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India vs England 3rd ODI: Middle-order woes remain as India look for series win
July 17, 2018 Ruby Singh	Comment(0)
India will aim to bounce back quickly after the heavy defeat in the second ODI as they take on England in the series-decider at the Headingley Cricket ground on Tuesday.
Virat Kohli's side won the first match of the three-match series by eight wickets at Nottingham but were handed a 86-run defeat in the second 50-over match at the Lord's.
India have their task cut out as they aim for their 10th successive series triumph.
Victory in London confirmed England's spot as the No.1 ODI side in the ICC Rankings. A win for India at Headlingley will only help close the gap and hand them the bragging rights before the Test series begins on August 1.
India had previously won the T20I series 2-1.
The Men in Blue have been on a high-flying streak in bilateral ODI cricket.
Going as far back as January 2016, when they last lost 4-1 in Australia, India have won every bilateral ODI series since, beating Zimbabwe, New Zealand (twice), England, West Indies, Sri Lanka (twice), Australia and South Africa, both home and away.
It is also another opportunity to ascertain their ODI supremacy over England, for India haven't lost a bilateral contest to this opposition since 2011.
Since that 3-0 loss here seven years ago, India have enjoyed the upper-hand, winning 10 out of 17 matches.
Considering England's ascendancy in white-ball cricket since 2015, the equation has balanced out over the last two encounters. India won the closely-fought home series 2-1 in January 2017, and now the current contest will finish with the same score-line, either way.
England have been found out to be a sterner prospect in ODIs than T20Is as their Lord's victory underlined.
In turn, it also highlighted India's glaring weaknesses in the 50-over format, which are shielded to a certain degree in T20 cricket.
While India's spinners were in contention throughout, the pace attack lacked penetration, particularly in the death overs. 82 runs were conceded in the final eight overs at Lord's, with Umesh Yadav, Siddarth Kaul and Hardik Pandya conceding 62 among them in six overs.
This underlines India's dependence on Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah.
Judging by his exploits on the last two tours to Sri Lanka and South Africa, Kumar is a huge miss for India in this ODI series and there is no official word on his fitness or availability yet.
He did bowl in the nets at Lord's before the second ODI and is on path to recovery. But it remains to be seen if he will be included in the side for this decider ahead of Kaul or Umesh Yadav.
At Pallekele last August, Kumar had scored a match-winning maiden half-century under MS Dhoni's company after India were reduced to 131-7 in the 237-run chase. In South Africa too, Kumar made vital contributions lower in the order.
His continued absence will mean that India have a long tail, putting more responsibility on the top and middle order.
The latter is especially over-burdened with the gaping hole at number four. It is considered the most vital position for any successful ODI side, yet India are struggling to find a solution to their revolving door conundrum for some time now.
This series has marked the return of KL Rahul at number four since that Lankan tour. Lord's was his first big test, considering the good run of form he has been in lately. But it came to nought, literally.
India have Dinesh Karthik and Shreyas Iyer on the bench. The former has been in fine nick of late, while the latter has two half-centuries in his first six ODIs. Iyer also gave a good account of himself in Port Elizabeth batting at number five.
Despite his slow knock at Lord's, it is nearly inconceivable that the team management will consider favouring Karthik ahead of Dhoni.
It is to be noted that the previous ODI was only the third instance on this UK tour where Dhoni got a chance to bat in the middle, after T20 outings in Dublin and Cardiff. In a way, that lack of batting time showed in his incoherent innings.
While Dhoni has the backing of both Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri, once again it underlines India's dependence on the top-order trio of Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma.
In the last two seasons, the trio have scored nearly 60 percent of India's ODI runs and became a cornerstone to the team's repeated successes in this format.
For England meanwhile, not only is this series a chance to improve their record against India. But victory against arguably the toughest opposition they have faced recently will also approve plans ahead of the World Cup in a year's time.
With Joe Root back among runs and the remaining batsmen negotiating wrist spin to a greater degree, their only concern is the patchy form of all-rounder Ben Stokes.
It is understood that he might still be feeling the impact of his recent hamstring injury and is not playing at full steam. But he will continue to be a part of their set-up in what should be a thrilling finale to the limited-overs' leg of this long tour.
Teams (from):
England: Eoin Morgan (c), Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Jake Ball, Liam Plunkett, Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid, David Willey, Mark Wood, James Vince.
India: Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, MS Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shreyas Iyer, Siddarth Kaul, Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
News credit : Indiatoday
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July 16, 2018 Ruby Singh
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Benoit Paire fined after breaking several tennis rackets at Washington Open
August 2, 2018 Ruby Singh
French tennis player Benoit Paire has been fined USD 22,000 for his outburst at the Washington Open. Paire broke several rackets as he was booed off the court. Paire threw tantrums during his first-round match against Cyprus' Marcos Baghdatis on Tuesday in the Citi Open. He went on to lose the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. […]
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July 5, 2018 Ruby Singh
Uruguay will have their task cut out for them when they take on France in the quarter-final in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday. With the uncertainty looming large on their star striker Edinson Cavani, it all might come down to France's pacey attack and Uruguay's steely defense. Cavani has a painful calf swelling but not a […]
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Quantification of retinyl palmitate, thiamine, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid, cyanocobalamin, zinc, and iron by chromatographic methods in fortified kernels and fortified rice
Acta Chromatographica
Accepted Manuscript / Online First
Authors: Elise Ivarsen, Christoffer P. Andersen, Sabine M. Jensen, Carsten T. Pedersen, and Anders K. Svaneborg
Introduction Fortification of staple food, such as rice, can be an excellent tool to improve the nutrition and health especially in low- and middle-income countries, where micronutrient deficiency burden is an extensive problem [ 1 ]. Rice is the
Thermal analysis of the rice and by-products
https://doi.org/10.1023/b:jtan.0000027125.77040.43
Authors: J. Amorim, S. Eliziário, D. Gouveia, A. Simőes, J. Santos, M. Conceiçăo, A. Souza, and M. Trindade
The thermogravimetry (TG) is a technique used in the quality control of foods. In this work the moisture and ash contents in the rice and by-products (bran and husk), the thermal stability and the gelatinization process by conventional, thermogravimetric and calorimetric methods were studied. The moisture and ash contents obtained by TG and conventional methods did not present significant differences. The rice presented higher starch content, while the bran presented higher protein content. The thermogravimetric data presented the following thermal stability order: rice>bran>husk. The calorimetric curves indicated the gelatinization of the starch. The kinetic parameters were compatible.
Thermal destruction of rice hull in air and nitrogen
A systematic study
Authors: Xue-Gang Chen, Shuang-Shuang Lv, Ping-Ping Zhang, Lu Zhang, and Ying Ye
Introduction Rice, sharing equal importance with wheat, is one of the major crops grown throughout the world. Rice is the principal staple food and nourishment for the world's population. Rice hull, or rice husk, is the milling
Thermal degradation of rice husks on a pilot plant
Utilization of the products as adsorbents for oil spill cleanup
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-012-2282-x
Authors: S. Genieva, S. Turmanova, A. Dimitrov, P. Petkov, and L. Vlaev
Introduction Rice husks are an important by-product of rice milling process and are major waste product of the agricultural industry. According to the statistical data of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world
Physico-mechanical properties of rough rice grain under different moisture conditions
Progress in Agricultural Engineering Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1556/progress.8.2012.3
Authors: R. ElGamal, G. ElMasry, and F. Firtha
, C. , Afonso Junior , P.C. , Arana , I. ( 2007 ) Physical and mechanical properties in rice processing . Journal of Food Engineering . 79 : 137 – 142 . ElMasry , G
Methods for analysis of thiamin and folic acid by HPLC—DAD in fortified rice pure and mixed to milled rice before and after different cooking techniques
Authors: C.M.M. Silveira, C.M. Della Lucia, M.R. Pirozi, T.A. Montini, and H.M. Pinheiro-Sant'Ana
. A. S. Institute Inc., SAS/STAT User's Guide, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, 2003 [20] PATH, Ultra Rice Technology, http://www.path.org/files/UltraRiceBrochure2000-web.pdf, 2011 [21
Trace elements analysis in rice
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Author: D. Teherani
Various rice species, marketed in Austria, were analyzed for their Se, Cr, Ni, Rb, Fe, Co, Cs, Ag and Hg contents by neutron activation analysis. The concentration values found for Se ranged between 0.023 and 0.265 ppm, for Cr 0.540–1.875 ppm, for Ni 0.359–0.965 ppm, for Rb 1.604–6.400 ppm, for Fe 24.3–139.8 ppm, for Co 0.026–0.055 ppm, for Cs 0.016–0.032 ppm, for Ag 0.0006–0.0034 ppm, for Hg 0.003–0.023 ppm. Statistical analysis showed in the majority of cases that there is a significant difference in Se, Cr, Ni, Rb, Fe, Co, Hg contents but not in Cs. Highest values of Se and Fe were found in rice from Belgium /long seed, super patna/, whereas the Cr concentration was the highest in rice from Thailand /siam patna/. Ni was highest in rice from Uncle Ben's, Rb in Kresto from USA.
Concentration of chlorine in rice plant components
Authors: H. Tsukada and A. Takeda
Rice plants were grown in an experimental field and separated at harvest into different components, including polished rice, rice bran, hull, straw and root. The distribution of chlorine in these components was determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis. The concentration of chlorine in the roots was the highest (4800 mg·kg−1 dry wt.) and that in the polished rice was the lowest (140 mg·kg−1 dry wt.) among the plant components. The content of chlorine in the polished rice was about 2% of the entire plant, and the rest was present in the inedible portions; about 75% of the total chlorine content was in the straw. The percentage of chlorine removed from the surface soil layer to the above ground biomass of the rice plants was calculated as 5% every year. The chlorine concentrations in leaf blades of different positions collected from four growing stages varied by more than one order of magnitude, and were well correlated with the sum concentrations of major cations (potassium + calcium + magnesium). This may be attributed to the fact that the translocation rate of chlorine among the leaf blades with age depends on the concentrations of the major cations.
Concentration and distribution of toxic elements in rice and husk
Authors: A. Mannan, S. Waheed, and I. Qureshi
Five varieties of rice have been analyzed to study the prevailing concentration and distribution of 10 trace elements in rice and rice husk. NAA in combination with AAS has been utilized for the determination of Hg, Pb, Cd, As, Br, Sb, Se, Ni, Al and Cs. The elemental ratios of rice to husk and within rice have been calculated to get information regarding their uptake channels. The daily supply of the elements to the human body has been estimated and from these the safety of the diet has been assessed by comparing with the suggested tolerance levels. A global distribution pattern of some of these elements in rice has also been evaluated.
Trace element evaluation of rice and husk by INAA
An instrumental neutron activation analysis technique has been utilized to study the prevailing levels of certain inorganic trace elements in different varieties of rice produced in Pakistan. The data have been compared with those of other countries. The elemental ratios within rice and rice to husk have been computed to evaluate indirectly the impact of soil and environment on the rice crops. The dietary spectum for the inhabitants of Rawalpindi/Islamabad areas has been evaluated by estimating the daily intake and comparing with allowances suggested in the literature.

