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{"text": "David Henry Hwang\nThis person doesn’t appear to have a biography yet. Why not add one?\nPlays authored\nPast productions\n- Book Adaptation, Flower Drum Song\nTools\nPhotographs\nIf you have a photograph of this person, please sign in to upload it, or add it to Flickr and tag it with ."}

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{"text": "A very commonly reminded Sunnah to women by their husbands is the permission to marry more than one woman. Here are some of other relevant but very often forgotten and neglected Sunnahs:\n1. It’s sunnah to marry older woman.\n2. It’s sunnah to marry a divorcee.\n3. It’s sunnah to marry a widow.\n4. It’s sunnah to help women in household chores i.e. cooking, cleaning, washing etc..\n5. It’s sunnah to put food with your hand in your wife's mouth as an expression of love. (graded as a form of charity)\n6. It’s sunnah to verbally express love, appreciation and respect to your wife.\n7. It’s sunnah to forgive her mistakes.\n8. It’s sunnah to keep yourself looking pleasant for your wife.\n9. It’s sunnah to try to know the feelings of your wife and console her when she needs it.\n10. It's sunnah to be playful with your wife and spend quality time having fun together. (racing, story-telling, sharing happy occassions with her are some well-known examples)\n11. It's sunnah to recline and relax in your wife's lap.\n12. It's sunnah to call your wife with beautiful names.\n13. It's sunnah to not disclose her private matters to other family members or friends.\n14. It's sunnah to love and respect her parents"}

{"text": "Human Prion Disease Blood Test Has 100% Accuracy\nNew methods for detecting even latent variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) have been developed. The breakthrough could make blood transfusions safer and help early detection and treatment of the disease, according to researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston..\nSenior author Claudio Soto, M.D., professor in the Department of Neurology and the director of the George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s disease and Related Brain Disorders at UTHealth, said:\n“Our findings, which need to be confirmed in further studies, suggest that our method of detection could be useful for the noninvasive diagnosis of this disease in pre-symptomatic individuals..”\nSilent Killer.\nClaudio Soto, Ph.D., is in his lab at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston. Credit: Alex Luster with The Storyhive.\nA second study at University of Montpellier in France backs up the evidence. Researchers there tested a similar technique on 18 individuals with vCJD and 238 without. In both, the tests were 100 percent sensitive.\nTop Image: Luis Concha-Marambio"}

{"text": "How to Sell Clothes Online\nIt’s important to select the right marketplace and set the stage for your photos.\nSelling your clothes online can be an easy way to make some extra cash — if you have buyers. Before putting that Coach bag or J. Crew dress up for sale, read these tips to help you get the most money for your goods.\n1. Know your marketplace\nThere are more than a dozen websites where you can sell your clothing, including Craigslist and garage sale groups on Facebook, as well as consignment sites such as Poshmark, ThredUP and TheRealReal.\nEach site caters to a slightly different market. The RealReal, for example, specializes in luxury merchandise — think Prada, Gucci, Chanel and Burberry. ThredUP, on the other hand, takes everything from Old Navy to Kate Spade New York.\nCertain brands perform better than others, says Samantha Blumenthal, a ThredUP spokesperson. “Old Navy is really popular on [our] site, but you’re not going to get that much back for it, to be honest,” she says. But Lululemon and Nike “fly off the digital shelf,” and for a good price.\nMake money and leave the rest to us\nNerdWallet tracks your spending, recurring bills and more.\n2. Freshen up your merchandise\nStained and wrinkled clothing doesn’t sell well, so wash or dry clean your items before putting them on the market. Polish hardware on shoes and handbags and buff away any scuff marks.\n“Treat it like you’re giving these items to your best friend,” Jacob says. “You would want her to receive it in the best condition possible.”\nAlso, be mindful when you package your items. Fold clothing neatly and keep leather purses clear of stiletto heels, which could easily damage the bag in shipping, she says.\n3. Take clear photos\nHigh-quality pictures help your items stand out in a sea of dimly lit iPhone snapshots. But you don’t need a photography studio to move your merchandise. You just need to turn up the lights.\nPull quote: “High-quality pictures help your items stand out in a sea of dimly lit iPhone snapshots.”\n“Lay your piece of clothing down on a flat, plain surface and point a few extra lamps at various angles to remove any shadows or dullness,” says Phil Azzi, a web developer who also started an online store that sells bracelets, scarves and other accessories. Don’t have a plain surface? A solid-colored bedspread or blanket will work in a pinch.\nSome consignment sites will take the photos and write the descriptions for you; all you need to do is send in your items. Such sites often also handle pricing, though, so you have less say in how much your items are worth.\n4. Write an honest description\nTell prospective buyers everything they need to know about the item you’re selling. Give basic details on size, brand and condition, as well as more nuanced details. Does a pair of jeans sit low on the hips? Is the fabric heavy or stretchy? List those details in your product description.\nWell-loved items likely have a scuff or scratch. Presenting any defects upfront will preserve your reputation and seller rating, which are everything in some consignment circles.\n5. Price clothes to sell\nConsignment shoppers are looking for a deal, so try to give them one, says Karis Renee, who has sold clothes, jewelry and accessories on Poshmark for five years.\nA little competitive research will help you find the sweet spot — not too high, not too low — when pricing your merchandise. “I do a quick Google search to see if I can find it for sale online,” she says. “If it’s still at a store, there is no point in someone purchasing it from me for the same price.”\nIf your merchandise doesn’t move, try dropping the price. Renee suggests reducing an item $5 for every month it doesn’t sell.\nNot ready to mark down your item? Revamp your photo and description."}

{"text": "RDL\nThis is a one legged Romanian Dead Lift, also known as a stiff legged deadlift (modified version). This exercise is used to work the glutes and is great if squats hurt your back. Also, it helps with imbalances because you’re on one leg, so each leg has to work.\n*PLEASE don’t do any of these exercises unless you consult a doctor or trainer. I’m just giving you a taste of what I do. There is much more to come that is much more golf specific."}

{"text": "Location: Kyushu. This wreck contains 2x Wakizashi, and a Tanto Turret.\nCenter right of sector B4\nYou need to be a member in order to leave a comment\nAlready have an account? Sign in here.Sign In Now\nSign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!Register a new account"}

{"text": "Yet from this contentiousness has emerged a country that somehow manages both to function and to reform itself on a regular basis better than just about any other - and I do not mean that in any shallow jingoistic way but rather as a close student of history. Our polarized factions - and take your pick from any era of U.S. history, be it federalists vs. states' rightsers, or slavers vs free staters, or Populists vs. mainstream parties, or are modern right wingers vs. left wingers - seem to function in an almost dialectical manner, keeping our politics in a perpetually uncomfortable state of imbalance that somehow works.\nWhile it has always been a favorite pastime of every party and faction to accuse its rivals of a lack of patriotism (as defined of course within the narrow confines of one's own beliefs), the objective fact remains that the country has been well-served by a wide variety of its citizens of every political and religious stripe. As JFK observed in his speech to the Houston convention of ministers in 1960 asserting that his Catholicism did not cast a shadow over his patriotism and should not disqualify his presidential candidacy, \"Nobody asked my brother Joe about his religion when he boarded the bomber that exploded and killed him; nobody asked for my religious affiliation when I took command of a PT boat.\"\nThat's why I often wonder what Irving Berlin and Woody Guthrie might have had to say to each other had they ever sat down and discussed their respective compositions, \"God Bless America\" and \"This Land Is Your Land.\" As most people know, Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant (as a child) who achieved likely the longest-running successful career of any American songwriter, and his \"God Bless America\" was his fervent anthem both of love for his adopted country and a proud statement that patriotism was not limited to the native born.\nMost also know that Guthrie, populist/socialist./radical rabble rouser, took exception to what he saw as the shallow and superficial banality and essential falseness of Berlin's song and penned \"This Land\" as an angry leftist retort. Where Berlin's song is, like \"America The Beautiful,\" a prayer - as in may God bless America - for continuing guidance toward a millennial perfection, Guthrie's piece, especially with the now usually omitted verses, was a cry for reform, for a land that did not belong implicitly to the shadowy image of an elite but rather to The Common Man. The verses not often sung today are here:?\nIronically, perhaps, neither composer seemed to see that there respective songs were two sides of the same coin, essentially making the same assertion, albeit with different emphases.\nBoth songs, of course, are crown jewels in our country's catalog of patriotic songs.\nAnd that is why this week's videos of Woody's masterwork are all from absolute musical heavyweights. Here is Woody's own recording, an exquisite piece of simplicity and understatement::\nHere is the KT version from Goin' Places, still my favorite for its stately, unrushed, majestic rhythm and pacing - and I love the way Dave's voice breaks at the end:\nFor many, the PP&M version was the first one that they heard, and that trio did a fine, sincere uptempo reading of the song on (I believe) their first album [4/12/09] - original recording of PP&M was removed for CopyVio - so many years later, here's the group in Japan in 1990]:\nJohnny Cash could turn any song into classic rockabilly, as he does here with the Guthrie tune:\nFinally - while I wasn't a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen's \"Seeger Sessions\" interpretations of folk songs - he has always had a way with \"This Land,\" and the Boss's version from his 1985 \"Born In The USA\" tour is I think his best and one of the best I've ever heard:\nAnd an update here on 1/19/09 - yesterday on the National Mall in the concert celebrating the imminent inauguration of Barack Obama - Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, and Pete's grandson Tao Rodriguez perform a stirring version - using all of the verses:\nIn whatever version one prefers, I have always felt that this is the quintessential American modern folk song. It doesn't matter how much of cliche it may have seemed to become - it is American idealism at its purest and simplest, whatever patriot is singing it, of whatever political persuasion.\nAnd further...May 1, 2013 I discovered this video recently; it was uploaded to YouTube six months after this article first appeared. From 1976, an assemblage of folk royalty - former Weavers Pete Seeger and Fred Hellerman, Woody Guthrie's son Arlo, now an elder statesman of folk music, Judy Collins (who turns 74 today) with an introduction by the irrepressible writer, scholar, and gadfly Studs Terkel, singing all the verses that WG retained in his final version of the song.\n2 comments:\nGod Bless you for putting all this together, that the rest of us might continue to learn about and appreciate what an amazingly beautiful country we live in, and how rich is our musical heritage. Profound and sincere thanks, and Happy Holidays! With love and respect from an American (of North America! ;-), I am, Scott Andersen MacKenzie\nAnd Happy Holidays back to you Scott - with thanks for comments so supportive! I've put this blog together mainly for family and friends (from a Kingston Trio message board on which I post videos and commentary on songs on a weekly basis) and I'm delighted when they're found by other folks on the internet. Thanks again!\n- Jim Moran"}

{"text": "The husband of my midwife friend works for pest control. His work mate keeps bees as a hobby, and gets a regular supply as they are not allowed to kill bees, so when ever they are called to a honey bee infestation he collects them up and takes them to his apiary.\nLast week the two of them got a call out to a large warehouse with a bee problem, so they donned their bee suits and went over. When I say bee suits, they weren’t in black and yellow stripes gear by the way; just the white all-in-ones and hats, thought it would have been funnier if they went in costume.\nHowever, leaving that aside, they collected a huge swam and the beekeeper filled up his bee box almost to bursting with sleepy bees. He drove off in his car, with my friend’s husband following behind in his. Both men were still wearing their white bee suits, but both removed their bee hats and slung them casually on their passenger seats.\nAs they got up to speed on the motorway, the beekeeper’s car hit a minor bump, jolting the bee box in the back. The lid of the bee box, improperly fastened in haste, flew open and gradually more and more bees began seeping from the box. The bee-keeper, now travelling at 60 mph, was suddenly aware that he had passengers in the back, and saw at once his only option was to quickly put on his bee keeper hat and mask.\nMy friend’s husband glanced over and saw the beekeeper now travelling at 60 mph, wearing a full facemask, with a huge swarm of bees loose in his car. They moved off the motorway in convoy, my friend’s husband watching with delight as all the other motorists and, when the beekeeper pulled up opposite a bus stop, a huge crowd of people realized that there was a man taking his swarm for a nice drive in the country.\nWe were speculating as to what would happen if he had been pulled over by the police - can you be done for threatening and officer of the law with some bees?\n‘Can you wind down the window please sir?’\n‘Really … you’re sure about that?’"}

{"text": "What has the power to cross borders, speak several languages, learn new skills, make friends and connect different generations? Play.\nSkipping, hula hoops, crab walking and snacks brought more than 50 children, parents, volunteers and staff together to explore how play and sport can build a sense of belonging and connection for newcomer children and their families. The Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA)’s weekly homework club teamed up with the International Institute for Child Rights and Development to co-host a workshop and community dinner on February 28, 2018.\n“This was a special family day because we’re working with IICRD’s Child Thrive program. Together, we are getting the kids to move, play and talk about what it means to stay active,” says Gita John-Iyam, ICA’s Family and Youth Services Coordinator.\nDuring the workshop, newcomer elementary-school aged children from different countries explored how their favourite sports/games help them to have fun, make friends and learn new skills. The children especially enjoyed a ‘travelling opinion’ activity. Children were invited to move (run, hop, crawl) to their share their perspective (Agree, Neutral, Disagree) on statements such as ‘sports are for people of all ages’ and ‘sports help me to clear my mind’. This activity was also used in a participatory action research project led by IICRD on the use of sports/play to promote child well-being for displaced young people. Key lessons from this project, co-led by IICRD’s Laura Lee and many international partners, were also shared with parents such as the important role that adults have in supporting play among children of various ages.\n“We tried to be creative in using movement, games and props while also ‘digging into the content’ to explore the children’s own ideas about the characteristics and benefits of play,” says IICRD’s Elaina Mack. “ICA’s volunteers, many of whom are youth newcomers themselves, were incredibly supportive to help us to engage a large group of about 30 children with different ages, backgrounds and interests.”\nWhile there were certainly lots of ideas for improvement, many children, parents, volunteers and staff shared how much they much they enjoyed the inter-generational format for learning, playing and eating together. Further opportunities may be explored for further collaboration, such as sessions to deepen knowledge and awareness about child rights for newcomer Canadians.\n“It was a safe, warm and fun place for my whole family. Thank you.” – Parent Participant\n***\nThe Intercultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) provides transition, settlement and outreach services to help create and support a welcoming community for newcomer children and their families. ICA first collaborated with IICRD more than 20 years ago through Children Enabling Change, a community development initiative to better serve the needs of people with disabilities living in multi-cultural communities. The International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) strives to bring dignity, belonging and justice for all children in Canada and in more than 40 countries around the world."}

{"text": "WASHINGTON — Four former Housing and Urban Development department officials made more than $5 million in profit from three housing projects that they renovated with HUD subsidies after investing only $61,000 in cash, a General Accounting Office staff member testified Wednesday.\nJohn M. Ols Jr., a housing specialist for the GAO, cited the $5.7 million in pretax earnings by the \"Winn group\" of former HUD officials as an example of \"excessive\" profits made by prominent Republican real estate developers from government programs intended to benefit low income tenants.\nThe testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which is intensifying its investigation of abuses at HUD in recent years, shed new light on benefits received by Republican developers from the housing agency's controversial programs. A parallel inquiry by a House Government Operations subcommittee has focused on large fees earned by Republican consultants on certain projects.\n\"In previous hearings we've identified the rats and now we're looking at the cheese that attracted them,\" said Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who presided at the hearing."}

{"text": "Smothered Boneless Pork RibsFrom Cook's Country | October/November 2013\nWhy this recipe works:\nCountry-style ribs are meaty but tender; quick browning and 15 minutes of braising are all the cooking they need. We use the fond from browning them to flavor the sauce.\nServes 4 to 6\nServe with egg noodles or mashed potatoes."}

{"text": "Medieval Cosplay Day\nSunday, April 14, 2013\n12pm – 8pm\nJ: Many questions have been asked down throughout the years, century after century, driving men’s minds, spanning a millenia. Eternal questions like the daring “does a Scotsman wear anything under his kilt?” or the more thoughtful “Why does fluff appear in my navel?” are raised.\nI wonder if Henry VIII asked himself that last question. But one that always puzzled me was “Can a LARPer (Live Action Role Player) party?”\nAnd at the event, held at Victoria’s Brickyard Pizza, Ed and I discovered yes, yes they can.\nE: I should warn that anyone standing near them or just hanging out in the tight space at the rear of the shop to be ready to duck or swerve out of the way, especially when those medieval foot soldiers are drunk. In the group that showed up early, they were partying it up at 2 pm. But with a few errands for me to do in town, James and I took a bit of a break, We returned to find the group getting louder around 5:30 pm when the anticipation of food was looming near.\nI could smell the delights of roast piglet coming from … a pizza oven?\nJ: Our co-hosts Bill Code and Jeremy Sinclair knew how to top everyone up not only with beer but with sweet smelling food. Medieval food to be precise. And what knight, barbarian, monk, Robin Hood and … Roman soldier could march (or steal from the rich) without a meal of roast suckling pig.\nBut pig wasn’t the only food being served. The boisterous boys and very lovely ladies ate their fill with fat plump chicken and turkey legs, vegetable kebabs and every peasant’s favourite: bread.\nAnd for $15 per ticket it was cheap. I would’ve paid double the price.\nE: But where’s the mead? Well, not even Medieval Times, a big time operation that boasts entertainment (knights fighting and jousting) along with a meal, offers it. But I expect mead in this type of event!\nJ: Just to keep Ed happy I looked into this and sadly there wasn’t enough suppliers of the good stuff for this event.\nMedieval Chaos, whose members made up about 40 of the 50 guests, do have a member who makes mead but that’s still not enough to wet everyone’s whistle.\nEd would just have to satisfy himself with unlimited amounts of soda. Since he was the designated driver it would be his task to watch others enjoy their drinks and sing diddies written by Medieval Chaos’ resident bard.\nE: I was mildly reminded of an old game I used to play on the Commodore 64, The Bard’s Tale, and wondered when the adventure would begin. Sitting around, drinking it up, sharing warrior’s tales is one thing, but to go slay orcs and skeleton warriors in a danky cave was another. I liked the fact that Brickyard Pizza had the digs to pull off the look of being in a dungeon.\nIf the posters were not a permanent fixture, I’m sure more decor could have been done once they get taken down.\nAt this event, I knew what I was in for (I did not expect that there would be entertainment), and managed to start chatting with a few members of the group, once when they realized there were other people coming here to enjoy a medieval fest.\nBut during the event, I was distracted by one lovely lady who reminded me of Nymphadora Tonks. She can cast a spell on me any day.\nThe atmosphere created by this event was great, and I noticed that an entire family came down, all dressed up, to enjoy the festivities. However, the LARPers really took command of the night. I was glad to see that even Doctor Who arrived to put on a nifty magic show.\nJ: And thank goodness he didn’t bring Amy Pond with him otherwise I would’ve asked him to make her disappear.\nE: I would’ve asked him if he could turn the pig into a boar (after Toulouese, yes, I’m becoming a picky eater). I want my game meats. The food was very good for what it was; I didn’t expect super tasty miracles when considering the food that fed peasents during the middle ages were generally nothing spectacular. Only kings feasted on well-spiced and roasted in a pit fire delights.\nThe event was all about bringing people out from various communities to enjoy camaraderie with newcomers to whatever theme night may happen.\nI look forward to seeing what Pirate or Zombie inspired food creations will get made at the Brickyard Pizza’s upcoming events. When considering James hasn’t LARPed or eaten brain before, I’m sure he may start to brave strange new worlds. I just need to convince him to dress up in a leather skirt and dance around like a wildman honouring Bacchus.\nBrickyard Pizza’s Zombie Cosplay and Pirate Cosplay Day will take place on Sunday April 28th and May 12th. For more details visit their official Facebook page:"}

{"text": "\nPassar seni, night market, West Nusa Tenggara 00000, Indonesia, Pemenang\nJalan Oberoi | Jalan Oberoi, Seminyak, Bali, Seminyak, Indonesia, Seminyak\nKedewatan | Across From Lobong Cooking Class, Ubud 80571, Indonesia, Ubud\nBanjar Tabola, Sidemen, Karangasem, Indonesia, Sidemen\nPenestanan/Campuhan Steps, Penestanan | Penestanan, Ubud 80570, Indonesia, Ubud\nOne of the most enjoyable places for us and our 8month baby. Good food (the granola muesli was our favorite breakfast) a\nJl. Balangan, Ungasan 80361, Indonesia, Ungasan\nLovely venue, fabulous potential. Great drinks and cocktails, reasonably priced. Food was disappointing, would drink at\nDanau Tamblingan 91 | Central Sanur, Sanur, Denpasar, Indonesia (Formerly Star Cafe Bali), Sanur\nExcellent food, service and price.\nJl. Pariwisata | Pantai Kuta, Kuta, Lombok 83573, Indonesia, Kuta\nbest spot for party ever in the town... the biggest party is every saturday night\nJl. Arjuna no. 99, Legian, Indonesia, Legian\nOrdered salad with prawns which were NO longer fresh, not even the tomatoes.\nJl. Pantai Amed | behind ZEN DIVERS on tde beach, Amed, Abang 80852, Indonesia, Amed\nJl. Raya Batu Bolong, Canggu 82151, Indonesia, Canggu\nCheap eats, local food, good vibes, good service. Loved the nasi campur here!\nBr. Mendira, Ds Sengkidu, Candidasa, Karangasem 80811, Indonesia, Karangasem\nDelicious food for a reasonable price and friendly staff.After renovation even better than before.\nI highly recommend it! We enjoyed a great time! You learned so much about Bali's culture and cooking ! ! ! ! And the ser"}

{"text": "The MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition (2016), bids us to consider the probability of having a single “set of guidelines, which writers can apply to any type of source” (Handbook, rear cover). This new edition may be less intimidating than the Seventh or the Sixth, and it may minimize anxiety about scrupulous documentation in the age of the digital. Nevertheless, we should not put older editions of the Handbook out to pasture, because the new one seems more a supplement than a replacement. It lacks the solid advice about research and writing we found in Chapter 1 of the Seventh, and not all of us want to visit The MLA Style Center, the open access online companion. Neither in documentation nor in the vast range of scholarship is it prudent to drift with the wind.\nIndonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016), edited by Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher, is a good omen that scholars who refuse to get lost in the brothels and mazes of theory-whipping can be productive long-distance runners. Roberts and Foulcher have used impeccable literary historical scholarship in producing a book that maps new territory for studies of Richard Wright’s life, works, and prophetic acumen. Indonesian Notebook is exceptionally valuable for anyone, including political scientists and historians, who is interested in what world literature created during the Cold War period actually challenges us to interpret.\nWhen we truly revisit Wright’s The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956), armed with the generous amount of contextualizing matter that Roberts and Foulcher translated from the Indonesian, we are stimulated to ask just what did Wright see and hear at the conference and during his conversations with Indonesian intellectuals. What inspired Wright to quite accurately speculate that the world of 1955 was a crucible for multiple forms of terrorism rooted in religion? And what did Wright reveal in his lecture “The Artist and His Problems” (published as “Seniman dan Masalaahnja” in Indonesia Raya on May 22, 1955) that might have informed his decisions about what essays to include in White Man, Listen! (1957)? The winding path of scholarship may take us to Ethan Michaeli’s The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) to discover why John Sengstacke assigned Ethel Payne to cover Bandung for the Chicago Defender and to James McGrath Morris’s Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press (New York: Amistad, 2015) for a choice bit of information about how the U.S. government used CIA funds to enable Payne and Wright to attend an Asian-African conference. I shall soon write at greater length about Indonesian Notebook which, as Amritjit Singh aptly remarks, “reminds us that the quest for equality must confront the stubborn local socio-economic realities throughout the globe” (Indonesian Notebook, rear cover blurb), because I do want to confront the stubborn actualities of political designs and literary meanings. Fortunately, there is no single set of guidelines for that task.\nJerry W. Ward, Jr."}

{"text": "I have my own ideas about the complicated dynamics between narcissists and empaths, but I’ll just let this excellent article (written by an empath) speak for itself. These two apparently opposite types of characters do often seem to be drawn to each other.\nThe Toxic Attraction Between an Empath and a Narcissist.\nBy Alex Miles…\nView original post 274 more words"}

{"text": "Download:\nThis doxology, like all doxologies found in Scripture call on us to love and adore our glorious God. Here are thoughts on Christ’s ability to preserve us from stumbling in this life, the presentation of the believer to himself in glory, and the praise due to God for who he is.\nSpeaker - 講員 Pastor Ashley Mendes - 萬希禮牧師\nSermon Text Jude 1:24-25 (20210310PM)"}

