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Malnutricija se može definirati kao neravnoteža unosa energije, proteina i drugih nutrijenata koja dovodi do mjerljivih nepoželjnih učinaka na tkivima i tjelesnim funkcijama.

Malnutricija je vrlo česta među starijim osobama gdje je postala vrlo ozbiljan problem i grube procjene kažu da jedna trećina Europljana starijih od 65 godina pati od ovog stanja. Malnutricija nije isto što i pothranjenost koja je posljedica manjka energije, proteina i drugih nutrijenata, također, malnutricija nije uvijek u vezi s preniskom tjelesnom masom; od malnutricije mogu patiti i gojazne osobe.

Zbog ovakvog stanja, u Europi se već započelo s nekoliko projekata. Inicijativa pokrenuta prije 3 godine u Finskoj dala je dobre rezultate: obogaćivanje mliječnih proizvoda vitaminom D iznad dotadašnje razine je rezultiralo povećanim prosječnim unosom ovog vitamina medu starijim osobama.
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Q: Do we stand on the earth because of Newton's third law?
This is the question I encountered and I'm not sure I understand. The Newton's third law say that, when a body 1 exerts a force on the body 2, then the body 2 will exert the same force on body 1, but in opposite direction. Here, the answer say that 2 force apply on the same object. Both gravitational force and the upward contact force all apply on the car. So, if Newton's third law is true, there must be a force that exert to Earth surface so that there will be the reaction force. What force is this?
Also, I don't understand the part of answer which is after the first sentence.

A: You posed two questions:
First, Earth exerts a gravitational force on the car. The car, in turn, exerts a gravitational force on Earth. These are equal and opposite. This can be seen from the fact that the formula for magnitude of the (Newtonian) gravitational force:
$$F_g=\frac{GM_1M_2}{r^2}$$
remains of exactly the same form if the masses are switched. The fact that they are acting in opposite directions is obvious.
Furthermore, one could say that the car exerts a fore upon the ground. This force is just because of the attraction between Earth and the car. Then, the reaction force is the contact force that the ground exerts on the car, keeping it in its place.
About the answer you found, I can say the following things. You probably know that $\vec{F}_{\text{net}}=m\vec{a}$. But we can write $\vec{a}=\frac{d\vec{v}}{dt}$ where $\vec{v}$ is the velocity. Since $m$ is constant, we can say
$$\vec{F}=m\vec{a}=m\frac{d\vec{v}}{dt}=\frac{d(m\vec{v})}{dt}=\frac{d\vec{p}}{dt}$$
So, you see that the force is the time derivative of the momentum $\vec{p}=m\vec{v}$. If the momentum is constant, the time derivative, and therefore the net force, is zero. Therefore, all forces acting on the car must cancel out. Since there are only $2$ forces, they must be equal and opposite in order to cancel out, so we arrive at the conclusion.

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One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family's maid — who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet — standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he'd hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else's business.
Maria shook her head and pointed towards the staircase behind him, where Bruno's mother had just appeared. She was a tall woman with long red hair that she bundled into a sort of net behind her head, and she was twisting her hands together nervously as if there was something she didn't want to have to say or something she didn't want to have to believe.
'She's packing them,' explained Mother.
Mother had walked into her own bedroom by then but Lars, the butler, was in there, packing her things too. She sighed and threw her hands in the air in frustration before march-ing back to the staircase, followed by Bruno, who wasn't going to let the matter drop without an explanation.
Bruno ran downstairs and even passed her out on the staircase so that he was waiting in the dining room when she arrived. He looked at her without saying anything for a moment and thought to himself that she couldn't have applied her make-up correctly that morning because the rims of her eyes were more red than usual, like his own after he'd been causing chaos and got into trouble and ended up crying.
Bruno thought about this and frowned. He wasn't particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him. But it seemed a little unfair that they all had to go with her.
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Charles Henry Tucker « Tucky » Collis ( - ) est un officier irlando-américain de l'armée américaine qui a reçu la médaille d'honneur pour ses actions lors de la guerre de Sécession.

Biographie

Avant la guerre
Collis naît dans le comté de Cork, en Irlande, et émigre avec son père aux États-Unis en 1853. Il est un fervent joueur de cricket, jouant contre la première de l'équipe anglaise de cricket en tournée à l'étranger en 1859.

Après des études de droit, il est admis au barreau en 1859.

Guerre de Sécession
Au début de la guerre de Sécession, il s'enrôle dans le 18th Pennsylvania Infantry, et dans un délai de trois mois est promu sergent-major. À la suite de son premier contrat, il est nommé capitaine et, en août 1861, il lève une compagnie parmi les immigrants européens, appelée l'Independent Company « Zouaves d'Afrique » de Collis.

Le , après que son unité se comporte bien dans la vallée de Shenandoah, Collis est promu colonel et chargé de recruter un régiment, qui va devenir le 114th Pennsylvania Infantry. Il commande le régiment au cours de la bataille de Fredericksburg, pour laquelle plus tard il reçoit la médaille d'honneur. Plus tard, il est blessé à la bataille de Chancellorsville et contracte la fièvre typhoïde, mais a récupéré en août 1863, devenant commandant de brigade sous les ordres du major général David B. Birney.

Le , le président Abraham Lincoln nomme Collis pour l'attribution d'un brevet de brigadier général des volontaires avec une date de prise de rang du  et le sénat américain confirme la nomination le . Collis reçoit le commandement d'une brigade indépendante, commandant cette unité lors du siège de Petersburg. Collis quitte le service actif des volontaires le . Le , le président Andrew Johnson nomme Collis pour une nomination au grade de major général des volontaires avec une date de prise de rang au , et le sénat Américain  confirme la nomination, le .

Après la guerre
Après la guerre, Collis retourne à la pratique du droit, devenant l'assistant de l'avocat de la ville de Philadelphie. Collis décède à Bryn Mawr en Pennsylvanie le . Il est enterré dans le cimetière national de Gettysburg.

Citation de la médaille d'honneur

Rang et organisation : le Colonel, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry. Lieu et date : Fredericksburg, en Virginie, . Entré en service à : Philadelphie, Pa. Naissance : , en Irlande. Date de publication : Mène bravement son régiment dans la bataille à un moment critique..

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Eicher, John H., et David J. Eicher, . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .

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Naissance en février 1838
Naissance dans le comté de Cork
Décès en mai 1902
Décès à Bryn Mawr
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Récipiendaire de la Medal of Honor (US Army)
Décès à 64 ans

