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First Gen Money is a personal finance blog for first generation Americans + college graduates who want to create generational wealth.
I'm Danni, a 25 year-old Jersey girl living and working in NYC. As the daughter of two immigrant, blue-collar working parents, I've had to navigate higher-ed and post-graduate career moves without any support. Things such as registering for the SATs, applying for the FAFSA, and attending career fairs were not on my family's radar.
The lack of guidance and my own unawareness of basic career must-do's meant losing out on negotiating my first salary and enrolling in my company sponsored 401k. I entered my career with $30,000 in debt and what I considered to be a useless degree. Luckily, due to my family's past financial mistakes, I was wary of credit cards and debt, so I refrained from accruing additional debt and was motivated to pay off my loans.
In the past year, I have delved deeper into the personal finance world, listening to various podcasts and reading different books and blogs. I've come to understand the importance of financial literacy, especially after a recent study reported that the wealth of the median Black and Latino households are projected to hit zero by 2053 and 2073 respectively, even though they'll make up the majority of the U.S.
We need to act and we need to act NOW. Join me in creating generational wealth for ourselves and our families. I'm not an expert, but through my experiences and the help of the internet and good ole' books, I'm confident we can figure it out.

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May 3, 2016:Addressing a School Safety Programme at Bal Bharati School, Noida on May 3, 2016, The Chief Guest Shri KM Singh Vice President, Policy Perspectives Foundation stressed the importance of generating awareness among children of impressionable age about threats from various hazards like earthquake, fire and drowning etc. He impressed on importance of periodic holding of evacuation exercises and mock drills to prepare children to face challenges. He encouraged the school children to develop a resource map and prepare mitigation measures (hazard vise) for various disasters such as fire, earthquake, floods etc. Shri RC Sharma, former Director Fire Services, Delhi Govt the keynote speaker addressed the children and explained various dos & don'ts in case of different hazards, particularly fire illustrating his advice through a power point presentation.
The programme was organised by Dr. Kumar Raka, Head of the Disaster Management Cell, Noida and was sponsored by 'Shuttle', as a part of their corporate social responsibility initiative. Shri RC Sharma, Vice President, Mrs. Anupama Motwani Bal Bharati School, Shri Veer Singh, Vice President, Shuttle and Mr. Nakul Tarun, Safety Expert-Shuttle participated in the programme which was attended by 300 students of classes 11 & 12 and 30 faculty members.
The Policy Perspectives Foundation (PPF) has been active in spreading awareness about how to cope with various natural and even manmade disasters and hazards. The Foundation had also organized a three-day School Safety Programme at Delhi Public School, Ludhiana earlier in May 2015.
Children who are the future of our nation are highly vulnerable to disaster impacts, especially those who are living in hazard prone environment. Many schools in India are located in vulnerable areas and unprepared to respond to emergencies. Creating a safe environment for the children in schools is the most important task. Natural disasters affect even more children, causing them to lose their homes, their families, their schools, and their access to adequate food, water and sanitation. Therefore, it is imperative to ensure the safety of children and provide them with a safe environment, in which they can blossom into good citizens. For this purpose, both structural, as well as non-structural interventions will be necessary. Structural interventions would include strict adherence to guidelines set up for school buildings, while non- structural ones would include educating the staff, teachers, and students about school safety measures in order to mitigate and prepare for a disaster.
The Foundation hopes that these initiatives will act as a guideline to the educational institutions, emergency officials, teachers, students and even the community at large to address the special and multi-faceted needs of children in the event of natural and manmade disasters. These initiatives aim to empower children through imparting knowledge about safety measures to make them responsible future members of a disaster resilient society.


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"Did you know, Westburg, all these experts and award winners, they are all world champions in optimization. It's just like in our company: They polish their workpieces and processes as well as IT systems and supply chains until they shine like my wife's earrings. But you reach the point where you squeezed out the very last drop. And then the others swoop in, who don't carry all this baggage with them. They do not hold a world market position that they can lose; they don't have old plants that they have to transform; they don't have anything that they need to constantly polish. So they build something completely new. And then it's possibly "game over" for us. This is our "black swan", an event with extreme consequences. And that's what interests me."
