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Julius Perstaller (* 8. April 1989 in Innsbruck) ist ein österreichischer Fußballspieler.

Karriere

Verein
Perstaller begann seine Karriere im BNZ Tirol, dem Nachwuchszentrum des FC Wacker Tirol. 2006 kam er zum Kooperationsverein der Tiroler, der WSG Swarovski Wattens. Nach einer Rückkehr zu Wacker wurde er an den SV Hall in die Regionalliga West ausgeliehen.

Seinen ersten Bundesligaeinsatz hatte Julius Perstaller am 26. April 2008 gegen den FK Austria Wien, er wurde in der 47. Minute für Florian Mader eingewechselt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt stand der Abstieg der Tiroler in die Erste Liga bereits fest. In dieser Liga ist Perstaller Stammspieler. Mit dem FC Wacker Innsbruck wurde Perstaller in der Saison 2009/10 mit zwei Punkten Vorsprung auf den FC Admira Wacker Mödling Meister der zweitklassigen österreichischen Ersten Liga und stieg somit mit dem Team in die Bundesliga auf.

Nach insgesamt sechs Jahren in der ersten Mannschaft der Innsbrucker wechselte er im Sommer 2013 zur SV Ried.

Am 2. Juni 2015 gab die SV Ried bekannt, dass Perstaller ablösefrei zum deutschen Drittligisten Hansa Rostock wechseln wird. Dort konnte er sich aber nicht dauerhaft durchsetzen, woraufhin er im August 2016 seinen noch bis 2017 laufenden Vertrag auflöste und in die Regionalliga Südwest zur SV Elversberg wechselte.

Zur Saison 2019/20 kehrte er nach Österreich zurück und wechselte zum drittklassigen FC Zirl. Doch schon ein Jahr später zog es ihn weiter zum Ligarivalen SV Telfs.

Nationalmannschaft
Perstaller durchlief fast alle Altersklassen der österreichischen U-Auswahlen. Von 2009 bis 2010 spielte er auch in der U-21-Nationalmannschaft.

Erfolge
 1× Meister der zweitklassigen Ersten Liga: 10
 1× Young Star des Jahres 2010 – ADEG Erste Liga
 1× Saarlandpokalsieger: 2018

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Fußballspieler (WSG Tirol)
Fußballspieler (FC Wacker Innsbruck)
Fußballspieler (SV Hall)
Fußballspieler (SV Ried)
Fußballspieler (Hansa Rostock)
Fußballspieler (SV Elversberg)
Fußballspieler (FC Zirl)
Fußballspieler (SV Telfs)
Österreicher
Geboren 1989
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Daniel Cornwall is the Head of Technical and Imaging Services at the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums. From 1999 to 2007, he was responsible for the Alaska State Publications Program. For more about Daniel's professional life, please see his LinkedIn profile.
When not on duty, Daniel is often found at Free Government Information, writing his personal blog, or exploring the potential of Facebook.
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An unidentified drone has been spotted over a naval communications center near Paris. A police helicopter deployed to the scene failed to intercept the intruder which had been surveying the strategically sensitive site.
The small drone made a total of three flights over the Sainte-Assise command and control centre over the weekend in yet another occurrence in a series of similar drones incidents in France in recent weeks, Le Parisien reported.
The sensitive facility, guarded day and night, features very high antennas – some over 200 meters high – and a powerful transmitter that ensures communication with French submarines at sea.
Police said on Sunday, that only two of the drone's flights were recorded, prompting a police helicopter dispatch which failed to intercept the drone – or what may have been two lookalike drones.
The triangular grey machine, about a meter and a half wide, was first spotted on Saturday above the D 346 highway near Cesson-la-Foret flying towards the base. Then, the drone "flew over the center of Sainte-Assise three times," the anonymous Le Parisien source said.
Yet another source told Le Parisien that similar drone incidents had previously happened at the Sainte-Assise facility, claiming that one of the devices even crashed at the site.
Since last October at least 60 drone overflights have been recorded over sensitive sites in France such as nuclear power plants, or the city of Paris, according to the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.
In January, suspicious drones had reportedly been detected several times near the military site of de l'Île Longue, home port of four nuclear submarines. The aviation police (GTA) is now responsible for the investigation of the latest incident.
According to French police, a growing number of unidentified drones have been flying over the French capital in recent months. Small vehicles were previously spotted near the US embassy, on the same street as the French president's palace and the Eiffel Tower, to name a few.
In a separate incident on March 9, French police arrested a man and a woman, both aged 48, for flying an unmanned vehicle over the Palace of Versailles, Europe 1 radio reported. During police questioning the couple stated they only wanted to take photographs of the landmark palace at night. The drone was seized by police.
Earlier this month, police arrested four German journalists trying to launch a drone in the French capital. The incident came days after three Al Jazeera journalists were detained for allegedly flying an unmanned vehicle.


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The Icelandic Literary Prize (Icelandic: Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin), or Icelandic Literary Award, is an award which is given to three books each year by the Icelandic Publishers Association. The prize was founded on the association's centennial in 1989. One award is for fiction or poetry, one for children's books and one for academic and non-fiction works. Five books are nominated in each category, and the year's nominations are publicized in the beginning of December, but the prize itself is not awarded until January. Because the year's nominations come in the middle of the Christmas book flood, these books receive a great deal of marketing. Once the books have been nominated, the Icelandic Publishers Association appoints a selection committee which chooses the winners.

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for children's books

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for academic works

See also
 Icelandic literature
 Nordic Council's Literature Prize

References

External links
 List of nominees and winners, Icelandic Booksellers Association

Icelandic literary awards
Awards established in 1989
Fiction awards
Non-fiction literary awards

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I don't have much to say at the moment. I got a lot of catching up to do these following weeks.
Ah snap! Alex just got motherly pawned!
No but seriously though, stellar job on the layout of these panels to compliment the rather bulky text.
A salient point, all the more reason to enjoy the time they will have with her too!
Nice long page, works well!


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ABP Network unveils new logos for broadcast & digital platform
Posted in: News TV Channels
ABP Network today unveiled new logos for its broadcast and digital platform as part of the ongoing evolution of the network with ABP Live, ABP News, ABP Ganga, ABP Ananda, ABP Asmita, ABP Sanjha, and ABP Majha getting a new identity to better represent the fearlessness, dynamism, and thought-leadership of the channels in the industry.
The idea behind the change reflects on the potential of India's unremitting growth story. The new logos of the channels stand as a testimony to the network's relentless pursuit of truth beyond limits and serve as a symbol of the overarching vision of the network of creating an informed and open society. The reinvigoration aims to increase ABP's brand saliency but also exist as a long-term strategy and key-differentiator of the brand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JF8sGsBxKSk
"We are extremely excited to be initiating this change. The new logos of ABP Network's news channels & digital platform better capture the passion and purpose of the network. Our new identity is a direct representation of our vision of fearless news reporting and our limitless ability to inspire people, spark imaginations, and enlighten minds. Our new logos stand as a testimony to our relentless pursuit of truth beyond limits. The new arrow in our refreshed logos breaks free from relatively static framework, to make itself better suited for the fast-evolving media landscape."
Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network
The new identity will ensure a seas change in the complete sensory experience of the viewers. The complete rebranding including the new logo has been conceptualized by Saffron Brand Consultants. The word marks and taglines of new logos have been developed by Prof. Fiona Ross who has a long-outstanding relationship with ABP.
Topics: ABP Network
Sony MAX2 to premiere Satya this Friday at 7 PM
Tata Sky launches 'Tata Sky Malayalam Cinema'
Zee Network might be launching south news channels
Ashirwad will be replaced in slot of studio one plus

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Kidaptive, an education-gaming startup and one of the first five companies to go through the Zynga-New Schools accelerator Co.Lab, announced today that it has raised a $10.1 million Series B. Formation 8 led the round, backed up by Menlo Ventures and Stanford University's StartX accelerator. Kidaptive's first app, Leo's Pad, uses interactive stories to test kids' educational development, giving parents data about that growth to help keep them on track. The new funding will finance 25 animated episodes for Leo's Pad.
We've got good news, and we've got bad news.
A new exec with a past in social and mobile gaming.
The nonprofit partnership between Zynga.org and the NewSchools Venture Fund welcomes its first class.
And investment in those games is climbing back up, according to Digi-Capital.
Settle With Friends? Zynga and Bang With Friends End Trademark Dispute.
The two companies end their relationship amicably.
King Sues 6Waves for Alleged Game Copyright Infringement. Here's the Complaint.
No Dice: Zynga Decides to Abandon Real-Money Gaming Efforts in the U.S.
New Facebook-friendly SimCity makes city-building social; The Ville lets you design a virtual house.


