The first impression of this weighty tome is that it might be aimed at the more advanced home mechanic.
Get inside it though and it's actually very beginner friendly, with great emphasis placed on initial positioning and bike set-up.
The step-by-step processes can appear a little information dense, however, and not everything gets a diagram, but it's not too drily written.
The illustrations that are included are extremely clear and detailed though.
The book is a comprehensive overview on setting up and maintaining a road bike - of course if you're a hybrid or mountain bike rider, it's not for you.


text:
Göhren-Lebbin is a municipality  in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The town part Untergöhren is located on the shore of the Fleesensee.

References

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Our range has everything from handled water cooler bottles to racks that aide safety in the workplace. Our water cooler accessories range has bottle covers to cap removers as well as manual pumps. As always if you cannot find what you are looking for get in touch.


Our cancer rehabilitation program offers trained staff members and researched-based methods proven to help you heal in the best possible way and return to the highest level of function.
In the Nurse Navigator Program, a registered nurse with expertise in oncology care guides you through the treatment process into survivorship. The nurse navigator ensures that you receive the support and knowledge you need throughout your time with us.
Caring for people with cancer and their loved ones at McGlinn Cancer Institute goes beyond clinical expertise and the most promising therapies. That is why we also provide helpful programs and resources to assist patients and their families at every stage of treatment and recovery.
Man-to-Man Support Group – Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, this educational and support group is for men who have prostate cancer and for those interested in learning about the disease.
For information regarding other cancer-related programs, please contact the American Cancer Society at 800-ACS-2345 or visit www.cancer.org.


"Gato Gordo Creations focuses on image excellence and incredible customer service. We go above and beyond for our clients, make sure their time is valued, deadlines are met and the highest quality product is delivered. We serve clients in the United States of America, Caribbean and South America."


Can p:IGI+ import Excel files?
What types of autograph does p:IGI+ support?
Spreadsheet - Some pages don't open.
When you launch the application you recieve the following error SentinelLM: Error: Probably no servers are running on this subnet.
I recieve the following error SentinelLM: Error : Failed to add license code.
Can I save a regularly viewed page to save scrolling through the contents tree each time?
How do I search in ig.NET?
If the content I discover is helpful can I use it in my work?
Can I change ig:NET's preferences to save my tabs and browsing history between sessions?
How do I create a new contents tab to enable multiple content pages to be viewed simultaneously and easily referenced?


text:
BBO Discussion Forums: Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread - BBO Discussion Forums
Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread No, it's not about that
There are other great places to visit around the world too, and I wish more Americans would travel abroad to get a better perspective on what other people have been able to accomplish -- even after terrible wars.
I'm beginning to lose hope.
As George W Bush once said, "Is our children learning?"
Gen-Z fails
If you really want to blend in and avoid pickpockets make sure you wear shorts, sneakers, white ankle socks, an Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
People will immediately ask for a directions to the local Macdonald's.
Not knowing which countries border the US and not knowing Utah is a state is a bit bizarre, true enough, but we don't have to go very deep before I get hazy about an answer. In Sleepless in Seattle the Meg Ryan character, Annie, asks her soon to be dumped fiance where Duluth is and he thinks it is in North Dakota. They live in Baltimore, so really no reason they should know where Duluth is. I grew up in Minnesota and visited Duluth for the first time in 1954 on a road trip that I took with my friend Roger after I bought my first car. An exciting time, I even recall that I saw The Caine Mutiny while we were staying in Duluth.
The point being that I remember places where I have been or that mean something to me. Of course I did know that Mexico was on the southern border of the US even before I went there, but Becky and I were on a small open-air boat on the river between Mexico and Guatemala checking out Mayan sites, and so I now know that Guatemala is just to the south of Mexico instead of knowing that it is Guatemala or maybe Honduras or one of those Central American countries.
As to capital cities, Becky knows the capitals of all fifty states, she was required to learn them. I know the capitals of some of them. Here the point is that a lot depends on what a school requires. I would have learned the capitals if I had been required to, since that would probably have been pre-adolescence when I did what I was told to do, but no one said I had to so I didn't. Becky also knows the capitals of all South American countries. I don't.
To carry that a little further: West Side Story (1961) came out when Becky was 13, approaching 14. In the fall, her class read Romeo and Juliet and they were then told to see WSS and compare the plot development with R and J. Nobody ever told me to read Romeo and Juliet so I haven't.
Yeah, young people spend too much time with video games, at least the boys do. I got that. So what to do? A point I have made before: Today the best public schools are far better than mine was (class of 1956). The bad ones are far worse. As with so many things the extremes are more extreme than they were in the past. What we are to do about this is a very good question.
Yeah, young people spend too much time with video games, at least the boys do.
To say nothing of the effect of parents glued to their 'devices' instead of interacting with their children.
Turns out the word for this behaviour of using a mobile phone during a social interaction is "phubbing".
Father phubbers and mother phubbers (I'm not making this up) have children that are more likely to be depressed.
https://pubmed.ncbi....h.gov/34952115/
I get despondent trying to watch television as we are inundated by the ads of Republican candidates each trying to outTrump each other. I don't grock.
Signed: Stranger in a Strange Land
I get despondent trying to watch television as we are inundated by the ads of Republican candidates each trying to outTrump each other. I don't grock.
Television is like smoking.
You don't have to.
You won't die or get sick if you stop.
That's why it's so hard to lose weight.
Fun read: The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
Every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven.
Too bad my water is billed in dollars per gallon.
#3989 Cyberyeti
Posted 2022-September-01, 02:28
The pet peeve thread seems to have been buried for some time so rather than resurrect it, I'll post this here.
I posted in there about my favourite MMO (City of heroes) being closed down in 2012 due to the devs (US) and publisher (Korea) falling out, and various successor games being worked on by ex players.
Some of the successor games are now in alpha or beta.
What was happening behind the scenes was actually weirder than that. One of the devs leaked the original code to a player and a secret private server existed for 7 years or so without anybody getting wind of it. Eventually somebody did leak it AND put the code out there so anybody who wanted to could run their own server. There are now many such servers, and it appears the publisher can't be bothered to play whack-a-mole so has made it known that as long as nobody makes any money off their IP, they won't do anything about it. There are now several server clusters with active devs adding content in different ways, and a hard core of thousands of happy players.
Andy Murray winning 3rd set against Berrettini? Wow. Can he win two more?
Matthew Futterman at NYT said:
On Saturday afternoon, the day after a night unlike any other, the U.S. Open felt like it had a hangover.
Balls were flying. There were thrilling matches that went to deciding-set tiebreakers, as Andrey Rublev of Russia prevailed over Denis Shapovalov of Canada and Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic got the better of Garbine Muguruza. But the name Serena was still on so many tongues the day after the greatest player of the modern era lost her final match in a dramatic and heartbreaking three-set battle that saw her save five match points before calling it career.
Where were you when it happened? Were you watching? Could you believe it?
All sports move on, though, and tennis is no different. It moved on from Borg-McEnroe and Evert-Navratilova, and Steffi Graf and Sampras-Agassi. Eventually it will move on from Djokovic-Federer-Nadal.
It's probably fitting then that the feature match on Arthur Ashe Stadium Sunday afternoon — perhaps the hangover will have passed by then — will include Coco Gauff, the gifted and athletic American teenager who is poised to become a major star. Already she is a favorite of tennis fans in the U.S. and elsewhere, an outspoken and ambitious Gen Z-er ready to take the next step. Gauff is a Serena disciple who, as a girl, played a young version of Williams in a commercial. She knocked on the star's trailer to earn her first meeting with her idol.
Gauff will take on Zhang Shuai of China, a 33-year-old tour veteran who will have to play against both Gauff and the thousands of fans sure to pack the stadium in the middle of Labor Day weekend.
After Gauff and Zhang, there is a finals-worthy matchup between Daniil Medvedev of Russia, the defending champion, and Nick Kyrgios of Australia, the Wimbledon finalist that the retired champion Goran Ivanisevic, who coaches Novak Djokovic, has described as a "tennis genius."
Like everyone else in the tournament Medvedev and Kyrgios have existed well under the radar the past week as the Serena Show played out. Medvedev played his last two matches well past midnight following Williams's three-setters in Ashe.
The radar will miss them no more. There are only 16 players left in each of the singles tournaments. The so-called "second week" of the tournament has commenced.
Friday night will forever be a part of tennis history, but the sport is moving on. There is no other way.
Fintan O'Toole at NYRB said:
https://www.nybooks....ervative-party/
One way to think of Truss is to recall Larkin's bleak lines about how your parents "fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you." Politically speaking, Truss's parents are the last two Tory leaders, May and Johnson, and she has inherited many of the faults of both and few of the strengths of either. She lacks May's integrity but has her strangely robotic persona—Truss speaks in the manner of an actor who has entirely forgotten her lines and is being fed them through an invisible earpiece. And though she is not, like Johnson, lazy (she is, if anything, manic), and lacks his charisma, she has his unprincipled opportunism, carelessness about truth, and habit of blaming everyone else for his own mistakes. Truss was a wild liberal before she became a reactionary. She strongly supported Remain in the Brexit referendum of 2016, before she became an arch-Brexiteer. In her leadership campaign, she suggested cutting the salaries of public servants who live outside of London, then flatly denied doing so and blamed the media for quoting her own press release. Ideas and truths matter to her only as servants to her ambition.
Truss will take the Tories further down the only path that is open to them, that of anarcho-authoritarianism. Like Johnson, she projects herself as a rebel against authority: "I hated being told what to do and that has driven my political philosophy." She put forward the legislation that allows British government ministers to break international law by tearing up the Northern Ireland protocol. She has indicated her willingness to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
This outlawry is underpinned by the language of piracy. A chapter in Britannia Unchained, a 2012 book cowritten by Truss and other rising Conservative politicians, is titled "Buccaneers" and quotes Steve Jobs approvingly: "It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy." It concedes, with evident reluctance, that "law and order" are "on the whole beneficial." But it hankers after an ideal of "capitalism as chaos," the magic that happens "when nearly all society's strictures are relaxed." Hence the claim by Truss's supporter David Frost, who led negotiations of the Brexit deal with the EU and is widely expected to have an important role in a Truss administration, that "what needs to be done [by the new prime minister] will be turbulent and disruptive."
This promise of disruption is all that remains of Brexit. It can function now only as a fantasy of liberation, not from Brussels but from all restraint on the making of money. Truss's language evokes a Britain whose only real problem is that its natural exuberance has been constrained by regulation. Hence the recurrence in her rhetoric of "unchain," "unleash," "unshackle." But, as in current US conservatism, these images of freedom must go hand in hand with their opposite. When she is not talking of unshackling everything, Truss is promising to "crack down" on everything. The chains that are to be taken off the moneymakers will be clamped on much of civil society.
Chess boxing. A sport that could be adapted to Bridge with very little difficulty - tag-team wrestling Bridge perhaps?
Aaron Judge hits 56th, 57th homers in 10th multi-HR game of season
He is four back from Roger Maris' American League (and Yankees) single-season record of 61 set in 1961.
Aaron Judge said:
73 is the record in my book. no matter what people want to say about that era of baseball, for me, they [Bonds and McGuire] went out there and hit 73 homers and 70 homers, and that to me is what the record is. The AL record is 61, so that is one I can kind of try to go after. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's been a fun year so far.
y66, on 2022-September-14, 07:02, said:
I heard you knock in' at my cellar door
Baby, please, can I have some more
Oh, oh, the damage done
From Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace (Aug. 20, 2006):
Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're O.K.
The Moments are more intense if you've played enough tennis to understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do. We've all got our examples. Here is one. It's the finals of the 2005 U.S. Open, Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set. There's a medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive butterfly shape of today's power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline winner...until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand that pulls Federer way out wide to his ad (=left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line, which of course is the sort of thing Agassi dines out on, and as Federer's scrambling to reverse and get back to center, Agassi's moving in to take the short ball on the rise, and he smacks it hard right back into the same ad corner, trying to wrong-foot Federer, which in fact he does — Federer's still near the corner but running toward the centerline, and the ball's heading to a point behind him now, where he just was, and there's no time to turn his body around, and Agassi's following the shot in to the net at an angle from the backhand side...and what Federer now does is somehow instantly reverse thrust and sort of skip backward three or four steps, impossibly fast, to hit a forehand out of his backhand corner, all his weight moving backward, and the forehand is a topspin screamer down the line past Agassi at net, who lunges for it but the ball's past him, and it flies straight down the sideline and lands exactly in the deuce corner of Agassi's side, a winner — Federer's still dancing backward as it lands. And there's that familiar little second of shocked silence from the New York crowd before it erupts, and John McEnroe with his color man's headset on TV says (mostly to himself, it sounds like), "How do you hit a winner from that position?" And he's right: given Agassi's position and world-class quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like something out of "The Matrix." I don't know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
Anyway, that's one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.
Subtlety, touch, and finesse are not dead in the power-baseline era. For it is, still, in 2006, very much the power-baseline era: Roger Federer is a first-rate, kick-ass power-baseliner. It's just that that's not all he is. There's also his intelligence, his occult anticipation, his court sense, his ability to read and manipulate opponents, to mix spins and speeds, to misdirect and disguise, to use tactical foresight and peripheral vision and kinesthetic range instead of just rote pace — all this has exposed the limits, and possibilities, of men's tennis as it's now played.
Which sounds very high-flown and nice, of course, but please understand that with this guy it's not high-flown or abstract. Or nice. In the same emphatic, empirical, dominating way that Lendl drove home his own lesson, Roger Federer is showing that the speed and strength of today's pro game are merely its skeleton, not its flesh. He has, figuratively and literally, re-embodied men's tennis, and for the first time in years the game's future is unpredictable. You should have seen, on the grounds' outside courts, the variegated ballet that was this year's Junior Wimbledon. Drop volleys and mixed spins, off-speed serves, gambits planned three shots ahead — all as well as the standard-issue grunts and booming balls. Whether anything like a nascent Federer was here among these juniors can't be known, of course. Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.
Update: Subtlety, touch, and finesse were definitely not dead in the finals of the 2022 US Open.
With Roger Federer retiring last night, I feel I should mention another sporting retirement that will have garnered far less attention (at least in the US).
Womens cricket has advanced massively since Jhulan Goswami first played for India in 2002. Today she played her 203rd and final one day international, being bowled first ball by a bowler who wasn't even born when she played her first international.
She still as I type has a chance to have a say as a bowler (her much stronger suit), but she retires as a legend of the game just shy of her 40th birthday with atm 253 wickets in ODIs, 60 more than anybody else.
Give it up for Albert Pujols who last night hit career home runs number 699 and 700, only the 4th player in history to hit 700 or more home runs.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The Hockey News' senior writers analyze each Round 1 matchup in the East and predict the winners.
– Multiple NHL teams fired their coaches over the weekend. Can Joel Quenneville save the Florida Panthers? Who would be the ideal hires for the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings?


