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One option that could be worth a look is converting your car to run on liquid petroleum gas (LPG). Not only is it easier on the pocket at the pumps, it's also easier on the environment and could even cut your running costs further by getting you a reduction on your road tax.
And although it usually costs between £1,200 and £1,500 to convert your car to 'bi-fuel' – which means that it will run on both LPG and petrol – if you're spending around £60 per week at the pumps the conversion should have paid for itself in a year or so because LPG is almost half the price of other fuels on the forecourts.
This is largely due to the fact that LPG has lower rates of fuel duty than other fuels: petrol, diesel and biofuels (biodiesel and bioethanol) are all subject to 61.0 p/litre in duty costs, LPG has a rate of just 37.3 p/kg.
(Quick note: LPG is a gas, so it is often measured by mass, not volume, which means prices are sometimes given per kilogram and not per litre.)
Despite the cheaper fuel costs there are still thought to be fewer than 200,000 cars running on LPG on the UK's roads– a miniscule number when you consider there are over 31million cars registered in the UK.
So why aren't more of us making the switch, particularly as petrol prices are soaring to such levels that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a price review? Is it down to the installation costs, or a worry that the car's performance could be affected? Or are people worried about the insurance implications?
Or is it down to good, old-fashioned apathy?
But before we get into that, let's first let's see what's actually involved in converting your car to run on LPG…
What's involved in an LPG conversion?
Converting your car to run on LPG does require some major work that will see you parting with your car for the best part of three days and will see your bank account parting with the thick end of £1,500.
The process involves having a second, independent fuel system, including a secondary fuel tank, installed in your car, and this will come with a separate fuel gauge so you know when it's time to refuel. Depending upon the type of car, you may also have to have an additional lubricating system fitted to avoid excessive wear on the engine.
That is why it is vital that you have the right sort of LPG system fitted in your car and make sure that it is fitted by one of the 200 or so LPGA approved installers. You can find your nearest, approved installer by clicking here. You should have the system serviced annually and any minor maintenance costs involved in this should cost between £25 and £50.
Around 90% of petrol cars currently registered in the UK can be converted to run on LPG. While diesel cars can also be converted, the process is a lot more complicated and is not recommended given the current technology.
Once installed, you simply fill up your new tank at a service station forecourt as you would your petrol tank. There's no danger of putting in the wrong fuel or overfilling as the LPG hose has a unique nozzle and an automatic shut-off valve.
Even though you'll be running your car on LPG, it's still worth keeping your petrol tank topped up as you can still switch over to petrol at any time. If you happen to run out of gas the car should automatically switch back over to petrol.
But with over 1,400 LPG stations covering the length of the UK, from Southampton to Stornoway, you should never be too far away from an LPG filling station – a full list of LPG refilling stations can be found at http://www.drivelpg.co.uk/
Any problems with LPG?
Although LPG offers significant savings on fuel bills, is available at plenty of forecourts and saw 12,000 new conversions last year, you could argue that it hasn't taken off as it should have. So what exactly is the problem?
One issue is that there is still something of a negative perception surrounding LPG. This is a legacy of the fact that some of the earlier installations resulted in a significant loss of boot space and were sometimes so poorly fitted they caused owners all manner of problems.
However, there have been significant technological advances made over the last five years or so, as Mike Champman of the UKLPG Association, explains: "The latest systems work with the engine management system, and are extremely reliable. Almost all petrol cars can be converted. Some of the newer direct-injection engines are not suitable, but to all other drivers, a correctly installed and maintained system will offer no problems. We know of many cars that have covered 250,000 miles on gas."
In addition, most LPG units are now either fitted in the spare wheel well in the boot or, in the case of 4x4 vehicles, under the chassis, so there is no longer a loss of boot space. If you have a tank fitted in the spare wheel well, it's vital that you carry a foam tyre repair kit in lieu of your spare wheel – and it's also worth investing in breakdown cover in case you ever have a complete blow-out.
Despite advances in LPG technology, some drivers who run their cars on LPG encounter a loss in power and performance. And there is usually about a 15%-20% drop in fuel efficiency when compared with running on unleaded petrol, something which can result in a range of just 150-200 miles on a full tank.
However, in reality, any drop in power is usually negligible and the lower miles-per-gallon ratio is more than offset by the lower fuel costs, which average at about half the price of petrol, meaning that LPG is still a cheaper option than unleaded.
What are the main benefits of LPG?
Aside from the obvious savings on fuel costs, running your car on LPG will make it a much greener machine, with a drop in CO2 emissions of around 20% and almost no particulate emissions. And, provided you inform the DVLA that you've converted to LPG, running a more environmentally friendly car will net you a reduction in road tax of £10 per year – not a massive saving, but a saving all the same.