Help! My Dog Barks & Lunges At Other Dogs!
This overview will help you better understand why your dog barks and lunges toward other dogs and what you can do about it. Since it isn't specific to your dog, consider taking our Reactive Dog Class (described at the end) or working privately with one of the trainers on our website's referral list.
This is Ace. He came to our Reactive Dog Class acting much like any other reactive dog: barking and lunging any time he saw another dog nearby. His mom wanted Ace to be able to calm down and focus on her instead of barking and lunging at the other dogs they saw on their neighborhood walks.
That's Ace, in a Down by his mom's side, while helper dog Mozart is just feet away.
He looked at Mozart, then back at his mom.
This is what success in Reactive Dog Class looks like. If you're local to Rockville, Maryland, we can help you achieve that. If you're visiting us from far, far, away (or not ready to sign up for class yet), read on for some tips on how to manage your dog's reactivity.
The first thing to recognize is that despite how it looks, nearly all reactivity is rooted in fear. When your dog acts aggressively, he is able to keep other dogs and their people away, and that's what he wants. Off-leash, a dog could run away. On-leash, a dog is trapped and acts aggressively to protect himself.
The second most frequent reason for reactivity is frustration. Some dogs pull and bark on-leash when they want to get to another dog to play. You will often see dogs frustrated behind a fence as well, when a dog can't get to what's on the other side. However, we tend to assign this reason to our dogs more often than we should. We prefer seeing our dog as wanting to play, instead of acting from fear.
We sell Freedom, Balance and SENSE-ible no-pull harnesses in our training center.
The easiest and most immediate help is to use management techniques. When you see another dog, even if your dog hasn't noticed, turn and go the other way, cross the street, or move behind a car. You get the idea. Don't wait until your dog starts reacting. You are trying to avoid the problem and prevent your dog from practicing the reactive behavior. The more your dog is able to bark and lunge, the more likely that he'll do it next time. After all, it does keep other dogs away.
A dog that walks directly toward another dog is considered rude, or even a threat, in the doggy world. However, we put our dogs in this position all the time by walking on sidewalks. Paths are just as narrow, and dogs (more often loose on paths) come right at your dog without room for you to get away. Try to find somewhere less crowded and more open – like outside an office complex or at a park. This will help both you and your dog feel less anxious and enjoy your walk more. Have fun on your walk, so that your dog is engaged with you, instead of what's happening out there. More on this later.
It's important that you act calm. If you're anxious, it goes right down the leash to your dog. Despite your instincts, don't hold your dog's leash too short. And please don't pull back on the leash; if you do, your dog will naturally pull forward. It helps to have a leash that won't slip through your hands (a leather leash, for example, instead of a nylon one) with knots tied every few feet; holding the leash stable against your body, instead of letting your arm flail around; and a no-pull harness to give you better control if your dog starts lunging. What you don't want to do, and this is a common response, is to make your dog sit and stay while the other dog is approaching. When you do that, your dog feels like a sitting duck with no escape.
If your dog starts to bark and lunge, you are too close and need to move back. When your dog is reacting, he isn't thinking. Don't expect him to listen to you. When your dog becomes comfortable at a given distance, you can try getting five feet closer. If you move too close too fast, you may see backsliding. Be patient. Since you will be using a lot of treats during this process, break the treats into tiny pea-size pieces. The rate at which you give your dog treats, not the size of the treat, is what matters. Feed your dog one tiny piece after another, and remember to reduce what you give him for meals.
Many people take their reactive dogs to dog parks or large daycare centers and believe that their dog loves to play and has no problems in these off-leash settings. However, when dogs become overly aroused, chemicals (adrenaline and cortisol) are released into their bloodstream. Those chemicals were once needed for survival, but now only serve to amp up our dogs. Dogs can go from arousal to aggression in an instant. Plus the chemicals released stay in a dog's system for a day or more, making aggression more likely.
At dog parks and larger daycares, you also have all sorts of dogs with different play styles (chasing, wrestling, body slamming, biting). Not all these styles are compatible. So you have dogs that are highly aroused and highly likely to annoy each other. And since there is rarely downtime for dogs to decompress in these situations, it's not surprising that fights break out. It is not uncommon for dogs that go to dog parks or large daycares to become more reactive elsewhere. The more often a dog is in a state of arousal, the less tolerance he has for the normal stresses of everyday life. Look at our dog park handout for alternatives that will both exercise your dog and provide mental stimulation.
This arousal and subsequent release of adrenaline and cortisol is repeated at other times – for example, when your dog barks at the mail carrier or runs the fence with your neighbor's dog. Remember that dogs bark because it works. You know that the mail carrier was going to move on anyway, but from your dog's point of view, the person left because he made a ruckus. And your dog's "fence fighting"? Your dog thinks that his running and barking at the fence kept your neighbor's dog on his own property. Plus, it's fun.
Try to prevent situations that increase your dog's arousal level. For dogs that bark at everything that moves outside the house, you can buy Decorative Arts window film at Home Depot or Lowe's that lets you, but not your dog, see out. If you know that there are certain times that your dog is aroused – when the postman comes, when the bus drops off kids after school, when your neighbor's dog goes for his daily walk – give your dog an interactive or chew toy to occupy him and put on music or a white noise machine.
A dog's behavior deteriorates under stress. So, if your dog reacts more on one day than another, it could be because he had to put up with more that day. Let's say that your dog barks at other dogs walking by the house all morning, and there's construction next door, your kids are louder than usual and one of their friends reaches over to pet him. Any or all of that can push your dog over the edge. So, be aware of what stresses your dog and try to help him. For example, if you walk past a dog that always seem to be outside barking, change your route.
Remember that your dog is not being reactive to show dominance or to spite you. He doesn't like being fearful and stressed any more than you like the resulting "bad" behavior. Your dog's reactivity and overall well-being can improve, but it can't happen without your help.
Here are some ideas to help you and your dog relax more on walks. Be sure to use them frequently, not just when you see another dog. Otherwise, you are signaling that there's a dog up ahead. The more unpredictable you are, the more your dog will focus on you, instead of scanning ahead for what's out there.
The easiest thing to do is, of course, to avoid other dogs. Remember – Don't wait for your dog to react. Go in another direction as soon as you see a dog ahead.
Practice saying "run away" in a happy voice and running with your dog in another direction. If you get stuck, your dog will recognize this cue as a fun game that will, incidentally, get him away from the dog ahead. If your dog doesn't follow you in the beginning, throw treats in that direction. This is probably the easiest method to use, but there are more options below.
There are times when you need to "get out of Dodge." When you are walking and suddenly encounter something that is way too stimulating for your dog, you need to turn the opposite direction and your dog needs to go with you… quickly. Walk your hands up your leash (without pulling) toward your dog. When you get to your dog's shoulder, turn into your dog with your legs and hip to help turn him around. If your dog is on your right, you turn into him on your right. If your dog is on your left, you turn into him on your left. Talk the entire time you are turning him around. It helps to bend your knees (with a small dog, it's crucial).
Dogs need a reason to come to you! You can get your dog's attention by using your phrase, saying your dog's name, or making an unusual noise. When your dog looks back at you, run backwards while still facing your dog. This looks like a fun game to your dog, but you're able to watch your dog and see what's happening up ahead. You'll know when it's safe to continue your walk. If you have taught your dog to target ("touch"), this is a perfect time to play a quick targeting game.
There are times when you can't turn around, but there is room to maneuver. Spare your dog the indignity of being challenged. Learn to walk on an arc away from the other dog, as though you are walking in the shape of a banana.
In our Reactive Dog Class, we work on five aspects of on-leash dog-on-dog aggression. Use these as a blueprint for how you can work with your own dog.
It's not easy living with a reactive dog. It may even be embarrassing. But you clearly love your dog and want the best for him. Remember that your dog doesn't like this behavior either. He is trying the best way he knows how to cope. So, whatever your dog has been through in the past, your dog is lucky to have you now. After all, you are looking for help.
"Help! My Dog is Reactive" with veterinary behaviorist, Dr. Leslie Sinn. Video on YouTube or FaceBook.
"Handling Your Reactive Dogs" with Online Reactive Dog Class instructors, Sarah Stoycos and Marnie Montgomery. Video on YouTube or FaceBook.
This material is not intended to be a substitute for professional help when dealing with dogs with intense or potentially dangerous behavior issues . Consider consulting a positive reinforcement trainer or animal behaviorist for situations that you feel are dangerous or that you don't feel equipped to handle. A list of recommended trainers and behaviorists can be found on our website, www.yourdogsfriend.info.


