need to stop and recharge. And why does that surprise us? Even I live by the phrases money never sleeps and sleep is the cousin of death. I do believe that we should always be progressing, but I guess I've always thought of that progression as being financial or material, but not spiritual. And by spiritual, I don't necessarily mean higher power sort of thing, but just feeding our souls, and personal growth from within.
I still have some work to finish, but I'm also taking time out to be good to myself. A couple more weeks and I'll be back in Zambia, I want to go home with my mind in the right place, and return to a feeling of calm.
I think you about to undergo a massive change and naturally, instability (in a sane way) occurs! I applaud you!
Progress is great and yet again, you ooze with inspiration. I kind of feel like me when you write about that sort of progress.


Yuyake (Afterglow) is a new version of the old design Akizora and Yozora, numbers 64 and 65 in my Dialogue with the Past catalogue, and shows the moment after sunset when the sky is still full of fading light. It is a Hashira-e, 42 x 10cm, and from an edition of 40.
Same blocks as Autumn Sky and Night Sky .


Hiking And Wild Camping Scottish Highlands Cooking By The Loch.
In the states, a park like that would be much less "peopled"…lol…i rather think solo camping would be less lonely the way you've got it…nice.
Looks very nice.Enjoyed it a lot !!!
Didn't Billy Walker have the first Soulo ?
When did you get the Hilleberg Soulo ?
Thanks for sharing Stuart. Some big investments in those tents. Surprised nobody was using a tarp and bivvy. You mentioned softies, but I didn't see your top, so I'm guessing you prefer your down jacket instead. Interesting choice of kit. Lightweight titanium spork vs. bouncing bomb sleeping bag. lol.
That was grand big fella…..fair enjoyed that, Tent Fest '19 👍. Can't wait to get out soon myself. Been a month. Thanks for uploading.
Nice one and a great tribute to Hermit Hill too.
That hundred and twenty litre pack is bigger than me, I could use it as a tent.
Nice to see everyone sending their condolences and yes shall be a sadly missed YouTuber all the best m8 that tent looks amazing.
Awesome mate, it looked bloody freezing haha nice one.
You had a great walk, Stuart, just to end up close to where you started. A great bunch of campers. If was nice to see the ladies with you. I can tell you, as a female, it's hard to find other females who want to go camping. You had a choice spot next to the water.
Very good speech on Head for the Hills by Mark, Prophecy Prepper.
It seems it's best to be in the back of the pack since the habit appears to be getting lost and back tracking. I see the moon was out tonight.
I use honey with my coffee, as well. I don't use any sweetener with my hot tea.
awsome video stew and awsome scenery. really love your longer videos. much respect for Andrew. It shows in your videos how much you really love camping and the outdoors. Thank you for being a Youtuber bud. I really like your content.
So sorry to hear of Andrews passing. I didn't realise who it was until someone said "living well for less", such a young guy. I will miss watching him and his breakfast biscuits. R.I.P. mate.
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed it. Atb Paul.
Looks great up there next to the Loch Stuart.


