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Bureau for Rights-Based Development (BRD)
دحقونو پر بنسټ پراختیایی موسسه
Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Community Based Approach for Protection of Culture Heritage
Protection of Vulnerable Groups
Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Our Strategy and Approach
BRD Programming Principles & Approach
One of the distinctive strengths of our empowerment approach includes our participatory processes with our target groups at the local level. The rich set of methodologies we use will be harmonized and enhanced to build people's communication skills and deepen their critical awareness of power and rights.
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These empowerment processes are crucial for building effective mobilization and strategic action, supporting grassroots organizations and strengthening social movements that represent the wider community and their causes. It is through organizing at different levels that those living in poverty can engage with formal power structures, develop sustainable relationships and create new spaces to hold governments, the private sector and other actors to account, using, for example, social audits and participatory civic actions.
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We build long-term partnerships with organizations and social movements, respecting their autonomy, strengthening their capacities and helping them to share learning across issues, sectors, movements and geographies to build a formidable movement for change. We also work in alliances with many different actors, including NGOs, networks, think tanks, unions, campaigns and progressive companies.
We also seek to hold those with power accountable through critical engagement—for example with governments or the private sector—engaging constructively where possible but being willing to challenge where necessary.
Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA)
Human rights consist of both rights and obligations. The state assumes obligations and duties under international law to respect the rights of peoples, meaning that the state must refrain from interfering with or curtailing the enjoyment of human rights. To protect means that states have to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses. To fulfill human rights means that states must take positive action to facilitate the enjoyment of basic human rights. The responsibilities of all citizens in a democratic society are inseparable from the responsibility to promote human rights. To flourish, both democracy and human rights require people's active participation.
BRD's approach to development is the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA). The Declaration on the Rights to Development, adopted by the General Assembly in 1986, laid the foundation of the UN's rights-based approaches to development, providing its key elements including: putting people at the center of development; ensuring free, active and meaningful participation; securing non-discrimination; fair distribution of development benefits; and respecting self-determination and sovereignty over natural resources; and in all the process that advances civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
We promote the development interventions that address both the demand and supply side, meaning the State as well as the people: empowering right-holders to know, claim, access and realize their rights through:
Human rights education to promote awareness among the people on their rights and entitlements;
Fostering the confidence, skills and resources to communicate with duty bearers, and advocate and claim their rights.
We also strengthen duty-bearers to comply with their human rights obligations and duties by:
Identification of the reasons for their underperformance of their duties;
Awareness raising on their obligations under international, regional and domestic law and identifying their responsibilities;
Capacity development, so that they can meet their obligations e.g. service delivery;
Fostering accountability mechanisms, which include downward accountability.
Human Rights Principles
Universality, interrelatedness and indivisibility
Human rights reflect universal values and belong to all human beings. Human rights are inalienable, indivisible and interrelated; rights cannot be taken away and different rights depend on and complement each other.
All human beings are entitled to their rights without discrimination of any kind (race, color, sexual orientation or gender identity, ethnicity, age, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, disability, property, or any other reason).
Participation and inclusion
Individuals and groups have the right to free, active and meaningful participation in relation to issues that concern them and the development of their society.
States are accountable for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights they have committed to. The HRBA emphasizes accountability relationships between authorities and people instead of focusing merely on donor-partner government accountability.
Access to information, freedom of expression, openness in decision-making processes to ensure participation, inclusion and accountability.
HRBA objectives
The main objectives of Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) are to:
Strengthen the understanding of rights, i.e., understanding the location, forms and perpetrators of rights violations; recognizing who is vulnerable and assessing degrees of vulnerability; and recognizing existing power imbalances in society;
Ensure accountability and transparency by identifying rights-holders (and their entitlements) and corresponding duty-bearers (and their obligations);
Build capacities for the realization of rights so that rights-holders can make claims and duty-bearers can meet their obligations;
Facilitate the active and meaningful participation of multiple stakeholders, including people who directly benefit from projects through access to development processes and institutions, improved information, legal redress, and other positive strategies;
Create a sense of ownership of development processes through strategies of empowerment that focus on rights-holders both directly and through their advocates and civil society organizations; and
Encourage the expression of rights through different mediums of communication and interaction with people across regions.
Cross-cutting objectives
To reduce inequalities between individuals, groups and societies by ensuring that all enjoys human rights, including the most vulnerable and marginalized groups is the key objective of the HRBA. The objective of reducing inequalities means addressing those factors that cause power imbalances or possible discrimination of groups of people or areas.
The prioritization of interventions reducing inequalities needs to rely on an analysis, which can be conducted as part of a wider context, or human rights analysis conducted for an intervention. The analysis needs to focus on physical, social, economic, cultural or legislative barriers to having rights and access to resources and decision-making in each context.
The objective of gender mainstreaming is to integrate the gender perspective into development interventions with the goal of achieving gender equality. Analyzing gender helps to identify different roles and responsibilities women and men have in particular contexts and the relation those roles have with access to power, resources and decision-making. In using the HRBA in gender mainstreaming and for reducing inequalities, international human rights commitments and principles are integrated into addressing the root causes for inequalities. This helps in defining priorities, actions and objectives for reaching equality in different development interventions. BRD consider gender mainstreaming as integrated component of the HRBA and applied both in the context of internal organization structures and roles as well in our policy, programs and interventions.
Climate change directly affects the enjoyment of many human rights such as rights to food, water and health. Using the HRBA to increase climate sustainability means the adoption of appropriate measures and policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human rights. Furthermore, applying the HRBA means that mitigation measures take into account vulnerable groups, including and people living in disaster-prone areas.
Fragility and conflict sensitivity
Conflict and poverty are often correlated and they interlink with the human rights performance of the state. In addition, human rights violations can be drivers and consequences of conflict or fragility. Interventions in fragile states need to be based on a comprehensive understanding of the power relations and the root causes of conflict, poverty and the human rights challenges. The application of the HRBA is adjusted to legal and political realities in fragile states and in conflict or post-conflict settings.
In these situations the expectations on the duty-bearers to perform their duties might need to be adjusted to capacity constraints that often (in conflict settings) are serious. Support might also need to be steered to other responsible actors, for example, as service providers. However, the responsibility for implementing human rights commitments always remains with the state and its authorities.
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There is often confusion regarding service of process options via the Hague Service Convention.
Specifically, many believe that there are "formal" and "informal" methods of service recognized under the treaty.
However, this classification is a myth.
The 1965 Hague Service Convention has dramatically streamlined the methods by which litigants must serve process upon defendants in other member states.
Prior to the Convention's entry into force some five decades ago, the primary means of service was the letter rogatory, a relatively simple document which had to be routed through a complex labyrinth of formal bureaucratic channels, not the least of which involved the diplomatic offices of the two nations involved. The incredible formality of service via letter rogatory is just one hallmark of this arduous, expensive, time-consuming process.
The simplicity of the Convention, however, also tends to create confusion. While the Convention allows a plaintiff to serve by one of several methods, they are not classified by "formal" and "informal" methods of service, or "inside" or "outside" the Hague Convention. Rather, all methods of international service of process recognized under the Treaty are co-equal.
Many mistakenly believe that "formal service" is service via the foreign Central Authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, while alternate (Article 10) methods are informal.
It is certainly true that a police officer, sheriff or bailiff often serves documents pursuant to an Article 5 Hague Request, but foreign courts often simply mail documents through the local post office even if a request is made under Article 5. There is no overly formal meaning or substance attached to the mailing — it simply happens to be a method authorized under the internal rules of the Destination State, and therefore is a method of service authorized by the Hague Service Convention.
Service of process in Italy, for example, tends to be exclusively by mail, even when another method of service compatible with Italy's internal law has been requested. German service of process, however, mixes things up: some lander (akin to US states and Canadian provinces) serve personally and some serve by mail, even if personal service is explicitly requested.
The alternate methods of service authorized by the Treaty pursuant to Article 10 are service by mail and service by a judicial officer or other "competent person." Some call these service options "informal" because the Destination State is not directly overseeing service.
However, only judicial officers or people "competent" under the receiving nation's law may serve documents. As such, service is presumed effected pursuant to the internal rules if undertaken by such a judicial officer or other competent person. Formality is still observed, despite the non-involvement of the receiving state.
Informal also does not mean "outside the Hague Service Convention." Not only is this a misnomer, circumvention of the Convention is actually prohibited by US Supreme Court precedent and Canadian provincial rulings. Service which avoids the strictures of the Convention violates the law of the venue court and infringes on the sovereignty of the Destination State. As such, it is easily quashed and destroys any hope of subsequent enforcement overseas.
The only ostensibly "informal" service indicated in the Convention is voluntary service, where the defendant accepts service without compulsion by a judicial authority. Compulsion lies wherever a summons is involved, and voluntary acceptance across borders is so rare as to hardly warrant discussion.
Litigants must adhere not only to the letter of the Treaty itself, but also to each member state's declarations thereto. Where a defendant declines to accept service voluntarily or declines to waive service, plaintiffs have no other choice but service through one of the channels authorized by the Hague Convention.
Counsel must consider the ramifications of the method by which process is served — failure to investigate those ramifications can subject service to being quashed, subject an action to dismissal, or subject an attorney to sanctions or disciplinary action.
If you need assistance serving process, contact the professionals at LLS today.