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Steward Health completes acquisition of Iasis Healthcare
Staff Writer | Lehi Free Press
Mountain Point Medical in Lehi was acquired by Steward Health. | Photo courtesy of IASIS Healthcare
BOSTON, MA – According to a press release dated Friday, September 29, 2017, Steward Health Care System LLC (Steward) has completed a previously announced agreement to merge operations with IASIS Healthcare LLC (IASIS). As the sole operator of the newly merged company, Steward will oversee 36 individual hospitals across ten states – including five hospitals in Utah, one of which is in Lehi.
Steward also has managed care operations here in Utah, in addition to Arizona and Massachusetts, and projected revenues of almost $8 billion in 2018, the first full-year of the consolidated company. Steward is now the largest private hospital operator in the U.S. with approximately 37,000 employees, 1,400 employed physicians, and 4,700 integrated network physicians.
"This merger enables Steward to expand our successful, physician-led model that keeps patients healthy and close to home," said Dr. Ralph de la Torre, Chairman and CEO of Steward Health Care. "We look forward to introducing patients, physicians, and employees throughout Utah to our high-quality care, innovative programs, and community commitment."
Steward assumes operations at five Utah hospitals: Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, Jordan Valley Medical Center in West Jordan, Jordan Valley Medical Center – West Valley Campus in West Valley City, Mountain Point Medical Center in Lehi, and Salt Lake Regional Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
Steward now owns and operates several related businesses including a managed risk platform, Health Choice, which delivers managed care and health insurance services to more than 680,000 covered lives. The total number of covered lives within Steward's integrated care network and these insurance products is more than 1.1 million, with paneled lives estimated at 2.5 million.
Several of the hospitals joining Steward operate in partnership with physician owners. The IASIS/Steward merger complied with normal regulatory approvals and adherence to closing conditions.
About Steward Health Care
Steward Health Care, the largest private hospital operator in the United States, is a physician-led health care services organization committed to providing the highest quality of care in the communities where patients live. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Steward operates 36 community hospitals nationwide that employ approximately 37,000 people and regularly receive top awards for quality and safety. The Steward network includes more than 25 urgent care centers, 42 preferred skilled nursing facilities, substantial behavioral health services, over 7,300 beds under management, and more than 1.1 million covered lives through the company's managed care and health insurance services.
Additional information is available at www.steward.org.
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'Road to Oregon' qualification tracking tool goes live
The Road to Oregon tool is intended to give an overview of athletes that are in a qualifying position; it doesn't, and will not, indicate which athletes have been selected by their member federations.
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World Athletics has launched 'Road to Oregon', an online tool to help athletes, fans and media track the qualification process for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Searchable by event, country and qualification status, the tool provides a real-time view of each event over the course of the qualification period, which ends on 26 June 2022 (29 May 2022 for the marathon and 35km race walk).
The World Championships will be held from 15-24 July 2022.
Athletes are able to qualify through one of four ways: by achieving an entry standard, by virtue of their placing at area championships or Platinum Label marathons (considered as having achieved the entry standard), by wild card entry or by world rankings position.
At the end of the qualification period, based on target numbers for each event, World Athletics will determine the number of athletes with an entry standard, eligible wild cards, and universality places.
Any remaining places within an event's target number will then be allocated to athletes based on their world rankings position to complete the field in that specific event.
Should the target number of athletes in any event be reached, or surpassed, through entry standards, wild cards and universality places, no other athletes would qualify by virtue of their world rankings position.
The Road to Oregon tool is only intended to give an overview of which athletes are in a qualifying position; it doesn't, and will not, indicate which athletes have been selected by their member federation. Final entries will be published nearer to the time of the championships.
The tool also covers the qualification status for the five relay disciplines, though these are not dependent on entry standards or world rankings.
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Fortune Brands Reports Strong Sales and Profit Growth in 4Q and Full Year 2020
February 2, 2021, General News, Company Press Release
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (the "Company", or "Fortune Brands"), an industry-leading home and security products company, today announced fourth quarter and full-year 2020 results.
"Strong fourth quarter results capped a remarkable 2020 performance by our teams," said Nicholas Fink, chief executive officer, Fortune Brands. "Facing unprecedented challenges, we delivered above-market growth and margin acceleration and positioned our Company to continue to deliver share gains and margin improvement in 2021 and beyond. This past year demonstrated that our leading brands and channel positions and differentiated business model produce exceptional results in a variety of demand environments. Importantly, our teams' ability to execute and remain nimble allows us to capitalize on an increasing set of growth and margin opportunities. Our tireless commitment to serving our customers, keeping people safe and our overall culture of excellence has driven our results. Moving forward, we are well positioned to leverage our Fortune Brands advantaged capabilities across our portfolio to create even more value for all stakeholders."
Fourth Quarter 2020
For the fourth quarter of 2020, sales were $1.7 billion, an increase of 13 percent over the fourth quarter of 2019. Earnings per share were $1.16, compared to $0.74 in the prior-year quarter. EPS before charges / gains were $1.25, compared to $1.00 the same quarter last year, an increase of 25 percent. Operating income was $233.2 million, compared to $192.5 million in the prior-year quarter. Operating income before charges / gains was $246.4 million, compared to $206.8 million the same quarter last year, up 19 percent. Operating margin was 14.1 percent, compared to 13.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019. Operating margin before charges / gains was 14.8 percent, up 70 basis points over the fourth quarter of 2019.
For each segment in the fourth quarter of 2020, compared to the prior-year quarter:
– Plumbing sales increased 16 percent, or 15 percent excluding FX, led by strong performance across the business. Operating margin before charges / gains remained strong at 21.8 percent.
– Cabinet sales increased 11 percent, driven by growth across products at all price points. Operating margin before charges / gains was 11.6 percent, an increase of 150 basis points.
– Outdoors & Security sales increased 11 percent, driven by strong double-digit sales growth of composite decking and doors. Operating margin before charges / gains was 15.8 percent, an increase of 90 basis points.
Full Year 2020
For the full year 2020, sales were approximately $6.1 billion, an increase of approximately 6 percent over 2019. Earnings per share were $3.94 compared to $3.06 in the prior year, and EPS before charges / gains were $4.19 versus $3.60 last year, an increase of 16 percent. Operating income was $801.4 million, compared to $698.5 million in the prior year. Operating income before charges / gains was $857.1 million, compared to $764.0 million during the previous year, up 12 percent. Operating margin was 13.2 percent, compared to 12.1 percent in 2019. Operating margin before charges / gains was 14.1 percent, up 80 basis points over full year 2019.
"We have used the challenges presented by 2020 to improve the focus and productivity of our business, positioning it for accelerated growth and profitability going forward," stated Patrick Hallinan, chief financial officer, Fortune Brands. "The efficiency programs undertaken in 2020 have put us ahead of our margin improvement timeline, and we expect to continue toward our goals during 2021. While there may be instances of macro uncertainty and cost inflation in the year ahead, these challenges have been anticipated, and we expect to manage them effectively – as we have in 2020 and in preceding years. We expect another year of strong free cash flow generation in 2021. In 2020, we deployed over $1 billion in M&A, share repurchases, and dividends. We remain laser-focused on driving further value by deploying capital to drive organic growth, M&A, strategic partnerships, and returning excess capital to shareholders."
LARSON Acquisition
On November 17, 2020, the Company announced it was acquiring LARSON Manufacturing ("LARSON"), the North American market leading brand of storm, screen and security doors for approximately $660 million, net of expected tax benefits but before closing adjustments. On December 14, 2020, the transaction was closed, and LARSON officially joined the Outdoors & Security segment.
At the end of the quarter, net debt was $2.2 billion and net debt to EBITDA was 2.1x. The Company had $419 million in cash and $865 million of availability under its revolving credit agreements. The total outstanding on both the Company's original $1.25 billion and supplemental $400 million revolving credit facilities was approximately $785 million at the end of the fourth quarter.
Annual Outlook for 2021
The Company expects full-year 2021 sales growth in the range of 12.5 percent to 14.5 percent, or 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent excluding the LARSON acquisition, based on the Company's assumption of a total global market expanding by 5 percent to 7 percent, including growth in the U.S. home products market of approximately 5 percent to 7 percent.
The Company expects EPS before charges / gains to be in the range of $4.85 to $5.05.
For 2021, the Company expects to generate free cash flow of approximately $600 to $650 million.
"Our key housing markets are entering a period of long-term expansion," said Fink. "The current environment has accelerated trends already in place prior to the pandemic and there is renewed consumer focus on the value and role of the home. Our consumers desire larger, multifunctional spaces to combine work, education, and entertainment within the home as well as expanded outdoor living spaces. Demographic forces, combined with very healthy homeowner balance sheets, are driving accelerated activity in the housing industry. Our innovation, leading brands, and premier channel positions, across new construction and repair & remodel, are creating significant opportunities and value for our Company and our stakeholders. With our excellent momentum, strong balance sheet, and advantaged Fortune Brands capabilities, we are very excited about the opportunity to accelerate stakeholder value creation in 2021 and beyond."
For the full fourth quarter results, click here.
About Fortune Brands
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE: FBHS), headquartered in Deerfield, IL., is a Fortune 500 company, part of the S&P 500 Index and a leader in the home products industry. With trusted brands and market leadership positions in each of its three operating segments, Plumbing, Outdoors & Security, and Cabinets, Fortune Brands' 27,000 associates work with a purpose to fulfill the dreams of home. The Company's growing portfolio of complementary businesses and innovative brands include Moen and the House of Rohl within the Global Plumbing Group; outdoor living and security products from Therma-Tru, LARSON, Fiberon, Master Lock and SentrySafe; and MasterBrand Cabinets' wide-ranging offerings from Mantra, Diamond, Omega and many more. Visit www.FBHS.com to learn more about FBHS, its brands and how the Company is accelerating its environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments.
Matthew Skelly – Investor & Media Contact – investor.questions@fbhs.com – (847) 484-4573
Source: Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.
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Volunteer Dave Farrell wins Governor's Volunteer Service Award
Volunteer David Farrell is no stranger to food banking. He has been a volunteer with Central Illinois Foodbank since we moved into our current location on Cook Street in 2013.
During all that time, David have been a regular sight in our sort room, at our food distributions, and behind the wheel of our delivery vans. He provides service with a smile, and is always eager to step up to assist his neighbors. In the past year alone, he has contributed over 300 hours of volunteer time, helping us in our effort to distribute over 12 million pounds of product during that timeframe.
Dave describes volunteering at the Foodbank as "a self-powering enterprise" that keeps him coming back to give more.
"It gets down to something vital. It's not just making somebody happy for a moment, it's recognizing basic fundamental human needs," David said. "You don't think in terms of well, I'm serving somebody food, you think in terms of making somebody's life better. And that is a joy unto itself."
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced thousands out of work and required food banks to push their efforts into high gear to meet an unprecedented amount of need in our communities, David didn't back down from the challenge.
"You realize there were people who for the first time in their lives were confronting the need to ask for help to meet basic food needs," he said.
When the Foodbank adapted to COVID-19 by adopting a drive-up food distribution model to maintain social distancing guidelines, David was a dependable individual in helping to deliver food and load car trunks full of food.
"It was very satisfying to know that these people could take a box of food which could be anywhere from five to 10 meals," he added.
While COVID-19 presented new challenges and an increased amount of need, David understands that hunger is an issue that is with us 365 days a year, no matter the circumstances.
"The hunger is there. People get hungry every day and several times a day," David said. "So to be part of meeting that human need, boy, that's a special opportunity."
In recognition of his service to his neighbors and leadership during the pandemic, David was named a winner of a Governor's Volunteer Service Award by the Serve Illinois Commission on November 10. While he called the award "a personal point of fulfillment," he said he looks forward to continuing his efforts with the Foodbank well into to future.
"I look forward to continuing because if I can find some other people who might be excited about the Foodbank when I describe what I do, then it's good for the future. The need continues every day."