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That being said, the content lifecycle is long. Content you create can remain relevant (and drive traffic) for years to come. In fact, recent research by Ahrefs shows that nearly 60% of all content on page one of Google is three years old or more. This means with the right process and a little hard work, content marketers can extend their content lifecycle years into the future.
How exactly do we set our content up for longterm success?
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Looking to create evergreen content? Check out our guide, Evergreen Content: How to Build an Evergreen Content Strategy.
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April showers bring May flowers, but until then it's time for the April 2017 developer build.
The April 2017 Developer Build has a ton of bug fixes and feature enhancements, and we are one step closer to the stable release of Couchbase Server 5.0.
You can get the April 2017 developer build from the Couchbase downloads page in the developer tab.
Based on the feedback we have received, here are some additional platforms that we are introducing starting with the April 2017 Developer Build. We hope you try out the April 2017 Developer Build on these platforms and give us your feedback!
Note that Ubuntu 12 is EOL this month, so future Couchbase releases will likely not support Ubuntu 12.
Thank you for you feedback and helping us to identify and fix bugs for Couchbase Server 5.0. Here is a list of the critical and major bugs that were fixed in the April 2017 Developer Build.
Index join chooses the wrong index and doesn't choose the right index consistently.
Index Collation checks can't use the API setting.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics.
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Paul Dirac was born in the English city of Bristol. His father, Charles Dirac, was an immigrant from the Valais Canton in Switzerland who taught French for a living. His mother was originally from Cornwall and the daughter of a mariner. Paul had an elder brother and an younger sister. His early family life appears to have been unhappy on account of his father's unusually strict and authoritarian nature, but he never publicly expressed his feelings on the subject. He was educated first at Bishop Primary School and later at Merchant Venturers Technical College. The latter was an institution, attached to the University of Bristol, that emphasized scientific subjects and modern languages (an unusual arrangement at a time when secondary education in Britain was still dedicated largely to the classics, and something for which Dirac would later express gratitude).
Dirac studied electrical engineering at the University of Bristol, completing his degree in 1921. After working briefly as an engineer, Dirac decided that his true calling lay in the mathematical sciences. He completed a degree in mathematics at Bristol in 1923 and then received a grant to conduct research at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he would remain for most of his career. At Cambridge he became interested in the general theory of relativity and in the nascent field of quantum physics, and worked under the supervision of Ralph Fowler.
In 1926 he developed a version of quantum mechanics that incorporated the previous work of Werner Heisenberg on "Matrix Mechanics" and of Erwin Schrödinger on "Wave Mechanics" into a single mathematical formalism that associates measurable quantities with operators acting on the Hilbert space of vectors that describe the state of a physical system. For this seminal work he was awarded a Ph.D. from Cambridge.
In 1928, building on Pauli's work on nonrelativistic spin systems, he derived the Dirac equation, a relativistic equation describing the electron. This work led Dirac to predict the existence of the positron, the electron's antiparticle, which he interpreted in terms of what came to be called the Dirac sea. The positron was subsequently observed by Carl Anderson in 1932. Dirac also contributed to explaining the origin of quantum spin as a relativistic phenomenon.
Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics, published in 1930 became one of the standard textbooks on the subject and is still used today. It introduced the Bra-ket notation, in which |ψ>, ket, denotes a state vector in the Hilbert space of a system and <ψ|, bra, its dual vector. <ψ|ψ> denotes an inner product. Dirac also introduced Dirac's delta function.
In 1931 Dirac showed that the existence of a single magnetic monopole in the universe would suffice to explain the observed quantization of electrical charge. This proposal received much attention but there is to date no convincing evidence for the existence of magnetic monopoles.
Paul Dirac shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory." Dirac was Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge from 1932 to 1969. The Dirac Prize is awarded in his honour.
Dirac spent his last years at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Florida. The Dirac-Hellman Award at FSU was endowed by Dr. Bruce Hellman (Dirac's last Ph.D. student) in 1997 to reward outstanding work in theoretical physics by FSU researchers. He died in Tallahassee, where he is buried. In 1995 a plaque in his honour was unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London.
He married Eugene Wigner's sister, Margit in 1937.
Dirac was a committed atheist. After being asked about his thoughts on Dirac's views, Pauli remarked "If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet".
Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise and taciturn nature. When Niels Bohr complained that he didn't know how to finish a sentence in a scientific article he was writing, Dirac famously replied: 'I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.' While visiting the U.S.S.R., he was invited to lecture on his philosophy of physics. He merely stood up and wrote on the board: 'Physical laws should have mathematical beauty and simplicity.'
When asked on some occasion about his views on poetry, he replied that 'in science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.'
Dirac was also noted for his personal modesty. He called the equation for the time-evolution of a quantum-mechanical operator, which Dirac was in fact the first to write down, the 'Heisenberg equation of motion.' Most physicists speak of Fermi-Dirac statistics for half-integer spin particles and Bose-Einstein statistics for integer spin particles. While lecturing later in life, Dirac always insisted on calling the former 'Fermi statistics.' He referred to the latter as 'Einstein statistics' for reasons, he explained, of symmetry.
Dirac sea
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930)
A highly original work that summarizes the ideas of quantum mechanics using the modern formalism that was largely developed by the author himself. Towards the end of the book, Dirac also discusses the relativistic theory of the electron (see Dirac equation) which was also pioneered by him. Interestingly, this work does not refer to any other writings then available on quantum mechanics. Surely, one of the landmarks in the history of science.
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (1966)
A good portion of the book deals with quantum mechanics in curved space-time.
General Theory of Relativity (1975)
This short work (only 68 pages!) elegantly summarizes Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Northumbria began their Bliss Baby Charter journey in early 2015 and has made great progress.
Sheelagh Ahern, Senior Staff Nurse, and Jane Striton, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) have been working tirelessly, alongside their multi-disciplinary team, to make positive changes to help improve areas such as breastfeeding and parental access on the unit.
The Bliss Baby Charter highlights the importance of privacy and the difficulties some mothers face in bonding with their baby and expressing in a public space. To address this issue the unit applied and were successful in obtaining a Bliss Baby Charter grant to purchase privacy screens.
Parent feedback on the screens shows that they especially appreciate the screens at quiet times when they have their baby out for skin-to-skin.
The Bliss Baby Charter helped the unit recognise that the frequency of mothers expressing was affected by a shortage of breast pumps on the unit. As a result, the unit improved mothers' access to adequate and effective expressing equipment by using the grant fund to purchase easy to use breast pumps. Mums are now able to express at the cot side.
The unit team realised that to facilitate high quality family-centred care, they had to enable parents to become more confident primary carers. As a result, they looked to find ways to better support parents to develop their skills and knowledge in carrying out daily cares.
Portable DVD players and headphones were purchased to enable parents to watch educational DVDs such as Bliss' 'What to do if your baby stops breathing'. The unit also provides regular teaching sessions and offers parents the space to discuss and participate in daily cares.
Crucially, the unit provides truly unrestricted access to parents, ensuring that they can be present on and contribute to ward rounds. This allows parents to feel part of their baby's care team and also provides undisturbed skin-to-skin and bonding opportunities throughout their stay on the unit.
Northumbria's dedication to supporting and empowering parents to breastfeed and provide daily cares and skin to skin are great examples of high quality family-centred care. Bliss recognises that clinical and family-centred care most work hand in hand in order to provide the best outcomes for the baby. By creating an environment that allows parents to be active partners in their baby's care, Northumbria are well on their way to creating an excellent family-centred neonatal unit with the baby firmly placed within the context of the family.