Thanks for another brilliant newsletter.
The day my wife and I spent with you guys in 2006 still ranks as one of my most memorable experiences, and I am hoping to make another trip to South Africa.
I want to do more than 1 day next time. Could still be another couple of years though!
My wife's parents gave me your "Great White" book for Christmas. It's great!
The new Botswana pictures are amazing.


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Why write this engine?

The reason is I coded a supercalculator last year in Appstore, which is based on one more completed parser.

This parser is just a simplified prototype. It calculates not only fraction but normal expression, so you can enrich this library in normal calculation. Detail illustration will be added in the near future.

Parser Process:

For example:1+2*(3-4) parsing process:

1. Tokenizer:
Tokens:1, +,  2, *, (,  3,  -,  4,  )

2. Interpreter:
  Specify the vague tokens,i.e '+' means add or positive ,the same as '-'.

3. Parser

AST(抽象树):

In fact, the math expression is parsed into one custom nested cluster in coding,and then resolve sub-expression on each level from inside to outside one.

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Tips:

1. adjust number, which is regarded as fraction through process,such as

	2 convert to 2/1 ;
	0.2 convert to 2/10;
	0.9998 convert to 9998/10000

2. because of object-c without function operator,we need to convert operators to function name, i.e @"+" to "add"

Todo :processing more symbol

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The database server does not perform the actual creation of the view, so certain errors that would occur at creation time are not generated. For example, an error indicating that the specified view name already exists is not generated. This allows you to use the CHECK clause to test intended changes to the definition of the view, without a conflict with the naming of the view.
You must have the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW system privilege to create materialized views owned by you. You must also be the owner of, or have SELECT privileges on, the underlying object referred to by the materialized view.
You must have the CREATE ANY MATERIALIZED VIEW or CREATE ANY OBJECT system privilege to create materialized views owned by others.


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Diddy's son King Combs addresses being a "nepo baby"
Diddy's son King Combs has addressed being labelled a "nepo baby", sharing that he's "not really" bothered by the recent discourse.
When asked by a TMZ reporter at Los Angeles International airport if he was tired of the nepotism debate surrounding children of famous people, King Combs – real name Christian Combs – replied: "Not really, no."
He continued: "Heavy is the head that wears the crown. So [I] have a big legacy I have to live up to," he continued in the clip posted yesterday (January 16). But right now, Bad Boy [Records] we're number one, baby."
A post shared by Christian Combs (@kingcombs)
When asked if he feels he benefitted at all from his father's legacy, the rapper, 24, replied: "I feel like I'm blessed. You know we're going to take the legacy far, further and further. Bad Boy for life.
"Can't stop, wont stop, never stop, can't stop, that's it."
Back in November 2022, Maude Apatow, Anaïs Gallagher and Zoë Kravitz were among the first celebrities to respond to criticism of "nepotism babies".
Euphoria star Apatow, daughter of Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann, said she understands that she's "in such a lucky position".
Gallagher, who is the daughter of Noel Gallagher and Meg Mathews, is a photographer and has worked as a model in the past. "I'm really, really, extremely grateful for the situation my parents have been able to give me, and I'll be grateful until the day I die," she told the Daily Mail.
Kravitz, who like her father Lenny Kravitz is a musician, is also an actor like her mother Lisa Bonet, and has starred in the recent The Batman movie and the High Fidelity television series.
She admitted to having a "deep insecurity" about her success as an actor being viewed as less because of her parents, but also defended being a "nepo baby".
"It's completely normal for people to be in the family business," Kravitz told GQ. "It's literally where last names came from. You were a blacksmith if your family was, like, the Black family."
The conversation intensified online after an article discussing 'The Nepotism Babies Of Hollywood' was published in Vulture.
Lily Allen later entered the discourse by highlighting the "nepo babies" people "should be worrying about".
Bono's daughter Eve Hewson also shared her humorous response to the conversation, while Jamie Lee Curtis said the nepo babies discourse was "designed to diminish and denigrate and hurt".
The post Diddy's son King Combs addresses being a "nepo baby" appeared first on NME.

