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Scrabble words and 2 letters was last updated on April 26, 2019.


The Jackson community from Paramount Homes offers four single-family homes ready for quick move‑in.
JACKSON, NJ Paramount Homes has unveiled four move-in ready homes at Whispering Meadows, an award-winning single-family home community located in Jackson. The homes, which offer up to 3,295 sq. ft. of living space, are available for quick move-in this fall.
"Distinguished by a lush, natural environment filled with mature trees, Whispering Meadows is pleased to offer four move-in ready homes with gourmet-inspired kitchens, full basements and spacious two-car garages," said Jacqueline Urgo, President of The Marketing Directors, Inc.
The Alexandria 4 home, located at 14 Bellagio Road, features four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, a two-car garage, full basement and 2,767 sq. ft. of living space. "The home, located on a .46-acres wooded home site, offers a country-style entrance with beautiful stone water table and exquisite front porch," said Urgo. The home also features 9' ceilings and hardwood flooring on the first floor, as well as a kitchen with 42" cabinets, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The family room highlights a natural gas fireplace, and a formal living and dining room are also included. This home is priced at $535,000.
The Caribou 4, located at 19 Bellagio Road, is an elegant brick front semi-ranch home that features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and 2,687 sq. ft. of living space. "This home offers a master suite on the first floor with an additional guest suite," said Urgo. The open floor plan is highlighted by a volume ceiling and fireplace in the family room, as well as a large dining room with a bay window. Nestled on .83-acres, the Caribou 4 has a private, wooded backyard backing up to a conservation area and is priced at $549,900.
Situated on .95-acres, the Oxford 1, located at 21 Bellagio Road, features four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a three-car side entry garage, full basement and 3,144 sq. ft. of living space. "This Oxford offers a country-style entrance with stone water table and front porch," said Urgo. "The home also has a spacious kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, family room with natural gas fireplace, master suite with large owner's retreat attached, a spacious living room, dining room and private library." This home is priced at $599,900.
For expanding families or those desiring the most amount of space, the Bedford 3 home, located at 3 Bellagio Road, sits on 3.69 acres and features four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a two-car side entry garage, full basement and 3,295 sq. ft. of living space. This home offers a stunning brick front and country style porch, and features an open kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, a formal dining room with butler's pantry, a family room with natural gas stone fireplace, and an oversized, expanded morning room that opens to a fabulous maintenance-free deck that overlooks the private backyard. Other features include 9' ceilings and hardwood flooring on the first floor, a private study and a master suite with two large walk-in closets. This home is priced at $619,900.
Nestled in Jackson, NJ, Whispering Meadows is accessible to numerous conveniences including the Freehold Raceway Mall, Jackson Premium Outlets, Six Flags Great Adventure, Jersey Shore beaches and a number of family-friendly and fine dining restaurants. The community is also easily accessible to I-195, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway – perfect for commuters.
The Marketing Directors Inc. is the marketing and exclusive sales agent for Paramount Homes' Jackson and Upper Freehold Township communities. Learn more about Paramount Homes' communities and available homes by visiting ParamountHomesNJ.com, calling 732.928.1800 or stopping by their Sales Presentation Center located at 1 Bellagio Road in Jackson, NJ.


NonStop Care is currently working with a leading Children's Charity as they seek to maintain the development of their service throughout Kent.
As a residential care worker you will be working 3 night shifts per 2 weeks, you will not have to stay there as much as usually within residential settings. Allowing a more stable schedule and more free time.
This is an opportunity for you to join a well established organisation with positive reviews from its staff. There is a great team at the organisation that enjoys working together, as their place a high regard on teamwork. You would be joining a positive chorus of people who enjoy their jobs.
This opportunity will serve as a stepping stone for your career goals and own self-development; gain a variety of skills from the experienced individuals who will be supporting you within the service and utilise these throughout the rest of your career.
The service aims to work in partnership with traumatised children and young people within a therapeutic community to help achieve positive outcomes for these individuals.
Promoting well-being and helping children and young people to achieve their potential.
Developing safe, professional supportive and nurturing relationships with children.
Working as part of close-knit team.
Promote, practice and comply with all policies, procedures and instructions.
To participate in individual supervision, training and staff development opportunities as offered.


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When economies just don't grow
Some countries suffer from long-term economic stagnation
In general, economies grow. They do this by accumulating capital (machinery, structures, infrastructure), increasing higher education, and making technological progress. Sometimes they shrink for a time because of recessions, but the general trend is for economies to move upward. Yet, there are a few countries that have stagnated or even shrunk over the longer run.
The graph shows five of these countries. (By the way, we use real GDP per capita so that population growth and inflation don't muddy our measurement of economic performance.) Two of these are poor countries that just don't seem to be making any progress. The worst case is Madagascar, which has suffered from endemic mismanagement since its independence. The other is Zimbabwe, which had impressive growth in the late 1960s and early 1970s that was reversed in the past two decades by mismanagement that culminated in extreme hyperinflation.
Two other countries have a very different history. Brunei is a small southeast Asian nation rich in oil and natural gas. It has been wealthy since its independence, but the decline of oil prices as well as lower production have had an adverse impact on the economy. Equatorial Guinea benefited from the discovery of oil in the 1990s, leading to a spectacular boom that allowed it to shoot past its former colonial power, Spain. But here, again, the lower price of oil has shrunk the economy substantially in subsequent years.
The final case is Ukraine, which had a few very rough years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as did all economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. But unlike its neighbors, it's still far from returning to the level it started from, at least in part because of chronic corruption and political upheaval at home and with neighboring countries.
How this graph was created: Search for "constant GDP per capita Madagascar" and click on the series. To add the other lines, click on "Edit Graph," open the "Add Line" panel, and search for the next series. Add the series and repeat until satisfied. Finally, as the range of values for the series is quite wide, open the "Format" panel and put the y-axis to right for some of them (in our case, Brunei and Equatorial Guinea).
View on FRED, series used in this post: NYGDPPCAPKDBRN, NYGDPPCAPKDGNQ, NYGDPPCAPKDMDG, NYGDPPCAPKDUKR, NYGDPPCAPKDZWE