{"text": "It’s getting cooler here in Aotearoa New Zealand, while all you sewers in the north are getting set for summer, I’m glad things are cooling off now!\nI have just finished this dress, it’s made with some lovely fabric my nana gave me, and I used a stunning Butterick pattern which was new to me this year, along with a couple of other lovely vintage patterns.\nThese ones!\nThe pattern is a size and a bit too small for me, so I graded it up, and voila! New dress! In my blog post about the making of this dress…\n…I share how I graded it up, it’s pretty easy, you just need a basic pattern (or pattern block) that fits well.\nThe crossover bodice was a bit fiddly, and adding the bias trim gave me more bulk to deal with, but in the end, I am happy with it.\nFrom the back…\nAnd the bias trim….\nThe bias binding colour was perfect, but just enough to do the neckline and sleeve cuffs. So happy!\nHappy Spring or Autumn Retro Sewists!\nThe blog link about this dress is here, and now I’m off to make another jumpsuit!"}

{"text": "Easy to fix to your long umbrella Lenger, the tip offers a better solidity.\n- A sophisticated style and a quality appropriate to our brand\n- Excellent shock resistance\n- Black stiff plastic\n- Fixation by glue ultra strong\n- The Lot of 2 tips for a better longevity of your umbrella"}

{"text": "Is Rahul really a Modi asset as Mamata believes?.\nNow that kaangress is down to one major state – karnaataka , the media and kaangress supporters are coming up with conspiracy theories to feel good about themselves. For a second imagine what would have been media’s reaction if congress had won and BJP had lost???? Also note how beef club is very silent on the forum!! LOL Must be licking their wounds …..lol\nAfter every election the cow party likes to bullshit about it’s election victories. The cow party likes to pile the dung high. Here is a sober analysis from MK Bhadrakumar.\nHowever, the fine print contradicts the narrative. Reproduced below are certain pertinent observations culled out from social network sites (which are any day providing far more insightful views on Indian politics than our plaint corporate media):\nOut of the aggregate 812 seats contested in the recent elections, the Congress won 114 and the BJP 65. Yet it is being claimed that the BJP won a great victory and the Congress was “routed”.\nIn terms of popular vote, the Congress got almost thrice as much as the BJP.\nBJP won 60 MLAs in Assam with a population of 31 million. But it could win only 8 MLA seats in the other states (minus Assam), which have a combined population of about 250 million.\nThen, there are the fine prints:\nIn Tamil Nadu, BJP candidates lost their deposits in 230 out of 232 seats (because they couldn’t secure even one-sixth of the votes polled in the constituency).\nThe BJP’s vote share in these assembly elections, in comparison with the 2014 poll, actually declined. In Assam, it dropped from 36.5 in the 2014 poll to 30.1 in the state election; in West Bengal it dropped from 16.8 percent to 10.3 percent; in Tamil Nadu from 5.56 percent to 2.7 percent. Kerala, the smallest of the 4 states, is the solitary exception where the BJP candidates actually increased their party’s vote share from 10.33 percent in 2014 to 10.7 in the state election.\nThen, there are the still finer points as regards the fortunes of the Congress Party, which put a question mark on the BJP thesis that Indians are getting rid of Congress Party:\nContrary to the BJP’s abysmal record of decline in vote share, Congress Party actually increased its vote share in the state elections in comparison with its performance in 2014. The figures are: Assam (increase from 29.6 to 31 percent); West Bengal (increase from 9.58 to 11.9 percent); Tamil Nadu (increase from 4.3 to 6.5 percent.)\nRoy, there is a saying in Kannada and I quote it for the benefit of you and the like minded. ‘Adige biddaroo moogu mele’.\nNot surprisingly, a Beef Club member has posted what he thinks is an ‘analysis’ from so called ‘journalist’. It’s embarrassing to see how these guys have no idea of reality. For example, see how this ‘hotte uri’ club tries to trivialize BJP’s victory in Assam by comparing it to combined population outside Assam!!! What kind of ‘sajjige-bajil’ analysis is this? Also, comparing total number of seats won by BJP to total number of seats won by Congress shows another juvenile attempt by this group. This is BJP’s victory because it ended up significantly increasing their ‘seats’ and grabbing power in one state while Congress party has moved in opposite direction. This is how you measure success or failure of a political party. Then again, how do you explain these simple things to Beef Club members who are raised on a steady diet of ignorance?"}

{"text": "Personal journal of Doogie Howser, M.D.: FEBRUARY 28, 1992... Everyone thinks of the Howser family as two parents with an exceptional son. But the older I get, the more I realize I'm a son with two exceptional parents.\nMarkus Redmond as Raymond Alexander does not appear in this episode, but does appear in the opening credits.\nTV Rating:\nCanada: PG\nUSA: TV-PG\nThe German episode title is \"Vertrau' dir selbst\", meaning \"Trust Yourself\"."}

{"text": "All we are saying is give WAR a chance.\nAnd Brett Gardner, too.\nThe former College of Charleston outfielder deserves to play in his first All-Star Game on July 16. Not because the six-year major league veteran is threatening to climb over Reggie Jackson, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth on the New York Yankees' home run list.\nOr because the big-budget Yankees are running away with first place in the tightly packed American League East.\nGardner's All-Star argument is the most important statistic in baseball, a relatively new concept we should all embrace for other walks of life. The 29-year-old Summerville resident is second among American League outfielders behind Angels star Mike Trout in WAR (Wins Above Replacement).\nWAR is the non-standardized brainwork of baseball computer geeks that led to “Moneyball” (more the complex stats scenes than the Brad Pitt close-ups). It attempts to reduce statistics to one total value over the season for a given player as compared to a typical replacement just promoted from the minors.\nSo the Yankees will win 2.8 more games with Gardner in the lineup than with a replacement from their Triple-A farm club, and Trout is worth 3.0 wins for the Angels (more conventionally, Gardner is batting .287 with seven home runs).\n“War … What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” soul singer Edwin Starr shouted in his 1970 hit that reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart.\nA just WAR is the greatest comparative tool since a bunch of television lawyers invented the scales of justice.\nNeighbors and food\nWAR is ideal for making decisions about dating and visiting relatives, and that's not all.\nWorkplace: Employee evaluations are so much simpler with the WAR approach. Boss evaluations, too.\nPolitics: WAR should help presidential historians and voters in local elections.\nNeighbors: Finally, that annoying Schmedley family moved away. Sadly, the Zernfields are a minus 4.3 on the WAR scale.\nYes, WAR has a negative side. Jeff Keppinger of the Chicago White Sox bottoms out among American Leaguers with a minus 2.7 WAR rating.\nThus, applied to vacation ideas, that nice cabin in the mountains this week is probably about 7.1 after your cruise disaster last year.\nWhat a great way to compare restaurant outings, home-cooked meals and frozen yogurt.\nWAR works — from gardening to Gardner.\nAt 2.8, the Yankees' center fielder has the WAR edge over American League All-Star candidates such as Jacoby Ellsbury (2.7), Jose Bautista (2.6) and Coco Crisp (2.5).\nWithout Jeter or A-Rod\nFans of both Gardner and the Yankees saw his sweet 2013 season coming in bits and fractured pieces last year. The left-hander missed all but 16 games with an injury to his right elbow but managed to hit .323 and got back in the lineup for two games against the Detroit Tigers in the American League Championship Series.\n“It was satisfying,” Gardner said while making a visit to sick children at MUSC in February, “not only to ease my competitive spirit — I wanted so badly to be out there to help the team — but it was good just to give me a peace of mind going into the offseason. It was good just to be healthy.”\nGardner is in good company at second place in the American League outfielder WAR department. Among active players, Trout with an astonishing rookie season last year notched the best WAR (10.9) of any active big league player.\nBabe Ruth still has the two best single-season WAR records, 14.0 in 1923 and 12.9 in 1921.\nThe Yankees aren't as powerful these days. Injuries have kept Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez out since spring training and limited Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira to eight and 15 games, respectively. These “Bronx Bombers” are 12th in the American League in batting.\nAll the numbers add up to the basic 2.8 WAR, and a strong All-Star argument for Gardner.\nFollow Gene Sapakoff on Twitter @sapakoff"}

{"text": "To what degree the Obama camp has been infected by this unquestioning attribution of righteousness is up for grabs. The administration's edicts to Britain earlier this year are probably more the result of an insensitive imperiousness: \"When we say something is good for us, that should be the end of it. After all, we know how eager you are to please.\"\nStill, it's a safe bet that Obama and his advisers have little on-the-ground feel for what membership of the EU entails for its citizens: having everything from the size of your wine bottles to the nature of your light bulbs controlled by a body in which you have no real say. Living in a country that can't control its own immigration policy or fishing waters. Having the decisions of your highest courts subject to a yet higher court, so that a known terrorist rabble-rouser can never be deported but instead resides comfortably in your capital city for years on public support. Huddling under an umbrella bureaucracy so caught up in its own sense of noblesse oblige that if you ever do get to vote on something and you deliver the wrong answer, you'll be required to go back and vote again until you get your mind right. Think Americans would put up with that? The insurrection greeting American membership of anything like the EU would make Timothy McVeigh's anti-federal shenanigans in Oklahoma City seem like kicking the cat.\nMoreover, for Philip Gordon, the US assistant secretary of European affairs, to have decried referendums of any sort in January as having \"often turned countries inward\" is wildly at odds with the traditional American veneration of democracy. I haven't heard Obama castigating referendum-happy California for its resultant navel-gazing and myopia.\nThe Obama administration's attempt to discourage the British electorate's ever being given a choice in a membership that controls the minutiae of their daily lives, yet on which they have not been consulted since 1975, was high-handed. Should the UK indeed perform slavishly as a mouthpiece for American policy, maybe Philip Gordon is right — that a \"strong British voice\" in the EU is \"in the American interest\". But squelching the democratic process is not in the American spirit.\n1:03 AM\n7:02 PM\n6:02 PM\n5:02 PM\n3:02 PM\n3:02 PM"}

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{"text": "- Hangers & Accessories\n- Retail Supplies\n- Cedar Wood Collection\n- Sale\nImage source: Pexels\nIs it best to hang or fold garments in a clothing store? You might not have given it much thought, but the way you display your stock can have a huge impact on whether customers buy from your store.\nDo your patrons spend a long time browsing, frustrated because they can't find the right size, for instance? Or do they wander in and out before you've even had a chance to say hello? Neither scenario is ideal, but perhaps there is an easy fix. If customers aren’t spending time and money in your store, the problem could be your clothing display.\nSo, you want your clothes to be easy to see and touch, so that people are more likely to buy them? Great! It sounds so simple in theory, but what does an attractive display actually look like? Visual merchandising is a tricky business, but it comes down to how you arrange and display the saleable items in your store.\nThere are many different opinions when it comes to store design and display, and whether to display clothes on tables or garment hangers is one that sparks great debate. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each approach.\nImage source: Pexels\nSome retailers fold garments to save space, or because they think it looks neat. Here are some of the reasons why folded clothes might be right for your store.\nDespite taking up less space, folded clothes can look untidy compared to those displayed on garment hangers.Folded clothes can also prove more difficult for customers to look at. Here are some of the cons of clothes folding.\nIf you've ever stepped foot in a clothing store (which we're willing to bet you have), then you’ll know that most retailers hang their garments on plastic or wood hangers. Here are some of the benefits of displaying your stock on garment hangers.\nIt's a controversial statement for us to make, but some clothes don't fare well on hangers and should be folded instead. Here's why.\nSeems simple, right? Hangers are the clear winner. However, as we've already touched on, there are some exceptions to this rule. Pay attention here, as displaying a garment on the wrong hanger or folding the wrong piece of clothing could ruin your stock.\nThe decision whether to hang or fold the clothes in your store partly depends on the type of garments you stock. For example, heavily embellished evening dresses will require different display techniques than casual t-shirts.\nThere are other factors at play, too, such as the weight, fabric, and shape of an item of clothing. Let’s break it down.\nDifferent fabrics require different display and storage practices. Hanging the wrong material can ruin the shape of an item of clothing, for example, while folding certain materials can wrinkle and crease them beyond repair.\nAs a general rule, you should hang clothes made from:\nYou should fold clothes made from:\nAs well as the fabric, you also need to think about the weight of an item of clothing before you decide whether to hang or fold it.\nHeavy garments like overcoats and suit jackets need to be displayed and stored carefully. If a garment is heavy enough to bend a hanger, you have two choices: you can either fold the clothing or find a hanger strong enough to support it.\nLightweight clothes also need to be handled with care. Items with heavy detailing (such as beading or embellishments) will pool weight to certain spots and alter the shape of a garment. These items should be hung on padded hangers that support their shape.\nAccording to Martha Stewart: “Most garments look best when hung on “proper hangers in closets that aren’t overcrowded.”\nThis is an excellent rule of thumb to follow, but there are certain exceptions. Let’s take a look at different types of clothing and whether they should be hung or folded.\nYou should hang:\nYou should fold:\nBeaded garments.\nImage source: Pexels\nIt goes without saying that you need to consider the size and layout of your store before deciding on a display method. If your store is very small, for example, you need to be careful of making it look too cluttered, as this will put customers off immediately.\nIf you’re short on rail space, prioritize your bestselling stock and use space-saving plastic hangers. Just make sure there is always a sales assistant to ask for more sizes.\nYou could also combine the two techniques to save space by hanging some clothes and folding others. Just be careful not to fold garments that could crease or lose their shape. You also need to bear in mind that hanging too many items on a single rail will crush your clothes.\nImage source: Pexels\nOf course, it's not enough to say you need to hang certain clothes and fold others – anyone could tell you that much. It also comes down to the hangers you use. At Mainetti, we know that hangers play an integral role in presenting and preserving an item of clothing– whether it’s displayed on a shop floor or in a photograph.\nLet’s take a look at the different hangers we provide – including wholesale wooden hangers, plastic hangers and swivel hangers– and what they’re used for.\nOur wooden hangers have a clean, minimalist look and come in four different color choices: Natural, Walnut, Black and White. Many retailers use wood clothes hangersbecause they are both stylish and durable. Wood hangers bulkare also highly affordable.\nYou can buy wooden hangers in bulk from our website to accommodate a range of different garment types and sizes.\nImage source: Mainetti\nOur swivel hangers are ideal for circular rails and ergonomic displays. They are available in either black or clear.\nOur modern-looking acrylic hangers are both space saving and durable. They have chrome-plated hooks and clear acrylic and Lucite finish, making any display look smart and contemporary.\nOur air-tech hangers are virtually indestructible. Scratch-resistant, durable and beautiful, they are the premium choice for clothing stores around the world.\nOur space-saving plastic hangers are affordable and highly durable. Plastic hangers in bulk are also one of the most affordable options for storage and display.\nOur scratch resistant Italian fusion hangers have nonslip features to prevent items falling to the floor. They are a beautiful off-white pearl color with black rubber notched shoulders and trouser grips.\nImage source: AdobeStock\nIf you’ve been in the industry a long time, you’ll have heard the phrase “retail is detail.” It may sound corny, but there’s a lot of truth to the saying. All around the world, retail stores are under threat from the rise of online shopping, so it’s more important than ever to make a good impression on your customers.\nIt’s human nature to be attracted to pleasing aesthetics. That’s why we’re driven into stores with eye-catching displays that make it easy for us to find what we’re looking for. Product placement, presentation and ease of access are all important, so here are some tips to help you make the best impression with your clothing display.\nWhether you choose to hang or fold your clothes, you need to be vigilant about organizing and rotating your displays, as well as re-folding or re-hanging items after a customer has finished browsing.\nWhether you decide to hang all or some of your clothes, here are some final tips to consider.\nDue to any one of the reasons highlighted in this article, you’ll probably need to fold at least some of the clothing in your store. Here are some tips to help you take care of your stock.\nHanging your clothes will give them a longer and better-kept life, but some items are best folded. The quality of your garment hangers is also important, as is the space available to you. The decision whether to hang or fold your merchandise is a choice only you can make, but the facts here will help you make a more informed decision. Mainetti hangers epitomize quality and durability, so what are you waiting for? Order yours online today."}

{"text": "From the CD:\nAll four huge chapters of the award winning Ultima VII saga on one CD - the ultimate role play adventure. Full screen view. Dynamic cinematic soundtrack plus digitised speech and sound effects. Totally mouse driven interface.\nUser Summary\nThe Ultima VII: Complete Edition was sold in the Serpent Isle box with a sticker on the front cover stating \"more than 200$ worth of software\" and describing the content of the box as including all four parts of Ultima VII: The Black Gate, Serpent Isle, Forge of Virtue and The Silver Seed. Another sticker on the bottom of the box saying \"Ultima VII Complete Edition\" describes the system requirements and recommendations.\nIt includes all the manuals from Black Gate (Felloswhip, Install Guide, Player Reference Card), Serpent Isle (Beyond the Serpent Pillars, Install Guide, Player Reference Guide), Forge of Virtue (Installation and Quickstart, A Guide to the Isle of Fire) and The Silver Seed (Installation and Quickstart, Play Guide) as well as the two cloth maps but no trinkets.\nUltima VII: The Complete Edition comes on 15 3.5\" 1.44Mb Disks and is not to be confused with the \"Complete Ultima VII\" which has been released in 1994 on CD-ROM, one year later than Ultima VII: The Complete Edition.\nUltima VII: The Complete Edition is not rated but Origin has voluntarily rated the game \"MP-13 (For Mature Players)\" which probably should have meant PG-13 according to the MPAA guidelines."}

{"text": "A fascinating, museum-ready piece of baseball history with seldom-seen moveable ear guards and throat protector; finely constructed, pointed-face metal caging; and all-original pads, straps and buckles. Appears to be missing the head strap. VG condition overall.\nPlease send questions or comments about this site to\[email protected].\nCopyright © 2002-2009, Huggins and Scott Auctions LLC. All Rights Reserved."}

{"text": "Persuasive Essay Three\nLesson 11 of 22\nObjective: Students will be able to explain how details, evidence, and claim are connected by writing a persuasive essay from a provided outline.\nBig Idea: Connect, don't repeat.Print Lesson\nDo Now: Connect These\nToday's Do Now is a review of our previous writing lesson, a study of how to explain without simply repeating. I ask students to connect the following detail and evidence, hoping that they will use key words from the evidence statement in their explanation to show that students being forced to contact their teachers actually helps the student:\n- Evidence: Parents can help students when they access grades online.\n- Detail: Parents can force students to contact teachers.\nAfter attendance, I ask for a volunteer to share (since this is our first practice since learning the skill, a volunteer is a better choice--many students do not feel confident yet). Silence. I wait. And wait. A hand creeps up, excellent!\nStudent one uses the key word \"help\" in his connection. I point out that he has done so and praise the effort, then I ask for another perspective.\nStudent two uses the key word \"grades\" in her connection to show students contacting teachers can result in discussion about and improvement of grades; again, praise and a request for another perspective.\nStudent three uses a phrase, \"if parents do not access\" to show that parents are unable to help students make contact if they don't know a problem exists. Another solid connection!\nWith three good examples, I move students along to our next practice opportunity for explanation.\nPersuasive Essay Three\nI explain that we are ONLY focusing on explanation today, and to help us do that, we're all working from the same essay outline. I present the prompt (should schools offer small incentives, such as iPods, for good ACT scores?) and a student outline from another class. I explain the discussion that went into the creation of the outline to help students understand the reasoning, and then I ask them to write the essay.\nI allow students to work solo or with a partner today because this is our first full application of the skill; they need the support. Most students choose to work with a partner. I circulate as they work, noticing good collaboration. They discuss how the details connect to the evidence and then pull from their discussion to write the actual paragraph--exactly what I was looking for.\nOne group disagrees with the outline. They ask if they can write a different essay, but I reiterate that our focus is on the quality of the explanation today; I would like us all to work with the same outline so we can compare the explanation when we're done. Only somewhat appeased, they ask if they can be sarcastic. Certainly, so long as they explain.\nAnother group struggles to find a key word in one evidence statement. We discuss how it differs from the other paragraphs to help them narrow their focus.\nBy the end of the hour, the essays are submitted to the drop box. Our next step will be revision from feedback.\nIn the included student example (created from a different class/outline), notice how each body paragraph ends with a connection back to the claim--that schools should not offer incentives. The student author repeatedly emphasizes her claim without simply rewording it by making connections to the topic of each body paragraph."}

{"text": " sec.\nMoon shots taken last night. The first is a cropped shot of the moon in the Earth's penumbra. The second shot is the un-cropped version of the first. The third shows the moon moving out of the penumbra.\nHere is a substitute for the recent blue moon which was not visible through the overcast and frequently-raining skies."}

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{"text": "SEO: AMP for Ecommerce\nNews on the mobile web is now four times faster, thanks to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages.\nAMP, as the project is known, is targeted at Google mobile searchers looking for long-form editorial content. Mobile searchers experience AMP pages when they go to Google’s mobile search results, which now show a carousel filled with AMP-enabled news content.\nThe AMP carousel is at the top of the page, so it’s beneficial to attempt to gain placement there. More mobile searchers will see content in the carousel than will see even the third organic listing on the search results page. For the rest of the listings on page one, visibility will decrease because the carousel and paid search ads will push other organic content farther down.\nThe carousel today includes only news content. Ecommerce sites are less likely to rank for search queries that Google associates with long-form content. So your ecommerce-related rankings and visibility on those search results pages should not decrease unless you’re a large enough brand to rank on a primarily content-related search query.\nSo where’s the play for ecommerce? Blogs and other editorial sites can utilize the AMP framework to speed their load times for mobile customers and potentially gain access to the AMP carousel. In the future, AMPs may boost search engine optimization. Google hasn’t said officially that implementing AMP will lead to a boost in mobile search rankings. But the implication is there in Google’s algorithmic actions and comments regarding mobile search performance. In particular, load time and page speed are already Google ranking factors, so improving these areas is already benefitting organic search.\nThe AMP project is starting out small with its focus on news. But ecommerce and other content forms are planned to be added in the future.\nWhat Is AMP?\nAs similar mobile experience initiatives Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles have launched, Google has developed its own open source framework to “dramatically improve the performance of the mobile web.”\nThe AMP framework is an open technical standard that will speed mobile page load, include structured data to mark up content, and streamline ads and other more complex code to improve mobile experience. AMPs will reportedly load four times faster than non-accelerated pages and use a tenth of the cellular data that normal mobile pages require.\nTo do this, AMP requires sites to create a duplicate version of each page using the AMP framework. But it may not be as daunting as it sounds.\nWordPress, which many ecommerce sites use to publish long-form content, is on board with AMP already. WordPress powers approximately 25 percent of the web; involving WordPress early on was a smart partnership for Google. WordPress has already integrated AMP into every site hosted on WordPress servers. For sites that host their own WordPress implementation, an AMP plugin is available that offers reportedly instant compliance with the AMP protocol.\nFor ecommerce sites using other platforms to manage their long-form content pages, developers will need to become familiar with a subset of HTML called AMP HTML, which is really just a subset of the larger HTML standard with some custom tags and properties added into the mix. There are also some restrictions involving CSS, fonts, and images tagging that developers won’t be used to.\nJavaScript is allowed, but is also narrowed down to an AMP JS subset of the standard JavaScript developers are used to working with. Workarounds and hacks are already available for functions that AMP doesn’t support, if your developers are willing to search through the open source community forums to find them.\nLastly, an AMP content delivery network is an option for sites that want additional performance by caching their content before delivering to searchers.\nFor more information, head to the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project site.\nWhich Content Could Benefit?\nThe AMP Project is light on details about what constitutes as “news” when it says that news is the first type of content supported. But articles, recipes, reviews, and video are the content types offered as examples.\nFor most ecommerce sites, the primary content type outside of sales-funnel-related pages will be articles. But let’s be clear on what constitutes an article. The AMP framework relies on structured data outlined by the Schema.org standard to define what type of content is on a page. Schema.org uses this definition of an article: “An article, such as a news article or piece of investigative report. Newspapers and magazines have articles of many different types and this is intended to cover them all.”\nBy the strict reading of this definition, I can’t think of a single ecommerce site that would offer articles. But consider the types of articles home, hobby, automotive, lifestyle, and other magazines would typically offer. How-to content, tips, trends — all of these are prime article fodder for magazines and newspapers alike.\nThus, a “Buy Two, Get One Free” sale page is not an article. It’s a piece of content and probably somewhat textual in nature. But it’s neither an article in the way that the standards define articles nor the way Google regards articles.\nBut your step-by step or long-form content page telling customers how to waterproof their shoes, how to tie a tie, what the difference is between different types of wrenches and sockets, how to dice and chop like a pro — these are all articles. Your blog may also contain articles if it isn’t too inwardly focused on what your company wants to say versus what your consumers want to hear. As long as your content is geared toward giving consumers information that they want in a format that includes a decent amount of text, you have an article.\nIf your content is based on marketing-speak or focused too heavily on your internal initiatives instead of your consumers’ needs or desires, don’t bother to implement AMP.\nOn the other hand, if you want more searchers to find your content and come to your site to learn and browse, consider creating true articles and using the AMP framework to deliver that content more quickly to more mobile searchers.\nPrevious Article\nFebruary 2016: Most Popular Articles\nA review of Google Analytics data from 81 of my customer’s websites revealed that mobile web browsing has plateaued over the last couple of years to about 40% of total browsing, and that this figure doesn’t seem to be increasing. Find out what implications this might have for your website:"}

