Unlike prior iOS updates, iOS 12 is placing the focus on performance, particularly on speeding up older devices.
While most of the attention of this week's Apple event is on the company's latest iPhones, those thinking of an upgrade have a cheaper, simpler option they may want to try first: iOS 12.
Unlike prior iOS updates which stressed new features like multitasking, Control Center and Siri, iOS 12 is placing the focus on performance, particularly on speeding up older devices.
Is it worth it? Available for free on Monday, we put the latest beta version of the software on an older iPhone 6 and compared it to another iPhone 6 running iOS 11.4.1 earlier this week to find out.
Important note: As mentioned, these tests were done on a beta, or test, version of iOS 12. While the software is probably close to final, it is likely that there will be some additional tweaks before it hits the general public.
In powering on, opening up Apple's own apps like Notes and Messages and firing up the camera iOS 12 is noticeably quicker. It's not game-changing, but the few extra seconds are noticeable and appreciated.
The camera and keyboard are two areas Apple, in particular, is stressing. The company claims iOS 12 will improve the time it takes to open the camera from the lock screen by up to 70%, the keyboard popping up in apps like messages by up to 50% as well up to "2x faster" app launching when under "heavy workloads."
In our use, this wasn't always the case, but at the very least it wasn't ever noticeably slower, either.
Opening up third-party apps like Snapchat, YouTube and Google Maps wasn't significantly faster on iOS 12 compared to the latest iOS 11. At various times each was faster than the other but rarely was it by more than a second or two, at best.
Introduced as an update to iOS 11 earlier this year, Apple allows users to see the performance of their phone's batteries by going to Settings, Battery and then Battery Health.
Older phones, and by extension older batteries, will lead to iOS slowing itself down, sacrificing performance in exchange for battery life when your battery isn't capable of "peak performance." Apple apologized for doing this in secret late last year and has since brought down the price of replacement batteries from $79 to a more affordable $29 for the rest of 2018.
Both devices we used were performing at peak performance, with battery health at 100% on our iOS 11 device and 94% on our iOS 12 phone.
While iOS 12 promises performance updates under the hood, without a capable battery the benefits aren't likely to be realized.
In short, the answer is yes. Like all recent iPhone software updates, iOS 12 will be free for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to download. Apple even is supporting devices as far back as 2013's iPhone 5s, so if you have an older iPhone this new update is definitely worth a shot before deciding to go out to buy a new phone.
If your battery is in need of replacement, try using the update when your phone is plugged into power and at 100%. See if the speed improvements are noticeable for you. If that's the case, a $29 battery swap may be a decent option for you (and a cheaper one than dropping hundreds on a new device).
One thing to do regardless of what you decide: make sure to backup your iPhone first. When it comes to data protection you can never be too careful.


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If the Trump administration wants the legislative bodies in the U.S., Mexico and Canada to ratify the renegotiated trade agreement that binds all three countries with virtually no ag trade tariffs, it's going to have to lift its steel and aluminum tariffs, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Wednesday.
Martha Barcena, Mexico's new ambassador to the U.S., and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland both informed Grassley personally that the countries would not ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) if the Trump administration did not scrap the "Section 232" tariffs.
"It's pretty clear to me after visiting with (Barcena and Freeland) that they are not going to move as long as those tariffs are on," Grassley said.
Barcena, representing the administration of the newly elected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also met Wednesday with Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue.
"They discussed the benefits of USMCA to both the U.S. and Mexico," a USDA spokesman told Agri-Pulse.
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Originally, Canada and Mexico were exempted from the metal tariffs the Trump administration said were needed to protect national security. The exemptions, officials said at the time, were tied to the negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement. But those exemptions expired when the talks stalled. Government officials in all three countries expressed surprise when the Trump administration did not reinstate the exemptions after Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then-president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto all signed the pact last year.
Meanwhile farm and other trade associations are banding together in the U.S. with the sole purpose of pressuring the Trump administration and Congress to ratify USMCA, The newly formed umbrella group, the Pass USMCA Coalition, is made of groups like the National Cotton Council, National Chicken Council and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
"The USMCA sets a modern precedent for freer and fairer trade not only in North America, but throughout the world," said Gary Locke, the group's honorary chairman. "Ratifying the agreement quickly will improve our trading relationships with Canada and Mexico, create more jobs for American workers, and propel international trade into the 21st century."
For more news, go to www.Agri-Pulse.com
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- As reported by The Press of Atlantic City: "The chance that a strong showing in August could pull the casinos out of a slumping summer season didn't happen.
"Revenue at the city's 11 gaming halls totaled $391.7 million, a decrease of 16.3 percent from August 2008, when the casinos managed to scratch out a modest gain of 0.7 percent from August 2007.
"The latest figures released Thursday by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission only reinforce how challenging this summer has been in the resort. The casinos also posted revenue drops in June, which was down 13.6 percent from the same period in 2008, and July, which was down 12.7 percent.
"For one, the calendar wasn't helpful. The typically busy Labor Day weekend in 2008 was partially in August - unlike this year when it was completely in September..."


We all have dreams about the perfect life: a life without pain, sadness, conflict, or war. The spiritual challenge is to experience glimpses of this perfect life right in the middle of our many struggles. By embracing the reality of our mortal life, we can get in touch with the eternal life that has been sown there. The apostle Paul expresses this powerfully when he writes: "We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our … mortal flesh" (2 Corinthians 4:8-12).