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Baby of pregnant woman fatally struck by semi in River North dies
Jane Alexander | The BL 09/22/19, 20:42
The baby of a pregnant woman who was struck and killed by a semi-truck in Chicago's River North neighborhood died on Saturday morning, Sept. 21.
The 29-year-old woman, identified as Elizabeth Boshardy of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, was crossing at an intersection at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, when she was hit, police said.
A semi-truck turned into the intersection and struck the woman.
According to the Chicago Fire Department, the victim was pinned under the semi and had to be extricated. She was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Doctors were working on Boshardy's baby, Hannah Elizabeth Boshardy, since then. Saturday morning, the baby was pronounced dead, just four days after she was born, according to the Cook County medical examiner.
Police said the driver, 67, from west suburban Lyons, was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
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SessionM, a startup aiming to increase mobile app engagement, has a new addition to its board of directors — David Kenny, who's currently serving as chairman and CEO of The Weather Channel.
SessionM co-founder and CEO Lars Albright (who previously co-founded Quattro Wireless, which was acquired by Apple and became the basis of its iAd program) says he got to know Kenny because The Weather Channel is one of SessionM's biggest publishing partners. At the same time, Kenny has plenty of experience with digital advertising, having served as the CEO of marketing agency Digitas. Both sides are important to SessionM — the company adds a game layer to apps, where users can earn points and eventually rewards for engaging with the app, which also offers new opportunities for advertising.
Kenny's other credentials include serving as president of content delivery network Akamai, and he's currently on the board of directors at Yahoo.
Albright says that "given where we are in our stage of growth," he was looking to bring on an independent board member — now that SessionM has raised more funding, the company can focus on "building a business and scaling a business." That's something Kenny understands, especially on the digital media side — and, according to Albright, Kenny's hoping to learn more about mobile too, since it's going to be increasingly important to The Weather Channel.
SessionM's current board consists of Albright, the company's chief product officer Mark Herrmann, Highland Capital Partners' Bob Davis, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Matt Murphy, Charles River Ventures' Jon Auerbach, and Andy Miller, who was formerly at Highland and is now chief operating officer and president at Leap Motion.
The company also recently hired several VPs and directors from Apple and Google.