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The Caroline Church, 1625-40
Within just a few weeks of Charles' accession there were signs of religious change that could lead Puritans to worry about the religious leanings of the new king. Arminians were already active in principal areas of politico-religious life: William Laud (future Arminian Archbishop of Canterbury and adviser of Charles I in ecclesiastical policies of the Caroline Church) preached the opening sermon of Parliament; and Richard Montagu became royal chaplain. Rather than taking the traditional view and seeing the Puritans as radicals who wished to overturn or undermine the Church, it was Charles and William Laud, who attempted to alter traditional beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church; and it was those who voiced opposition who were branded as Puritans. Not all Arminians accepted the doctrine of Free Will [3], but they were united in a concern for ceremony and worship in the Church. Notably, Arminians wanted to worship 'in the beauty of holiness', which meant embellished churches, structured and ordered services. Arminians saw much in the Church of England to cause them distress; many churches were in disrepair, a variety of practices had developed in services - ranging from Puritan austerity to quasi-Catholic practices. Arminians were adamant about the importance of uniformity of worship that accorded with the liturgy of the Church of England. Further, they considered this best administered through the authority of bishops and clergy, an episcopalian structure to Church government. Logically following from this, Arminians supported the royal prerogative - e.g. in 1627 Robert Sibthorpe preached in defence of the Forced Loan. The appeal of Arminianism to Charles I is evident - the Arminians mirrored his own concerns for order, uniformity, obedience and hierarchy.
[3. The doctrine that denied Calvinist Double Predestination, arguing that Man could determine his own fate by choosing to reject or accept God's grace. Contentious in England as it was adopted by William Laud, to the distaste of Puritans. By the mid-seventeenth century however the divisions under Charles I and Laud over Free Will had become cloudy - for example John Milton believed in Free Will, yet was far from the Anglican centre of religious opinion on a number of doctrinal issues.]
Though Charles favoured Arminianism, Parliament viewed it with disdain. Religion had not been a significant political issue in the Jacobean parliaments, but Charles' policies brought religious issues to a major point of conflict between King and Parliament, and gave greater depth to the existing points of departure. The majority of the Commons were 'low church', Calvinistic, anti- Catholic and favoured Protestant foreign policy. Promotion of Arminians led to parliamentary attacks against those who voiced support for the royal prerogative. Robert Sibthorpe, who supported the Forced Loan, and Roger Mainwaring, who defended non-parliamentary taxation, are examples of Arminians who attracted the wrath of Parliament for their political comments. There was an attempt to settle divisions between Arminians and Puritans at York House in 1626; however, this merely established the Arminian camp had the backing of the Duke of Buckingham. While the Commons could protest at the direction of the King's religious policy, they could do little to change it. In the later 1620s Arminians were appointed and promoted in the Church, Calvinist teaching suppressed. However, the force of change at this point should not be overstated - outside theology or political debate there was little noticeable change. It was not until the advent of the Personal Rule from 1629 that the full force of Charles and Laud's Arminian drive for uniformity became felt. This was heightened from 1633 when Laud was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. Alterations to services throughout the kingdom were introduced, and it became impossible to avoid or ignore Charles' drive for uniformity and reform. The principal changes were in two key areas: the conduct of services, and the suppression of preaching.
There had been considerable growth in Puritan parishes of Sunday sermons or lectures, which held in the afternoon after the Anglican service, were not required to adhere to the formality of the official service. The King and his Archbishop wanted to curb this practice because it was difficult to control the content of these sermons, which posed a potential threat to Church authority if they were packed with subversive ideas. The attack began immediately. In 1629, Charles promulgated that catechising replace sermons on Sunday afternoons in parishes. Each lecturer was then required to read from the Anglican liturgy in his surplice and hood. Laud suppressed an association to endow Puritan preaching that had developed in London during the late 1620s known as the 'feoffees for impropriation'. Although there is no evidence that these preachers had any concern other than spiritual, Laud feared the association's potential to incite unrest.
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Q: Why is everything floating in space so cold? Of course there is pretty hot stuff too. For example Suns.
But isn't the vacuum of space the perfect containment for heat? And shouldn't the rare collision with particles even heat up an object that floats around in space?
Why aren't they hot from time to time? Is it because they loose their heat by radiant heat?
And if so does radiant heat emission always occur until the object is the same temperature as the surrounding or does it depend on other factors?

A: Well, the basic law of thermodynamics tells you that the heat flows from the hotter object to the colder one. But what this means in a given situation will depend on the precise mechanism of that heat flow, i.e. elementary interaction that makes it possible.
So let's discuss few of them and see where it takes us.

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*First, there's the usual conductive heat transfer. This is mediated by the collisions of the touching materials (and even more macroscopically by an electromagnetic force. Obviously, this effect is irrelevant in the vacuum.

*Second, there's evaporation. Even if you have a perfect crystal that is very stable, there's a possibility that a large fluctuation will occur and one of its molecules will be "kicked out" of it and set flying into the empty space. Because the molecule needs to have a (lot) higher energy than the rest of the molecules around it to be able to get free from the crystal, the average remaining energy and therefore also the temperature will decrease. But this effect is more relevant for non-crystals (because the molecules are much less tightly bound). E.g. if water were put into the free space it would freeze by evaporation very quickly.

*Last, but not least, radiation. Any object at non-zero temperature will have lots of its constituents in excited energy states and there will be a non-zero probability for returning to a lower energy state and emission of a photon. In more simple terms, kinetic energy is converted to an electromagnetic energy. This effect is most relevant for black objects which absorb all the radiation (an ideal form of which is called black body) and least relevant for white objects which reflect everything (note that the terms black and white are to be considered here in generalized sense, not just pertaining to visible light).
Well, these effects are most important for the usual matter. But there is also the dark matter which doesn't interact electromagnetically (therefore the name), so it wouldn't cool by photonic radiation (but might cool by emission of other particles with which it interacts). In conclusion, the heat transfer depends very much on the precise microscopic interaction that the given object is able to undergo.