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A 11-year-old girl presented with complaints of mild itchy lesions over bilateral elbows and knees of 1 year duration. There was no history of lesions anywhere else on the body. No other complaints like difficulty in vision or palmoplantar involvement were present. There was no history of atopy. Or any significant family history. Cutaneous examination revealed multiple discrete, erythematous, grouped follicular hyperkeratotic papules with a spiny surfaces and nutmeg grater feel over bilateral elbows, extending slightly over the arms and over bilateral knee joints [Figure 1]a and [Figure 1]b. Dermoscopy done with DE-300 polarizing digital dermaoscope (Firefly) having 20× magnification showed whitish follicular keratotic plugs with peripheral yellowish rings, perifollicular erythema, and hair shaft in the center [Figure 2]. Nails, and mucoase were normal. Koebnerization was absent. Skin biopsy from one of the lesions showed acanthosis with broad and short rete ridges, thick suprapapillary plate, focal hypergranulosis, alternating orthokeratosis and parakeratosis, broad follicular infundibulum filled with orthokeratotic plug with perifollicular moderate lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory infiltrates, and perivascular lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory infiltrates in the dermis [Figure 3]. Based on the history, examination, dermoscopy, and histopathological findings, this case was diagnosed as juvenile circumscribed pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP).
PRP is a rare papulosquamous disorder of childhood, characterized by circumscribed follicular keratoses, branny scale, orange-red erythema, and palmoplantar keratoderma.
PRP was initially classified on the basis of age at onset, behavior, clinical appearance, and prognosis by Griffith in 1980, which continues to be the mainstay in practice for delineating the disease. The exact etiology of PRP is unknown.
Juvenile circumscribed (type-iv) PRP is usually seen in the later part of the first decade of life and is characterized by the formation of well-circumscribed, erythemato-squamous plaques studded with follicular and/or non-follicular papules with prominent keratotic plugging. Lesions are usually confined to the elbows and knees and is marked by remissions and exacerbations. In atypical cases, PRP has to be differentiated from other conditions which can be a diagnostic challenge and a skin biopsy has to be performed for confirmation.
Dermoscopy is a non-invasive diagnostic tool that allows visualization of many morphologic features not visible to the naked eye especially vascular and pigmented structures, so it represents a link between macroscopic dermatology and pathology.
Dermoscopic features of PRP have been described only in two case-reports. A study conducted by Azim et al. showed that most common dermoscopic findings of PRP are yellowish background, whitish keratotic plug, linear vessels either solely or mixed with dotted vessels, arranged mainly peripherally.
Histopathology of PRP is characteristic and shows alternating columns of orthokeratosis and parakeratosis both in vertical and horizontal directions, focal or confluent hypergranulosis, thick suprapapillary plates, broad rete ridges, narrow dermal papillae, and sparse perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate. Plugging of follicular infundibulum by cornified cells is characteristic.
Few common follicular and non-follicular dermatoses, which must be considered in the differential diagnosis of PRP are tabulated with their clinical, dermoscopic, and histopathological differences in [Table 1].
López-Gómez A, Vera-Casaño Á, Gómez-Moyano E, Salas-García T, Dorado-Fernández M, Hernández-Gil-Sánchez J, et al. Dermoscopy of circumscribed juvenile pityriasis rubra pilaris. J Am Acad Dermatol 2015;72(Suppl):S58-9.
Abdel-Azim NE, Ismail SA, Fathy E. Differentiation of pityriasis rubra pilaris from plaque psoriasisby dermoscopy. Arch Dermatol Res2017;309:311-4.
Thomas M, Khopkar US. Keratosis pilaris revisited: Is it more than just a follicular keratosis? Int J Trichol 2012;4:255-8.
Sukesh MS. Dermoscopy of miscellaneous disorders. In: Chatterjee M, Neema S, Malakar S, editors. Dermoscopy in Darker Skin. New Delhi: Jaypee Publication; 2017. p. 139-40.
Ramirez-Fort MK, Khan F, Rosendahl CO, Mercer SE, Shim-Chang H, Levitt JO. Acquired perforating dermatosis: A clinical and dermatoscopic correlation. Dermatol Online J 2013;19:18958.


KEVIN RUDD has promised a fresh style of leadership, a new policy agenda and to tackle the power of the factions after wresting the Labor leadership from Kim Beazley.
And last night Mr Rudd said he intended to get new talent on his front bench, including Peter Garrett, despite what the factions might want. "I'll be leading the show, and when it comes to the outcomes I want I intend to get them. I don't particularly care if anyone has opposing views - that's what's going to happen."
The party's new deputy leader, Julia Gillard, said she would take a much higher profile than other deputies, and she did not rule out wanting to lead the party one day. "Who knows down the track?" she told ABC TV's Lateline. "But my ambition now is to be deputy prime minister of this country with Kevin Rudd as prime minister."
Mr Rudd vowed to clearly differentiate Labor from the Government, telling the 7.30 Report it would become "an alternative, not an echo". He also promised to restore Australian manufacturing.
As Mr Beazley lost his job and then learnt his brother had died, the Prime Minister congratulated Mr Rudd, his fourth opponent in just over three years, and then set about attacking him for promising to stick to Labor's existing policies.
"Style is important, very important, but substance is even more important," John Howard said yesterday. "The problem for the Labor Party over the last 10 years has not been the salesmen, it's been the product."
Mr Rudd's adherence to winding back the Government's industrial laws was re-shackling Labor to the union movement and would make the next election a choice between the past and the future, Mr Howard said.
Mr Rudd defeated Mr Beazley by 49 votes to 39 in a caucus ballot yesterday morning. Ms Gillard won the deputy's spot uncontested after Jenny Macklin chose not to stand. Chris Evans and Stephen Conroy were returned unopposed as Senate leaders.
Caucus, with Mr Rudd's support, deferred until Thursday ballots for all of Labor's front-bench positions. Last night Ms Gillard was being urged to take the industrial relations portfolio rather than treasury, to which she is entitled as deputy. The other contenders for the portfolio are Lindsay Tanner or the present shadow treasurer, Wayne Swan.
Ms Gillard would not rule out treasury, saying Peter Costello had "never troubled me that much".
It was a horrible day for Mr Beazley, who left the caucus room only to learn his younger brother David, 53, had died in Perth. The former leader held a stoic and dignified news conference before returning home to Perth with his wife, Susie Annus.
His eyes red from crying, Mr Beazley all but indicated his 26-year political career was over. He was not interested in a front-bench position, and he is tipped to retire at the next election.
"For me to do anything further within the Australian Labor Party, I would say would be Lazarus with a quadruple bypass. I think the time has come for the Labor Party, having made a decisive decision to turn to a new generation, to turn to a new generation. And I have no part in that."
Mr Beazley left with a pointed warning that Mr Howard was the most formidable conservative politician of his generation. "He is not going to be an easy man to beat. He'll not be beaten by a rabble. He'll only be beaten by an absolutely united team."
Mr Beazley had called for an immediate spill of the front bench but Mr Rudd said that would be impractical. A Thursday ballot would give the factions, which have splintered on the leadership, time to select their candidates, raising fears of the same dead wood on the front bench.
Although backbencher and environmentalist Peter Garrett is certain to be promoted, factions were moving to protect some existing frontbenchers like Laurie Ferguson and Joel Fitzgibbon.
Mr Rudd expressed his sorrow for Mr Beazley and promised his policies of tackling climate change, opposing the Government's industrial relations laws and calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, would all stand.
He declared repeatedly that Australia had come to a fork in the road, and the Government had gone "a bridge too far".
Mr Rudd said his victory in yesterday's vote was by enough votes for the party to unite behind him.
"We have elected a new style of leadership for Australia's future," he said. "Our purpose through that is to deliver a new policy agenda for the nation and, in the weeks and months ahead, we will be sleeves rolled up doing that."
Although he opposed the Iraq war, Mr Rudd said he was "rock solid on the alliance with the United States".
Mr Rudd is the first Queenslander to lead Labor since Bill Hayden in 1983.
He is the fourth man to lead Labor since it lost government in 1996 and the sixth leader Mr Howard has faced as Liberal leader.
Although Liberals are privately confident Mr Rudd will be easier to beat than Mr Beazley, Mr Howard warned against complacency. "I have taken every one of the six Labor leaders I have faced as leader of the Liberal Party seriously, and Mr Rudd is no exception," he said.
"Anyone who is complacent in this game is kidding themselves. When you are going for your fifth term, it was hard with Mr Beazley, it will be hard with Mr Rudd."
Mr Howard predicted an early surge in the polls for Labor under Mr Rudd. "There's always a lot of curiosity about a new leader, and this will be no different," he said.
The Premier, Morris Iemma, who had backed Mr Beazley, said he would work willingly with Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard, and urged the federal party to unite behind them.