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U.S. Folding Paperboard Box Market – Imports from China Recorded a Dramatic Increase of 17.9% in 2018
In 2018, the imports of folding paperboard box into the U.S. amounted to 161K tonnes, surging by 17% against the previous year.
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In 2018, China (103K tonnes) constituted the largest supplier of folding paperboard box to the U.S.
Nicaragua experienced the highest growth rate of exports.
The revenue of the folding paperboard box market in the U.S. amounted to $14.4B in 2018.
Imports from China exceeded the figures recorded by the second-largest supplier, Indonesia (15K tonnes), sevenfold.
IndexBox has just published a new report: 'U.S. Folding Paperboard Box Market. Analysis And Forecast to 2025'. Here is a summary of the report's key findings.
The revenue of the folding paperboard box market in the U.S. amounted to $14.4B in 2018, remaining relatively unchanged against the previous year. This figure reflects the total revenues of producers and importers (excluding logistics costs, retail marketing costs, and retailers' margins, which will be included in the final consumer price). Over the period under review, folding paperboard box consumption continues to indicate a relatively flat trend pattern. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2016 with an increase of 2.9% y-o-y. Folding paperboard box consumption peaked in 2018 and is likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
Folding Paperboard Box Production in the U.S.
In value terms, folding paperboard box production amounted to $14B in 2018. Overall, folding paperboard box production, however, continues to indicate a relatively flat trend pattern. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2016 when production volume increased by 3% against the previous year. Folding paperboard box production peaked in 2018 and is likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
Exports from the U.S.
In 2018, the exports of folding paperboard box from the U.S. stood at 16K tonnes, declining by -16.7% against the previous year. Overall, folding paperboard box exports continue to indicate a noticeable deduction. The growth pace was the most rapid in 2016 when exports increased by 13% year-to-year. In that year, folding paperboard box exports attained their peak of 20K tonnes. From 2017 to 2018, the growth of folding paperboard box exports remained at a lower figure.
In value terms, folding paperboard box exports totaled $42M (IndexBox estimates) in 2018. Over the period under review, folding paperboard box exports continue to indicate a moderate contraction. The growth pace was the most rapid in 2016 when exports increased by 8.2% against the previous year. In that year, folding paperboard box exports attained their peak of $51M. From 2017 to 2018, the growth of folding paperboard box exports failed to regain its momentum.
The Dominican Republic (1.9K tonnes), Belgium (1.1K tonnes) and Italy (932 tonnes) were the main destinations of folding paperboard box exports from the U.S., together accounting for 25% of total exports.
From 2013 to 2018, the most notable rate of growth in terms of exports, amongst the main countries of destination, was attained by Belgium, while the other leaders experienced more modest paces of growth.
In value terms, the Dominican Republic ($5.7M), Costa Rica ($3M) and Italy ($2.6M) were the largest markets for folding paperboard box exported from the U.S. worldwide, with a combined 27% share of total exports. These countries were followed by France, Panama, Germany, Belgium, the UK, Colombia, Nicaragua, the Netherlands and Ecuador, which together accounted for a further 34%.
Nicaragua experienced the highest growth rate of exports, in terms of the main countries of destination over the last five-year period, while the other leaders experienced more modest paces of growth.
In 2018, the average folding paperboard box export price amounted to $2,724 per tonne, rising by 4.2% against the previous year. Over the period from 2013 to 2018, it increased at an average annual rate of +1.4%. The pace of growth appeared the most rapid in 2017 an increase of 5.6% y-o-y. The export price peaked in 2018 and is expected to retain its growth in the immediate term.
There were significant differences in the average prices for the major foreign markets. In 2018, the country with the highest price was Germany ($3,297 per tonne), while the average price for exports to Ecuador ($1,188 per tonne) was amongst the lowest.
From 2013 to 2018, the most notable rate of growth in terms of prices was recorded for supplies to Panama, while the prices for the other major destinations experienced more modest paces of growth.
Imports into the U.S.
In 2018, the imports of folding paperboard box into the U.S. amounted to 161K tonnes, surging by 17% against the previous year. The total import volume increased at an average annual rate of +5.4% from 2013 to 2018; the trend pattern remained consistent, with only minor fluctuations being recorded throughout the analyzed period. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2018 with an increase of 17% against the previous year. In that year, folding paperboard box imports reached their peak and are likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
In value terms, folding paperboard box imports stood at $536M (IndexBox estimates) in 2018. The total import value increased at an average annual rate of +6.0% from 2013 to 2018; the trend pattern remained relatively stable, with only minor fluctuations being recorded over the period under review. The pace of growth appeared the most rapid in 2018 with an increase of 14% y-o-y. In that year, folding paperboard box imports reached their peak and are likely to continue its growth in the immediate term.
In 2018, China (103K tonnes) constituted the largest supplier of folding paperboard box to the U.S., accounting for a 64% share of total imports. Moreover, folding paperboard box imports from China exceeded the figures recorded by the second-largest supplier, Indonesia (15K tonnes), sevenfold. The third position in this ranking was occupied by Germany (10K tonnes), with a 6.4% share.
From 2013 to 2018, the average annual growth rate of volume from China amounted to +5.1%. The remaining supplying countries recorded the following average annual rates of imports growth: Indonesia (+11.4% per year) and Germany (+20.5% per year).
In value terms, China ($387M) constituted the largest supplier of folding paperboard box to the U.S., comprising 72% of total folding paperboard box imports. The second position in the ranking was occupied by Germany ($26M), with a 4.8% share of total imports. It was followed by Indonesia, with a 3.9% share.
From 2013 to 2018, the average annual rate of growth in terms of value from China amounted to +5.8%. The remaining supplying countries recorded the following average annual rates of imports growth: Germany (+17.1% per year) and Indonesia (+7.2% per year).
In 2018, the average folding paperboard box import price amounted to $3,337 per tonne, dropping by -2.2% against the previous year. Overall, the folding paperboard box import price, however, continues to indicate a relatively flat trend pattern. The most prominent rate of growth was recorded in 2014 when the average import price increased by 3.2% y-o-y. The import price peaked at $3,413 per tonne in 2017, and then declined slightly in the following year.
Prices varied noticeably by the country of origin; the country with the highest price was China ($3,755 per tonne), while the price for Turkey ($1,213 per tonne) was amongst the lowest.
From 2013 to 2018, the most notable rate of growth in terms of prices was attained by Taiwan, Chinese, while the prices for the other major suppliers experienced mixed trend patterns.
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PROFESSOR JOHN GRAY
Bachelor of Arts
"I was very pleased to be invited and to accept the invitation to be the Chair of Crown Institute of Higher Education's first Board of Directors. I retired from the University of Adelaide where I served in a number of governance, senior management and executive positions including the inaugural Head of The School of Social Sciences, Director of Research and Associate Dean of Education in the Faculty of Arts, and Deputy Convener of the University's Academic Board. I also maintained an academic career of teaching and research, winning University prizes for excellent in teaching and for the Departmental Learning and Teaching Plans, supervising postgraduate students (which I continue to do) and publishing three books and numerous articles on issues of locality and identity in South Asia and the European Union. I have held visiting professorships at The University of Hull in the UK and Concordia University in Montreal and served two terms as the President of the professional organisation of anthropologists in Australia. Having retired from the University of Adelaide, being a member of Crown Institute of Higher Education's Board of directors provides a rewarding opportunity for me to use my knowledge of and experience in the higher education governance and delivery to build, maintain and continually improve the quality of the education we provide most importantly for the success of our students in their studies and future careers."
DR SALLY CHAPLIN
Bachelor of Information Systems (Honours)
Bachelor of Business
DR DARRYL GAULD OAM
Justice of the Peace (Qualified)
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Master of Education (TESOL)
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
"I am proud to be part of the Board of Directors at CIHE and to join the board in its commitment to educational and corporate excellence. My long career in the education industry has included the management of many audits by State and National, regulatory bodies and the implementation of best practice in all aspects of educational management and administration. These have included finance, admissions, marketing, human resources, IT, buildings and property, health and safety, risk management and compliance, regulatory and reporting, and records management. I managed multiple projects - establishing business partnerships with Australian universities, establishing a Higher Education Provider, refurbishing premises, establishing RTOs and Secondary Schools."
DEEPAK KHADKA
B Sc Civil Engineering
Graduate Diploma, Court and Parliamentary Reporting
Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
I am honoured to be part of the Board of Directors for Crown Institute of Higher Education.
"I have over 30 years of higher education experience in Australia and Europe at a senior management level responsible for the development and implementation of strategies to support a comprehensive approach to internatioinslaistion. My experience spans Director and GM roles with responsibility for international student recruitment, admissions, two way student mobility, exchange and partnerships, offshore program development, and business development. I have worked with some of the leading universities in the world including Monash, La Trobe, Trinity College Dublin, and most recently with Bond University. I have been on the Board now for close to two years and I am very proud to be part of a young and growing organisation that has such a strong commitment to excellence across all areas of the organisation and most importantly providing an outstanding experience for our students."