Daniel Westburg, 36 years old, family man, music lover, ex-company consultant, and a digital enthusiast, has been the head of the "Innovation & Digitalization" department of Sassmann Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG for three months. His task: To lead the company into digital transformation. His status: Overworked. His motto: "The apocalypse is coming – maybe not today, maybe never. But it will be here soon." Today, Daniel must present his strategy to the management of the company. And he knows: This is the day that also decides his personal future.
The novella "A Day in the Life of an Innovation Man" describes the probably most important day of his career from Daniel's point of view. The WYZE Projects cooperation partners Gianluca De Lorenzis and WYZE Projects founder Dimitrij Naumov, together with communication expert Lothar Dörr, tell of the hurdles, disappointments and political power plays, but also of surprising discoveries and fascinating human encounters that befall those who are ready to embrace change.


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An Intuitive, Comprehensive and Professional Audio Editor
Soundop is an intuitive and professional audio editor for Windows to record, edit, mix and master audio contents in clear and flexible workspaces. The audio file editor supports both waveform and spectrum editing. And the multitrack editor can mix an unlimited number of audio and bus tracks with a powerful engine that support sends, side-chain and automatic latency compensation. Automation of effect parameters is supported both in track and clip level. Soundop provides excellent built-in effects as well as support for VST and VST3 plug-ins to process and analysis audio. With the advanced container effects, you can create an elaborate combination of effects as a single effect. Soundop supports Low latency ASIO driver to record audio. And it can load most audio and video formats and export to major audio formats or burn audio files to CD. Metadata such as ID3 Tag, RIFF Chunk, Vorbis Comment, and ACID loop information, can be edited and saved with audio files. To perform routine operations on multiple audio files, you can use the batch processor that supports most audio editing operations.
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It's been a while since I did a Friday Fragments post and I've missed them! So here I am back again with the bits and pieces that have been rattling around in my head just waiting to be thrown together in a tossed thought salad and shared with all you lovely bloggy people out there.
I was pulled up at lights behind a cement mixer one morning and found myself reading a sign on the back of the truck that began like this:
"Attention Please!It makes me really sad that people have to work in environments that make a company feel it necessary to adopt something like that as an official policy.
Our drivers are instructed to leave the site immediately if they are subjected to verbal abuse or physically threatened in any way."
On Wednesday I went out for dinner with friends I met when I joined a local mothers group after Tom was born. It was quite a large group to begin with but over time it settled down into a group of four of us who still occasionally get together. Very occasionally now as one of us went and moved to Italy! Anyway, Cathy was here in Sydney for a holiday and we seized the moment. I went to pick Cathy and Malyn up from Malyn's house. I was wearing a red t-shirt, Cathy came to the door wearing a red top too (identical shade even), I laughed and said "We match!" Then Malyn came to the door wearing, go on, guess...a red t-shirt. When we met up with Romaine at the restaurant she protested "Why didn't anyone tell me we were wearing red?"
We had a scrumptious Thai meal and talked till we got chucked out of the restaurant. I do not see these people nearly often enough and I completely failed to get a photo :-(
I blame the photo forgetfulness on the ear infection. I blame the ear infection on the weather but I'm counting my lucky stars because for once I did not get the ear infection whilst on a dark ages camping trip. No, this time it waited till we came home from the trip.
The trip in question being Beorgwic, which was wet and awesome as usual. Deb and I taught a glass bead making workshop, Adam helped out with the blacksmithing workshops, the kids played with fire all weekend and we ate and drank and talked and had a fabulous time.
Clara came too this year and had an absolute ball bolting all over the camp with her new bestest friend ever, a cattle dog named Ohana. When she wasn't bolting all over the camp and stealing people's breakfasts she was hiding in the tent from all that horrible wet stuff that kept falling from the sky.