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package org.apache.cloudstack.storage.datastore.util;

import org.apache.cloudstack.api.ApiConstants;
import org.apache.cloudstack.api.BaseResponse;

import com.cloud.serializer.Param;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class ListElastistorInterfaceResponse extends BaseResponse {
    @SerializedName(ApiConstants.ID)
    @Param(description = "the id of the NIC")
    private String id;

    @SerializedName(ApiConstants.NAME)
    @Param(description = "the name of the NIC")
    private String name;

    @SerializedName(ApiConstants.STATUS)
    @Param(description = "the status of the NIC")
    private String status;

    public String getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(String status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return id;
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}

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Women feel pressured to shave
Type "When did women start shave …" into Google and one of the top autocomplete suggestions to pop up is, "When did women start shaving?"
The answer goes back centuries. Hair removal — or otherwise — has long shaped gender dynamics, served as a signifier of class and defined notions of femininity and the "ideal body."
However, in its most recent evolution, body hair is being embraced by a growing number of young women who are turning a source of societal shame and turning it into a sign of personal strength.
The rise of gender fluidity, the body-positivity movement and the beauty sector's growing inclusiveness have all contributed to the new wave of hirsuteness.
"It's been deeply stigmatized
— it still is — and cast with shame," said Heather Widdows, professor of global ethics at the UK's University of Birmingham and author of "Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal," in a phone interview. "Its removal is one of the few aesthetic traditions that have gone from being a beauty routine to a hygienic one.
"Today, most women feel like they have to shave. Like they have no other option. There's something deeply fraught about that — though perceptions are slowly changing."
Hairlessness wasn't established as a mandate for women until the early 20th century.
Before that, removing body hair was something both men and women did — as far back as the Stone Age, then through ancient Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire — using seashells, beeswax and various other depilatories. In these earlier eras, as Victoria Sherrow writes in "Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History," hairlessness seen mostly as a way to keep the body clean. Ancient Romans also associated it with class: The smoother your skin was, the purer and more superior you were.
In the Middle East, as well as East and South Asia, threading used on the entire face. But unibrows actually considered alluring for both sexes, and often accentuated with kohl.
In Persia, hair removal and brow-shaping a marker of adulthood and marriage for women,
and mainly reserved for that occasion. While in China, body hair long considered normal, and even today woman face far less social pressure to shave.
The same goes for other countries in Asia. While hair removal has become routine for many of the continent's young women. Waxing or trimming pubic hair, for instance, isn't as common as it is in the West.
In fact, in Korea, pubic hair long considered a sign of fertility and sexual health — so much so that, in the mid-2010s, it reported that some Korean women were undergoing pubic hair transplants, to add extra hair to their own.
Europeans n't always obsessed with hair-free skin.
In the Middle Ages, good Catholic women were expected to let their hair grow as a display of femininity, while keeping it concealed in public. The face the only place where hair considered unsightly. 14th-century ladies would pluck the hair from their foreheads in order to push back. Their hairlines and give their faces a more oval appearance. When Elizabeth I came to power in 1558, she made eyebrow removal fashionable.
By the late 18th century, hair removal still n't considered essential. European and American women, although when the first safety razor for men invented. French barber Jacques Perret in 1760, some women reportedly used them too.
It wasn't until the late 1800s that women on both sides of the Atlantic. Started making hair removal an integral part of their beauty routines. The modern-day notion of body. Hair being unwomanly can traced back to Charles Darwin's 1871 book "Descent of a Man." According to Rebecca Herzig's "Plucked: A History of Hair Removal."


Things that are not related specifically to Embrilliance can go here. Discussions about free designs, machine issues and other things, not related to embroidery software.
Discussion of machines and free design downloads allowed. No embroidery software, please, other than Embrilliance, but those topics should be kept in the proper forum.
Missi of Skeldale House has started a new, free Sensitive Floral Alphabet on her website.
Scroll down the Home Page and Click on/in the Box that shows the Sensitive Floral letters A, B, and C.
This takes you to the download page where the first letter A is available to download.
Click on Letter A in the box to download the letter.
Each week she will put up a new letter and the previous letter will then be available to purchase.
Letter L is available today.
Scroll down the Home Page and Click on/in the Box that shows the Sensitive Floral Letter L.
This takes you to the download page where you can download the free letter.
Click on Letter L in the box to download the letter.


We at Hart District Council hope that you will be happy with all the services you receive from us. Most of the time we get it right and we'd love to hear from you when we do. We are also only human and occasionally we get things wrong. You can provide us with feedback by filling in our online customer feedback form.
Talk directly to the Officer concerned. We aim to resolve everything at this stage.
If you are still unhappy you can contact us, please make sure you tell us that you have already spoken to an officer about this.
If after the two steps above you still feel the issue is not resolved, make your complaint in writing to the Chief Executive. This is the final stage of the Council's internal complaints procedure.
At stages 1 to 3 your complaint should be acknowledged within 1 working day and responded to within 10 working days. If more than 30 days goes by between the above stages without us hearing from you, we will assume the matter has been dealt with satisfactorily and the complaint will be closed. If you are still not satisfied with the answers and you feel that there has been maladministration by the Council, please follow the guidance within the complaints policy and contact the Local Government Ombudsman. Please also note our policy in regards to dealing with unacceptable complaints and behaviour.
If you wish to make a complaint against a Councillor please take a look at the information and advice on this first.
If you wish to make a complaint about either Hart Leisure Centre or Frogmore Leisure Centre, please direct all stage 1 complaints to the relevant manager at the centre. If you are still unhappy you can contact us and we will carry out stage 2 and if necessary, stage 3 of the complaint, as per our complaints policy.
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) looks at complaints about councils and some other authorities and organisations. For more information, please visit the LGO website.