{"text": "From his early days in Big Spring, Eugene Anderson wasn’t what he seemed; neither was the mysterious element he later claimed turned water into fuel.\nFrom his early days in Big Spring, Eugene Anderson wasn’t what he seemed; neither was the mysterious element he later claimed turned water into fuel.\nAcross the Panhandle stretches a thin red line that divides doughty plains dwellers from Texas’ lesser changed.\nFootball recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.\nIn a glass-and-steel world of Houston skyscrapers, there was nothing like an art deco obelisk or a pink Gothic cathedral until architect Philip Johnson.\nWhen armadillos weighed three tons and the long horns were on dinosaurs.\nWith their 350-degree camera, photographers recorded Houston in the early 1900’s. Half a century later two young photographers found the camera the same but Houston vastly changed.\nEverything is bigger in Texas, including the scams.\nSometimes women fall in love with men behind bars, but once the bars disappear, the love itself may become the prison.\nJim Cartwright has a classic case of obsession-he owns thousands of records. Under Sung Kwak the Austin Symphony has gone from mediocre to memorable.\nThe burning cactus.\nFrederick Barthelme’s Moon Deluxe is a collection of cockeyed tales about stucco camels, supermarket sec and other modern curiosities. In Short Circuit Michael Mewshaw finds fault with the nasty world of professional tennis. The urban vignettes of Laura Furman’s Watch Time Fly range from skillful to so-so.\nBluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan showcases his powerhouse guitar on a nationally released record. Also on new LPs are fellow Texans, from country king George Jones to Austin cutups the Big Boys.\nIndependent oilmen are still for free enterprise, but these days they also expect a little favoritism from Uncle Sam.\nThe tale of schlemiels schlemiel, Zelig is as funny, endearing, and slight as Woody Allen himself. Staying Alive is suicidal. The quick Grey Fox jumps nimbly the pitfalls of making a western.\nIt’s Post time in the race to take over Houston’s morning newspaper, and here are the odds; Doctor Death takes a holiday in Dallas; a bank merger causes frowns at Fulbright & Jaworski; does Jim Mattox have a future?\nTexas highways show their age; Houston punks show their colors; foster parents show they care; A&M shows its macaws; cattle ranchers show their breeding."}

{"text": "Mililani, Hawaii\nBright and spacious 4 bedroom/2.5 bath/2 car garage single family home in desirable Mililani Mauka. Open downstairs floor plan: enter into living and dining area with kitchen and half bath. Kitchen boasts double refrigerator, new dishwasher, and two pantry closets. Wall to wall carpet in bedrooms, brand new wood laminate downstairs, and ceramic tile in kitchen and bathrooms. Mirrored closet doors, window blinds, and ceiling fans in bedrooms. AC units in master bedroom and second bedroom. Large walk-in closet in master bedroom with private bath and dual sink vanity. Enclosed backyard and spacious outdoor patio area. New washer and dryer. Fresh exterior paint. Close to schools, shopping centers, restaurants, market, banks, theaters and Rec 7. No pets. AVAILABLE JULY 20th.\nContact Seller"}

{"text": "David Tank, the co-director of the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, has been named one of four winners of the Brain Prize, an honor that recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to brain research.\nTank will be presented the prize by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark on May 7 in Copenhagen. He will share. The method allows researchers to examine the function of individual nerve cells with high precision, especially how nerve cells communicate with each other in networks.\n.\nTank, who is also a professor of molecular biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, joined the Princeton faculty in 2001. He directs the Bezos Center for Neural Dynamics.\nTank’s research interests include the measurement, analysis and modeling of neural circuit dynamics. His laboratory currently uses two-photon microscopy to study how neural circuits in the brain represent cognitive processes such as memory and decision-making. He was a researcher at Bell Laboratories before joining Princeton University.\nRecent Comments"}

{"text": "Traveling Luck for Two Section Windmill, Texas, United States\nWhere is Two Section Windmill?\nThe timezone in Two Section Windmill is America/Rankin_Inlet\nSunrise at 06:46 and Sunset at 18:57. It's light\nLatitude. 30.1622°, Longitude. -101.0903°\nWeather :\nTemperature: 27°C / 81°F\nWind: 0km/h\nCloud:\nSatellite map around Two Section Windmill\nGeographic features & Photographs around Two Section Windmill, in Texas, United States\n- Local Feature;\n- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..\n- Two Section Windmill (0km)\n- Hill Trap Windmill (3.4km)\n- Middle Pasture Windmill (3.7km)\n- Beaver Lake Ranch (3.7km)\n- Cully Windmill (3.8km)\n- West Lake Windmill (4.6km)\n- Rough Pasture Windmill (5.3km)\n- Two Section Windmill (6.1km)\n- Twomile Windmill (6.7km)\n- Bull Windmill (7.5km)\n- Pecos Canyon Ranch (7.6km)\n- Robert Cauthorn Ranch (8km)\n- East Lake Windmill (8.2km)\n- Windy Point Windmill (8.7km)\n- Cedar Bluff Windmill (9.8km)\n- Mayfield Ranch (9.8km)\n- Virgil Cauthorn Ranch (10km)\n- North Five Windmill (10.7km)\n- Double Gates Windmill (11.1km)\n- Miguel Windmill (12.4km)\n- Oil Well Windmill (12.8km)\n- East Windmill (13km)\n- West Pasture Windmill (13.5km)\n- Samson Windmill (13.6km)\n- Buckley Windmill (13.7km)\n- Wilson Windmill (14.2km)\n- Brown Ranch Windmill (14.5km)\n- High Lonesome Windmill (15km)\n- Murrah Windmill (15.5km)\n- Jarrett Ranch (16.7km)\n- High Lonesome Ranch (16.8km)\n- Star Windmill (16.9km)\n- valley;\n- an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.\n- Two Section Draw (1km)\n- Pecos Canyon (2.3km)\n- Cully Draw (2.5km)\n- Rough Pasture Draw (5.4km)\n- Cedar Bluff Canyon (5.5km)\n- Johnson Draw (6.4km)\n- Twomile Draw (7.1km)\n- Sulfur Well Draw (7.2km)\n- Windmill Draw (7.7km)\n- Deaton Draw (8.1km)\n- Phillips Draw (8.4km)\n- Threemile Draw (10.3km)\n- Bee Canyon (11.8km)\n- Mud Canyon (12.4km)\n- Young Canyon (13km)\n- Buckley Draw (13.2km)\n- Trail Canyon (16km)\n- Duncan Draw (16.1km)\n- Middle Draw (16.5km)\n- well;\n- a cylindrical hole, pit, or tunnel drilled or dug down to a depth from which water, oil, or gas can be pumped or brought to the surface.\n- White Well (6.2km)\n- Sulfur Well (8.2km)\n- Divide Well (14.9km)\n- East Well (15km)\n- House Well Number Two (16km)\n- reservoir(s);\n- an artificial pond or lake.\n- Two Section Tank (7.7km)\n- Finney Tank (11.2km)\n- spring(s);\n- a place where ground water flows naturally out of the ground.\n- Juno Springs (4.5km)\n- cemetery;\n- a burial place or ground.\n- Juno Cemetery (2.6km)\nWikipedia entries close to\nTwo Section Windmill\n- Langtry, Texas landmark historical c\n- Ozona, Texas city city o\n- Sonora, Texas city city o\n- Box Canyon-Amistad, Texas city city o\n- Lake View, Texas city city o\n- Rocksprings, Texas city city o\n- Del Rio International Airport airport airport\n- Cienegas Terrace, Texas city city o\n- Del Rio, Texas city city o\n- Eldorado, Texas city city o\n- Val Verde Park, Texas city city o\n- Laughlin Air Force Base airport airport\n- Ciudad Acuña city city e\n- Alamo Village landmark landmark\n- Barnhart, Texas city city o\n- Iraan, Texas city city o\nAirports close to Two Section Windmill\nDel rio international(DRT), Del rio, Usa (118.1km)\nLaughlin afb(DLF), Del rio, Usa (124.7km)\nSan angelo rgnl mathis fld(SJT), San angelo, Usa (189.5km)\nAirfields or small airports close to Two Section Windmill\nCiudad acuna international, Ciudad acuna, Brazil (123km)\nPhotos provided by Panoramio are under the copyright of their owners."}

{"text": "24/05 2012\nClub Maith\n- Hits: 3678\nThe Club are currently in the process of applying for Club Maith. Club Maith is a Club accreditation scheme that is unique to the GAA. It allows clubs to be benched marked against best practice standards across the full range of GAA club activity. The core areas include governance, duty of care, community outreach, culture and coaching and games.\nIn order to achieve this award, we need to comply with certain criteria as set out by the Ulster council. This will take the form of a portfolio completion followed by an assessment visit to the club.\nIf you would like to help in any way with this, please contact Richie Donoghue on 07515807563."}

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{"text": "Temple Beth Emunah is looking forward to celebrating the New Year together as a congregation.\nWe are planning on holding Rosh Hashana day services on Monday Oct 3 & Tuesday Oct 4, Kol Nidre service on Tuesday evening Oct 11 and Yom Kippur services on Wednesday Oct 12 in the social hall at:\nChrist Congregational Church\n1350 Pleasant St.\nBrockton, MA 02301\nMembership in Temple Beth Emunah is $750 for a couple/family and $500 for a single.\nMembers may purchase tickets for their guests at $75.00 per person. Non-Members may also purchase tickets for $125.00 per person. These are available for purchase in the temple office, by cash, check or credit card. This is a 50% discount off of last year prices!\nAs a reminder, all students and young adults under the age of 21 will be free of charge. Please let us know names and how many tickets are needed\nIf you have any questions, please contact the Temple Administrator Marcie Ingber, 508-583-5810, [email protected].\nWe wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year."}