An anime-themed rhythm game based on the Project Diva engine called Miracle Girls Festival will launch in Japan on December 17th for PS Vita.
The game features characters from such series' as Yuru Yuri, Go Go 575, Kirino Mosaic and Arpeggio of Blue Steel. Those are things that exist apparently.
Despite only being confirmed for a Japanese release, this game can be imported and played on any PS Vita due to the console's lack of region lock. I've personally had no trouble learning to play Project Diva using my Japanese copies and I have no understanding of the language so if I can do it, anyone can.
I do love me some entitled video game fans.
An anime series based on Phantasy Star Online 2 is due for release in Japan next year.
The series will be called Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation and is being created to mark the 15th anniversary of Phantasy Star Online.
Details are currently scarce with some minor plot points being the only thing revealed at the moment. The series will feature an original story and be based on Earth. An official website is available to view by clicking here.
There's quite a bit of new information floating around regarding SEGA's new arcade fighting game Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax.
While the game features a cast of characters from various anime and manga series', SEGA fans will be interested in the Sonic the Hedgehog stage (see above). The graphics seem to be taken from Green Hill in Sonic Generations.
Also announced is that Akira from Virtua Fighter will appear as a boss character. Other character announcements include the inclusion of Kirito from Sword Art Online.
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax is due to hit Japanese arcades this spring with demos available to play at the Japan Amusement Expo on February 14th and 15th at Makuhari Messe near Tokyo.
Hero Bank, the upcoming RPG/fighter for the 3DS will be getting its own anime series in Japan. The series starts broadcasting in April, only a month after the games Japanese release.
Hero Bank is currently Japan exclusive but here's hoping SEGA West pull their finger out and start giving us some new games to play. The game launches on March 20th.
Fan Scene: What if the Sonic Series was a Magical Girl Anime?
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Studies in Pessimism
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Written By: Arthur Schopenhauer
Narrated By: D.E. Wittkower
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power - a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is today, as he was during his life, overshadowed by his contemporary, Hegel. Schopenhauer's social/psychological views, put forth in this work and in others, are directly derived from his metaphysics, which was strongly influenced by Eastern thought. His pessimism forms an interesting and perhaps questionable contrast with his obvious joy in self-expression, both in the elegance of his prose and in his practice of playing the flute nightly.
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Enterprise Products Says Crude Volumes at Marine Terminals Hit Record
The VLCC FPMC C Melody arrives in Texas City in June 2018 to test load crude oil at Enterprise Products Partners Texas City terminal. Photo courtesy Joe Downs
By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – Enterprise Products Partners LP said on Wednesday volumes at its crude marine terminals jumped to a record of nearly 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the first quarter, despite a disruption on the Houston Ship Channel.
A petrochemical fire and fog halted vessel traffic for several days and disrupted movements in the nation's busiest oil port in late March and into April. Enterprise said it expects in early May to load the remaining backlog of vessels due to the disruption.
The company also said volumes of crude from the Permian basin, the largest U.S. oilfield, is expected to increase by about 700,000 bpd in 2019, with export demand rising.
"We believe substantially all of this increase in volumes will be destined for international markets," Jim Teague, chief executive of Enterprise's general partner, said in a statement.
Production in the Permian basin, spanning Texas and New Mexico, has surged over the past year, largely outpacing pipeline capacity from the region. That has prompted pipeline companies to announce several new lines and conversions of existing lines to accommodate growing crude volumes.
Output in Texas, the largest producing state, rose 1.3 percent to 4.8 million bpd in February, while in New Mexico, it rose 3.2 percent to 843,000 bpd, according to U.S. government data this week.
Enterprise's Midland-to-ECHO 1 pipeline volumes increased 15 percent from a year earlier to a net 456,000 bpd for the first quarter. The pipeline runs from Midland, Texas, the heart of the Permian basin, to Enterprise's ECHO terminal in Houston.
During the first quarter, the company said it also completed the repurposing of one of its Seminole NGL pipelines into crude oil service, now referred to as the Midland-to-ECHO 2 pipeline. This pipeline began limited service in February and full commercial operations April 1.
"Starting April 1, that pipeline was handed over to the committed shipper and that volume is at 205,000 bpd," a company executive said during an earnings call.
About 475,000 bpd of capacity on Midland-to-ECHO 1 was under contracts for the first quarter, and contractual volumes are expected to peak at about 535,000 bpd in the second quarter. (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in New York; editing by Diane Craft)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.
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A $14 million book sounds expensive, right? Believe it or not, that's not the most expensive book of all time. That honor goes to Leonardo Da Vinci's codex, a seventy-two-page notebook that sold for $30.8 million at auction; it was purchased by Bill Gates. There are other books that are pretty expensive too. In 1987, a Gutenberg Bible went up for auction at $5 million, and if you have $6 million just lying around and you don't know what to do with it, you could purchase a first folio of Shakespeare. There have been some other medieval manuscripts that have gone for significant money. There was a text called The Gospels of Henry the Lion. Henry the Lion was the Duke of Saxony. He commissioned this particular edition of the Gospels; it was a very elaborate book with a very elaborate cover. He commissioned it for the altar at the Brunswick Cathedral in Germany. It's a twelfth-century manuscript of the four Gospels and it sold for $11 million.
But the book we're talking about is known as the St. Cuthbert Gospel. This is a book from the late seventh or early eighth century. It's a rather simple book. It's only five and a half inches by three and a half inches, and it has a stamped leather cover over a wooden board binding. Its pages are cord bound and its pages are vellum. Vellum was a bit of a technological advance over papyrus; it is the skin of animals, in this case calfskin. Vellum is very durable and very smooth and it provides a great surface for writing. This particular text is a gospel of John. It was found in 1104 inside the coffin of Cuthbert.
Now, who was Cuthbert and why were they looking in his coffin? Cuthbert was a monk and also bishop in the Lindisfarne area of England and he died in 687. He was buried at the monastery at Lindisfarne. When the Vikings came along, they took all sorts of things from Lindisfarne, including Cuthbert's coffin. It was finally returned and ended up being installed at the Durham Cathedral in 1104. When his coffin was opened, tucked away inside there was this little, leather gospel of John—the St. Cuthbert Gospel.
The book sort of disappeared from that point. It was in personal hands until the 1700s, when it ended up in a Jesuit monastery in Belgium. In 2012, the British Library purchased it for £9 million, or $14 million. You can see the book at the British Library site. There is actually a CT scan of it on the site and every single page is digitized.
The text is laid out in a single column, and it is very simple. The scribe was very careful. Occasionally, there is an adorned capital letter, and sometimes you will find a letter painted in red. It begins simply, "In principio erat Verbum"—"In the beginning was the Word." There are no chapters, there are no verse numbers, there is no table of contents; it just starts right in and goes right through the gospel of John. There are nice margins, and there is a clean crisp text.
This text is Europe's oldest intact book, and so it reminds us of the beginning of book publishing, which of course at that time was done carefully by hand. But it also reminds us of the role that the Gospels have played and it reminds us of the role that the gospel of John has played in the history of the church.
So, there we have it—a $14 million book. And what's fascinating about that book, of course, is the content, because in there are not just simply words of value; there are words of eternal value.