Shelling out: LPG is almost half the price of petrol
As well as informing the DVLA that you have had your car converted to LPG, you need to inform your insurer as it is, to all intents and purposes, a modification. However, unlike most modifications, it shouldn't result in an increase to your premium as it is not seen as any adding any greater risk to the vehicle.
Unfortunately, even though its more environmentally friendly, it's unlikely that insurers will reduce your premium as they do with other eco-cars, nor will it get you a discount on the London congestion charge (currently £10 a day).
Running your car on LPG can also prolong the life of your engine. As a cleaner burning-fuel it actually reduces wear and tear on your engine and, provided the system has been fitted by an approved installer, it could actually increase the sell-on value of your car, particularly as people look to reduce running costs.
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Across New Hampshire, Public Health Networks are working with the Department of Health and Human Services to provide communities with additional support regarding the opioid crisis in the state. One of these efforts includes increasing the accessibility of Naloxone (Narcan) kits, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services to non-medical professionals. Friends and family members, can use these kits to save the life of their loved one. Naloxone (Narcan) can be a life-saving medication in the event of an overdose of heroin, fentanyl or prescription pain relievers. It works by blocking the effects of opioids and may reverse the overdose. These kits are being made available throughout the state through the Anyone Anytime campaign in New Hampshire.
- Learn more about NH substance misuse Information and Priorities at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
- If you or your love one is in a substance misuse crisis call The New Hampshire Statewide Addiction Crisis Line toll-free at 1-844-711-4357 (HELP)
- For more information about Opioids and Drugs visit NH Drug Free
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A hydraulic riveter is a tool that can join together pieces of metal, using hydraulic force to propel connecting rivets. Rivets are small pieces of metal that look like unthreaded bolts. When put through a riveter, the narrower, straight end of a rivet, known as the buck-tail, flattens and expands to create a permanent fastening.
Rivets come in many different sizes, for various applications. A technology older than welding or bolting, rivets are common on vehicles and in architecture made around the turn of the 20th century. Though they have been surpassed by more modern techniques, rivets are still regularly used in a variety of manufactured products, ranging from mobile phones to airplanes to bridges.
To apply a rivet requires a tool capable of applying a large amount of kinetic force. Small rivets can be applied manually, with a hammer or a tool called a bucking bar. Larger ones, however, require the use of a specialized rivet gun, or riveter. Riveters can be powered in several different ways — through pneumatics, hydraulics, or an electric motor. In addition to their motive force, there are several different ways a riveter actually finishes a rivet.
A hydraulic riveter can work either by impact riveting, orbital riveting, or spiral riveting. An impact hydraulic riveter drives a rivet through the materials to be connected, and onto a hard surface that causes the rivet to expand. An impact type can apply two rivets per second. Impact riveters are used for basic, repetitive jobs in which volume, as opposed to aesthetics or fine detail, is key.
An orbital hydraulic riveter is slower to apply rivets, but offers greater control over the shape of the rivet. While an impact rivet is generally flat, orbital rivets can be rounded off. A radial hydraulic riveter operates similarly, but instead of finishing a rivet in one motion, employs a hammering motion to shape it. For larger applications, there is yet another type of hydraulic riveter that drills guide holes before setting and finishing a rivet. These automatic drilling and riveting machines are used mainly in extremely large applications, such as airplane exteriors.
The power for a hydraulic riveter is supplied by a hydraulic cylinder, which is a piston filled with pressurized liquid. Generally a type of oil, the liquid is shunted by the other half of the apparatus, a hydraulic pump. The pump regulates the speed and strength of the piston's motion. It is typically modulated either by a foot pedal or, increasingly, by computer.
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You can now add tags or edit text inside existing Evernote notes directly on the iPhone. The note could either be plain text or may contain media like images, audio, etc.
Evernote also revamped their audio recorder for the iPhone / iPod Touch and also increased the maximum recording time 5 minutes.
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Three charities have benefitted from fundraising by the ladies of the Newton Stewart and District Inner Wheel.
At their recent summer get-together at the Creebridge House Hotel, Newton Stewart, cheques totalling £650 were handed over to Newton Stewart Autism Support Group, Dumfries and Galloway Befriending Project and international charity Mission Aviation Fellowship. The money was raised at the group's annual spring coffee morning at Wigtown County Buildings.
Sarah Holmes from the Autism Support Group expressed her thanks for the donation of £300 which she says will be used to buy equipment and help fund a day out for the group which supports anyone caring for someone on the autistic spectrum. The support group meets the second Monday of every month at the Newton Stewart Activity and Resource Centre in King Street.