Linear-In-The-Parameters Oblique Least Squares (LOLS) Provides More Accurate Estimates of Density-Dependent Survival.
PLoS ONE 11(12):e0167418. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0167418.
On the Choice of Linear Regression Algorithms for Biological and Ecological Applications.
Annual Research & Review in Biology 10(3): 1-9.
Groundwater recharge and capillary rise in irrigated areas of the Upper Yellow River basin assessed by an agro-hydrological model.
Irrigation and Drainage 64: 587-599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ird.1928.
A salinização do solo em Portugal. Causas, extensão e soluções.
Revista de Ciências Agrárias 38(4): 574-586, http://dx.doi.org/10.19084/RCA15140.
Tide and Tidal Currents in the Cape Verde Archipelago.
Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (doi: 10.5894/rgci483).
Evaluation of the potential of a superabsorbent polymer for attenuating spring soil water stress in Alentejo.
Silva Lusitana 23 (1/2), 29-59.
PLoS ONE, 10(3): e0119670. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119670).
Biomass–density data analysis: a comment on Cabaço et al. (2013).
Journal of Ecology, 103, 537–540 (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12294.).
A conceptual framework for the analysis of engineered biodiverse pastures.
Sediment and nutrient dynamics during storm events in the Enxoé temporary river, southern Portugal.


In With the Allies, Davis says that this was not a war against the Germans, but a war against the military aristocracy of Germany. Harding speaks of the lack of knowledge in the United States about the war. He blames censorship and the lack of understanding of the massive scale of the war. Harding believes that America had to take part in the action, because the flight in Europe was not a fair fight. The Table of Contents includes The Germans In Brussels, To Be Treated As A Spy, The Burning Of Louvain, Paris In War Time, The Battle Of Soissons, The Bombardment Of Rheims, The Spirit Of The English, Our Diplomats In The War Zone, Under Fire, The Waste Of War, and The War Correspondents.
164 pages, with a reading time of ~2.5 hours (41,155 words), and first published in 1914. This DRM-Free edition published by epubBooks, 2014.
When, on August 4, the Lusitania, with lights doused and air-ports sealed, slipped out of New York harbor the crime of the century was only a few days old. And for three days those on board the Lusitania of the march of the great events were ignorant. Whether or no between England and Germany the struggle for the supremacy of the sea had begun we could not learn.
But when, on the third day, we came on deck the news was written against the sky. Swinging from the funnels, sailors were painting out the scarlet-and-black colors of the Cunard line and substituting a mouse-like gray. Overnight we had passed into the hands of the admiralty, and the Lusitania had emerged a cruiser. That to possible German war-ships she might not disclose her position, she sent no wireless messages. But she could receive them; and at breakfast in the ship's newspaper appeared those she had overnight snatched from the air. Among them, without a scare-head, in the most modest of type, we read: "England and Germany have declared war." Seldom has news so momentous been conveyed so simply or, by the Englishmen on board, more calmly accepted. For any exhibition they gave of excitement or concern, the news the radio brought them might have been the result of a by-election.
Word came that in the North Sea the English war-ships had destroyed the German fleet. To celebrate this battle which, were the news authentic, would rank with Trafalgar and might mean the end of the war, one of the ship's officers exploded a detonating bomb. Nothing else exploded. Whatever feelings of satisfaction our English cousins experienced they concealed.
Under like circumstances, on an American ship, we would have tied down the siren, sung the doxology, and broken everything on the bar. As it was, the Americans instinctively flocked to the smoking-room and drank to the British navy. While this ceremony was going forward, from the promenade-deck we heard tumultuous shouts and cheers. We believed that, relieved of our presence, our English friends had given way to rejoicings. But when we went on deck we found them deeply engaged in cricket. The cheers we had heard were over the retirement of a batsman who had just been given out, leg before wicket.
The secrecy maintained by the press and the people regarding anything concerning the war, the knowledge of which might embarrass the War Office, was one of the most admirable and remarkable conspiracies of silence that modern times have known. Officers of the same regiment even with each other would not discuss the orders they had received. In no single newspaper, with no matter how lurid a past record for sensationalism, was there a line to suggest that a British army had landed in France and that Great Britain was at war. Sooner than embarrass those who were conducting the fight, the individual English man and woman in silence suffered the most cruel anxiety of mind. Of that, on my return to London from Brussels, I was given an illustration. I had written to The Daily Chronicle telling where in Belgium I had seen a wrecked British airship, and beside it the grave of the aviator. I gave the information in order that the family of the dead officer might find the grave and bring the body home. The morning the letter was published an elderly gentleman, a retired officer of the navy, called at my rooms. His son, he said, was an aviator, and for a month of him no word had come. His mother was distressed. Could I describe the air-ship I had seen?
I was not keen to play the messenger of ill tidings, so I tried to gain time.
"What make of aeroplane does your son drive?" I asked.
As though preparing for a blow, the old gentleman drew himself up, and looked me steadily in the eyes.
"A Blériot monoplane," he said.
I was as relieved as though his boy were one of my own kinsmen.
Of the two I appeared much the more pleased.
"But why didn't you go to the War Office?" I asked.


For questions about the Benelux H.O.G. Rally 2019 you can contact the organising team of the Rock City Chapter at info@hogstock.nl.
Would you like to contribute to our HOGSTOCK anniversary party? Become a partner! Please contact us at info@hogstock.nl and ask for the possibilities!
Do you want to be a volunteer and help us during this great party, please register your interest with our volunteer coordinator at peter@rockcitychapter.nl.


gonna do my first lager next week...a nice crisp dry german pils.
anyone out there making a good pils out there that would want to share some advice?
got some good quality pilsner malt...thinking about adding a little vienna for color and maybe a little carapils.
wondering what you guys suggest for a good yeast.
This thread (http://www.probrewer.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=11309&highlight=pils+yeast) started earlier today.