There's currently a very large huntsman spider living in my bedroom, probably behind the bookshelves. I know this because when my ear woke me in excruciating agony at 3am a few nights ago I saw it crawling across the ceiling towards me. I poked Adam and pointed at the spider. He rolled over and mumbled "kill it?" Now, I do not condone the killing of innocent arachnids and this one had not yet trespassed beyond the point of no return (ie, it wasn't actually in bed with us) so I considered the disruption to sleep that would be involved in trying to catch it and put it outside and decided that if I hadn't been woken by my ear I'd never have known it was there and that therefore the logical thing to do was turn off the light, close my eyes and pretend it wasn't happening. So I did. Well, I turned off the light and watched in the glow of the clock radio as it continued across the ceiling. I held my breath for a while then breathed again as it veered off to the left and went behind the bookshelf. THEN I closed my eyes and went back to sleep. I presume it's still in there somewhere.
In the morning I described the spider on Facebook as being a little smaller than my hand, Adam commented to assure me that it had in fact been somewhat larger than that. He's so helpful.
Caitlin's bedroom is all done aside from getting the new built-in wardrobe installed.
And last but not least, the Fuckh8 campaign video (NSFW!)
FCKH8.com Straight Talk About Gay Marriage from FCKH8.com on Vimeo.
Now, off you go to visit Mrs 4444 at Half-Past Kissin' Time to check out all the other Friday Fragments posts!


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Annouced on 14th October:
Hello Mi Fans,
Thank you so much for your participation in the contest. we are simply overwhelmed by the love of our dear Mi fans. We loved all of your entries. Keep loving Xiaomi the way you do. There is No Mi without You. And here comes the result:
First Prize: #50 Shahed (Mi 9T Pro)
Second Prize: #9 BeingBishal ( Mijia Photo Printer)
Congratulations to both of you. Please, send your real name, complete residential address (including city, state and country name), to send your prize, along with phone number to Crossfiree via PM, within 7 days from the date of announcement of this thread. Failing to do so, you won't be able to claim your prize anymore! Thanks.
And now time to see the collage of of our big Mi family. Can you spot yourself in the collage?
Once again a big thanks to all of you. Stay tuned to Mi Community for next round of contests.
Hello Mi Fans,
"Better Together" - with this motto our Mi Community commenced its Global Journey on 19th August. We would like to thank each one of our Mi fans for the unwavering support and love they showered upon our community. To commemorate this special occasion, Global Mi Community has been organizing various interesting activities to spread joy and give back to the hard core Mi fans. And today we are back with another fabulous contest! Wanna know more? Read on!
A picture is worth a thousand words. But for Mi fans, this phrase needs to be amended a bit. May be, A picture is worth ten thousand words? You might be wondering why I did that. Well, it's because when a die-hard Mi fan starts talking about his feelings for Xiaomi, words fall short. So, how about picking a simple photo to do the job? Yes, we want you to click a photo that would convey your love and bonding with Mi and would embody the spirit of a true Mi fan. All you have to do is share your best photo with Mi. It can be a photo with Mi store, Mi products or anything that relates with Xiaomi.
We would make a collage of all the valid photos and show the world the power of our Big Mi Family! Well, well, there is something more to it. The best shot, would receive a Mi 9T Pro from us! We will also pick a second prize winner and award him/her with a Mijia Photo Printer.
Excited? Then share your best photo related to Mi to express your love for Xiaomi.
Please go through the rules carefully before participating. Let's get Mi-fied together!
17th September to 22nd September (Beijing Standard Time)
Share your best photo which relates you with Mi. You might click a photo with the Mi products, Mi store or anything that's related to Xiaomi. We will make a collage of all the valid photos and will publish it on Mi Community.
Anyone who replied with valid entries will get one special medal
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LOS ANGELES — To go wheels down at LAX and travel the practice and game circuit with the Cleveland Cavaliers as they clashed with the Clippers and the Lakers in the past week was to observe a near perfect cosmology of talent, ego and insecurity, rumor and anxiety.
Not to mention two young men, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, meditating on and raging against the betrayals of their flesh.