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MediaLab boss commits to 250-job target
The acting director for MediaLab Europe, Ken Haase, maintained today that the Dublin base for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is still on target to create 250 jobs at the lab, which forms the cornerstone of the Digital Hub in Dublin's Liberties.
In recent weeks, the MediaLab's previous director Dr. Rudy Burger stepped down from his position, signalling the end of the first phase of development of the lab, which moved from a proposal two years ago to a reality today.
The lab currently employs over 100 researchers, half of whom are returning Irish ex-pats, and is engaged in top level research and development for corporate and academic sponsors of the non-profit MediaLab Europe.
The Irish Government is understood to have invested over US$30m in MediaLab Europe, which shares some US$50m in corporate sponsorship per annum with its Boston-based parent, MIT. Sponsors in the Dublin MediaLab include: AIB, Eircom, Ericsson, Telenor, Saab, Orange, Lego and Telecom Italia. The Liberties-based building covers a 10,000 sq ft site.
According to Haase, who will temporarily head the Dublin lab for six months, the search is on for a new CEO to take the Dublin operation through its next phase of development. Dr. Rudy Burger will continue to act as an advisor to the board of MediaLab Europe and will continue in his role of visiting scientist at the MIT lab.
Haase says: "The target [for 250 jobs] remains the same. We are currently employing 100 experts in various fields. There are lots of different factors at play. For example, while it is hard to get sponsorship for the lab during times of an economic downturn, the upside of that is it is easier to hire good people. One of the interesting things about the research community at MediaLab in Dublin is that half of the researchers there are ex-pat Irish people whose expertise wasn't required in Ireland a decade ago and were part of the 'brain drain' who have returned to work in Ireland."
As well as this, Haase explained that the MediaLab has begun a process of forging deeper links with Irish universities and colleges through the Higher Education Authority. It is understood that up to 12 Irish institutions are engaged in 21 different technological collaborations with MediaLab Europe. Haase expects to deepen the collaborations over the next few months and begin to extend this model into European academic institutions.
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Dan in Boise writes ... Kevin, I read on the Get Elastic blog (an outstanding resource, by the way) that a research organization is saying that Multichannel Commerce is dead. Didn't the very same research organization ask us to pay for a research report just two years ago, suggesting that multichannel and multichannel attribution would be critical in just eighteen months?
Kevin: 2011 has been crazy, hasn't it? E-mail is dead. Search is dead. Cataloging has been dead for a decade. Television and Radio are dead (do they look dead to you), Magazines are dead, Newspapers are dead, and now we add Multichannel to the death list. I don't know what to tell you. Well, I do. Give Sucharita at Forrester a read, her comments are always practical. We're smack-dab in the middle of a vendor bubble, folks. Somebody is going to own the fusion of social + mobile + retail + e-commerce. Vendors and thought leaders are placing their bets, hyping the living daylights out of their point of view in an effort to "win". We're a society that loves "winning", aren't we? Always remember one thing ... nobody knows your customer as well as you know your customer. Take all of this hype with a grain of salt ... 90% of it won't come to fruition in two years when everybody moves to hologram marketing ... I just heard hologram marketing mentioned on Charlie Rose, for crying out loud.
Betsy in Chico writes ... Isn't there something to be said for this whole lifecycle view of customers? I mean, channels really are irrelevant, you've been harping on us to pay less attention to multichannel marketing, asking us to focus on the customer. Well, now people are listening to you. Isn't that what you wanted to see happen?
Kevin ... No, that's not what I wanted to see happen. Here's what is happening ... remember the four letter word known as "CRM"? Sure you do. Fifteen years ago, we were going to have personalized, relevant messages that increased customer value and reduced costs, while managing the customer across all touchpoints in the customer life cycle. That's what is happening ... again, disguised under terms like "Social CRM" or 'Smarter Commerce'. Now, everybody is going to tell you that things are different, that "mobile changes everything" that customers love "highly engaged conversations with brands". Sure they do! So much of this (not all, mind you) is a replay of the CRM / Multichannel / Online Integration movement of the late 1990s. We'll integrate your online/offline data, we'll house your database for you, we'll manage your campaigns for you, and we'll add smart consultants to the mix. This isn't a bad approach, people will benefit. But it is a repeat of the late 1990s ... and the whole world changed in unexpected ways in the past fifteen years, rendering so much of the infrastructure you build feckless. I'm guessing that the world will change in unexpected ways in the next fifteen years.
Geoffrey in Spokane writes ... Fundamentally, you agree with life cycle analytics, right?
Kevin ... Absolutely, but to a limit. Here's the thing. You don't map out the customer life cycle on a greaseboard, you don't identify key 'inflection points', and then you don't offer a smart discount via social media to move the customer along the customer life cycle. That's thinking like a CRM expert from 1997. Take a moment, and watch your spouse shop. Last week, when he purchased a dog seat from "In The Company Of Dogs", was he thinking ahead to his future brand interests in a deep, emotional social media relationship coupled with an app that allows him to buy Pupperoni on-demand for 20% off plus free shipping? Doubtful, though maybe 5% of the population thinks this way. That's a CRM approach to the world.
Here's what the data suggests. The data suggests that customers do not follow a clear, easy-to-understand customer loyalty ecosystem. Every customer is different. Many customers go through an interative loop ... loyal to inactive to loyal to something else. That being said, customers to tend to exhibit future patterns based on prior activities. Instead of creating 'touchpoints' to 'manage' a customer, I'd create compelling merchandise that self-motivates the customer to move through the life cycle. For some reason, we don't enough time focusing on this, do we?
Have a real question ... send it to me, we'll see if we can add it to the mailbag!
To answer "Dan," the spirit of Brian's report is to be provocative and even controversial - multichannel is still multichannel, it's the mindset about it (and the technology that supports it) that needs to catch up to what the consumer is already doing. The channels aren't going away, but the organization should view the channels in a holistic way rather than in silos, and support the consumer with a seamless experience across them all.
Brian's argument is that it has already come to fruition - the customer IS engaging across touchpoints and there is a real problem with siloed management of these channel/touchpoints.
Multichannel attribution is very important, but extremely difficult. A shift to "agile" ways of managing these channel/touchpoints can help this problem, but not completely erradicate it. I don't believe any vendor or thought leader will emerge the winner here (Charlie Sheen excluded), as there will always be a large market of point solutions and commerce platforms that can support this shift. If anything, that playing field will grow as the market demands more such solutions, there can't be a vendor winner. Also, technology is only half of the pie, the other is how the business organizes itself, and the co-operation between touchpoint "owners."