A: Anything in space is at the same temperature as the blackbody temperature of radiation it is immersed in, or an integration of the blackbody radiation per sterradian angle.  If that is a close orbit around the sun the temperature is hot.  The temperature in intergalactic space is 2.7K.

A: What is everything? If it is a cosmic ray or the solar wind, it is very hot. The coldest
it can get is 2.72 K because that is the temperature of the cosmic background radiation, and if there were no other sources of radiation, the object would come into equilibrium with this. In practice, there is always some form of other energy streaming through space. So the answer depends on which neighborhood you are hanging in.

A: Actually space is the perfect environment for making things cold. The night sky is cold enough that people in the desert can leave trays of water out and find them frozen in the morning, even though the night-time air temperature never dropped to freezing.
What happened is that the trays radiated their heat off into space. Of course space radiated heat back to the tray, but the stars are so far between and far away that the amount of heat that gets here is very small.
This doesn't apply during the daytime. In short, things in space get hot if they're in sunlight, and they cool down otherwise.

A: When a gas expands, it cools.  It turns out that the universe has expanded very significantly since the Big Bang, meaning that it is now very cool.  If any gas is to be placed in the vacuum of the universe, then, absent something like gravity to hold it together, it will expand and thereby cool to the temperature of the medium around it.

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The program in visual arts at Princeton University presents an exhibition of new student work in a wide array of analog and digital media curated from a dozen fall classes in experimental photography, typography, graphic design, desktop publishing, consumer media, and DIY culture.
Best-selling authors Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer will visit Barnes & Noble to discuss the writing process and inspiration for "To Night Owl From Dogfish," a hilarious and heartwarming novel that features two girls whose single, gay dads send them on a journey which proves that family comes in all shapes and sizes.


The U.S. international trade deficit widened in August, rising 6.4 percent to $53.2 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Imports rose 0.6 percent, while exports fell 0.8 percent. July's trade deficit was downwardly revised from $50.1 billion to $50.0 billion.
The goods deficit increased 4.8 percent to $76.7 billion, while the services surplus increased 1.7 percent to $23.1 billion.
Exports of goods decreased 1.3 percent to $138.9 billion in August. Exports of services were virtually unchanged at $70.5 billion.
Imports of goods increased 0.8 percent to $215.6 billion. Imports of services fell 0.3 percent to $47.0 billion.


You can't read Sebastian Barry slowly. It's like poetry. It IS poetry! How else to explain a sentence like this? 'Such are the embers of things spoken when the great conflagration of life is nearly over...' WHAT a sentence! And the book is full of them. How can a first-person voice be at once to vivid and poetic and yet utterly artless and authentic? I wish I knew. Barry does. And so I keep on plodding through his prose... or poetry. And what an immense pleasure it is, too.
This is just the latest in a long list of his books I'm either reading or re-reading. And none - so far - not one, disappoints. Unless it's from the knowledge that you know - as someone who tries his hand at a bit of writing, now and then - that you'll never, ever live up or even approach such heights yourself.
But you can learn. As always, you can learn from the masters and I've especially learned from Barry's wonderful use of the active voice in what it otherwise standard third-person omniscient narration. There's a immediacy of expression that almost blurs the boundary between that and first-person (especially unreliable) narration. It's a wonderful trick to behold on the page. And Barry does it so, so well.
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Event planning isn't all glamorous, you know. For instance, I was completely drenched when fetching the balloons under a thunderstorm. Well, walking into a car with a bunch of helium-filled in one hand and an umbrella in another isnt exactly feasible, you know. And I can't remember the last time I kept my speed at 50kmph. Thanks to the rain, I had an excuse to drive super slow with the balloon obstructing my rear and right-side mirror view. Totally not cool.
I didn't get the ParkRoyal Penang Resort 3D2N holiday voucher. But. I won te pressure cooker. Ha ha ha. I was commenting on how it would be good to have a lady winner and bam! my name was on the paper. Much to the boos of the crowd. Because haha I'm the organizer, you see. But the winner of the holiday voucher is a guy. He came to the dinner with his wife and kid. His family would be thrilled he won it, they now have a holiday to look forward to. Such thoughts made me equally happy.
I'm the one who came up with the football team, but up until the morning I had zero ideas of what to wear. So I snatched my blue-gray sweater to pass as a training outfit. Lucky nobody realized the S word on its sleeve. The sweater was from my orientation days at S company. Ha! I wore those over Uniqlo Airy running shirt I bought the other week for SCKLM run, paired with a random track-bottoms. And still I was sweating in the air-conditioned hall. My tudung, I wore the same wet one from the rain. Uncomfortable, but I had no choice, I didn't see the rain coming. So shhhh!
Now I have my drawings to attend to and you guys can stop talking to me about event for at least 3 months OK?