This was King Lear with diamond ear studs and fine Italian suits — uneasy coaches and comic interludes courtesy of a Lakers guard known as Swaggy P and the reliably adolescent J. R. Smith.
At Thursday's practice, James came walking across the gymnasium where Lew Alcindor honed his skyhook at U.C.L.A. James had been gabbing with teammates; as he approached members of the news media, however, his smile became a pool of water fast evaporating.
He sat down and adjusted his yellow headband and disappeared inside a scrum of reporters and cameramen. James's brow was a fixed furrow; his eyes focused on the floor; his voice was a whisper.
"This year, it's been ups and downs, obviously," he said.
It was 9:40 on a cloudless morning. Italian pines rose outside and snow glistened on the distant San Gabriels. James looked as if someone had just burned down his garage. The Cavaliers had lost six straight games, all but one while he recuperated from a sore back and a sore knee.
ESPN, and the press that follows the team like a hound to the hunt, had embraced gleeful panic. David Blatt, the novice Cavaliers coach, was in job danger! Power forward Kevin Love might leave! What about LeBron? The players are in rebellion. Or they will be.
Yahoo reported that possibly — who knows? — James's agent was conspiring to have Blatt replaced.
What, a reporter asked James, do the Cavaliers need now?
James smiled, faintly. "Trust, man," he said. "We need trust."
That's like looking for water in the Central Valley. Nothing to be found but dry riverbeds.
When James decided to return home last summer, he spoke of playing Uncle LeBron to the Cavaliers' talented, unruly and barely post-adolescent collection of talent. That heartwarming narrative lasted 63 hours or so. The Cavs, at his agent's urging, traded the No. 1 draft pick, Andrew Wiggins, for Love, a scoring and rebounding machine.
With Love and Kyrie Irving, a whirling, spinning, shoot-first young point guard, James had a new Big 3, but with sand in the gears. To watch Love in practice is to see a fellow perhaps too eager to fit in. To watch him during games is to see a player not quite sure where he fits in. Irving and James dribble and pass, and Love stands in the corner, his hands extended for a ball that might, or might not, come his way.
Chris Bosh, with his elastic arms and quick feet, was well suited to play defensive sideman to James. Love, whose Minnesota teams never reached the playoffs, has played a defense so clueless that Blatt has benched him at times.
James has breached his 30th birthday. Like Bryant, James entered the league as a buoyant teenage wunderkind and has played endless playoff rounds. His chassis looks powerful, but the odometer reflects another truth.
Ask about Bryant, who at 36 sits two- and three-game stretches in deference to a precarious body, and James's pronouns flit between second person and first person.
"It's sad to see," James said. "Kobe's played a lot of minutes. The playoffs put a lot more mileage on your body. On my body."
Is there anything to be done?
"Yeah," he said. "Rest."
On the West Coast trip, James took soaring flight for the first time in months. Against the Clippers on Friday, he jumped sideways past the hoop, reached back and, as if flipping a nickel, sent the ball spinning off the backboard and in.
He has also played counselor. At practice, he put his arm around Love's shoulder and walked off to a distant corner to deliver a pep talk.
It has fallen to Blatt to manage the N.B.A.'s most expectation-laden team. His face has a sardonic, basset-hound aspect.
He was the Marco Polo of international hoops. A Princeton graduate, he has coached Turks, Ukrainians and Russians, and won in all three nations. Last year he coached Maccabi Tel Aviv to a championship. College and high school coaches collect videos of Blatt's innovative plays.
"In Maccabi, we had a tough first half of the year," he recalled. "Really tough." Some called for his firing. Then Maccabi won the European and the Israeli championships.
"So yeah, I've been in that situation before, and the ending was pretty good."
That was an excellent perspective. And to spectacularly talented and — with notable exceptions — self-involved N.B.A. players, he was still just a bright 55-year-old rookie coach.
No one knows that better than Blatt.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout.
— "King Lear"
I DROVE SOUTH to El Segundo and walked into the Lakers' practice center on Wednesday. There were all those championship banners, but no Kobe Bryant. It was like visiting Genghis Khan's horde and discovering Genghis had taken the day off.