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Entertainment TV News
'Why would I not?' - Meghan Markle's estranged half-sister Samantha hints at Celebrity Big Brother appearance
The half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex refused to deny she will appear on the Channel 5 show.
Samantha Grant (ITV)
Laura Harding
July 23 2018 11:12 AM
Samantha Markle has added fuel to rumours she will be appearing on Celebrity Big Brother.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/why-would-i-not-meghan-markles-estranged-half-sister-samantha-hints-at-celebrity-big-brother-appearance-37144814.html
https://www.independent.ie/incoming/52a49/37144758.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/ipanews_a624c422-0de0-4607-87d3-a07b030a814f_1
The half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex is reported to be entering the house for the Channel 5 reality show.
Asked about it on ITV's Good Morning Britain she said: "I've worked in media most of my life, why would I not?
Exclusive: Samantha Markle denies she is 'cashing in' on her half-sister's royal connections insisting 'we all have to survive, money makes the world go round'. She later refused to deny rumours about going into Celebrity Big Brother house. pic.twitter.com/tVg5yzlF98
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) July 23, 2018
"Why would I stop living because I have a family issue going on?"
She continued: "The media make billions of dollars off social issues and talking about the royals. I don't see how we're any different. No one has a copyright on our life experiences.
"We are each individuals with our own life experience. With all due respect, it's not just Meg, we're entitled to share that, we're entitled to be open about it, if we can shed some light on some issues for the public, then great.
"We can enjoy the process. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's not disparaging, it's not harmful.
"For someone to say, 'Oh you shouldn't take any money, you should turn down a pay cheque', go tell your boss you don't want a pay cheque for interviewing me because that's cashing in."
Exclusive: Samantha Markle, the half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex, is pleading with Meghan to speak to her father. They haven't spoken for months over fears he'll leak details of their conversation to the press. pic.twitter.com/yVcq4pmpu2
Questioned again about Celebrity Big Brother, she said: "I would tell you, but then I would have to kill you, so…. I don't want to find myself in locks and stocks quite frankly. It wouldn't be becoming."
Responding to criticism that she is making money from her half-sister's position, she said: "I have to say, first of all, people don't know about me, I've worked in media most of my life and in broadcasting. So because my sister is suddenly royal isn't grounds for me to stop doing all that.
"Let's face it, we all have to survive, money makes the world go round, so if you want to call that cashing in, that's fine.
"But no one in the media would refuse a pay cheque for talking about the royals and as a family we're not subject to royal protocol, certainly here in America. If you want to call it cashing in, I think that's a little bit ridiculous."
Read more: Meghan Markle's father Thomas gives very detailed interview on Good Morning Britain about her marriage to Prince Harry
'I have a right to speak the truth' - Meghan Markle's half sister Samantha criticises her in new TV interview
Follow @IndoEnts
Twitter users are all making the same joke about this photo of the Taoiseach with Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Royal correspondent tells Lorraine Kelly that Harry and Meghan will meet the 'Tea Set' at 'Crows Park' in Dublin
Love Island viewers confused by patch on newcomer Rebecca's thigh
By Alex Green, PA Entertainment Reporter Love Island viewers have been left intrigued by a mysterious patch on newcomer Rebecca Gormley's thigh.
Netflix reveal blockbuster viewing figures for third series of The Crown
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Susanna Reid reveals dramatically different look in throwback clip
By Alex Green, PA Entertainment Reporter Susanna Reid has surprised fans by sharing a throwback clip of her reading the news for the BBC in 2000.
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2020 Porsche Taycan Gets a Workout at Nardo and the Nurburgring
The new EV's 2128-mile run over 24 hours and 7:42 lap of the Nurburgring show its versatility for both road and racetrack.
By Austin Irwin
The 2020 Porsche Taycan completed 2128 miles in 24 hours, running between 121 and 133 mph, around the Nardò Ring in Italy.
It also lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany in seven minutes and 42 seconds.
The multitasking EV makes its official debut on September 4, a week ahead of the Frankfurt auto show.
Porsche is keen to prove that the Taycan is a track-worthy EV. During a ride in a prototype earlier this year, Porsche's battery-electric-vehicle product line director, Robert Meier, claimed that the Taycan had already lapped below eight minutes on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Now, just days before the new model's big reveal, and after a 24-hour run at the Nardò Ring in Italy where it covered 2128 miles, Porsche has announced the actual time: 7 minutes and 42 seconds over the 12.8-mile circuit, which is the quickest ever recorded on a production EV.
Running an electric car at high speeds tests the vehicle's range, how long it takes to charge, and how well it deals with the heat generated by discharging and charging the battery. Warm weather made the Taycan's thermal challenges even more difficult. Track temperatures at the Nardò Ring in Italy shot as high as 129 degrees Fahrenheit during testing. Nardò has been used for high-speed testing for decades for endurance testing of supercars including the Bugatti Veyron and the Koenigsegg CCR. Porsche Engineering Group purchased the track in 2012.
The Taycan at Nardò.
Porsche wouldn't reveal how much time during the 24 hours was spent charging, or how many times the team had to plug in the Taycan. Porsche did claim that the Taycans only stopped to recharge and swap drivers, however, and its claims of speeds between 121 and 133 mph when it was running indicates that the car spent between six and a half and eight hours stopped and presumably charging.
C/D saw a predicted 234-mile range from a fully charged Taycan during a ride in a prototype earlier this month. Going by those numbers means that Porsche could have completed 2128 miles in as few as nine stops depending on how far they let the battery discharge. But that range is very likely based on speeds well below the triple digits sustained during the endurance run. The key element to this run is the Taycan's quick charging times, which is possible because of the car's 800-volt electrical architecture. Porsche claims that the Taycan can add 62 miles of range in only four minutes when plugged into a 350-kW charger.
Using 800 volts, which is far higher than competitors use, allows the Taycan to do a lot of things that EVs haven't been able to do until now. Porsche claims that the Taycan will do 10 launch-control starts in a row without power degradation whereas Teslas slow down after just a couple of runs.
Porsche developed the Taycan's battery and EV technology on the racetrack. Lessons learned from the 800-volt Porsche's 919 hybrid system have transferred to the street car. And while a Taycan is unlikely to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, it's good to know that it can go 2128 miles in 24 hours.
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Maine: Several Bills Scheduled for Work Session this Week
On Friday, March 24, the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety will be holding a work session to consider several pro- and anti-gun bills. Please contact members of the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and urge them to support the following pro-gun bills and oppose the following anti-gun bills.
Pro-Gun:
Legislative Document 9, sponsored by state Representative Patrick Cory (R-25), sponsored by state Representative Patrick Cory (R-25), would prohibit a government agency of Maine, or a political subdivision of Maine, from keeping a list or registry of privately owned firearms or a list or registry of the owners of those firearms.
Legislative Document 44, sponsored by state Senator Eric Brakey (R-20), would lower the age requirement for concealed carry from 21 years of age to 18 years of age unless otherwise prohibited, thereby making age requirements consistent throughout statute.
Legislative Document 350, sponsored by state Representative Lance Harvell (R-113), would repeal the law that requires a firearms dealer who sells, lets or loans a firearm to make a copy of the form the dealer must keep pursuant to federal law, and to show that copy to a law enforcement officer or prosecuting attorney.
Legislative Document 574, sponsored by state Senator Eric Brakey (R-20), would eliminate the "duty to inform" provision of the law which requires a person in lawful possession of a concealed firearm without a permit during the course of a detainment or routine traffic stop to inform the law enforcement officer that the person is in possession of the firearm.
Anti-Gun:
Legislative Document 351, sponsored by state Representative John Spear (D-92), would allow municipalities to prohibit firearm owners from carrying during municipal public proceedings and in polling places.
Legislative Document 352, sponsored by state Representative Deane Rykerson (D-1), would require a firearms dealer to sell a gun lock with every firearm the dealer sells at retail in the state of Maine.
Legislative Document 501, sponsored by state Senator David Miramant (D-12), would require a person attempting to purchase a firearm to present the seller with proof of having successfully completed military firearms training or an approved firearm safety course. The bill also provides that a person may meet this requirement by presenting proof of having satisfied the handgun safety course requirements for a permit to carry concealed handguns.
Once again, please contact members of the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee in regards to these bills. Stay tuned to your email inbox and www.nraila.org for further updates on these bills.
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South Korean president Park Geun-hye, suffering from the worst rejection of a sitting president in the country's political history, has apologized for the second time this week for the abuse of power scandal that has rocked her government tis week.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Park's close friend and informal advisor, Choi Soon-sil, on charges of abuse of power and attempted government fraud, and Park, South Korea's first female president, is being accused of allowing Choi to view confidential documents,presidential speeches and accumulating millions of dollars in donations to her foundations despite not holding an official government position.
In the apology made today, Friday, Park said she'll take all responsibility for her close friend Choi Soon-sil's access to government documents and was willing to be investigated, she even denied being in a cult.
"All of this happening is my fault. It happened because of my neglect," she said in an emotional televised address Friday.
"I feel a huge responsibility [for the scandal] deep in my heart,"
"There are even talks of me being immersed in a cult or resorting to shamanism in the Blue House. I would like to say that this is absolutely not true," she said.
"I put too much faith in a personal relationship and didn't look carefully at what was happening".
"Sad thoughts trouble my sleep at night. I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult to mend the hearts of the people, and then I feel a sense of shame and ask myself, 'Is this the reason I became president?'"
Park said anyone found to have done wrong would be punished, and "if necessary, I'm determined to let prosecutors investigate me and accept an investigation by an independent counsel too".
Park's rating among South Koreans is now 5%, with 89% having a negative opinion of her performance since the scandal broke out according to a new Gallup poll in South Korea.