Meanwhile, the £300 donation to the Befriending Project will help to support the work of the charity in Wigtownshire. The Befriending Project recruits, trains and supports adult volunteer befrienders who are matched one-to-one with vulnerable or disadvantaged young people across Dumfries and Galloway.


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This is an excerpt from Therapeutic Modalities for Musculoskeletal Injuries, Third Edition, by Craig R. Denegar, PhD, ATC, PT, Ethan Saliba, PhD, ATC, PT, and Susan Saliba, PhD, ATC, PT.
Contrast therapy, which consists of alternating applications of heat and cold, is also used to treat athletic injuries. The most common approach to contrast treatment consists of alternately immersing the foot, ankle, and leg in a cold water whirlpool or bath and a warm whirlpool (figure 8.13). The temperature of the cold bath and warm whirlpool should be within the ranges previously described in this chapter. The literature provides several recommendations (Walsh 1996; Bell and Prentice 1998) about the length of time cold and heat should be applied, as well as the number of cycles of heat and cold that should be completed during a treatment. A cold-to-warm ratio of 1 to 3 min or 1 to 4 min appears reasonable based upon clinical observations and experience.
Several physiological effects have been proposed to explain the benefits of contrast therapy. Many have suggested that contrast therapy results in cycles of vasodilation and vasoconstriction, thus creating a pumping action to reduce swelling. However, tissue temperatures are not affected by contrast treatments (Myrer et al. 1994, 1997; Higgins and Kaminski 1998). The brief exposure to cold and the fact that superficial heating has minimal effect on deep blood flow suggest that there is little vascular response to contrast therapy.
Even though there is no good explanation for the effects of contrast therapy, this approach has been used to treat some physically active individuals. For example, contrast therapy may be effective in reducing edema in subacute foot and ankle injuries. When swelling limits range of motion several days after injury, contrast therapy along with active range of motion appears to reduce swelling. The sharp sensory contrast between heat and cold appears to reduce pain and therefore muscle spasm. Models of descending influence over dorsal horn processing of nociceptive input certainly offer a plausible explanation for the analgesic response to contrast. A decrease in pain and spasm, combined with active, pain-free range of motion, would in turn increase lymphatic drainage from the area and decrease swelling.
As with many therapies, there has been little investigation of the effectiveness of contrast treatments. Cote et al. (1988) reported that swelling increased in sprained ankles after contrast therapy administered over 3 days after acute lateral ankle sprain. Certainly, these results suggest that contrast therapy should not be administered early in the plan of care. Kuligowski et al. (1998), however, found that contrast or cold therapy had more effect on pain and loss of motion associated with delayed onset muscle soreness than superficial heat. Further investigation is needed on this treatment approach to identify if and when it should be applied.
Pain and muscle spasm indicate the use of cryotherapy, superficial heat, and contrast treatment. This raises the question, which is best? There is no simple answer, and you must consider several factors when selecting a modality, weighing the potential benefits against potential risks.
Contraindications are the first consideration in selecting a therapeutic modality. If the injured person suffers from Raynaud's phenomenon (cryoglobinemia, hemoglobinuria) or cold urticaria, then cold and contrast cannot be used.
Traditionally heat has been thought to be contraindicated after acute injury because of the associated increase in blood flow. Although superficial heat has little effect on deep muscle temperature and blood flow, many clinicians recall cases where an injudicious application of heat increased pain and swelling after injury to joint structures. Thus, cold is the treatment of choice in the management of acute injuries because it is an effective analgesic and antispasmotic and may minimize secondary tissue injury. In the management of acute injuries, cold should be combined with protection of the healing tissues, compression, and elevation. Thus, cold pack application is preferred over cold water immersion or cold whirlpool, because these treatments place the limb in a gravity-dependent position.
If neither heat nor cold is contraindicated and the condition is not acute, you must consider other factors in choosing between cryotherapy, superficial heat, and contrast therapy. The most important considerations are the severity of pain and muscle spasm and patient preference. Cold is a better choice when pain and muscle spasm are severe. However, the preference of the individual is also important. If a certain treatment has helped a person in the past, he or she is likely to believe that the treatment will work again and is likely to actively participate in a plan of care that includes the specific treatment.
Compliance by the injured individual is especially important in a sports medicine clinic. The certified athletic trainer often must develop home treatment programs for athletes who are treated in the clinic only once or twice per week. Certainly someone who prefers not to be treated with cryotherapy is unlikely to use cold at home unless provided with a very convincing argument about why such treatments are essential to his or her recovery. Thus, the ease of application and the probability of compliance with home use are also considerations when you are choosing between cryotherapy and superficial heat.