This season has been the strangest of Bryant's 19 in the N.B.A. Crippled the last few years by a blown knee, fractures and a torn Achilles' tendon, he battled back with attitudinal fury. His coach, Byron Scott, predicted he would play 82 games; Bryant didn't disagree. He shot and shot again. He screamed at point guard Jeremy Lin. He walked out of a practice, calling teammates toilet-tissue soft, a critique he larded with a magnificent helping of Anglo-Saxon obscenities.
He had embraced competitive rage as his limousine driver for so many years, you wondered if it had taken him right over a cliff. He has averaged about 23 points a game, but his shooting percentage has plummeted to 37 percent. Scott has begun to rest him in hopes of reviving him.
As forward Paul Pierce described it, Bryant's genius as an offensive player was that he exhausted you before he exhausted his supremely conditioned self. That's not as easy when you have played more than 46,000 minutes.
Bryant had accepted a huge contract, which hobbled his team's attempts to improve. His teammates talk of him as they would a cranky uncle. Is Bryant going to play against the Cavs, reporters asked Nick Young, who occupies the space between free and untethered spirit.
"Like, I pretty much don't think about it until the day comes," Young said.
Young, who calls himself Swaggy P, has cast himself as Bryant's cheerful antagonist. He insists he could beat Bryant one on one.
Bryant and Young often go at it in practice, like players from alien and uncomprehending planets. (James, a more naturally social creature than Bryant, has watched the Cavaliers import their own free spirit, the former Knick Smith. Smith hits 3-pointers and shoots air balls with equal nonchalance. He is carrying on a Twitter and Instagram feud with the singer Rihanna for reasons known only to him, and perhaps to Young.)
Young suggested we check out Sports Illustrated, which has profiled him and his collection of 500 sneakers.
"The photos is dope," he said. "I need to see myself looking good. Look good, play good. I been looking ugly."
O.K., then.
The next night, Bryant remained AWOL in the locker room. He was being taped, and retaped, massaged and remassaged. When he appeared on court, he shot as teammates fed him the ball without looking at him.
The game started and Bryant was electric and sinuous, spinning, passing, laser passes. He directed players when to cut and when to take his feeds for their shots.
By game's end, he had 19 points and a career-high 17 assists. He had almost willed his team to victory, except that James was as good, and he had Irving and Love, too. The Cavaliers played an even finer game Friday in a victory over the Clippers.
Perhaps they are not so dead.
During the game, James and Bryant exchanged smiles, and even a hand slap. Bryant's self-chosen nickname is Black Mamba, Africa's deadliest snake. Death from its bite is assuredly painful.
Bryant has never done smiles on the court except in triumph.
BRYANT SENT WORD after the game that he would hold court with the news media. An hour passed, and he strolled in wearing a white shirt, an Italian-cut gray suit and a black satin pocket square.
Bryant sat and shrugged, as if to say, Ask me something. His sessions can be combative and obscure — he once compared the urgency of his shooting to the fight against crime — and honest and piercing.
Did you ever think you'd have this many assists?
Yes, honestly, yes, he replied.
He softened, and returned to that smile on court. We seem to have become friends, he said of James.
"When we were competing for championships, it was a little different, a lot more moody," he added.
Asked about the applause he gets on the road, the players who embrace him, Bryant said: "This is different for me, man. I am used to being hated. This is really unnatural."
He has surprised himself by how well he has tolerated sitting out games while his body recovers.
"All those years, it looked like I was tuning Phil out," he said of his former coach Phil Jackson. "I actually did listen to his Zen stuff. It's something I joke about, but I am really serious.
"It's the ability to just be present. Be mindful."
As the hour turned to midnight, a reporter asked Bryant if he remembered as a young lion what it was like to face an old star like him. He shook his head; know thyself.
"For me, it was always about chasing the wounded gazelle," he said.
With that, Bryant rose and stepped into the corridor. There, walking toward him was James, in a brown bowler, glasses and a jacket.