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MultiControl Armrest: All Maxxum MultiController ActiveDrive 8 and Maxxum CVXDrive models feature the innovative functionality and easy operation of the MultiControl Armrest. The MultiFunction Handle places 85 to 90 percent of the controls you use most in one hand so you can stay focused on your work, while reducing stress and fatigue.
In-cab Storage Compartments: Ample storage space helps keep the Maxxum cab organized. And we've thought of everything, including a front storage box that's semi-refrigerated on MultiController and CVXDrive models.
Foot and Hand Throttle: Every Maxxum tractor includes standard foot and hand throttles, so you can choose the option that best suits your preferences or the task.
Instructor's Seat: The flexible instructor's seat provides space when training new operators. Or fold it down for a flat work surface.
Advanced Loader Joystick: Now you can shift gears and control speed without removing your hand from the joystick. This optional feature reduces loader cycling times, helping you be more efficient.
Wide-open Views: With more than 63 square feet of glass area, the Maxxum SurroundVision cab provides unobstructed vision in all directions, including overhead via a high-visibility roof panel. Up front, the cab's roofline extends beyond the glass to provide shade from the sun. Tinted rear-glass on all models with suspended cabs helps reduce glare.
Forward Looking: The narrow, sloping hood on Maxxum series tractors provides clear, unobstructed forward sightlines to the front wheels, loader and other mid- and front-mount attachments.
Instrumentation: Control placement, along with dashboard and A-pillar instrumentation (depending on configuration), provide access without inhibiting visibility.
Suspension: The optional cab suspension package offers superior comfort on the road and in the field by reducing shock loads transmitted to the tractor by 25 percent. Pair cab suspension with the suspended MFD front axle option for a best-in-class ride that will help you stay fresh and comfortable through the longest days.
Climate Control: A comfort-creating manual or automatic HVAC system lets you personalize your workspace. The rear window opens for fresh air circulation.
Radio Options: Take advantage of our quiet Maxxum cabs and catch the latest market report or relax to your favorite tunes. An optional Bluetooth® radio lets you bring your own entertainment with you. A built-in radio antenna amplifier helps you stay connected even in the most remote areas.
The way implements attach, function and power up is just as important as a tractor's engine, transmission and cab comforts. Maxxum tractors feature the power and capacity that make it a hardworking versatile machine, plus ease of use that makes for efficient productivity. Front-mount PTO and 3-point hitch options allow maximum flexibility and versatility for special applications. Support every option with rear- and mid-mount hydraulic valves.
The standard rear 540 and 1,000 rpm and optional front 1,000 rpm PTO give you the flexibility to power all types of implements and attachments.
Pressure-flow Compensation: Pressure-flow compensating hydraulics are standard on Maxxum MultiController ActiveDrive 8 and CVXDrive models and provide the precise planting vegetable growers demand. Maxxum models feature an open-center system.
Remotes: Further customize your Maxxum tractor by matching the hydraulic remote configuration for the implements and attachments you plan to power. Choose from two to four remotes with adjustable detents. Fully color-coded remotes and in-cab controls simplify hook up.
Loader Lift Capacity:Maxxum tractors paired with the recommended Case IH L755 loader: 4,872 pounds to maximum height at pivot pins.
3-point: Standard telescoping stabilizers and available quick-attach claw ends or telescopic lower links with ball-link ends make attaching and hooking up implements fast and easy. Two turnbuckles provide side-to-side leveling of attachments.
Lift capacities: Mechanical position control and adjustable drop rate make operation easy and precise.
1Lift capacities as reported by Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory.
Swinging Drawbar: A swinging drawbar lets you customize hitched implements to your desired position or move the drawbar to keep it out of the way when not in use.
All Maxxum ActiveDrive 4, Maxxum MultiController ActiveDrive 8 or Maxxum CVXDrive models feature heavy-duty front-axle options. Maxxum ActiveDrive 4 models also feature a 2WD option.
When a 2WD tractor is best-suited to your needs, Maxxum 2WD models deliver all of the power, comfort and features of the Maxxum line at a lower price point. Enhanced maneuverability and a tighter turn radius, plus efficient power to the PTO and hydraulics, help make 2WD non-suspended, standard-duty front axle an excellent option for hay and forage operations, dairy farms, vegetable production, municipalities and small-acreage mixed farms.
Multiple front-axle systems — suspended or non-suspended, and with or without brakes — allow you to customize your Maxxum tractor to your operation. New for Model Year 2018 Maxxum tractors is a Class 4 heavy-duty MFD front axle system. It's the toughest axle ever offered in a Maxxum series tractor so you have improved traction and increased power to the ground for even the most demanding applications, such as loader work and mounted front tanks.
Available on the Maxxum MultiContoller ActiveDrive 8 and Maxxum CVXDrive models, factory-available dual wheels deliver better flotation, traction and stability for planting and loader work in challenging conditions, such as hills and wet conditions.
Factory-installed AFS components and dealer-installed options on Maxxum tractors offer dependability and convenience and give you the flexibility you need to help ensure you're ready to begin gathering data as soon as you pull into the field.
Minimizing skips and overlaps saves on fuel, seed, fertilizer and chemicals. Precisely placing seeds can improve agronomic performance. Achieving year-to-year repeatable accuracy — as tight as plus or minus 1 inch — becomes reality with AFS AccuGuide autoguidance.
This affordable aftermarket option is ideal for equipment that doesn't currently have autoguidance capabilities. Within minutes of installation, ElectriSteer connects with your AFS Pro 700 display to deliver all the benefits of autoguidance.
Case IH Maxxum series tractors feature easy maintenance access points and long scheduled maintenance intervals.
The Case IH L755 loader meets the needs of the full line of Maxxum series MFD tractors and features fast, easy mounting and rugged, durable construction. Work with your Case IH dealer to identify additional loader options, attachments and accessories.
Quick, easy mounting is a hallmark of Case IH loaders. Your Maxxum tractor arrives with all loader mounting brackets, a grill guard, mid-mount valves, in-cab joystick and hose kits.
From fieldwork and chores around the family farm to the most demanding commercial farming operations, discover how the strength, versatility and durability of Maxxum series tractors can benefit your operation year-round.
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EZY-UPS
Since the first prototype of EZY-UPS was created I've met with hundreds of people, Doctors, Pharmacists, Aged Carers, Occupational Therapists and regular people, who are struggling with mobility issues.
Because of my determination to help my own mum, people in our older generation who struggle each morning to dress were the first people I had in mind for the EZY-UPS dressing aid but I soon learnt that there were so many more people that really wanted this solution.
People recovering from hip & knee surgery, women in late stage pregnancy, people with back injuries. Everyone that's used EZY-UPS makes the same comment, it's helped them with their problem of dressing when they've been faced with limited mobility.
The EZY-UPS dressing aid is my legacy to the world, the solution to a problem that needed to be solved, a problem that's normally is kept in the dark, a problem that causes people to live with the pressure, stress and embarrassment of dressing themselves.
The EZY-UPS dressing aid will help you too, whether its for yourself or for a loved one.
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The Action Arundel Twin Compact Climbing Frame is a fantastic frame, similar to the Arundel Twin Towers frame but built with space in mind, fitting so many activities into a compact area. The frame is built around two main towers, linked by a springy clatter bridge with safety rails on both sides of the bridge, helping to prevent any accidents. The first tower can be reached by climbing the stairs which lead up to the first of two lookout platforms. Once you're across the clatter bridge you reach the second lookout platform and from here there's only one way down and that's down the 3 metre wavy slide!
Just off to the side of the first tower is a double swing set suitable for two children to use at the same time. You can be sure that this structure is one of the most secure on the market as all Action climbing frames are manufactured from PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) sourced timber and are built in rectangular sections, stronger than the alternative round sections. This also minimises the chance of cracks and splinters. The pine used is both strong and great to look at.
Off the side of the second tower is a cargo net where you can be sure your kids will burn up all their energy. The cargo net can also be used as a way to get into the tower.
With all of these features you could have 8 kids all playing on the frame at once!