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Why President Trump Should Tell Gen. Nicholson: "You're Fired!"
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani.
Diana West Author, American Betrayal
February 10, 2017 5:43 PM ET
After 15 years of war, billions and billions of dollars in fighting and training, more money than the US spent on the Marshall Plan on nation-building, over 2,000 combat deaths including scores by very our "Afghan allies," tens of thousands of injuries, including many grievous "dismounted complex blast injuries," another US general has come before the Senate Armed Services Committee to ask for more.
I refer to Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., who told the committee this week that the war in Afghanistan, where he commands over 13,000 international troops, 8,400 of whom are American, is at a "stalemate."
A stalemate? No, mon general, it's lost. The war to nation-build Afghanistan into the 21st — or even the 20th — century is over, a failure, the Islam-blind COIN fantasies that fueled the multiculti-madness, junked and discredited. You should have told the senators it was high time to bring our troops home. As noted so many times before in this space, there is nothing to win there. As Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely put it back in 2009, "Let it go."
Then Gen. Nicholson told the senators he wanted more troops — several thousand more American troops. Why? To train and advise the Afghans.
Mr. President, CNN will produce real news first.
After fifteen years of wasted training and pointless advising, we know this to be true. There's only one thing to say to any general who, with a straight face, tells the American people that Afghanistan is the merest "stalemate," and that thousands more American trainers will make all the difference (to what, we don't know). That one things is: "You're fired."
There's more. Nearly a decade ago, then-Col. Nicholson made public scapegoats out the MARSOC Marines of 1st Platoon, Fox Company, who, having survived a 2007 suicide attack on their group in Bati Kot, were smeared as murderers of innocent civilians. Nicholson declared he was "deeply ashamed," the incident was a "stain on our honor," etc. — all before any investigation. Military authorities decided our Marines were guilty as Afghan-charged. Platoon commander Maj. Fred Galvin was ordered to relieve himself of duty in front of his platoon; the platoon was ejected from the country, and underwent a grueling investigation — which cleared them all of any wrongdoing.
No apology from Nicholson or anyone else, however. No public recognition by the military that these Marines were valorous and honorable. The good news is Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has introduced a resolution calling on the Marine Corps or Department of Defense to issue an official statement of exoneration. He will be holding a press conference to address this matter on February 16.
Gen. Nicholson should attend. It would do all concerned good for him to use the occasion to make his apologies — en route to his retirement.
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I am a current senior and have been an active member of National Honor Society for two years. I am honored to fulfill the Vice President position, and I am excited to watch our organization develop throughout the 2016-2017 school year. Aside from NHS, I am a member of Garden Spot's cross country and track and field teams, and I partake in the GS Student Life Club. Outside of school, I am a cashier and waitress at Antonio's Pizza. Other hobbies of mine include cooking, traveling, running, and spending time with friends and family. In the future, I plan on attending college to major in Supply Chain Management.
Duties: The Vice President is responsible for presiding over meetings in the absence of the president. The Vice President is responsible for Public Relations, including drafting posters, announcements, thank you letters, etc.
Hi, my name is Julie Nguyen and I am the secretary of NHS! My hobbies include playing the piano, drawing, and playing ping-pong. I am grateful that I was elected into an officer position and hope to help make this a great year for NHS.
Duties: The secretary is to keep accurate minutes of all meetings, and to record all voting procedures.
I was inducted into NHS late in my Sophomore year, and since then I have been eager to become more involved in the organization. As treasurer, I make an effort (external to my official duties) to encourage my peers to uphold the pillars of National Honor Society in their own personal lives. Hence, I am a compassionate supporter of animal rights and am dedicated towards protecting the environment. As well, I look forward to voting in the upcoming 2016 election; I am fairly politically involved in local democratic party campaign efforts. After high school, I plan to pursue education in biology/environmental science and hope to someday have a career researching ways to better preserve nature.
Duties: The treasurer is responsible for keeping a record of business expenses, and along with the club advisor, authorize expenses in accordance with school regulations. The treasurer is responsible for the fundraising activities of the chapter.
Hi! I'm Zech and I am the historian for NHS! I am a fairly outgoing person who is very excited to be an officer for our chapter of NHS. I tend to be a little out of the box and I'm hoping I can bring a unique spin to our NHS. Some things I do outside of NHS is manage 2 of our sports teams, and I play on the boys volleyball team. I do a lot of volunteering at my church. And in my free time I play basketball and lots of guitar. I am honored to be elected to this position and I hope I can serve it well.
Duties: The historian will document NHS meetings, service events, fundraisers and NHS activities. They are responsible for adding to the club scrapbook and maintaining the NHS blog.
Hi! My name is Blake Hurst and I am a 17 year old junior in high school. While I'm not in school or studying for a class, I enjoy doing things that involve being with people. Hanging with friends hits the top of the list for me! I love going on fun adventures and exploring new places. Instagram and Facebook are the first to see these places as I enjoy taking pictures along the way! I also like playing volleyball and working out with friends. So that's me!
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This was the view from one of the windows of our hotel room.
And the other window was right next to the bed. In fact, whilst HWMBO slept, I lay there in the dark just watching it hoping I would remember the feeling forever.
The feeling of togetherness, the quiet of the night, the sound of his breathing, the lovely hotel sheets and masses of soft pillows all around and the Eiffel Tower to watch in the distance.
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Scott Muni, WNEW-FM New York 18th Birthday, 1985 (18:35)
. . . it sounds like New York, and it is . . .
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Scott Muni, part of the WABC staff when The Beatles first came to New York City, left the Top 40 format and joined WNEW-FM in December of 1967. Muni was at WNEW-FM until November, 1998. (Muni suffered a major stroke in 2003, and passed away on September 28, 2004.)
This star-studded aircheck compilation from October and November 1985 features Muni and other WNEW-FM personalities at the Hard Rock Cafe with Joe Piscopo, Mayor Ed Koch, David Bowie, Billy Joel, and Frank Zappa. There's lots of great production, too, including several minutes of the soundtrack choreographed to the giant fireworks display on the evening of November 1, 1985.
This treasure was on side 2 of the final(?) volume from Cashbox magazine and MCA Records titled Ultimate Radio Bootleg Vol. VI. The expert effort on this one is attributed to WNEW-FM production manager Tom Couch.
Charlie Kendall, John Webb and Jimi Fox (Producer) were listed as responsible for compilation, editing and engineering of the LP. Fox (ex-Ten-Q jock and KCBQ PD) was VP of National Promotions for Mercury Records and radio editor for Cashbox.
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It's been awhile since I have done any DIY projects and I got the itch over the weekend after chatting with my mom about what we wanted to do for the day! I have had this on my Pinterest DIY board for awhile now and have been wanting to make it and knew it was the perfect time. We all know I love being from California and I am obsessed with glitter, so combining the two is a match made in heaven. While you can obviously do any of the 50 states, I chose California. I literally love waking up and seeing this hanging on my wall, its the perfect amount of sparkle. What's even better about this project, it literally only cost me about $20 bucks for all the supplies and is so easy! So here's how to make this sparkling piece of wall art.
1. Print out an outline of the state you are wanting to do in the correct size according to your frame. My frame was 11x14 but the size with the border was 8x10, so I made state smaller since California is longer, adjust for each state. Cut out the printed outline and flip vertically onto card stock and begin tracing. Once you cut it out and flip it over, the tracing lines won't show.
2. Cut out the traced state on the card stock. 3. Using a cardboard box or even a glass cooking container (this helps keep all the glitter and glue in one place) using the brush completely cover the state in mod podge. Make sure you don't do it too heavy or it won't dry.
4. Once you have completely covered the state in mod podge, sprinkle glitter all over the state. If you notice some places are missing glitter, carefully add a drop of mod podge and then add glitter. 5. Once you are satisfied with the state, let sit for about 10 minutes.
6. After 10 minutes, take your hairspray or gloss spray, carefully and lightly spray the state so the glitter stays put. If you spray to close it can get the paper sort of wet, so spray a decent amount away.
7. Next, take one of the heart brackets and cut off the little arms on the back. (this is super easy since they are very flimsy and come off with regular kitchen scissors. Then using a small drop of glue from a hot glue gun, place the heart on whatever city you want to represent. I obviously chose Los Angeles.
8. Now, take the glittered state and attached to the colored card stock using the hot glue gun or double-sided tape.
9. Finally, put the finished product in the frame and voila! You have a glitter masterpiece!