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His father is also his grandfather
Post subject: His father is also his grandfather
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:05 pm
Perils of the migrant maids' daughters
By Dumeetha Luthra
@ BBC News, Colombo
Pasinthu Malintha, a Sri Lankan baby is crying in his cot. He is only two weeks old. His mother is 14, and his father is also his grandfather.
He is one of the many victims suffering the consequences of Sri Lanka's heavy reliance on sending maids to work abroad.
Nearly 600,000 Sri Lankan women work as domestic servants in other countries.
It is a huge money earner, bringing in millions of dollar in foreign exchange. But it can also fundamentally change the nature of the family unit.
'Satisfy needs'
Children left at home can be vulnerable to child abuse, incest and other exploitation.
"The mother leaves the children, sometimes with the father. Sometimes, when the father feels lonely, he will try and make use of the children to satisfy his needs," warns Neeta Ariayaratna.
She works for a local NGO Sarvodya, which runs a home for young unmarried mothers.
Karani is a shy 19-year-old.
She was left with her uncle's family when her mother went overseas for work. She was just 13 when her uncle raped her and left her pregnant.
She cannot talk about the experience and says she just wants to forget what happened.
She says she is not angry but that it is hard to come to terms with her missed youth.
"When I see the other children going to school I feel very sad, as I will not be able to go to school ever."
She now lives at the Sarvodya home. She has a six-year-old son. When he was born, she could not bear to look at him.
Abortion was not an option. It is illegal in Sri Lanka, unless the mother's life is in danger.
Adoption would have caused too much emotional distress. Now she wants to raise him.
Mothers going to work abroad do get some warning of the dangers they may be leaving behind.
The bureau of foreign employment gives them training on some of the skills they will need abroad as maids, such as how to use a blender and an iron.
They are wide eyed and eager - it is with these skills that they can escape from poverty.
But sandwiched between these classes is a small session on what could happen to their children while they are away.
They dutifully recite the suggestions given to them. One is that their daughters should be left with their the mother-in-law, rather than with their husband.
But the students are searching for a dream, another way of life, and the teacher's words seem to have little impact.
'State's obligation'
The class here is a small acknowledgement from the government that there is a problem.
But the government should do more for the women, given that migrant workers are Sri Lanka's highest earners of foreign exchange and most of the migrants are women, argues Hiranthi Wijemanne from the National Child Protection Agency.
"A lot can be done and I was advocating for a long time that we give one per cent of what they earn. That would be an enormous sum of money, because I think the state really has an obligation.
"I mean these women are really keeping the economy growing, so I think in return the least the state could do is to help these kids, make sure at least these children are not abused or exploited and given some opportunity to grow and develop like other children," he says.
Karani is now training to become a seamstress. She can't go back to her village, her uncle still lives there. Not only has she lost her innocence, but the family has lost their home.
Her mother Irangani is bereft - the case is still dragging through the court system here.
"It is more than six years now. The person who has done this crime is still free. The punishment should be given to him but we are the people facing the problems. Justice should be done."
However, for these children, the grim reality is not justice, but isolation. They are the legacy of economic necessity.
They are the hidden shame of Sri Lanka, outsiders in their village and outsiders in society. (The names of the mothers in this report have been changed.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/w ... 263226.stm
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Post subject: Srilankan politicians created this slave trade.
Sirima started exporting domestic workers, all after her encouraged the practice.
Our people have enabled the idiots who are appointed by them to dictate to them everything.
MP supply -
teaching appointments.
decide what the medium of instructions in our schools are.
without MP chit you can do nothing in the slave island of Sirilanka.
Only Siri for Bandas ,Gundas and othe politicians for others only Masisri.
Post subject: Hold the criminal responsible
When an adult commite an act of abuse on a minor it is a crime punishable under the penal code in Sri Lanka. The laws and the means to carry out those laws prevail in Sri Lanka. Heck, we even deal with Tamil Tigers. Don;t tell me we can't deal with an sex starved parent who doesn't know how to steer clear of his own daughter.
Sri Lankans need to stop blaming the system each time something goes wrong. It is to our people's credit that even the least educated are adventerous and capable of overcoming the mental barriers that exist even among a mojority of similar people in more advanced nations. It is not only unfair, but illogical to hold the very same people to blame for adverse outcomes of their daring to improve themselves. Placing the blame on politicians for simple breach of law by errent parents is senseless too.
The law is there. Put it to practical use.
Throw the parent in jail, and take away the abused child into social services.


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The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Buffalo Sabres and won the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1974–1975 season, four games to two. The Stanley Cup Finals of the National Hockey League championship series started on May 15, 1975 and ended on May 27, 1975. MVP: Bernie Parent (Flyers)
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Eastern dedicated freight corridor connecting Ludhiana to West Bengal's Dankuni to be ready by 2023
Project to drive industrial growth in Punjab
After over a decade of being in the pipeline, the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) connecting Ludhiana to Dankuni (near Kolkata) in West Bengal is slated to be completed by 2023.
Vijay C Roy
Chandigarh, December 7
The completion of rail infrastructure on such a huge scale is expected to drive the establishment of industrial corridors and logistic parks along its alignment across states such as Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The EDFC with a route length of 1,856 km consists of two distinct segments: an electrified double-track segment of 1,409 km between Dankuni in West Bengal and Khurja in Uttar Pradesh. It has an electrified single-track segment of 447 km between Ludhiana (Dhandarikalan)-Khurja-Dadri in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Conceived in 2005, the project was hit due to delays in land acquisition and financing arrangements, which hampered finalisation of contracts. The project was initially expected to be completed in 2017. Since then, its deadline has been extended to March 2018, March 2020, December 2021, June 2022 and now the government is targeting to complete it by 2023.
In a reply to a Lok Sabha question, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said of the 1,337 km in the EDFC, the sections of Bhaupur-Khurja (351 km), Bhimsen-Sujatpur (155 km) and Deen Dayal Upadhayay-Chirailapathu (137 km), Khurja to Dadri (46 km) and Chheoki to Chunar (110 km) — a total of 799 km — had already been completed and operation of trains was in progress. He also mentioned that the work on the remaining sections was in a full swing and targeted for completion in year 2023. Also, a 538-km stretch between Sonnagar in Bihar and Dankuni in West Bengal is being developed under the PPP mode.
Since its inception, the government's marquee logistics project has undergone several delays due to concerns over land acquisition and contract-awarding lags.
From 2007 to 2014, only 88 per cent of the total land was acquired. Remaining land patches were held up due to land disputes, arbitration and court cases. As a result, even nine years after the announcement, not even single patch has been completed. Then the project was marred by Covid-induced delays. During, the period, the Railways continued to lose traffic to road. This has indirect effect of increasing logistics cost, thereby making trade less competitive.
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Trump - Womens March on 21 January,2017. Wikicommons/ Mark Dixon. Some rights reserved.Typically, security research is called upon to give advice on how to sort things out when there is something wrong.
A closer look at the problem of problematizing, though, is missing. How threatening are the threats – this question is out of scope for the European (and most national) security research programmes. At the policy end, no awkward question will be asked, since the evil forces are the evil forces and all efforts are directed to combat them – terrorism, organised crime, illegal migration, cyber criminals. The focus of research is on finding a solution to a problem. What exactly the problem is, however, remains unquestioned.
Policy actors and security professionals sharing control over the hegemonic security discourse realign fears and channel public arousal towards their convenient enemies. The members of the law enforcement and intelligence community have a dual role in this setting: they are on the one hand the legitimate experts institutionally endowed to speak about and define security threats. Threat levels have to be kept high to maintain the role of the security professionals and boost further investment in security technology.
The reasons for this are obvious: any serious critical analysis of the present security landscape will refrain from offering magic bullets to solve a problem. After a spectacular terrorist attack, there is no similarly spectacular serious policy response. After decades, if not centuries of imperialist policies, shaping the Global South, there is no miraculous formula stopping global migration towards "our" wealthy northern countries. But since the ensuing security problems seem to be popping up quite unexpectedly, there is a demand for immediate, effective solutions and counteraction, so policy makers are yearning for magic bullet type solutions. Opting for a "solution" taking effect beyond the next election date would be irrational for every politician or member of a parliamentary assembly, who wants to be re-elected.
And last not least, the policy actors in charge of taking far-reaching decisions on security issues themselves rarely have immersed into the complexity of the issues they have to vote on. They rely on the expertise and advise offered to them, and it has been demonstrated over the years and across all parliaments of the Western world, that it is the representatives of the industry and powerful lobby groups who are able to bring their message across to the politicians. Heterodox experts, representatives from NGOs, or citizen groups never can activate the PR resources and manpower big corporations throw into the hegemonic battle over agenda setting. (Whoever has taken the bus from Brussels Airport and looked at the corporate labels at the office buildings along the freeway to the city will get an idea of the range of interests presented to the European policy makers.) Offering slots of less than 90 seconds to explain world events as breaking news, runs counter to any thorough deliberation of contemporary security problems.