text:
import { Component, OnInit, EventEmitter, Input, Output, ViewEncapsulation } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
	selector: 'ngx-time',
	templateUrl: './time.component.html',
	encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
})
export class TimeComponent implements OnInit {
	@Input() selectedHour: number;
	@Output() selectedHourChange = new EventEmitter<number>();

	@Input() selectedMinute: number;
	@Output() selectedMinuteChange = new EventEmitter<number>();

	@Input() doNotCloseOnDateSet: boolean = false;
	@Input() use24HourClock: boolean = false;

	@Output() closeDatePicker = new EventEmitter<boolean>();

	public selectedClock: string;

	public hours = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12'];
	public minutes = ['0', '5', '10', '15', '20', '25', '30', '35', '40', '45', '50', '55'];

	public minutesOpen: boolean;
	public hoursOpen: boolean;

	get formatSelectedMinute(): string {
		return this.selectedMinute <= 9 ? '0' + this.selectedMinute : '' + this.selectedMinute;
	}

	get formatSelectedHour(): string {
		if (!this.use24HourClock) {
			if (this.selectedHour === 12 || this.selectedHour === 0) {
				return '12';
			}

			return (this.selectedHour > 12 ? this.selectedHour - 12 : this.selectedHour) + '';
		} else {
			return (this.selectedHour < 10 ? '0' + this.selectedHour : this.selectedHour) + '';
		}
	}

	ngOnInit() {
		if (!this.selectedHour) {
			this.selectedHour = 12;
		}
		if (!this.selectedMinute) {
			this.selectedMinute = 0;
		}
		if (this.selectedHour >= 12) {
			this.selectedClock = 'pm';
		}
		if (this.use24HourClock) {
			this.hours = ['00', '01', '02', '03', '04', '05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23'];
			this.minutes = ['00', '05', '10', '15', '20', '25', '30', '35', '40', '45', '50', '55'];
			this.selectedClock = '';
		}
	}

	selectHourChange(selected: string): void {
		let hour = parseInt(selected);
		if (!this.use24HourClock) {
			hour = this.selectedClock === 'pm' ? hour + 12 : hour;
		}

		this.selectedHourChange.emit(hour);
		this.selectedHour = hour;

		if (this.selectedMinute == null) {
			this.selectMinuteChange('0');
		}

		this.minutesOpen = false;
		this.hoursOpen = false;
	}

	selectMinuteChange(selected: string): void {
		const minute = parseInt(selected);

		this.selectedMinuteChange.emit(minute);
		this.selectedMinute = minute;

		this.minutesOpen = false;
		this.hoursOpen = false;
	}

	selectClockChange(clock: string): void {
		if (this.selectedClock !== clock) {
			this.selectedClock = clock;

			if (this.selectedClock === 'pm' && this.selectedHour <= 11) {
				this.selectedHour = this.selectedHour + 12;
			} else if (this.selectedClock === 'am' && this.selectedHour >= 12) {
				this.selectedHour = this.selectedHour - 12;
			}

			this.selectedHourChange.emit(this.selectedHour);
		}
	}

	closePicker(): void {
		this.closeDatePicker.emit(true);
	}

	setTimeToNow(): void {
		const now = new Date();

		this.selectedHour = now.getHours();
		this.selectedHourChange.emit(this.selectedHour);
		this.selectedMinute = now.getMinutes();
		this.selectedMinuteChange.emit(this.selectedMinute);

		this.selectedClock = this.selectedHour >= 12 ? 'pm' : 'am';

		if (!this.doNotCloseOnDateSet) {
			this.closePicker();
		}
	}

	public toggleHourMenu(): void {
		this.minutesOpen = false;
		this.hoursOpen = !this.hoursOpen;
	}