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Reconstructing Social Law to Reform How the Labour Market Functions
Gilbert Cette is an associate professor of economics at Aix-Marseille University and a specialist in issues relating to economic growth, productivity and the labour market.
Jacques Barthélémy is an associate professor in the law faculty of Montpellier, an attorney specialising in social legislation, the founder of the law firm Barthélémy Avocats, and an expert in issues relating to social law and protection.
Terra Nova is an independent, progressive think tank which aims to create and publicise innovative political solutions, in France and the rest of Europe.
Reforming labour laws, an urgent need
French social law, and particularly labour law, is characterised by an excess of rules and regulations that hinder economic growth and job creation. In this respect, France is an exception among European nations — and yet French workers do not enjoy greater protection than other European workers. In fact, they feel more insecure. Reforming French social law has become both urgent and necessary.
But how can economic efficiency be improved without abandoning the protective role of social law? That is the question that Gilbert Cette and Jacques Barthélémy answer here, in a report written at the request of the think tank Terra Nova. The authors, recognised experts in social legislation and in labour markets, argue in favour of conventional legislation based on collective bargaining, which offers better protection and is better suited to local contexts. Exploring an approach based on exception clauses — one that favours collective agreements over laws and regulations — they reveal the limitations as well as the full potential of such an approach, within a framework of reform.
This is a crucial issue for the economy and for society.
• A much awaited reform on a highly sensitive issue.
Gilbert Cette, Jacques Barthélémy
Reconstructing Social Law to Reform How the Labour Market Functions Publication date : September 9, 2015


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Classical pianist with a paralysed arm wins BBC Music Magazine Award
Tuesday 09 April 2013 17:01
Classical pianist Janina Fialkowska
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Just over a decade ago, acclaimed classical pianist Janina Fialkowska discovered a tumour that would leave her left arm paralysed.
After fears she would never play again, innovative surgery to take a muscle from her back allowed the 61-year old to rebuild her career. Yesterday she was in London to pick up an award for her latest album.
Ms Fialkowska, who has built a reputation as one of the leading Chopin interpreters in the world, told The Independent: "I am an extraordinary lucky person".
Yesterday, she was awarded best instrumental CD of 2012 at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for her disc Chopin Recital 2. Her one-time mentor Arthur Rubinstein called here a "born Chopin interpreter".
"I'm overwhelmed by the prize," she said. "I've devoted most of my professional life to the music of Chopin and it's nice to have my playing recognised in this way."
Ms Fialkowska, who is part Canadian, part Polish was "pushed into" playing the piano by her mother at the age of four "but I took to it right away."
She discovered the music of Polish composer Chopin at the age of 11. "I was so blown away at that age, my heart practically stopped. I couldn't believe anything could be so beautiful. I said, right, that's what I want to do." She added that the composer runs in Polish blood.
She has played with orchestras around the world including the Royal Philharmonic, The Scottish National Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
"This is a profession where one improves through years of experience," Ms Fialkowska said. "When you start it's all instinct and talent and athleticism. Then you dig deeper and deeper. The deeper you delve into it the more you find."
On the eve of a European tour in 2002, she discovered a large swelling on her left arm that became too big to ignore. Within 10 days later she was in one of the preeminent cancer centres in the US, and an MRI scan had confirmed the worst.
She said: "When I woke up and they said it was cancer and it would have to come out, I didn't ask about my lifespan, I asked about whether I could play the piano again."
Cancer of the arm was so rare that the centre had only seen 16 cases in its history. After the malignant mass was removed, her arm was left paralysed. Two months later, she underwent surgery to reconstruct it, using a muscle taken from her back.
While Ms Fialkowska had thought she would play again "the only difficult part was after the muscle transfer surgery I was not allowed to move my arm for two months. Then I thought: 'Did this surgery work?'."
While her arm remains handicapped, there is enough movement to play the piano. It took five months after the surgery to recover, and seven more to play a concert again. "I had to build up the muscle and teach it what to do. This was a muscle that had been sitting in my back not doing anything," she said.
While the slightly restricted movement has forced her to reduce the repertoire she plays – "there's some I won't touch particularly some Brahms and Liszt" – her style, she said, has actually improved.
"Now I have to give orders to my left hand, which is a result of the surgery I have to rethink all those pieces I played all my life. I'm finding all sorts of wonderful things because I have to concentrate on them. I hope it has brought a new element."
She is moving to Germany with her husband after 30 years in Connecticut and after an "insanely busy" six months she will scale back her touring.
The cancer returned three times, but after six years free of the disease Ms Fialkowska can plan long term again. "You stop thinking more than one day ahead. Six years free is when you start making plans," she said.
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St Peter's & All Saints' Churches, Nottingham
Two churches, one city-centre parish
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A warm welcome to the parish of St Peter and All Saints, in Nottingham city centre. Our churches offer worship which blends traditional styles with a modern approach to Christian belief, with services to suit a variety of tastes, many of which include choral music. We aim to uphold values which are inclusive of people from all backgrounds, based on a Christian faith which is open and non-judgemental, recognising the diversity of forms of Christian belief which exist today.
There is a busy programme of events, and many ways in which you can become involved. St Peter's church is open every weekday (apart from a few days after Christmas and Easter) and for Sunday services, and All Saints' is open on Tuesday and Sunday mornings. Both churches are in the centre of Nottingham and close to tram and bus routes; on street parking is available free of charge alongside All Saints' church, and there are public car parks near to St Peter's.
The churches of St Peter's and All Saints' lie within the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham and are part of the Church of England.
St Peter's Centre
St Peter's Gate
Nottingham NG1 2NW
Tuesday – Friday: 9am – 4pm
Raleigh Street
Nottingham NG7 4DP
Open during Sunday and weekday services and on Tuesdays 9.45am – 12.30 pm
Open Monday to Saturday 10am – 4pm
(and for Sunday services)
Please contact the Parish Office for details of any events or to get in touch with a member of staff.
All correspondence should be sent to the Parish Office (not to All Saints' or St Peter's).
The office is situated on the upper floor of the St Peter's Centre, on the south side of St Peter's Church and adjacent to Marks & Spencers.
If you wish to trace a former resident or member of the parish, please address your requests to the Nottinghamshire Archives.
For information on service times at All Saints' & St Peter's, please visit the Services page.
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Kenworth of South Florida – Riviera Beach Relocates To New $2.7 Million Facility
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla., January 31, 2019 - Kenworth of South Florida – Riviera Beach has relocated its parts and service dealership to a larger, newly constructed facility to enhance customer support.
Kenworth of South Florida – Riviera Beach
The $2.7 million facility features 12 service bays, 2-hour truck diagnosis through Kenworth PremierCare® ExpressLane, 700 square-foot visual parts department supported by a large, fully stocked parts warehouse with ample inventory, a comfortable driver's lounge, and 24-hour towing service availability.
The new dealership is located at 3720 Interstate Park Road South, across the street from its previous facility in the West Palm Beach area. It is less than a quarter mile southeast of Exit 76 on heavily traveled U.S. Interstate 95. The nearly 16,000 square-foot facility sits on 2.1 acres, providing truck drivers with plenty of parking.
"The new facility is substantially larger than the previous location, and will help drive our dedicated efforts to provide enhanced support and uptime to our customers," said Todd Hays, principal of Kenworth of South Florida, which also operates locations in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce and Naples.
Hours of operation are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. The phone number is 561-882-9775.
Kenworth of South Florida – Riviera Beach is part of the Kenworth dealer network of more than 410 locations in the United States and Canada.
Kenworth and its dealer network provide leading-edge customer support throughout the dealer network with the Kenworth PremierCare® and Kenworth PremierCare Gold Certified service programs. PremierCare Gold is a superior level of service that offers extended dealer operating hours and expedited expert diagnostics, among other services, that assist customers in maximizing uptime and overall vehicle performance.
Kenworth is The Driver's Truck™. See what drivers are saying at www.kenworth.com/drivers.
Kenworth Truck Company is the manufacturer of The World's Best® heavy and medium duty trucks. Kenworth's Internet home page is at www.kenworth.com. Kenworth is a PACCAR company.