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J1-7300 Metamaterials from liquid crystal colloids
Research project is (co) funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
UL Member: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Code: J1-7300
Project: Metamaterials from liquid crystal colloids
Period: 1.1.2016 - 31.12.2018
Range per year: 1,63 FTE, category C
Head: Ravnik Miha
Research activity: Natural sciences and mathematics
Research Organisations: link on SICRIS
Researchers: link on SICRIS
Citations for bibliographic records: link on SICRIS
Photonics and control over the flow-of-light is today a highly competitive and quickly developing field with ambitious scientific and technological goals that include optical computing, fast data transfer, energy efficiency and novel sensing and manufacturing processes in fields ranging from medical science to space technology. Development of novel unconventional optical materials is at the forefront of challenges in these areas as new materials allow for new, better, and different mechanisms and applications of light fields. In this soft matter photonics project, we will develop novel optical materials -the nematic fluid metamaterials- and study of their unconventional emergent photonic phenomena by equally combining experiments and theory modelling approaches. The goal is to realise selected proof-of-concept metamaterials and explore their main photonic functions. At the core of these new three-dimensional soft metamaterials will be bulk-conductive and surface-conductive colloidal particles and surfaces of designed three-dimensional shapes, such as prisms, platelets and hollow particles, to perform as split ring resonators, capable of designed anisotropic metamaterial photonic response. They will be dispersed in the host nematic fluid which will provide a fluid matrix for the particle self-assembly, with unique capabilities of spatial and temporal tunability, topological binding and responsiveness to external fields. As a far reach vision, effectively, all modern displays are based on the unique and simple tunability of birefringence of nematic fluids which originates from orientational ordering of anisotropic molecules; and the idea in this proposal is to extend this tunability to metamaterial birefringence with positive and negative refractive (eigen) indices by self-assembling super-structures of colloidal meta-particles in the nematic fluid. By appropriate design of the colloidal metamaterial, including (i) particle shape, size, and symmetry, (ii) nematic elasticity and (iii) functionalization of surfaces, the aim is to achieve reconfigurable metamaterials with negative permeabilities and/or permittivities at frequencies ranging from THz and optical to infrared. Of particular scientific relevance will be questions on: (i) the relation between the symmetry of the structure and the metamaterial light response, (ii) 3D metamaterial optical anisotropy with possible double negative refraction, and (iii) hierarchical multi-scale design of metamaterials - which are all open and "hot" scientific question at the front of soft matter photonics research. The developed metamaterials will be fluid, flexible, polymerizable - if needed-, and inherently tunable, which are material characteristics far beyond the current state-of-the-art. The project will realized by the soft matter group in Ljubljana which is world-wide known for joint theoretical and experimental work and high scientific standards, e.g. proposal-related publications include Nature Phys. 2015, Nature Mater. 2014, Science 2011, and Nature Photon. 2009. The research work of the project is strongly intertwined in the international research efforts with collaborators including UColorado, UOxford, UGhent, Mahindra Ecole Centrale and USA AFRL. The socio-economic deliverables of the project are designed to yield distinct outreach, contribute to the excellence of Slovenia and abroad, and contribute new knowledge in photonics to Slovenian photonic industry. Finally, we are aiming at the cutting edge of the state-of-the-art photonics, to create novel scientific and technological pathways for controlling the flow-of-light at the microscopic and macroscopic level.
Work packages:
The research will be organised along into four general Research Objectives (RO1-RO4), running in parallel, to achieve a wide-view angle of the research topic.
RO1 - Metamaterial building blocks and individual photonic response
RO2 - 3D Metamaterial self-assembly and collective photonic response
RO3 - Metamaterial surfaces
RO4 - Tunability and multi-scale design


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"""Script to run GenerateTimezoneMask ancillary generation."""

from improver import cli

@cli.clizefy
@cli.with_output
def process(
    cube: cli.inputcube,
    *,
    include_dst=False,
    time=None,
    groupings: cli.inputjson = None,
):
    """Generate a timezone mask ancillary.

    Create masks for regions of a geographic grid that are on different
    timezones. The resulting masks can be used to isolate data for specific
    timezones from a grid of the same shape as the cube used in this plugin
    to generate the masks.

    Args:
        cube (iris.cube.Cube):
            A cube with the desired grid. If no 'time' argument is provided
            to the CLI, the time on this cube will be used for determining the
            validity time of the calculated UTC offsets (this is only relevant
            if daylight savings times are being included).
        include_dst (bool):
            If set, find and use the UTC offset to a grid point including
            daylight savings.
        time (str):
            A datetime specified in the format YYYYMMDDTHHMMZ at which to
            calculate the mask (UTC). If daylight savings are not included
            this will have no impact on the resulting masks.
        groupings (dict):
            A dictionary specifying how timezones should be grouped if so
            desired. This dictionary takes the form::

                {-9: [-12, -6], 0: [-5, 5], 6: [6, 12]}

            The keys indicate the UTC offset that should provide the data for a
            group. The numbers in the lists denote the inclusive limits of the
            timezones for which that data should be used. This is of use if data
            is not available at hourly intervals.

    Returns:
        iris.cube.Cube:
            A cube containing timezone masks for each timezone found in the
            grid within the input cube, grouped into larger areas if so desired.
            Mask values of 1 indicate that a point is masked out, and values of
            0 indicate the point is unmasked.
    """
    from improver.generate_ancillaries.generate_timezone_mask import (
        GenerateTimezoneMask,
    )

    return GenerateTimezoneMask(
        include_dst=include_dst, time=time, groupings=groupings
    )(cube)

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Kuyt unconcerned by goals leak
Dirk Kuyt says he is confident Liverpool will come out for the start of the new campaign confident and ready, despite some questionable pre-season performances.
The Reds have conceded three goals in each of their five pre-season friendlies this summer, including Monday night's 3-3 draw with Valerenga in Oslo.
Valarenga 3-3 Liverpool: Reds held in Oslo
Buyt Kuyt says the team will work together to fix the problem ahead of the opening game of the season at home to Sunderland on August 13th.
Ahead of Saturday's frienly against Valencia at Anfield, Kuyt said, "We are letting in too many goals but the point is we have to defend like a team.
"That starts from the front and we need to improve.
"We know we have the ability and we just need to train really hard.
"We have another practice game on Saturday to put things right. I'm sure if we do that a little bit better in the next game then we will be ready for Sunderland."
"I'm not concerned as it's still pre-season. If we beat Sunderland in our first game then it's been a good pre-season for us."
Mikel Arteta not giving "anything away" as Arsenal squad face unresolved 'issues'


A quiet but daunting water crisis has already begun around the globe, according to water experts Mike Hightower and Suzanne Pierce at the U.S. Department of Energy"s Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And the predicament will only worsen in the not-too-distant future.
By the year 2025, more than half the nations in the world will face freshwater stress or shortages, and by 2050 as much as 75 percent of the world"s population could face freshwater scarcity. The experts chronicled their findings in a March 2008 Nature article at www.nature.com.
Freshwater withdrawals already exceed precipitation in many parts of the U.S., with the worst deficits often in areas with the fastest growing population, particularly in the southwest. Yet, the problem is not confined to the U.S. ... it is truly an international predicament.
What is the solution to a global water shortage? The answer is complicated and will involve using all water sources, not just freshwater supplies. Ground-breaking treatments will have to be used, such as advanced membrane separation technologies, and treatment of nontraditional water sources such as wastewater, brackish groundwater, seawater, and extracted mine water.
To some extent, alternate supplies are already being used. In the United States, wastewater reuse is growing by 15 percent per year.
For example, wastewater, sea water and brackish groundwater could be used by electric power plants for cooling and processing instead of freshwater. Technologies to condense evaporation from cooling towers and capture and reuse the water could be introduced. Or power plants can switch to renewable energy technologies that do not need water for cooling, such as wind and solar electric.
No matter what quasi-solutions are found, in just a short time, the billions of inhabitants of this world will look back and wonder why they did not start water conservation efforts sooner.