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Harish Raj is an Indian actor and director based in Kannada cinema. He made his acting debut in the television serial Hosa Chiguru Hale Beru in 1996 and his debut in feature films was with Doni Saagali in 1998. After featuring in a string of films and serials, Raj moved into film direction with Kalaakaar (2009). He also acted in several Malayalam and Tamil films  and Hindi television serials. He also performed in television commercials.

He is best known as an actor in critically acclaimed films such as Dweepa, Koormavatara, Thaayi Saheba, and Kaanuru Heggadathi.

Personal life
Harish Raj was born and raised in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He completed his M.A in English from Karnataka State Open University. He married a Lingayat, Shruthi Lokesh in 2014, and together they have two daughters.

Filmography

Kannada films

Other language films

TV serials

Participated in Bigg Boss Kannada (season 7) as contestant.

References

External links

Male actors from Bangalore
Living people
Male actors in Kannada cinema
Indian male film actors
Kannada film directors
Indian male television actors
21st-century Indian male actors
Film directors from Bangalore
21st-century Indian film directors
Male actors in Kannada television
Male actors in Hindi television
Male actors in Tamil cinema
Male actors in Malayalam cinema
Year of birth missing (living people)


Zac Omega Bars Review and GIVEAWAY!!!
In fact, when I was younger, if I didn't eat breakfast in the first 15 minutes after waking up, I would actually be physically sick. Thankfully I outgrew that quirk, but I can't really go more than an hour without needing to fuel up.
And I'm a busy lady in the morning. It's when I get the majority of my blog post writing done, and it's also when I grade papers for the college class I teach. There's not much time for putting together anything fancy (and by fancy, all I really mean is hot, or not from a box).
Isn't in unfortunate, therefore, that I don't like breakfast bars? You guys, I have tried them so many times. If it is on the shelf at the supermarket, the odds are good that I have purchased it at least once in the hopes that I might like that particular brand or flavor.
I never have. Mostly because I find them to be much too dry.
But today I'm featuring Zac Omega bars. I'm not going to tell you that they are the best food on earth and that I'm trading in my beloved cereal for them. But I am here to tell you that of all the breakfast bars I've ever tried, they are my favorites. That's the truth!
Zac Omega bars have all natural ingredients, and cut out the high-fructose corn syrup and preservatives (but that means you should refrigerate them and not hold on to them forever!). What you'll find in their ingredient lists are things you recognize…you might even have them in your own kitchen!
These bars make the very top of the list for me because they taste fresh and moist. I'd still prefer something even more moist, but I'm starting to realize that if it is much more moist than these, then it should probably be called cake, and that's not exactly breakfast.
Zac Omega bars also have something unique that makes them ideal for children who are exercising their minds at school: each bar has 1400 mg of ALA Omega 3 Fatty Acids, which are essential for brain development!
Zac Omega bars come in a great variety of flavors (Marionberry Cobbler being my personal favorite). Each bar is 2.5 oz. They also carry Zac Attack bars, which are 1.5 oz, making them a perfect snack for kids! They can be purchased online in various quantities for right around $1.75 each. Larger boxes do offer significant price breaks, so consider going in with a friend and getting excellent breakfast or school lunch snacks for a great price!
Win it!: One lucky Stuff Parents Need reader will win a case of 30 Zac Omega bars. Yum! The contest will run until August 12th at 11:59pm EST when a winner will be selected via Random.org. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to winning notification before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is selected. Open to residents of the United States. Limit one entrant per household, please.
Tell me which flavorZac Omega bar would be eaten first in your house!
Be sure to enter my other current giveaways, found on the sidebar of my blog.
Disclosure: I received complimentary products for review purposes. The opinions expressed here are strictly my own.
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Liked Zac bars on facebook!
Marrion berry cobbler for us!
Marrionberry bars would be the first to go FOR SURE!
The peanut butter and strawberry jam would go first in our house. It sound so delish!
The first flavor to go in my house would be the peanut butter and strawberry jam one! yum!
I like Zak Bars on Facebook user Lisa Garner.
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I'd eat the Marrionberry Cobbler flavor first…great giveaway, thanks!
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I am guessing the Honey Oat Strawberry will go well in my home!
peanut butter and strawberry jam!
The honey apple pie sounds great!
I like you on FB, andisueks.
The peanut butter and strawberry jam I believe would be eaten first!
honey oat apple!!!! omg yummified!!!!
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The Honey Oat Raspberry would be gone within hours of receiving the package!
I like Zac Bars on Facebook.
The Peanut Butter Strawberry Jam would disappear!
I'm an Oregonian so I have to go with the Marrionberry Cobbler!
They all sound so good but I think the honey oat strawberry would be a huge hit in our house!
Strawberry — thanks for the chance to win.
The Honey Oat Strawberry, thanks!
Honey Oat Strawberry for me (actually the marionnberry but you mentioned it first).
I like Stuff Parents Need on facebook as Alison Faith Tolar.
I like Zac Bars on facebook as Alison Faith Tolar.
The peanut butter and strawberry jam flavor would be most likely to get eaten up first at my house.
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I think the Honey Oat Raspberry sounds best.
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I like Zac Bars on facebook!
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I like Zac Bars on FB!
I think the honey oat raspberry!
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Like you on FB as well.
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pb & strawberry jelly- yum!
Love to try the peanut butter and strawberry jam!!
My kids would gobble up the Marrionberry Cobbler flavor!
I'm a facebook fan of Zac Omega Bars under username Jennie Tilson.
I'm a facebook fan of Stuff Parents Need under username Jennie Tilson.
We'd eat the Peanut Butter & Strawberry Jam bar first.
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I like Zac Bars on Facebook (FB name: Maddie Brubaker).
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The PB and Strawberry Jam would be eaten first in our house.
Peanut butter and strawberry jam would be eaten first.
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The Honey Oat Strawberry would be eaten first.
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I think we'd eat the Honey Oat Raspberry flavour first. Sounds yummy.
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Honey Oat Apple Pie looks like a winner!
My kids' would go for the peanut butter & strawberry jam first for sure!
I think the Peanut Butter & Strawberry Jam would be gobbled up first!
Honey oat and strawberry sounds very yummy!
The Marrionberry Cobbler would go first here.
Peanut butter and strawberry jam.
The Honey Oat Strawberry sounds like a winner in my house!
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Liked Zac Bars on Facebook.
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Q: How can I disable code folding in vim with vim-latex? I have tried the usual approaches, and have read :help tex.vim
(see : http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html )
I've taken a brief look at syntax/tex.vim, but can't see how to disable it without rebuilding vim without folding. I'm sick of hitting 'zE'.
Lines I've tried in my .vimrc:
set foldlevel=manual
set foldlevelstart=99
let g:tex_fold_enabled=0