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{"text": "- © 1998 American Society of Plant Physiologists\nAbstract (Λ = 1.3 nS in 1 M KCl), and slightly cation-selective ion channel in reconstituted proteoliposomes. The highest open probability (Popen ≈ β.\nINTRODUCTION\nCarbon dioxide reduction and its assimilation into carbohydrates, amino acids, fatty acids, and terpenoid compounds (Douce and Joyard, 1990) take place in chloroplasts. Annually, ~120 × 109 tons of CO2 is converted into organic substances by chloroplasts of higher land plants. In addition, chloroplasts are the sole site of nitrite and sulfate reduction (Anderson, 1990; Crawford, 1995) and their assimilation in organic compounds. Chloroplasts are surrounded by a pair of double membranes, the inner and the outer envelopes, which delimit spatially and temporally the chloroplastic compartment from the cytoplasm. Both outer and inner envelope membranes differ in structure, function, and biochemical properties but also cooperate, for example, in the synthesis of lipids or in protein translocation. The various biosynthetic functions of the chloroplasts require the existence of different and effective transport mechanisms of solutes across the envelope membranes to provide the cell with carbohydrates, organic nitrogen, and sulfur compounds. On the other hand, chloroplasts take up inorganic cations (K+, Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+), anions (nitrite, sulfate, and phosphate), and a variety of organic biosynthetic pathway intermediates, such as phosphoenolpyruvate, dicarboxylic acids, acetate, amino acids, and ATP to fulfill their biosynthetic tasks.\nThe outer envelope membrane is assumed to be freely permeable for most small molecular weight solutes (Flügge and Benz, 1984), like the outer membranes of mitochondria and Gram-negative bacteria (reviewed in Benz, 1994; Nikaido, 1994). The permeability of the outer membranes of mitochondria and Gram-negative bacteria is caused by poreforming proteins, designated porins, which share structural and functional features. Similar to these systems, the osmotic barrier against the cytosol is formed by the inner envelope membrane, containing specific carrier proteins of which some have been identified at the functional (reviewed in Flügge and Heldt, 1991) and the molecular (Weber et al., 1995; Fischer et al., 1997; Neuhaus et al., 1997) level.\nRecently, we have identified a channel-forming protein, OEP16, in the outer envelope membrane of pea chloroplasts. OEP16 selectively passes amino acids but excludes sugars, sugar phosphates, and organic acids (Pohlmeyer et al., 1997). Furthermore, a number of electrophysiological studies using either giant chloroplasts of Nitellopsis (Pottosin, 1992, 1993) or isolated envelope membrane vesicles from spinach (Flügge and Benz, 1984; Heiber et al., 1995) have described the presence of different voltage-dependent, high-conductance channels in the envelope membranes. None of these chloroplast channels has been identified, and thus, our understanding of how solutes cross the chloroplastic outer envelope is extremely limited.\nHere, we present a molecular characterization and functional reconstitution of a 24-kD chloroplastic outer envelope membrane protein, OEP24. The primary structure of OEP24 shows no homology to classic porins but shares structural and functional features. OEP24 reconstituted into liposomes forms a voltage-dependent, slightly cation-selective, high-conductance channel, which could conduct a variety of substrates, for example, sugars, sugar phosphates, dicarboxylic acids, amino acids, Pi, and ATP, across the membrane.\nRESULTS\nWith the exception of OEP16 (Pohlmeyer et al., 1997), no solute channels have been identified in the chloroplastic outer envelope. Accordingly, we have started to identify pore-forming proteins by using the following rationale. Solute transport, including protein transport, is a major task of the outer envelope membrane. Thus, proteins involved in transport should be prominent in this membrane, as has been shown for subunits of the protein translocon of chloroplastic outer envelopes Toc86, Toc75, and Toc34 (reviewed in Lübeck et al., 1997; Heins et al., 1998) or the amino acid–selective channel protein OEP16. An additional criterion that is common to many channel proteins is their resistance to proteolysis. One of the chloroplastic outer envelope proteins that met this criterion was prominent after SDS-PAGE and had an apparent molecular mass of 24 kD (data not shown). Therefore, N-terminal and internal protein sequences were obtained for the pea chloroplastic 24-kD protein, and a cDNA clone was isolated. Both peptide sequences were found in the deduced open reading frame, thus demonstrating that the cDNA clone peacOEP24 codes for the 24-kD protein (Figure 1A). The deduced amino acid sequence of peacOEP24 starts with the N-terminal protein sequence, indicating that OEP24 contains no cleavable chloroplast targeting signal. The calculated molecular mass of the deduced protein is 23.4 kD, and the protein has a pI of 9.1. The high content of hydrophilic amino acids (49%) is unusual for an integral membrane protein. A database search revealed no significant homologies to other proteins, except to expressed sequence tags from rice (EMBL accession numbers D41099 and D40417) and oilseed rape (EMBL accession number L30117), indicating that the 24-kD protein is present in both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants.\nAn antiserum was raised against the recombinant protein in a rabbit and used to study the subcellular and organ-specific distribution of the endogenous 24-kD protein. As shown in Figure 1B (lane 1), the antiserum predominantly recognized a polypeptide in the purified outer envelopes from pea chloroplasts. Minor cross-reactivity was observed with purified inner envelope vesicles (Figure 1B, lane 2), which is consistent with the reported cross-contamination of inner envelope membranes with outer envelope membranes (Keegstra and Youssif, 1986). The antiserum cross-reacted with neither stromal nor thylakoid proteins (Figure 1B, lanes 3 and 4) nor with a total membrane fraction from potato mitochondria (Figure 1B, lane 5). These data establish that the cDNA clone peacOEP24 codes for a chloroplastic outer envelope protein, which we named OEP24. OEP24 is present in plastids of roots, shoots, and leaves of pea plants grown either in the dark or in the light, demonstrating its presence in different plastid types (Figure 1C).\nAfter treatment of purified chloroplastic outer envelope vesicles with 0.1 M Na2CO3, pH 11.5, or 1 M NaCl, OEP24 was recovered in the insoluble membrane fraction (Figure 2A), indicating that it is an integral membrane protein (Fujiki et al., 1982). Hydropathy analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence and secondary structure prediction algorithms did not reveal any amino acid stretches sufficient to span the membrane in a helical conformation. However, seven putative amphiphilic β strands were predicted (Figure 2B), indicative of a pore-forming protein. To confirm the secondary structure prediction, circular dichroism (CD) spectra were obtained from heterologously expressed OEP24. The protein was recovered from insoluble inclusion bodies (Figure 3C, lane 1) and purified after denaturation in 6 M urea by successive anion and cation exchange chromatography, respectively (Figures 3A and 3B). This procedure resulted in an OEP24 preparation that was purified to apparent homogeneity (Figure 3C, lane 3).\nOEP24 Is Localized in the Chloroplastic Outer Envelope from Pea and Present in Different Plastid Types.\n(A) The amino acid sequence of OEP24 as deduced from the cDNA clone peacOEP24 (EMBL accession number AJ001009). Amino acids verified by peptide sequencing are underlined. The asterisk indicates the end of the protein sequence.\n(B) Immunoblot analysis of the subcellular localization of OEP24. Lane 1, outer envelope; lane 2, inner envelope; lane 3, thylakoids; lane 4, stroma; and lane 5, total mitochondrial membranes from potato equivalent to 20 μg of protein.\n(C) Expression of OEP24 in different pea plant organs. Lane 1, 5 μg of pea chloroplastic outer envelope protein; and lanes 2 to 5, total membrane protein (100 μg per lane) from green leaves (lane 2), green shoots (lane 3), roots (lane 4), and etiolated leaves (lane 5), respectively.\nOEP24 Behaves as an Integral Membrane Protein.\n(A) Pea chloroplastic outer envelopes (oe, 10 μg of protein) were either treated or not treated with 0.1 M Na2CO3, pH 11.5, or 1 M NaCl and separated into a soluble (S) and insoluble (P) protein fraction by centrifugation. The results of the immunoblot analysis are shown.\n(B) Shown is a hydropathy analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of OEP24 (Kyte and Doolittle, 1982) and secondary structure prediction by the algorithm of Claros and von Heijne (1994). The x-axis indicates number of amino acids; the y-axis is the hydropathy index (without dimension). The open rectangles indicate the positions of the β-strands.\nPurified OEP24 was reconstituted into liposomes (OEP24 liposomes), and the CD spectra were measured to determine changes in the relative abundance of secondary structure motifs during reconstitution (Figure 4A). Fractions of secondary structure calculated by the self-consistent method of Sreerama and Woody (1994) showed that the β sheet content increased drastically after reconstitution of the purified protein into liposomes (Figures 4A and 4B), whereas the spectra of urea-denatured OEP24 showed that the protein adopts a largely extended conformation. In the liposome membrane, the fraction of β sheets comprises ~50% of the OEP24 secondary structure motifs (Figure 4B). These calculated values corroborate well with the secondary structure prediction, which also indicates that β sheets are the most frequently occurring secondary structure in the folded protein.\nTo examine whether OEP24 forms a pore in vitro, we used the OEP24 liposomes for electrophysiological measurements with the bilayer technique. After fusion of OEP24 liposomes with the bilayer, single-channel currents could be observed (Figure 5A). At low membrane potentials, the channels were mainly open, and they were closed when higher membrane potentials were applied (Figure 5A). Figure 5 shows current recordings from a bilayer containing three active channels after application of a voltage step from 0 to +160 mV at t = 0. At higher membrane potentials, the same channel behavior was observed when voltage ramps were applied (Figure 5B). To estimate the ion selectivity and relative permeabilities of the OEP24 channel, the reversal potential Vrev was determined under a variety of ionic conditions (Table 1). The relative permeabilities to Ca2+:K+:Cl− ≅ 3.0:1:0.27 were calculated according to Allen and Sanders (1995). This shows that the OEP24 channel is highly permeable for Ca2+ ions and has a slight preference for cations (Table 1). Additional measurements of the relative permeability of the OEP24 channel yielded the following information: Cs+(1.2) > K+(1) > Na+(0.7) > Li+(0.6) > Tris+(0.3) > TEA+(0.1) (Table 1, where TEA is tetraethylamine and the numbers in parentheses are relative permeability). This series roughly reflects the relative mobility of the corresponding ions in solution. Therefore, these ions are likely to be transferred across the membrane without changes in their hydration status, indicating that the channel forms a wide pore and that its interaction with these ions is weak (Hille, 1992). The slope conductance as calculated from Figure 5A is Λ = 250 ± 15 pS (250/20 mM KCl, cis/trans). From the current voltage relationship of the open single channel, we obtained a similar slope conductance of Λ = 250 ± 12 pS. In bilayer experiments with symmetrical 1 molal KCl buffer, we calculated a slope conductance of Λ = 2.1 nS for the OEP24 channel (Figure 6C).\nExpression and Purification of OEP24.\nOEP24 was expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3) and recovered from insoluble inclusion bodies.\n(A) Insoluble protein was solubilized in 6 M urea and applied to an anion exchange chromatography matrix in 25 mM Hepes-KOH, pH 7.6, 6 M urea, 1 mM EDTA, and 1 mM β-mercaptoethanol. The column was developed with gradients from 0 to 0.5 and 0.5 to 1 M NaCl under the conditions mentioned above.\n(B) OEP24, which was recovered in the flowthrough, was further purified by cation exchange chromatography. Proteins were eluted by linear gradients from 0 to 0.5 and 0.5 to 1 M NaCl. OEP24 eluted at ~100 mM NaCl.\n(C) Lane 1, protein pattern of OEP24 recovered from inclusion bodies; lane 2, OEP24 obtained from the anion exchange flowthrough; and lane 3, OEP24 obtained by cation exchange chromatography from the 100 mM NaCl eluant. A silver-stained SDS–polyacrylamide gel is shown. Numbers at right indicate molecular mass markers in kilodaltons.\nIn (A) and (B), dotted lines indicate the salt gradient.\nStructural Analysis of OEP24.\n(A) CD spectra of OEP24 either denatured in 6 M urea or reconstituted into liposomes. CD spectra were recorded between 180 and 250 nm on a Jasco 720 CD spectropolarimeter, as described in Methods. Dotted line at center indicates the zero line. deg, degree.\n(B) Relative (rel.) abundance of OEP24 secondary structure either denatured in 6 M urea or reconstituted into liposomes, according to Sreerama and Woody (1994). P-II, disturbed helix in the presence of two prolines.\nDuring the course of the experiments, we also tested the electrophysiological properties of the reconstituted OEP24 protein that had been recovered as insoluble inclusion bodies without further purification (see Methods). As observed for OEP24 purified by successive ion exchange chromatography, channels closed immediately when higher membrane potentials were applied (Figure 6A). The other electrophysiological channel properties, that is, selectivity, voltage dependence, and conductance, as well as the CD spectra of the reconstituted protein (data not shown) obtained by using the one-step preparation protocol and those of OEP24 obtained by the more elaborate purification protocol, were identical. Therefore, in the experiments described below, we used OEP24 recovered from inclusion bodies.\nThe voltage dependence of the channel open probability is shown in Figure 6B. From this result (Figure 6B), it is apparent that the highest open probability (Popen) was maximal at a membrane potential of Vm = 0 mV, decreasing with increasing positive or negative potentials. These measurements were performed under conditions in which channel gating at a given voltage is expected to occur at equilibrium. Voltages were applied for 5 min to approach equilibrium, and only the current recordings of the last minute were used to calculate Popen. Above Vm = ±150 mV, the OEP24 channel is closed completely. In symmetrical buffers, the OEP24 channel showed a linear current–voltage relationship (Figure 5C), whereas the concentration dependence of the channel conductance approached saturation behavior at very high nonphysiological KCl concentrations (Figure 6C). Assuming Michaelis-Menten–type saturating ion fluxes, the limiting conductance of the channel would be Λmax at Λ 6.2 nS. However, at physiological solute concentrations, the solute fluxes through the OEP24 pore would be almost linear. By the assumption of a simple, water-filled pore, a diameter of ~3 nm can be calculated from the conductivities (Hille, 1992). The permeability of charged solutes was examined by studying changes in the reversal potential (Erev) resulting from the addition of the solutes to either the cis or trans-compartments (see Table 1).\nTo assess the permeability of OEP24 for different non-charged and charged solutes, we used the osmotically induced fusion of OEP24 liposomes with the planar bilayer. By using this technique, we could determine whether fusion of bilayer-attached liposomes was completely due to their osmotically induced swelling achieved by the addition of the osmoticum to the cis-compartment of the bilayer. By using membrane impermeable solutes, the presence of an open channel permeable for the osmotically active solute is essential (Miller et al., 1976; Woodbury and Miller, 1990; for details, see Methods). Because the OEP24 channel has its highest open probability at Vm = 0 mV, this method is suited ideally for testing permeation of substances through the open pore. As shown in Table 2, all of the examined substrates, which are of physiological relevance to chloroplast metabolism, were able to pass through the OEP24 channel. In the presence of sucrose, fusion events were detectable at only ⩽1% of the attempts, indicating that permeation through OEP24 channels is very slow or impossible (see below). TEA and Hepes also cannot permeate into the proteoliposomes. The main products of photosynthesis, such as hexosephosphates, triosephosphates, and ATP, which are exported to the cytosol, are channeled with the same efficiency as acetate, α-ketoglutarate, or Pi, which are taken up by mature chloroplasts (Preiss et al., 1993). All of the tested amino acids could penetrate into the liposomes through the OEP24 channel. Cadaverine, an effective inhibitor of bacterial porins, is also channeled by OEP24.\nElectrophysiological Properties of Purified Recombinant OEP24.\n(A) Current trace from a bilayer containing three active channel copies in response to a voltage jump from 0 to 160 mV at t = 0. The cis-chamber contained 250 mM KCl and 10 mM CaCl2, and the trans-compartment contained 20 mM KCl. The dotted line indicates the difference in current upon closure of one channel.\n(B) Current–voltage relationship of OEP24 after a voltage sweep (Δ = 20 mV/sec) from −150 mV to +180 mV. Solutions are as given in (A). The bilayer contained two active pores, which closed at high positive and negative potentials.\n(C) Current–voltage relationship of single-channel conductance (n ⩾ 3 for each data point). Experimental conditions are as given in (A). The line represents the linear regression of the data with a slope conductance of Λ = 291 ± 4.4 pS.\nThe light-scattering properties of OEP24 liposomes also were used to investigate the permeability of OEP24 to different noncharged or charged solutes. Turbidity changes of liposome suspension are related mainly to volume changes. After a fast increase in the osmolarity of the surrounding medium, the following is to be expected. If the liposome membrane is impermeable to the osmoticum, the liposomes will shrink. Little or no volume change is expected when the membrane is permeable to the solute. Depending on liposome status (unilamellar or multilamellar) and variation in the size distribution of vesicles and their average size (Yoshikawa et al., 1983; Viera et al., 1996), shrinking of the liposomes may induce positive or negative changes of turbidity. The size distribution can be measured qualitatively by the wavelength dependence of the turbidity, which can be approximated to λ−(x) in the region from 350 to 800 nm, where −(x) is a variable fit parameter. The wider the size distribution becomes, the smaller is the value of the exponent (x) (Yoshikawa et al., 1983). Changes in the osmolarity from Δ10 mOsm to Δ100 mOsm (where Osm stands for osmolar) by the addition of KCl and sucrose to liposomes containing no proteins induced turbidity changes in the same direction ([ΔA/A]400 nm = −0.08). For some solutes, only less concentrated stock solutions could be prepared, for example, ATP (Table 2). The lower ΔOsm values yielded smaller turbidity changes with the same sign ([ΔA/A]400 nm ⩾ −0.08).\nFor OEP24 liposomes, the addition of KCl, sucrose, and dextran (apparent molecular mass of 10 kD) produced different changes in suspension turbidity. Although the (ΔOsm)KCl of 100 mOsm produced a fast turbidity change of (ΔA/A)400 nm ⩾ 0.08, the addition of sucrose ([ΔOsm]sucrose of 100 mOsm) produced a slowly increasing turbidity change approaching a value of (ΔA/A)400 nm = 0.07, with a half-time of ~1.5 min. When dextran (apparent molecular mass of 10 kD) of (ΔOsm)dextran = 25 mOsm was added to the OEP24 liposome suspension, a turbidity change of (ΔA/A)400 nm = −0.018, which is a value almost identical to the one obtained for control liposomes ([ΔA/A]400 nm = −0.016), was observed, indicating that dextran cannot permeate the OEP24 channel. Concomitantly, no fusion of the OEP24 liposomes to planar bilayers was observed with dextran (apparent molecular mass of 10 kD) as the osmotically active solute. Although turbidity measurements have to be interpreted with caution, they can be interpreted as follows when combined with the results of bilayer fusion and the electrical measurements. (1) OEP24 is impermeable to dextran (apparent molecular mass of 10 kD). With this compound as the osmotically active solute, no fusion of OEP24 liposomes to planar bilayers was observed, and (ΔOsm)sucrose = 25 mOsm produced a moderate shrinkage of the liposomes. (2) OEP24 is only slowly permeable to sucrose. With sucrose as the osmotically active solute, fusion of OEP24 liposomes to planar bilayers was observed only very rarely. (With the applied fusion technique, the transit time of liposomes passing the bilayer area and allowing fusion to occur is <30 sec.) (3) OEP24 is highly permeable to KCl. Ion currents through the OEP24 pore carried by K+ and Cl− have been measured (see above). With KCl as an osmotically active solute, easy fusion of the OEP24 liposomes to planar bilayers was observed, and (ΔOsm)KCl = 100 mOsm produced a fast increase in the liposome volume.\nRelative Ion Permeability of OEP24 Liposomes\nElectrophysiological Properties of Reconstituted OEP24 Obtained from Insoluble Inclusion Bodies.\n(A) Current traces after voltage jumps from 0 to +120 mV and from 0 to −120 mV. cis- and trans-compartments contained symmetrical 250 mM KCl.\n(B) Open probabilities of the OEP24 pore. Conditions are as given in (A). To approach the equilibrium, given voltages were applied for 5 min, but only the mean current of the last minute was used as a representative steady state current.\n(C) Single-channel conductance at increasing KCl activity of the solution, revealing the saturation behavior of OEP24. Each data point represents the average of three independent measurements.\nBased on these data, we used the turbidity measurements to reinvestigate qualitatively the permeability of OEP24 to different noncharged solutes, as listed in Table 2. The results obtained for the permeability of OEP24 to different solutes by measuring changes in turbidity gave identical results in comparison with the electrical measurements to the osmotical-induced fusion of OEP24 liposomes. Taken together, these results show that the OEP24 forms a large rather nonselective pore.\nDISCUSSION\nThe different types of plastids are important cellular compartments involved in both the synthesis and storage of various compounds, for example, carbohydrates, lipids, and amino acids. Whereas the inner envelope membrane contains a number of already identified carrier proteins (Weber et al., 1995; Fischer et al., 1997; Neuhaus et al., 1997), only two channel proteins of the outer envelope, namely, Toc75 and OEP16, have been described. Toc75 forms the protein translocation channel of the outer envelope protein translocon (Hinnah et al., 1997). OEP16 is an amino-selective channel protein (Pohlmeyer et al., 1997) but not a general solute channel protein. In vitro electrophysiological measurements using heterologously expressed and reconstituted protein show that OEP24 forms a voltage-dependent, high-conductance solute channel with a slight selectivity for cations. Together, these results strongly suggest that OEP24 also forms a general solute channel in situ.\nSelectivity of Reconstituted OEP24 Channels\nFrom the protein-to-lipid ratio during reconstitution, we calculate that a maximum (100% reconstitution efficiency) of 15 OEP24 molecules per lipid vesicle can be obtained after reconstitution (Hinnah et al., 1997). Purified OEP24 does not contain >1% contamination by other proteins, as was determined from the silver-stained SDS–polyacrylamide gel. Thus, we expect (100% reconstitution; apparent molecular mass contamination of 30 kD) 0.1 molecules per lipid vesicle of a potential contaminant channel protein. In the course of the experiments, we observed that fusion events of single liposomes always led to multiple incorporation of active channels. Coincident fusion of at least 10 vesicles containing an average of 0.1 channel molecules within a time window of ~1 msec would be required to produce the observed simultaneous appearance of channel activity, which is extremely unlikely. Recently, the electrophysiological characterization of Toc75 (Hinnah et al., 1997) and OEP16 (Pohlmeyer et al., 1997) was reported. Both reports revealed properties very different from those of OEP24, even though the same expression system and Escherichia coli strains were used in all cases. Furthermore, cadaverine, an effective inhibitor of E. coli porins (DeLa Vega and Delcour, 1996), permeates through the OEP24 channel. Therefore, it seems most unlikely that the channel activity measured in our OEP24 preparations is due to a protein contamination from E. coli.\nOEP24 shows no homologies in its primary structure to other channel or porinlike proteins. However, secondary structure prediction algorithms and CD spectra of OEP24 liposomes indicate the presence of amphipathic β strands, which is the typical secondary structure of bacterial and mitochondrial porins (Cowan et al., 1992; De Pinto et al., 1991). The high content of hydrophilic amino acids in the primary sequence also seems to be a common feature of pore-forming proteins (Benz, 1994; Nikaido, 1994; Hinnah et al., 1997; Pohlmeyer et al., 1997). The high conductivity of OEP24 channels (2.1 nS in 1 molal KCl) and the calculated diameter of the aqueous pore of 2.5 to 3 nm indicate that the channel is formed by an oligomer. Chemical cross-linking of isolated purified outer envelope membranes indicates that OEP24 can form a homodimer, whereas heterooligomeric complexes were not observed (K. Pohlmeyer and J. Soll, unpublished results).\nOEP24 is present in differently developed plastids, that is, chloroplasts, etioplasts, and non-green plastids from roots. Recently, a 30-kD protein was described from pea proplastids that showed significant homology to mitochondrial porins from potato (Fischer et al., 1994; Heins et al., 1994). Biochemical data led to the assumption that the 30-kD porinlike pea protein was not present in chloroplasts but is restricted to proplastids only. This indicates the general relevance of the OEP24 as a general solute channel for plastid metabolism. The low substrate selectivity in vitro makes it probable that OEP24 functions as a general diffusion pore similar to porins in the outer envelope of Gram-negative bacteria and mitochondria. In line with this proposal, the open probability of the OEP24 channel is highest at 0 mV, which is similar to classic porins. Current evidence predicts that no significant membrane potential exists across the chloroplastic outer envelope (Douce and Joyard, 1990), resulting in an open OEP24 channel. Any other regulation mechanisms for OEP24 as they are predicted for porins remain to be established (Liu et al., 1994; Lee et al., 1996).\nOEP24 conducts most tested solutes, including amino acids, that are also selectively channeled by OEP16. The existence of selective channels might be necessary and useful under limiting rates of metabolic substrates. In this case, the concentration of amino acids drops below a certain threshold value, requiring high-affinity channeling. In the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, general diffusion pores and selective channels are also present side by side (reviewed in Nikaido, 1994). The electrophysiological characterization of purified outer envelope membranes indicates the presence of additional channel-forming activity (Hinnah et al., 1997). Similar conclusions have been drawn from electrophysiological measurements by using either giant chloroplasts from Nitellopsis (Pottosin, 1992, 1993) or a mixed outer and inner envelope preparation from spinach (Heiber et al., 1995). However, in these studies, it was not possible to differentiate between voltage-gated channels of the outer and inner envelope membranes, respectively. Because the previously identified chloroplastic outer membrane channels Toc75 and OEP16 are involved in protein translocation and specific channeling of amino acids, respectively, OEP24 represents the only nonselective channel protein identified in the outer envelope of chloroplasts.\nMETHODS\ncDNA Cloning and Overexpression\nSequence information was obtained by protease endoproteinase Glu-C (Boehringer Mannheim) digestion of SDS-PAGE purified OEP24 from chloroplastic outer envelope membranes (Cleveland, 1983). The deduced nucleotide sequences of the two peptides were used for a database search in dBEST. A homologous expressed sequence tag from rice (cDNA clone S3369; EMBL accession number D41099) was identified and used as a template to synthesize a random-primed digoxigenin-labeled probe by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), according to the manufacturer's recommendations (Boehringer Mannheim). A pea cDNA expression library (UniZAP XR; Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) was screened with this probe, resulting in the isolation of peacOEP24. Both strands were sequenced (Sanger et al., 1977). The cDNA sequence reported in this study has EMBL accession number AJ001009. A NdeI site was introduced at the first methionine of the coding region of peacOEP24 by PCR, using the forward primer 5′-GGGGGGCATATGAAGGCCGCTTTGAAGGGCAAATACGAC-3′ and the universal primer. The PCR product was digested with NdeI and XhoI and ligated into pET21b, resulting in peacOEP24pet. Overexpression was done after transforming Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) cells (Novagen, Madison, WI). Recombinant OEP24 was recovered from insoluble inclusion bodies (Waegemann and Soll, 1995).\nPurification of Recombinant Protein\nFor further purification, the protein was dissolved in 6 M urea, 50 mM Hepes-KOH, pH 7.6, 1 mM EDTA, and 10 mM β-mercaptoethanol and passed over an anion exchange resin (Source Q; Pharmacia) as a first step of the purification protocol. OEP24 was recovered in the flowthrough and passed over a MonoS cation exchanger (Pharmacia) from which it was eluted at ~100 mM NaCl. The protein was dialyzed against water, freeze dried, and used for reconstitution experiments.\nIsolation of Membrane Vesicles\nPea (Pisum sativum var Golf) plants were grown for 12 to 14 days in a growth chamber under a 14-hr-light and 10-hr-dark regime. Intact chloroplasts were isolated from leaves and further purified by silica–sol gradients (Waegemann and Soll, 1991). After shrinking the intact chloroplasts (0.65 M sucrose and 20 mM Tricine, pH 7.9) and rupturing them with 50 strokes by using a Dounce homogenizer, thylakoids were spun down at 4000g. The supernatant was subjected to a further centrifugation at 200,000g, resulting in a membrane pellet that was used for separation of outer and inner membrane vesicles by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, according to Keegstra and Youssif (1986). The supernatant contained all soluble proteins and was described as the stromal extract. The thylakoids were washed at least twice (50 mM Na-Pi buffer, pH 7.4, and 10 mM NaCl) before further use. Mitochondrial membranes were isolated from potato mitochondria, according to Braun et al. (1992).\nLiposomes\nSmall liposomes were obtained by dissolving 50 mg/mL azolectin (type IV S; Sigma) in 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0, by using the microtip of a sonifier (Branson, Danbury, CT). Liposomes were freeze thawed once.\nInsoluble inclusion bodies containing OEP24 were solubilized in 8 M urea, 80 mM MEGA-9 (Calbiochem, Bad Soden, Germany), and 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0, and mixed with the preformed liposomes to a final concentration of 0.1 mg of protein per 10 mg of azolectin. The suspension was freeze thawed and sonified in a supersonic bath. After 1.5 hr of incubation at room temperature, the suspension was dialyzed overnight against buffer containing 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0, at 4°C and used for bilayer measurements.\nPurified OEP24 was resuspended in 80 mM MEGA-9, 6 M urea, and 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0, and reconstituted as described above.\nCircular Dichroism Spectroscopy\nCircular dichroism (CD) spectra were measured by using a Jasco-J-720 spectropolarimeter (Jasco Labor- und Datentechnik GmbH, Gross-Umstadt, Germany) after calibration with (±)-10-camphorsulfonic acid. The spectra were recorded at 20°C in a quartz cell with a 0.5-cm optical length path. Scans were performed at a rate of 0.2 nm/sec and averaged (n = 100) to improve the signal/noise ratio. Both samples (OEP24 in 6 M urea and OEP24 liposomes) were adjusted to the same protein concentration: 50 ± 20 μg protein.\nElectrophysiological Measurements\nPlanar lipid bilayers were produced by using the painting technique (Mueller et al., 1962; Miller and White, 1984). A solution (1μL) of 50 mg/mL l-α-azolectin in n-decan was applied to a hole (100 to 200 μm in diameter) in a Teflon septum, separating the two bath chambers (total volume ~3 mL each), which were equipped with magnetic stirrers. The resulting bilayers had a typical capacitance of ~0.5 μF/cm2 and a resistance of >100 GΩ. The noise was ~1 pA (root mean square) at 5 kHz bandwidth. After a stable bilayer was formed in symmetrical solutions of 20 mM KCl and 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0, the solution of the cis-chamber was changed to asymmetrical concentrations (cis-chamber; 250 mM KCl, 10 mM CaCl2, and 10 mM Mops-Tris, pH 7.0) by adding concentrated solutions of KCl and CaCl2. The liposomes were added to the cis-compartment directly below the bilayer through the tip of a micropipette to allow the flow of the liposomes across the bilayer. If necessary, the solution in the cis-chamber was stirred to promote fusion. After fusion, the electrolytes were changed to the final composition by perfusion. The Ag/AgCl electrodes were connected to the chambers through 2 M KCl–agar bridges. The electrode of the trans-compartment was connected directly to the headstage of a current amplifier (EPC 7; List-electronic, Darmstadt, Germany). Reported membrane potentials are referred to the trans-compartment. The amplified currents were recorded on a modified digital audio tape recorder digitized at a sampling interval of 0.2 msec and fed into an Axolab 1100 A/D converter (Axon Instruments, Foster City, CA) to store on the hard disk of an IBM-compatible personal computer. For analysis, a Windows-based analysis software (SCIP single channel investigation program) developed in our laboratory was used in combination with Origin 4.1 (Microcal Software Inc., Northampton, MA).\nElectrophysiologically Monitored Flux of Charged Solutes\nThe permeability ratio of the cation-to-anion fluxes of the charged solute was determined by measuring the equilibrium potential and by using the Nernst equation. Therefore, a 10-fold concentration gradient of the solute was used for all experiments.\nElectrophysiologically Monitored Osmotic Permeation Assay\nBilayers were produced as described above. A highly concentrated solution of the solute to be tested was then added to the cis-chamber to reach a final concentration of 250 mM. Concentrated CaCl2 and KCl solutions were also added to a final concentration of 20 mM each (calcium was added only on the cis-side). Liposomes containing reconstituted OEP24 were applied as described above. A membrane potential of 100 mV was applied (trans-chamber positive). The pH of the solute stock solution was adjusted by using tetraethylamine (TEA)/OH and Hepes. Neither ion was able to promote fusion on its own. All other conditions were as outlined previously (Miller et al., 1976; Woodbury and Miller, 1990).\nOptical Measurements\nTime scan (duration, 2 min) absorbance measurements were performed in an Aminco DM2000 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (SLM-Aminco; Spectronic Instruments, Inc., Rochester, NY) at 400 nm. Liposomes equivalent to an optical density of 0.15 to 0.2 were equilibrated in 1 mL of a solution containing 10 mM TEA-Hepes, pH 7, and 10 mM KCl. The absorbance at 400 nm was monitored for 15 sec, and the osmotically active solute was added from a 1 M stock solution (in the case of ATP, a 200 mM stock was used). After stirring for 10 sec, the change of absorbance was monitored continuously up to 2 min. The pH of the stock solutions was titrated by addition of TEA/OH or solid Hepes, when required. The relative changes of the turbidity at 400 nm were calculated according to where Abaseline is the average absorbance (i = 10 sec) before the addition of the osmoticum, and Asat is the average absorbance during the last 10 sec of the measuring interval of 120 sec. When required, the apparent absorbance changes were corrected for those resulting from changes in the refractive index after addition of the osmoticum.\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS\nThis work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.\n- Received February 19, 1998.\n- Accepted May 11, 1998.\n- Published July 1, 1998."}

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{"text": "How One Senator’s Vote Can Affect Another’s\nWill Joe Lieberman be the first Democratic domino to fall on health-care reform? Will Olympia Snowe be the first Republican one?\nGetting health-care reform to this point has been like a game of chess, a test of strategic skill, with each move prompting a countermove as the surviving elements of the bills progress through the process. It's a major accomplishment for President Obama and the Democrats to have gotten this far, but now the game changes. From here on, passing legislation is more like a game of dominoes than chess, with lawmakers who fall into line taking their neighbors down with them. (Click here to follow Eleanor Clift)\nTalking with one of the pro-reform lobbyists on health care, I learned to my surprise that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is a crucial swing vote. If he turns against it, he may take others with him. He's not on either of the Senate committees that wrote the bills being considered, and he's just one vote. But if you can't get Lieberman, an independent Democrat, to vote for health-care reform, you're unlikely to get conservative, red-state Democrats like Evan Bayh of Indiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska to back it, since they'll be reluctant to be seen as to the left of Joe Lieberman.\nLieberman caught some flak from Democrats this week for declaring on the Don Imus show that he opposes the Baucus bill in its current form. He's been echoing Republican criticism for some time that Obama is trying to do too much and that health-care reform should be done piecemeal. Insurance industry warnings that premiums will rise under the Baucus plan gave Lieberman more ammunition.\nThen again, the insurance industry report backfired when advocates of a public option used it to bolster their case that without it, there's no brake on rising premiums. Liberal senators like New York's Chuck Schumer and West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller are fighting hard for a public option, but they're dismissed as the usual suspects. They don't carry anywhere near the under-the-radar clout of Lieberman or the outsized influence of Olympia Snowe, the only Republican on the Senate Finance Committee who voted for the Baucus bill.\nLieberman is opposed to a public option, saying it's a nonstarter for him. My pro-reform health-care lobbyist tells me that if Democrats make the public option essential to passage of reform, the whole thing will implode. When she starts counting votes to see how the Democrats could reach the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to avoid a Republican filibuster, she figures they could probably get Lieberman to accept a trigger, meaning that if the insurance companies don't live up to their promises to lower costs and keep premiums reasonable, a government option would automatically kick in after three to five years. She calls it a \"sword of Damocles over the industry that they need to do the right thing, because they won't do it on their own.\"\nSnowe is the trigger lady. It's her idea, and the Democrats will have her support only if they have the trigger. She would bring along Lieberman. And if the guy who feels most at home hanging around with John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Susan Collins can vote for health-care reform on the Senate floor, that gives a sign to centrist Democrats to fall in line. Lieberman considers himself an economic centrist, a foreign-policy hawk, and a social liberal, which means that he usually votes with Democrats on domestic policy.\nSome Democrats have been taken aback by his harsh comments about the health-care effort, but this kind of histrionics is what happens when you get near the end of a long legislative process. Connecticut is home to a number of insurance companies, and in a system that relies on campaign contributions, Lieberman represents them as well as the growing number of political independents in his state. How that bears on his vote is what makes him unpredictable.\nSome Democrats wonder whether his committee chairmanship shouldn't be at risk if he doesn't vote with the Democrats to overcome the 60-vote procedural hurdle to allow health reform to be taken up on the Senate floor. That's a matter of party solidarity, but since Lieberman is no longer a registered Democrat, how much does he owe the party? More relevantly, what does the party owe him? Some Republicans are wondering the same thing about Snowe, and whether she should pay a price for her apostasy. The answer is that it's a short walk across the aisle for either of them to change parties.\nGetting health-care reform passed is about counting votes, not passing moral judgments on the motivations of any of the key players. Snowe's independence from her party plays well in Maine, and Lieberman's does not play as well in liberal-leaning Connecticut. But he's not up for reelection until 2012. In the end, it's hard to believe that Lieberman would risk his hard-won standing among the Democrats by bolting to the Republicans on such a central issue, but keeping everybody guessing is an art form that pays dividends on Capitol Hill."}