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English: from Middle English sale 'hall', a topographic name for someone living at a hall or manor house, or a metonymic occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house.
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Home News Annual Founder's Kwanzaa Message; 'Kwanzaa and the Well-Being of the World: Living and Uplifting the Seven Principles'
Annual Founder's Kwanzaa Message; 'Kwanzaa and the Well-Being of the World: Living and Uplifting the Seven Principles'
Published on Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:03
Written by Dr. Maulana Karenga
By Dr. Maulana Karenga
Heriza Kwanzaa, Happy Kwanzaa to African people everywhere throughout the global African community. We bring you Kwanzaa greetings of celebration, solidarity, and continuing struggle for good in the world. Kwanzaa is a special season and celebration of our sacred and expansive selves as African people. It is a unique pan-African time of remembrance, reflection, reaffirmation, and recommitment.
It is a special and unique time to remember and honor our ancestors; to reflect on what it means to be African and human in the most expansive and meaningful sense; and to reaffirm the sacred beauty and goodness of ourselves and the rightfulness of our relentless struggle to be ourselves and free ourselves and contribute to an ever-expanding realm of freedom, justice and caring in the world.
And Kwanzaa is a special and unique time and pan-African space to recommit ourselves to our highest values that teach us to live our lives, do our work, and wage our struggles in dignity-affirming, life-enhancing, and world-preserving ways as we continue forward on the upward paths of our honored ancestors.
But our celebration this year is, of necessity, different, even though it is no less needed and necessary.
For we gather together this year to celebrate Kwanzaa in the midst of the devastating pandemic of COVID-19 which continues to cause great loss of life, widespread disabling illness, economic havoc, immense suffering, and a health crisis of monumental proportions.
The infectious and deadly nature of the disease has compelled us to practice physical distancing, to limit face-to-face contact everywhere and this has taken a heavy toll on us as persons and a people.
Thus, we are compelled to reconceive our choreographies of closeness, to rethink the familiar rhythms of our daily lives, and to realign our lives to deal with the new realities we face. And we must do this, our people, without conceding or compromising our relational closeness, and losing the soul-defining essence of who we are.
Moreover, we continue to suffer, not only from the pandemic of the coronavirus, but also from the persistent and pervasive pathology of oppression in all its vicious and various forms.
And still our history and culture and the demands of our times, call and compel us to be resolute and relentless in our resistance to oppression and resilient and resourceful in our struggles to recover and care for each other in righteously African ways. Here our poet laureate, Gwen Brooks, reminds us we will weather this winter as others before.
For we are the people who constantly "conduct (our) blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind." We who have survived the Holocaust of enslavement, colonialism, imperialism, and numerous hurricanes of history, will, as Howard Thurman challenged us to do, "ride the storm and remain intact."
For as Nannie Burroughs reassured us as a people, "We specialize in the wholly impossible."
The conception and practice of Kwanzaa is rooted in both ancient African harvest celebrations and the Black Freedom Movement and thus it calls for and urges an active and ongoing commitment to African and human good and the well-being of the world. This year's annual theme is "Kwanzaa and the Well-Being of the World: Living and Uplifting the Seven Principles."
It seeks to call rightful attentiveness to the immediate and urgent need to be actively concerned and caring about the well-being of the world. For as Kwame Nkrumah taught us, the affairs of Africa cannot be isolated from the world as a whole and the united world African community must "become one of the greatest forces for good in the world."
And the crisis and challenge are, not only the daily and destructive assaults on the earth and its ecosystems, its soil, fields, forests, waters and waterways, its air and atmosphere, its animals and their habitats, and the resultant disease and devastation, but also the domination, deprivation and degradation of humans themselves by systems of interrelated oppression.
This results in unfreedom, unhealthiness and illness, homelessness, loss and lack of income, police violence, food insecurity, and lack of access to pure water, income and quality education and other necessities of life.
And this must be resisted and overcome.
For in such a context of devastation and oppression, there is no real and reliable remedy except resistance, and serious and sustained struggle dedicated to African and human good and the well-being of the world and all in it.
And Kwanzaa and Kawaida philosophy, out of which Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba were created, pose the Nguzo Saba, The Seven Principles, as a foundational way forward in this awesome and urgent challenge to each and all of us.
Indeed, the Nguzo Saba offer us an African value system that provides morally grounded guidance for our lives and living. They serve as a mirror and measure of our living up to our highest and most beneficial values.
The First Principle, Umoja (Unity), begins with ourselves, but expands outward to include others and the world. It reaffirms Anna Julia Cooper's assertion that "We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness of all special favoritism whether of race, sex, country or condition." Umoja urges a moral sensitivity and caring kinship with each other, other human beings, all living beings, and with the world itself. For as our ancestors taught, we are not only human beings (watu), but also world beings (walimwengu). And thus, they taught in the sacred text, Odu Ifa, that we must "take responsibility for the world and do good for the world."
The Second Principle, Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), teaches us we must think and act for ourselves and define ourselves by the good we choose and do in the world. It speaks to our right and responsibility to be ourselves and free ourselves and make our own unique contribution to the radical reimagining and remaking of our societies and the world. And Kujichagulia stresses our moral obligation to reaffirm and support this right for others, especially those oppressed and struggling for freedom, those wronged and injured and struggling for justice, and those disempowered and struggling for power over their destiny and daily lives.
The Third Principle, Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) speaks to the ethical obligation and transformative practice of building together the good world we all want and deserve to live in and leave as a rightful legacy for future generations. It teaches us to recognize and respect the common good in and of the world, to cultivate and harvest it together and practice an ethics of sharing this and other goods of the world.
The Fourth Principle, Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), lifts up and promotes the values of shared work and shared wealth; the right of all people to a decent and dignity-affirming life, and thus the right of all people to a just and equitable share of the common goods of the world. Indeed, as Wangari Maathai taught, "We must now rethink our relationship with the living world, (and) the way we manage resources." And we must resolutely and continuously resist mindless consumerism and the plunder, pollution and depletion of the world by corporations and countries who ride roughshod over the earth and the vulnerable peoples in it.
The Fifth Principle, Nia (Purpose), teaches us the collective vocation of constantly building and developing the capacity of our people to be ourselves and free ourselves to pursue an expansive good and come into the fullness of ourselves. And it reaffirms the interrelatedness of the pursuit of African and human good and the well-being of the world. For it remembers and reaffirms the sacred teachings of our ancestors in the Husia, that the good we do for others and the world we are also doing for ourselves. For we are building the moral community and good world we all want and deserve to live in.
The Sixth Principle, Kuumba (Creativity), uplifts and promotes the practice of the ancient African ethical principle of serudj ta, the moral obligation to repair, renew and remake the world, making it more beneficial and beautiful than we inherited it. And it interprets this as both a social and environmental practice. For oppression is damaging and destructive to us and others as well as to the world. And as a moral and social vanguard, we must see ourselves in our ultimate agency, as injured physicians, who will heal, repair, renew and remake ourselves in the process and practice of repairing, renewing, and remaking the world. For as Mary McLeod Bethune taught "Our task is to remake the world. It is nothing less than this."
The Seventh Principle, Imani (Faith), teaches us to believe in the good and our capacity to achieve it, share it, and leave it as a worthy legacy for those who come afterward. Let us have faith, then, in the sacred teachings of our ancestors which say to us across millennia: "Let's do things with joy for surely humans have been divinely chosen to bring good in the world" and this is the fundamental mission and meaning of human life. Thus, chosen by history and heaven to constantly strive to bring good in the world, we must audaciously and ceaselessly dare to do so. So, let's continue the struggle. Keep the faith. Hold the line. Love and respect our people and each other. Seek and speak truth. Do and demand justice. Be constantly concerned with the well-being of the world and all in it.
And dare help rebuild the overarching movement that prefigures and makes possible the good world we all want and deserve to live in and leave as a legacy worthy of the name and history African.
Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org; www.MaulanaKarenga.org, www.AfricanAmericanCulturalCenter-LA.org; www.Us-Organization.org.