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Pope rejects resignation of French cardinal in sex abuse cover-up
LYON, France (AFP) — Pope Francis has rejected the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who was handed a six-month suspended sentence this month for failing to report sex abuse by a priest under his authority, the cardinal said on Tuesday.
The pope's decision, which was confirmed by the Vatican, triggered sharp surprise from the chairman of the Bishops' Conference of France, who termed the situation "unheard of".
"Monday morning, I handed over my mission to the Holy Father. He spoke of the presumption of innocence and did not accept this resignation," Barbarin, who has appealed his sentence, said in a statement from his see in the southeastern city of Lyon.
Barbarin said he would remain in Lyon pending his appeal, but added that "for a little while" he would step back from his job, allowing, at the pope's "suggestion", the local vicar general Yves Baumgarten to run day-to-day affairs.
The 68-year-old is the most senior French cleric caught up in the global paedophilia scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church.
The chairman of the Bishops' Conference, Georges Pontier, told AFP he was "surprised" by the decision.
"I did not expect this scenario which falls between the two most expected," he said, adding that this "unheard of" situation resulted from the difficulty of "respecting the judicial process" along with the need to "look after the Lyon diocese".
On March 7 a Lyon court ruled that Barbarin, a cardinal since 2003, was guilty of failing to report allegations of abuse of boy scouts committed by a priest, Bernard Preynat, in the 1980s and 1990s.
After the ruling, Barbarin said he would go to Rome to tender his resignation.
The pope had previously defended the cardinal, saying in 2016 that his resignation before a trial would be "an error, imprudent".
Barbarin's lawyer has announced plans to fight the guilty ruling, which was hailed by abuse victims as ushering in a new period of accountability in the French Church.
The case came as the pope seeks to restore faith in the Church following a slew of abuse scandals that have spanned the globe, from Australia to Chile and the United States.
Less than a week after Barbarin's conviction the Vatican's former number three, Australian Cardinal George Pell, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Melbourne court for the "brazen" sexual abuse of two choirboys.
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I had a couple of experiences that I wanted to record before I forgot them. Both of them happened this weekend. There is more to the stories than I want to record, so this is for me!!
The first one came on Saturday. It was my birthday. I was cleaning the toilet. I thought about what an inglorious job that was to be doing on my birthday. I was doing laundry, cleaning the house, vacuuming. It was Saturday after all. But cleaning the toilet? Where was Reed? Why was I left doing this on my birthday? Reed was in the lab working. It was Saturday. Normally, this is the work I do on a Saturday, but it was my birthday. Quickly on the heels of these thoughts came thoughts of my dear nephew, Kendall, who had passed away on Christmas day. I thought of his journal entries that his father had shared at his funeral about choosing to be happy as he faced death. I quickly realized that the jobs I was doing had to be done regardless of whether it was my birthday or not. Even if I did not do them that day, they would still have to be done. Reed was working because we had missed days in the lab. In the last week, I had traveled to Utah to be with family for the Memorial Service for Kendall there. A couple of days later, I flew to Kansas City, MO to be there with Josh and Staci as they were sealed in the temple. It was a wonderful time and I was so grateful that I had the means to be able to do those things. I also knew that in a few more days I would be flying with Reed to the east coast. He had his yearly long range planning meetings with the Clay Minerals Society and we usually take a week and stay at the beach house. These are huge blessings to me. I am very grateful for them. I had talked with my kids. Reed and I were planning on going out to dinner and a movie. So in that moment, I chose to be happy. I chose not to be grumpy that I was cleaning a toilet on my birthday and instead to be happy. I thought of Kendall and I was happy that in this small way I chose to be happy!!
The second experience came during Relief Society today. We were discussing the lesson about Heavenly Father from Joseph F. Smith. He talked about how our Heavenly Father is real and that he knows us and cares about us personally. I suddenly made a connection between that and an experience that Jackie and Zach had the day before. The 2 older boys were attending a birthday party at a pool. Shortly after they got there, Kayden, who is 6 years old got into water that was way over his head. He can swim, but being only 6 he doesn't swim very well. He realized that he was in water that was too deep and he began to panic. As he panicked he began to flail. He was really struggling. The lifeguard did not notice him as he was distracted by so many kids in the pool. Zach didn't even think about it. He saw his son in trouble and he jumped the fence that separated him from the spectators and the pool deck and then jumped into the pool. Clothes and all. He sacrificed his phone. All to rescue a son who was panicking in water that was over his head. This story came flooding into my mind as I realized the parallel between this and how my Heavenly Father loves me. Sometimes I get in over my head and I panic and I begin to flail. He is always there, even when the world may be distracted and not notice me. He is there to lift me up and keep my head above the water and lead me to safer ground. He does not hesitate, he does not care what the sacrifice is, he just jumps in. Thank you Zach for reminding me of how much a father loves his children. How much my Father loves me.