{"text": "Who Does What...\n& How your Materials will be used\nSTYLIST\nWhat she does:\n- Your Stylist figures out what outfits best suit you personally and professionally. Your first step before a photo shoot.\nWhat she needs from you:\nPUBLICIST\nWhat she does:\n- Your Publicist pitches you to print, radio, and TV media, and she may do social media. She woos the journalists for coverage.\nWhat she needs from you:\n- She needs a short bio for press releases – she has limited space.\n- She needs it Word, not a PDF (which is not copy-able), nor cut/pasted from your site. She needs to edit it slightly to appear locally written.\n- Articles! She needs quick access to any press, to entice journalists to interview you. It gives her a sense of your personality, too.\n- Photos! She wants editorial photos (casual, less contrived-looking, as if a magazine photographer took them) to supply to blogs, newspaper and magazines. Formal publicity photos are, confusingly, rarely used in actual publicity; they’re used in house programmes. They should be avoided in social media.\nMARKETING MANAGER\nWhat she does:\n- The Marketing Manager generates the advertisements in print, radio, television, and online. She may also do social media, ie, maintain the presenter’s Facebook page, Twitter account, etc. She may also create brochures outlining the upcoming concert season. Sales reps from the media woo her to buy ad space.\nWhat she needs from you:\n- She wants clean, professional, high-res photos with a clear background. When she adds concert and ticket info, sponsor logos, and box office info, the ad gets busy very quickly. Both publicity stills and editorial photos are considered by the marketing manager.\n- She wants to see your quote sheet, as a positive quote from a journalist is placed at the top of an ad. She wants professional level music sound bytes ready to go, for radio ads. If you have B-roll (short video clips of you in action), fantastic – that’ll be used for the electronic sign outside the venue, or TV ads. YouTube links are handy, so she can check out your act, and have a better sense of it, in order to sell it.\nHOUSE PROGRAM EDITOR\nWhat she does:\n- The House Program Editor gathers everything you see in the programme handed out at the concert. Ie, bios, photos, sponsor logos, repertoire lists, ad placement, etc.\n- She is also responsible for programme inserts that are purchased in advance by another performing arts group, or creates last-minute inserts in the case of a replacement artist, or repertoire change.\nWhat she needs from you:\n- She is very stressed because people don’t respect her deadlines.\n- She needs the publicity photo for your bio page. A close up head shot is ideal. If you have a fabulous vertical photo, it could make the cover of the house programme.\n- She needs your short bio, as many house programs have limited space. It must be in Word, because she has strict formatting guidelines, (classical music is full of particular formatting – italicizing vs. quote marks, etc.) and there are spelling differences between Canada and US for her to edit.\nWEBSITE MANAGER\nWhat she does:\n- She maintains the presenter website, and must update it regularly. She sends e-blasts to hundreds of ticket buyers. She may do social media.\nWhat she needs from you:\n- She needs terrific horizontal photos suitable for the presenter’s website.\n- She may use head shots for your specific concert page on the website.\n- Press quotes may be used to sell your concert, too.\n- Most presenters include programme notes for the public to download and study in advance; again, this is where your short bio will be used.\n- A great video or YouTube link may be sent out to thousands of subscribers or single ticket buyers to entice them to purchase. Keep your video to 3 minutes or less."}

{"text": "Yoga\nA regime/routine that unites to the one, who is called supreme, is called Yoga. Yoga probably is one science that has had a lasting impact since the time of inception. The greatness of the philosophy is such, that, it kept on changing itself as per the requirements of the time and generations.\nA great seer and profound philosopher Patanjali introduced a different way of living approximately around 2nd Century BC in the form of Yoga Darshan. Even before that, Lord Krishna expounded his wisdom about different type of Yoga practices. Since then, Yoga has been taught in different ways to different generations according to their requirements.\nIn modern world, Yoga is a symbol of the art of uplifting oneself to the level of the universal soul. It also teaches that perfection in our action is one of the forms of yogic practice itself. To see oneself in the cosmos and to see the cosmos in oneself has been the basic principle of Yoga.\nHis Greatness Patanjali has explained yoga in its most practical form in Patanjali Yoga Sootra. He has explained Yoga as Ashtanga Yoga. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharna, Dhayan, and Smadhi are eight steps in this Ashtanga Yoga. One who masters all these eight steps is said to achieve the highest graduation of life – the salvation.\nWe make you indulge yourself with a general yoga class and help you to cultivate a practice of following the yogic rituals in your daily routine. You can have a personal class with a yoga teacher and learn the basics that you need for yourself. We understand the individual world and customize postures as per the suitability of an individual. All you need to do is indulge yourself in the lap of Nature and get spoiled by this world of transformation.Leave a reply →\noeptu48fmcw73igjhwq32rReply →\ndkdkdkReply →\ndkdkdkReply →\nw3iyw[mcASQEWIECLReply →\nw3iyw[mcASQEWIECLReply →"}

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{"text": "Police Corruption\nSo far we’ve had a great run with the Police in Mexico, who have all but ignored us everywhere we’ve been.\nNeither of us thought for a second that was going to last.\nWe’ve been told over and over again the main drag of downtown Puerto Vallarta is fantastic at night, so we set off on a little adventure. Two of the guys we are walking with have been smoking a substance that is not illegal here and we’re all drinking beer, again something that is perfectly legal. We’re walking down a narrow, built-up residential street when we see the Police coming straight at us in their pickup-truck cruiser. They jump out and very quickly grab our hands to smell them – asking if we’ve been smoking anything tonight. It’s very obvious they can tell who has been smoking and who has not, and they line us up, hands on the hood of the cruiser to frisk us.\nThe atmosphere is very relaxed and I don’t feel scared or threatened at all, in fact it’s all quite amusing and I continue to drink from my beer can while everything is going on. I have not been smoking, so they are not really focusing on me. The only hint that this is serious comes when one of the officers puts his hand protectively on his sidearm as I walk behind him. Even though the tone is quite relaxed he clearly didn’t want to risk me making a lunge for it.\nThe officer frisks me very, very throughly and goes to work on my wallet which has almost nothing in it. He opens every compartment and puts everything on the hood. Interestingly, he makes me remove my money and hold onto it while he’s searching – apparently if he blatantly took it from me I could launch a formal complaint against him and he would be in serious trouble. After all the frisking and searching turns up nothing, it becomes clear they want money from us.\nThen, just as quickly as they came, they drive off leaving us standing there wondering what happened.\nWe walk only a few hundred meters further down the road before they show up and start demanding money once again. We are later told they are trying to avoid a scene as they don’t want others to see they are extorting money from tourists for no good reason. This charade is repeated twice more before it’s very clear they are not going to leave us alone until we pay them off. Exactly how much money they want is difficult to determine, and I’m happy when they make it clear they want nothing from me as I have not been smoking. Even though we have technically done nothing wrong, they know we are tourists and therefore seem to be fair game. The unspoken threat here is throwing us in jail for the night, which from all accounts is pretty unpleasant.\nThe two smokers eventually hand over 100 pesos each ($USD 7.70) which turns into another big charade. The officer snatches the money and deliberately throws it on the floor of the cruiser, before launching into a speech about how he’s actually the good guy here. If he wasn’t ‘helping’ us, we’d all be in federal prison for the night and would wind up paying ten times more money to get out. He makes a point of telling us he doesn’t need to tell us how nasty federal prison is.\nIn fact, we’re all very lucky he came along to help us out and we should be thanking him for being such a nice guy.\nYeah, right.\nThey zoom off into the night and we have no more trouble for the night. So it cost our group all of $15 USD to get a lesson in Police corruption. I’m later told Police in Mexico work for very low wages and operate under the constant threat of serious violence, so bribery is their way of making things ‘fair’.\nLesson learned with no harm done.\n-Dan\nMexico has so many good people that put up with corruption their entire lives. If the government were not corrupt the gangs wouldn’t be so prevalent. I sometimes think the people of Mexico need a revolution to overthrow their corrupt government, but history tells me this often doesn’t turn out better in Mexico, Central, and South America. It’s a complex issue and the citizens of those countries are trapped. The one good thing they have is tourism and the corruption is quickly killing that.\nI have a friend that rode his motorcycle down the Pan Am Hwy and had to pay several “tickets” to police in Columbia and other countries. He got a $60 “ticket” while changing a tire.\nI’d love to read your thoughts on a solution. Not sure what the best solution is…\nIt’s simply part of life down here. I haven’t yet decided if it’s entirely bad.. there are some advantages that I’ll be writing about in a future post.\nWell now Dan, good thing you ran into some “helpful” Policia – you got off quite cheaply….. 😉\nDavid\nYep, could have been a lot worse.\nnice to know the “goodguys” r there to “help”!! better luck next time\nYeah, it wasn’t a big deal, more of an amazing experience.\nhave you seen the lamonthe film\nNo, I don’t know what that is…\nron lamonthe is an independant filmmaker that happened to be shooting a documentary about chris mccandles at the same time as sean penn’s movie.it’s pretty cool & gives some new facts about chris’s adventure\nThanks very much J.T. I really want to watch that documentary soon.\nAs a cop, I am disgusted by such behavior. I might vomit on my keyboard right now. Sheds light on just how good we have it here in the U.S. Could you imagine if we did that type of stuff to tourists in Times Square? And it was considered the norm? **shudders**\nYep, it’s certainly a different world down here.\nEvery day I think about how luck I am to have been born in Australia for a huge number of reasons.\nWOW! That is absolutely ridiculous! I’m really happy it was only 15$ and you guys stayed safe though! Keep Truckin’ (Or jeepin’) and stay safe!!\nHey Katie – it was pretty crazy at the time, but as I said completely harmless.\nI´ve talked to a lot of different people about the law enforement here and they are actually starting to grow on me… there are certainly a huge number of plusses to living in Mexico, so of course there will be a minus or two.\nhi dan, reading this late, im so sorry that you got that impresion of my country. as you said, smoking pot its not legal, and they shouldnt do anything to you. email me if you need any advice or where to go, and how to act to this things. pardon our law forces. sincerily carlos.\nCarlos, Thankyou for the reply and the offer of assistance.\nI want to start out by saying I am not upset or angry at all about the police and what happened. Every country in the world has good aspects and bad ones, and in every country those things are different.\nThe more I come to think about it, the more I don´t mind how the Police treated me and my friends.\nI still absoltely love Mexico, and if I have to pay off the odd Policeman to stay here, I willingly accept that.\nPlease don´t get the impression I think Mexico is a bad place, quite the opposite is true.\nIt´s amazing how man Candians and Americans I have met here who love the amount of freedom in Mexico compared to their own countries."}

{"text": "Palm Oil (32 ounces - 2lbs :: 907grams)\nPalm oil is a natural oil that has been consumed for more than 5,000 years. It gives any recipe a rich flavor. Palm oil is a natural source of Vitamin E and Vitamin A. Naturally reddish in color because of a high beta-carotene content, palm oil, along with coconut oil, is one of the few highly saturated vegetable fats.\nPopularly used in Ghana and Nigeria to make Akara (Fried Bean Cake), Moyin-Moyin (Steamed Bean Cake) and Gbegiri (Bean Soup). Palm oil is use to cook, make soap and direct application for body ailments.\nPalm oil has so many uses, but most commonly used as a.\nTECHNICALS\nPalm oil differences are in color (raw palm kernel oil lacks carotenoids and is not red), and in saturated fat content: Palm mesocarp oil is 41% saturated, while Palm Kernel oil and Coconut oil are 81% and 86% saturated respectively\nIt is semi-solid at room temperatures and)."}

{"text": "Forrest Gander\n2011 Witter Bynner Fellowship & 2011 National Book Critics Circle Finalist\nReviewed by Sima Rabinowitz for Dragonfire\nDisfamiliar: there couldn't be a more apt way to describe Gander's diction, his unique assemblage of scientific terms (the language of geology, botany, medicine), onomatopoetic renderings of animal sounds, uncommon, archaic and erudite words, phrases in Spanish, and neologisms, made-up words like 'disfamiliar' that rely on conventions they challenge to render them new or unknown and, at the same time, recognizable, which is to say familiar. 'Dis' stands in for 'un,' distancing us from what we know and expect, then drawing us nearer to a new understanding. Gander is demonstrating, quite literally, a fundamental truth of the finest poetry: it is not unfamiliar; it is exquisitely disfamiliar.\nForrest Gander Home\nBio\nBooks & Translations\nEssays & Reviews\nPerformance\nLinks\nRecommended Readings\nMy Work In Translation"}

{"text": "Hey there!\nHave you seen the new eyeshadow palettes by e.l.f.? They are stepping up their game folks!\nEven though I don’t wear eyeshadow, I paused when I saw this email flash across my screen. e.l.f. introduced the palettes as “a whole new beauty game”. I think they are right! You can go with matte, nude, smoky or party eyes for $10 per palette. And, we all know that if you just wait 3 days, there will be a BOGO sale or 40% off sale or something! So don’t let that $10 throw you off.\nI was impressed by the e.l.f. Studio Mad for Matte Palette the most. I saw 10 of the creamiest looking basic shades I had ever seen. There are already 4 reviews that sing the praises of this baby. And, the packaging looks very nice. Not sure what it looks like in person but I’d certainly take a gamble.\nThe e.l.f. Studio Everyday Smoky Palette pretty too. It simply has more shimmer shades than I’d like to have. But they look to be very versatile (lid, crease, blend, etc.) and a great mix of colors. I like a basic palette that you can use everyday.\ne.l.f. Studio Party Ready Palette is the one that gives you some fun colors. There’s a raspberry in there that I’d love to try and the purple shade is going to work with many skin tones. The dark blue and charcoal shimmer colors are great smoky eye colors and you can take the first 4 and blend them into night time with the next 6.\nThe e.l.f. Studio Need It Nude Palette appears to be similar to the e.l.f. Studio Mad for Matte Palette but if you look closely, you see the extra shimmer and they shades are too close in nature to me. Even though it boasts 10 colors, I’d say that you only have 4 or 5 shades. You are definitely going to get a nude affect and nude on my complexion (MAC NC42) is just no makeup at all.\nLike I said, I don’t wear eyeshadow because of my eye condition but I still like to look at them and I know what I like. If I could, I’d purchase the e.l.f. Studio Mad for Matte Palette and the e.l.f. Studio Everyday Smoky Palette. I’d rock them on a daily basis and then throw in the e.l.f. Studio Party Ready Palette when someone purchased it for me or I got it for free. I’d probably leave the e.l.f. Studio Need It Nude Palette alone.\nHave you seen these? Are you thinking about getting them? Are you going to pay full price or wait for BOGO?\nGo on with your bad self, e.l.f.!"}

{"text": "09.07.19Replacing “Learning Styles” with “Attention Types”\nI’ve been thinking a lot about the persistence of people’s belief in learning styles lately. Everywhere I go, teachers and coaches talk about the idea as if was established fact when in reality it is an idea without scientific basis.\nRecently, I started asking myself Why is the myth so persistent when a little bit of reading should debunk it? Why does it appear to be so intuitively obvious that people don’t even think to question it? It must resonate with people for a logical reason. Such wide-spread allegiance to a flawed idea can’t be random.\nThis morning I read the chapter on attention in Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life and it helped me to make sense of some possible reasons why.\nJohnson starts his chapter by picking apart the idea of attention. It is not one thing but several things at once. “Even if the proverbial man on the street continues to think of attention as a unified thing, neuroscientists and psychologists know it to be a collection of different skills, sometimes overlapping and sometimes not.” Attention is the ability process information coming into the brain from different sensory sources in a series of steps: you must sustain concentration on the stimulus and then encode it in short term memory for example.\n‘Switching’ might be the most important function in attention. Switching is the brain determining what information (and which sensory channel) to attend to and what to ignore.\n“At any given moment,” Johnson writes, “so much data about the external world enters your brain through your sensory channels that the key proficiency of consciousness is not the ability to perceive the external world but rather the ability to shut so much of it out… you think being conscious means perceiving everything around you but in fact it means perceiving small slices of reality and .still being able to switch back and forth between them with extraordinary ease.”\nSo to sum, we receive the information that causes us to learn through our senses and everyone has a unique profile of how well they tend to process information presented through different sensory channels. The most important skill is the ability to coordinate and move fluidly among those channels.\nThis is probably why learning styles/multiple intelligences holds such sway. It is an (simplistic) means of describing to ourselves the fact that we take in information through a variety of channels–the sensory channels map to the “intelligences” people most often refer to casually, I think–and it countenances the fact that we can be better at encoding information through some of our senses vs others. ( Johnson notes that he listens well but takes in visual information less effectively.) It also gestures to the idea of dual coding, for which there is scientific basis. There are times when we can increase learning by presenting information through both visual and auditory channels. Oliver Caviglioli has a great book on the topic.\nBut here’s where the science starts to expose flaws in ‘learning styles’ theory. First, different sensory channels are required for different tasks. They are not interchangeable and we don’t often get a choice. You can believe you are stronger at attending to information that’s presented visually but that won’t help you when a situation requires attending via the auditory channel. And most likely you’re not that accurate in your perception of which channel you use better. You notice attention as a single thing.\nWhen encoding information in working memory–trying to remember a phone number, say–you are very likely to use an “auditory loop,” repeating the information to yourself to keep from forgetting it. You do this whether you hear the phone number or read it. If you want to think through an action in reverse you will rely on your visual system. It’s designed to remember in reverse order, where as the auditory attention system finds reversing the order of things incredibly difficult.\nTo attend and therefore to learn this is to say, you have to be good at using and coordinating all of your attention systems and you have to be good at using them when the context demands it. The idea that there is choice for learners is inaccurate. In most cases, different types of information require specific attentional systems to process them. Either way, you have to be good at all of them and good at switching among them. You must be able to choose the right attention system for any task and apply it.\nSo if someone claimed to be a ‘visual learner’ and meant presumably ‘I process better through visual channels,’ we would want to consider, first, that she might well be wrong.\nSecond we would want to recognize that the right teaching move would not be to present more information to her visually. This would be irrelevant because in most cases the information and the structure of our brains tell us what sensory channel we must use.\nThird, if there were any discretion in how to present information the ideal move would be to steer the learner to situations that required her weaker systems to develop- to avoid letting her rely on what was easiest and most intuitive.\nSo if learning style theory persists because it is a simplistic description–well, distortion–of a complex cognitive process, it is still counter-productive because it presumes that people have a natural predilection and this should be taught to.\nThe theory is persistent because it contains a faint echo of experience; it’s counterproductive because in the end it causes us to misunderstand that experience. If you’re tempted to study ‘learning styles,’ I’d recommend studying the science on attention instead. Johnson’s book is a good starting point."}

{"text": "Some real-life excerpts from the conversations between Torie and I.\n\"That dog and that baby should get married and live in hell.\"\n\"People that don't know about shit shouldn't try to talk about it to sound informed.\"\n\"I miss Sirius Black.\"\n\"I did all the crap I was supposed to. Can I have wine now?\"\n\"How's your rash?\" \"Same, how's yours?\" \"Same.\"\n\"They're lucky I don't own a god-damned gun.\"\n\"I always approve of drunk texting.\"\n\"Be careful, you may end up in the Painful Lives section of the bookstore.\"\n\"Add that to your list of things-to-ask-the-doctor-about.\"\n\"That bitch!!!\"\n\"And by StupidFace, you mean David Cameron, right?\"\n\"Your input is appreciated.\"\n\"Woah. That shit belongs in Painful Lives for sure.\"\n\"Agreed: McGeorge Bundy IS the worst name ever.\"\n\"Thiiiiiiiinner!\" \"RACCCCCCCHHHHEEEEEL!\"\n\"Have a giant glass of wine and a bacon sandwich.\"\n\"That dog didn't look too impressed in that photo.\"\n\"Call me. I need international emotional support.\"\n\"Why the hell don't they have foam parties in America?!\"\n\"Care for some ORANGE JUICE?!\" \"Why yes, thank you! I love it when people offer me orange juice.\" \"What's that? You don't just STEAL their JUICE out of their fridge?!\"\n\"I need you. To hold up my ass when I drink.\"\n\"You're injured again?! How the hell did you manage that?\"\n\"No, you can't eat my fish and chips!\"\n\"Good thing we have Steve preparing Mars for sustainable human life.\"\n\"Neil, Bobby, and Jack all deserve to be drunk to!\"\n\"Being doped up all the time is definitely losing its touch.\"\n\"Make your teddy dance for me!\"\n\"I'm being all historyish and it's annoying people.\"\n\"Basically she's a bitch.\"\n\"Bacon sandwiches help everything.\"\n\"I love that picture! We must have been drinking at that point.\"\n\"CHICAGOCHICAGOCHICAGOCHICAGO\""}

{"text": " camera person that it is her country.\nA Facebook video recorded by bystander and advocate Maria J. Navarro shows how Maria intervened on behalf of the woman and her daughter when the woman began harassing them somewhere in Downtown LA that some have identified on the post as between 7th and 8th at Grand.\nSuch racism will not be tolerated in Los Angeles or anywhere else.\nMore details to come…\n#themexicanamericanwasneverended"}

{"text": "Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen were gracious and surprisingly down-to-Earth from moment one.\nThey arrived at their rented Lakeview apartment after an all-day book tour here in Chicago and when I asked if they wanted a break before we started shooting, they declined and with tired boys in tow casually welcomed me on in.\nWhat do you love about Real Housewives? Leave a comment below to win an autographed copy of Alex and Simon's new book, \"Little Kids, Big City\"\nWe spent about 10 minutes at the front door unable to get the key working during which they remained completely calm and unruffled, but sounding just like my husband and I would sound in a situation like that.\nSimon:\"Are you SURE that's the right key?\nAlex: \"YES, absolutely, I used it this morning, I am absolutely sure!\"\nSimon: \"Okay how about we have the babysitter jump the fence and try and jimmy the back door?\"\nAlex:\"Perfect\"\nI must admit I was slightly nervous as I pulled up in front of their apartment wondering if the two of them would be snobby or tight-lipped or if Simon might just be as kooky as he appears on TV. But from the big-smiled wave they bestowed when they pulled up behind me in their car, to Alex hoisting a lawn chair into the backyard in 4 inch black strappy stilettos, they were the picture of cool and easy.\nI had planned on a 30 minute interview, sticking mainly to their newly released book \"Little Kids, Big City\", and avoiding any hot topics or touchy Real Housewives moments. But all that went right out the window once we started talking.\nWe spent over an hour chatting about everything from parenting under the reality TV microscope, to Kelly's nervous breakdown, to whether or not any of them really are friends IRL. Trust me, this is only the beginning.\nIn part 2, and possibly part 3 of my interview with Alex Mccord and Simon Van Kempen, you'll be privi to what really went down the past 3 seasons of the show, and how these two navigate reality TV life as a couple and as parents to two small boys. Francois and Johan were the picture of polite during our interview and thanked me ever so mannerly for the Tech Deck skateboards I had taken them. But I guess that doesn't make for very dramatic TV now does it.\nBe sure to watch the always dramatic Real Housewives Reunion specials at 8pm CST. on Bravo. And then stay on to see Bethanny's brand new show \"Bethanny Getting Married?\"\nNOW...comment away for a chance to win an autographed copy of Simon and Alex's book. \"Little Kids, BIg City\".\nAnd be super-sure to stop back on Monday, when I'll have part 2 of my interview.\nThe part where Simon and Alex give it up about the \"REAL\", Real Housewives of NYC."}

{"text": "South.\nSouth Korea, India, Bangladesh and Chile each reportedly suffered multiple attacks by North Korea.\nOne attack was reportedly suffered by thirteen countries: Costa Rica, Gambia, Guatemala, Kuwait, Liberia, Malaysia, Malta, Nigeria, Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Vietnam.\nNo details of the attack on South Africa are provided, but the report stated that there were three main methods North Korea used to raise cash:\n- Attacks on the SWIFT system, which is typically used for cross-border money transfers between banks.\n- Attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges and individual holders, where tokens were stolen.\n- Mining of cryptocurrency..\nMyBroadband previously reported on the popular JavaScript add-on for websites that had been exploited to cause people’s computers to mine Monero.\nIn some instances, website operators such as The Pirate Bay knowingly placed the script on their webpages as an additional income stream. However, in many others cases sites were hacked and cryptojacking code injected in them.\nThis has culminated in an international investigation into cryptojacking in South Africa, with the Hawks assisting on the case.\nMyBroadband also previously reported that the WannaCry ransomware attack which hit several South African companies, including Telkom, was linked to North Korean attackers.\nMost recently, ZDNet reported that the US Department of Justice has formally charged a North Korean programmer for the WannaCry ransomware outbreak in addition to several other prominent cyber attacks.\nIt should be noted that although the US has linked WannaCry to North Korea, no mention of ransomware is made in the AP or Reuters articles on the report prepared for the UN Security Council regarding North Korea.\nThe Associated Press reported that the experts behind the unpublished report to the UN Security Council have called for increased sanctions — including the blocking of ships which provide petrol and diesel to North Korea.\nRead: Massive WhatsApp security flaws could open your private messages to hackers\nJoin the conversation Autoload comments\nComments section policy: Any attacks on BusinessTech, its journalists, or other readers will result in a ban."}