Superstars past and present embraced, their hands lingering in a handshake.
James congratulated Bryant on his game and told him they would have more matches.
Bryant nodded. Then he walked down the shadowed corridor to his waiting car. He has another game Monday. With luck, his body will recuperate in time for him to play.


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Distance riding is a great sport for all ages and skill levels. It tests a horse's condition and stamina, rider intelligence and horsemanship under veterinary supervision on a cross-country trail. Most competitors own and train their own horses.
Discipline, dedication and a sense of adventure are the most important ingredients for success. Competitive Trail and Endurance are the two most popular distance sports and Arabians excel at both. Other distance events include Ride & Tie competitions and Mounted Orienteering.
The endurance competitor's motto, "To Finish Is To Win," applies to all types of distance events. Distance riding may be highly competitive and challenging or a recreational activity combining a camping trip with an extended trail ride.
Distance Programs
Ride your way to great rewards with these AHA Distance Ride Programs:
Distance Horse Awards
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The Arabian Horse Association offers several programs that recognize efforts of distance riders. Please contact Carlene Benson for more information at (503) 399-1580 or Email.
AHA Distance Ride Championships
The AHA National Distance Commission has been working with additional breed organizations to help support the growth of Distance Riding by partnering to hold multiple National Championship rides at one event. The 2017 Distance Horse National Championships will be held October 6-8 in Oreana, Idaho, site of the Owyhee Canyonlands Pioneer Endurance Ride. We look forward to welcoming more breeds in joining the Distance Horse Nationals Championships!
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Do you compete with your Arabian, Half-Arabian or Anglo-Arabian in Endurance or Competitive Trail rides? Earn credit for all of your miles with the Distance Horse Award Program! When you reach 500 miles, you will be awarded a beautiful plaque with your horse's name with space for more milestones in 500-mile increments. For every 500 miles you ride in AHA recognized distance rides, you will earn another brass mileage marker that can be added to your plaque. You will also receive acknowledgment in the Recognition Spotlight of the Modern Arabian Horse Magazine. For more information on the Distance Horse Award Program, please call the Competitions Department at (303) 696-4500 Option 4, or visit the AHA website.
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Our solar system is rife with geologic activity, from eruptive ice moons to mountainous dwarf planets. Still, Earth always held a special place in the hall of geologic fame. It was the only bonafide planet to exhibit tectonic and seismic activity — until now. Global topographic image of Mercury, centered on the northern hemisphere. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/USGS/Arizona State University.
Mercury, a world just a little larger than our Moon that's spent the last four billion years in a broiler, is also geologically active. That's according to a new analysis of high-resolution images taken near the planet's north pole in the final months of the MESSENGER mission. These images reveal numerous tiny fault scarps; offsets in the surface that form as Mercury's interior cools and the planet's crust shrinks.
While Mercury has no plate tectonics in the terrestrial sense, crustal shrinking still qualifies as tectonic activity. It could even trigger Mercury-quakes.
Since the Mariner 10 probe zipped past Mercury in the 1970s, scientists have been aware that the solar system's innermost planet is scarred by enormous rifts and canyons. These features tell a story of of a planet whose crust has contracted over geologic time, like a raisin shrivelling up in the sun.
"The biggest of these features is comparable to the San Andreas [fault]," Thomas Watters of the Smithsonian Institute, who led the new study, told Gizmodo. "They're huge. So we know Mercury had contracted, but we didn't know if that contraction had happened millions or billions of years ago, because large features with kilometres of relief will not disappear."
Smaller fault scarps, however, won't survive more than a few million years on Mercury, an airless world whose surface is bombarded by a constant onslaught of meteorites. Watters also happens to be a mission scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has spent the last few years snapping incredibly high-res images of the Moon's surface, through which we've identified numerous tiny fault scarps. This tells us that the Moon's crust is shrinking and quaking to this day.
"It was a surprise to discover that the Moon had these very young faults," Watters said. "It made me wonder if Mercury had similar features."