	public toggleMinuteMenu(): void {
		this.hoursOpen = false;
		this.minutesOpen = !this.minutesOpen;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
2017 Nobel Prize In Physics for Gravitational Waves
ASTHA SHARMA
By ASTHA SHARMA
|4 Oct 2017 11:03 AM GMT
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 with one half to Reiner Weiss and other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kips S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detector and the observation of gravitational waves." In announcing the award, the Royal Swedish Academy called it "a discovery that shook the world."
Rainer Weiss obtained his PhD in 1962 from MIT. He joined MIT as faculty in 1964 after teaching in Tufts university for a short time and post-doctoral work at Princeton University. He is the brain behind the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO. Barry Clark Barish obtained his Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics in 1962 at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Caltech in 1963 as part of a new experimental effort in particle physics using frontier particle accelerators at the national laboratories, presently is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology. Kip Stephen Thorne obtained his PhD in 1965 from Princeton University. He was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film, Interstellar.
From left: Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, the architects and leaders of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
The history of gravitational waves dates back to 13.7 billion years ago just a fraction of seconds after Big Bang, when scientists believe gravitational waves left an everlasting inscription on the cosmos that may still be perceptible today. Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves over a century ago in his General Theory of relativity. In this theory Einstein explained what gravity actually is. Although much before him Newton showed that gravity is always an attractive force, he did not explain exactly what gravity was or how it transmitted through vast distances. Einstein explained that gravity is the result of objects with mass warping the very fabric of space itself. Space in this model is like a large rubber sheet, and in the presence of mass, the rubber sheet can be warped, stretched and compressed.
Illustration of Einstein's concept
Furthermore, Einstein went on to show that gravity moves at precisely same speed as light. This is where gravity waves come in. An object with mass can create ripples in fabric of space that move outwards with speed of light. Although theoretically any object with mass can create these ripples, they are only noticeable to our sensitive scientific equipment when the processes that create them are extreme, such as collision of black holes or neutron stars. But Einstein himself was unsure whether this was merely a mathematical illusion, and concluded that, in any case, the signal would be so tiny that it would "never play a role in science".
In the mid-1970s Weiss and Thorne, began on the decades-long quest to detect gravitational waves, which they believed could revolutionise our understanding of the universe. Weiss designed a detector, called a laser-based inferometer, that he believed would be capable of measuring a signal so tiny that it could easily be screened by the background murmur of the ocean waves. Thorne, a theorist, began making crucial predictions of what the signal of a gravitational wave originating from two black holes colliding would actually look like. Independently, Ronald Drever, a Scottish physicist, also began building prototype detectors in Glasgow and after moving to Caltech, he, Weiss and Thorne formed a trio that laid the groundwork for LIGO. Drever died in March after suffering from dementia, and while the Nobel prize is not normally awarded posthumously, he is widely recognised as having made a decisive contribution. Barry Barish, a former particle physicist at California Institute of Technology (now emeritus professor) came to the project at a much later stage, but is often credited for making LIGO happen. When he took over as its second director in 1994, the project was at risk of being cancelled. Barish turned things around and saw it through to construction. In the end, detection required a peerless collaboration between experimentalists, who built one of the most sophisticated detectors on Earth, and theorists, who figured out what a signal from two black holes colliding would actually look like.
Left to right- LIGO Livingston observatory and LIGO Hanford Observatory. Source- LIGO.org
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than twenty countries. It is funded by the National Science Foundation, consists of two enormous science experiments: One is in Louisiana; the other is located in Washington state. Both are massive L-shaped tubes. Each arm of the tube is 2.5 miles long. These instruments are called interferometers, and their design is based on work Weiss conducted in the 1960s.
Here's how they work. During the experiments, a laser beam is split equally between the two arms. At the end of each arm is a mirror, which reflects the laser back to the starting point. What LIGO is looking for is evidence that gravitational waves are distorting space-time enough that one of the arms becomes temporarily longer than the other. These changes can be incredibly tiny, since LIGO is sensitive enough to detect a change in distance smaller than the width of a proton.
If a wave is detected in one of the sites, it has to be corroborated with the other site (to make sure it's not just a false signal from local automobile traffic or other disturbances). LIGO was first set up in 2002, and for years it found nothing. In 2010 it was shut down for an upgrade, which extended its range. When it was turned back on in 2015, it almost immediately began hearing the waves. By listening in on these loud waves, the scientists are able to reconstruct the cataclysmic events that created them. Just from the two detectors, scientists can determine the mass of the black holes and how far away they are, roughly map where in the sky they are, and distil some information about the shape of their orbits.
First gravitational wave was detected by LIGO on 14 September 2015. The phenomenon detected was the collision of two giant black holes, one 35 times the mass of the sun, the other slightly smaller, 1.3 billion light years away. At the start of the 20 millisecond "chirp" in the signal, the two objects were found to be circling each other 30 times a second. By the end, the rate had accelerated to 250 times a second before meeting in a violent collision. Since then, three further black hole collisions have been made and rumours are afoot that the consortium may have also observed the collision of a pair of neutron stars. In the future, scientists hope to detect supernovae, pulsars and the insides of stars as they collapse into black holes. A network of gravitational-wave observatories could even allow us to gaze back to almost the beginning of time itself. This past year, a third detector, an Italy-based machine called VIRGO, turned on and also began sensing gravitational waves. In September, both VIRGO and LIGO confirmed a new set of gravitational waves emanating from the smoking gun of two black holes that collided 1.8 billion years ago. Detectors have confirmed four gravitational waves, and many more are certain to come. And, again, this is a whole new field of astronomy, a whole new eyepiece upon which to observe the universe. Here are some cool things the next era of gravitational wave astronomy could accomplish.
1) Seeing farther back in time
One problem with our current fleet of telescopes is that they can't see back to the very early universe. If you look with visible light as far as we can look in the universe, the universe is no longer transparent; it becomes opaque. With LIGO, we could potentially listen in on the gravitational waves emanating from the early universe, or even the Big Bang, and gain a better understanding of how it formed.
2) Improving on Einstein's theory of general relativity
A century ago, Einstein published his theory of general relativity, and it has dominated our understanding of gravity ever since. But physicists (and Einstein himself) have long speculated the theory isn't complete, as it doesn't play well with the laws of quantum mechanics. Gravitational waves could help physicists put general relativity to harder and harder tests to see where it fails.
3) Discovering new neutron stars
Neutron stars are the extremely dense cores of collapsed stars that can emit large amounts of gravity. What's cool about them is that they also produce light. LIGO can help us detect neutron star collisions or neutron star black hole collisions.
4) Finding the source of dark matter
Dark matter is theorized to make up 27 percent of all the matter in the universe. But we've never seen dark matter (it's dark!), and we don't know where it comes from. Matter creates gravity. Dark matter is predicted to interact in terms of gravity but not light. Perhaps gravitational waves can help us trace the origins of dark matter. It could exist in the form of many tiny black holes. It could be the remnants of "primordial" black holes created at the beginning of the universe. We don't know.
5) Finding new, weird celestial objects
The universe is a big, dark place. We might find sources [of gravity] we were not expecting, and the chances of finding these strange new objects only increases as the power of LIGO increases and its counterparts come online.
So far all sorts of electromagnetic radiation and particles, such as cosmic rays or neutrinos, have been used to explore the universe. However, gravitational waves are direct testimony to disruptions in space-time itself. This is something completely new and different, opening up unseen worlds. A wealth of discoveries awaits those who succeed in capturing the waves and interpreting their message, as quoted in the Nobel Prize committee press release.


text:
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace ,
Parkes ,
Environmental XPRT News
Australian government invests AUS$8m in groundwater management
Source: Australian Government
The Rudd Government will provide $8.4 million for six new projects to improve groundwater management across Australia. Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, said funding for the six projects comes from the National Water Commission's $82 million National Groundwater Action Plan. The National Groundwater Action Plan aims to build knowledge and understanding of groundwater and to guide groundwater management reforms agreed by states, territories and the Commonwealth under the 2004 National Water Initiative.
"With groundwater accounting for more than 30 per cent of our total water consumption, the funding announced today will help deliver on the Rudd Government's commitment to better measure and manage our precious water resources," Senator Wong said.
"This in turn will support the Rudd Government's long-term national water plan, Water for the Future, which is investing in four key priorities: taking action on climate change, using water wisely, securing our water supplies, and supporting healthy rivers."
Senator Wong said groundwater was a resource that often extended across state boundaries, and required integrated management right around Australia.
"But there is still a great deal to learn about groundwater, which to date has received far less attention and interest than surface water."
Projects to be funded
$2.46 million for a study of groundwater-dependent ecosystems in the State's mid-west region, where vulnerable wetlands are under development pressure from mining, horitcultural and urban activities.
$2.4 million project to assess sustainable groundwater yields as the basis for capping groundwater use under the new Murray-Darlin Basin Plan.
$1.12 million to assess major spring systems flowing from the Ooloo-Dolostone aquifer to the Daly River.
$825,000 for a comprehensive stocktake of groundwater resources.
$960,000 for research into how changes in the groundwater quality in coastal aquifers can affect esuarine and marin ecosystems.
$637,000 to help develop a sustainable groundwater management framework in Tasmania, consisten with the National Water Initiative.
groundwater management climate change groundwater planning groundwater resource groundwater use surface water groundwater quality water supply water resource water security
Freshwater Aquifer Found off Hawaiian Coast
In areas beset by water scarcity, undersea aquifers - both fresh and brackish - may provide a reliable source of drinking water The bottom of the ocean is not typically where you'd look for new drinking water sources, but recent research is focusing attention in this unlikely direction. In 2019, scientists discovered an extensive aquifer off the Eastern coast of the United States. Now, less than two years later, a research team has discovered a freshwater aquifer under the ocean floor off the west coast of...
Potable Reuse and the UN`s Sustainability Goals
Wastewater recycling is a key element of plans to bring clean, accessible water to all Wastewater reuse — or recycling — can provide a source of water for a variety of applications, even drinking. Because of this, it dovetails perfectly with the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 (SDG 6), which calls for universal access to water and sanitation. But high-quality wastewater treatment is a must when it comes to ensuring public acceptance of reuse. Some see water reuse as...
Clean Water Act Applies to Groundwater
Some are calling it "the clean water case of the century." It arose over a sewage treatment plant on Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands, that was disposing of 4 million gallons of partially treated sewage into the groundwater wells half a mile from the beach. A large percentage of the pollution found its way into the Pacific. The discharge certainly sparked controversy, but was it illegal? When the case came before the U.S. Supreme Court, Maui County — supported by a Trump administration brief...
From growth to wellbeing and resilience
As a devastating European Environment Agency report takes the EU to task for its dismal failure to protect the ecosystem, it is high time for Europe to abandon its fixation on endless economic growth, experts at a post-growth event in Helsinki urged. The message is clear. Europe's environment is in grave peril. That was the verdict of the European Environmental Agency's 'State of the Environment Report 2020'. Out of the 35 indicators and policy objectives for 2020 which the EEA tracked,...
Water management grows farm profits
A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a sustainable farm operates on a balanced plan of soil, crop, and water management techniques. The western United States is a region with scarce water resources. In this case, water management techniques make up a larger piece of a sustainability plan. There is mounting concern around the globe about water scarcity. This is due to urban sprawl, depleting water supplies in some areas,...
No comments were found for Australian government invests AUS$8m in groundwater management. Be the first to comment!