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Today, MI5 will be joining people around the UK to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.
As we join the national two-minute silence, we will be paying tribute to members of the Armed Forces, and their families, from Britain and the Commonwealth, reflecting on the vital role played by the emergency services and remembering those that have lost their lives as a result of conflict or terrorism.
We will be holding a short Remembrance Day service in Thames House, our headquarters, with members of staff who are currently serving in the Armed Forces Reserves laying wreaths. The service will be broadcast digitally for our staff and, as we did last year, we have established a virtual 'Wall of Remembrance', for colleagues to pay their own personal tributes.
MI5 was active during both the First and Second World Wars, playing a key role in combating espionage, intercepting communications, and feeding back disinformation. This included double-cross operations in advance of the D-Day landings, which convinced the enemy that the landings would take place at Calais rather than Normandy. You can find out more about our work in support of the Allied effort in both World Wars here.
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A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Stanford Solomon has a shocking, thirty-year-old secret. And it's about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley, a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend.And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead.
These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel's decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the house boy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley's actions.
These Ghosts Are Family explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is an engrossing portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret. This electric and luminous family saga announces the arrival of a new American talent.
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Ancient fossil 'may prove scorpion was first land-dwelling animal' – The Guardian
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Fossil experts in the US have revealed the remains of what they say is the first animal that may have set foot on land – an ancient scorpion.
The earliest animals were aquatic, but eventually transitioned on to land. While scorpions are known to be one of the first animals to have become fully land-dwelling, experts say the two new fossils add to a growing debate about when animals made the shift.
The scorpion, which is about 2.5cm in length, is thought to have lived about 437m years ago, with the fossils discovered in a quarry north of state highway 164 in Wisconsin in the 1980s.
The earliest arachnid yet discovered, the creature has been named Parioscorpio venator, meaning ancestral scorpion and hunter. The creature, like modern scorpions, had two large claws and a tail with a sting at its end.
But the team behind the discovery say it is the scorpion's internal structure that is most exciting.
"This scorpion had the respiratory structures that indicate it was able to live on land. It is the earliest evidence we have that an animal could do this," said Dr Andrew J Wendruff, a palaeontologist at Otterbein University, Ohio, and co-author of the research.
These structures include evidence of pulmo-pericardial sinuses that, in modern scorpions, connect the animal's respiratory organs with its circulatory system.
Wendruff added that such structures, as well as other features of the animal's cardiovascular system, suggested the ancient animal was, like modern scorpions, able to breathe air. The team say the features are also similar to those seen in horseshoe crabs, which live in shallow coastal waters but can venture on to land for brief spells.
"The fossil was found in a shallow water setting and so it is likely this animal lived in both environments," said Wendruff, although he said the team cannot be sure it scuttled ashore.
fossil shows evidence of pulmo-pericardial sinuses that connect the respiratory organs with its circulatory system. Photograph: Christian Wirkner and Andrew Wendruff
A move to terra firma would have offered advantages, said Wendruff.
"Throughout all of Earth's history there is a race to utilise resources that are not being used. Land – something we take majorly for granted – was barren by todays standards," he said.
The discovery, published in the the journal Scientific Reports, pushes back the date of the earliest known scorpion by up to three million years, with the previous record-holder a species discovered by a Victorian palaeontologist in the Pentland hills in Scotland.
Dr Jason Dunlop, curator of arachnids and myriapods at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, who was not involved in the latest research, said the preservation of some of the scorpion's internal structures, such as the cardiovascular system, is unusual.
"This is very rare in fossils of this age and suggests that in some aspects of their anatomy scorpions have hardly changed in almost 440m years," he said.
However he urged caution, noting the fossil did not show whether the scorpion had lungs or gills.
"That would have been the key character, and so long as its missing I think we have to be cautious about saying whether or not it lived on land," he said.
Dr Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, a palaeobiologist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Barcelona, said it was a matter of much debate whether the earliest scorpions were indeed aquatic – a theory the new discovery piled further doubt on, he said.
"If the described fossil scorpion was indeed terrestrial, that would suggest that [other arachnids with similar breathing apparatus such as spiders], at least, or even the whole [of] arachnids would already have colonised the land by that time."
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Q: I want to deny users of specific profiles from switching back to Salesforce Classic from Lightning Experience I saw in Ideas for Salesforce that currently there is no such feature that denies users from switching back to Salesforce Classic once they are using Lightning Experience.
This lead to me to try and achieve that requirement.
I came to know that there is a field on User, named "UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred", on User, which becomes true when we are using Lightning Experience.
So I created a Process Builder that runs whenever a user is updated, This process builder eventually calls a flow which checks the value of UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred field, and if that is set to false, it turns it back to true.
This was created keeping in mind that in such a way, a user will not be able to switch back to Classic from Lightning Experience.
But, that process builder didn't behave as desired.
Additionaly, I created a before update trigger on User object whose code is as follows:
trigger UserTrigger on User (before update) {
    if(Trigger.isBefore && Trigger.isUpdate) {
        UserTriggerHandler objUserTriggerHandler = new UserTriggerHandler();
        objUserTriggerHandler.onBeforeUpdate(Trigger.new);
    }
}

And the Apex Handler is as follows :
public with sharing class UserTriggerHandler {
    Set<Id> setCriteriaUserId = new Set<Id>();
    List<User> lstUser1 = new List<User>();
    public void onBeforeUpdate(List<User> lstUser) {
        for(User user : lstUser){
            if(user.Profile.Name =='Standard User'){
                setCriteriaUserId.add(user.ID);
            }
        }
        for(User user : [Select
                                        Id,
                                        UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred,
                                        ProfileId
                                From
                                        User u
                                Where
                                        Id IN :setCriteriaUserId
                                        ]) {
                                        System.debug('Debug Log for User Preference'+user.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred);
                                            if(user.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred = false){
                                                user.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred = true;
                                              System.debug('Debug Log for User Preference Final'+user.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred);
                                            }
                                        }
    }
}

But even that is not working.
Can anyone please help and suggest me some ways of how can we achieve the same?