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{"text": "Bubba Battle Royale and Reminiscences of a Placebo Priest\nSamuel Harris, Chistopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett debate a flock of orangutans including Dinesh D’Souza, perhaps the only one worthy of debate among them. Amazingly Bubba Wright was invited and makes a guest appearance before the 50 minute mark. Given a choice which side to be on, Bubba Wright, the author of the most anti-human work ever scribed in any language, (with the possible exception of Mein Kampf and Straw Dogs by John Gray) “The Moral Animal”, decided to be on the side of the believers! But made it clear that he disagreed with everyone there- believers and atheists. Quite fascinating. Our theory is maintained- that Robert Wright’s crystal clear and masterful description of the human predicament in TMA drove him to subclinical temporal lobe epilepsy and the graphophilia so plainly demonstrated in his recent copious canons.\nDaniel Dennett talks about people who go to seminary school and decide the bible is bunk after learning things they were never taught in Sunday school. He says “Some walk away, and those are the lucky ones.” And some stay. This struck a chord with me as it brought memories of my first trimester of Chiropractic school where I learned things I did not know before and was mildly tempted to leave the school. Everyone easily talked me out of it and 97,000 dollars and a 6.8% interest rate with years of no income later, my life is permanently financially lost, barring the act of winning the lottery or gold-digging a spouse. Mormons are cheap. I tithe 20% to Nelnet student loan corporation, a company of scam artists riddled with controversy. I had the great misfortune of getting double spinning backfisted by the invisible hand by imparting my two greatest financial transactions through the criminal institutions of “Nelnet” and “Countrywide”. I will spend decades providing cashflow for some fat slobbering prick for a nearly useless education which took 3.5 years to aquire. As Michael Shermer would attest- the concept of the “student loan” is one of the many bitch slaps from the invisible backhand of supercapitalism where the hand holds you underwater- for 25 years. I would much prefer a system where merit is based on test scores and education is provided freely to those who qualify only, as they do in say Switzerland.\nBy 70% of the way through Chiropractic school, there was not one single person I knew who did not realize that what they thought they were getting into was not what they did get into. Some walked away after graduation. Maybe those were the lucky ones. They were also the devastated ones. Dennett masterly explains how priests talk to each other different than how they are trained to talk in front of the congregation. In the same respect, a typical conversation between Chiropractic students often went something like, “I don’t have any idea what I’m doing do you?” . “No”. Then to the patient – “here’s exactly what I’m going to do and here is exactly what is going to happen.”\nAhh, placebo priests in training.\nI bring this up because when your paycheck requires you to maintain a particular belief, you are not free to *consider* the opposing views seriously. Priests, homeopaths, acupuncturists, all selling bankrupt ideas that ironically help certain people feel better despite having no factual basis in reality to speak of. The more studies coming out to show that homeopathy does nothing at all, the more popular it becomes.\nMy genes did not provide an internal milieux capable of inhabiting that world. I am convinced that my form of reason is a genetic mutation, or perhaps a variant, not something natural selection found useful to dole out in large part to each dancing, drinking, drugging and fellating member of the small orgiastic tribal hedonists our species evolved from. And for that I’ve suffered tremendously."}

{"text": "EFTA Consultative Committee Terms of Reference\nEFTA Consultative Committee Rules of Procedure\nResolutions adopted by the EEA Consultative Committee\nOpinions adopted by the EFTA Consultative Committee\nIn the course of its more than 40 years of existence, the EFTA Consultative Committee has been put in charge of an increasing number of tasks and responsibilities, and has consequently strengthened its role in the consultation process of the Association.\nThe Consultative Committee is now a vital platform for dialogue and consultation between the EFTA social partners and the EFTA authorities. By giving input to the work of the Standing Committee of the EFTA States and the EFTA Ministerial Council, the Committee aims to raise awareness of the social and economic aspects of the EFTA free trade agreements and the EEA, and of the role of the social partners; to take part in the shaping of the EFTA and EEA agenda; and to influence policies that affect the social partners.\nThe Consultative Committee attaches great importance to a number of economic and social issues related to the EEA and EFTA's third-country relations, focusing among others, and in more depth, on the strategy behind the third-country relations, EEA enlargement, EFTA participation in EU programmes, growth and jobs, the internal market, energy and environment, labour market policies, migration, the social agenda, and neighbourhood policy. It is important for the Committee to look at the possible impact of new EU developments, policies and processes on EFTA and the EEA. On certain issues, the Committee appoints special rapporteurs who function as experts and coordinators. The Committee writes opinions and resolutions which are presented to the EFTA authorities and EEA bodies. It also produces working papers as basis for discussion on new, emerging issues of relevance to EFTA and the EEA.\nOpinions adopted by the EFTA Consultative Committee in 1998-2010\nThe Consultative Committee usually holds 4-5 internal meetings yearly, in addition to the annual joint meeting with the Standing Committee of the EFTA States. Biannually, the EFTA social partners meet with the EFTA Council at Ministerial level – in the spring with Ministers from all four EFTA States and in the autumn with the Ministerial Chair. Informal policy consultations with relevant working groups under the Standing Committee structure also take place.\nAnnual meetings with the EFTA Parliamentary Committees ensure a fruitful exchange of views between social partners and parliamentarians in EFTA. The two Committees organise a joint conference every two years, with the most recent one, in October 2008, focusing on international trade and climate change.\nThe co-operation between the social partners in EFTA and in the EU has been strengthened considerably through the close contacts between the EFTA Consultative Committee and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Informal cooperation between the two institutions began already in 1975, but was later formalised by the EEA Agreement, which entered into force on 1 January 1994 and established the EEA Consultative Committee. This body consists of an equal number of representatives from the EFTA Consultative Committee and the EESC.\nResolutions adopted by the EEA Consultative Committee in 1999-2010\nEEA Consultative Committee\nThe members of the EFTA Consultative Committee are designated by the Member States, and chosen from the social partner organisations, i.e. trade unions and employers’ organisations in the four EFTA countries. Each country can send six representatives to the EFTA Consultative Committee. The European organisations ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) and BUSINESSEUROPE may send one observer each. The Consultative Committee elects a Chairperson and two Vice-Chairpersons, chosen from among its members with a term of office of two years."}

{"text": "Valtteri Bottas was keen to downplay the significance of Kimi Raikkonen's confirmation at Ferrari, and says that stories linking him to the Italian team in recent months have not been helpful.\nBottas was in the frame for a seat at Maranello, but ultimately Ferrari chose to stick with Raikkonen rather than pay a significant fee to Williams.\n\"It has been unnecessary because most of it has been untrue,\" said Bottas. \"It hasn't done my relationship with the team any good. Those type of rumours are not fair.\n\"It's easier now for me, for Williams and for Kimi. Now there are just facts and no rumours and l think this proves that what a lot of what was said was rumour.\n\"Nothing has changed for me.\"\nBottas would not admit to any contact with the Italian team: \"I'm not confirming if any of my managers have been, or not [been], speaking with them. If you want to ask about it, you can ask them.\"\nHe did acknowledge that Ferrari was an attractive package.\n\"I think they have been stronger this year for sure, but who knows who will be stronger next year? That's always the question mark.\"\nFuture yet to be sorted\nMeanwhile, the Finn conceded that he's keen to get his future sorted out.\n\"As a driver of course you do want to know as early as you can, from next year or even more. It would be nice to know. But we still need to wait and see.\n\"I think there's no mega rush, really, but it would be nice to know. We'll find out about everything at some point anyway.\"\nHe admitted that in talks with his current team a key question is whether he commits for more than one more season.\n\"We are discussing about it with Williams. It's too early to say.\"\nHe added: \"I think I've done some really good races. I feel I've really made a good job with this car. I just want to be in a little bit quicker car, but I think as a team Williams we can do it next year if I stay here.\n\"It's been a good season, not perfect for sure, and I still keep getting better all the time, race by race.\""}

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{"text": "MegaFon to Resume Selling Apple’s IPhone After 3-Year Hiatus\nJan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- OAO MegaFon, Russia’s second-largest mobile operator, is resuming iPhone sales in its retail outlets for the first time since 2010 as Apple Inc. relaxes its sales policy in the country.\nMegaFon, controlled by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and part-owned by Sweden’s TeliaSonera AB, signed a three-year contract with Apple, the Moscow-based operator said in an e-mailed response to questions.\nAs of the middle of 2013 none of Russia’s three largest wireless operators sold iPhones in their retail outlets, citing unfavorable terms offered by Apple.. resumed iPhone sales in their retail locations in October.\nSix years after the iPhone’s introduction, Apple.’s dominance in high-growth markets.\nTo contact the reporters on this story: Ilya Khrennikov in Moscow at [email protected]; Ksenia Galouchko in Moscow at [email protected]\nTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Kenneth Wong at [email protected]"}

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{"text": "ole\nL.\n(Rocheleau)\nIronside\nObituary\nGuest Book\n4 entries\nThe Guest Book is expired.\nRestore the Guest Book\nCarole L. Ironside 1943 - 2012 CHICOPEE - Carole L. (Rocheleau) Hartmann Ironside, 69, of the Fairview section of Chicopee, was Called Safely Home on Monday June 4, 2012. She passed into Eternal Life from her home surrounded by the care and comfort of her loving family and her wonderful caregivers. She was born in Newport, Rhode Island on March 26, 1943, a beloved daughter of the late Leo W. and Marion C. (Peckham) Rocheleau. She was raised in Newport and later lived in Fall River, Massachusetts.. During her leisure time, Carole enjoyed her home, gardening and was a lover of animals. She spent many hours watching her feathered friends at the bird feeders around her home. She was a quiet woman who adored her family and showered them with her love and affection which was returned to her a thousand fold. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her siblings, Jean Marie Foley, Leo W. Rocheleau, Jr., Robert W. Rocheleau and Shirley Ann Case; and her beloved husband, William T. Hartmann, who was Called Home on February 21, 1993. She leaves her devoted husband and best friend, Kenneth J. Ironside; her loving sister, Dorothy I. Reese and her husband, George, of East Greenbush, NY; her dear sister-in-law, Sue and Les Sclar of Cupertino, CA and her many cherished nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces. Carole was especially close with her loving nephews, George, Dave, Jim, and Bob and had a wonderful bond with her niece and caregiver, Krista Cotagis of Newport, RI. She was also the cherished godmother of Jack and Stella and was especially fond of her \"angels\", Lauren and Lyndsey Brown. She will also be deeply missed by her \"best friends forever\" Gail and Donald LaCaresse of Chicopee. Her family would like to thank her wonderful caregivers including Doctor Bishop and the entire staff at Riverbend Medical Group, as well as her nurses from Hospice Life Care in Holyoke, for their care and support. Her funeral will be held on Thursday morning, June 7, 2012, beginning at the St. Pierre Phaneuf Fairview Chapels (413-533-3307), 506 Britton Street, Chicopee, MA 01020 (funeral home will open at 11 a.m.), followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:30 p.m. in Saint Anne Church, 30 College Street, Chicopee, MA 01020. Her burial will follow the Mass at Saint Rose Cemetery, Route 202 and 33, South Hadley. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The parking lot is located in the rear of the funeral home. Because of her love for animals, her family has requested that memorial donations be made in her memory to the Thomas J. O'Connor Foundation, 627 Cottage Street, Springfield, MA 01104.\nPublished in The Republican from June 4 to June 5,"}

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{"text": "About the Forge\n|\nArticles\n|\nForum\n|\nReviews\nGuest\n. Please\nor\n.\nMay 23, 2016, 11:59\n[Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\nPages: [\n1\n]\nAuthor\nTopic: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't (Read 1285 times)\nBret Gillan\nMember\nPosts: 425\nThat's Bret with one 't' damn it.\n[Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\n«\non:\nFebruary 26, 2011, 09:59:58 PM »\nCold Soldier got another go tonight with Carly. We didn't get to play a full session, but we did play a half session that gave up some interesting information and will hopefully complete it in the next day or two. The new rule of the GM drawing two cards does seem to present a challenge so that was a good recommendation.\nAlso, Ron was spot on with making the Dark Master's commands personally problematic. My Dark Master was a mad, scorned lover of a woman who created his soldiers purely to turn her life into a nightmare. The soldiers killed her lover, and kept showing up to ruin her life but otherwise leave her unharmed. Carly ended up resisting every scene after the first one. This leads me to a few thoughts:\n-.\n- I think the player should resist the urge to provide any sort of interior state for the soldier with the exception of flashbacks. No, \"I feel this\" or \"I think that.\" Apart from the flashbacks, provide the soldier's physical actions. I realize I'm making a lot of prohibitions for the player, and that makes me a little excited.\n- There needs to be some kind of limitation on resisting. After the first scene, Carly resisted every single scene. And while this would cause problems for her in the endgame, it was getting ridiculous for the Master to continue to expect that surely THIS TIME would be different and the soldiers would actually do what he wanted. I'm going to fashion a mechanic where a certain amount of resistance will cause the dark master to destroy the soldier, so the player should, if they want to reach endgame and not just be summarily destroyed, need to pace out their resisting the master's commands. I think there needs to be another resource in play here for the player to manage, and that's how much they can get away with.\nLogged\nTim C Koppang\nMember\nPosts: 393\nRe: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\n«\nReply #1 on:\nFebruary 28, 2011, 02:40:30 PM »\nQuote from: Bret Gillan on February 26, 2011, 09:59:58 PM\n-.\nPurposefully trying to fail seems the same as resisting to me. I suppose if the player was trying to end run around the resist rules, this could be a problem -- but it would also seem like poor sportsmanship. That said, I think your solution seems appropriate. Given that the GM gets to narrate the failure, it may help to simply make it clear in the rules that the GM has some leeway when defining exactly what a failure means. Depending on the situation, it may be an all around failure, or it may be a very personal failure for the solider. I worry that if your dictated that all failures must be \"half failures,\" it might create some awkward narration at times.\nLogged\nTim C Koppang\nTCK Roleplaying\n|\nHero's Banner\n|\nMars Colony\nBret Gillan\nMember\nPosts: 425\nThat's Bret with one 't' damn it.\nRe: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\n«\nReply #2 on:\nFebruary 28, 2011, 06:54:10 PM »\nWell, I do want failure and resisting to be both mechanically and fictionally discrete. Resistance is an act of significance, and to have it be indistinguishable from failure is a problem. I do think GM discretion is key here - if the soldier pursues the goal with gusto, then yeah, no thought needs to be given to what the soldier might lose through failure at the task that they could gain through resistance. However if the GM can read the player's reluctance, then some consideration should be given towards what it means to fail at the task but also fail to resist the dark master.\nReally I just need to clarify that division of intention, and how one can fail at both things. Usually the reluctance is out of a desire to not have the soldier harm someone else, so failing at the task while still causing harm will probably be the go-to way of dealing with it.\nLogged\nTim C Koppang\nMember\nPosts: 393\nRe: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\n«\nReply #3 on:\nFebruary 28, 2011, 08:18:04 PM »\nBret,\nI agree. I think you and I are actually on the same page. I only meant that you shouldn't patch the rules somehow to fix a perceived problem caused by someone who might be trying to manipulate the system. I think a bit of GM leeway is the key.\nLogged\nTim C Koppang\nTCK Roleplaying\n|\nHero's Banner\n|\nMars Colony\nRon Edwards\nGlobal Moderator\nMember\nPosts: 17707\nRe: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't\n«\nReply #4 on:\nMarch 03, 2011, 07:14:08 AM »\nHi Bret,\nI've been taking my time to reply because it's a big question. My first suggestion is to hold off on revisions before thinking it through.\nOK, a player decides to resist like a son of a bitch. The result: no poker hand worth mentioning at the end, if any. Let's assume they have one card so the question of a soldier's demise is left open for the moment. We now have two real questions at hand.\n1. During play itself, any problems? Not really. The Dark Master player is handed an interesting creative challenge, which is to say, the soldier is not being particularly useful. But this is a challenge that can be\nmet\n. Exactly how depends a lot on (i) the atmosphere of the game, (ii) on the player's narrations of the defiant scenes, and (iii) on that player's concept of the Master ... what I'm saying is that this player cannot sit idle; he or she must take the idea that the Master retains and continues to try to utilize the soldier as a creative constraint and\ndo\nsomething with that. Provide psychological back-story or new external circumstances which indicate a commitment to that particular soldier, for example. The point is that this is not a problem; it's a feature of the responsibilities of one of the players.\n2. At the end, any problems? Not really, I think. The soldier player has seriously reduced the soldier's shot at getting the thing or whatever that's cherished, and that simply strikes me as a valid creative choice during play. Conceivably a player might totally punt and come up with something that is pretty bogus anyway, thinking that they have no chance, but I think that's unlikely since they\nwill\nbe getting a five-card draw and do have some chance.\nSo I'm not really seeing a problem at all. I'm seeing one way play can go, and identifying the consequences.\nAuxiliary issues include the distinction between defeat and defiance, and I agree with Tim that they need to be very distinct in terms of narration requirements. A defeat means the soldier\ndid try\nand defiance means the soldier definitely\nrefused to try\n.\nI also want to caution against any rules concepts or texts which try to deal with certain rules outcomes by saying \"Well, don't play like that.\" Every mechanical rules combination or outcome needs to be valid, without changing the narration instructions or expectations. This is a game which truly benefits from its elegance, and from its playability no matter what the players decide to do with the cards. So the card-play and their narration requirements need to be respected in terms of what consequences"}

{"text": "We are a small service organization looking for operators and technicians. Our employees work along the US river systems. We operate heavy equipment including skid steers and cranes. Employees must be able to work in inclement weather conditions.\nSpecialized experience in the following preferred but not required:\nStevedoring\nHeavy Equipment operator\nPneumatic systems technician\nHydraulics technician\nMechanical technician\nElectrical technician\nWe look for employees who have a strong work ethic, who prioritize safety daily, and who have the desire to learn.\nTo ask about current openings at PBC, please complete the form including your contact information and submit. We will respond within 48 hours regarding active positions when applicable.\n"}

{"text": "- Sunflower seed pate on cucumber slices\n- Lemon & lentil vegetable soup\n- CranApple salad with honey apple dressing\n- Sweet potato kugel\n- Veggie rice paper wraps with almond dipping sauce\n- Coconut ice cream\n- Almond honey crisp\nWe started with a demo of the rice paper wraps and each made one.\nAren't they pretty? Colourful food is wonderful.\nThey were super easy and I got the package so I can find them on my own. Rice paper wraps are gluten free (yay!) and have only 45 calories, (0 fat & fiber) making them a great vehicle for other things.\nWe each chose a recipe to make. I was partnered with Mark to make the sweet potato kugel.\nIt was really easy (once we figured out the food processor) and this would be a great side dish for company or as a side for your lunch. It felt like dessert, but it wasn't and I enjoyed some leftovers for lunch today. So delicious!!!\nEveryone who attended the party was really nice and we all chatted about the food, our jobs, and various other topics (including Biggest Loser, Meghan's friend's book, macrobiotic cooking, and how they make the green coleslaw at KFC)\nEverything turned out amazing! Check it out:\n4 comments:\nSo awesome to meet you! You are delightful and totally sasstatic fashionista. We have such a great group for this round of classes. So glad you had a good time and enjoyed the yummy food. Have a great long weekend and see you Thursday!\nwhere can i find the rice paper. at the thai restaurant i LOVE spring rolls!\nI will let you know where I find the rice paper wraps. I think Meghan said she had found them in Kensington Market (if you're in Toronto) I'm sure they should have them at various asian food markets...\nJust stumbled upon your blog. My sister was just diagnosed with Crohn's so I am definitely going to refer her to your friend's blog. Thanks for sharing!"}

{"text": "FAQs\nWhy the 8-10 week lead time for the tables?\nEach table is custom made to order. The parts are shipped internationally and due to customs can take up to 3 weeks to arrive. In most cases orders will be fulfilled in less than 8-10 weeks.\nWho builds the tables?\nSara builds and fuses each table by hand and thoroughly enjoys every minute!\nCan I get custom color combinations?\nYou can custom order tables in more than one color. Please contact SRd directly for terms and details.\nCan I get a table with a custom height and width?\nThe design of each table and the LEGO® parts dictate the overall dimensions.\nHow do I care for my table?\nWipe with a soft damp cloth or use a plastic specific cleaner or polish. Abrasives and chemicals can scratch or dull the surface of your table. When moving, lift from the base of the table.\nWhat is your return policy?\nCustom orders cannot be returned. Refunds or replacements for damaged or defective orders only. Customer must contact SRd within 72 hours of delivery.\nWill there be more products available in the future?\nYes! Sara is developing a textile collection and hopes to expand her furniture line.\nNote: LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site."}

{"text": "The GTI MkV has two radiator fans in the shroud behind the radiator. These fans are usually a source of problems for the cooling system on the cars. If your fan or fans are starting to give tell tale signs that they are failing replace them before they quit on you. The fans usually start making a fair amount of noise when they start going bad.\nWhile you may be able to crawl under the car to complete this job I recommend that you safely jack up and support the vehicle. Please see our article on safely jacking up and supporting your car."}

{"text": "SOVERON® D\nJoint radio system of the German Armed Forces\nSOVERON® D is a member of the SOVERON® software defined radio family.\nThe key components of the German MoD programme SVFuA are a multi-channel next generation software defined radio (SDR), the full communications management system and the scalable security layer up to national and NATO SECRET. SOVERON® D manages communication networks from the brigade down to the platoon Ievel, with a special focus on joint and combined missions with multi-level security needs, supporting operations conducted by coalition forces. The system connects the vehicle IT infrastructure with the tactical Control and Command system."}

{"text": "According to the most recent research from the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA), infrastructure funding on the continent totalled US$ 62.5 billion in 2016, down from US$ 78.9 billion in 2015. African government are still the leading source of funding, accounting for 42%, while the private sector plays only a limited role, with 4,1% of commitments.\nUS$ 26,3 billion was funded from national budgets and US$ 18,6 billion by ICA member countries and institutions, including World Bank Group, African Development Bank, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the Development Bank of South Africa. Funding from other organisations totalled US$ 3,1 billion, and funding from China and the Arab Coordination Group, was US$ 6,4 billion and US$ 5,5 billion respectively...\nThe member countries.\nAfrica50 mobilizes funds not only from African states and international financial institutions, but also from institutional investors such as pension and sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and other private sector entities. It operates as a commercial financial institution, seeking to provide an attractive return to investors.\nAfrica50 uses equity investments to catalyse public sector and private sector capital into viable projects. Africa50 prioritises investment that focuses on high-impact national and regional projects in the Power, Transport, ICT and Gas sectors, which are projected to collectively absorb 86% of Africa’s overall infrastructure funding by 2025.\nProjects should have a development impact in the host country while also offering a financial return. It has separate Project Development and Project Finance divisions and can thus work on the entire project cycle.\nThe investment activities of Africa50 consists in\n- Project development by the model of venture capital, which represents 10% of Africa50’s authorised share capital with an investment size per project of US$ 2–10 million in early stage equity\n- Project finance by the model of private equity investment in infrastructure, which represents 90% of Africa50’s authorised share capital with an investment size per project of US$ 20-40 million, but flexible on a case-by-case basis.\nAfrica50’s first investment was in December 2016, with Scatec Solar and Norfund, for development of a 100 MWDC solar power plant in Jigawa state, Nigeria. The total project cost will be about $150 million, with operations to start in 2018. Its second investment was with the same partners in six solar plants totaling 400 MWDC in Benban, Egypt. Total project cost will be about $450 million. Financial close was reached on October 27, 2017. Operations should start in early 2019. The third project, signed in September 2017, is with the state electricity company of Senegal – Senelec – for a 120 MW power plant that will run on fuel oil but can be converted to natural gas once Senegal’s reserves become available.\nMore sovereign shareholders are expected to join in the near term and fundraising from institutional investors is being launched. Capital should reach $1 billion by early 2018 and the medium-term target is $3 billion.\nAlexander Herring\nVice President CBL-ACP\nPSLO World Bank Group"}

{"text": "\nFace/Off\nFriday Flashback: “Face/Off” Shows What to Do When Danny Masterson Won’t Take No for an Answer … Continue reading Friday Flashback: “Face/Off” Shows What to Do When Danny Masterson Won’t Take No for an Answer!\nKevin/CJ Tag Team the Insane Brilliance of Travolta/Cage in “Face/Off” … Continue reading Kevin/CJ Tag Team the Insane Brilliance of Travolta/Cage in “Face/Off”"}