A: Just noticed that there are variables to control folding in vim-latex-suite, at least as of v1.6 of the plugin.  The functionality is documented here:
  http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/documentation/latex-suite.html#latex-folding
In short you should be able to change three global variables to get rid of all folding:
 :let Tex_FoldedSections=""
 :let Tex_FoldedEnvironments=""
 :let Tex_FoldedMisc=""

That should get rid of all folding.  If you want to disable some folding but not all then you can control things by setting the appropriate values for each variable, as described in the documentation link above.  Hope that helps.

A: What about
autocmd Filetype tex setlocal nofoldenable

A: The folding functionality all seems to located in folding.vim file of latex-suite distribution.  This file is referenced in line 825 of my main.vim file in the latex-suite folder of the ftplugin folder.  That line reads:
exe 'source '.fnameescape(s:path.'/folding.vim')

Comment out that line and, as far as I can tell, it strips out all the folding in latex-suite plugin.  I don't think it affects anything else, but I haven't checked.

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November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, from a sniper, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
The theory of forensic historian Patrick Nolan, whose book CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys asserts four high-level agents planned the shooting and three fired four shots in Dallas that day.
One theory asserts that the Mob was angry with efforts by brother Robert Kennedy, who served as Attorney General during the Kennedy administration, to crack down on organized crime. Another involves a theory that the Mafia was working with anti-Castro exile groups that were trying to take down JFK.
People knew Kennedy as a great president but, the motive behind his criticism, wasn't found fond by any of the oppositions. The C.I.A. was the prime opposition, they felt he was rogue.


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Aside September 14, 2020 June 30, 2022 abn397 Gujrat, Hyderabad (Deccan), Hyderabad (Sind), Place names in India, Place names in Pakistan, Sheikhupura, Station signs in India, Station signs in Pakistan Gujrat, Hyderabad (Deccan), Hyderabad (Sind), Indian station signs, Pakistani station signs, Place names in India, Place names in Pakistan, Sheikhupura
The two Hyderabads are well known:
Older timetables mention these as Hyderabad (Deccan) and Hyderabad (Sind). I could not find pictures of these older signs.
Then there is Gujarat state in India and this place in Pakistan's Punjab:
Sheikhpura in Bihar and in Pakistan's Punjab:
Here the one in Pakistan is more important, as it has held Test matches.
You should also know that this is where Shakepeare is from. Do not believe the Tamilians who say he was Seshappa Iyer.
Kartarpur in India's Punjab and Pakistan's Punjab:
The latter one is the one which is more famous now.
Kutch district in India and Babar Kachh in Baluchistan:
Now the outskirts of Delhi and the outskirts of Lahore:
At the end, we have Ziro in Arunachal and Zero Point in Sind. The latter has been renamed Marvi more recently.
Afterthought: Gadra Road station on the way to Munabao used to serve Gadra town in Sind about 15 km away across the border.


UPS, the Teamsters' largest single nationwide contract, is going out to vote as we go to press. This five-year agreement is the most lucrative offer ever negotiated, providing a $4.15 wage increase, with another $5.00 an hour to fund our superior health benefits and grow our pension. The tentative offer also includes new protections on harassment, safety, and forced overtime.
With the advent of significant competition from non-union package delivery companies and owner-operators using the Uber model, this agreement creates a new entry level job classification called Combination Driver. Much of the work to be performed by this new classification was formerly done by part-time Utility or Cover Drivers with part-time benefits. This change will allow for seven day a week delivery, while protecting the Monday through Friday work week for our current drivers and adding overtime protection. This is not a traditional two-tier system; these new jobs will top out in the first year at more than $31/hour with full time benefits and the rights to bid into the top tier package, clerk and feeder positions. These new combo jobs will be limited to 25% of the workforce; as the Company grows so will the top-paying package jobs.
Our NorCal Negotiating Committee did a great job negotiating the supplemental language in our Nor Cal Supplement and Rider, protecting our current full-time package work, with work rules protections for these new combo drivers.
This tentative agreement comes with the full recommendation of the International, the Northern California Negotiating Committee, and the Joint Council Executive Board. All agree it will keep UPS competitive to grow our membership while protecting the integrity of our very strong current agreement. Unfortunately, some in our union are using this agreement for their own political gain. A "vote no" movement tied to the next IBT national election was created even before the negotiations got underway. I find it funny that they were holding vote no demonstrations when they had no idea what they were voting no on.
The ballots should be counted the week of October 8.
As you know, this has been a terrible year for forest fires in Northern California. In my Local, the Carr Fire claimed eight members' homes, with many evacuated for days, and even weeks. The Joint Council provided immediate assistance, delivering more than 30,000 bottles of water for distribution to workers and victims of the fire. Another truckload of water was donated and delivered for the Mendocino Complex Fire. In addition, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Disaster Relief Fund made a generous donation to the victims who lost homes. As I write this article, several new major fires are burning in our jurisdiction. Joint Council 7 stands ready and willing to provide additional assistance.
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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1683 Marriage of Andrew Phillips and Sarah Smith in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay
It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1683 marriage entry for Andrew Phillips and Sarah Smith in the Charlestown, Massachusetts town records book:
The birth entry is the second item from the bottom of the right-hand page:
The transcription of this record is:
"\Andrew Phillips & Sarah Smith of Malden, joyned
in covenant of Marriage before Samuel Nowell Esq'r
Assist'd the 11'th of Novemb'r 1683"
The source citation for this record is:
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1620-1988," database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 July 2013), Charlestown > Archives Births Marriages Deaths > 1629-1800, Marriages, page 381 (image 250 of 385), Andrew Phillips and Sarah Smith entry, 11 November 1683.
This is an entry in a copy of an original town record book for Lynn, Massachusetts. It is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of this marriage.
Andrew Phillips (1661-1717) was born in 1661 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (--?--) Phillips of Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay. He married Sarah Smith on 11 November 1683 in Charlestown. Sarah Smith (1661-????) was the daughter of Michael and Jane (--?--) Smith of Malden, Massachusetts Bay.
Andrew and Sarah (Smith) Phillips are my 7th great-grandparents through their son Ebenezer Phillips (1695-1746 who married Mary Smith (1698-1746) in about 1717 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay.
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It has been reported by Hotpress' website that that Belfast-born guitarist Gary Moore died his sleep last night while on holiday in Spain.
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Moore began his career in Skid Row when he was 16. He later joined Thin Lizzy before going on to have a successful solo career, playing with many well-respected artists such as Ginger Baker and BB King. He was 58.
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The Gary Moore story started on East Bread Street, in the hulking shadow of the ropeworks in east Belfast. In time, he would play with Thin Lizzy and Skid Row, a friend of George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Ozzy Osbourne. He was a virtuoso guitarist in that he could play extremely fast and send those fingers roaring along the frets. But Gary was not just a speed merchant. His ear was tuned to Irish traditional music, he made a reputation in jazz-fusion and metal, even experimenting with hip hop. The music industry prefers an artist that will stay with one genre, but Gary was loyal to his own impulses, occasionally a feature in the sales charts but always happily engaged with his art.
In 1963, he saw The Beatles playing at the Ritz in Belfast and soon became a feature in the nearby Maritime Hotel, active at 13 years old with The Beat Boys. The son of a ballroom manager, he was born into showbusiness, playing covers such as Alma Cogan's 'Sugar In The Morning'. After a stint with The Method, he was installed in Dublin, where Skid Row was taking shape. Phil Lynott was on his way out but Brush Shiels would steer the three piece to America, managed by Fleetwood Mac's handler, Clifford Davis. Gary was mentored by the Fleetwood guitarist Peter Green, who even gave Moore his white Les Paul guitar. The gesture was later returned when Gary composed a song called 'Blues For Greeny'.
He made several appearances with Thin Lizzy, replacing Eric Bell in 1974 and recording the track 'Little Darlin', plus an early version of the live showstopper 'Still In Love With You'. He was touring with the band on a 1977 US tour with Queen and in 1979 he featured on the 'Black Rose' album, rocking hard and throwing 'The Mason's Apron' and 'Danny Boy' into the heroically overdone 'Roisin Dubh'.