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PUBLICATION (24/01/2023) Summary of the HELCOM seventh pollution load compilation PLC-7
PUBLICATION (31/12/2022) PLC-7 Assessment of sources of nutrient inputs to the Baltic Sea in 2017
HELCOM Explorer gives easy online access to follow implementing the Baltic Sea Action Plan
Posted on September 2, 2022 September 2, 2022 by Johanna Laurila
The recently updated online tool HELCOM Explorer allows to easily see how HELCOM cooperation bears fruit, and how the countries' actions are being fulfilled when reaching the majority of their ambitious HELCOM targets and the ultimate goal: Baltic Sea in good ecological state.
The actions listed in the Explorer include the entire updated Baltic Sea Action Plan (2021), HELCOM Ministerial Meeting commitments from 2010 onwards as well as selected HELCOM Recommendations. The updated BSAP contains 199 concrete actions and measures addressing biodiversity, eutrophication, hazardous substances, and sea-based activities such as shipping and fisheries. In addition, it includes new actions on emerging or previously less highlighted pressures such as climate change, marine litter, pharmaceuticals, underwater noise, and seabed disturbance.
As most actions of the 2021 Baltic Sea Action Plan have a deadline years ahead, they now show red, Not accomplished, in the HELCOM Explorer.
The updated BSAP is also closely aligned with international and regional objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), or, for those of our Contracting Parties that are also EU members, the EU's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). All actions are to be implemented by 2030 at the latest.
"As the HELCOM Explorer provides a comprehensive overview and a great amount of information on both joint and national actions, with easy filtering tools, it is quite a unique system in regional marine governance. Moreover, it is a very concrete indicator of transparency for our stakeholders and to the broader audiences", says Rüdiger Strempel, Executive Secretary of HELCOM.
Joint actions are carried out together by all HELCOM Contracting Parties, for example creating a new Recommendation, joint management guidelines, or assessments of environmental status. National actions are implemented at the country level, and they include e.g. incorporating the provisions of a HELCOM Recommendation into relevant national legislation or guidelines.
The Explorer allows for easy overview browsing, but also for more detailed filtering, according to the details of the actions in the Baltic Sea Action Plan such as segment, theme, or target year. The tool further provides information on why the action is needed (rationale), what pressures or activities are addressed by the action in question, and, for some, what is the potential effect of the measure to reduce pressures or improve the state of the Baltic Sea. All data is available for download.
The HELCOM Explorer tool to track the progress on the implementation of HELCOM commitments was first launched in 2016, and the interface was updated in 2020.
The reporting on the implementation of the joint actions is done by relevant HELCOM Working Groups and the reporting on the national actions by the countries. The first reporting on the implementation of actions in the 2021 BSAP is planned to take place in 2025, followed by the second reporting round in 2029.
Laura Kaikkonen
Project Researcher
laura.kaikkonen@helcom.fi
Susanna Kaasinen
susanna.kaasinen@helcom.fi
About the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)
The Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) is HELCOM's strategic programme of measures and actions for achieving good environmental status of the sea, ultimately leading to a Baltic Sea in a healthy state.
Initially adopted by the HELCOM Contracting Parties in 2007, the 2021 BSAP is based on the original plan and maintains the same level of ambition. It also retains all actions previously agreed on that are still to be implemented, while, in addition, includes new actions to strengthen the existing efforts and tackle emerging concerns.
Guided by the HELCOM vision of "a healthy Baltic Sea environment with diverse biological components functioning in balance, resulting in a good ecological status and supporting a wide range of sustainable economic and social activities", the updated BSAP is divided into four segments with specific goals: biodiversity, eutrophication, hazardous substances and sea-based activities.
About HELCOM Recommendations
One of the most important duties of the Helsinki Commission is to make Recommendations on measures to address certain pollution sources or areas of concern. Since the beginning of the 1980s HELCOM has adopted some 260 HELCOM Recommendations for the protection of the Baltic Sea. The implementation of various HELCOM recommendations by the HELCOM Contracting Parties plays an important role in achieving the objectives of the Baltic Sea Action Plan. The HELCOM Explorer covers the reporting on the implementation status of selected HELCOM Recommendations.
About HELCOM
The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – also known as the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) – is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and a regional sea convention in the Baltic Sea area, consisting of ten members: the nine Baltic Sea countries Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden, plus the European Union. A platform for environmental policy making at the regional level, HELCOM works for a healthy Baltic Sea. Its mandate stems from a regional treaty, the Helsinki Convention, whose implementation it oversees. The HELCOM Secretariat is located in Helsinki, Finland.


The more you know, the smarter your marketing decisions.
It only makes sense to do some market research before spending precious dollars on marketing tactics. The "big guys" are doing it all the time. We suggest you do too.
We help clients make better choices about their marketing spending.
Take a look at our research on website design trends.
While developing the concept and brand for Bistro To Go and pre-financing, RS&A researched the local consumer market and the national prepared foods market.
One result was the compilation of demographic and economic data into a user-friendly market study that other local businesses and developers could also use. This and other online research also went into the business plan, which funders described as one of the best they had ever seen.
Based on the research, the Bistro marketing and PR strategy for the launch used lower cost marketing tactics to create a local buzz.
While building a stronger and more consistent brand and messaging for this physician, RS&A analyzed local and national competitors' websites for features and marketing strategies. While the client chose not to upgrade her website at the time, the research revealed some shortcomings in her site compared to competitors.
To bring the market research down to "street level" at an affordable price, a business association and Randy created the Marketing Snapshot process in 2007 to provide custom analysis and recommendations for individual businesses. They include extensive Internet research.
30+ participants—now including 3 nonprofits—have evaluated the results very highly, including as a major step toward a strategic marketing plan. Note: Snapshots have been endorsed and funded by the URA's Mainstreets Pittsburgh program in the Strip District and Bloomfield.
Neighbors in the Strip needed to consolidate a lot of research studies as part of its new business plan. RS&A produced a 32-page strategy report, including new user friendly demographic and economic data. This document provides solid data and strategies to businesses and potential developers.
To encourage the Strip merchants and other businesses to read the big study or to factor research into their marketing efforts, RS&A created a 4-page 'teaser' brochure. Combining useful data with low cost marketing and Main Streets tips, the piece was popular with the merchants.
This fractional vacation home developer wanted a variation on a Snapshot, so RS&A produced a compact study of the national marketplace for second homes.
The research uncovered a survey of the upscale market by American Affluence Research Center. It clearly showed a lack of understanding of the developer's "fractional" ownership in the target market, which led to reshaping marketing strategies..
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Judicial Watch announced today that on February 11, 2015, it uncovered documents from the U.S. Department of State revealing that top aides for then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, including her then-chief of staff Cheryl Mills, knew from the outset that the Benghazi mission compound was under attack by armed assailants tied to a terrorist group.
Judicial Watch announced the release of more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers of proposed Bill Clinton speaking and consulting engagements during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
Lerner may have waived her Fifth Amendment privilege already, meaning she can't legally invoke it to avoid giving testimony.