A: In the Lightning now tour, the PMs said this is coming with the Summer17 release, where classic access can be removed w a permission set.
It's now listed on the roadmap doc here
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=lex_roadmap.htm&language=en_US&type=0

Select which Lightning Experience users can access Salesforce Classic

A: Since your User trigger is in the before update context, I think you should be able to do something like this:
trigger UserTrigger on User (before update) {
    if(Trigger.isBefore && Trigger.isUpdate) {
        for(User updatedUser : Trigger.new) {
          if(updatedUser.Profile.Name == 'Standard User' && !updatedUser.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred) {
            updatedUser.UserPreferencesLightningExperiencePreferred = True;
          }
        }
    }
}

Though as crmprogdev mentioned, even if this does work the User would still occasionally be switched to Classic for pages where that is needed.

A: Not all pages and features of Salesforce work in Lightning. A user's environment must be able to switch back & forth between the two environments as required to open & respond to the needs of different features of the platform. The API is going to automatically switch a user as needed regardless of their preferences.
What you're doing is trying to create functionality that doesn't exist. A User's personal preferences are just that, "personal" and as an admin, you have no control over them.

A: I recently saw something on the Success Community that should generally do what you want until Salesforce provides the functionality you're looking for that's on the roadmap per @gorav answer. You can create a simple flow that runs during login which finds the user that is logging in and sets the UserPreferenceslightningExperiencePreferred to "True". No screens are shown, so the user isn't aware it's even running. The flow looks like this:

A detailed blog post has been written by Charles Stevenson about this which you can find at https://sfdc.click/2016/07/14/default-lex/.


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Explorez les plages, les grottes et les criques de la côte portugaise de l'Algarve lors de cette croisière de 5 heures au départ d'Albufeira. Plongez pour nager, faire de la plongée avec tuba ou du paddleboard; repérer les dauphins en train de nager et de jouer dans leur environnement naturel; et savourez un délicieux déjeuner barbecue sur une plage isolée.
Spectacular day out on the boat where we came across a pod of approximately 50 dolphins, were treated to drinks on board followed by a tasty BBQ bunch and time to chill on the beach and frolick in the ocean. On our way back we followed the coastline and had a great view of the caves along the coast. Our guide Carla was entertaining and explained the sights along the way. What a fantastic excursion! We all left the boat with huge smiles and memories to last a lifetime. Thank you to the whole crew for such an amazing experience!
We managed to see some dolphins, but even if we didn't your are allowed to rebook a free dolphin trip again.
The caves were quite impressive.
BBQ was organised instantly and the food was Top Notch.
Ps Our son has a Shellfish allergy, which we informed them as we checked in, They cooked his food separately on a brand new grill and also served it to him using fresh tongs. No issues.
Overall we would recommend this trip.
Thanks Very much to you all.


On Summer St last Mon/Tues and maybe the previous weekend, too. The view from my dermatologist's office!
I've seen their whole mobile compound down in Shippan recently too.
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Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 1983 belegte Ann Haesebrouck den achten Platz im Einer. An den Olympischen Spielen 1984 nahmen die Weltmeisterin Jutta Hampe aus der DDR und die Vizeweltmeisterin Irina Fetissowa aus der Sowjetunion boykottbedingt nicht teil. Es siegte die Rumänin Valeria Răcilă vor der Amerikanerin Charlotte Geer, Ann Haesebrouck erhielt die Bronzemedaille.

Bei den Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften 1986 belegte Ann Haesebrouck den sechsten Platz im Einer. Ein Jahr später belegte sie zusammen mit Annelies Bredael im Doppelzweier den siebten Platz bei den Weltmeisterschaften 1987. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 1988 belegte Haesebrouck mit dem belgischen Doppelvierer den sechsten Platz.