{"text": "GALLERY FRITZ\n540 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 820-1888\nGallery FRITZ, a dynamic new contemporary art space, will open June 8 in Santa Fe’s Railyard Arts District.\nPromising to focus less on the object and more on the happening, gallery FRITZ endeavors to inspire and educate with compelling exhibits, site-specific installations, multimedia presentations, video projection displays and traditional art programming. gallery FRITZ’s working model of engaging a roster of rotating curators ensures a fresh, current and energetic experience.\nUnder the keen direction of owner Deborah Fritz, this nearly 5,000-squarefoot FRITZ is committed to presenting emerging, midcareer and established artists from the world over. Each artist represented by the gallery shares in Fritz’s bold and innovative vision of art and equals her excellence in execution.\n“This is an exciting time in Santa Fe and the contemporary art market has the Railyard as its hub. With SITE Santa Fe and my fellow members of RAD (Railyard Arts District) Galleries, the future has never been brighter. Come to Santa Fe’s Railyard if you want to collect the world’s finest contemporary art.”\n— Deborah Fritz, owner, gallery FRITZ\n1 Clayton Porter’s print Parent’s Bedroom Floor and Paula Castillo’s steel sculpture Downstream on view at GF Contemporary.\n2 gallery FRITZ, Joshua, watercolor, spray paint, gouache and flocking on paper, 60 x 42\", by Victoria Carlson."}

{"text": "Many will be deceived in the last days, the Bible says (Mat 24:4). It would be reasonable to assume that Christians would see those deceptions developing as we get closer to the Day of the Lord. Being rich or educated or powerful has never precluded believing crazy, so finding rich, educated, powerful people subscribing to odd beliefs is no proof of end times. But something foreboding appears with us today. Not that any of the beliefs subscribed to are different from those of old. But these beliefs are viewed by so many as good and truth. Opera’s guru, Eckert Tolle, by way of Opera’s enormous following has gained angel of light status while repackaging old eastern mystic/new age theology. Hillary Clinton can channel or somehow communicate with the dead and it is no big deal and maybe a good idea. (We need all the help we can get?) Tony Blair can perform ancient Mayan ceremonies (while being newly Catholic) and few people bat an eye. Being newly Catholic apparently gives Prime Minister Blair the unction to reprimand the Vatican’s views on homosexuality. Mr. Blair’s “Faith Foundation” receives glowing endorsements from Mr. Purpose Driven, Pastor Rick Warren.\nDoes this reflect negatively on Pastor Warren? Maybe. I am certain these people are doing or intend to do benevolently for humanity. Their focus is on improving the human condition. They may all argue that this was Jesus’ emphasis. See, that is the problem for those of us familiar with the Bible. Jesus' emphasis was on redeeming mankind from man’s hopeless, fallen sin condition, not improving man’s temporal condition. He did show compassion for man’s suffering. He instructed us to help those in need. But his main focus was to preach the good news of the kingdom (Luke 4:43), salvation through Him and Him alone (Jn 14:6) (Gal 2:21); to sacrifice Himself as the final and perfect sacrifice thereby reconciling sinful man to an all Holy God (Heb 9:28) (Heb 10:12).\nNot wanting to just accept references to something like Ms. Clinton’s channeling endeavors as true I did some searching. Paul Kengor’s book “God and Hillary Clinton” mentions Ms. Clinton’s conversations with dead people. Here is an interesting interview with the author. We are assured that, “Hillary was not, as far as we know, levitating above a table in the White House.” There is solace in that.\nMr. Kengor states, “Bob Woodward actually first reported this in his book in 1996. Mrs. Clinton did not deny the reports, and neither did her staff.”\nHe also states, ‘According.”\nThe Houston mentioned is Jean Houston, Hillary’s then spiritual advisor.\nYes, yes, I am rolling on the floor laughing as well. But there is a seriousness to all of this. There is a growing deception and it is being accepted in previously unimaginable places and by previously unimaginable people. Ancient mysticism with some new lipstick is mainstreaming. Mystery Babylon has always been with us but she appears to be making an end times run for it. One might call it a Hail Mary pass.\nRevelation 17\nThe Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast1.\nRemind you of anyone? She is more pervasive than we imagine and always has been since the days of Nimrod (OK Eve but it was not called Babylon then.) It is man seeking to be God, man seeking other gods, man seeking other paths to God. Babylon’s emphasis is on man and not God. God or god or any system is only significant as it benefits man. Some want to restrict Mystery Babylon to the Catholic church. This seems myopic and naively restricted. Babylon as a secular system and Mystery Babylon as a religious system has always permeated earthly systems and life since the fall of man. One could say it is the earthly system.\nThe Biblical world view is that man is only significant as he benefits God.\nOh, how we resent that approach. God has all the money, all the power, all the glory and we want some. What kind of God would demand anything from us. Doesn’t He have enough already? Is he some kind of dictator? Is He an egomaniac demanding that we worship Him? If He were any kind of decent God at all he would have formulated the world so we all had equal possessions. Not equal opportunity. That would not suffice. He should have arranged for us to all have the same money, power, fame … all the important stuff. We want some great collectivist utopia provided by God.\nSo instead of receiving instruction from the inventor of the machine, we insist on throwing the manual in the trash heap and operating this complicated machinery our own way. Instead of quietly sitting on the potter’s wheel while he shapes a beautiful vessel, we lurch and duck and fight. We are a pot wanting to shape ourselves.\nJob 38\nThe LORD Reveals His Omnipotence to Job1?\nWhat about all the starving people? What about those hurting masses?\nWhy on earth do we even ask that question? Do we personally hold some human power or possess some vast riches that can address the world’s problem? If so then please, by all means, use your power and riches for the good of mankind. Our first concern should be our personal right standing with our Creator, Yahweh, the God of the Bible. As we live out our life in right standing with God through the sacrifice of God’s “only\nbegotten unique” son Jesus (Jn 3:16), His Holy Spirit will guide us into doing that which He requires of us. Is providing for the poor something we should do? Of course it is. That instruction has already been written down for everyone to plainly see. All Scripture has been given by inspiration of God (2 Timothy 3:16). The Bible has volumes speaking of how to live.\nThis is getting long winded, relevant but long winded. The point being that if we understand a “man is created to please God” correct construct, we are less apt to fall prey to deception. If we believe God is all about pleasing man, providing for man’s ease and happiness, then we are wide open to humanistic deception. Mystery Babylon will be ever so appealing to us as it incorporates \"Christianity\" into it's language.President Obama had it wrong, Hillary was chatting with the elohim (dead in this case).\nOddly enough I find President Obama's humor his most endearing quality. I despise the man's politics. I thought this was quite funny. I wish he had understood the correct reference.\nNancy Reagan was on the Astrology path how severely is debated. How much poison does one need to be serious is a valid question.\n"}

{"text": "Algae Could Be The Next Fuel Source\nScientists are hoping algae can help remove greenhouse gases and create new oil reserves.\nMillions of years ago, algae turned the earth’s hostile atmosphere into a life-supporting one through photosynthesis, a process used by plants to turn carbon dioxide and sunlight into oxygen and sugars.\nEventually the algae sunk into lake and sea beds, slowly becoming oil.\n“All we’re doing is turning the clock back,” Steve Skill, biochemist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, told Reuters. “Nature has done this many millions of years ago in producing the crude oil we’re burning today. So as far as nature is concerned this is nothing new.”\nScientists are now searching for a way to turn algae into bio-diesel, jet fuel, and plastic products.\n“So we are harvesting sunshine directly using algae, then we are extracting that stored energy in the form of oil from the alga and then using that to make fuels and other non-petroleum based products,” Skill said.\nAccording to Skill, the industry could be refining algae in workable amounts for commercial oil production within the next ten years.\nThe fuel would be considered carbon neutral because of algae’s ability to absorb greenhouse gases.\nMany companies, including Sapphire Energy, OriginOil, BioCentric Energy, and Petro Algae, are already working on algae based biofuels.\nLast month, Japan Airlines had a test flight with a jet fuel using a blend of biofuels and algae oils.\nMPX Energia plans to use 10-15 percent of carbon emissions from a coal-fired plant to feed their algae when they begin work in 2011.\nPlymouth Marine Laboratory is taking a new approach to algae. The group hopes to apply knowledge about algae to biotechnology, instead of working to create fuels from scratch.\nAccording to Carole Llewellyn, a marine chemist, some of the claims about algae based fuels are overstated.\n“They (algae) do have a lot of positive attributes but there are a lot of hurdles that have to be overcome before this becomes a commercial reality,” Llewellyn said.\nAlgae grow 20 to 30 times faster than food crops, and while prime farmland has to be used to cultivate crops for bio-diesel, algae grow primarily in uninhabited areas.\nThe group is researching what types of algae produce the most oil, and which absorb the most carbon dioxide.\nMany scientists see a future in which exhaust fumes are sent from industrial plants to feed algal beds.\nThe idea of using algae for fuel is not new.\nIn the 1970s, the U.S. government began funding research of algae based fuels.\nIn 1996 the program was discontinued because of a report stating that producing bio-diesel would not be cost efficient until oil prices reached $40 a barrel.\nOil prices were $46 a barrel on Tuesday.\n—\nOn the Net:"}

{"text": "VA Legislature Prepared to Undermine “Castle Doctrine”Sometimes the best of intentions go awry.\nGun Owners of America\nModified legislation weakens current law --\nTomorrow [note: this was published yesterday], a conference committee in the Virginia legislature will be voting on “castle doctrine” language that would make things much, much worse for Old Dominion residents.\nThe conference language, as currently drafted, needs to be resoundingly defeated.\nThe problem is this:\nVirginia, like 48 other states, has inherited (ultimately from England) a body of court-made law, called “common law.” This “common law” is the “law of the land” in Virginia unless it is overturned by statute.\nVirginia common law provides that you can protect yourself in your home or elsewhere against the reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury.\nThus, if a person lawfully enters your house, but pulls a gun and starts shooting at people, under common law, you can use deadly force.\nIf a person is standing in your bedroom holding a gun in the middle of the night, under common law, you can use deadly force, even though that person has taken no “overt act.”\nUnfortunately, the conference committee language being voted on by the Virginia legislature tomorrow would require both “unlawful entry” and an “overt act.”\nFine, we said. Just add language which would provide that the statutory language does nothing to overturn the protections of “common law,” but rather is in addition to your right to defend yourself at common law.\nHowever, this is NOT the route the conference committee has chosen to go.\nSo the bottom line:\nThe conference language would REPEAL your common law right to defend yourself and your family against someone who legally entered your house, but turned violent.\nThe conference language would REPEAL your common law right to defend yourself and your family against someone who was illegally in your house in the middle of the night with a gun, but had committed no OVERT ACT.\nACTION: Contact your Virginia state Senator and Delegate immediately. Urge them to oppose the conference report on the castle doctrine unless there is a provision which grandfathers our “common law” protections. Even better, urge them to support a REAL Castle Doctrine Bill -- such as what was written for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli by defense expert Daniel Hawes over the summer. [link]\nThe Virginia legislature?\nIf it were controlled by Democrats, I could see sinister forces in exertion here. But that ain't the case. So I'll chalk it up to a lack of insight into the law as it evolved over the centuries.\nFixable?\nYou betcha.\nSo go to it. Please."}

{"text": "Sales Agreement Terms and Conditions\nQuote Acceptance and Payment terms\nQuotations are valid for 7 days and are dependent on the availability of stock.\n70% Deposit is required on acceptance of the Quotation before any manufacturing will start.\nFinal payment is due on the day installation is completed.\nThe Client accepts the terms and conditions of the sale agreement upon payment of the deposit.\nThe Client’s acceptance of any and all quotations confirm that the design/s & specifications were done in accordance with the Client’s requirements and specifications.\nGo Glass & Aluminium reserves the right to amend any quotation based on final measurement.\nThe Client confirms that the plan and design were reviewed with the Go Glass & Aluminium Representative.\nThe Client confirms that the finishes, styles, and other material are correctly specified on the quotation and that the different material has been explained.\nAnodised Aluminium materials can differ slightly in colour shade and are received as such from the manufacturer. The client accepts that this is not a defect in the product.\nShould any extra accessories be required after quotations are accepted which were not specified on the originally signed quotation, an additional quotation will be issued. The additional quotation will constitute a separate contract.\nGo Glass & Aluminium cannot accept changes to the specification from what has been quoted once quotations are accepted and fabrication has started. The accepted quotation will need to be paid in full and an additional quotation will be issued. The additional quotation will constitute a separate contract.\nThe Client agrees that all goods forming part of this sale agreement remain the property of Go Glass & Aluminium until paid in full and agrees that Go Glass & Aluminium may at any time decide to remove any and all goods should the Client decide not to pay the outstanding monies after installation is completed.\nOrders are custom made therefore no cancellations are allowed after the point of raw materials being purchased by Go Glass & Aluminium. In the event that an order is canceled, the full balance of the quotation will be payable by the client.\nLead Times and Installation\nGeneral lead times are between 7 and 20 working days from the date of acceptance and receipt of deposit.\nInstallation dates given are estimates. Although Go Glass & Aluminium will take all measures to keep to the date provided, dates are dependent on timeous delivery of material and availability of material - both of which are not in the direct control of Go Glass & Aluminium.\nInstallation dates and times will be confirmed one day prior to installation. Go Glass & Aluminium will endeavor to deliver as soon as possible without compromising on quality.\nCompletion of the project is dependent on stock availability, current workload, and size of the project.\nIt is the Client’s responsibility to ensure that the site is ready for installation on the agreed installation start date. A fee of R550.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty Rand) will be charged in the event of the site not being ready on the arrival of the Installation Team. The installation will then be re-scheduled according to the next available opening.\nThe duration period of the installation cannot be determined, prior to the installation commencing.\nIt is the Client’s responsibility to ensure that the area where the installation is to be completed, is cleared from all furniture, curtains/blinds, portraits, and any other valuables before installation can start.\nGo Glass & Aluminium will not be held responsible for costs involved with third party contractors such as builders as a result of extended installation periods or a delay in installation start dates\nThe Client will not have the right to impose penalties of any sort against Go Glass & Aluminium as a result of any delays that may occur.\nPlease note that although we take special care to not break tiles or scratch walls/paint, we cannot guarantee this. Should this occur, we will not be able to repair/replace this."}

{"text": "8 templates of flying multilayer titles. Free Plugins for Final Cut Pro X\nHow to install\n1. Download the zip file\n2. Unzip it\n3. Copy the main folder and paste it following this path:\niMac > Users > User Folder > Movies > Motion Templates > Titles\nTo use it, restart Final Cut Pro."}

{"text": "Personalised Medicine\nRare Disease\nApproximately 3.5 million of the UK population will be affected by a rare disease at some point in their lives.\nUCL, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres (BRC) and our Academic Health Science Centre (ASHC) are committed to developing our capacity to tackle rare disease.\nWe serve a patient population of over six million across the North Thames region, approximately 0.5 million of whom will have a rare disease. Our research is very diverse with over 100 clinical academic research groups investigating more than 350 rare diseases. Of the 70 NHS nationally commissioned specialist services in England, over 30 are based at UCLPartners.\nSteering Committee\nThe UCL Rare Disease Steering Committee comprises key members of the UCL academic and clinical community and aims to develop and implement strategies for rare disease through linking resources and supporting the advancement of clinical and academic research in the field.\nThe UCL Rare Disease database\nUCL has developed a comprehensive rare disease database which will be added to this site shortly. The database has been created as a platform for academic and industrial research and is aimed at UCL academics and clinicians, as well as industry representatives, patients and their families. It will include data such as phenotype; disease incidence; experimental status; available model organisms; diagnostic tests; and available therapies.\nGenomics England 100,000 Genome Project\nGenomics England Ltd (GEL) is a new company set up by the Department of Health to help deliver the 100,000 Genome Project, which was first announced by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, in December 2012. This project will sequence the personal DNA code of up to 100,000 patients over the next five years. UCLPartners, the University of Cambridge and Newcastle University are collaborating in a pilot project (Phase 1) which aims to sequence 2000 rare disease samples to evaluate the technology and data acquisition pipeline prior to larger scale endeavours.\nPast Events\nCrick Symposium on Rare Diseases (20 Feb 2014)\nUCL hosted this event which examined the genetic information that predisposes an individual to a rare disease and explored the mechanisms of rare disease as well as introducing examples of current personalised medicine and therapeutic approaches. Scientists and clinicians from The Francis Crick Institute partners including UCL, King's College London and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute presented their research.\nUCL Industry Academia & Rare Disease\n‘Elevator Pitch’ Workshop (8 July 2013)\nThe Rare Diseases Theme organised this highly interactive workshop, which included a range of presentations from speakers representing both clinical academia and industry. The aim was to provide the audience with an understanding of the unique challenges faced by industry during the development of orphan products and the key criteria required in order to make a successful partnership. The event also included an ‘elevator pitch session’ which offered a platform for knowledge exchange between UCL researchers and industry guests.\nUCL Rare Disease Symposium (13 Feb 2013)\nThe Rare Diseases Theme organised this symposium to showcase some of the outstanding work taking place across UCL in rare diseases. The event also gave researchers in the field the opportunity to interact with each other and identify new possible collaborations.\nSpecial Grand Round – How Rare is Rare? (21 Nov\n2012)\nThis vodcast identifies the challenges and opportunities facing rare disease research and patient management in the UK. It provides insight into a parent’s perspective of life with two children with a rare disease and an example of the development of a successful rare disease therapy.\nUCLPartners, the University of Cambridge and Newcastle University are collaborating in a pilot project (Phase 1) which aims to sequence 2000 rare disease samples to evaluate the technology and data acquisition pipeline prior to larger scale endeavours."}

{"text": "Platform: Android\nDeveloper: OneLouder Apps\nPrice: $4.99\nAre you a Facebook addict? Do you love accessing your Facebook account, no matter where you are? Don’t worry, you are not being accused for anything. Nowadays to keep your status updated on Facebook is a craze. It’s a sort of addiction that compels you to come back again and again to check updates from your family and friends. The commendable increase in the rate of Facebook users’ explains the popularity of this social networking site among people of all age groups.\nSeeing the hype, which this social networking platform has created, the tech giants and networking service providers are offering various Facebook related apps. Mobile apps make it easier for you to access your various social networking pages while on the go. However, with these apps there might come certain unwanted advertisements and viruses to bug you.\nDo not worry. Here is a perfect Facebook app that will offer you only what is needed. FriendCaster Pro for Android is the most appropriate app to make your Facebook experience more fun-filled and easier. You will feel safe with an enforced SSL Encryption and a new action bar Interface. It comes pre-loaded with many exciting features that are mentioned below:\nFor notifications:\n• FriendCaster checks the Facebook notification e-mails and offers Gmail/K9 Push notifications.\n• Friends’ birthdays and incoming new messages are notified well in time.\n• There are pop-ups for notifications on receiving SMS that can be seen even of the screen is locked by the user. These have option for quick replies too.\nFor new Posts:\n• You can easily share browser links and will not be redirected to the Mobile Web.\n• Check the comments, likes, and customize privacy setting for each and every Facebook profile or update that you make.\n• Re-sharing of posts is even more convenient and you can easily remove or add the photographs of your friends.\n• Friends can be added as favorites for quicker access.\nFor Photos and Videos:\n• Upload multiple photos and videos.\n• View all the tagged photos and tag other photos as well.\n• Upload photos in group as well.\nOther notable features of this app are:\n• Excellent widget\n• Search of places\n• RSVP to events\n• In-built Inbox view\n• Vibrate, LED and sound alert options\n• Chat, themes and contacts syncing with table layouts\nThe app is one of its kind and offers the most reliable Facebook access. It is easily available on the Android market place. You can even download the app from Facebook fan page.\n[youtube "}

{"text": "Can Cats Be An Emotional Support Animal? How To Register in 2021?\nCat ownership can be a wonderful addition to any person’s life, with or without mental health issues to deal with. Most cat owners can relate to the feeling of wanting their cat by their side in every area of life. Few realize that this is perfectly legal, just the same as the service animals that we recognize as completely necessary for those with accessibility issues such as blindness or deafness.\nWhile emotional support dogs are generally recognized as the norm, other domesticated species can be considered support animals, too. Some may wonder if they can register their cat as an emotional support animal. The short answer? Absolutely.\nMany mental health professionals recognize the value that supports animals have to offer those who struggle with emotional or mental disability—dog, hamster, lizard, or even cat. Certified emotional support animals, or ESAs, for short, come in all shapes and sizes, and they’re all able to provide an ESA owner with the same benefits.\nOur best bit of legal advice? Acquire the proper documentation for your ESA cat from a licensed mental health professional—an ESA cat letter will have you covered under any and all possible circumstances. Certapet’s emotional support cat registration will have you both on your way in no time at all.\nCan a Cat Be an Emotional Support Animal?\nAre dogs the only animals capable of calming a panic attack? One may wonder if a cat’s love is sufficient for sensitive individuals in need of the positive effects of animal-assisted therapy.\nThe good news is that your feline companion can certainly qualify legally as an ESA. In fact, any animal species can be an emotional support animal—some people even choose miniature horses.\nHUD actually categorizes all service animals into one of two categories—common household pets and “unique” animals[1]. Service cats and service dogs, obviously, are considered common household pets. All other emotional support animal types are considered to be “unique”; these include monkeys, dolphins, and any other exotic friends. All of the above can be considered service animals, although some of these choices are probably just a bit outside of your own personal comfort zone.\nEmotional support cats, thankfully, are included in the former category as household pets. There will be no need for you to prove that you require a cat specifically with extenuating evidence or medical advice from your doctor; an ordinary ESA letter will be more than sufficient legally.\nThe personalities of individual cats tend to make them more or less suitable as therapy cats. Some cats don’t really like to leave the home; it has less to do with the cat breed and more to do with who the cat is personally. If your cat is something of a homebody, ESA dog ownership may be the way to go.\nEmotional Support Animals vs. Service Animals\nEmotional support animals[2] are not considered to be service animals like guide dogs are.\nService animals are defined by their role as an accessibility aid. They must be specifically trained to perform tasks that their owners are unable to perform safely or comfortably on their own. An example would be a service animal who reminds his or her owner to take their medication daily or a service animal who prevents a blind person from walking into a busy intersection.\nEmotional support animals do not perform tasks as service animals do; instead, the service that they provide ESA owners is their soothing presence, plain and simple. Many argue that this service qualifies as being just as essential as traditional accessibility considerations; some argue that ESA pets should, in fact, be considered service animals under the eyes of the law[3].\nThe Benefits of Having an Emotional Support Cat\nIt goes without saying that cats are able to give the same love that a dog can. Support cats may offer some advantages over dogs that may appeal to you personally. A few of them:\n- Cats are quiet and usually won’t be as loud or gregarious as an emotional support dog\n- An emotional support cat can be specifically trained to use a litter box, precluding the need for a daily walk\n- Some housing providers will not charge any additional pet fees for cats; this will rarely be the case for dog ownership, even those who own smaller breeds\nOther emotional support animal benefits[4] in a general sense include:\n- An overall improvement in the state of the patient’s mental health\n- A reduction in feelings of depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and thoughts of suicide\n- A life-saving calming effect, vital for those who struggle with intrusive panic attacks or post-traumatic stress disorder\n- The ability to interrupt and to prevent negative, destructive, or disordered behavior\nAnybody who’s ever had a cat that they love can probably attest to many of these positive benefits. For those with emotional or mental health concerns, the lifeline of an emotional support cat can be vital on a day-to-day basis.\nAccommodation Access for Emotional Support Cats\nMany ESA pet owners carry one primary concern with them as they go about their lives: reasonable accommodations for their therapy cat, at work, at home, and out in public. Not all people are cat people, but if your disabilities qualify, your right to an emotional support cat should never be denied.\nHousing is usually a top concern for many people with mental illnesses, whether they live with a service animal or not. Two very important points to remember when locking in housing while living with emotional support animals:\n- The Fair Housing Act (FHA) protects you from being put out onto the street[5]; this is doubly true for support animal owners who have already secured their ESA letter. If your landlord is threatening to evict you unfairly, you can file a complaint[6] with Housing and Urban Development (HUD). A support cat should be treated just like a real service cat or any other service animal.\n- HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) and the Fair Housing Act require landlords to provide reasonable accommodation[7] for their emotional support animal. ESA-wary landlords may charge pet fees monthly, but these additional fees should not put you under any undue financial hardship.\nWhere else does your ESA letter protect you and your emotional support cat? The Air Carrier Access Act ensures that your right to an emotional support cat is enforced even when you travel. The Air Carrier Access Act lays out many rules for what a code-compliant service animal entails, but all of them are relatively easy to follow. With an ESA letter, both of you will be safe to fly anywhere.\nHow to Make My Cat An ESA in 3 Steps?\nInterested in how to register a cat as an emotional support animal? An emotional support animal letter is little more than the recommendation of a licensed mental health professional.\nYou’re free to reach out to your local healthcare professional for a traditional medical clinic appointment. The process requires an evaluation, but if you already work closely with a mental health expert, it will likely not take long to secure an ESA letter. If you’re suffering genuinely, you have nothing to prove or to hide. A support animal might just be exactly what you need.\nIf you’re short on time and would like to proceed quickly, we invite you to make use of our online ESA letter registration service. Certapet welcomes any and all animal lovers to learn more about the possibility of an ESA in support of their emotional well-being.\nTake Our Free Online Screening\nTo get started, you’ll need to take our online mental well-being screening—you won’t ever have to leave your home to receive your written letter. You will not need to pay additional fees for this screening; we use it to identify the emotional disabilities that you’re hoping to mitigate.\nConnect with One of Our Licensed Mental Health Professionals\nOur team of independent mental health professionals specializes in doling out psychological advice remotely, through online video consults. This licensed mental health professional will evaluate your condition and offer you medical or psychological advice. Their prescriptive plan may involve the inclusion of a support animal in your life.\nReceive Your Emotional Support Cat Letter\nAll that you need to do is finalize the transaction; after paying, you can either print out your ESA letter at home or receive it through the mail.\nAfter being approved, you’ll be free to go anywhere with your emotional support animal; ESA law is now on your side, whether flying, shopping in a store, or even in the office.\nApply 10% Off Coupon Code: HEALTHCANAL\nFinal Thoughts\nEmotional support animals can be one of the brightest sources of joy in a person’s life. If you’ve got a feline companion that you’ve bonded with already, registering him or her as an emotional support cat ensures that you’ll never be far apart from one another.\nMany will seek a consultation with their physician or counselor, but if your housing arrangement or some other legal feud is leaving your safety hanging in the balance, asking a medical professional to provide legal advice is a waste of your time. Instead, you can book an appointment with Certapet to acquire your emotional support animal letter ASAP, with zero hassle.\nOur team specializes in emotional support animals of all varieties, your emotional support cat is most certainly included. To learn more, please feel free to explore our site for more information.\nFrequently Asked Questions\nTo make your cat an emotional support cat, a licensed healthcare professional will need to evaluate your mental health in order to determine whether or not you qualify.\nSupport animals do not need any special training before being registered as emotional support animals officially.\nAbsolutely. Most emotional support cat owners can attest to this fact first-hand. Cats are cute, clean, well-behaved, and will generally be welcomed warmly into most public spaces without too much of a problem.\nWhile, unlike a true service cat, ESA cats won’t generally be able to perform a specific task for you, they are able to serve as a constant source of companionship. Consider an emotional therapy cat to be something like a mini best friend, or even a tiny therapist that tags along with you everywhere, just in case you need them.\n+ 7 sources\nHealth Canal avoids using tertiary references. We have strict sourcing guidelines and rely on peer-reviewed studies, academic researches from medical associations and institutions. To ensure the accuracy of articles in Health Canal, you can read more about the editorial process here\n- FHEO,(2020) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. [online] Available at:\n- Ada.gov. (2015). Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA. [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021].\n- HeinOnline. (2021). About | HeinOnline. [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021].\n- Animallaw.info. (2021). FAQs on Emotional Support Animals | Animal Legal & Historical Center. [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021].\n- The Humane Society of the United States. (2021). The Fair Housing Act and Assistance Animals. [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021].\n- Hud.gov. (2021). File a Complaint – Main Page | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021].\n- The Humane Society of the United States. (2021). The Fair Housing Act and Assistance Animals. [online] Available at: [Accessed 6 Oct. 2021]."}