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Bonito Caves: Cave Diving in Brazil
Did you say, "Bonito"? I had never heard of this place. A Brazilian diver I met in the Galapagos Islands referred to it as the capital of cave diving in Brazil, located south of the Pantanal wetlands in Mato Grosso do Sul—a state bordering Bolivia and Paraguay.
Lake Baikal: Technical Diving in the Deepest Lake on Earth
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake on the planet, with a volume of around 23,615 cubic kilometers of fresh drinking water. Each year, Lake Baikal is visited by many tourists, including recreational divers, underwater photographers and scientists who dive in the coastal waters of the lake. But when it comes to deep-water technical diving in Lake Baikal, few have heard of it, probably because these divers tend to be taciturn in nature.
Austrian Lakes: Grübl See & Grüner See
Marco Daturi
We were lucky to be some of the last few divers to enjoy the crystal clear waters of Grüner See before diving was banned in 2017. Photo by Marco Daturi.
Austria offers divine diving at high altitudes in freshwater lakes. Marco Daturi takes us to two beautiful lakes found in the mountains of Styria—one that continues to enthrall and one which has recently been closed for conservation and protection.
Austria's Traunsee: Mountain Lake Diving
Wolfgang Pölzer
While Traunsee is mostly known for its endless sloping rock faces, the deepest lake in Austria has much more to offer. Caves, archways, wrecks and fish-rich shallow waters make it an all-rounder as Wolfgang Pölzer explains in this introduction to one of his favorite haunts.
Florida Springs
Amanda Cotton
Florida has a secret—albeit not a very well-kept one: it is home to some of the most exquisite freshwater environments in the world. The vast network of springs and rivers located throughout the central and northern areas of the state offer bodies of water with unusual and colorful flora and fauna.
British Columbia: Diving Canada's Freshwater Interior
Although British Columbia's (BC) coastal area offers numerous shipwrecks, colorful walls and reefs full of life, there are also a considerable amount of freshwater lakes and rivers to explore within what is known as BC's Interior Region of Canada. Actually, you might be surprised at what you will find to do and see above and below the water.
Lake Malawi
Kaya Mawa lagoon, Lake Malawi
"I've heard of Malawi… Isn't that where Madonna adopted one of her babies from?" queried one of my clients before my departure for Africa. I winced, but at least she had heard of it. Up to that point, all responses to my intent of visiting the small African nation consisted of confused looks or furrowed brows.
Tea, Nitrox & Vodka: Diving Lake Baikal
Deep in the heart of Siberia lies one of the world's largest lakes and one of its seven underwater wonders.
Lake Baikal: Lessons Learned & A Thirst for Life
Gennady Misan
Not all technical dives end up successfully; unforeseen circumstances often make an elaborate dive plan go completely wrong. What will a person do when it's a question of life or death? Give it all up and submit, or fight until the end, trying to find the way out?
Diving the Delta: Botswana's Okavango River
Tony White
Carrying all we would need for the next five days, our expedition team travelled some 65 kilometres through shallow, meandering channels in small power boats. We eventually reached Jugu Juga, the small island which was to be our home for the next two days.
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♦ If we receive your item by mail within 61-90 days of purchase, or if your item was paid for with a Sephora gift card, online store credit or your PayPal account and we receive it by mail within 90 days of purchase, you will receive a full refund in the form of an online store credit for the item which may be redeemed at Sephora.com. For more information on how to redeem your store credit, please go to Customer Service on Sephora.com and click on Payment Methods.
♦ For Sephora.com products returned in store, rather than by mail, refunds are only provided if the product is returned within 60 days of purchase, and you will receive a full refund to your credit or debit card. If you paid with PayPal, you will receive a full refund in your choice of store credit or a gift card.
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In order to obtain a refund in the same form of payment as your purchase was made, Sephora in-store purchases and Sephora inside JCPenney purchases must be returned with a receipt or gift receipt at a store location. We do not accept mail returns for merchandise originally purchased at a retail location.
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Scientists use more powerful imaging techniques to visualize distributions of organic matter (aliphatic C-H) and minerals (sulfates and silicates) in ancient meteorite.
A team of Japanese and American scientists has visualized meteorite components at resolution powers much higher than ever before. Their efforts resulted in a much better look at -- and enhanced understanding of -- substances inside carbonaceous chondrites, the organic-containing meteorites that land on Earth. These substances include hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and water, all of which are needed for life.
Being able to visualize organic and inorganic components of meteorites that have landed on Earth is important because it enables researchers to understand the effects of external factors -- such as water and temperature -- on them. More specifically, a method that enables researchers to better see and analyze the molecular structures ultimately helps them understand the spatial relationships between organic matter and minerals. This is vital for tracing the formation as well as the evolution of organic matter and ultimately understand the history of the formation of the Solar System. Also, understanding the origin of meteorites is crucial for determining the origins of both water and life on the planet.
"Researchers have recently mostly conducted analysis for organic matter to see the distributions and associations with inorganic compounds that may help us understand chemistry such as mineral catalyzed synthesis of organic matter, during alteration processes in the meteorite parent asteroids and historic dust processes in the early Solar System. However, since the components of meteorites are very fine, microscopic techniques to analyze such distributions and associations are limited," says Yoko Kebukawa, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University in Japan and the corresponding author of the paper.
"The AFM-IR technique enabled us to overcome the limitation of poor spatial resolution of infrared spectroscopy to see the fine details of organic matter as it is distributed in meteorites and associations of minerals," Kebukawa adds.
In the future, the team plans to focus on the roles of minerals in the formations and evolution of organic matter in meteorites during external processes that affect the bodies they come from. According to Kebukawa, "This requires two things, namely analyses of meteorites that have been altered in several ways as well as proper experimental simulations of these alteration processes that will enable the aforementioned methods."
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Yokohama National University. "A better eyeshot of the makeup of ancient meteorites: Scientists use powerful imaging techniques for an improved view of meteorite components." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 February 2019. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190208085852.htm>.
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Tickets for West End transfer now on sale at the official Vaudeville Theatre web site. Official production website here.
Adam Penford, whose recent credits include A Small Family Business (National Theatre) and One Man, Two Guvnors (Revival Director for UK Tour, Broadway & West End) directs a stellar cast led by Olivier Award winner Mark Gatiss, whose credits include Three Days In the Country (National Theatre), Coriolanus (Donmar), and 55 Days (Hampstead); his TV credits include Sherlock, London Spy, Doctor Who and Coalition.