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There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of lakes on Earth, but only a few dozen can claim to be 'ancient' because they have been around for a million years or longer. This is because lakes have short lifespans (on a geological scale)! The moment a lake is created (i.e. when a hole in the ground fills up with water) it begins to die, because inflowing streams and rivers, and even the wind, are continuously depositing sediment in the lake, gradually filling it. This sediment accumulates on the bottom of the lake, which becomes increasingly shallow. Slowly, the lake changes into a swamp, and finally disappears altogether. A lake can only become 'ancient' therefore if it deepens faster than it fills with sediment. This is the case with lakes that are situated in 'Rift Valleys', for example the oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikal in Siberia (approx.. 30 million years old), and Lake Tanganyika (approx. 12 million years) and Lake Malawi (5-8 million years) in the East African Rift Valley. Rift valleys are situated in tectonically active regions. Through these tectonic processes they become wider and especially deeper over time. Rift valley lakes also accumulate sediment, but they become deeper at a faster rate. Lake Tanganyika, for example, is almost 1.5 km deep at its deepest point, but below the water column is 5-7 km of sediment!
Ancient lakes are a paradise for evolutionary biologists, because they are home to a large variety of species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Such species are thus endemic to a specific lake and almost all of them also originated in that lake. Biologists can therefore investigate these species in their place of origin, which is fairly exceptional. So, ancient lakes are evolutionary laboratories just waiting to be explored by biologists!
Our researchers are involved in the study of ostracods (mussel shrimps) in lakes Baikal, Tanganyika and Malawi. We are investigating the age of the species flocks that occur there. Species flocks comprise all species that presently occur in the lake and are derived from one ancestral species that colonised the lake a long time ago. Species flocks can be composed of anything from a dozen to even hundereds of species. We compared the age of the Cytherissa species flock in the older Lake Baikal, with those of the genus Cyprideis (and derived genera) in the slightly younger Lake Tanganyika. And this was our first surprise: the oldest lake (Baikal) had a younger species flock! Lake Baikal is approximately 30 million years old, but the Cytherissa species flock is 'only' 3-5 million years old!
A second discovery was recently made in the southern part of Lake Tanganyika. Several populations that were assigned to one species based on morphology (shape of valves, appendages, etc.) appeared, after molecular analysis, to belong to a species complex of at least four species. These are 'cryptic' species that can only be identified using genetic methods. The diversity of the endemic species flocks of ancient lakes could therefore be much higher than originally thought. We are now investigating if we can also find cryptic species in Lake Baikal.
At the same time, we are also researching the mechanisms that have led to such incredible species diversity: what is driving this exceptional rate of speciation? Is it only the age of these lakes that allows many species to form gradually over long periods of time, or are there other processes at play? Is the main driver natural selection, like in adaptations to different types of sediment, or to food sources, or to different depths in these very deep lakes, or can we find indications that mostly sexual selection was the driver of speciation, which would mean that we are looking for a much more fundamental explanation concerning these ostracods? Our research on ancient lakes, which was initiated in 1990, has really only just begun!
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Distraught Japanese businessman obsessed with Citroën DS (French car brand nicknamed Goddess) and a troubled blind 17-year-old Aussie girl who promised to sell him one drive through the Australian Outback to kill her abusive grandfather.
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← Books for Christmas… more please!
the first year for my blog (actually the anniversary isn't until February 2013).
I ended the year having read 40 novels in total. The figure might be low in comparison to the eye watering numbers clocked up other LibraryThing members and bloggers but I'm not fazed by this. A comment recently posted by Laura on her Musings blog struck a chord with me – like Laura, the amount of books I read isn't anywhere as important as the experience for me. I'd rather feel I was enjoying the books I was reading rather than racing to get one finished so I could get on with the next.
Not everything I've read this year has been enjoyable (some of the early Booker prize winners like David Storey's Saville were a bit on the dull side) but here are my favourites from 2012.
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph. A debut novel that was thoroughly engaging. A novelist I want to watch out for the future.
And finally, the outstanding book of the year – Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall was brilliant but this was even better.
Beyond the numbers, I've been thrilled by the multiple opportunities this year to connect with people who share similar interests whether through blogs or challenges. Thank you to everyone who has followed by blog, or made a comment or replied to comments I've left on their site. Thanks also for the many suggestions and recommendations on what else to read. That's the kind of interaction I really want to see continue in 2013.
Posted on December 31, 2012, in Book Reviews and tagged Classics Club, Man Booker Prize. Bookmark the permalink.	17 Comments.
Pure is on my TBR.
I looked at your French reading challenge – have never heard of most of those authors I am sorry to say. France is on my Prime Meridian challenge list so I'll come back to you for some recommendations if thats ok?
If I'd had to guess how many you'd read in 2012 I would have put it much higher than that Christina. You always seem to be posting reviews!
It's funny you have that impression since I've felt I didn't post many but just posted 'filler posts' … All about perception, huh?
I think 40 is a perfectly respected amount of books to read. Like you I prefer to take my time and make sure I'm enjoying everything I'm reading. I hope 2013 is another good reading year for you.
Hey, thanks for the shout-out! I admit that I have to keep reminding myself of that quality over quantity thing — it's too easy to get obsessed with the numbers. Looks like you had a great year of reading. See you around the blogs & LT!
It's my pleasure Laura – the least I can do after all the help you've given me this year.
Shame on me, I have still to read 'Bring Up the Bodies' and I have so much to read for teaching purposes in the near future that I can't see me getting round to it very quickly either. But I'm so glad that you enjoyed the Maya Angelou. Now you have to read the other five! Happy New Year.
I enjoyed your list of 2012 favorite reads, particularly as I loved two of them myself: J.G. Farrell's Siege and Wolf Hall! Have you read Farrell's Troubles or his Singapore Grip? As much as I liked Siege of Krishnapur, I think the other two (particularly Troubles) are even better. As for Mantel, it's hard to think of any more superlatives to add to the general opinion about Bring up the Bodies (and, yes, I agree with you–it's even better to me than Wolf Hall). I've thought a time or two myself about reading more of the Booker Prize winners, so I find your reactions very interesting. I'll also be watching for your review, if you do one, of Midnight's Children, which is a book I've put on my own personal reading list for 2013.
It wasn't an easy read and several times I almost gave it up. But just as I reached the decision to ditch it, the book would get interesting again. Grr….


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Explore A World of Myths and Legends
Circe is "a bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," a #1 New York Times bestseller that is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.
A breathtaking and stunning tragedy, Home Fire is a modern retelling of Antigone that could not be more timely. Love, family, religion, and politics intersect in a nuanced exploration of modern humanity.
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Do you know who is responsible for paying your medical bills or the time limit in which you need to file on order to recover compensation after a bus accident? A New York bus accident liability lawyer is the person you should turn to when you have critical questions about your case and need to protect your future. Looking ahead into the years in which you will have to pay extensive medical costs can be too much to handle for someone who has recently suffered.