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Whenever a cloud outage occurs [1], my social media stream is filled with people questioning the concept of cloud services in general, the competency of a company to run and operate the service, and anecdotes about the on-premise setups that haven't taken a hit in years. This perfectly illustrates why humans in aggregate are bad at assessing risk and math. This post doesn't cover cloud failure modes exhaustively, rather it is targeted at risk and why directly comparing an IT shop to global service providers is not a statistically valid comparison.
The cloud risk assessment framework thought process has to account for the following factors [2]:
- People exaggerate spectacular but rare risks and downplay common risks
- People underestimate risks they willingly take and overestimate risks in situations they can't control
- People overestimate risks that are being talked about and remain an object of public scrutiny
A cloud service fits into all above categories.
Now, lets play a game:
I roll two (2) fair, six-sided dice and sum up numbers on the top two faces, the result which will range from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 12. The game continues for 100 rolls. Before each roll, you pick a number. If that number comes up, I pay you 1 dollar. If that number doesn't come up, you get nothing. What strategy should you follow to maximize the amount of money won?
Try to think about this for some time. If you have some dice, try a couple of rolls before proceeding further.
The number you want to pick is exactly the same for all 100 rolls: Seven.
For each round, you cannot predict with certainty what any particular roll of the die will produce. However, regardless of what number comes up on any particular roll, you should bet on 7. This is an outcome-blind decision, because statistically with two fair dice, the highest probability sum of the top two faces is seven [3]. A different number coming up on the dice roll doesn't invalidate the decision to bet on 7. in other words, separate decisions from outcomes. All you need to know is that over 100 runs, statistically, 7 will show up more, and therefore to maximize earnings, bet on 7.
Cloud outages dominate the news cycle, but to conduct a fair experiment, the cloud services must be compared to on-premise installs per account/minutes of availability in aggregate. Given the amount of talent and engineering effort required to run any cloud service at scale, the probability is high that for aggregate account/minutes of availability, cloud services are significantly more available than aggregate on-premise installations. If you are making outcome-blind decisions, they should favor cloud.
Whenever people mention a particular outage and compare it to some in-house implementation that hasn't had an outage in years, point them to a good book on Poker and send them here.
Edit: people have pointed out that there are a lack of good aggregate data for on-prem. What data there are, are self-reported and noisy. A good proxy is the amount of data loss reported by the big storage systems in cloud – of which there hasn't been any so far by the big providers. Taking KiB/month as a durability metric vs. data loss by smaller providers is a proxy for general system hygiene and competence [4].
[1] Google, Microsoft, Saleseforce, Amazon
[2] Bruce Schneier
[4] Data loss report


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Developers began thinking of ways to design buildings that would be urban buildings but would have a suburban look to them. They would have the amenities of a suburban home and the convenience of an urban home.
And perhaps the best example of this is a complex called Hudson View Gardens which is, as the name tells you, near the Hudson with Hudson views. It's on 183rd to 185th streets in the Fort Washington neighborhood in northern Manhattan.
A large percentage of the property is landscaped gardens with terraced gardens and sunken gardens and a rose garden. It uses Tudor style—it has half-timbered gables and brick that looks like it's hundreds of years old. It has a private drive just like you would have a private driveway if you lived in the suburbs. It had its own restaurant, it had its own post-office branch, it had a barber shop and a beauty salon, and one of the first apartment houses, if not the first, to have a daycare center. So it had urban convenience and suburban amenity to it.
And the buildings used bricks that were imported from Holland that were specifically manufactured to look rough so that they would look like they were hundreds of years old, so this complex would have the illusion that it had been built hundreds of years ago. You can even see there are places where stucco is visible with very irregular rows of brick. And the image you're supposed to have is that this building has been here for hundreds of years and the brick is beginning to crumble away and is leaving the raw stucco underneath. So it creates this "ye olde English village" image.
Apartment houses like Hudson View Gardens were marketed to women. The idea was that the man might pay for the rental, but the woman chose the home. And so there were extensive advertising campaigns that were geared to women. The 1920s marks the beginning of massive advertising campaigns for apartment houses in newspapers, apartment-house brochures, even on the radio, now apartment houses begin to be marketed.