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Between Comrades and Competition: COVID-19 and the Vices of the Human Condition
by L.W.
"Beyond those who risk infection at their jobs, the community oriented, self-sacrificing behavior of many is evidenced, in part, by an explosion of efforts toward charity, mutual aid, and collective action."
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It can be a challenge in moments like this, amid the still developing COVID-19 pandemic, to reflect on our circumstances and our collective behavior. However, as the virus does not seem to be going anywhere, and social distancing begins to feel like a dystopian new normal, such reflection is essential. I am certainly not alone in thinking through the lessons of COVID. Others have pointed, importantly, to how the pandemic has made even clearer the racial disparities in access to healthcare, how necessary low paid workers are for our basic needs, how irrational a for-profit healthcare system is, as well as other insights. However, below I focus on how individuals and communities have responded can illuminate aspects of our nature, and provide evidence as to what might lie ahead. In the spirit of such reflection, I use several analytical lenses borrowed from political theory to consider two parts of the human soul that the Corona Virus has brought to the surface: our self-interest and our mutuality.
It was only weeks ago that a notorious hoarding craze took hold. We should all remember shelves empty of toilet paper and canned goods. Leaving aside the puzzle of why mountains of toilet paper was the object of so many rapacious individuals, the more ominous news stories of record gun sales in a country already brimming with armaments also stand out. My friend sending me frantic messages is still vivid in my own memory, as they tried to put guns in the hands of their friends in case of looting or home invasion.
What does this tell us about our expectations of our neighbors? We fear the worst of them. We hoard necessary goods, because we anticipate others will. In such a situation it is reasonable to hoard. We tell ourselves that others will unjustly accumulate all that is available, leaving none for the rest. And we arm ourselves because we fear what others will do when they get desperate. Anxiety grips us as we contemplate what will happen if the state becomes weak enough that it no longer serves to impede people from acting with license, forcibly imposing their own interest and passions on others. I arm myself, because others do.
Even those who wish to abstain from it begin to mirror this behavior. When we see others acting with such self-interest, we begin to behave in the same way. Hoarding, like the virus, operates like a contagion.
That is, we see and expect others to act like Thomas Hobbes suggests they would in a state of nature. He famously wrote that absent a sovereign (read: state) to promulgate and enforce laws, humanity is in a state of war, all against all. In an oft quoted passage, he writes that in this state of universal war our lives are "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short". The danger of the absence of government's power is such that we are driven to join political society, accepting its rule in whatever form it takes. He argues that without government and its monopoly of force we would live without security, and everyone would attempt to dominate whatever and whoever they could in order to find it.
Baruch Spinoza, while a markedly different theorist in important respects, agrees with Hobbes in this regard. For Spinoza, the state of nature is a state of constant anxiety, and each individual has a natural right to do what they are able. To alleviate the constant fear of imposition by others, again, we submit ourselves to common government. The absence of a government we submit to is simply too vulnerable for both Hobbes and Spinoza, where we are all in a constant competition for resources and survival.
The Corona Virus crisis reveals that we all see in one another the potential to act in amoral self-interest in the event of a major breakdown of the US security apparatus, or of serious resource shortages. And this is not unreasonable. I mean, if others were not preparing for such a contest, why is nearly everyone hoarding weapons?
However, it is important to note that our unprecedented moment also makes visible a radically different aspect of our nature. In the face of adversity, many have chosen to defy our cynical expectations and act like humanist saints. As of the writing of this editorial, James Mahoney, a doctor in New York, just passed after delaying retirement to join the fight against the ongoing pandemic. And Mahoney is only one example of such selfless acts. Perhaps the point has been already made too often and too loudly to be an original one, but the mere showing up to work at a high risk job in the medical field or at a grocery store is an act that places the communal good ahead of one's personal good. As of mid April, over 10,000 medical personnel were infected doing just that, and still so many continue to push ahead, serving others. There are some who might argue that this is just an extension of the reasonable pursuit of self-interest (e.g., the effect of the shame for not showing up from others might outweigh the risk of catching the disease, or the prospect of losing one's job might impel one toward going to work). However when placed in the context of other facts, I think it is more plausible that as humans, we have the capacity to sacrifice for, and often feel a duty toward, others which sometimes transcends our pursuit of interest.
Beyond those who risk infection at their jobs, the community oriented, self-sacrificing behavior of many is evidenced, in part, by an explosion of efforts toward charity, mutual aid, and collective action. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reports that all over the country people and organizations, independent of (and oftentimes in spite of) government action, have come together to support those in the most need. Their aims include food for the houseless, rent moratoriums, assistance to LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as "child care, grocery delivery, food donations, housing needs, bail funds and other types of support… And those are just a few of the thousands of efforts". These cannot be easily explained by self love alone.
What is more, the organizing actions during the Corona Virus pandemic taken by Amazon and gig economy employees for safe working conditions and hazard pay, as well as the many others participating in collective actions, together demonstrate an emboldened solidarity. This is mostly likely a low estimate, but People's Strike reports that there have been over two hundred work strikes in the United States since the beginning of the COVID crisis, and over two hundred fifty rent strikes. In the face of a crisis that necessarily presses us into isolation, it appears that we are also driven to support and rely on one another.
Thus, while the hoarding and arming might show that we expect selfish and even bloody behavior, the incredible outpouring of mutuality has revealed that we have something fundamentally social and sacrificing about us. This harmonizes with a point made by Karl Marx, that we have a fundamentally communal feature in our nature. In "On the Jewish Question", he writes that "[e]very emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself". Further, "[h]uman emancipation will only be complete… when as an individual man, in his everyday life, in his work, and in his relationships, he has become a species-being". In other words, human emancipation will be realized when our society reflects our essentially social nature. Simply put, a part of Marx's understanding of humanity is that by maintaining a societal model where the normal is that we pursue our own interests before others, we are alienating ourselves from what it means to be human.
The shearing away of normalcy and security by the current crisis has made evident this collectivist aspect of ourselves. And really, our world is filled with examples of how our behavior and the structures of contemporary society anticipate less individualistic modes of living. The historic Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin is another proponent for this claim. Discussing Marx's work, explaining the evidence for the possibility of a communal future, Lenin writes, "On the basis of what data can the question of the… development of future communism be raised? On the basis of the fact that it has its origin in capitalism". This point is well taken. Capitalism, and the United States in its current form, have made possible a more socially oriented and communal future. Specifically that so many people responded to this pandemic with mutuality, and the placing of others before themselves, illuminates a possible future which is more egalitarian. It appears hard to deny, in this moment, that there is a part of ourselves that is deeply concerned with others' well being and our collective good.
The ongoing pandemic has made quite clear much that we should have already known about our society (deep racial disparities in access to healthcare, the necessity of food and delivery workers, the absurdity of a for-profit healthcare system, etc). But as I have illustrated here, it has also shown us two parts of our nature. Given this, there seems to be merit in both Hobbes and Spinoza's analysis of human behavior on the one hand, and of Marx's on the other. This suggests that humans might always be divided between our self love and our love of others. But, this could also show us that an all together better future is, in fact, possible.
About the Author: L.W. is a member of the editorial collective Houston Review of Books.
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Agricultural Sector Retreat kicks off to a good start
May 27, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU Uncategorized 0
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security on Thursday 26th May 2016 launched its annual retreat at the Makeni City Hall to discourse on ways forward for the Ministry, particularly on how to engage its stakeholders in the 10 – 24 months period of the Presidential Recovery Initiative on its Key Results Area 1, to increase production and productivity in the agriculture sector and to engage young people by providing up to 10,000 jobs for youths along agricultural value chains. Chairman for the occasion, Mr Sahr Matturi remarked that this is a retreat undertaken by the all-important "bread basket Ministry" of the country. "There is potential to do what we need to provide for our basic needs. " he said. He further went on to express the hope that the deliberations here will have a resounding influence on how we progress into the future.
PROFESSOR MONTY JONES
Welcoming the delegates to Makeni, a representative of the Mayor of Makeni City reiterated that there is an urgent need in both public and private life to have these kinds of meetings. Referring to the need for actions and reflections, he expressed the hope that reflections from the deliberations at this retreat would give rise to action on key points agreed. Such meetings he said, would strengthen and reassure stakeholders in agriculture to deal with the social and economic crises of the country. He lamented the fact that although crop production is a major activity for the people of Sierra Leone with over 75% of rural communities engaged in this activity, agriculture was rendered extremely unproductive and impoverished by the onslaught of Ebola and Vulnerability to food insecurity increased exponentially. "As you engage in these deliberations, please have a good time and enjoy Makeni City," he remarked.