Just got an invite to training today! Does anyone know if the 5 week training will be paid at a different rate or if its paid at all? Also, how can I prepare myself to be ready for the physical demands of the training ? I would consider myself in shape but I would love any pointers that may help me out. Best of luck to everyone else still waiting!
Congrats! What region? Afaik training is paid at the same rate as your working rate. I know the PARE focuses on cardio/muscular endurance so exercising it that type of way would probably be beneficial for the student position.
I forgot to mention that they stated I won't receive a formal offer until the day my training begins. Is this normal?
I heard this was the case from someone who was a CBSA student clerk a few years ago. Did they atleast tell you a wage yet?
M position will be located in the GTA region! Thanks for the tip on being prepared for the physical demands of the first few weeks and my question about training pay. In regards to my letter of offer, no they didn't mention what I would be getting paid, this is one of the details that I would like to know and was hoping I didn't have to wait until training commenced. Nonetheless, I am very excited to be invited out for training and hoping all goes well.
Out of curiousity, did they place you at a specific site within the GTA after your training? That is of course, if you are comfortable answering.
No problem best of luck! I've found this website and the /r/CanadaPublicServants subreddit to be very informative resources for navigating the CBSA and fswep process. You could always also try to email recruitment in regards to compensation information.
I won't go into detail with the exact location but they did state where I will be working if I pass the training.
Thank you! I didn't mean for that to come off snarky as it might have after I re-read it. Best of luck and hopefully you get an email soon!
Can anyone give me some insight on what the shifts will be like for a SBSO in the GTA Region? I am not familiar with shift work so I don't really know what to expect.
I ended up finding some information on SBSO shift work on the /r/CanadaPublicServants Reddit page. If anyone is wondering, a former SBSO that worked at an airport noted it is 5 days on, 4 days off, alternating between morning, evening, and overnight shifts. Shifts are 10 hours long with a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks, you receive a $2 premium per hour for working an evening/overnight shift or a shift on the weekend and $4 premium if you work an evening/overnight shift on a weekend. If this isn't correct or I misinterpreted it, feel free to correct me as I am still trying to learn!
Has anyone is the prairie region, more specifically Calgary, received their security clearance. I received my medical back, and had my security interview in December, but haven't received the results of the clearance yet?
Hey, I'm from Calgary too! I haven't received medical or security clearance, but I did get a letter in the mail regarding my medical from AHS so I know I passed it I'm just waiting on CBSA to email. I had my security interview Feb 12th. I feel like the only people getting clearances and LoO's are from GTA, I haven't heard much about the prairie region yet. I was hoping an email would come in this week, but now I gotta wait till next week and do the same cycle over again haha.
Got my LoO, I am excited!
Thank you! I hope everyone qualified gets the good news too! Afaik the new pay steps from last week were the reason for a delay this year since they probably had to rewrite letters.
Has anyone from the GTA region received a LoO or invite to training recently? I'm still waiting to hear back.