This is one of the early prospectuses for Hudson View Gardens, and you can see that basically it deals with how an apartment at Hudson View Gardens would improve a woman's life. They were marketed at what one of the advertisements referred to as "the new woman." And what the new woman was, was the woman that stayed home, took care of the kids, maintained the house, but used all of the modern conveniences that were available at Hudson View Gardens—modern refrigeration, a motor-driven "sani in the sink" electric dishwasher (this must have been a very early dishwasher), convenient kitchen cabinets, incinerator chutes. You could send the laundry out to be done. It was a very easy place to live, or so it was marketed.
And then the housewife would be so fresh by the end of the day because of using all the modern conveniences that she could meet her husband and go to the theatre or go dancing in the apartment through radio stations that were piped in to the apartments. And so this was marketed as a place where a woman and her family would remain happy and comfortable.
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Admin good morning sir/ma, I have been finding it very hard to download these messages of 17 January 2015 (Classic 28 Sermons). I would be very glad if you could help me with a workable links to download them. Thanking you in anticipation of your response.
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You're a huge blessing to this generation.
This ministry has been a blessing to my life. I can't quantify the measure at which the word from ur ministry has impacted my life.. May the good lord continually stir the burning flame there..
Sir ur message are like u hear them real time from our father in heaven the lord strenghten u sir
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Pls i want to download these msgs… It's telling not found… Pls help me out.
I love this ministry and their messages. This site is a blessing. Please it's only one message that is available here, all others are no longer available, it writes not available. Please help! Thanks
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Please sir can this messages be reuploaded that of "classic" because I've tried downloading it and its not working.. Please sir i need your messages.. God bless you
I want to thank God for the life of this great man of God apostle Arome Osayi for what God is doing through his life. I have been tremendously blessed by his messages. I am making real spiritual progress by listening to his messages. May God continue to bless and uplift him in Jesus Name.
Pls some of the messages cannot be downloaded. I'm sure there's a problem with the download links. Kindly help us correct them. Below is a list of some of such messages which download links need to be checked and corrected:
Genealogy and Spirit of the Family
Love not the World
Wooing of the Spirit
Having Power with God
The Fire of Prayer
The El-shadai
Delay- The Danger of Missing it
Kindly help us work on tbem so we can download. God bless this media team.
I am trying to download the classic sermons and its not working
Sir, Ur messages have been wonderful and I can't wait to download new ones. Thank you so much….
Sir, I feel one of ur messages have been deleted and it's titled "Spiritual Construction", you taught and did practical for the audience and I have been trying to get it again, I can't. Pls re- upload it sir….
Thanks to the ministry
Pls I can't download the Classic Sermons pls do something about them all of them. It is telling me error whenever I click to download them. Also pls I need Apostle's phone number pls. I really need it urgently. Thank u
Really grateful for these messages. I'm been blessed.
please help me, i cant download any classic message on my pc except the very first one i.e The Cross and Kingdom People
I am grateful to be here with HEART. Many Kenyans are not only hungry for food, but they are hungry for knowledge …and more. Yesterday in Malindi, a young man named Samson let me know that he was hungry for ideas! He was also hungry for more of Jesus. How blessed I am to be serving here.
Hello.. Please am having some challenges downloading any of The 28classics of January 2015. Particularly the one titled "Spiritual clinic" they keep telling me error. Please I really need the message and I'll appreciate Any assistance rendered To help me get it. Thanks.
Please reupload the classics, we need to download them. And other messages that are not downloading.
Finally my search for the truth has yielded result. thank you so much for heeding to the call of God upon your life cos am a great beneficiary.
The classics are not downloading. Admin please look into this. Thanks
Please the classics 28 sermons are not downloading.please help me out.
Pls I can't download the category classics. I need to listen to the sermons pls what do I do?
Pls the classic sermons can't be downloaded. I need help on to go about. Am desperately in need of it. Thanks
Pls the classic sermons can't be downloaded. I need help on how to go about it. Am desperately in need of it. Thanks
I thank God for what He's doing through this ministry.
I will want to bring to the notice of the media team that all the messages in "classics 2" are not downloading. If anything could be done about it let it be done pls, as the messages there are still relevant to people like us.