When Horizon Power first built the Mungullah Power Station it committed to incorporating renewable energy into the station. The Carnarvon Energy Storage Trial is the first step in meeting that commitment and is expected to give Horizon Power more information about how it can better support renewable energy installed in Carnarvon, while exploring the benefits of large-scale battery storage in an operating microgrid.
Since mid-2017, Horizon Power has been conducting the cutting-edge trial into the benefits of battery storage to explore ways of meeting energy demand at a lower cost.
Laurie Curro, General Manager Power System Services, Horizon Power, said that the outcomes of the trial will help Horizon Power determine how to optimise the utilisation of battery technology to further its microgrid capabilities.
"The trial involves the integration of two large-scale battery systems which can discharge up to one megawatt of power each at the Mungullah Power Station in Carnarvon. The batteries can store energy and release it instantaneously to provide support for the islanded power station when needed," Mr Curro said.
Modelling carried out by Horizon Power indicates that the batteries have the potential of delivering fuel and maintenance savings in the vicinity of $400,000 per annum; costs that would otherwise be used to provide spinning reserve by traditional means.
The batteries were provided by Chinese company, Tianjin Lishen Battery Joint-Stock Company Limited (Lishen), which won an open tender in October 2016. The batteries arrived in Carnarvon from China in March 2017, and after undergoing commissioning and testing on-site at the Mungullah Power Station, moved into the one year trial period in September 2017.
The trial is testing the capability of the battery units to rapidly provide energy in the event of a spike in demand or one of the generators at the power station stops running.
"The batteries have the ability to store a large amount of energy (equivalent to one of our largest machines running for an hour) that can be called on to support the power station in less than 200 milli-seconds – typically this support is achieved by running another generator," Mr Curro said.
The trial means Horizon Power has access to the latest large-scale battery technology and offers the opportunity to build experience and knowledge by using this equipment within an operating microgrid.
"The trial will enable Horizon Power to determine how a particular technology can be incorporated into Horizon Power's operating, protection and communications systems, and is expected to provide valuable operating experience for Horizon Power personnel as battery storage reduces in cost and becomes an integral part of Horizon Power's future systems," Mr Curro said.
With the trial well underway, Mr Curro said that the main challenge to date has been ensuring accurate communications between all the various control systems at the power station.
"It has been very challenging to make sure the battery receives the right signals at the right time as this informs it how it needs to respond. If you get this wrong then the battery doesn't quite know what to do which can be problematic.
Valuable lessons have already been learnt as the trial moves into its final stage.
"The design of the battery systems need to consider longer term maintenance activities as well as performance. If we had our time again, we would make sure the enclosures were more operator friendly with better access for undertaking maintenance like battery cell replacements which will happen from time to time," Mr Curro said.
As the battery systems are connected to islanded microgrids, they need to be able to withstand harsh environmental conditions and respond quickly to network faults, which means the housing of the batteries and integration of the control system are very important.
The chemical makeup of the battery cells plays an important part in their preferred operating conditions, as does the ability to regulate the temperature around the cells – typically batteries don't like to get too hot.
Horizon Power has been using battery technology in its control systems for many years but the use of large-scale batteries for bulk storage and high energy discharge to support the power system is new to the utility.
Mr Curro said that Horizon Power will be applying the results of the trial to future projects and initiatives to better support the installation of renewables within its network.
"While we have already deployed smaller storage systems using different technology in several of our remote systems previously (Yungongorra – solar smoothing batteries, Marble Bar, Nullagine – spinning flywheel) our next large-scale battery system will be deployed in Onslow later this year. Following that, we have a plan for each of our systems to adopt new technology as it becomes economical.


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Currently Ariana co-resides in Ithaca and New York City where she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Juilliard under the tutelage of Robert Mann. In December 2015, she released her debut solo album, Routes of Evanescence: Music for Solo Violin & Violin + 1 by American Women Composers. She recently spent seven months living and working in Italy where projects included solo recital tours, private teaching and lecture presentations, period opera performances with Milano Classica, and a capstone project involving art, architecture, music, and humanitarianism with the non-profit refugee cooperative, Cooperativa Selene.


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It was war without beginning or end. It was a time of transactions and weapon systems. It was the enemy was a product of the war itself. It was the polyphony of surveillance devices. It was the cross-hatched sightlines. It was continuous recording. It was the silver trailer centers of chain-link labyrinths in the desert. It was the systems that mapped the future and the algorithmic patterns of deviant behavior. It was a duplicate world. It was the vaporization of targets. It was the drone operators who stepped outside for a cigarette, the situation of the sun and arrangements of clouds relative to the honeycomb cracked surface of the land. It was the late night driving through mosaics of radio shatter, advertisements and sporting events, the names of the disappeared and other faraway places. It was every nowhere.
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Gloria Garfunkel, May 21, 2013
Horrific devastation told with total detachment of machines. Very well done. *
James Claffey, May 21, 2013
good stuff.*
Sam Rasnake, May 21, 2013
The only thing to fear realized. Wonderful writing. Very close to perfect.
"It was every nowhere."
Jake Barnes, May 21, 2013
And you had to go and remind me.... Fav
Kenny Mooney, May 21, 2013
Nice use of rhythm here, I like the swing and feel of the piece. Great tone and devastating in its own way. Good work.
Matthew Robinson, May 21, 2013
This worked very well for me. Good piece, SHK.
Gary Hardaway, May 21, 2013
present future perfect
Chris Okum, May 21, 2013
Nice one, Stephen.
stephen hastings-king, May 21, 2013
thanks for having a look. i'm pleased that the piece works for you. i wasn't entirely sure about pulling it out of the sequence from which it comes. so yay!
Ann Bogle, May 22, 2013
I would like to echo Sam's and Gloria's and the others' comments. Precise brief. *
Frankie Saxx, May 22, 2013
like. I do think this stands alone well. "It was the enemy was a product" - little awkward for me.
cont: not sure if it is intended or editorial artifact.
otherwise, perfect. drone operators and their casual cigarettes...
Gita M. Smith, May 22, 2013
all of the above. "It was the polyphony of surveillance devices. It was the cross-hatched sightlines."
sound and sight perfectly described.
Gary V. Powell, May 23, 2013
How it feels, man.*
John Riley, May 23, 2013
Great piece full of intelligence. *
Foster Trecost, May 23, 2013
Love it all but especially the last line. This is great writing, Stephen *
Thanks very much for the reads and lovely comments. Much appreciated. I'm pleased that the piece resonates for you.
Frankie: I kept the sentence that caught you as it is deliberately. It seems to me one that should trip you up a little. I had considered putting quotation marks around the enemy was a product of the war itself to make the scanning easier, but decided against it.
Bill Yarrow, May 24, 2013
"It was the late night driving through mosaics of radio shatter"
Marcus Speh, May 28, 2013
Made me think of Dürrenmatt's The Winter War in Tibet which also goes on forever an epic war. Different style, time, continent but the spirit carries.
Beate Sigriddaughter, May 30, 2013
goodness. *
Steven Gowin, May 31, 2013
I thought I'd commented on this but had not.
"It was the systems that mapped the future and the algorithmic patterns of deviant behavior."
hey...thanks very much for the reads and comments.
any association with durrenmatt is quite flattering. so thanks for that as well.