Two sets of adsorbents were prepared from locally available raw materials, characterized and tested. The first set consists of crushed natural attapulgite and crushed attapulgite mixed with petroleum tank-bottom sludge and carbonized at 650 °C. Another set was prepared using trunk of date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) activated at 700 and 800°C. Both sets were characterized using BET surface area and pore distributions, FTIR, XRD, SEM and TEM. Natural attapulgite and attapulgite/sludge composite exhibited different characteristics and adsorptive capacities for oil removal from oily water. Adsorptive capacities were calculated from the breakthrough curves of a column test. An oily water solution of about 500 mg-oil/L was passed through both the attapulgite and attapulgite/sludge columns until the column effluent concentration exceeded a reference limit of 10 mg-oil/L. Uptake was calculated at this limit at 155 and 405 mg-oil/g-adsorbent, respectively. This was lower than the performance of a commercial activated carbon sample (uptake calculated at 730 mg-oil/g-adsorbent). Relatively, the date palm, carbonaceous-based adsorbent samples showed less significant differences in both bulk and surface properties. Uptake significantly improved to 1330-1425 mg-oil/g-adsorbent. Attempt was made to associate this performance with the difference in the surface areas between the two sets. However, other factors are found to be important as the second set has a range of surface area less than that of the commercial sample. As evidenced by FTIR, XRD and TEM, the activated carbonaceous materials developed porous structures which form defective graphitic sheet ensembles that serve as additional adsorption sites in the sample. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.
The study was generously supported by Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum, under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan.


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The year 2020 has been a newsy year. The coronavirus pandemic along with several other big events raised the game of TRP for news channels as well as print media. With news consumption becoming increasingly important in the changing times, advertisers too now need to play their game better.
On Friday Adam Singolda, Founder & CEO- Taboola, spoke to Nawal Ahuja, Co-Founder & Director- exchange4media Group on the topic -News is important during Covid times: What this means to advertisers. The discussion was part of the e4m Martech Leadership Series.
Speaking about the increased digital consumption of content and the trends that have shaped up during the past few months in news consumption, Singolda said, "User consumption pattern for content has changed drastically. This has created a huge opportunity for advertisers like never before. Advertisers have realised that they can sell/buy products directly as users have adopted and are ready to spend. Users' behaviour has changed forever and this is an opportunity for advertisers to utilize this changed consumer behaviour for good."
Stressing on the tool/methods used by advertisers to reach consumers, he said, "A major part of the advertisers' business will be driven by AI in India in the years to come. "
The biggest change that has happened is in the human behaviour and how people react to technology, according to Singolda.
Expressing concerns over fake news and irrelevant and irresponsible content, he said, "Technology cannot solve the problem of fake news. The over-dependence on AI is a concern. AI is the biggest enabler but also a problem when it comes to human values and ethics."
Moving the conversation forward, Singolda talked about brands using digital either for advertisement or brand enhancement. "Advertisers leveraged the use of data and analytics during these challenging times to amplify their digital presence. Several new categories have popped up and have become relevant in the digital diaspora due to the pandemic."
Putting the spotlight on the challenges posed by Google and Facebook on local advertisers and publishers, the Founder & CEO said that second half of 2020 was much better for advertisers and publishers than the first half. Brand advertisers have seen a rebound in revenues during the period.
Singolda hoped that content gets integrated in every part of business over the next five years and news consumption becomes more and more important, giving advertisers and publishers their fair share of sales and revenues.
Talking about issues faced by publishers and advertisers in other parts of the world, he talked about smaller screens becoming more accessible and user-friendly in the times to come and that publishers and advertisers might take some time to adjust to this. While speaking about India, he praised the editorial- first priority of the publishers in the country.
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Talking about the importance of video content in engaging consumers, he said, "Video content is a good performing asset for brands and advertisers as its engagement levels are high and it is going to be the best way for advertisers and publishers for increased revenue generation in the times to come. "
Concluding the session, Singolda advised marketers on key strategies to adapt in the post-pandemic world. He stressed on the using data and insights, taking risks, working with small advertisers and publishers, and supporting evolving businesses.
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The Beau Brummels were formed in 1964. They were being produced by Sylvester Stewart whose nom de plum became Sly Stone. With the release of "Laugh, Laugh" and the B side, "Still in Love with You Baby," The Beau Brummels carried the moniker of America's answer to the Beatles. In 1965, the Brummels' first album,' Introducing The Beau Brummels' was released. They had a top ten single, "Just a Little" in that same year. At the First Annual Pop Music Awards (later renamed the Grammy Awards) The Beau Brummels won the award for "Best New Vocal Group". In 2011 Ron Elliott, song writer, guitarist and the who put together The Beau Brummels was approached by Producer Lou Dorren about a new Brummels CD. Elliott pulled together a large quantity of songs and chose 15 of them for the CD The Beau Brummels band members included Ron Elliott, Ron Meagher, Declan Mulligan, John Petersen and Sal Valentino. Unfortunately, John Petersen passed away in 2008. Dorren still wanted to have all of The Beau Brummels on this CD. After obtaining 3 Drum tracks that Petersen had recorded in 1965, Elliott and Dorren together chose one of the tracks that Petersen had done and Elliott wrote a song to go along with this track. That song is the lead song of the new Continuum CD and is titled "She Is." This performance has all of the original Beau Brummels performing. Included with the CD is a 36 page booklet. In the booklet are many great photos from the 60s to now as well as The Beau Brummels history. All the songs lyrics are also included in this booklet. Great music and fun reading!!


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Our featured display of the work of Jonathan Gibbs continues at The Rowley Gallery. There is a good selection of his wood engravings, many of which have been used as illustrations and book jacket designs, notably by Faber & Faber and the Folio Society. An often recurring formal theme is the playful combination of ripples and grids, like a game of snakes and ladders.
This emblematic image, Tree At My Window contrasts the rigid geometry of the window frame with the sinuous geometry of tree branches; it suggests a vine on a trellis, even Mondrian's Pier and Ocean.
The contained zig zag energy of Herringbone II draws from a familiar vocabulary of frames and meshes, ropes and spirals, vernacular abstract devices often found at the seaside and in the wood.
As well as wood engravings there are also a few examples of Jonathan's coloured drawings.
His patterned bookbinding paper, produced by the Judd Street Gallery, features on the backs of our handmade photo frames.
Please also see the earlier post – Jonathan Gibbs @ The Rowley Gallery.
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I've been admiring these gorgeous printed papers for some time now and your post has really made me appreciate them even more! Thanks!
I was actually looking to use them (and maybe some from Curwen) for some potential jewellery designs, what did you use to adhere them to your frames? I was thinking of some permanent spray adhesive might do the trick. They'll obviously need to varnished for protection of course, something with a matt finish.
Thanks Ann. The paper's fixed with spray adhesive but no varnish. Lots more papers available from Falkiners.