SECTOR OVERVIEW PAINTS A BRIGHT FUTURE
The Chief Agriculture Officer, Mr Foday Sankoh painted a bright future for agriculture in Sierra Leone when he gave an overview of the Ministry in its annual retreat at Makeni City Hall on Thursday 6th May 2016. While accepting that this retreat was not new and have been held in the past as internal events, with only stakeholders in the sector invited to join in the deliberations, he registered that this retreat is a departure from that trend as other Ministries and Agencies have been invited to broaden engagement between MAFFS and other institutions in the state economy.
Recounting the Ministry's achievements, Mr Sankoh said that as a Ministry, "we are very determined to work assiduously under the current Minister to move on to higher heights." He further went on to state that the Ministry has established quality objectives to increase productivity and production. Recent milestones and achievements he cited include support to transfer ownership of farm equipment by farmers; promoting commercial agriculture through the small holder commercialization scheme; In the last five years, the Ministry has attracted over 20 private sector organizations in the sector including international brands like ADDAX, SOCFIN, SIERRA AKKAR among others. Processors have come in to the sector in the likes of Lion Mountain and Mountain Lion and they are packaging rice to cater for many demands, 5, 10, 20 Kilos etc. Mr Sankoh stated that the Ministry had tried to address cross cutting issues of gender, youths and farmers health, and can now boast of a Gender Unit. He recounted other key initiatives such as working closely with SLARI to strengthen research in the sector, establish 1218 farmer field schools; 402 ABCs all over the country, and agricultural units and facilities in every Chiefdom; The Chief Agriculturist added that the Ministry had done so much to open up the country and as such had constructed and rehabilitated 2,707KM of feeder roads throughout the country. "The Ministry has pushed for access to finance for farmers by 51 financial services associations and 17 community banks. We are encouraging farmers to move to lowlands areas and 5000 hectares of inland valley swamps have been rehabilitated," he concluded
PUHEHUN DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ADMOMNISHES MAFFS OFFICIALS
Mr Sadiq Sillah, Chairman of Pujehun District Council admonished senior staff at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security that as elected officials, they have no qualms in challenging them to account for their service delivery functions to the agriculture sectors, particular in the areas of farmers welfare and the supply of seeds and inputs for agricultural production. Speaking at the Ministry's annual retreat at Makeni City Hall, Mr Sillah congratulated the Minister for the delivery by Mr Leslie Scott, a member of the President's delivery team on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security when he addressed Council Chairmen and other officials in Freetown just two days prior. He admitted that from that presentation, he was able to understand that the new Minister has a clear focus and vision for improving production and productivity in agriculture. Mr Sillah told the gathering that the appeal from Local Councils is for the agriculture Ministry to introduce practical methodologies and to change the way farmers work. He complained that the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) has been strangling agriculture by its reluctance to release devolved funds to Local Councils and the delay in receipt of such funds have a direct effect on the low yield and productivity experienced in the country. He stated that no disbursements have been made to Councils up to this time when farmers are now well into the planting season for this year. He praised the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Prof. Patrick Monty Jones for what he called a "progressive vision" and expressed the hope that the future for agriculture is bright under the Minister's leadership
MINISTER OUTLINES HIS VISION FOR AGRICULTURE
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security has spelt out his vision for agriculture going forwards and has warned that he wants to detract from the business as usual in the sector with low yields and inefficient farming methods that account for low production year in year out. Giving his keynote address at the annual retreat of the Ministry at Makeni City Hall on Thursday 26th May 2016, Prof. Monty Jones expressed confidence in the staff he met at the Ministry and referred to an answer he gave a journalist who recently asked him what kind of Ministry he inherited. He described the staff at MAFFS as bright, educated, committed, highly skilled and knowledgeable in agriculture and its impact on the economy. The Minister was quick to stress that he believes in building up from the foundations he had met and would do so with the dedication and commitment that he has for agriculture. In his first policy announcement, the Minister confirmed that he intends to keep the six divisions in the Ministry. He stressed that his commitment is to embed all the projects – seven ongoing or just about to terminate – "but we want to see all our projects incorporated into all the six divisions of the Ministry to increase collaboration and reduce duplication," but he added that he had instituted two key directives to strengthen their work. Firstly, he had established an Executive Management Committee (EMC) which assists in the decision making process at the Ministry and exemplifies his consultative e way of leadership. Secondly, the Minister announced the formation of the Strategic Advisory Unit (SAU) for which recruitment is currently on going. He reiterated that he views the SAU as a strategic Think Tank that will advise the Minister whilst acting as the monitoring eyes and ears of the Ministry to ensure that the Divisions are making the desired impact by their work. He explained that the SAU will interact with every Division and every project in the sector to strengthen service delivery and align the goals of the Ministry such as to increase production and productivity in the immediate future.
The Minister stated that this retreat has been called to promote agricultural growth and development in Sierra Leone, and that this is a retreat to reduce foreign exchange expenditure on agricultural products. These are very important priorities that have been captured in the Presidential recovery initiative and so the focus would be on these two priorities and sub initiatives. "so that we can achieve the goals we have set for the 10-24 months period." The Minister went on to state that the Ministry should promote agricultural production and productivity and concentrate on total factor productivity. "We should increase productivity between 2 – 4 tonnes per hectare on rice cultivation, and encourage our farmers to go down to the lowlands and promote sustainable agricultural productivity." The Minister admonished farmers to discourage slash and burn and other destructive activities that are harmful to the environment and instead use methodologies that are more beneficial to commercialization. "We must encourage private sector, work across the value chain from research to extension to production and in all intent, to align ourselves to the Presidential initiatives and move from the farm to industry." He continued
The Minister challenged his officials to be innovative in supporting those who want to help the country achieve its objectives to increase production and productivity while at the same time ensuring that farmer's and land owners welfare are secured by market price valuations and support for out grower schemes that would change and improve farmers' lives. He stated that since assuming office, he has engaged on nine projects which are in various stages of negotiation and have so far signed contracts with two projects expected to start imminently. The SEWA project will bring 35,000 hectares of rice into production with ancillary milling and local development services for the community at Tormabum while the Sierra Tropics project has secured land in Bo and is scheduled to start this year. He also mentioned another project that would engage in poultry and maize with a production capacity for 500,000 day old chicks into the poultry sector. The Minister promised that projects would be spread across the countries with a view to leveraging benefits to every corner of the country and to anchor projects in areas where they would have the requisite comparative advantage.
He concluded by throwing a challenge to the delegates to map out a paradigm shift in agriculture in Sierra Leone, to identify and set a road map on how the Ministry can deliver on increasing production and productivity and for this retreat to establish a benchmark for value addition across the agriculture value chain to secure the objective of over 10,000 jobs for young people in agriculture. He warned that there will be no room to continue with business as usual but rather for thinking to be done outside the box as this is the beginning of "business unusual."
PARAMOUNT CHIEF SALUTES MINISTER MONTY JONES
In his vote of thanks to mark the end of the plenary session of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security' retreat at Makeni City Hall on Thursday 26th May 2016, the Paramount Chief of Bombali Sebora, PC Bai Sebora Kasanga after expressing thanks to God for enabling such an august gathering in his Chiefdom, saluted the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security for what he called "a vision of extra-ordinary import" that the new Minister has brought to agriculture in Sierra Leone. The Paramount Chief admitted that Prof Monty Jones has been the first ever Minister of Agriculture who had handed over rural farming to the supervision of the Chiefs and he did so with the requisite respect and adulation for their office as Paramount Chiefs and custodians of the traditions of their peoples. In that regard, he thanked Minister Monty Jones profoundly and on behalf of all Paramount Chiefs pledged to support the Minister's efforts to increase production and productivity in agriculture. PC Bai Sebora Kasanga extended his best wishes for s fruitful deliberations to the delegates and entreated them to enjoy Bombali for the ensuing days that they would be hosts in his Chiefdom.
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This is the kind of meal I created this blog to share. Seriously. Good tasting, low work, and comes together in minutes.
Clean shrimp and sugar snap peas.
Put peas in, stir fry for 1 minute.
Add in shrimp, and rest of sauce.
Remove from heat, serve immediately. Great over rice.
This stir fry is AH-MAZE- ING! My husband said, "I think this might be the best thing you have ever made." Considering I have been cooking for him for 10 years, that is saying a lot. Anyway, it is one of the simplest recipes ever, and tastes like something you would get at a high end chinese restaurant. It has a bit of kick to it, and is addicting. So beware!
This is the fastest recipe. Seriously, I love it because it comes together in minutes, and tastes amazing.
Mix up your sauce, and clean your shrimp and peas.
Start by stir frying your peas for a minute. Then add in shrimp.
Cook until shrimp are pink!
I am sure snow peas would work too, I just happened to have sugar snap, and they were a delightful crunch in this unexpectedly delightful meal.