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About Project Onward
Creating Art, Connecting People, Inspiring Change
Since 2004, Project Onward has become a leader in the field of disability arts for its innovative blend of accuracy, artistic excellence and social engagement. Our mission requires us to:
provide artists with disabilities the opportunity to create their work in a safe, supportive studio environment, with access to work space, materials, and professional guidance without being encumbered by cost.
connect artists with disabilities with the arts community and the general public, by holding professional exhibitions and selling their work. Additionally, public programs have been designed that promote audience participation
inspire change by using art to promote empathy and reduce the stigma of mental illness and developmental disabilities. We seek to improve the self-image of artists by emphasizing the social and economic value of their work. This will cultivate new audiences in the art market by increasing awareness of, and generating demand for artwork created by peoples with disabilities.
We exist to give artists with disabilities a "visual voice" to tell their stories and change the perceptions of the world. Project Onward is a studio and gallery dedicated to the creative growth of adult artists whose lives are impacted by mental illness and developmental disabilities. Our non-profit studio is inclusive and we embrace artists with a wide range of life experiences. Some are self-taught artists who have Autism, while some are formally-trained artists who have bipolar disorder. There are other artists with challenges that are equally complex. However, all of them willingly explore the innermost recesses of their minds to create powerful works of art.
Project Onward supports the endeavors of more than 60 extraordinary artists. Many have received accolades for artistic excellence. Artworks created at our studio in Chicago are widely exhibited, and can be found in private, and corporate collections throughout the world.
Most of the artists live on low incomes and can't afford to pay for studio space, or purchase supplies. So there is no cost for them to be a part of Project Onward. Our studio seeks the support of individuals and organizations who are willing to help our artists continue their amazing journeys by "paying it forward" through financial contributions and volunteerism.
In the beginning, there was Gallery 37, a youth employment program operated by the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs. The program gave gifted young people ages 16 to 18 an opportunity to create art, music, dance and culinary masterpieces. Over time, participants would "age out" of the program. The Department of Cultural Affairs realized there was a critical need to transition those artists with disabilities into a program that was not restricted by age. In response, it launched Project Onward in 2004. As the program grew and the challenges faced by its artists became more complex, Project Onward broadened its reach to encompass adult artists of all ages who live with developmental and/or mental illness. In 2013, Project Onward was incorporated as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, 501(c)(3) in order to best serve its community of artists.
Project Onward is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to promote art as a powerful tool for understanding and valuing the real and potential contributions of our national population with disabilities.
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There is something Davante Adams believes to be true. Believes it so strongly he can't — or won't — contain it.
GREEN BAY – There is something Davante Adams believes to be true. Believes it so strongly he can't — or won't — contain it.
He is in the midst of a season any receiver would covet. The type of season that moves a receiver into elite company. No matter. Inside, something is biting at him. It has been biting for a while.
"I just want to get the respect that I deserve," Adams said.
It begs the question: Who doesn't respect Davante Adams?
He crossed the single-season 1,000-yard mark last week in Minnesota for the first time in his career, though it really wasn't his first time (more on that later). With five games left, Adams ranks sixth in the NFL with 77 catches, eighth with 1,022 yards and fourth with 10 touchdowns.
Only two other receivers rank in the top eight in all three categories: Minnesota's Adam Thielen and New Orleans' Michael Thomas.
When it's done, Adams' 2018 season likely will be one of the finest any receiver has had in the Green Bay Packers' 100-season history. He has a chance to set single-season franchise records in catches, yards and touchdowns. Of the three, Sterling Sharpe's 18 touchdown receptions in 1994 seem most out of reach. But Adams is on pace for 112 catches, which would tie Sharpe's franchise record from 1993, and his 1,486-yard pace is certainly within distance of Jordy Nelson's franchise-record 1,519 yards in 2014.
He has reached 130 yards in four games this season. He has caught a touchdown in all but three games. And each week, it seems, the chip on Adams' shoulder only grows.
Who doesn't respect Davante Adams?
"Everybody, man," Adams shot back when asked Thursday.
Irony or not, Thursday was NFL Top 100 day inside the Packers' locker room. It's an annual spectacle when players are asked to name their top 20 players in the league for a list that eventually expands to 100. They aren't actually picking their top 20 players, of course. The vast majority treat it as a popularity contest, akin to filling out a high school yearbook.
Adams said he would not put himself in the top five. "I think my boys will handle that," he noted accurately. In truth, Adams is backing down to no one.
Before the eye rolling commences, understand Davante Adams is not delusional. He knows his one Pro Bowl appearance last year does not match A.J. Green's seven, Antonio Brown's six or Julio Jones' five. He knows sharing an offense with Aaron Rodgers is a "blessing" that, say, Odell Beckham Jr. does not have receiving passes from 37-year-old Eli Manning.
Adams also knows he's coming.
"I think I just need to put together a resume that reflects what I'm saying," he said. "It's not fair for me at this point to say this, or to stand on the podium and scream out to the world I'm the best, but I feel like I'm the best receiver at this point in my career. Where I'm at with my abilities, I feel like I am the best.
To understand Adams' abilities, don't just listen to teammates describe his game. Observe their mannerisms. Randall Cobb shrugs his shoulders, as if there's nothing to really say. Jake Kumerow, who saw Green up close for three seasons in Cincinnati, stares eyes-wide-open in disbelief.
There is nothing fluky or unexpected about what Adams has done this season. He arrived long ago, even if you didn't notice. Consider this: Adams had 46 catches, 584 yards and five touchdowns in eight games with Brett Hundley last season. In 2016, Adams finished with 997 yards.
Those nine feet are a particularly sensitive issue. For some, it remains the barrier by which receivers are judged. Adams actually did exceed 1,000 yards in 2016, but an 18-yard catch in the second quarter of that season's finale at Detroit was nullified by a holding penalty on former receiver Jeff Janis. Adams also had two touchdown catches in a win that clinched the NFC North, but the one catch that wasn't stays with him.
Instead of finishing with 1,015 yards, Adams ended on 997.
"Three more yards would've helped, apparently," Adams said. "Because that would've made me a 1,000-yard receiver. (FOX broadcasters) Joe Buck and Troy Aikman both said they wouldn't make me an elite receiver yet, because I don't have a 1,000-yard season.
Each great receiver has their staple. Jones is an athletic monster. Green is a monster in his own right, not just strong but with a ridiculous catch radius. Beckham Jr. has some of the softest hands ever at the position. Brown's fundamentals border on perfection.
Adams, too, has his staple. His releases off the line of scrimmage might be unparalleled.
"The most impressive thing I've seen him do," Kumerow said, "it would be his consistency with getting off the ball. No one touches him, and it's every time. I don't know if it's the way he does it or his mindset.
Cobb agreed Adams' releases are special, but he cautioned against forgetting the rest of his game, too. No, Adams isn't known as the same athletic freak as Jones, but Cobb said his athleticism is astounding. On the practice field, Adams has been known to leap over the heads of unsuspecting teammates, clearing them with ease.
Kumerow said Adams' ball tracking on deep routes, and especially his hand-eye coordination, reminds him of Green. Both receivers can juggle, Kumerow said. Adams' hands are so quick, he's been known to juggle against a wall, while playing catch.
More than anything, what might make Adams great is internal. He collects every slight, not unlike the legendary grudges his future Hall of Fame quarterback holds. Adams still wonders if he isn't placed in elite company because of his disappointing 2015 season. Even if others have moved on, it clearly still gnaws at him.
Adams now has his third straight season with double-digit touchdowns, something Jones and Green haven't done. He's in the midst of maybe the finest receiving season in Packers history. At age 26, Adams might become the best receiver Rodgers has ever had.
He'd like to change that.