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|Forest Fires in the European Mediterranean Region: Mapping and Analysis of Burned Areas
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|Abstract Approximately 60,000 fires occur in the European Mediterranean region every year. On average, they burn approximately half a million ha of forest areas. The mapping of areas burned by forest fires is of critical importance for the analysis of fire impact and for the monitoring of fire recurrence and vegetation recovery in affected areas. An important contribution of remote sensing in wildfire monitoring is the mapping and analysis of burnt areas. Areas affected by forest fires present a distinct spectral response in the optical and infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which allows the mapping of these surfaces with the use of passive satellite remote sensors. On the side of active sensors, the synthetic aperture radar is also used for this purpose, especially in boreal regions, where continuous cloud cover prevents the use of optical sensors. Although remote sensing of burnt areas in the Mediterranean region has a long history, the operational implementation of remote sensing methods in national or regional Administrations is fairly new. The need of specialized personnel, dedicated hardware and software for image processing, and the lack of automation of the classification methods has prevented its operational implementation until recently. A large contribution to the success in the current use of remote sensing for burned area mapping is due to the increased processing capacity of modern computers and the ever increasing availability of remotely sensed imagery from a large variety of sensors, from the low spatial resolution in the order of km to the very high spatial detailed imagery in the order of cm. The choice of imagery depends, obviously, on the application at regional or local scale, and the frequency for which updates of fire perimeters are needed. The current chapter reviews the application of remote sensing for burned area mapping and its use in the Mediterranean region for operational fire monitoring. Additionally, it provides insights on future opportunities for the improvement of existing mechanisms, the acquisition and processing of satellite imagery, and the analysis of burnt areas.
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TRAVEL MARKET REPORT- September 27, 2016
Miami Beach. Photo: Miamiboyz
Travel to Florida for the peak 2016-17 winter season could be off by more than 15%, according to an analysis by insurance provider Allianz Global Assistance.
Allianz reviewed more than 940,000 Americans' travel plans made during August, on the heels of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warning about the Zika virus for Miami Beach. Allianz looked at travel plans to Florida for the peak vacation season of mid-November 2016 to mid-April 2017 and found that Miami bookings are off 29.1%. For the state as a whole, bookings are down 14.8%.
Also down are Tampa, by 32.8%, and Southwest Florida, by 21.2%. Orlando is down 7.9%.
Popular north Florida destinations seem to be benefiting from some of this shift. Daytona Beach is up 11.5% and Tallahassee is up nearly 19% for the same travel periods booked this August.
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Search for an Initiative » Harnessing Extractive Industries for Human Development in Africa
Harnessing Extractive Industries for Human Development in Africa
Lead Organization Name
- Policy
- Capacity Building
- Technical Assistance
- Oil
- Gas
- Mining
- Metals
Lead by
- Donor
To achieve inclusive and sustainable growth in resource-rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Value Chain Focus
- Fiscal Design and Administration
- - Fiscal instruments
- - Royalties
- Revenue Management and Distribution
- - Revenue allocation
- Sustainable Development
- - Human Rights
- - Gender
- - Artisanal and small-scale mining
- - Stakeholder engagement
Have a mix of stakeholders such as public, private and civil society sectors contributed to the design of the initiative?
Geographical Focus
- Regional (Africa)
In-country work
Who is it for?
host country national governments, communities
How does the initiative try to reach its objective?
This project provides financial, technical and managerial resources to implement the African Mining Vision Action Plan


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Family travel: Mile High Mamas in the Wall Street Journal
posted by: Amber Johnson
Would you let your kids plan your family vacation?
That is the question my family was asked by Wall Street Journal reporter Sue Shellenbarger. Don't miss her fun article!
Dare to Let the Children Plan the Family Vacation
Summer is a time of family trips and outings. Figuring out a plan that suits everyone can be tricky. It pays to involve children in the decisions—without giving them too much control.
Taking part in family decision-making teaches children valuable skills. They learn to advocate for what they want, listen to others' wishes and make compromises. But parents who have ceded some decision-making to their children warn there are right and wrong ways to do it.
The Johnson family of Denver is planning a car trip to western Colorado this summer. Amber Johnson says her daughter Hadley, 12, persuaded the family to go jet-boating, racing over the Colorado River at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour in boats driven by professionals.
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Postmortem of the Korean Beta and the Value of GMs
When we were initially launching WonderKing (OBT) back in February of 2007, we wanted to use an unorthodox approach. Without any breaks between the phases, we launched CBT then OBT– in that particular order. We had that much confidence in the game. We definitely wanted to make an impactful first impression when launching the game in Korea, so we decided to direct our focus on game management. Among the essential aspects of game management, evaluating a user's immediate reaction to the game was deemed a fairly important aspect. Therefore, for the well-being of our game, WonderKing, we jumped right in to inspect the features and put ourselves in the players' shoes.