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La stagione 1978 dei Green Bay Packers è stata la 58ª della franchigia nella National Football League. Sotto la direzione del capo-allenatore al quarto anno Bart Starr, la squadra terminò con un record di 8-7-1, chiudendo seconda nella Central Division. Fu la prima stagione con più vittorie che sconfitte dal 1972. I Packers ebbero una partenza con un record di 6–1, anche se molte di quelle vittorie giunsero contro squadre deboli e quando il calendario si fece più ostico Green Bay vinse solo una delle successive sei gare. Dopo una netta vittoria a Tampa Bay sui Buccaneers, i Packers, con un record di 8–5–1, erano ancora in testa alla division. Tuttavia, la squadra perse entrambe le ultime gare, chiudendo con un record di 8–7–1 alla pari con Minnesota. Dal momento che il record dei Packers contro i Vikings era 0-1-1, Green Bay mancò i playoff visto che anche gli Eagles sopravanzarono Green Bay per l'ultima wild card.

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Carmelo Anthony hits game winner for Knicks over Wizards (VIDEO)
By Kurt HelinOct 23, 2014, 2:22 AM EDT
Phil Jackson said this at ESPNNewYork about Carmelo Anthony in the triangle:
"There'll be plenty of iso opportunities for Melo, and in the triangle it'll be very difficult for defenses to double-team him."
There was one with the game on the line Wednesday night when the Knicks took on the Wizards. The game was tied 100-100 and after trying to run a set they just gave 'Melo the ball and left side and let him go to work. It was one-on-one, no help, no one game in support.
He nailed a contested jumper. The Knicks went on to win 103-100.
Anthony had 30 on the night.


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Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Released From Prison
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Sep 12, 2019
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is a free man.
According to TMZ, the Jersey Shore star was released from prison at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday (September 12) after serving nearly seven months behind bars.
"We are elated to finally close this chapter of our life," Mike and his wife Lauren said in a statement. "Thank you to our family, friends and fans for the continuous love and support during this time, it brought us so much peace and comfort. We look forward to continuing our life as husband and wife and working on baby situations!"
As fans know, the Sitch was locked up in federal prison since January for tax evasion. He was sentenced to an eight-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York last October, while his brother Marc got two years behind bars.
Before starting his sentence, Mike married his longtime girlfriend Lauren in November. The entire Jersey Shore cast was in attendance for the big day, which was filmed for Jersey Shore Family Vacation season 3.
Last week, Mike shared a photo of Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino visiting him while he was incarcerated. "My brothers come to visit me on tonight's all new #JSFamilyVacation starting NOW! 🙏🏼☝🏼," he captioned the Instagram post.


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AGM Trading Update
Braemar Shipping Services plc (LSE: BMS), a leading international provider of shipbroking, financial advisory, port and marine consulting services principally to the shipping and energy industries, will make the following trading statement at 2pm today at its Annual General Meeting:
The Shipbroking division has performed well during the first quarter, being ahead of budget compared with the same period in the prior year. Our newbuilding activity has been strong in recent months and has added to the forward order book. The Dry Cargo chartering rates started the year weakly because of the Brazilian iron ore supply interruptions and Tanker chartering has been impacted by a combination of weaker oil demand and unusually high delivery of new vessels. However, we are now starting to see improvements in both markets. Market indicators and forward rates suggest these improvements will continue over the balance of the year.
The Financial division continues to be active across a wide range of advisory and refinancing projects.
Our retainer fee base remains strong, although revenue will mainly be driven by the ability to deliver success fees from completed projects which can be difficult to predict.
The Logistics division's first quarter is slightly below our expectations mainly due to the mix of business. However, we have recently renewed two important customer contracts which helps to underpin revenue for the remainder of the year. We have also embarked on a number of cost-saving initiatives which includes the downsizing of office facilities.
The Engineering business has traded in line with expectations, close to breaking even. This business has a number of LNG projects which are due to start later in the year.
As announced last month the disposal of the other parts of the former Technical division to AqualisBraemar was successfully completed on 21 June 2019. Braemar now holds a 26% stake in the Enlarged business and we very much look forward to the development of this investment over the coming years.
Overall, the first quarter has begun in line with our expectations and we continue to be positive about the prospects for the remainder of the year.
Braemar Shipping Services
James Kidwell, Chief Executive Tel +44 (0) 20 3142 4100
Nick Stone, Group Finance Director
Peter Mason, Company Secretary
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Robert Finlay / Antonio Bossi / Henry Willcocks Tel +44 (0) 20 7601 6100
Charles Ryland / Victoria Hayns / Stephanie Watson / Tilly Abraham Tel +44 (0) 20 7466 5000
About Braemar Shipping Services plc Braemar Shipping Services plc is a leading international provider of shipbroking, financial advisory, port and marine consulting services principally to the shipping and energy industries. Founded in 1972, Braemar employs approximately 530 people in 30 locations worldwide across its Shipbroking, Financial, Logistics and Engineering divisions.
Braemar joined the Official List of the London Stock Exchange in November 1997 and trades under the symbol BMS.
For more information, including our investor presentation, visit www.braemar.com


Written specifically for the young professional and addressing a growing need for a long service life with minimal maintenance, Concrete Durability takes a whole new look at the whole-life performance of structures. This text examines physical and chemical issues that can threaten the durability of concrete.
It explores available options for achieving appropriate durability, examining how durable concrete can be specified and designed, with emphasis placed on the European standards. The author brings together methods and procedures needed for durability assessment and testing, as well as repair and rehabilitation. The book introduces an approach that identifies what causes deterioration, what factors influence deterioration, and what is required to minimize the rate of deterioration.
This text promotes an understanding of how concrete elements in structures deteriorate. It also determines what must be done to protect structures from rapid deterioration and how existing durability problems can be identified and resolved.