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Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions (9-7 SU, 8-8 ATS) have had a fine 2016 season in winning nine games to reach the playoffs. However, the Lions struggled down the stretch and hit the playoffs desperately looking to get back to playing winning football. Thanks to the expert online betting analysis that you're about to get, you're going to have a great idea of just what to expect out of the Lions this postseason. Let's get started.
Despite their late-season swoon, there are a handful of great reasons to bet on the Detroit Lions this postseason, starting with the improved play this season of quarterback Matthew Stafford. Detroit's strong-armed signal-caller passed for a stellar 4,327 yards this season to help the Lions finish the regular season ranked 11th in passing (256.9 ypg). The Lions also have talent at the skill positions in the form of wide receiver Golden Tate and veteran wideout Anquan Boldin (8 TDs). Another good reason to bet on the Lions this postseason is the team's solid, if not overwhelming, defense. Detroit finished the regular season ranked a respectable 13th in points allowed (22.4 ppg), but that's about where the good news ends for Detroit as they get set for their playoff opener.
There are probably more good reasons to bet against the Lions this postseason than to bet on them. Detroit finished the regular season ranked a modest 20th in scoring (21.6 ppg) and had major problems running the ball, finishing 30th in rushing at just 81.9 yards per game. Detroit was also mediocre in finishing 19th against the pass (248.4 ypg) and 18th against the run (106.3 ypg). The Lions also don't have any stud defensive players that are capable of changing the outcome of a game and have a head coach in Jim Caldwell that I don't think is quite as good as his NFC counterparts, except New York's Ben McAdoo. Last but not least, the Lions have put together a slew of discouraging ATS trends that make them an attractive team to bet against this postseason. Detroit has gone 2-5 ATS in their last seven road games and a winless 0-4 ATS in their last four games overall. In addition to that, Detroit has given up a whopping 73 points in their last two games and is just 3-8 ATS in their last 11 road games against a team with a winning home record.