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Socialism Seeks Its Rebirth in Latin America
Lopez Obrador, in alliance with the future Kirchnerist government, could prolong Nicolas Maduro's reign of power.
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By Emmanuel Rincón Last updated Sep 27, 2019
13th Sao Paulo Forum in full swing, 2007. (Efe)
The fact that Mexico and Uruguay have sided with barbarism in the darkest hours of Venezuela is not a coincidence at all if we consider the ideological profile of their rulers. A decade has passed since the peak of the Sao Paulo Forum, the congregation of left-wing parties that have become governments in Latin America, financed to a great extent by Venezuelan petrodollars under the command of Hugo Chavez. Venezuelans today bear the cost of wasting money to fund a political project on an international scale.
The founders of this forum were Lula da Silva and Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 1990. The latter was in large part responsible for promoting socialist cancer in Latin America.
According to the foundational bases of the forum, it was set up to bring together the efforts of left-wing parties and movements to "debate the international scene after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequences of neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Castro, who drove his population into poverty, was the fundamental axis of the attack on the continent's freedom. For decades, his totalitarian government financed and advised armed guerrilla revolutions in the main democracies of the region, such as Colombia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. He even participated in armed invasions in African and Asian countries such as Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Angola, and Ethiopia. Furthermore, he unsuccessfully attempted to destabilize Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Beginning of the Cuban revolution with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as leading exponents (Archive).
After years of failed attempts at armed intervention, Castro found in Chavez his perfect ally to finance and expand socialist cancer in Latin America, as detailed in Orlando Avendaño's book, Dias de Sumision. Chavez's ascent to power represented the rise of the first leftist government in decades in the continent where the economic portfolio served to consolidate the ideological boom in the region and fulfill the dream of the warlords of Venezuela and Cuba (to unify Latin America under the yoke of socialism). As a result, in the following years, the Sao Paulo Forum was filled not with parties, but with states with partisan representations.
In 2002, Lula da Silva (one of the founders of the forum) of the Workers' Party was elected in Brazil; in 2004,it was Tabare Vazquez of (Broad Front) who won the presidency in Uruguay; Bolivia followed in 2005 with the election of Evo Morales of the Movement to Socialism in Bolivia; Michelle Bachelet of the Socialist Party of Chile in 2006. That same year Rafael Correa (PAIS Alliance) in Ecuador and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua (for the second time) (Sandinista National Liberation Front) came to power.
In the following years the governing parties with representation in the Sao Paulo Forum would continue to grow with the election of Fernando Lugo in Paraguay for the Patriotic Alliance for Change; Mauricio Funes of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in El Salvador in 2009, and Ollanta Humala for the Nationalist Party of Peru in 2011. We can also include the Argentine government presided over by the Kirchners, who, although they were not direct members of the forum, were ideologically and economically aligned with it, especially with Chavez's government and later with Nicolas Maduro.
In short, it was Castro who sowed in Chavez the seed that would forever change the continent's political dynamics, leading several countries in the region back to the past and failure. Moreover, they were accomplices in international organizations of aberrations, economic crashes, and repressions against citizens of countries that have already transcended into tyrannies, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.
It is not a coincidence that the high point of the forum was the arrival of Chavez to power and that the decline of the forum also happened right after his death. The commander was consciously able to unite the socialist flag in the region due to the excess liquidity granted by the largest oil reserves on the planet. The value of a barrel of oil was more than 100 USD during most of Chavez's presidency. Thus, there were no limits on the financing of populist measures inside and outside Venezuela. Additionally, the regime could buy out consciences in American and the Caribbean countries, which always knew how to return favors in silence when international organizations discussed human rights violations by leftist regimes.
Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, is still the icon of the PSUV and the Chavista dictatorship (Efe).
After Chavez's premature death due to cancer, his legacy was in the hands of Maduro. Many want to blame Maduro entirely for the revolutionary failure in Venezuela to try to absolve the commander, but above all, socialism. Certainly, the principle of separation of powers had already been cast aside when Maduro came to power.
Statism had already made its way by seizing private property to exploit it and then break it. The oil company had already been destroyed and plundered. All the money made from these looting operations was distributed to the people through bags of food, thus financing the ideological extension of socialism in the continent. The only thing it left in Venezuela was hunger, tears, death, a devastated economy, and no type of infrastructure.
We can put the failure of socialism in numbers. It is sufficient to say that after Chavez came to power in 1998, PDVSA produced 88 barrels a day per employee. Today, it produces less than 6 barrels per worker, according to economist Jose Toro Hardy. With a much lower payroll, PDVSA produced 3,279,000 barrels a day, a number far higher than the approximately 700,000 today, of which some 100,000 are given to Cuba. Thus, the result of PDVSA's decline translates into a current annual production of around 255,500,000 barrels, as opposed to 1,196,835,000 barrels a year 20 years ago, a production loss of more than 80% and billions of dollars.
The destruction of Venezuela's economic engine has replicated itself in the other productive sectors of the country: construction, automobiles, food production, agriculture, textiles, business, tourism, and finance. Successively, all the fields in which the state has intervened have collapsed, completely wrecking the economy, producing historical hyperinflation, and turning Venezuela into the biggest migratory catastrophe in the history of Latin America.
Two dictatorships that began in the previous century can also be useful to show the differences between a socialist government and a capitalist one. When Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba enjoyed social and economic conditions similar to those in Chile. In 1958 Cuba's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 2,360 million USD for a population of 6,631,000 inhabitants and Chile's was 2,580 million USD for a population of 7,165,000 inhabitants. Chile's GDP currently stands at 507,939 million dollars, compared to 96,851 million dollars in Cuba in 2017, which was its last official data.
The realization of the reality of Venezuela has indeed shaken the conscience of the continent. It has also made way for the return of governments who are ideologically inclined to support free markets and strengthening of the economy. Meanwhile, other significant countries such as Mexico have succumbed to communism as seen with the presidency in another oil-rich country with a sizeable monetary portfolio capable of financing the boom of the movement of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Cristina Kirchner's return to power in Argentina is almost imminent. We can predict that the continent will lean left again, and that will prolong Maduro's stay in power.
The left's hope in Latin America was reborn with Lopez Obrador. In his first months in office, he has revealed many similarities with the late President Chavez (Efe).
Currently, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Dominican Republic, and Ecuador have left-wing governments (although the latter two nations have rescinded their support for Maduro's dictatorship). But the danger of a new expansionist wave of misery is latent. This is taking into account the threat of Senator Gustavo Petro (one of Chavez' faithful followers) in Colombia.
Maduro's dictatorship protects the FARC's return to arms and the exponential growth of the ELN. Kirchnerism is back in power in Argentina. Venezuela faces a dreadful scenario where not only is Maduro in power, but the country also suffers the tragedy of a majority of openly socialist opposition parties, whereby the interim President of the country, Juan Guaido, and his party Popular Will, together with A New Era and Democratic Action are members of the G4 that today control the National Assembly and are part of the Socialist International. The fourth member of the G4, Justice First which is the only party considered centrist, but its leaders, such as former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, have declared themselves admirers of Lula da Silva's socialism.
The crucial countries that can define the geopolitical destinies of the region are Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia; also, Cuba could be included due to its ideological and strategic repercussions. Today, Brazil seems to be safe. Chile is the only country in the region that has managed to establish strong enough institutions that, despite socialist governments, have not succeeded in undermining the free economic system implemented thanks to the authoritarian but efficient government of Augusto Pinochet decades ago. However, the fall of Argentina is imminent. It could lead to new alliances with Mexico to block any opportunities to end the dictatorship in Venezuela and could also destabilize Colombia with the advice of Cubans, left-wing finance parties in the rest of the region to once again bring the continent down to its knees and protect themselves from international pressure.
Today, despite international pressure, Maduro is smiling because he has managed to hold on to power, repressing his country. Meanwhile, the "opposition" leadership has been called into question on more than one occasion; it has a left-wing ideological line and has been accused by the Venezuelan population of collaborating with Maduro's regime.
Guaido in a march with members of his Popular Will party, registered in the Socialist International (Photo: EFE).
For the dictator of Venezuela, time is his greatest ally. Every day that passes is pure gold for him and misery, humiliations, emigration, and death for Venezuelans. The regime continues to push out Venezuelans who oppose its government, thus enabling it to control the country. It has also been reported that the regime has followed the Cuban tactics and promoted the movement of criminals to the countries of the region to destabilize them.
In short, socialism aims to reconquer Latin America, with Lopez Obrador, Maduro, and Diaz-Canel spearheading this mission. If no one stops them, the crisis in Latin America will be gigantic. The United States will have completely lost control of the region and not even the walls that Donald Trump wants or can build will be able to stop a migratory stampede from Central America towards a country that increasingly rejoices at the socialism established within the Democratic Party.
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Emmanuel Rincón is a Venezuelan lawyer and writer. Author of five novels, winner of several international literary awards, with a degree in Modern Masterpieces of World Literature from Harvard University.
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Jaïr van der Lijn, Timo Smit, Xenia Avezov
A total of 57 multilateral peace operations were conducted in 2013, 4 more than in 2012. The continued increase in the number of operations in 2013 suggests that the reversal in 2012 in the downward trend from 2009 to 2011 was structural (see figure 3.1).1 Nonetheless, 2013 had the fourth lowest number of operations in the period 2004–13.
van der Lijn, Jaïr, Timo Smit, and Xenia Avezov. "3. Peace operations and conflict management." SIPRI Yearbook. SIPRI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016. Web. 19 Jan. 2020. <https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198712596/sipri-9780198712596-chapter-4-div1-2.xml>.
van der Lijn, J., Smit, T., & Avezov, X. (2016). 3. Peace operations and conflict management. In SIPRI, SIPRI Yearbook 2014: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 Jan. 2020, from https://www.sipriyearbook.org/view/9780198712596/sipri-9780198712596-chapter-4-div1-2.xml
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A towering skyscraper that blends Moorish, Byzantine and Arabic motifs with clean and simple modern lines, the Dayabumi Complex is an impressive feat of architectural imagination and one of the most incredible sights to behold in Kuala Lumpur.
For most of the twentieth century, the current site of the building acted as grounds for Malayan Railway workshops and depots due to the proximity of the KL train station. When the Dayabumi Complex was finally completed in 1984, it was the most expensive building in Malaysia.
Today, the building houses government offices, a shopping arcade (Citypoint) and a gigantic post office. You're most likely to spot it from Central Market or on your way to the National Textile Museum or National Mosque.
Describe the main aspects of Dayabumi Complex. Write in the 2nd person ('go there/when we went' instead of 'I went/this writer went/one can go'). Tell it as it is, but stick to the facts.
What's good or bad about Dayabumi Complex? Your opinion counts!