Step through the arched entrance of the sculptural fa‡ade onto the elegantly tiled floor of the grand foyer, where daylight floods through the large, oxidized copper skylight, illuminating the ornate chandelier high in the atrium. Make a deposit with the friendly teller and place the money in the bank's secure vault. Then take the stairs to the second floor, where you can discuss your finances over a delicious espresso in the plush surroundings of the bank manager's office, while next door to the bank, customers are busy depositing their laundry at the cozy, self-service laundromat. Welcome to this magnificent building that houses one of the area's most established and respected financial institutions.. but the vault has a potential weakness, and someone has already found it! This latest addition to the LEGO© Modular Building series is packed with unsurpassed detail and hidden surprises!
• The Brick Bank features a bank, secretary's office, bank manager's office, laundromat and a detailed fa‡ade and sidewalk.
• Bank features an atrium foyer with wide, arched entrance, triangular-patterned floor tiling, ornate chandelier, oxidized-copper colored skylight, transaction counter with hidden alarm buttons and security glass, and a bank vault with safe deposit boxes and a large round door.
• Laundromatfeatures a printed window, tiled floor and 4 laundry machines.
• Secretary's office features a wall clock, desk, typewriter, cabinet with opening drawers, fireplace and an espresso machine.
• Bank manager's office features a large desk with banker's lamp and approval stamp, leather-look chair, printed portrait, statue and a cabinet.
• With over 2380 pieces, this model will put your LEGO© building skills to the test!
• Special elements include a printed prize check, printed ground-floor windows, a special printed portrait in the bank manager's office, plus rare, sand-blue and dark-green bricks, and sand-green window frames.
• Collect and build an entire town with the LEGO© Creator Expert Modular Building series 10243 Parisian Restaurant and 10246 Detective's Office.
• Brick Bank measures over 10" (26cm) high, 10" (25cm) wide and 10" (25cm) deep.


What does the action of "wringing your hands" look like? What is Gertrude doing? (Act it out.) Why might she be doing this? Hint: What has Hamlet just done?
Given the meaning of "wringing your hands," what does Hamlet mean when he says he will "wring [Gertrude's] heart" (line 43)?
What familiar words or word parts are in the word penetrable (line 44)? How do these words or word parts help the reader define penetrable?
How does Shakespeare develop Gertrude's character in this scene? Be sure to analyze evidence from the text.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2015 by B.


text:
In the Heart of the Sea – Featurette – Official Warner Bros. UK
29th November 2015 25th November 2015 by Phase9
Watch the new featurette for 'In the Heart of the Sea' – in UK cinemas December 26th – directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw and Tom Holland.
Oscar winner Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind") directs the action adventure "In the Heart of the Sea," starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy, based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling book about the dramatic true journey of the Essex.
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. "In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.
"In the Heart of the Sea" stars Chris Hemsworth ("The Avengers," "Rush") as the vessel's veteran first mate Owen Chase; Benjamin Walker ("Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter") as its inexperienced Captain, George Pollard; Cillian Murphy ("The Dark Knight Rises") as second mate Matthew Joy; and Ben Whishaw ("Skyfall") as novelist Herman Melville, whose inquiries into the event 30 years later helped bring the story to light.
Check out the film's Official page at Warner Bros. UK: http://po.st/Jg0FCB
Subscribe to the Official Warner Bros. UK YouTube channel http://po.st/D51Kco
For more information on all Warner Bros. UK films:
Warner Bros. Insider: http://po.st/O6eTkd
Warner Bros. Facebook: http://po.st/Vd6IUl
Warner Bros. Twitter: http://po.st/v2VUyw
Warner Bros. Instagram: http://po.st/RJ9Xwj
Categories Movie Trailers, Warner Bros UK Tags In the Heart of the Sea Post navigation
Krampus – The Legend of Krampus (Universal Pictures)
Daddy's Home (2015) – "Step-dad" TV Spot – Paramount Pictures