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Bret Stephens: Gail, we both need to spend December recovering from the dramas and traumas of 2020, so this will be our last conversation until 2021. Looking back on the year so far, do you feel more optimistic, or less, than you did when it began?
Gail Collins: Well gee, Bret. Any year in which we get rid of Donald Trump certainly can't be all bad. It's hard to get past the coronavirus pall, but I'm gonna pin my hopes on a vaccine program that brings things under control by the time warm weather returns. And the new administration is in full swing.
Bret: In January I predicted that Trump would win re-election. I've never been so glad to be proved wrong. I also feel pretty good about the team Joe Biden is putting together. Janet Yellen isn't going to blow up the economy. Antony Blinken isn't going to blow up the free world. Alejandro Mayorkas isn't going to put kids in cages. All this promises to make 2021 better than 2020 purely by default.
Gail: Default works for me.
Bret: On the other hand, there's a lot that worries me, too. The fact that so many rank-and-file Republicans refuse to accept that Trump lost fair-and-square is a very bad sign about the sanity — or lack thereof — of the party. The possibility that Trump is going to skip the inauguration so that he can announce his next run for president is another bad sign for and about the party's future. Together, they augur for the QAnonization of the G.O.P., which is just awful news for a democracy with a two-party system.
Gail: You know, I was just talking with a friend about the olden days when Republicans were all about balancing the budget and the popular banner of anti-Communism. (Back then, anybody who wanted to raise taxes could get a "commie" categorization just for proposing the idea.) The Democrats were divided between the old New Deal standard-bearers and younger folks who mostly rallied around the civil rights and antiwar movements.
But the big heroes in Washington were still senators who could make bipartisan deals and keep things moving.
Then the social right wing — particularly the anti-abortion forces — came up to the front. And the big money people realized they lost nothing financial by making an alliance. Everything is about taking a stand and nothing is about getting stuff done.
Bret: Maybe my biggest worry, though, is that we're living in a country where the Dow just hit 30,000 at the same time that people are waiting in line for hours at food banks. That's a recipe for potentially catastrophic social friction.
Gail: Couldn't agree more. How about a great new White House agenda focused on raising taxes on the rich and redistributing the money to the poor? I believe I remember hearing someone talk about that — Joe Somebody?
Bret: We agree on the problem but maybe not the solution. The rich will always figure out how to avoid taxes, if not evade them, whether it means setting up complex trusts to protect their wealth or moving to some offshore tax haven. Just look at the Trump family. The people who really get walloped by high taxes are upper-middle class types who don't have exit options but aren't exactly the malefactors of great wealth.
Gail: Yeah, although the upper-middle class still needs to accept that they get a lot of stuff from government and they need to help pay the bill. But the people with genius tax lawyers are the biggest problem, and if you want to join hands and take on Charles Koch, I am with you.
Bret: But we need to at least think harder about why we tax capital gains at a much lower rate than we tax income. Or why we have an interest-rate regime that punishes savers. Or why some ridiculously burdensome licensing requirements at the state level prevent would-be entrepreneurs from starting small businesses like cosmetology salons.
Gail: Bret, we are going to go into the new year with so many shared goals, and fights about means to the end. Love it.
Bret: We also need to think about why we are burdening college students with mountainous debt in exchange for increasingly useless college degrees. B.A. now stands for Bankruptcy by Arts. The best thing that could happen educationally is an investment in community colleges that enhances their value, rigor and prestige.
Gail: I agree, let the Biden administration focus on how to make community colleges work, occasionally reminding Republicans that should have been one of their goals if the Trump years had actually been about upward mobility for the lower-middle class.
Bret: One of the worst aspects of Trump's presidency is the way he simply consumed all of our mental bandwidth, so that it became all but impossible to think of anyone or anything else. Experiencing his presidency was like a bad reaction to dog dander. Or a painfully long bout of hiccups. Or trying to swat away a determined mosquito as it buzzes your ear as you are drifting off to sleep. Or a 6 a.m. car alarm that won't stop. Or a case of poison ivy in some delicate part of the anatomy.
Gail: OK, now I am reliving everything and feeling very uncomfortable.
Bret: And it has gone on for five long years, ever since he came down that blasted escalator. I sometimes fear the Trump administration has reduced us, emotionally and intellectually, to a single thought, played like a Gregorian chant on an endless loop: Just. Make. It. Stop.
Now, all of a sudden, we're being reminded that we have real problems, like rising inequality, collapsing social mobility and the mounting financial burden one generation is placing on the next.
Gail: The whole higher ed situation needs rethinking. Just want to make sure it doesn't come down to rewarding schools with the least academic rigor and the most cut-rate diplomas.
Bret: I can't tell if you are referring to DeVry University or Wesleyan and Yale.
Gail: Hehehe. Look, this is just one of the multitudinous things we've avoided thinking about for the last four years because there were other more pressing issues. You can't have a heartfelt discussion about animal husbandry when there's a dinosaur at the door.
Bret: Ha!
Gail: Biden's higher education plan would make community college free for up to two years. For those who want to go further he'd make public colleges tuition free for most students and liberate many of the poor kids who were lured into signing up for an ungodly amount of debt.
What's your verdict?
Bret: I have no problem making college more affordable, but I'm generally against making things free on the view that people rarely value, or stick with, what they don't pay for.
Gail: Well, I value sunny skies and chirping birds.
Bret: Touché.
Gail: The part of funding for higher education that's worried me most has been the for-profit schools, which the Trump administration allowed to really run amok, encouraging vulnerable kids — and adults — to enroll in very expensive programs that leave them drowning in debt.
Bret: I know very little about for-profit schooling, Gail, and I'll gladly defer to your judgment. But people are also swimming in debts from attending traditional not-for-profit schools, where tuition increases outpaced inflation and the quality of education can leave a lot to be desired.
I guess what I'm really thinking about is breaking the current educational mold. For starters, we'd all be better off if college took three years, as it does in England, not four.
Gail: Just so we can end 2020 on a positive note, I'm prepared to agree to slice off senior year.
Bret: Or freshman year! I'm not sure it's ever a good idea for students to go directly from high school to college, and a gap year that entails some form of service would do everyone a lot of good.
Giant companies like Boeing or Microsoft might be encouraged to start tuition-free apprenticeship schools, loosely on the model of West Point, so they can address their perennial skills shortage while offering successful graduates guaranteed five-year jobs in technical fields.
Gail: In a perfect world I'd be with you on national service. But the idea of requiring it hasn't always been popular among the young people it would affect.
Bret: Anyway, the point here is just to think fresh. After four years of Trump, discussing these things feels a bit like seeing the sun and hearing those chirping birds you were just talking about for the first time in years.
Gail: Bret, I'm off on vacation now, but when I get back in January we'll still have time to bid the Trump presidency a few more not-so-fond farewells.
Happy new year in advance. Already looking forward to battling through the age of Biden with you.
Bret: Deal. See you in '21.
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Keith Wright joined the Millennium Water Alliance as Executive Director in 2018. Mr. Wright brings a track record of global leadership, innovation, and collaboration to the challenge of global WASH access. Mr. Wright is a global executive leader with more than 25 years of strategic and operational leadership of complex humanitarian and business enterprises in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His experience includes serving as president of Food for the Hungry, Inc, filling national and regional operational leadership roles in Africa, launching an innovative business to accelerate business solutions to poverty, and governance leadership in one of East Africa's leading financial institutions. He earned a M.Sc. degree in economic development from Eastern University and a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Mary Washington.
John D. Sparks, Director of Advocacy and Communications
John D. Sparks joined MWA in 2010 as the organization's first Director of Advocacy and Communications. Mr. Sparks has more than 25 years of experience in Washington and New York in lobbying, coalition building, policy development, media relations, and nonprofit executive leadership. Prior to MWA, he was Director of Campaign Finance Reform at the public interest group Common Cause, 2008-2009, and previously was Vice President for Government and Public Affairs at the American Symphony Orchestra League for nine years. Previous assignments include two for-profit public affairs firms in Washington DC, two national advocacy coalitions in the nonprofit sector, press secretary for two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and professional positions in several Congressional campaigns and Presidential campaigns. Some of them were even successful.
Laura R. Brunson, Program Director
Laura R. Brunson joined MWA in 2017 to serve as the Program Director. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Brunson's research focused on fluoride and arsenic removal in emerging regions and was partially funded through graduate fellowships obtained at different times from the NSF and the EPA. She has a business degree, taught Social Entrepreneurship, examined business models for water implementation, and has worked in both the private and non-profit sectors. Prior to working for MWA, Dr. Brunson was a Director in the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma and served as a consultant for Emory University on water implementation in Rwanda.
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Peter Gichuru joined Millennium Water Alliance as a Senior Accountant in December 2010.Prior to this position, Mr. Gichuru was the Corporate Financial Grants Manager for World Relief Corporation, an international nonprofit organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining World Relief, Mr. Gichuru worked for fifteen years in the United Nations World Food Program Kenya office as an accountant. Born and raised in Kenya, he holds an MBA in accounting from Washington International University.
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Allan Elvir joined Millennium Water Alliance in April 2011. He has 15+ years of professional experience in the legal field working for the public and private sector. Some of his previous professional experiences are working as a Clerk for the Supreme Court of Honduras, Corporate Associate for the Central American law firm Lexincorp and Commercial Counselor for the Embassy of Honduras in Washington D.C. Elvir has a law degree from the National University of Honduras, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Business from American University- Washington College of Law. Elvir is a licensed attorney in Honduras and also in the State of New York.