The first competiton to be established was the Miss Regio Nederland Pageant, created in February 14th 2003. The organization of Miss Regio Nederland broke boundaries in the industry and can be seen as a pioneer. Petite modeling is nowadays a growing industry. A shorter height should not stand in the way of becoming a model. The beauty contest is still very succesful and has evolved to an even greater annual event.
Over the years the attention in the Fashionworld has moved to a different direction in relation to the specific standard requirements. As a result, Miss Regio title winners and multiple runners up have a bright career. Not only successful in contests, but also as glamour-, cover-, catwalk-, catalogue-, photomodel.
Miss Regio Nederland models have been making their mark in the fashionworld. Their popularity grew with the support of the publicity of Miss Regio Nederland. Our contest is served as representative of a groundbreaking example for pageants.
Miss Regio Nederland pageant is organized under the auspices of Foundation "Miss Regio Nederland" based in The Netherlands. The foundation is a non-profit organization focused on charity awareness. Yearly a charity will be chosen. For 2017 we support the LINDA.FOUNDATION. This foundation was established to support the (single) parents (with children), in financial need.
At this moment we are about to start the adventure to the big finale for the 11 finalists; photoshoots with international designers, motivational workshops (very important), intensive catwalktraining, attending events. All to prepare these young women (age between 16 and 26 years old) under 1.74m (5'8"), to start a career in the modeling industry. The Finals are in November 2017.


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This superb and intriguing whisky spent 14 long years patiently maturing. For the final 9 months of its maturation it was put into a sherry octave to develop further. The result is a complex, rich and delicious spirit bursting with brandy-soaked raisin notes, dark honey, molasses and winter spice. There were just 94 bottles released at natural cask strength.
Duncan Taylor has its origins in Glasgow where the company was initially a merchant and broker of Scotch whisky casks within the Industry.
Devotion to the principle of providing only the finest casks to be filled at Scotland's leading distilleries has been a key feature of the company's history.
Duncan Taylor has been laying down casks from premium Scottish distilleries for decades and now owns one of the largest privately held collections of vintage and rare scotch whisky casks.
In 2002 Duncan Taylor moved its headquarters to Huntly, on the periphery of Speyside, Scotland's largest whisky producing region, where it has its own facilities for cask storage, bottling, a cooperage and very soon, its own distillery.
At that time, Duncan Taylor ceased the "brokering" of whisky casks to distillery companies and bottlers to focus on the production and marketing of its own brands, and diversifying the portfolio with the addition of gin and rum.
Glentauchers Distillery
Glentauchers distillery is located very close to Keith in the Speyside. It was founded in 1897, architect Charles Doig was in charge of overseeing its construction. The distillery was built to provide spirit used in the Buchanan's and Black & White blends. The site was chosen for its proximity to the railway network and for its reliable source of water.
Its parent company merged with Dewars in 1915. After WWI came to an end, the distillery was refurbished in 1920. Five years later the Buchanan-Dewar company merged with the mighty Distillers Company Limited (DCL). It remained part of the latter's company until 1930 when Glentauchers was transferred to Scottish Malt Distillers (SMD).
The distillery increased production capacity in 1966 and operated without major incidents until the early 1980's. During that decade the whisky industry went through a trade slump and many distilleries closed down. Some distilleries never re-opened. Glentauchers was mothballed in 1985 and sold soon after that. The new owners (Allied) re-opened it in 1992. These days the distillery is owned by the Pernod Ricard group.
An official 15 year old Glentauchers was released in mid 2017. Prior to that there were no official bottlings. Independent bottlers have periodically released Glentauchers whisky.
The style of Glentauchers is shaped by a medium-long fermentation period, slow distillation and clear wort. A light, floral and grassy palate is often found.
14 year old 53.9% ABV 70cl Cask Strength Duncan Taylor Glentauchers Independent Bottler New Scotch Sherry cask Single Malt Speyside Whisky


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Um Reduto de Faxina localizava-se provavelmente na vila de São José de Riba-Mar, atual cidade de Fortaleza, no litoral do estado brasileiro do Ceará.

História
Este simples reduto de faxina, sem nome, é citado por BARRETTO (1958), que informa tratar-se de uma fortificação artilhada com três peças (op. cit., p. 97).

Não foram identificadas informações complementares a seu respeito.

Bibliografia
 BARRETO, Aníbal (Cel.). Fortificações no Brasil (Resumo Histórico). Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca do Exército Editora, 1958. 368 p.
 GARRIDO, Carlos Miguez. Fortificações do Brasil. Separata do Vol. III dos Subsídios para a História Marítima do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Naval, 1940.
 SOUSA, Augusto Fausto de. Fortificações no Brazil. RIHGB. Rio de Janeiro: Tomo XLVIII, Parte II, 1885. p. 5-140.

Ver também
 Lista de fortificações do Ceará

Ligações externas

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Uznach – szwajcarskie miasto na prawach gminy w kantonie St. Gallen, zamieszkiwane przez 6,336 osób (2017 r.).