text:
Tag: Direct Budget Support
Mzee was it Warfare or Budget, Mr. President?
President Museveni: "Yes, it is true I was a rebel, but sometimes rebellion fails. I was fighting a just war" (#UGBudget17 Speech, 08.06.2017).
Today was the day the Budget Speech from Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) Matia Kasaija as the Parliament we're delivered the total budget for the Financial Year of 2017/2018. This one has already been voted for and was a summery for the representatives in Parliament to know the values of their ministries and the projected use of the revenue of the state will have. Still, on this day, the President of 31 years, the rebel of 1980s decided to wear military fatigue and be wearing the gear as a General. He was not the executive in some sense, he was the military general. The gun-loving and militarized politician Museveni was allover today.
Therefore I have to take a piece of law, which could be used as the UPDF Act of 2005, where it states on 164: "Unauthorized sale or wearing of uniforms, etc.
(1) Any Person who, without authority –
(c) wears or uses any decoration supplied to or authorised for use by any member of the Defence Force or any decoration so nearly resembling that decoration as to be likely to deceive" (UPDF Act 2005).
So even if he is Commander-in-Chief and the Executive, he is still of contempt of the Parliament and their rules, when having to show-up in military fatigue or military uniform. As if he is storming to war and not trying to speak well of the budget framework and the voting for the post in the budget. This is clearly lacking the gravity of the acts of contempt. Wearing it in a sessions which is unauthorized or seem as wrong.
Therefore another part of the sub-section part (3): "Any person who by act, words, conduct or otherwise, falsely represents himself or herself to be a person who is or has been entitled to wear or use any uniform or decoration referred to in subsection (1) commits an offence and is, on convection, liable to imprisonment not exceeding three years" (UPDF Act 2005).
So when he as President is wearing the military fatigue or uniform in Parliament, I cannot take that man seriously for doing so. Even if he didn't really violate the UPDF act, still his acts by words or even falsely representing himself, since he is not a full-time general, but a President of 30 years. His revolution or coup d'etat ended in 1986. A disco-tune that should have lost meaning two decades ago, but since he is still the President. That year is still magical like some of old Disney flicks.
Time to leave the Military Uniform Mr. President! Time to leave it behind and also be and act like a President. If he was in war or had to save Parliament from an angry powerful militia. Alas, it is not so! Time to relief the attire and be peaceful man, especially since he is supposed to help with the National Dialogue in South Sudan, but easier to sell arms than negotiate peace, right Mr. President?
So was it a sign of warfare from the President or his NRM Way to prove that the bullets gave him power to bless the budget? Peace.
The Uganda People's Defence Force Act 2005
Author nilspeacePosted on June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017 Categories Africa, Army, Budget, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, AG John Muwanga, Bank of Uganda, Belgium, BOU, British Colonial Laws, Budget Support, Cabinet Affairs, Citizen, Civil Servant, Diplomatic Immunity, Direct Budget Support, Employment Income, GoU, Government of Uganda, Government Salary, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Housing, IG Kakooza, Immunity, Implementation of Skilling Uganda, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, Isimba Hydro Power, Isimba Hydro Power Plant, Japan, John Muwanga, Justice, Keith Muhakanizi, Lawful, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Medical Attention, Members of Parliament, Milton Obote, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Health:, MoFED, MPS, MPs Salary, National Resistance Movement, No Civil, Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project, NRM, NRM Regime, Parliament, Parliament of Uganda, Parliament Powers and Privileges Act of 1955, Perks, Power, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Public Service, Remuneration, Secreterial Services, Security Guards, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Tax Exemption, Tax Justice Alliance, Taxation, Taxation Without Representation, Taxpayer, Transport, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Peoples Congress, Uganda Peoples Defence Force, Uganda Revenue Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, Ugandan Parliament, UNRA, UPC, UPDF, UPDF Act, UPDF Act 2005, UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, URA, Withheld Tax, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on Mzee was it Warfare or Budget, Mr. President?
#UGBudget17: Half borrowed and a third paid back in Interests!
Today the Ugandan government, the National Resistance Movement finally read the Shs. 29 Trillion budget for the 10th Parliament. However, it is not necessary the size of funds and all, which is allocated, but the way it is funded. Like "Government hopes to raise sh14.6 trillion in revenues to fund the 2017/2018 budget" (Uganda Debt Network, 08.06.2017). Of the 29 Trillion, they expect to get close to half of that, but the monies has get from somewhere and also be of use. What is left are relieved like this: "The balance sh14.3 trillion (49.5%) of the National Budget will be raised through internal and external borrowing" (Uganda Debt Network, 08.06.2017). With this in mind, half of the budget is adding more debt. So if a nation already having lots of debt and debt repayment, it still adds another half budget. This is a bad cycle of events.
There lets us put things in perspective: "Our concern is sh9.9trillion, which is 35% of the total budget, will be spent on debt repayment" (…) "Amount of money spent on debt repayment has escalated in the recent past now at 9.9 trillion for fy2017/18" (Uganda Debt Network, 08.06.2017).
Therefore, the state and the NRM are clearly getting funds through loans to pay-off their interests. AS the 35% of spending is on interest in the coming fiscal year. This should worry, even if the corruption, misspending of obnoxious amount of funds through the paradise of Okello house. Still, that 1/3 of the coming budget is paid interest on old loans, which are been made by this government and by this President. What it show is the lack of concern of the future and how sound fiscal policies. At this state, the government of Uganda are clearly footing the bill. They are filling in the blanks for where they in the past had happy donors filling the envelopes.
The NRM and President Museveni is overspending and misusing state reserves, as the revenue and the state coffers do not sustain this massive overspending. Certainly, it is visible, also the worry of the running interest rates and growing debt as close to half of this year alone are by loans. Neither if it is local, by foreign or multi-national financial institution does save the fact, that the state has a problem.
That of the coming fiscal year, the state is borrowing half, and repaying that with 35% says a lot. IT says the fiscal policies needs change and it is dire. The state are clearly walking the wrong path. And remember this, there will be supplementary budgets during the fiscal year, that will expose the overuse of funds and needs for more loans. Therefore, they are surely going to exploit the faith in future, without having the funds for it today. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017 Categories Africa, Budget, Business, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 9th Parliament, 9th Parliament of Uganda, African Centeres of Excellence, African Union, AG John Muwanga, Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project, Amenities, AU, Bank of Uganda, Belgium, BOU, British Colonial Laws, Budget Support, Cabinet Affairs, China, Citizen, Civil Servant, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group, Colonial Law, Criminal Proceedings, CSBAG, Democratic People's Republic of China, Diplomatic Immunity, Diplomatic Imunity, Direct Budget Support, Domestic Servants, Donor Aid, Donor Assistance, Donor Funding, DPRC, Dr. Milton Obote, Employment Income, Entebbe Airport, Entebbe Airport Rehabilitation, GAVI, Global Fund, GoU, Government of Uganda, Government Salary, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Housing, IG Kakooza, IMF, Immunity, Implementation of Skilling Uganda, Impunity, Income Tax, Income Tax Act, Income Tax Bill 2016, International Monetary Fund, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, Isimba Hydro Power, Isimba Hydro Power Plant, Japan, John Muwanga, Justice, Kampala Flyover Construction and Road Upgrading Project, Karuma Dam, Karuma Hydro Power Plant, Karuma Hydroelectricity Power Project, Keith Muhakanizi, Lawful, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Medical Attention, Members of Parliament, Milton Obote, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Health:, MoFED, MPS, MPs Salary, Nakawa TVET Lead Project, National Resistance Movement, No Civil, Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project, NRM, NRM Regime, Parliament, Parliament of Uganda, Parliament Powers and Privileges Act of 1955, Perks, Power, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Public Service, Regional Technical Institutes, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Kaliro, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Muni, Remuneration, Remuneration of Members of Parliament, Road Infrastructure for Delivery of First Oil, Saudi Arabia, Secreterial Services, Security Guards, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Tax Exemption, Tax Justice Alliance, Taxation, Taxation Without Representation, Taxpayer, Transport, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Peoples Congress, Uganda Revenue Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, Ugandan Parliament, UK, United Kingdom, UNRA, UPC, UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, URA, Withheld Tax, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on #UGBudget17: Half borrowed and a third paid back in Interests!
Uganda: Civil Society Position on Tax Revenue Measures for FY 2017/18 (21.04.2017)
Author nilspeacePosted on April 21, 2017 April 21, 2017 Categories Africa, Budget, Business, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 9th Parliament, 9th Parliament of Uganda, African Centeres of Excellence, African Union, AG John Muwanga, Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project, Annual Core Inflation, AU, B-Rated Country, B1 Country, B2 Country, Bank of Uganda, Belgium, BOU, Budget Support, CBR, Central Bank, China, Consumer Price Index, Core Inflation, CPI, Crops Inflation, Debt Affordability, Debt Burden, Debt Levels, Democratic People's Republic of China, Direct Budget Support, Domestic Debt, Domestic Demand, Donor Aid, Donor Assistance, Donor Funding, DPRC, East Arica, Economic Activity, Economic Growth, Emerging Market Economies, Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Entebbe Airport, Entebbe Airport Rehabilitation, Exchange Rate Depreciation, External Debt, External Economic Enviroment, External Weakness, Food Crop Prices, FY 2015/2016, GAVI, GDP, Gen Salim Saleh, Global Economic Conditions, Global Economic Outlook, Global Fund, GoU, Government of Uganda, Gross Domestic Product, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Hon. Matia Kasaija, IG Kakooza, IMF, Implementation of Skilling Uganda, Import Prices, Indirectly, Inflation, Infrastructure Development, Interest Payment, International Economic Activity, International Monetary Fund, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, Isimba Hydro Power, Isimba Hydro Power Plant, Japan, John Muwanga, Kainerugba Muhoozi, Kampala Flyover Construction and Road Upgrading Project, Karuma Dam, Karuma Hydro Power Plant, Karuma Hydroelectricity Power Project, Keith Muhakanizi, Local Government, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Maj.Gen. Muhoozi Keinerugaba, Matia Kasaija, Matia Kasija, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Finance Economic Planning and Development, Ministry of Health:, MoFED, Monetary Policy Statement, Moody's, MPS, Nakawa TVET Lead Project, National Resistance Movement, Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project, NRM, NRM Regime, NRM Village Program, Parliament of Uganda, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PricewaterhouseCoopers limited, Prof Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Public Infrastructure, PWC, Regional Technical Institutes, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Kaliro, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Muni, Rising Debt Levels, Road Infrastructure for Delivery of First Oil, Salim Selah, Saudi Arabia, School Fees, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Standard Gauge Railway Development, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Revenue Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, Ugandan Government, UK, United Kingdom, UNRA, UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, URA, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on Uganda: Civil Society Position on Tax Revenue Measures for FY 2017/18 (21.04.2017)
Uganda: CSBAG – "Reducing Wastage and Curbing Inefficiences to Finance our Priorities for the FY 2017/2018 (09.04.2017)
Author nilspeacePosted on April 9, 2017 April 9, 2017 Categories Africa, Budget, Business, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, Trade, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 9th Parliament, 9th Parliament of Uganda, African Centeres of Excellence, African Union, AG John Muwanga, Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project, Amenities, AU, Bank of Uganda, Belgium, BOU, British Colonial Laws, Budget Support, Cabinet Affairs, China, Citizen, Civil Servant, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group, Colonial Law, Criminal Proceedings, CSBAG, Democratic People's Republic of China, Diplomatic Immunity, Diplomatic Imunity, Direct Budget Support, Domestic Servants, Donor Aid, Donor Assistance, Donor Funding, DPRC, Dr. Milton Obote, Employment Income, Entebbe Airport, Entebbe Airport Rehabilitation, GAVI, Global Fund, GoU, Government of Uganda, Government Salary, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, Housing, IG Kakooza, IMF, Immunity, Implementation of Skilling Uganda, Impunity, Income Tax, Income Tax Act, Income Tax Bill 2016, International Monetary Fund, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, Isimba Hydro Power, Isimba Hydro Power Plant, Japan, John Muwanga, Justice, Kampala Flyover Construction and Road Upgrading Project, Karuma Dam, Karuma Hydro Power Plant, Karuma Hydroelectricity Power Project, Keith Muhakanizi, Lawful, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Medical Attention, Members of Parliament, Milton Obote, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Health:, MoFED, MPS, MPs Salary, Nakawa TVET Lead Project, National Resistance Movement, No Civil, Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project, NRM, NRM Regime, Parliament, Parliament of Uganda, Parliament Powers and Privileges Act of 1955, Perks, Power, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Public Service, Regional Technical Institutes, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Kaliro, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Muni, Remuneration, Remuneration of Members of Parliament, Road Infrastructure for Delivery of First Oil, Saudi Arabia, Secreterial Services, Security Guards, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Tax Exemption, Tax Justice Alliance, Taxation, Taxation Without Representation, Taxpayer, Transport, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Peoples Congress, Uganda Revenue Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, Ugandan Parliament, UK, United Kingdom, UNRA, UPC, UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, URA, Withheld Tax, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri Museveni1 Comment on Uganda: CSBAG – "Reducing Wastage and Curbing Inefficiences to Finance our Priorities for the FY 2017/2018 (09.04.2017)
A look into the proposed International Contribution to the National Budget of Uganda for the Financial Year 2017/2018
There are many budget posts in a National Budget, but as there are talk of lacking international support of the budget in the Republic of Uganda. The certainty is that even as the donors are fleeing the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the President Museveni own way of saying he doesn't need them. Still, I want to show the world collectively what the NRM government have donor sponsored projects through the National Budget, these are projects and development of infrastructure that the NRM needs to show something after over 30 years reign.
Like take Japan the donor funding to the Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project in the next Financial Year gives to the project Ush. 31.33bn. also donate funds to is the Nakawa TVET Lead Project got Ush. 4.69bn. Japan also donates to Kampala Flyover Construction and Road Upgrading Project with Ush. 155.44bn.
World Bank itself is donating funds in different ways to two other projects, which is African Centeres of Excellence that got Ush. 13.36bn. and Albertine Region Sustainable Development got Ush. 9.35bn. On the other hand the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated to the Construction of 5 Regional Technical Institutes with funds of Ush. 6.98bn.
Belgium has also offered their donor funds into the Ugandan state through various projects, like the Program/Project Support to Improve the Quality of Teaching and Learning with Ush. 11.97bn. also the Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Kaliro allocated Ush. 15.16bn, they also gave to Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Muni funds of Ush. 15.16bn. another project that Belgium was behind is the Support to the Implementation of Skilling Uganda with Ush. 15.96bn.
The Democratic People's Republic of China has donated to new development projects in Uganda, like they are donating to Industrial Substations Ush. 91.74bn. they also donated to Isimba Hydro Power Plant Ush. 407bn. and also Karuma Hydro Power Plant where they have pledged Ush. 1,305.07bn. or Ush. 1.3 trillion to that alone! The Chinese is also involved in Entebbe Airport Rehabilitation where they have funded Ush. 148.13bn. the pledged funds for Standard Gauge Railway will first come next Financial Year 2018/2019 and not this financial year.
African Union (AU) funds to the UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia with total Ush. 256.66bn. United Kingdom pledged funds to the Road Infrastructure for Delivery of First Oil with Ush. 252.63bn.
The pledged funds for Kampala-Jinja Highway are first for FY 2018/2019, but no official donor or loaner of funds. Therefore the estimated funds come from thin air. What is also relevant is to see that the Funds from Austria and Denmark has been suspended for different development projects. Still, which I haven't mentioned is the funds from African Development Bank, also GAVI and Global Funds still gives to health care development, even with the knowledge of the rampant corrupt behaviour in the Ministry of Health.
Therefore if the NRM are contemplating that they are themselves giving these sorts of projects to the people, I hope the donors are putting up boards or signs in the entrance or hallways, even start of the roads where it says what sort of amount of funds they spent on it. So that President Museveni or any other crony can take all the credit, because the credit and the footing the bill to somebody else! Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on February 5, 2017 February 5, 2017 Categories Africa, Aid, Army, Budget, Business, Civil Service, Development, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, Trade, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 9th Parliament, 9th Parliament of Uganda, African Centeres of Excellence, African Union, AG John Muwanga, Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project, AU, Bank of Uganda, Belgium, BOU, Budget Support, China, Democratic People's Republic of China, Direct Budget Support, Donor Aid, Donor Assistance, Donor Funding, DPRC, Entebbe Airport, Entebbe Airport Rehabilitation, GAVI, Global Fund, GoU, Government of Uganda, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, IG Kakooza, IMF, Implementation of Skilling Uganda, International Monetary Fund, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, Isimba Hydro Power, Isimba Hydro Power Plant, Japan, John Muwanga, Kampala Flyover Construction and Road Upgrading Project, Karuma Dam, Karuma Hydro Power Plant, Karuma Hydroelectricity Power Project, Keith Muhakanizi, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Health:, MoFED, Nakawa TVET Lead Project, National Resistance Movement, Northern Uganda Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project, NRM, NRM Regime, Parliament of Uganda, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Regional Technical Institutes, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Kaliro, Rehabilitation of the National Teacher Training Centre Muni, Road Infrastructure for Delivery of First Oil, Saudi Arabia, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, UK, United Kingdom, UNRA, UPDF Peace Keeping Mission in Somalia, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on A look into the proposed International Contribution to the National Budget of Uganda for the Financial Year 2017/2018
Opinion: Mzee must have angered his donors when seeing the dwindling budget support for FY 2017/2018!
I haven't been much focused on the budget for 2017/2018 because the more I know, the sadder I be for the citizens of Uganda. Since the revelations of the use of funds and allocations are usually not in sync. The allocations and maladministration is so rampant that the allocated funds are most likely spent on other projects than we're they was anticipated to be. Either saves a Bank with owners tied to Museveni or to pay for gasoline for his Presidential Jet. Who knows right?
Well, we know that over the past few months and year President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has attacked the hypocrisy and the West for interfering in his democracy. Mr. I-Am-Not-A-Civil-Servant, but I am your President. Since there are some questionable things in Uganda National Budget Framework Paper of December 2016. That are putting numbers for how they see fit for the government use of funds.
Key numbers:
Area FY 2016/2017 FY 2017/2018
Budget Support 926,6bn 33,8bn
This numbers says a lot of the usual donor-friendly regime of Museveni, which has been since he was the new-breed of African leaders that was even praised by Bill Clinton during the 1990s. Therefore the revelation that over a year period the donor-funding to direct budget support is scrapped says something. That of 30 Trillion budget of 2017/2018 is only getting meagre sum of 33 billion. That is just a few Presidential Handshakes to loyal cronies an then they are spent!
President Museveni must really angered and made them tired of throwing monies at his regime since they are not as friendly with their taxpayers monies as before. I am sure they have another cause and another country that they are doling their budget aid funds to. Now they are not directed at the NRM or the Mzee who certainly eats more alone. Peace.
Author nilspeacePosted on February 5, 2017 February 5, 2017 Categories Africa, Budget, Civil Service, Development, Diplomacy, Economic Measures, Economy, Ethics, Governance, Government, Law, Leadership, Politics, Tax, TransparencyTags 10th Parliament, 10th Parliament of Uganda, 9th Parliament, 9th Parliament of Uganda, AG John Muwanga, Bank of Uganda, Bill Clinton, BOU, Budget Support, Direct Budget Support, Donor Aid, Donor Assistance, Donor Funding, GoU, Government of Uganda, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, IG Kakooza, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza, John Muwanga, Keith Muhakanizi, Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni., Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, MoFED, National Resistance Movement, NRM, NRM Regime, Parliament of Uganda, President Museveni, Presidential Handshake, Public Finance Management, Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015., Public Finance Management Act, Uganda, Uganda National Roads Authority, Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, UNRA, World Bank, World Bank Group, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Yoweri MuseveniLeave a comment on Opinion: Mzee must have angered his donors when seeing the dwindling budget support for FY 2017/2018!