Various concepts related to the theory of evolution, including ideas with no connection to the work of Charles Darwin.
The theory that God used evolution in the process of Creation.
Most scientists today regard the theory of evolution as a fact rather than a theory. There are differences of opinion regarding the tempo, mode, and mechanisms of evolution, but the basic concepts of the theory have become an established paradigm.
Even in the religious world, old animosities between science and religion have been largely forgotten and are shrugged off as unfortunate history based on ignorance. After all, the Church has made mistakes in the past and has had to acknowledge its errors in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence against its stand. Science has gained the ascendancy in this battle and inIn the light of the awe-inspiring discoveries and progress in the civilized world attributed to science, who is there who would dare to contradict its paradigms?
The educational systems of the world bear witness to this total regard for the voice of science, teaching only naturalistic worldviews on origins. to the exclusion of all others. Moreover, proponents of the literary critical methodcritics have questioned the Bible not only on issues concerning origins, but on historical content as well.
The theory of evolution is presented in secondary and tertiary institutions as the only feasible theory of origins. Even at the primary educational levels, evolutionary concepts are imprinted in young minds as indisputable facts. Alternative models are regarded with scepticism and even ridiculed.
In spite of these odds, there still exists a large body of people, including scientists, who believe in a personal Creator God and support a literal interpretation of the Genesis account. This fact may astound some evolutionary scientists, but it is indeed true.
In 1999, a book was published in which fifty scientists with PhDs confirmed their faith in a literal Creation account. The book In Six Days-why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation was published after a research scientist at Macquarie University in Sydney challenged the concept that even one scientist with a PhD would advocate a literal interpretation of the Genesis account.
Evolutionary scientists argue that creationism is not science, because it is based on preconceived ideologies that exclude it from the realms of science. They say that religious views and revelations are not subject to the scientific method and the two worldviews on origins need thus to be kept separate.
This sounds like a decent argument, but what if the facts actually fit the Biblical paradigm? Will the facts be ignored simply because they are recorded in Scripture? Would they then be excluded from the realms of science and education? If so, truth would then be excluded from our world on the grounds of having been preconceived. If this scenario were indeed true, then science would be left groping in the dark outside of the defined parameters of truth.
There are only these two possibilities. The world as we know it came into existence by naturalistic processes or it was created by an intelligent designer. No other possible choices exist.
In my own life, I have been confronted with this dilemma and have sat on both sides of this fence. For most of my life, I was a committed evolutionist and presented the theory of evolution to my students as an established fact. I received my training at a secular university, well known for its groundbreaking research and views on evolution. World-renowned evolutionary scientists such as Robert Broom had molded the thinking and direction of the zoology department where I received most of my training. There was no room for any other paradigm. For twenty years of my teaching and research career, I was so committed to the naturalistic view of origins that there was no room for alternative explanations.
As a young lecturer, students who believed in a literal Creation occasionally confronted me, but this made no impact on me. Occasionally we would even entertain creationists at the university and would then delight in tearing their arguments apart and ridiculing their efforts in our subsequent lectures to our students. It was not that we were devious in these endeavors. It was just a matter of the two worldviews being so far removed from each other that the differences were irreconcilable. Our worldview was obviously right; therefore, the other had to be ridiculous.
Thinking back on these events makes me realize that our worldview embraced more than just science. It embraced religion. The Biblical paradigm was rejected in favor of ours and we would defend it vehemently, but were we defending more than a theory of origins? To our minds it was not a theory, it had become truth despite the fact that the origin of all things is not subject to scientific empirical research but must always remain in the realms of faith—faith in a naturalistic process or faith in God.
This conflict between opposing worldviews is nowhere fought as rigorously than at universities. But it is also a conflict that rages at many other levels, including the mind of each person. Yes, there have been attempts to reconcile the two views by propagating some form of theistic evolution, but this halfway measure is equally unacceptable to the atheistic evolutionist who has no room in his paradigm for a higher power. Moreover, there are so many theological problems associated with this compromise that the rigorous Bible believer is also not able to embrace this ideology. The conflict is fierce and it is not possible to resolve it peacefully, as I was to discover for myself.
At the university where I received my undergraduate training and spent a substantial part of my academic career as a lecturer and researcher in zoology, most of my colleagues believed in the traditional model of Darwinism in that they embraced gradualism. However, the neo-Darwinist view of punctuated equilibrium, championed by Stephen J. Gould of Harvard University and others, was also well supported, resulting in many heated debates in the evolution discussion classes.
The punctuated equilibrium model (the idea that change is not gradual over time, but that organisms experience long periods of stability or equilibrium, and that these periods of stability are interrupted by punctuated periods of rapid change during episodes of environmental change) was born out of necessity, because the fossil record does not seem to support the gradualistic model.
The fossils speak of an explosion of life forms, which we call the "Cambrian explosion" where life forms literally exploded into existence, including even the phylum Chordata to which humans belong. The idea of punctuated equilibrium was born to deal with this dilemma. Of course, this has time implications as well, since rapid change implies shorter time periods than would be required for gradualism.
It is quite incredible how flexible the scientific fraternity is in accommodating changes in existing time paradigms as long as they remain within the framework of the evolutionary paradigm. Hundreds of millions of years can be dropped out of the geological column without too many feathers being ruffled, but should a creationist dare to challenge existing time frames, then even the warring factions in the evolution camp stand united in their condemnation.