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Miss Universe And Miss USA Are NOW Roommates And We Can't Get Enough
10th December 2019 by BOTWC Staff
In more, what a time to be alive news…
Recently crowned Miss Universe 2019, Zozibini Tunzi, and Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, are now roommates and we can't get enough of it!
Kryst took to social media to congratulate Tunzi on her historic win Sunday night. "Congrats to our new Miss Universe, @zozitunzi!!!! You represented us with class and grace and humility and I'm thrilled that I can call you a sister and, now, ROOMMATE!! Swipe for a little #BGM because, you guessed it, Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss America are all women of color!!!!!!!"
Her reference to #BGM, also known as #BlackGirlMagic was floating all through the social media waves after the crowning of Tunzi as Miss Universe this weekend. Tunzi is the first Black South African to win the title and this is the first time in history that all of the major pageants have crowned a Black woman in the same year.
What we love about this most is the fact that two, intelligent, beautiful Black women are supporting one another and exemplifying what it means to be your sister's keeper on a world stage.
The two shared their excitement online posting, "ya'll we've already started matching, this is only day one!"
The Miss Universe pageant was held at the new Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. After her win, Tunzi took to Instagram to share her thoughts. "Tonight a door was opened and I could not be more grateful to have been the one to have walked through it. May every little girl who witnessed this moment forever believe in the power of her dreams and may they see their faces reflected in mine," she said.
As Miss Universe, Tunzi will now be responsible for being the face of a number of the organization's initiatives. She will be working to create positive change through volunteering, fundraising and advocacy. And with Kryst as her roommate, I'm sure the two will be showing up in a big way. Because what happens when two Black Queens get together? Queen things!
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How Contempt Destroys Relationships
An eye roll, snarled lip, or sarcastic tone may invite relationship ills.
Posted March 4, 2013 | Reviewed by Devon Frye
Contempt is arrogant disregard, dismissal, and denigration of others' concerns.
Marriage researcher John Gottman lists contempt as one of his top indicators that a relationship will fail.
One alternative to contempt in relationships is positivity.
This post is in response to
Three Nonverbal Behaviors That May Damage Your Marriage By Zack Carter Ph.D.
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Contempt may be hard to define, but l bet you know it when you feel it. Beware. Contempt is a prime sign of relationship or marriage problems ahead. Renowned marriage researcher John Gottman lists it as one of his top indicators that a relationship will fail.
There are some common signs that contempt is underlying the negative tone in a conversation. Eye-rolling suggests contempt. An upper lip raised on one side suggests contempt, as does a sarcastic tone of voice.
If you have these habits, or if you have been on the receiving end of these negative communications, beware. They are sure signs that someone is not listening or listening only to deprecate you (or that you are doing the same to your partner).
Empathy and contempt are polar opposites. Empathy involves caring about others feelings and concerns. Contempt is arrogant disregard, dismissal, and denigration of others' concerns ("I know best"). Empathy nurtures relationship bonds; contempt invites relationship and marriage problems.
How do parents teach their children empathy or contempt?
What parents do toward each other and toward their children teaches kids to do the same. Some kids—and adults—are clever, however. Even if their parents display empathy, they discover contempt on their own (or learn it from peers).
Why does contempt present a perfect storm of relationship spoilers?
Here are multiple ways that contempt insidiously or explicitly poisons relationships—and especially long-term relationships like marriage and parenting.
1. Insufficient loving.
The more expression of contempt, the less caring for and about each other.
Empathy has the opposite effects. The more empathetic acts that are committed and attitudes that are displayed, the more caring and love will be present in the relationship. The more empathy that exists between spouses and toward children, the more that everyone in a household feels both loving and loved.
2. Powering over.
Talking with a contemptuous tone of voice or dismissing information from the other says, "I matter. You don't." That's a power play. If I know better than you do, I'm setting myself above you.
3. Toxicity dumping.
Contempt dumps toxicity into a relationship. As Eric Berne once wrote, relationships that convey "I'm okay; you're okay" feel safe. On the other hand, "I'm okay; you're not okay" feels unsafe.
We all want to feel positive about ourselves. Negative messages of "you're not okay" are, in this sense, toxic, poisoning our self-concept like mercury poisons a pool of water.
Tone alone can convey the contemptuous "you're not okay" message. Even if the words are fine, when the tone sounds contemptuous, the tone will prevail.
4. Contempt signifies rejection.
Rejection may be of what the other person is saying. It may be also of the other person as a whole.
A baby who tastes rotten food immediately wrinkles his nose, curls his lips in an expression of disgust, and spits it out. When someone speaks to you with a tone of contempt, you are likely to feel spit out from that person's world. "Get out of my life" is the subconscious message embedded in a contemptuous tone of voice or attitude.
If you are the person who felt contempt or disgust, you are likely to choose to leave the relationship, to spit it out from your life space. If you feel you have been treated in this manner, you also are likely to exit the relationship. That's because most people react to being treated contemptuously with the thought, "If you don't want me, then I don't want you!"
5. Contempt signifies breaks in the flow.
A relationship connection is expressed and reinforced via information-sharing—that is, by talking and listening. As soon as you say something to me and I respond in a way that indicates that I have heard and accepted your information, we both will feel connected. In a good conversation, two people take turns offering and accepting information, braiding their connection all the while.
If, by contrast, you dismiss what I say, brushing my input aside as if it were unimportant or incorrect, the break in the flow of information between us severs the connection. Contemptuous spitting out or dismissing of what the other person has said causes a break in the flow of information, much like a broken pipe causes a break in the flow of a liquid.
6. Contempt invites feelings of hopelessness.
Psychologist Martin Seligman clarified that when people feel depressed or hopeless, they regard a negative attribute as permanent and pervasive—i.e., as something that will always be there and cannot be changed. Contempt conveys the sense that you have a quality that is hopelessly un-fixable.
What is the alternative to contempt?
Listening to understand, appreciate, and agree is the opposite of listening with contempt.
Another alternative to contempt in relationships is positivity. Positive people enhance their relationships via positive communication—such as, for instance, appreciation, gratitude, affection, agreement, interest, and smiles.
Want to enjoy positive work relationships, healthy relationships with your children, and a long-loving marriage? Dump the contempt. Listen well. And pump up the positivity!
(c) Susan Heitler, Ph.D.
Susan Heitler, Ph.D., is the author of many books, including From Conflict to Resolution and The Power of Two. She is a graduate of Harvard University and New York University.
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With a 114mm mirror, this telescope has phenomenal light gathering ability and 228x maximum theoretical magnification. The two eyepieces have 52° field-of-view, allowing you to see an incredible amount sky at once. These eyepieces also have enough eye relief so eyeglass wearers can use them without removing their glasses. The equatorial mount allows you to track stars and planets in the direction of the earth's rotation. Additionally, this telescope is capable of astrophotography with the right eyepiece camera attachment.


Abiding Ministries in Allentown welcomes Hilltop children and adults to its "Saints, Ain'ts and Souls" event in remembrance of loved ones who have are separated or have died on Oct. 29 beginning at 2:30.
The event includes games, crafts and a bake sale. At 2:30 p.m. children will make Jack-o-lanterns and adults may decorate memorial candles to be placed in the church.