Did you know that Tidewater Orthopaedics has the only Board Certified Hand Surgeons on the Peninsula?
Don't trust your hands to just anyone.
Hurt today? Be seen today!
Tidewater Orthopaedics offers a Same Day Clinic for patients needing an appointment.
Call by 1:00 PM and be seen at one of our two locations.
or request an appointment online and one of our staff will call to schedule your visit.
Tidewater Orthopaedics offers imaging at both locations. X-Rays can be taken at the Hampton and Williamsburg locations, and patients needing a MRI can be seen at the Hampton office using our Extremity MRI Machine.
Our state-of-the-art surgery center is dedicated to the care and treatment of patients with orthopaedic conditions.
Our specialty-trained physical therapy experts at Tidewater Orthopaedics provide comprehensive physical therapy and rehabilitation services for patients.
We are excited to share with our community the qualities that make our practice unique. You will notice throughout the website a focus on specialty care. Our mission is to provide the most expert level of orthopaedic care found anywhere. We choose to focus on one area of orthopaedics so we can deliver specialized care you can trust.
Our specialty-trained doctors of Tidewater Orthopaedics provide treatment for orthopaedic injuries and conditions affecting the ankle, back, elbow, foot, hand, hip, knee, neck, shoulder, spine, and wrist in addition to specializing in joint replacement and revision, sports medicine, and trauma.
We believe this specialization approach will provide the best experience and outcome for our patients. We hope you enjoy exploring our website, and please let us know what you think.
At Tidewater Orthopaedics, we help you return to excellence.


text:
1935 Wilma 2022
Wilma Brown
November 1, 1935 — February 12, 2022
Wilma Brown, 86, of Maquon, passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2022, 10:35 PM at Heartland Healthcare Center, Galesburg. Wilma was born on November 1, 1935 in Schuyler County. She was the daughter of Fred and Tilpha (Dodds) Mohlenbruck. She married Aurthur "Art" C. Brown on October 24, 1967 in Browning, Illinois. Together they celebrated 11 years of marriage before his passing on July 1, 1978. Wilma is survived by a brother, Dick Mohlenbruck of Fredrick, IL; 13 nieces and nephews, Walt Stambaugh of Galesburg, Fairy Stambaugh of Abingdon, Bill (Janice) Stambaugh of Mississippi, Stephanie Mohlenbruck of Springfield, Marieta Kirkham of Missouri, Rudy Mohlenbruck of Fredrick, Katie Murphy of Springfield, Debbie (Ben) Tomhave of Springfield, Steve (Susie) Mohlenbruck of Beardstown, Marie Weishaar of Washington, Susan Weishaar of Rushville, Patti Johnson of Colorado and Eli Mohlenbruck of Astoria; sister-in-law, Becky Mohlenbruck of Creve Coeur; and many great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and siblings, Etha Stambaugh, Frieda Walker, Ila Weishaar, Herman Mohlenbruck and Sam Mohlenbruck. Wilma graduated from a small country school house in Schuyler County. She was a secretary for the Secretary of States office in Springfield and then upon moving to the Knox County area, she became a secretary for the Research Facility in Galesburg and then for Zeller's Mental Hospital until her retirement. She was a past member of the Maquon Village Board, and an avid bingo player. Wilma had an extensive collection of owls (somewhere near 400). Most of all, Wilma loved spending time with her family, especially attending various family functions or reunions where she was known for bringing her favorite pies. Wilma was a very loving and caring person who treated her nieces and nephews like her own children. She will be greatly missed by those who knew her best. Visitation will be from 10:00 AM to Noon on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at the Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Homes and Crematory, Knoxville. Funeral service will follow visitation at Noon on Saturday. Burial will be at the Maquon Cemetery, Maquon. Memorials may be made to the Feed My Lambs or to the Maquon Fire Department. On-line condolences and/or expressions of sympathy may be sent through www.hurd-hendricksfuneralhome.com To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Wilma Brown please visit our Sympathy Store.
To send flowers to the family in memory of Wilma Brown, please visit our flower store.
Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Homes - Knoxville
120 N Public Square, Knoxville, IL 61448