What's the Actual Title of Marvel's Avengers 4?
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, in theaters now.
Judging by audience reactions worldwide, Avengers: Infinity War has proved to be the high-octane ride that the Russo brothers and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige promised. It paints Thanos as a threat that ends up being too formidable for the united front of the Avengers, Wakanda, the Sorcerer Supreme and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and truly does change the complexion of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In a rousing finale, the Mad Titan uses all six Infinity Stones to snap half of the universe's inhabitants out of existence, leaving us with an epic cliffhanger. Just before the credits roll, we see heroes like Steve Rogers, Thor and Bruce Banner among the heartbroken on Earth, and Iron Man and Nebula wallowing in their failures on Titan while Thanos retreats to what seems to be the Soul World to bask in his success.
Naturally, that leaves us wondering what's in the cards for Avengers 4? The studio is on the record as stating it didn't want to reveal its official title for fears of spoiling the Infinity War ending. But despite Feige warning that it may not live up to expectations, speculation is at an all-time high, and we actually do have a few ideas as to what it could be.
2004's Avengers Disassembled, as the title implies, shook up the traditional roster of the Avengers. Incoming writer Brian Michael Bendis wanted to shape a new era, and focused on an unhinged Scarlet Witch launching a series of attacks on Earth's Mightiest Heroes. His and artist David Finch's story ended with characters like Hawkeye and Thor dying, and the likes of Iron Man and Captain America pondering the team's future in the wake of disaster.
Now, while Infinity War isn't remotely close to this narrative, that doesn't prevent the MCU from co-opting the term 'disassembled' in the aftermath of Thanos' victory. After all, the Age of Ultron comic book storyline dealt with time travel, Hank Pym's failures and Wolverine hunting Ultron, whereas the movie detailed Tony Stark trying to stop the rogue artificial intelligence he created with Banner, basically illustrating the freedom Marvel Studios has when adapting the source material -- or co-opting its titles.
With Thanos killing off so many heroes in the MCU -- from Black Panther to Bucky Barnes to Scarlet Witch to Vision to Doctor Strange -- Earth's defenders really have been shattered, physically and mentally, thus providing the studio ample reason to repurpose 'disassembled.' What gives this title credence is that had it been revealed prior, we'd have known for a fact that Thanos leaves our heroes broken and defeated at the end of Infinity War, and while it's little surprise to those of us who live and breathe comics, the average moviegoer likely wasn't expecting such a massive loss of life.


Welcome back to the blogisphere, and congratulations on the baby and your marriage! Two milestones I am still unsure if I'll check off or not! Haha.
So sorry about your mother's diagnosis, but great news that she's in remission 🙂 Hoping that she'll stay in remission for a very long time! Best wishes for 2018!!
Wow. It was a huge year for you last year. With so many things happening. I can understand why you felt everything was hectic! The fact you are able to draw on positives and make progress in self-discovery is fantastic. You should be very proud of that.
It would have been challenging with your mother's diagnosis. Cancer is a scary word and brings with it horrible thoughts and scenarios. My dad had bowel cancer twice. The second time I was a mess. Thankfully he made a full recovery and has been cancer free for almost ten years. I wish your mother the best and hope everything is positive.
I loved reading this, I can imagine how all those sudden changes in your life caused it to fly past without you taking a break and reflecting. I'm glad you took the time to reflect now though, I'm really looking forward to reading about your journey on self-discovery through this blog.
Congratulations on your marriage and little boy ❤ I'm sorry about your mom but wishing her all the best, sending all the love and positive vibes your way.


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Banking is a very powerful instrument of social change. Banks are playing a crucial role in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor. In fact, banking is the backbone of the modern economy. It is difficult to visualize how trade, commerce or business can be conducted without an efficient banking system.
Banking had been in existence even in earliest times, though in other forms. In India, as in other countries, there were money-lenders who charged very heavy rates of interest. The money lenders did not have the welfare of the people at heart.
They only wanted to fill their own pockets and never missed an opportunity to exploit the poor and the needy. There was nobody to check these malpractices. People condemned the money lenders, but they could not do much. They felt helpless once they were caught in the vicious net of the money-lender.
The modern banking system has no scope for this kind of exploitation Before nationalisation, banks were catering to the needs of only a small section of people belonging to the upper strata of society. In rural areas, the needy until quite recently had no choice but to go to the money lender and take loans on his terms. So the benefits of modern banking did not reach the poor.
With a view to bringing commercial banks into the mainstream of economic development with definite social obligations and objectives, the Government acquired the control and ownership of 14 major banks in the country in July 1969.
Six more banks were nationalised in April 1980 Some of the objectives of the public sector banks were: (a) to mobilise savings of people to the largest possible extent and utilise these for productive purposes, (b) legitimate credit needs of the private sector, (c) to acutely foster opportunities for helping neglected and backward areas of the country, (d) curb, use of bank credit for speculative and unproductive purposes.
The philosophy behind nationalisation of banks was that they should function as an instrument for promoting economic and social development in more purposive manner. As against 8262 branches at the end of June 1969, the number of branches at the end of 1992 was more than 60,000.
The thrust of expansion policy has improved the availability of banking facilities in rural areas. They have started extending loans at concessional rates of interest to small farmers, entrepreneurs, artisans, labourers and members of ST and SC. Lead Bank scheme was also introduced in 1969.
Unfortunately, the expectations of the policy makers and the people have not been fulfilled. Since the nationalisation of banks, there has been a slow deterioration in their services.
The banking staff has become ineffi cient, callous and indifferent to the public. Political interference has also adversely affected the working of the banks. Writing off of the loans for political gain, has put the banking services off the rails.


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Велика печатка штату Луїзіана () — один з державних символів штату Луїзіана, США.

Печатку офіційно затверджено 1902 року.

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Печатка являє собою геральдичне зображення бурого пелікана, зване «Пелікан у самопожертві»: птах (офіційний символ штату Луїзіана) розтинає дзьобом груди та годує пташенят своєю кров'ю. Цей символ уособлює милосердя в християнстві і також наявний на прапорі Луїзіани. В емблемі пелікана та його пташенят оточує напис англійською Union, justice, confidence («Єдність, справедливість, довіра») — девіз штату. По зовнішньому колу напис State of Louisiana («Штат Луїзіана»).

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Прапор Луїзіани

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Q: jQuery optimized for iPad? I'm working on a web app for the iPad and most of the effects I've been using are from jQuery. Not all the animations are smooth though, which is why I'm wondering if there is a version of jQuery that is optimized to run smoother on the iPad?

A: There's jQuery mobile: http://jquerymobile.com/
Also, CSS3 animations as per AndreasAL's comment. Use those instead of JavaScript where possible.
Useful article for CSS3 animations with 'normal' (not mobile) jQuery fallbacks; should be applicable to your scenario: http://addyosmani.com/blog/css3transitions-jquery/ Note, however, that many mobile devices have a cache size limit that is exceeded by 'normal' jQuery. Not sure about iPad.
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I came across Zepto.js quite a while ago but forgot about this SO answer until someone bumped it. In many cases, Zepto.js is a drop-in replacement for mobile jQuery-based applications. It is compatible beyond mobile to a limited degree (it's actually for webkit, which default browsers for iOS and Android use), but I wouldn't rely on it for desktop users. You could use a conditional preloader (require.js?) to load jQuery for desktop and Zepto for mobile.
Worst case, drop it in, see if it works for your needs; the syntax is jQuery-compatible so you won't need to modify your custom code just to see if it works.
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If you're doing user agent detection or this is ONLY going to be for iOS and Android, there's also this:
http://www.jqmobi.com/

A: Try this easing jquery plugins optimized for hard animation effects and gives you smooth animation effect
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A: You might want to try dropping the refresh rate of the animations, which you can do like this:
//animate memory hog fix
jQuery.fx.prototype.custom = function(from, to, unit) {
    this.startTime = now();
    this.start = from;
    this.end = to;
    this.unit = unit || this.unit || "px";
    this.now = this.start;
    this.pos = this.state = 0;
    var self = this;
    function t(gotoEnd) {
        return self.step(gotoEnd);
    }
    t.elem = this.elem;
    if (t() && jQuery.timers.push(t) && !jQuery.fx.prototype.timerId) {
        jQuery.fx.prototype.timerId = setInterval(jQuery.fx.tick, 75);
    }
}

Change 75 on that last line to whatever you want. Also be careful what you're animating, just try and do one thing at a time. Opacity is always a memory hog, so try substituting slide effects where you can.

A: I'm using jQuery Animate Enhanced Plugin by Ben Barnett

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