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HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
There will be year-long Platinum Jubilee celebrations throughout the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and around the world as communities come together to celebrate The Queen's historic 70 years reign. We have created a dedicated Platinum Jubilee page on our website, which you can view here.
For more information on HM's Platinum Jubilee, please visit the Royal Family website: https://www.royal.uk/platinumjubilee
Please find a summary of the key events below:
Thursday 2nd June
The Queen's Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour): Over 1,400 parading soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians will come together in the traditional Parade to mark The Queen's official birthday, usually held on the second Saturday in June.
Beginning at Buckingham Palace, the Parade will move down The Mall to Horse Guard's Parade, joined by Members of the Royal Family on horseback and in carriages. The Parade will close with the traditional RAF fly-past, watched by The Queen and Members of the Royal Family from the Buckingham Palace balcony.
Tickets for this incredible spectacular are available to the public and applications for the ballot are open until the end of February. Please visit qbp.army.mod.uk from the week commencing 17 January 2022 to apply.
Platinum Jubilee Beacons: The United Kingdom's long tradition of celebrating Royal Jubilees, Weddings and Coronations with the lighting of beacons will be continued to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Over 1,500 beacons will be lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories.
For the first time, beacons will also be lit in each of the capital cities of the Commonwealth countries to celebrate The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
The Principal beacon will be lit in a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Friday 3rd June
Service of Thanksgiving: A Service of Thanksgiving for The Queen's reign will be held at St Paul's Cathedral. Further events will be announced in due course.
Saturday 4th June
The Derby at Epsom Downs: Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by Members of the Royal Family, will attend the Derby at Epsom Downs.
Platinum Party at the Palace: The BBC will stage and broadcast a special live concert from Buckingham Palace that will bring together some of the world's biggest entertainment stars to celebrate the most significant and joyous moments from The Queen's seven decade reign. Members of the public will be invited to apply to attend this special event and details of the ballot for UK residents to secure audience tickets will be released in February.
Sunday 5th June
The Big Jubilee Lunch: Every year since the idea began in 2009 The Big Lunch has encouraged communities to celebrate their connections and get to know each other a little bit better, coming together in a spirit of fun and friendship. In 2022 The Big Lunch will bring the Jubilee celebrations into the heart of every community.
People are invited to share friendship, food and fun with neighbours as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A Big Jubilee Lunch can be big or small - street party or picnic, tea and cake or a garden barbeque. The Big Lunch provides tips and ideas for hosting an event. Over 1400 people have registered to host Big Jubilee Lunches so far, with events being planned across the length and breadth of the country.
The Platinum Jubilee Pageant: Artistic performers, dancers, musicians, military personnel, key workers and volunteers will unite to tell the story of The Queen's 70 year reign in an awe-inspiring festival of creativity. The London based Pageant will combine pomp and ceremony, street arts, theatre, music, circus, costumes as well as cutting-edge visual technology, drawing on talent from every part of the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth.
Forming an important part of the Platinum Pageant, the 'River of Hope' section will comprise of two hundred silk flags which will process down The Mall, appearing like a moving river. Primary and secondary school children are invited to create a picture of their hopes and aspirations for the planet over the next 70 years. A selection of these creations will be transferred on to silk flags, which will carried by secondary school pupils in the Pageant.
The artwork for the flags will be focused on climate change and incorporate the children's messages for the future. Teachers from applying schools will be provided with step-by-step guides to creating a beautiful digital artwork with their students, of which 200 will then be selected for the flags. The selected artwork will also be shown up and down the country on screens as part of the Jubilee celebrations. For more information and to register your school's interest to take part please go to riverofhope.co.uk.
Further Platinum Jubilee events:
The Queen's Green Canopy
As the Platinum Jubilee year begins, over 60,000 trees have already been planted in the UK through the project in the two months since the planting season began. Green-fingered communities and cities from Cornwall to Glasgow have come together to make 2022 a truly special year to "plant a tree for the Jubilee" as a celebration of The Queen's 70 years of service to the nation and the Commonwealth.
The Queen's Green Canopy is generating the planting of large, celebration trees, new majestic avenues of trees, urban planting, and expansive new forests that will benefit future generations. Every planting is being recorded on a digital Queen's Green Canopy map which will be presented to Her Majesty at the end of the Jubilee year.
The Queen's Green Canopy is also working to protect 70 ancient trees and woodlands that are a valuable part of the UK's heritage and history and has launched a special training programme to teach unemployed young people new skills in tree planting and management, as well as a Young Foresters Award to highlight the value of trees to school children. The Queen's Green Canopy will continue throughout 2022 and into March 2023.
Royal Collection Trust
Three special displays marking significant occasions in Her Majesty's reign – the Accession, the Coronation and Jubilees – will be staged at the official royal residences from July 2022.
At the Summer Opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, portraits of The Queen taken by photographer Dorothy Wilding between 1953 and 1956 will be on display, alongside items of Her Majesty's personal jewellery worn for the sittings.
At Windsor Castle, the Coronation Dress and Robe of Estate worn by The Queen for her Coronation at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953 will be on display, while at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, visitors will see outfits worn by Her Majesty on occasions to celebrate the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees.
The Queen's Private Estates
Celebrations will also take place on The Queen's private estates, Sandringham and Balmoral, for local residents and visitors to enjoy.
Events free for members of the public to take part in over the Bank Holiday weekend will include 'Platinum Party at the Palace' on the big screen in the Royal Parkland at Sandringham - a live screening of the BBC Concert celebrating the most significant and joyous moments from The Queen's seven-decade reign.
The lighting of the Sandringham beacon will also take place in the Royal Parkland, accompanied by live music from the Norwich Pipe Band and the Hunstanton Band.
The Platinum Jubilee Celebration
From 12th -15th May the Platinum Jubilee Celebration will see over 500 horses and 1,000 performers create a 90-minute piece of arena theatre that will include actors and artists, musicians, international military displays, dancers and global equestrian displays.
The show takes place in the same arena used by Royal Windsor Horse Show during the day and is the fourth in a series of events at the same venue that have marked significant moments in the life of The Queen. The production will take the audience on a gallop through history from Elizabeth I to the present day.
For further information please visit: https://www.royal.uk/platinum-jubilee-central-weekend


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Torquay is een kustplaats en hoofdplaats van de LGA Surf Coast Shire in de staat Victoria in Australië. Torquay ligt aan de Straat Bass, 21 kilometer ten zuiden van Geelong en 97 kilometer ten zuidwesten van Melbourne. De stad is de oostelijke poort tot de Great Ocean Road, een 243 kilometer lange weg die in Allansford bij Warrnambool zijn eindpunt heeft. Torquay is bekend van zijn surfstranden. Verschillende bekende surf merken komen uit Torquay waaronder Quiksilver en Rip Curl.

Sinds 2020 wordt er in Torquay jaarlijks de wielerkoers Race Torquay verreden.

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A taxonomy of "coded domestic objects":
April 28, 2008 / Nicolas
In Software, Objects and Home Space, Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin (Environment and Planning A) examine the relationship between objects and software in detail. They describe how ubiquitous computing - through the embedding of sensors and computation in objects - is transforming daily artifacts, giving them new capacities. To do so, they came up with an interesting taxonomy of "coded domestic objects":
"Coded objects can be subdivided into two broad classes based on their relational capacities. First, there are unitary objects that rely on code to function but do not record their work in the world. Second, there are objects that have an 'awareness' of themselves and their relations with the world and which, by default, automatically record aspects of those relations in logs that are stored and re-used in the future (that we call logjects [an object that monitors and records in some fashion its own use]). (...) In broad terms unitary coded objects can be divided into those that function independently of their surroundings and those that are equipped with some kind of sensors that enable the object to react meaningfully to particular variables in their immediate environment. (...) We can identify two main classes of logject: impermeable and permeable. Impermeable logjects consist of relatively self-contained units such as a MP3 player, a PDA or satnav. Such devices trace and track their usage by default, recording this data as an embedded history; are programmable in terms of configurable settings and creating lists (e.g. play lists of songs, diary entries and route itineraries); perform operations in automated, automatic and autonomous ways; and engender socially meaningful acts such as entertaining, remember an important meeting and helping not to get lost. (...) Permeable logjects do not function without continuous access to other technologies and networks. In particular, because they need the constant two-way of data exchanges, they are reliant on access to a distributed communication network to perform their primary function. Such logjects track, trace and record their usage locally but because of memory issues, the necessity of service monitoring/billing, and in some cases a user's ability to erase or reprogram such objects, their full histories are also recorded externally to its immediate material form"
And about how these coded objects make "home differently":
"the everyday use of coded objects reshapes the spatiality of the home by altering how domestic tasks are undertaken (and not always more conveniently for all), introducing new tasks and sometimes greater complexity, and embedding the home in diverse, extended networks of consumption and governmentality. (...) the transition into the fully software-enabled home is a slow process. Most homes contain a mix of non-coded and coded technologies. (...) a useful parallel can be drawn between the coding of homes and the initial development of domestic electricity. At first, there were no electrical appliances and whole classes of electrical tools had to be invented. Over an extended period of time existing technologies were converted to electricity (e.g. gas lights to electric lights, open hearth to electric cooker, washtub to washing machine, etc.). Today, the extent to which electricity powers almost everything of significance in our homes is largely unnoticed in a Western context (except in a power cut). "
Why do I blog this? The taxonomy of objects is relevant as it shows the sort of "current design space", mapping the different possibilities depending on the coded behavior. Moreover, the thing I like with these authors is that their reading of ubicomp is definitely more about the "messily arranged here-and-now" and less about the "supposed smart home of the future". Surely some material to reflect on in current writings with Julian, especially about the relationships between technologies and spatial bevahior/materialities.
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