As predicted, we were overwhelmed by the number of users that participated. In fact, when the game first came out in Korea, our user population was so explosive that it made our Open Seed server crash! I definitely remember sleepless nights being very common those days. At one point, WonderKing was the most searched game title and the overall reaction from our users was very positive. With difficult and complicated games being the mainstream focus during that time, we broke away and worked on making an easy, comfortable, simple, and fun game for users. WonderKing was definitely a pioneer in refreshing the method of hunting monsters and resultantly gained the reputation of being a very creative game among users.
Every single one of our GMs was in the game, playing and testing while interacting with the players. The ever-so-weary GM, Jeff, was known as "the snobbish one." Ciel, our kind and gentle GM, treated our users in a way that reflected her personality. Dialas was the GM known to have a personality as one dimensional as a machine. These GMs operated in- game as characters, as they sought out errors and personally resolved them while actually playing the game. Our in-game management was a huge success and the players were very happy with our efforts.
Though, not everything was a walk in the park – we did encounter some obstacles along the way. The first thing that comes to mind is the addition of more game content. Users leveled faster than we anticipated and matching the speedy rate they were leveling at was the greatest hurdle that we had to overcome. After encountering this in open beta, we made sure we had an abundant amount of content ready to be added to the game to satisfy users of all levels. There are certain parts of the game that we want to add more content to and believe this will be easily achieved by continuous service from us.
Overall, I have to say that our policies in game management were the most positive factor in our game. Even if we went through tough times, I was especially proud that we were able to make a breakthrough in how games should be developed. Still, there is always room for improvement and better service and we hope to be able to keep providing quality service in our game to the players.


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Victor Afari-Sefa
Regional Director
West and Central Africa - Coastal & Humid Regions
PhD in Agricultural Economics, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
socioeconomics, monitoring and evaluation, value chain analysis
Victor Afari-Sefa (Ghana) was appointed as regional director for West and Central Africa - Coastal and Humid regions in April 2017. He has extensive experience in performance monitoring and impact assessment of horticultural value chains on smallholder livelihoods. His research focuses on assessing opportunities and challenges in vegetable production systems, analyzing constraints in the value chain, and policy in interdisciplinary context. Prior to joining the Center in 2010, he worked as the Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) and Impact Specialist for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ghana, where he implemented the M&E framework of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program. He also has international experience in integrated economic-biophysical optimization modeling of agricultural water use. Victor holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.


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The History of Lawrencetown Beach
Part of Canada's Ocean Playground
The 20th Century
The History of Lawrencetown Beach
Dykes were built in the Lawrencetown salt marshes to reclaim farmland. The dyked land had to sit unused for two years before it could be farmed. This allowed the snow and the rain to wash the salt out of the soil. The fertile mud dried into excellent farming soil. The water in the marshland behind the dyke drained through the earth wall at an opening called an aboiteaux. The seawater could not get in, but the fresh water that accumulated during the day could flow out at low tide. The West Lawrencetown dyke, was located on Conrad Road at the bottom of the big hill as you turn right toward the beach. You can still see the remaining rocks from the dyke wall. The entire marshland in front of Atlantic View School was once dyked, drained, and farmed.
Rum Running was a way of life in the Lawrencetown area. Large kegs of black rum were unloaded from the mother ships off of the beach area. Sometimes they were buried in the sand until night. The rum runners would dig them up to take them away. Moonshine distilleries were also common in the Lawrencetown area.
In 1917, the East Lawrencetown dyke, was dynamited by some local residents. This dyke was located where the two-lane bridge is now located by Stoney Beach. This action was taken because of a dispute over the shares of salmon and trout caught in the area. Salmon and trout came up the Lawrencetown River, and into Lawrencetown Lake to spawn.
On June 19th 1918, the Siberian Prince ran aground after hitting Egg Island. It ran aground on off of Fox Point-Conrad Beach. It was carrying a load of mules bound for Halifax. The mules were allowed to swim ashore behind boats. Then they were boarded on trains and taken to Halifax. At least 8 other vessels ended their final journey off the coast of Lawrencetown Beach. Some of the wreckage an still be seen by scuba divers, off of Fox Point.
In the spring of 1960, the MacDonald Hotel burned to the ground. It was located in the field across from the MacDonald House. It was set ablaze by Mrs. May MacDonald - who owned and operated the hotel - who allowed a grass fire to get out of control. Irving and Beatrice MacDonald operated a sand and gravel company in Lawrencetown for over 50 years. Much of the sand was taken to Shannon Park and Wallace Heights to construct the military housing and buildings there.
In 1976, the N.S. Government established the Beach Protection Act to protect the beach and the wetlands for generations to come. They built the beach house and the boardwalks to protect the dunes and the make the beach more accessible.
Source: http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/jd/history_of_lawrencetown.htm


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