Tedla Mulatu Temesgen, Ethiopia Program Director
Tedla Mulatu Temesgen joined MWA in January 2018 as Ethiopia Program Director. Mr. Mulatu is a multidisciplinary development professional with 17 years of experience in business development, donor management, technical assistance, and program development. Prior to MWA, he worked in various senior level positions for Amref Health Africa, Voluntary Service Overseas, and Generation Integrated Rural Development Consultant. He holds a Global Executive MBA from United States International University, a M.A. degree in Educational Research and Evaluation from Addis Ababa University (AAU), an International Postgraduate Diploma in project management from Cambridge International College, UK, and a B.A. degree in Sociology and Social Administration from AAU.
Mussie Tezazu, MWA-Ethiopia CQI and MEL Manager
Mussie Tezazu joined MWA in March 2015 as a Continuous Quality Improvement and Monitoring & Evaluation Manager. He received his B.A. in Planning and Management and his M.A. in Social Work and Social Development from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He has more than fifteen years of experience in strategic planning, executing WASH, and sustainable development program management. From 2009 -2015, Mr. Tezazu worked at the Catholic Relief Service in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he served as the Program Officer for Monitoring and Evaluation, and Water, Sanitation, and Communication. In this position, he specialized in WASH communication, project design and management, proposal development, and community managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR).
Yisehak Leta Guttema, MWA-Ethiopia Grants Manager
Yisehak Leta Guttema was born in Nekemte, in western Ethiopia. As a child from farming family, he worked in many areas of agriculture, including growing coffee and raising cattle and other livestock. Mr. Guttema earned a degree in biology at Kotebee collage of teachers education in July 1990, and taught in public Secondary School. He also earned a BA in accounting at Addis Ababa University in July 1999. He has worked at Ethiopian Assurance Corporation as junior auditor, and at CARE Ethiopia for nearly 11 years in different positions, such as Project Accountant, Area Finance Head, Senior Internal Auditor, Audit Officer, and Grant, Contract and Budget Specialist. He came to MWA-EP as the Grant, Contract and Budget Manager in July 2014.
Doris Kaberia, MWA-KP Director and Chief of Party, Kenya RAPID Program
Doris Kaberia joined MWA in February 2013 as the Director of the Kenya programs. She now works as the Chief of Party for the Kenya RAPID Program. Ms. Kaberia has more than 15 years of experience in food security and livelihood program management and administration, sustainable community development, grant writing/fundraising, and program monitoring and evaluation. Ms. Kaberia is also an expert in pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood programming in drought-prone Horn of Africa. She has experience in programs funded by USAID, OFDA, SDC, ECHO, DANIDA, EC, USAID and DFID. She received her undergraduate degree from Egerton University in Kenya, and a Master's degree in Natural Resources Management from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.
Kenneth Owuocha, Deputy Chief of Party, Kenya RAPID
Before joining Millennium Water Alliance in June 2016, Kenneth Owuocha was a Senior Economist with the Athi Water Services Board, where he directed utilities reforms, performance and change management, strategy formulation, development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and project design, as well as the management of partner-financed development projects. Development partners included the World Bank, African Development Bank, Agence Francaisse Development, European Union, KfW (formerly KfW Bankengruppe, Germany), and the Government of Kenya. Mr. Owuocha is a Kenyan national with 15 years professional experience, and is a member of the Institute of Economic Affairs-Kenya. He graduated with Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from the University of Nairobi.
Violet Moenga, MWA-KP Finance and Administration Manager
Violet Moenga joined MWA in August 2005 as the finance manager for the first USAID-funded program in Kenya. She previously worked for World Vision Kenya, and is now the Finance and Administration Manager for MWA Kenya. She is a certified public accountant. Ms. Moenga received her undergraduate degree from Kenyatta University and her accounting degree from Strathmore University.
Job Kitetu, WASH Adviser, Kenya RAPID Program
Before joining MWA Kenya in October 2015, Job Kitetu worked as the Associate Director of WASH at World Vision Kenya, and a Field coordinator at CRS. He has over 20 years of experience in management, programming, fundraising, donor liaison, humanitarian emergency assistance, and use of renewable energy in water and construction. He is an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Lead Expert, a member of the Environmental Institute of Kenya, a member of the Institution of Engineering Technologists of Kenya, and a registered Professional Technology Engineer. He is a solar photovoltaic Systems Installation Expert, skilled in appropriate water technologies. Mr. Kitetu holds an MSc. Degree in Engineering and Disaster Management and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Renewable Energy Engineering at Kenyatta University.
Elizabeth Nduku Kasyoka, Office Assistant
Elizabeth Nduku Kasyoka is responsible for front office services for the MWA Kenya office. She joined the organization in January 2016. Ms. Nduku has more than 11 years' experience in front office management, housekeeping, and messenger services. Ms. Nduku previously worked at Food for the Hungry Kenya as an office assistant.
Beatrice Akinyi Otieno, Agriculture and Nutrition Adviser, Kenya RAPID Program
Beatrice Akinyi Otieno joined MWA Kenya in December 2016. Previously, she worked for AMREF, ACF-USA, and Save the Children International, where she managed multisectoral nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific programs in partnership with other non-governmental agencies and State Departments both at County and National levels. She has more than 11 years of experience working in both development and humanitarian contexts in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan with interests in project design, management, monitoring, evaluation, documentation, partnership and awards management, and donor liaison. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Health and a BSC in Nutrition from Kenyatta University. She is a member of the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute.
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Boniface Mwendia Thiga joined MWA Kenya as a Driver in November 2015. He has over 10 years of experience in motor vehicle mechanics and professional/defensive driving. He also has interests in logistics management. Mr. Thiga holds a certificate in motor vehicles mechanics from Rift Valley Institute of Mechanical Engineering. He previously worked for Put Sarajevo Engineering Company and, most recently, CARE Kenya, where he worked as Program Driver.
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Research ArticleCellular and Molecular
Indirect Sympatholytic Actions at β-Adrenoceptors Account for the Ocular Hypotensive Actions of Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists
Brian D. Hudson, Meggie Beazley, Anna-Maria Szczesniak, Alex Straiker and Melanie E. M. Kelly
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics December 2011, 339 (3) 757-767; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.111.185769
Brian D. Hudson
Meggie Beazley
Anna-Maria Szczesniak
Alex Straiker
Melanie E. M. Kelly
Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the primary risk factor for glaucoma, a blinding eye disease. Cannabinoid agonists have long been known to decrease IOP, suggesting they may be useful in glaucoma treatment. However, the specific mechanism by which cannabinoids generate this ocular hypotensive effect remains unknown. The current evidence suggests the cannabinoids reduce IOP through actions at cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptors within the eye, and adrenergic receptors (ARs) may also contribute to this action of cannabinoids. Considering this, the present study aimed to elucidate the mechanism behind the ocular hypotensive properties of cannabinoids through the use of mice genetically lacking either cannabinoid receptors or βARs. Cannabinoid agonists, βAR antagonists, and βAR agonists decreased IOP in wild-type mice and CB2(−/−) mice. In contrast, none of these compounds were found to reduce IOP in βAR(−/−) or CB1(−/−) mice. Desensitization of the βARs and depletion of catecholamines in wild-type mice also eliminated the ability of the cannabinoid agonist (R)-(+)-[2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-3-(4-morpholinylmethyl)pyrrolo[1,2,3-de]-1,4-benzoxazin-6-yl]-1-naphthalenylmethanone mesylate (WIN 55,212-2) to reduce IOP, strongly implicating a role for both βARs and catecholamines in the ocular hypotensive properties of cannabinoids. Finally, CB1 receptors were shown to colocalize with tyrosine hydroxylase, a marker for adrenergic neurons. Taken together, these findings suggest that βARs are required for the ocular hypotensive properties of cannabinoids, and cannabinoids reduce IOP by acting as indirect sympatholytics and inhibiting norepinephrine release within the eye.
This work was supported by studentships from the Killam Trusts and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (to B.D.H.); and a Canadian Institutes of Health operating grant (to M.E.M.K.).
intraocular pressure
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tyrosine hydroxylase
isoprenaline [1-(3′,4′-dihydroxyphenyl)-2-isopropylaminoethanol hydrochloride, N-isopropyl-dl-noradrenaline]
WIN 55,212-2 [(R)-(+)-[2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-3-(4-morpholinylmethyl)pyrrolo[1,2,3-de]-1,4-benzoxazin-6-yl]-1-naphthalenylmethanone mesylate]
CP 55,940 [(1R,3R,4R)-3-[2-hydroxy-4-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)phenyl]-4-(3-hydroxypropyl)cyclohexan-1-ol]
1-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-5-(4-iodophenyl)-4-methyl-N-4-morpholinyl-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxamide
6-iodo-2-methyl-1-[2-(4-morpholinyl)ethyl]-1H-indol-3-yl(4-methoxyphenyl)methanone
N-(2-chloroethyl)-5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenamide.
Received July 5, 2011.
Accepted August 22, 2011.
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Switzerland Signs New DTA Protocols
Switzerland has signed protocols to its double taxation agreements (DTAs) with Norway and Albania.
The protocol to Switzerland's DTA with Norway was signed in Oslo on September 4, 2015. It introduces an arbitration clause that is in line with the Model Tax Convention drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and is in accordance with Switzerland's current policy on tax agreements.
In 2009, Switzerland and Norway agreed a most favored nation clause that would be triggered in the event that Norway agreed to an arbitration clause with another jurisdiction. The September 2015 protocol implements this clause. At Norway's request, the article on the exchange of information has also been updated.
The protocol to Switzerland's DTA with Albania was signed on September 9, 2015. It introduces an administrative assistance clause in line with the international standard for the exchange of information upon request. It also provides for the inclusion of an arbitration clause, to ensure that double taxation is avoided.
A future developments clause on the taxation of royalties will mean that Switzerland benefits if Albania enters into more favorable agreements with countries in the European Union or European Economic Area. An anti-abuse provision will preclude the DTA's use by persons who are not entitled to its benefits.
Both protocols must be approved by the countries' respective parliaments before they can enter into force.
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