Gminy w kantonie St. Gallen


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Top-rated Charity for the Fourth Year in a Row!
We are proud to announce we've received the highest charity rating for the fourth consecutive year from Charity Navigator. According to America's largest and most-utilized nonprofit evaluator, Starlight "exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in its Cause."
"Delivering happiness to seriously ill children is a true and joyous privilege, and we take our mission very seriously," said Adam Garone, CEO, Starlight Children's Foundation. "We hope this rating will ensure the highest possible confidence and trust from our grassroots donors, from our corporate partners, and most important, from the children, families, and hundreds of hospitals across the country we have the honor of supporting every day. We are proud to have earned this fourth consecutive recognition from Charity Navigator."
Take a minute to review our rating on Charity Navigator.
We are humbled and grateful to earn 100% in accountability and transparency. That means you can confidently know that your donation directly impacts the millions of hospitalized kids we serve.
"Starlight goes above and beyond to meet the needs of kids and families," Dorinda Hock, Director of Maternal Child Health at Anaheim Global Medical Center. "Each child is left to feel like the center of attention with use of the programs. They forget they are in a hospital and instead feel catered to and spoiled."
Just because a child is sick and needs to be in the hospital, doesn't mean they stop being children. That's where you can help us.
Help us celebrate this 4-star rating and donate today. Our programs, including Starlight Gowns, Starlight Fun Centers and Starlight Xperience virtual reality headsets, bring a sense of normalcy and fun when kids need it most.
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First of all congrats. on your recent rating. I plan on donating to you in the very near future. It won't be much cause I'm on medical disability myself. But as a poet once said in a book that I once read, or was it an article about a book, anyway, it said that all children are like trailing clouds of glory! and I think you'd agree, that is the truest statement that I have ever heard. Talk to you soon. John.


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High Peaks Pure Earth presents the English translation of a Tibetan blogger's haunting poem titled "Square". The poem was written on September 27, 2011 and posted online on his blog on the same day.
This translation was submitted to High Peaks Pure Earth by a reader, we very much appreciate your help and support!


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Kazakhstan: Activist Jailed Over Currency Protest
Detention Highlights Misuse of Peaceful Assembly Law
Kazakh police on August 20, 2015, detained an activist who said on his Facebook page that he wanted to meet publicly with local government officials. The authorities should release him immediately.
Police in Almaty accused Ermek Narymbaev, the activist, of organizing an unsanctioned protest after he wrote on Facebook that he was going to Almaty's central square to hand-deliver a list of demands to local government representatives following the devaluation of the national currency, the tenge, earlier that day. He suggested others could join him, stating, "I believe in peaceful dialogue with the government." On August 21, he was sentenced to 15 days in prison for violating a highly restrictive public assembly law, under article 488, part 3 of the administrative code, and an additional 5 days for contempt of court, for allegedly not obeying court orders and disrespecting the judge.
Kazakh activist Ermek Narymbaev.
© 2015 Zoya Abildina
"Jailing Narymbaev for simply wanting to meet with government officials in a public location is wholly unjustified and an outrageous violation of his right to free speech and peaceful assembly," said Mihra Rittmann, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Kazakh authorities should release Narymbaev immediately."
The Kazakh authorities maintain highly restrictive rules on assembly in violation of the right under international law, Human Rights Watch said. Advance permission is required for peaceful protests, and demonstrators are often allowed only to gather at designated areas far from the city center. Authorities regularly break up peaceful protests as small as a few people, or even one person. Since the beginning of the year, police in Almaty and Astana have repeatedly broken up small scale peaceful protests.
After a February visit to Kazakhstan, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, concluded that "In practice, the [Kazakh] Government's approach to regulating assemblies renders that right meaningless."
Police detained Narymbaev outside his office at about 6:30 p.m. on August 20. He was taken to an Almaty police station, along with Rinat Kibraev, a local journalist, who was reporting on the event, and held there for the next five hours, Narymbaev's wife, Zoya Abildina, told Human Rights Watch. Kibraev was released several hours later without charge.
Jailing Narymbaev for simply wanting to meet with government officials in a public location is wholly unjustified and an outrageous violation of his right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Kazakh authorities should release Narymbaev immediately.
Mihra Rittmann
Central Asia researcher
Narymbaev's lawyer, Gulnara Juaspaeva, told Human Rights Watch that the police initially prevented her from meeting with Narymbaev at the police station, claiming he already had a lawyer. After Narymbaev was taken to court, officials there tried to prevent her from entering the courtroom as well, but finally let her in after she explained that the appointed lawyer did not have the proper paperwork to represent Narymbaev in court.
The hearing began at approximately 11 p.m. that night. Juaspaeva told Human Rights Watch that she filed a complaint against the unlawful actions of the police inspector and sought a delay in proceedings, which the judge initially granted. However, after she put her request for a postponement in writing, the judge declined the request and continued the hearing against Narymbaev, she said. Juaspaeva then motioned for the judge to recuse himself, after which, at about 1 a.m. the judge called a recess until the following morning.
Narymbaev, who was permitted to go home after the hearing, wrote on his Facebook page that night: "I did not expect my arrest, moreover it seems the court is intent on jailing me for 15 days for my desire to meet with [government] officials, who, moreover, didn't come out. It's very difficult to understand the rules of the game."
Abildina told Human Rights Watch that despite her husband's ill-health – she twice had to summon an ambulance to their home on August 21 because of Narymbaev's blood pressure – the court declined to delay proceedings. The second time the ambulance was called, the medics took Narymbaev to the hospital for treatment. That evening, police forcibly delivered Narymbaev to court, breaking his glasses in the process, Abildina said. Narymbaev's failure to attend the morning hearing due to ill-health in part formed the basis of the contempt charges against him, notwithstanding a medical note verifying that he was unable to attend.
Juaspaeva told Human Rights Watch she plans to appeal the sentence.
The day that Narymbaev was detained, President Nursultan Nazarbaev was quoted in the media saying that law enforcement would respond firmly to any "provocateurs" who tried to protest after the government floated the tenge:
The crisis has hurt everyone. If there are provocateurs in this case, law enforcement bodies have received the relevant command – they must firmly intervene. It's a critical moment right now, and things need time to settle into place. There may be people who will … scream, yell at intersections; we will stop such people, I authoritatively announce to all. Let them not take offense.
"The authorities apparently are making an example of Narymbaev, responding with punitive and grossly disproportionate measures just because he attempted to go public with his government criticism," Rittmann said. "Narymbaev shouldn't spend another day in detention – he should be freed today."
Russia: Persecution of 'Undesirable' Activists
Why Legal 'Innovation' Might be Bad News for Rights in Russia


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