Sometimes it seems like I have nothing to talk about. But now I have big news. Mosaic, a Compilation of Creative Writing by the Cartel Collaborative will be released next Wednesday, March 25th. Less than a week to go! I'm excited, because this book of short stories and poems is the result of many months of hard work by the eight authors featured here.
A little history: we 'met' on the internet via Joe Bunting's The Story Cartel Course, which emphasizes the importance of writers helping other writers. James Lee Schmidt came up with the idea of putting a book together – we'd shared and critiqued stories, so he figured we had the talent. Soon, Mosaic was birthed!
Each day for the next five days, I'll tell you a little more about our process, and feature a couple of the authors.
Today (drum roll please) – Margie Deeb.
I don't know what we would have done without Margie, who designed the book. We were incredibly lucky to have this talented visual artist, who has published five books about bead work and won an award for The Beader's Color Pallet. Because of her, we ended up with a visually beautiful product. Even more, she wrote two short shorts, Leonardo, and Connecting Flight, which are humorous and sweet. It's fantastic the way they add variety and contrast with some of the longer, heavier, stories.
This is a piece by Margie. See what I mean about talented visual artist?
To learn more about Margie, and see more of her incredible artwork, go to MargieDeeb.com. I think you'll be amazed.
And, no, this is not our cover. Ours is amazing and I'm not revealing it yet. This is a photo by Ayla87 at freeimages.com.


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