{"text": "Rosetta\n- 1999\n- Belgium / France\n- 1h 31min\n- 15\n- Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne\n- Written by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne\n- Cast: Émilie Dequenne\n- Language: French\nRosetta (Dequenne) is seventeen and has one wish: to find a job that will enable her to move out of the caravan that she co-habits with her alcoholic mother (Yernaux). Despite continual disappointments in the job market Rosetta refuses to give up hope and battles on like a bull facing a matador. A marvellous exposition of the continuing importance of cinema in highlighting social barriers and conflict, 'Rosetta' was rewarded with the Cannes Palme d'Or.\nPerformance times\nThis film is not currently showing in cinemas.\nTell us more about this listing."}

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{"text": "Zuzana Olsinova completed her Hons and MSc degrees in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, participating in internships at Pontis Foundation and OZ Navrat during her studies. She cooperated with ETP Slovakia and the inhabitants of Stara Lubovna-Podsadek for her Honours Dissertation, exploring community relationships through Participatory Action Research. Her Masters Thesis used participatory methodology with Slovak feminist groups. For three years she helped administer the Gender Justice & Violence module at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh. She mainly focuses on gender studies although she is also interested in social movements and homelessness."}

{"text": "I've had what Jeff Goldstein would call \"A Moment of Unabashed Pragmatism\".\nHere's the deal, coming from low-end middle American background and growing up in an old industrial environment (although the suburbs of same, to be admitted) I got used to this strange thing known as: Do It Yourself.\nThe DIY culture is astounding, today, in that so many people don't realize what they can actually do if they apply themselves to it. That is why there are all those lovely programs on people doing things to each other's homes and so many of the good reality programs that just show normal, everyday folks doing their jobs. Really, I do like many of those as seeing good, hard working people at the top of their jobs is a great insight into just how well any of us can do such things. Even better is you get this strange idea that you can, indeed, do it yourself.\nSo with that background, I never felt out of place tackling the odd-jobs of home and car maintenance, and took that into my own DIY computer systems (from components) and all sorts of other fun things. My Pico-ITX build (slowly coming together) is one such area, in which I have all the necessary background to do the build, just not the materials or tools. Thus, having done all sorts of other manual tasks and observed, closely, thousands more as I grew up, I could scope out the broad outlines of a job and then know all it took was: time, effort, having the right tools, and getting the right parts.\nThe first I have boodles of! Good!\nNot being well the second is limited to only a few hours a day, as in less than 5 and usually less than 3. Not good, but it can be worked around.\nTools... bare essentials with a couple of those missing, but most for the types of things I need to handle.\nParts. Depends on what I'm doing, usually I can depend upon my self-reliant hunting ability on the net to get parts... if they are made.\nStepping from the Pico ITX build (And much thanks to Beto Ocho on the screw suggestion for the case! 2/56 UNC is what the doctor ordered!) leads me into the strange area of 'retail packaging'.\nHere's the deal: for small amounts of good material you usually pay through the nose for it. Now, not to beat on anyone in particular, but to use as an example, there is the Militec 1 'synthetic metal conditioner'. Now heading over to their retail section I find 3 of the 0.5 oz bottles for $10.95 (delivered), or $7.95/oz.\nAt 1oz. they drop it to $7.90/oz.\nAt 4oz it goes for $18.90 or $4.725/oz.\nAt 8oz it goes for $26.90 or $3.3625/oz.\nAt 16oz it goes for $39.90 or $2.49375/oz.\nAs the packaging size goes up, the cost per ounce goes down, which demonstrates that it is a pain to package stuff into smaller quantities and track them, etc. So, I am a cheapskate and went to Impact Guns and their Militec 1 sales area and see the 16 oz. bottle goes for $29.99 and shipping and handling still brought it under the price from the supplier. Well, that is normal supply chain and originator pricing at MSRP so that their retailers can look like they are saving you cash. Which, they are. Now, 16 oz. is a bit unwieldy and a bit much for me, so the 8 oz did look better for personal needs, but even with the tip on the thing it isn't what I would call 'small'. Which means I would really like a small tip applicator, preferably in squeeze bottle form.\nNow, as you can guess the same goes for the Militec 1 grease and I found a great deal at Brownell's for the 14 oz. tube of the stuff for $8. I didn't see their case costs for the other stuff as worthwhile, however. And, if I wanted the grease at a good price, I would also need something to apply it with.\nThis now takes me to retail use of bulk consumables.\nComing at life from the natural sciences, I got used to beakers, squeeze bottles, flasks, etc. at a pretty young age: our school system really pressed that stuff down all the way to the 8th grade and made sure it stuck. I'm used to the stuff. So along with light industrial, electronics, home repair, auto maintenance, I now add in the entire scientific realm of hands-on chemistry up to the college level and geology at the college level. And it is DIY land for those.\nKnowing that something is made, exists and can be had at a price, I then reversed the process and looked for the applicators in a low cost arena. If I'm going to get a decent price on something, I want it to be useful! This then took me to the plastics industry and there are more of these suppliers than I care to name, but I will name the one I settled on: HMC Electronics.\nAn electronics store for plastic goods?\nWell yes, dear heart, they are related to each other, especially in the materials creation, measuring and use areas. Depending on the area of scientific endeavor you will need electronic equipment, like scales, to do your work. If you need to wash excess *gunk* off a circuit board with a stable cleaner, you need a small bottle to do that. If you collect specimens for scientific reasons, you want clean, sterile plastic goods for that. And if you are into needing glues, adhesives, greases, oils, acids, bases, and other things that come in liquids, gels, suspended colloids and such things, then you will be buying in bulk and packaging it for yourself into smaller quantities....\nBeen there, done that, got the t-shirt.\nI grew up in Buffalo.\nThus at HMC Electronics they have the Packaging area which has Dispensing Bottles & Applicators. Syringes (Industrial) for grease! Yes you can get one, precise, dot of grease that way without having to get a nasty metal tip... which I avoid for various reasons of chemistry, heat, static electricity and being unable to cut those down to get a wider applicator. And a leakproof oiler bottle! Heaven! My general rule is: if one shop has it all for decent prices, save on shipping and handling and get it all from them. Now I also have other gun maintenance fluids (solvents, conditioners, etc.) that would be much nicer in a more compact and easier to carry form... so a few bags of the 2 oz. bottles and a leakproof oiler and some of those lovely 30cc syringes for the grease.\nThat left one thing, which I could get for a song in an old industrial area, but is damned hard to come by in suburbia in northern VA: a grease gun. Literally, in Buffalo I could think of at least three places to go to get one used for a couple of bucks. I could do a 'quick and dirty' on the plunger, degrease it with a bit of gasoline and it would be ready to go. No dice here, when you are basically stuck at home, and the internet, for all of its wonderful things, doesn't yield up used automotive or industrial equipment like that too readily. So, new, from Amazon, lowest I could find... ADT-5000 I think it was, but free shipping as I had other things to buy there.\nAnd that is how you find me winding up with a grease gun filling syringes with grease in my computer room. I now have a great grease gun which I may never use again, but now that I have it, it is a good tool to have. The grease is all parceled out with one syringe to spare (yes, I am less than efficient at filling the things, though I got better by the last two or three), and having already parceled out my oil. Next up is labeling, then on to the other liquids, so that I can now have a nice maintenance kit to carry along with me and leave the huge bottles at home as they have instructions on them. And considering I got 14 syringes of grease, 3 squeeze bottles and 1 oiler bottle of oil out of it and looking at the retail cost, I would say I do, indeed, have a bargain.\nEven if it is kind of weird to be wielding a grease gun to fill small syringes early in the morning... but then I do have to live with my constraints in life. And if a friend needs some, I can toss a spare to them and tell them to 'keep it'.\nAccomplishment is not in the thinking, but in the doing."}

{"text": "The beautiful beach of “Latte” is just 350 meters from the village and is reachable by a footpath. Relaxing and lots of fun are guaranteed. The beach of Latte is only a 5 minutes walk from the campsite Por la Mar.\nLatte – Photo by leonardoturrin.com\nThe Bay of Latte with its cliffs overlooking the sea and its crystal clear water offers a beautiful landscape under water perfect for lovers of diving!\nLatte – Photo by leonardoturrin.com\nVilla Eva Restaurant and Beach\nThe Hotel 3 stars Villa Eva Restaurant and Beach is built on a splendid 19th century villa, completely renovated, overlooking the romantic bay of “Latte”(Ventimiglia-Liguria), directly on the sea. Moreover, the hotel has a private beach of golden sand framed by palm trees. Swimming pool (16x4m), maximum height of 1.43 cm and minimum height 1.23 cm, changing rooms with hot and cold shower, 400 seats inside and 100 outside, 300 ergonomic sun lounger, 150 beach umbrellas and cushions around the pool.\nVilla Eva Restaurant and Beach – Photo by Villa Eva\nRestaurant and snack bar, with inside room and a panoramic terrace overlooking the sea, accessible at all times. We also have a private parking. Happy Hour along the seashore. The structure has five rooms and suites with all comforts and the latest technology to ensure a memorable stay for every guest. Wi-Fi is available in all the hotel, including park and beach.\nPlease note that the beach service is not included in the price of camping and accommodation.\nWebsite :\nVilla Eva Restaurant and Beach\nTel. 0184 229996 – Fax 0184 226830\nVia Romana in Frazione Latte, 47 – 18039 Ventimiglia (IM)\nThis post is also available in: Italian, Dutch, French, German, Spanish"}

{"text": "Former Chelsea and Inter Milan boss Antonio Conte has emerged as the clear leader in the vacant Tottenham managerial post.\nIt is understood that talks with the Italian have advanced rapidly.\nHe is now expected to replace Jose Mourinho as Tottenham manager.\nSpurs have made contact with former boss Mauricio Pochettino last week, but PSG have remained steadfast in their refusal to allow him to leave.\nTottenham president Daniel Levy is unlikely to allow this situation to go on for too long.\nThe club have been without a permanent coach since Mourinho left on April 19.\nLevy said the club had “lost sight of some key priorities” during the construction of its new stadium and the Covid-19 pandemic.\nSpurs finished last season in seventh place in the table, qualifying for the new Europa Conference League.\nPremier League Golden Boot Talisman Harry Kane has said he hopes to have “a good and honest conversation” with Levy about his future, amid reports he had officially-2020 and one point behind Italian champions Juventus – who had finished 21 points ahead of the previous season.\nInter won their 19th Scudetto with four games to go last season, scoring 91, the second-highest in club history.\nSource link"}

{"text": "Have questions about SnapScan?\nSearch your phone’s app store for the SnapScan app, or visit our home page for links to the Apple Store, Google fingerprint to secure and complete the transaction. The merchant will receive a notification via SMS or on their point of sale system to confirm that the payment has been made.\nSnapScan works with ecommerce). Zest, Windows and feature phones are unfortunately not currently supported.. 50 000 merchants already signed up, you’ll never have to carry your wallet around with you again! Carrying your cash and cards with you is also risky, while SnapScan ensures your card details are securely encrypted. Cash can be stolen, your card can be cloned and all your money withdrawn at an ATM, but with SnapScan you have both a phone PIN and an app-specific PIN protecting your details. See Safety & Security for more details.\nWe currently have more than 50 000 merchants across South Africa registered with SnapScan. Use our Merchant Finder inside the SnapScan application to find one close to your location. If your favourite shop doesn’t have SnapScan yet, you can encourage them to sign up here!\nSnapScan now allows international cards on the app, provided that the issuing bank has 3D Secure enabled on their cards. We still support all South African bank accounts and credit cards, as well as most local debit cards, but you will only be able to use the app at locally based merchants registered with us.\nYou can activate a setting on the app that sends a receipt for every payment you make to your email address. Go to the app menu > Features > Payment notification by email to activate this feature. Please note that you’ll have to activate this feature before making the payment you need the receipt for, this cannot be done for previous payments. SnapScan also automatically delivers proof of payment to the merchant via SMS or through their point of sale.\nYes, customers have variable limits based on their transaction history, to prevent fraudulent activity. As a general rule, users are limited to roughly R5000 per week. Please contact [email protected] for more detailed information on your limits.\nIf you pay too little, you simply make an additional payment to make up the full amount. If you pay too much, you need to ask the merchant to pay you back the excess amount, but how this is done is up to the merchant’s discretion.\nYou can contact us at [email protected] if you wish to query a transaction.\nContact SnapScan via email at [email protected] immediately and explain exactly what happened. You’re also welcome to get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter - we will investigate and follow up with you.\nYes you can! You can send money to friends via the ‘Wallet’ function within the SnapScan app. Please note that these funds cannot be withdrawn to your bank account, but can be spent at any of our 50 000 merchants, nationwide.\nNot just yet. Funds in the wallet can only be spent at any of our 50 000 merchants nationwide. If you don’t have enough money in your wallet to pay for your purchase, you can top up your wallet.\nYes you can! You can now shop at many stores around South Africa, including online retailers like Yuppiechef, Superbalist and OneDayOnly. If you would like to see your favourite online store using SnapScan, let us know on [email protected]\nNo, SnapScan will not work if your phone does not have internet reception or data available. Remember to turn your mobile data on when you use SnapScan, since your phone might be struggling to find and log onto a wifi network.\nSnapScan needs battery power to work, so you will need to charge your phone to be able to use the app.\nEven though SnapScan uses very little data to complete a transaction (roughly the same as you would use to send a WhatsApp message), you need to have internet access and a functioning camera phone to use the app. Without these, your phone will not be able to read the merchant’s SnapCode, nor will it be able to process the payment. Please contact your cell phone’s service provider to resolve any phone-related problems.\nIf you get a new phone you should delete SnapScan from your old phone and then download it and register it on your new phone. You will be asked to verify your email address and add your card again, since your encrypted card details are not automatically linked to your email credentials, for security reasons. See the FAQ section on Safety & Security if your phone has been lost or stolen.\nYes! SnapScan is safe to use on multiple levels: The app requires a PIN to be entered before any transaction can be completed. This prevents anyone who has your phone from making transactions, as your PIN should be known only to you. If you have a Face- or Touch ID-enabled Apple device, you can even use this instead of your PIN. We now also have fingerprint authentication for android devices, this needs to be turned on in the app’s account settings.\nYour card details are also safely and securely encrypted. Even if your phone is stolen, nobody will be able to see or access your card details.\nYour card details are also safely and securely encrypted. Even if your phone is stolen, nobody will be able to see or access your card details.\nSnapScan is safer and more convenient than using your bank card. When you use SnapScan, you keep your bank card safely in your wallet or even at home, and simply use your phone to pay for things. This means there is less chance of your card being lost, stolen or skimmed. And you still earn your points with loyalty schemes like uCount or eBucks!\nSnapScan securely encrypts your card details. These details are never shared with merchants, nor are they stored anywhere on our systems, so no one will ever be able to get your card details from SnapScan. Your card details are encrypted and only used in combination with your PIN when a transaction is made.\nNo, only you can verify a payment with your PIN. Merchants do not have access to your card or banking details when you use SnapScan.\nSnapScan keeps a record of all your transactions on the app home screen. You may also receive an SMS from your bank when your card is charged, depending on how your account services are configured with your bank. If you do not receive an SMS, please contact your bank and ask them to enable this functionality, if possible.\nFirstly, don’t panic! There are many levels of security to your phone and the SnapScan app itself. Before even getting to the app, the thief would have to decipher your phone password and SnapScan PIN number, or find a way to bypass your Face- or Touch ID. Even if someone could bypass these security measures, they would also need your unique SnapScan PIN in order to make payments with the app..\nPlease don’t! This just adds another level of security if your phone is stolen. You may choose any 4 digit PIN for your SnapScan application.\nFor security reasons, we don’t allow you to reset your PIN. Instead, you will need to delete your details from SnapScan. Open the application, click on Menu > Account Settings > Reset Profile. You will need to register and link your card again before you can select your new PIN.\nIf you enter your PIN incorrectly 10 times in a row your SnapScan application will be locked. You will need to delete your account and link your card again.\nOpen the application, click on Menu > Account Settings > Reset Profile. This will delete your details from the app.\nAs a broad rule of thumb, our app works with all ecommerce enabled cards, including both Visa and MasterCard. When you add your card details on the app, it automatically tests the account details and produces an error message if the card is not supported. If you bank with Standard Bank, you can even add a virtual card (generated in your banking app) to the SnapScan app..\nYes! You still receive points for making payments on your card. However, your card will be charged by SnapScan, so you will not be able to earn special points at specific merchants (e.g. additional UCount at Incredible Connection).\nSnapScan now allows international cards on the app, provided that the issuing bank has 3D Secure enabled on their cards. We still support all South African bank accounts and credit cards, as well as most local debit cards, and you will only be able to use the app at locally based merchants registered with us.\nYou can delete your card information by selecting Account Settings from the app’s main menu and selecting \"Reset Profile”. Just add the new card details and you’re ready to go!.\nWe currently allow a maximum of 3 card changes or additions per month before the app will prevent any further changes. This is just another way in which we try to keep SnapScan users and merchants safe. Please contact our helpdesk if you have reached this limit, but need to effect another card change.\n- You can sign up via our website merchant portal, here. We'll need your business information, your bank details and FICA documentation.\n- You can complete the entire registration process online for a once-off sign-up fee of R250, butkeep in mind that it will take us 3-5 business days to review your application and requestadditional information if needed. If you're in a hurry, please let our support team know as soonas you've completed the sign-up process so we can try and get you up and running ASAP!\n- Since the whole process is completed remotely, a 'cool down period' of 7 days applies to allnew merchants, which means you'll receive your first settlement after the first week ofaccepting, we have a team dedicated to getting you set up properly, depending on the needs of your business.\nNo, you can be an informal business or sole proprietorship. But we will still need the necessary FICA documentation (namely your ID book or card and valid proof of address for your place of business.\nThink about your SnapScan account in a similar way to setting up a bank account, we need the same documents to make sure that everything is safe and secure for you and your customers. email.\nAsk our support team to set up daily/weekly/monthly reports of all transactions made to you, sent via email.\n- (eg TabletPOS, Vend, Gaapy, Humble, and others). If you’ve linked your SnapScan account with any of our supported systems, your SnapScan code will be printed on your bills for customers to scan and make payments easily.\n- on:\n- Your company name, as registered with SnapScan\n- A copy of your ID (you must have power of attorney for the account)\n- The email address that you used to registered with SnapScan\n- The account details as they currently stand\n- The account details you would like going forward\n- Your reason for changing bank details"}

{"text": "In June I do 1-2-1 sessions either online (GoToMeeting) or locally (in Sydney CBD). Anyone who wants to upgrade to a professional level should act now. Please click here to contact me.\nANALYSIS\nWTI OIL has completed all the 3 legs of the triangle - see the daily chart below and it's ready to break out the upper line to 106-107 and much higher.\nTARGETS\nlikely: 105.92-106.12\npossibly: 107.24-107.34\nmaybe: 107.96-108.12\nELLIOTT WAVES\nThe daily chart doesn't show the completion of wave 2 (in blue) yet. The a-b-c is been followed by wave 1.-2-3. In the weekly chart, this is part of the last wave up (wave 5) that should take the WTI OIL to 114.80 and maybe higher.\nWAVE OSCILLATOR\nNote that the wave oscillator doesn't give it a go yet.\nWeekly chart, click to enlarge\nDaily chart, click to enlarge\nWave Oscillator on a daily chart, click to enlarge\n4-hour chart, click to enlarge"}

{"text": "I’m Glad I Selected The 7 Day Grand Canyon Whitewater Rafting Trip And Wish I Had Done It Years Ago\nFor our Grand Canyon tour, we were on two rafts and had 5 Western guides. The two Captains of the boats were very experienced and handled the rapids, us the guests, and the accommodations, the food, landings, side trips, canyon lore, and storytelling at night with great aplomb.\nWe looked forward to the food and they exceeded our expectations over, and over again. There was cold shrimp cocktail, pork chops, great French Toast, fish, etc.\nAs a 72 year-old I took many side trip trails, ran the water of the Little Colorado and saw many waterfalls and walked many side canyons.\nI brought 3 camera batteries; I should have brought 5. I did capture 6 gigabytes of pictures.\nIt was a wonderful experience. Take the kids.\nBob - Tucson Arizona\nArizona - Grand Canyon Rafting 6 & 7 Day"}