Which of the following digital music services do you use when listening to music?
This statistic shows the results of a survey displaying the most used digital music services in Denmark in 2018. As the survey shows, Spotify was the second most used digital music service in Denmark in 2018, with a share of users of 38 percent. YouTube ranked highest among Danes; 66 percent of individuals interviewed stated to have listened to music via this platform.
Statistics on "Digitalization in the media industry in Denmark"
Did you use online newspapers as news source in the last week?


text:
Bivalent Vaccine With Escalating Doses of the Immunological Adjuvant OPT-821, in Combination With Oral β-glucan for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
In the first part of this study we found the highest dose of the vaccine that did not have too many side effects. We are now trying to find out what effects the vaccine has when given at the same dose to all patients. The main treatment in this protocol is a vaccine. It is called a " bivalent vaccine" which means it has 2 antigens. An antigen is a specific protein on the surface of a cell. The antigens are called GD2L and GD3L. We want the vaccine to cause the patient's immune system to make antibodies against the antigens. Antibodies are made by the body to attack cancer (and to fight infections). If the patient can make antibodies against the 2 antigens in the vaccine, those antibodies might also attach to neuroblastoma cells because a lot of each antigen is on neuroblastoma (and very little on other parts of the body). Then, the attached antibodies would attract the patient's white blood cells to kill the neuroblastoma. This protocol also uses β-glucan which is a kind of sugar from yeast. β-glucan is taken by mouth and can help white blood cells kill cancer. The best way to get the body to make antibodies against the 2 antigens is to link each antigen to a protein called KLH (which stands for: keyhole limpet hemocyanin) and to mix them with a substance called QS-21. But it is hard to get enough QS-21 so we are using an identical substance called OPT-821, which we can get easily in large amounts for use in patients.
Brief Title: Bivalent Vaccine With Escalating Doses of the Immunological Adjuvant OPT-821, in Combination With Oral β-glucan for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Official Title: Phase I/II Trial of a Bivalent Vaccine With Escalating Doses of the Immunological Adjuvant OPT-821, in Combination With Oral β-glucan for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
ORG STUDY ID: 05-075
adjuvant OPT-821 in a vaccine containing two antigens (GD2L and GD3L) covalently linked to KLH vaccine group one
oral β-glucan vaccine group one
The phase II treatment schema for patients in 1st CR or ≥ 2nd CR will be the same for the
vaccine as in phase I except OPT-821 will be given at a fixed dose of 150 mcg/ m^2 and with
no DLT assessment. Patients will be randomized to starting oral β-glucan in week 1 or in week
vaccine group one Experimental Patients will receive a total of 7 subcutaneous injections, at weeks 1, 2, 3, 8 , 20 , 32 , and 52. Minor schedule adjus tment s are permitted , as needed Vaccines must occur a inimum of 6 days apart. The last three vaccine s can be administered up to one week earlier or later than indicated without representing a protocol violation.Patients assigned to in Group 1 will receive o ral β glucan (40 mg/kg/day) starting at week 6 or 7 and continue with approximately 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, up to 1 cycle after the last vaccination .
adjuvant OPT-821 in a vaccine containing two antigens (GD2L and GD3L) covalently linked to KLH
oral β-glucan
vaccine group two Experimental Patients will receive a total of 7 subcutaneous injections, at weeks 1, 2, 3, 8 , 20 , 32 , and 52. Minor schedule adjus tment s are permitted , as needed Vaccines must occur a minimum of 6 days apart. The last three vaccine s can be administered up to one week earlier or later than indicated without representing a protocol violation.Patients assigned to Group 2 will receive oral β glucan (40 mg/kg/day) starting week 1 and continue with approximately 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, up to 1 cycle after the last vaccination .
vaccine group three Experimental Patients will receive a total of 7 subcutaneous injections, at weeks 1, 2, 3, 8 , 20 , 32 , and 52. Minor schedule adjus tment s are permitted , as needed Vaccines must occur a minimum of 6 days apart. The last three vaccine s can be administered up to one week earlier or later than indicated without representing a protocol violation.Group 3 will include patients who have previously received vaccine and oral β glucanglucan. Patients in this group will not be randomized using the MSK CRDB system. They will be treated as patients in Group 1 and receive o ral β glucan (40 mg/kg/day) starting at week 6 or 7 and continue with approximately 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, up to 1 cycle after the last vaccination . They will not be eligible for primary endpoint.
-  Diagnosis of neuroblastoma (NB) as defined by international criteria,[104] i.e.,
histopathology (confirmed by the MSKCC Department of Pathology) or bone marrow
metastases plus high urine catecholamine levels.
-  High-risk NB as defined by risk-related treatment guidelines and the International NB
Staging System,[104] i.e., stage 4 with MYCN amplification (any age) stage 4 >18
months old.
-  High-risk NB (as defined above) and in 1) first CR at 6 ≥ months from initiation of
immunotherapy using anti-GD2 antibody, or 2) second or subsequent remission. Remission
is defined as complete (CR) remission, according to the International Neuroblastoma
Response Criteria.[104] Urine catecholamine levels are no longer taken into
consideration when staging.
-  Absolute lymphocyte count ≥ 500/mcl and absolute neutrophil count ≥ 500/mcl.
-  Patients with grade 3 toxicities or less using the Common Toxicity Criteria (Version
3.0) developed by the National Cancer Institute of the USA (CTCAE v3.0) related to
cardiac, neurological, pulmonary, renal, hepatic or gastrointestinal function as
determined by blood tests or physical exam.
-  ALT, AST and Alkaline Phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times the upper limit of normal
-  Prior treatment with other immunotherapy, including antibodies, is allowed
-  ≥ 3 weeks and no more than 6 months (<180 days) between completion of systemic therapy
and 1st vaccination.
-  Patients previously enrolled on this trial are eligible for repeat enrollment but will
be assigned to treatment as per the control arm (Group 1) and will not be included in
the biostatistical analyses.
-  Signed informed consent indicating awareness of the investigational nature of this
-  History of allergy to KLH, QS-21, OPT-821, or glucan.
-  Active life-threatening infection.
-  Inability to comply with protocol requirements.
Minimum Eligible Age: N/A
Measure: To determine the maximally tolerated dose of OPT-821 in a vaccine containing two antigens abundantly expressed on neuroblastoma. (PHASE I)
Measure: To obtain preliminary data on whether subcutaneous administration of the bivalent vaccine produces an immune response directed against the target antigens in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. (PHASE I)
Measure: To obtain preliminary data on the anti-neuroblastoma activity of the bivalent vaccine plus oral β-glucan in patients, including measuring the molecular response in blood and bone marrow. (PHASE I)
Measure: To obtain data on the immune response directed against the target NB-associated antigens in patients as induced by the subcutaneous administration of the bivalent vaccine. (PHASE II)
Measure: To assess FcRIIa, FcRIIIa, CR3 and CD18 gene polymorphism of leukocytes (effector cells), with a view towards a possible association with outcome. (PHASE II)
Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
BETA-D-GLUCAN
OPT-821
GD2-KLH


PRIME COMMERCIAL site with 4,700 daily traffic count, along scenic Route 6, "Pennsylvania Wilds" official corridor, downtown Linesville, near Pymatuning Lake. Lease space provides 13 rooms, including lobby, office, service, rest rooms, and storage space. Previously used as a doctor's office.