The leap from punctuated equilibrium to Creation is really not that great. With Creation, we would expect the sudden appearance of diverse life forms just as we see it in the Cambrian explosion.
The sequence of change in evolutionary thinking described above is also a summary of my personal "evolution" in terms of my understanding of these issues. As an undergraduate student I subscribed to gradualism. As my insights were broadened at the postgraduate level, I fell into the neo-Darwinist camp and supported the punctuated equilibrium model. However, when I was challenged by the veracity of the Bible with regard to its historic and prophetic statements, I was compelled to reassess my views on the Scriptures in general.
One of my greatest problems, however, concerned the question of origins, and this compelled me to study this issue in detail. I was so deeply rooted in the evolutionary paradigm that it took much research to even entertain the possibility of an alternative model of origins, but I was fortunate in that I was granted the opportunity to visit many sites around the world that provided evidence for Biblical catastrophism and contradicted the gradualistic paradigm.
I considered myself an atheist, but I was probably more like an agnostic. I did not believe in God, but there was room in my thinking for esoteric views on the elevated status of humanity, though I did not practice them nor belonged to any group that did. I grew up in a Christian home but had never studied the Bible as such. At best I considered it a book of allegorical stories and myths with perhaps some valuable moral teachings.
When I was confronted for the first time in my life with a more intense study of the Bible, I was astonished at some of the amazing insights that I gained not only in the realms of morality, but also in the fields of history and prophecy. Since that initial start, I came to accept the Word of God as the most trustworthy book I have ever read. This Word has power to change lives, to lift people up and to give hope in the face of human hopelessness. It challenges one to test its trustworthiness, saying, "Come let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18).
My change of heart regarding the question of origins and evolution was not instantaneous—no blinding flash shifted my paradigms—and it was also not emotional. It was the result of a long and hard road in search of truth. It is my intention to share the evidence I discovered with others, and to invite them to sift the evidence for themselves. If it is truth, then it will stand.
The reaction of my colleagues to my change of heart stunned me. For the first time I experienced the fervor of united opposition from the other side of the battle line. The conflict has convinced me that we are not just dealing with scientific paradigms where opposing scientific views and theories are discussed in the spirit of congeniality. This is a spiritual war. Evolution versus Creation is a religious battle, and compromise is impossible.
The young student's boldness in our evolution discussion class caused a major furor. For the first time I witnessed the raw anger of those whose evolutionary views are challenged. From that day onward I was treated like a man with leprosy. I was senior lecturer at the time, with numerous graduate students working under my supervision, but the tide of bitter opposition and the cold war I experienced made it impossible for me to continue my work unaffected and I offered to resign.
This led to an interesting cycle of events and discussions, which finally ended in the office of the rector of the university. Surely a compromise was possible. Surely I could teach within the evolutionary paradigm and keep my convictions to myself. Prosperity lay before me with academic advancement, but the price was too high. I left the university convinced that the days of my university career as zoologist were numbered. After all, which university would appoint a zoologist with creationist views? I had spent my life studying biology. It was in my blood and I had worked tirelessly to get where I was. It was indeed an empty feeling that flooded through me as I left the gates of my alma mater.
Amazingly, it was not long after this event that other universities asked me to teach courses related to my physiological training, where my views on origins would not impact on the students. However, the topic would never quite go to rest because I was constantly invited to act as speaker on the subject of origins and to take part in panel discussions. I am grateful for the tolerance I did find among some scientists, and for the fact that the doors of my university career did not close altogether.
I was however very surprised when I was eventually appointed as professor and chair in zoology at one of the large universities in South Africa. This position held many challenges, particularly since my views were known to all involved. In fairness to all parties, I chose not to interfere with the teaching of the evolutionary theory by my colleagues or invited guest speakers that taught courses on evolutionary theory to our graduates. However, if asked to deliver a discourse during extra-curricular hours, I would consent to such requests. Needless to say, this led to much unhappiness on the part of some, particularly since many of the students would change their views when confronted with the other side of the story. How can students choose between paradigms if they are not exposed to the different views whatever they may be?
After endless sparring over this issue, the final conclusion was to be expected. An investigation with outside adjudicators was conducted in an attempt to diffuse the largely underground conflict. One of my colleagues bluntly stated that one could not conduct science if one believed in a literal Creation. This statement, however, brought about considerable debate. The constitution of South Africa guarantees religious freedom, but sadly it appears that this freedom does not address the real issues since it apparently cannot grant one the right to believe what God says on the question of origins.
In order to diffuse the situation I again offered to resign, but the university graciously declined my offer. My alternative request for transfer out of the zoological firing line was however granted, and since my research is largely physiological in nature I could readily move to a more medically inclined department.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21).
i John F. Ashton (ed.), In six days-why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation (Australia: New Holland Publishers, 1999).
ii Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (York: Heritage Press, 1963).
iii Richard Lewontin, "Billions and billions of Demons," The New York Review of Books (January 9, 1997): 31.
ivThomas Henry Huxley, Darwiniana: essays (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1893): 149.
v Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (London: Penguin Books, 1986): 1.
vi Scott C. Todd, "Letter to the Editor," Nature 401 (September 30 1999).
vii E. O. Wilson, "Towards a Humanistic Biology," The Humanist (September/October 1982): 40.