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Chicago Organization That Helps Students Of Color Explore Careers In Law Gets Boost Thanks To NBA Grant
"There's incredible underrepresentation throughout law firms and courts of people that reflect what our country actually looks like," said one nonprofit leader. The group's trainings aim to change that.
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JTB-APO students at the Supreme Court in July.
Courtesy of Just The Beginning - A Pipeline Organization's Facebook page.
CHICAGO — A Chicago nonprofit that helps Black and Brown youth pursue careers in law received a grant from the NBA Foundation last week.
Just The Beginning — A Pipeline Organization (JTB-APO) — provides free classes and other educational resources related to legal studies for students of color.
"There's incredible underrepresentation throughout law firms and courts of people that reflect what our country actually looks like," said Lori Malinski, the senior manager of development at JTB-APO.
This grant is among 22 awards totaling $6 million the NBA Foundation recently gave out, including $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club in Uptown.
Malisnki said the funding primarily will support the organization's general programming, all with the goal of increasing representation and access to law careers for people of color and low-income students.
Part of the money will also finance programs like the group's Summer Legal Institute and Summer Judicial Internship Diversity Project.
Malinski said her organization is hopeful they can have a lasting partnership with the NBA Foundation.
"One of the things that really fell in alignment with the team at the [NBA] Foundation was that they are interested in programs that provide future job opportunities and mentoring programs like, [JTB-APO]," Malinski said. "We're looking forward to a really solid relationship with them."
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Oxygen Gas Sensors in Aviation
By SST Sensing Limited
Oxygen gas sensors are widely used in aviation OBIGS safety systems to prevent combustion of fuel and vapors in the headspace of fuel tanks.
Particularly in aviation, oxygen gas sensors have an important and critical role as they are used to maintain oxygen levels at a level close to zero in order to eliminate the risk of explosion. Aviation remains one of the safest modes of transport because engineers take all precautions necessary to eliminate risks of mechanical failure such as fuel tank explosions.
Flight safety is one of the primary concerns for aircraft manufacturers. For many years, manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus, and their suppliers, have been researching effective ways to minimize the risk of explosions in the fuel tanks of all types of aircraft. This was achieved by introducing Onboard Inert Gas Generation Systems (OBIGGS).
SST's highly reliable oxygen gas sensors are at the heart of the control of the OBIGGS in all major commercial and civilian aircraft. This blog post will explore the use of oxygen gas sensors in the on-board inert gas generation systems.
What is an OBIGGS?
As mentioned above, an inerting system is used to reduce the likelihood of combustion in a fuel tank by limiting the presence of oxygen in the headspace of the container to below that of the fuel's combustion threshold. This is achieved by partitioning an air supply into nitrogen- and oxygen-enriched air based on molecular weight. The nitrogen-enriched air can then be circulated into the headspace of the fuel tank, which is continuously ventilated to mitigate the risk of fuel vapor flammability.
Military aircraft have been broadly equipped with inerting systems for decades, as the risk of combustion is significantly higher in combat situations. Commercial aircraft have made limited use of dynamic inerting systems due to the additional cost and weight requirements, but aircraft manufacturers are increasingly turning to high-resolution gas sensors to eliminate the risk of potentially catastrophic fuel tank combustion.
Gas Sensors for Inerting Systems
Zirconia dioxide oxygen sensors are central to OBIGGS technology developed by some of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world. These novel gas sensors are housed in high-strength, corrosion-resistant housings of stainless steel which enables installation in severe conditions. They can withstand the high-pressure of enormous altitudes and can resist chemical attack from hazardous vapors and fluids.
These gas sensors are used in the air separation module of the OBIGGS component, to ensure that incoming nitrogen-enriched air is suitable for maintaining a fuel tank oxygen content of below the combustion threshold of the fuel. This is typically in the region of 9 – 12%.
The flange pinned zirconia dioxide sensor from SST Sensing is suitable for OBIGGS application, with an extended temperature range of -100 – 400°C. This gas sensor is capable of measuring oxygen in degrees of 0.1 up to 100%. Both Boeing and Airbus have used our gas sensors to construct OBIGGS technology for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) consideration as a new standard for inerting systems.
Gas Sensors from SST Sensing
SST Sensing specializes in gas sensors for cutting-edge applications and severe conditions. Our zirconia dioxide oxygen sensors are pivotal to the performance of air separation modules in fuel tank inerting, ensuring safe conditions throughout transit.
If you would like any more information about our gas sensors, please do not hesitate to contact SST.
SST Sensing Limited
Our primary goal is to deliver the required sensing and control solutions to our customers which exactly meet their technical and commercial sensor requirements. This can be achieved through our standard range of sensors or providing customer specific sensor solutions. We have been designing and manufacturing fluid and gas sensing solutions for over 15 years. Where a specific solution is required, SST Sensing Ltd will identify the suitable technology and use this as a building block to provide a bespoke customer solution.
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