text:
Joe Coleman: 10 things to know about 'The Bachelorette' star Michelle Young's bachelor Joe Coleman
Joe Coleman is one of Michelle Young's Final 3 bachelors on The Bachelorette's eighteenth season.
Joe is a 28-year-old real estate developer from Minneapolis, MN.
ABC says Joe has a "heart of gold" and wants to settle down, and Michelle has said she appreciates the bachelor's quiet confidence.
Given both Joe and Michelle are from Minnesota and grew up playing basketball, she thought the stars had aligned for them on the show, and she called her time with Joe "powerful" and "special."
"I feel like you had two souls that have kind of been living side by side without even knowing it, and I feel like we got brought together," Michelle gushed during a one-on-one date in her hometown.
"And I am very excited to see what the future has in store for me and Minnesota Joe!"
Leading into Joe's hometown date later on, he surprised Michelle with "fairy-tale" prom. He confirmed he was "falling for" Michelle and even felt ready to propose marriage to her.
Michelle told Joe's family that he felt like "home" to her, and Joe couldn't believe how quickly his feelings had grown for The Bachelorette star in such a short amount of time.
"I just want you to know that my feelings for you are getting stronger and stronger, and I am falling in love with you," Joe said after Michelle met his family. "I just feel like you are that special person for me."
Michelle kissed Joe but didn't say anything in response.
Until viewers can watch Joe and Michelle potentially fall in love on The Bachelorette, let's get to know a little more about this reserved and soft-spoken bachelor right now.
Below is a list of ten facts Reality TV World has compiled about Joe Coleman.
Joe Coleman is a Minnesota-born-and-raised city boy
Joe works as a real estate developer, property manager, and investor for single family/small multi-family properties in the Minneapolis area. He has worked full-time since November 2020.
The Bachelorette bachelor considers himself to be pretty introverted
Joe said he can be a quiet guy unless he knows someone pretty well.
Joe's family therefore feels Joe needs a confident, strong and outgoing woman who will complement him well and challenge him.
Joe said he's "looking for a queen," someone who is smart, caring, articulate and able to make him laugh.
He wants to find a partner with aligning values and would love to start a family in the near future. He hopes to find a "real one" with whom he can build something solid that will stand the test of time.
In fact, Joe wants to have at least three or four kids!
Joe bounced back and forth between colleges
After graduating from Hopkins High School in 2011, the bachelor attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities from 2011 to 2013.
Joe then transferred to Saint Mary's College of California, which he attended from 2013 to 2015 and took Communications courses.
Joe continued his education at the University of Minnesota, where he studied Business and Marketing Education and Communication Studies from 2015-2016.
The Bachelorette bachelor played college ball
Joe played basketball as a guard at the University of Minnesota and Saint Mary's College of California.
He was named 2011 Minnesota Mr. Basketball and was a Top 100 ESPN Recruit.
While Joe says basketball was his first true love, he's now ready to build a life outside of sports and find a wife.
Joe had serious sports injuries that derailed his dreams
Joe broke three bones in his leg in seventh grade, which left his foot susceptible to further injuries. And then in college, Joe broke his fifth metatarsal and underwent surgery.
"But the doctor who did my surgery ended up putting too big of a screw in my foot, and it ended up splitting my fifth metatarsal in half, just completely shattering it," Joe revealed to Michelle.
Joe ended up having another intensive surgery, which resulted in Joe getting seven screws and a plate put into his left foot just to correct the error.
Joe said that was a very tough time in his life and he was never able to perform basketball the same way afterwards.
"I didn't want to be out there because I couldn't handle it mentally. It was beyond difficult. It was anxiety, depression, and there were times where I was thinking if I even still wanted to be here," Joe admitted.
Joe added, "Ball was life and that life was gone, and so, I've always had such high standards and I didn't feel like I was [reaching them]."
Joe said he was broken and "not in a good place" mentally at the time, and he recalled going to rehab constantly and having to overcome mental hurdles.
Joe said the rehab took time away from his friends and family, and so he finally gave the sport up and looked for a career that would hopefully make him happy outside of basketball.
Joe said he had to find himself again and discover new interests, which left him feeling really lost. When Joe was at his lowest, he returned home to his parents in Minnesota and said that was ultimately a good decision to make.
Joe previously worked in sports and sales
From January 2016 to October of that year, Joe worked as a digital content specialist for SportsEngine, who executed a social-media marketing strategy and covered basketball tournaments.
The following year, Joe served as a business development specialist for the same company.
Joe proceeded to land a job as a basketball trainer at Lifetime fitness from January 2019-March 2020.
Afterward, Joe was hired by Infor software company to do business development and eventually inside sales.
Michelle slid into Joe's DMs before The Bachelorette began filming
Michelle has revealed she and Joe "messaged back and forth about basketball briefly" -- a few exchanges -- on social media before The Bachelorette kicked off filming and then he "ghosted" her.
Joe claims he had a lot going on at the time, including handling a property a few blocks away from George Floyd Square, where a lot of shootings and anxiety was going on. Joe didn't feel ready to open up to somebody at the time, and he assured Michelle that he wasn't dating anyone else when they had communicated.
Michelle could relate to Joe's struggle, especially in regards to the aftermath of George Floyd's tragic death, but she expressed to the suitor how she wished he had communicated better with her in the past and just said that he wasn't ready for a commitment yet.
"How do I know you're not going to shut down again?" Michelle asked.
"It's something I've been focusing on with myself, better understanding how my actions have affected others and how my not responding is lacking communication skills -- which is something I need to learn to be better at. And I'm working on it; I've gone to therapy," Joe explained.
Joe added, "I actually came for you," but Michelle felt the need to "protect" her heart around him.
"I do not want to get hurt," Michelle said. "The hardest part about Joe is that my heart wants to let loose but my mind is trying to guard. That guard is a red flag."
Michelle also wondered why Joe was suddenly popping up in her life again.
"Why now? Why did you wait? Is it because I'm the Bachelorette? I'm here to find my one soul mate, and at the end of this, I don't want my heart broken -- and so I'm torn," Michelle revealed.
But Joe has been receiving roses and advancing in the Season 18 competition ever since.
Michelle says Joe understood her in a way "none of the other guys did"
Michelle explained her apparent strong connection with Joe in a late November interview, saying both she and her bachelor grew up in Minnesota and had similar upbringings.
"We both understood so many things about each other without having to necessarily talk about those things because of how we were raised, because of the basketball community, because we had similar passions," Michelle told People.
"And so that's somebody who I felt just understood a piece of me that none of the other guys did."
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER? WHO HAS SPLIT? WHERE ARE THEY NOW? (PHOTOS)
Joe looks forward to traveling with his future wife
While Joe's idea of a perfect date is dinner at sunset and a movie in Minnesota, he would love to travel to the Galapagos Islands one day with his partner.
A couple of other fun facts about the bachelor? He is scared of spiders, loves snacks, and his grandparents had owned and operated a dairy farm which taught Joe how to work with animals!
Joe reveals how he was cast on The Bachelorette 18
During a November 17 appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast hosted by Becca Kufrin and Tayshia Adams, Joe shared how he was "nominated" to compete on Michelle's The Bachelorette season.
"I had some people from Minnesota who thought me and Michelle would be a good couple. And so they were like, 'You should really just [apply],'" Joe said.
"They asked me if I wanted to apply and I told them, 'No, there is no way I'm ever doing that LOL,' along with some emojis. And then, like, an hour later or something, I got a screenshot [from my friend] and it was like, 'Your application has been submitted.'"
Joe recalled, "I was like, 'Wow, you really did it! You really did it.' And I just sent crying emojis, not thinking anything would really come of it. And I was reached out to that night [by producers]."
Joe confirmed the casting process was "so quick" for him, adding, "I was like, 'No way?!'"
ABC / Reality TV World
Page generated Fri Jan 21, 2022 15:08 pm in 1.2231779098511 seconds


This one is the hardest because of misinterpretations. I don't want to detract from Proverbs 31 ministries, they do great work. However, there are groups out there that misinterpret this Proverb. They for get that it is a King speaking repeating the words his mother, the Queen taught him. She taught him how to find a good Queen. Not that they qualities can apply to you and I, We just have to remember that this woman was not super woman. She did not "Bring home the Bacon, Fry it up in a pan" She did not keep the house clean, the children feed, take care of all the chores and everything for the children BY HERSELF!. PLEASE LET THAT SINK IN- SHE DID NOT DO EVERYTHING BY HERSELF. She was Queen, she had servants. (verse 15).
See God made husbands and wives to be partners and if someone is trying to say that you are do to everything the Queen did, just remember she did not do it all alone. She directed everything to be done and she helped do the work. She did not do it all alone.
The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.
Even when we think no one is watching someone is watching. When we behave poorly there is someone that sees. Unfortunately, if someone sees us behaving poorly, it takes a long time to undo the damage. This is true even if it was an isolated incident.
We are no longer able to positively influence those that have seen or heard about an incident where we have behaved in a less than Christian manner. It is sad if it is our kids. We are charged with bringing up our children as Godly people. If our example is not Godly how can we raise them correctly?
I know that it is impossible to be perfect, and one oops doesn't put our Light out. However, we need to strive to Godly examples. If people see that we are good examples most of the time, they will still see God in us.
My apologies this is a day late. But I actually chose a verse about this. self-control also know as self-discipline. Often when we fail it is our own fault. We plan well, we have a good idea, but we lack on the execution. Yesterday's failure was a lack of planning.
28 Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
I am poor, how do I live generously? Do you remember the widow and the two mites? (Luke 21:1-4) The old widow lived generously. She learned that when we help others, God always blesses. Sometime when we need it, God's blessing will come back to us. Our job is to give and have faith that God will always provide.


People living in the USA might find it hard to get to Spain cheaply which is why people located on the East Coast have a better chance of saving money for travelling. The best thing about travelling is that you are able to get things at affordable prices even air tickets as long as you know which website to use to get the right ticket prices.
It is very easy to travel from Spain when you know how much the flights cost between every destination that you will be passing through. Travelling during summer can be hectic and costly which is why you should make sure you know the best time to travel to Spain and what you are likely to get.
Saving money is the first thing every traveller thinks about so you should ensure you are able to know when the schools in the United Kingdom and Germany break since it can be expensive to travel when schools break. The best thing about Spain is that the weather is still favorable even during winter or fall so you are guaranteed to have the time of your life at the end of the day while staying there.
Spain is considered as a large country in Europe but travellers still find it easy to go to different locations in the country since it is simple and affordable. The country boasts of numerous buses and trains which make it affordable for people to commute from one place to another and you also get details of how you can save money when commuting in Spain.
Picky eaters can have a hard time getting accustomed to a new environment but when you get what you want then you are able to have all you need in one place plus people enjoy the tapas delicacy. Some restaurants might give you free tapas to accompany your drink so it is like having a whole meal.