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I work for an animal rescue and I thought vinyl planking would be easy to keep clean and would be ideal for the puppy room. I got a light gray with a wood grain texture.
Worst floor I could've gotten. The puppy accidents sink into the grain and it's impossible to get out. Also, this stains very easily and retains odors. So, heads up that the representative will tell you it's waterproof and it is, but it's not stain or odor proof.
It was very expensive and I'm going to have to replace the whole thing. And, when I ordered it the Shaw rep said it would be 3 to 5 days.
It took two weeks. Very unhappy with this floor.
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This stunning 8' x 9' Peshawar Ziegler Rug features a fearless design in a muted color scheme. A warm caramel color fills the central shape, contrasting nicely with light beige and eggshell white hues that form the rug's main background. An asymmetrical octagon shape takes the stage and is surrounded by detailed natural motifs like flowers, leaves, and vines.


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Q: Ошибка в выборки SQL MySQL Здравствуйте, пытаюсь сделать выборку данных, но постоянно возвращает пустое значение. В чем ошибка?
SELECT shop.id FROM locality, shop
WHERE shop.locality_id=locality.id
and shop.company="M.Видео"
and shop.name="м. «Красносельская», ТЦ «Тройка»"
and shop.address="Москва, ул. Верхняя Красносельская вл. 3а, ТЦ «Тройка»"
and shop.locality_id=117929
and shop.class=1

Вот скриншот записи:

Другой запрос, запрос идет из 1 таблицы
SELECT shop.id FROM shop
WHERE shop.company="M.Видео"
and shop.name="м. «Красносельская», ТЦ «Тройка»"
and shop.address="Москва, ул. Верхняя Красносельская вл. 3а, ТЦ «Тройка»"
and shop.locality_id="117929"
and shop.class="1"

Даже можно вот так:
SELECT id FROM shop
WHERE company="M.Видео"
and name="м. «Красносельская», ТЦ «Тройка»"
and address="Москва, ул. Верхняя Красносельская вл. 3а, ТЦ «Тройка»"
and locality_id="117929"
and class="1"

Update
Проблема в наличии невидимых символов: во время составления списка для добавления записи для имени длина составляет 34, а в бд приходил длиной 64
код:
print("Длина имени",len(name_shop))
print("Длина адреса",len(address_shop))
type="M.Видео"
sql = """SELECT shop.id FROM locality, shop WHERE shop.locality_id=locality.id and shop.company=%s and shop.name=%s and shop.address=%s and shop.locality_id=%s and shop.class=%s"""
data = [(type, name_shop, address_shop, city_id, '1')]
print(data)
shop_id=select_request_db(sql,data)
log.info("Выборка")

def select_request_db(sql, data):
    conn = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="", db="project")
    conn.set_character_set('utf8')
    cursor = conn.cursor()
    cursor.execute('SET NAMES utf8;')
    cursor.execute('SET CHARACTER SET utf8;')
    cursor.execute('SET character_set_connection=utf8;')
    conn.autocommit(True)
    cursor.executemany(sql,data)
    row = cursor.fetchall()
    conn.close()

    list_id = list(sum(row, ()))
    return list_id

Лог:
Длина имени 34
Длина адреса 55
ID города:  62494
[('M.Видео', 'Домодедово, ТРЦ «Торговый Квартал»', 'Домодедово, Каширское ш., д. 3А, ТРЦ «Торговый Квартал»', 62494, '1')]

В чем может быть проблема? использую python+mysqldb
Структура таблицы:

A: Добрый день.
В таком варианте запрос работает:
CREATE TABLE `shop` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `class` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL,
  `company` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL,
  `address` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL,
  `locality_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

INSERT INTO `shop` VALUES (1,'1','M.Видео','м. «Красносельская», ТЦ «Тройка»','Москва, ул. Верхняя Красносельская вл. 3а, ТЦ «Тройка»',117929);

SELECT * FROM shop
    WHERE
        company = "M.Видео"
        AND name = "м. «Красносельская», ТЦ «Тройка»"
        AND address = "Москва, ул. Верхняя Красносельская вл. 3а, ТЦ «Тройка»"
        AND locality_id = "117929"
        AND class = "1"

То, что не возвращает результатов из python скорее всего как-то связано с особенностями работы с кодировками. Из-за этого и длина поля может быть разной если смотреть средствами python.
Хочется ещё сказать насчёт самой архитектуры хранения - может следует немного нормализовать данные, чтобы не было дублирования?
Например в таблице shop хранить name, address и company_id. Где company_id будет внешним ключом на таблицу company.
В таблице company хранить имя компании.
Ну а сводные данные по магазину, классу и месту тогда назвать как-нибудь вроде shop_summary и там уже будут колонки с class, shop_id, locality_id.
Возможно ли переписать запрос, чтобы использовать shop_id вместо поиска по полному текстовому совпадению? Если уж невозможно, то тогда уже следовало бы добавить полнотекстовой индекс и искать с помощью match against, тогда будет возможность сгладить неточности в написании адреса.

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Imagine the sheer pleasure of living along Orchard Boulevard, one of the world's most coveted and prestigious pieces of real estate, and yet still feel ensconced amidst tropical lushness and you would have just imagined life at 3 Orchard By-The-Park. Located amidst the privileged heart of the island's diplomatic enclave, iconic retail destinations as well as the finest names in luxury hotels, all spread out along the world-famous tree-lined lifestyle corridor that is Orchard Road, this new freehold residential address is also a mere stroll away from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Comprising just 77 exclusive units, housed across three 25-storey towers, 3 Orchard By-The-Park was conceptualised on Italian architect and designer Antonio Citterio's vision of "villas in the sky" and offers a discerning selection of two-, three- and four-bedroom residences, with each boasting custom interiors as well as the creative leeway to put one's own stamp of expression on it. Given that it's a Citterio design, rest assured all the necessary touches are thoughtfully put in place, including swimming pools in the sky, verdant gardens and, of course, his signature brilliance in the use of natural light and space, helping you sculpt your living space in South-East Asia's most vibrant city with ease.
And while it's tempting to lose oneself amidst the subtle grandeur of 3 Orchard By-The-Park, its central location also means that the sights, sounds and sensations of Singapore are practically on your designer doorstep. The upcoming opening of the Orchard Boulevard MRT station, just adjacent to the development, will also mean connecting to other parts of the island will be made even more effortless. Park life has never sounded more perfect.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Picture of Earth and Moon
February 7, 2014 - Mars, Space - no comments
This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU
New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover's view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth.
The images, taken about 80 minutes after sunset during the rover's 529th Martian day (Jan. 31, 2014) are available athttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17936 for a broad scene of the evening sky, and athttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17935 for a zoomed-in view of Earth and the moon.
The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took the photo was about 99 million miles (160 million kilometers).
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project is using Curiosity to assess ancient habitable environments and major changes in Martian environmental conditions. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, built the rover and manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.


When it comes to kind of range for clothing we have as females, we must admit that women and girls are really lucky. We have a whole plethora of feminine outfits as well as most of the attire that men wear. Some would say that women deserve this and most would even agree given all that they go through. But that is a conversation for another day, right now we want to talk about lovely and hot sweetheart maxi dresses that women can wear to feel and look like the stars on the red carpet. If you want any ideas, then think of the 20 dresses that made the whole year fantastic.
Then think of the one that you will adapt as your own to come up with a super hot and sizzling sweetheart maxi dress idea. Researching what to wear with a maxi skirt would also help you get a lot of ideas. Some ideas about gorgeous glitter dresses to look appealing will also give you more ideas.
A sweetheart maxi dress would be mostly something that would be off shoulder and will have to be floor length. If not , completely strapless, you will need to keep minimal sleeves. Going for straps or a very narrow sleeveless cut is something that could also work if you feel the need for it. Most women find the idea of wearing sweetheart maxi dress a little daunting as most of them feel they do not have the figure for it.


Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6th – 10th and I had to rack my brain to decide what to give to one of Zachary's teachers. However, I know she has a cereal dispenser on her desk to reward the kids when they are caught being good (Thanks Mrs. Baria – that is SO much better than chocolate!) so I thought she would really appreciate this gift! It says, "Thanks" and gives her something useable for her classroom!
Though I only made one box of cereal, you could fill little baggies and tie them up with string to save money and allow you to make tons more gifts.
Total Cost of Teacher Appreciation gift = $2.99!
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Step One: Print out the free "We are lucky to have you" printable and cut apart each label.
Step Two: Cut a 4 x 3 inch piece of bright patterned paper and affix the tag to the paper square.
Step Three: Cut three 9 x 1/2 inc strips of coordinating paper and affix in 3 lines across the top 3rd of the cereal box to add a bit of decoration.
Step Four: Decorate with cute ribbons and attach the label.
Ta-da! Easy-peasy (and cheap) Teacher Appreciation Week gift!
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How to Tell When Coconuts Are Ripe on the Tree
By Amelia Allonsy Updated December 15, 2018
How to Harvest Ginkgo
How to Plant Coconuts
How to Grow Malaysian Coconuts
When I Shake My Cantaloupe I Can Hear the Loose Seeds, Is it Ripe?
When Are Black Walnuts Ready to Pick & Eat?
Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera), grow mostly along coastal areas in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 11. Coconuts are harvested for the milky coconut water or for the white nut meat, both of which develop at different stages of ripeness. You can check coconuts for ripeness from the ground without touching the fruit; however, if the tree is short, you can also touch the fruit to check ripeness.
Coconuts take about one year to fully ripen, with several coconuts growing together in bunches that ripen at about the same time. Six or seven months after the fruits emerge, the inside of the coconut contains mostly water, which you can harvest and drink. Over the next five or six months, the water converts to the white nut meat lining around the inside of the shell. The coconut should be fully ripe at 12 months after fruits emerge. Meat harvested at this stage is often dried to a form known as "copra," which is squeezed to extract coconut oil. Coconuts are often harvested a month or two before they fully ripen, when the nut meat is still soft and can be scooped with a spoon. Trees produce multiple bunches at various times of year, so you must keep track of each new developing bunch.
The color of the coconut husk is also a good indication of ripeness. Immature coconuts that are mostly filled with coconut water are bright green in color. The husk slowly turns to brown as the fruits mature. At peak maturity, when the coconut meat has hardened, the outer husk is solid brown throughout. Except for knowing when fruits are fully ripe, it is difficult to judge based on color alone, because they start out green when the bunches emerge but aren't ready to harvest for water until six or seven months later.
If you can access the bunch or if fruits fall to the ground, you can use the shaking method to judge ripeness. Fully ripened, copra coconuts make no sound when you hold them up to your ear and shake. Coconuts at six to seven months contain mostly coconut water, so you hear a lot of water sloshing inside the shell. If you want to eat the fresh coconut with a spoon, wait until you can hear water sloshing around but the sound is somewhat deadened as a result of the developing layer of nut meat. You can also tap on the outside of the coconut with your finger. If the tapping sounds hollow, the coconut is fully ripe.
In some cases, such as when the tree bends down toward the ground, you might simply be able to reach up and clip the coconuts from the tree. You can reach taller trees with a pole pruner, but even telescoping pole pruners have a limited reach, making it impossible to access coconuts from a 60-foot tree. Fortunately, coconuts naturally fall from the tree when they are fully ripe. This is their way of reproducing; the nuts eventually sprout into a new tree. In some cases, the fallen coconut might be immature enough that you can still consume the meat, but coconuts also fall when they have begun to sprout. A falling coconut can cause serious injury, so proceed with caution when standing under a coconut palm tree.
Florida Gardener: Cocos Nucifera
Floridata: Cocos Nucifera
A former cake decorator and competitive horticulturist, Amelia Allonsy is most at home in the kitchen or with her hands in the dirt. She received her Bachelor's degree from West Virginia University. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and on other websites.
How to Get Coconuts From a Tree
Facts on Coconut Palm Trees
How Does a Coconut Ripen?
Are Pecans Still Good if They've Fallen From the Tree & Are Still in the Husk?
How to Tell When Soursops Are Ready to Pick
How to Remove Coconuts From Trees
How to Pick an Avocado From the Tree
Are California Nutmeg Trees Edible?
1 How to Get Coconuts From a Tree
2 Facts on Coconut Palm Trees
3 How Does a Coconut Ripen?
4 Are Pecans Still Good if They've Fallen From the Tree & Are Still in the Husk?


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Afghan provincial governor killed in mosque bomb attack
24 January 2019: Car bomb ramming attack kills dozens at military base in Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan
29 January 2018: Afghanistan: Ambulance suicide attack kills about 100 people in Kabul
26 January 2018: 'Save the Children' organisation suspends all activities in Afghanistan after ISIL attack
28 December 2017: Afghanistan: More than 40 killed in explosions in Kabul
21 July 2017: After visa snags, all-girl Afghan team honored for 'courageous achievement' at international robotics competition
Location of Afghanistan
The location of Kunduz in Afghanistan, where Mr Omar was killed. The Taliban began attacking NATO troops in the area in 2007.
A governor of the German-garrisoned province of Kunduz, Afghanistan was killed by a bomb attack in a mosque while attending Friday prayers in Taloqan. Faiz Mohammad Tauhidi, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar, confirmed that Mohammad Omar was killed by the blast along with twenty others. Up to thirty five may have been hurt in the attack, but the number of injuries is not yet clear. A Taliban spokesperson confirmed that the group was responsible for the bombing.
Mr Omar was killed by a bomb as he was leaving the Shirkat Mosque. He was born in Takhar province, and as a politician had close relationships with the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, governor of Takhar, said he was upset by the attack. "He was the target, and the terrorists were able to kill him," he said. "This is a big loss for us because Mohammad Omar was a very brave and good governor." Three attempts have previously been made on his life, and his brother was assassinated last year by the Taliban.
Last week Mr Omar announced plans to increase efforts to stop the Taliban, who started attacking NATO troops in Kunduz three years ago. Since the invasion, attacks have been frequent. Mr Omar had previously served as the mayor of Taloqan between 1991 and 1992. During the civil war, he was a member of the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan for a short period of time, before he was appointed as the governor of Baghlan Province, a position he served between 2001 and 2003.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said they were aware of the attack, but did not comment further. Provincial Security chief Shah Jahan Noori agreed that the governor was the main target of the attack. It has not yet been confirmed whether the bomb was planted near the mosque beforehand, or whether Mr Omar was killed by a suicide bomber. "The situation is chaos, we do not know whether it was a suicide attack or whether the bomb was already planted in the mosque," Noori said.
Ben Farmer. "Afghan governor killed in bomb attack on mosque" — The Telegraph, 8 October 2010
"Head of Afghanistan's Kunduz province killed in bombing" — BBC News, 8 October 2010
"Afghan governor Omar dies in mosque bombing" — BNO News, 8 October 2010
Gul Rahim. "Mosque bomb kills 20, including Afghan governor" — The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 October 2010
"Afghan governor among 12 killed in mosque blast" — IBN Live, 8 October 2010
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The Walking Horse Owners' Association would like to remind you about the show this weekend (April 17-18) at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Gary Feltner of Cedar Creek, TX will judge the Friday and Saturday night Jubilee. Jill Beech of Shelbyville, Tenn., will judge the Versatility and Academy classes. This is a formal attire horse show.
Three classes have been added to the Saturday evening show line-up.
For more information about this show, or other WHOA affiliated shows for the 2015 show season please see our website, or contact the WHOA office.