Several years back, Watters and his colleagues had an opportunity to find out. During the last 18 months of the MESSENGER mission in 2014 and 2015, the spacecraft entered a low-altitude orbit over Mercury's north pole, and began snapping photographs at a resolution of less than 20m per pixel. Sure enough, a slew of kilometre-sized scarp features were quickly revealed. It also became clear that older, larger fault scarps remain active today.
Contraction of Mercury has resulted in numerous fault scarps, including the goliath, 1000km-long Enterprise Rupes (top), and numerous smaller, 10km scarps (bottom). Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Smithsonian Institution
Based on Mercury's size, conventional scientific wisdom holds that its core should have cooled and solidified billions of years ago. But recently, MESSENGER's magnetometer produced evidence of ongoing magnetic field activity. If Mercury still has a magnetic field, it implies that part of the core is still be molten and convecting. The new high-resolution imaging seems to confirm this.
One of the most intriguing implications of Watters' discovery is that Mercury might be quite seismically active. Small fault scarps on the Moon are believed to be connected with moonquakes, which we've been picking up ever since Apollo astronauts installed a seismometer on the lunar surface.
"If we ever get to the point where we could put a seismometer on Mercury, there's a very good chance it could detect Mercury quakes associated with continued contraction," Watters said, adding that ongoing seismic activity may help tiny scarps evolve into larger features.
Until that future, Mercury quake-hunting mission arrives, Watters remains preoccupied with another mystery: How in the heck this tiny world has managed to hold enough core heat to stay geologically active for 4.5 billion years.
"MESSENGER has opened up a new door into this question of how Mercury has evolved," Watters said. "We're starting to see this picture that, in my mind, is going to change the way we think about terrestrial planets. We are going to have to think a little differently about how [they] are losing their interior heat."


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Nintendo working with Netflix on The Legend of Zelda television series
The Wall Street Journal has learned that Nintendo and Netflix are working on a live action The Legend of Zelda television series. However, the project is still in the very early stages of development.
So early, in fact, that Netflix is still looking for writers to get some scripts going. The show is said to be a more family-friendly version of "Game of Thrones" and will presumably involve Link, Zelda, and the land of Hyrule. Maybe even Ganondorf would be involved. Or perhaps just Ganon. It's all speculation for now, because no scripts have been written yet.
If the project comes to fruition, it wouldn't be the first time that The Legend of Zelda appeared on television. A cartoon series based on the franchise ran for one season in 1989, but a live action version would probably be a bit more dramatic.
Hopefully it will be better than that live-action Nintendo movie from 1993, "Super Mario Bros."
Although The Legend of Zelda on TV is still a long way from happening, fans of the game have probably been dreaming up something like this for an ever longer time.


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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is not in the least surprised their quest to secure a Premier League top-four spot seems likely to come down to the final day - but he remains confident they will succeed.
Defeat to Chelsea on Sunday, following damaging draws against Stoke and West Brom, has taken the race for Champions League football next season into the last week of the season.
Unless Klopp's best friend David Wagner and his Huddersfield side can pull off a surprise win at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, Liverpool go into Sunday's home game against Brighton knowing they must at least match Chelsea's result against Newcastle, managed by former Reds boss Rafael Benitez.
Should they fail, their very last chance of playing Champions League football next season would require them to beat Real Madrid in this month's final in Kiev.
"It's my life, it's our life, that we always make it a little bit more exciting," Klopp told liverpoolfc.com.
"We had these situations a few times and it will be, for sure, exciting because Brighton is in a good moment, they played fantastic against (Manchester) United.
"But it's all OK, as long as we have it in our own hands, life is good. We still have to take it then but we will try everything."
After five matches - including an emotionally-draining two-legged Champions League final - in 17 days Klopp at least has a full week to prepare for such a crucial fixture.
"I'm really happy that this very intense period is over now because we have one week to prepare for Brighton - that feels like a year and we will use that," he added.
"Hopefully they all came through the game (against Chelsea) then one week is fantastic.
"If one or two had little problems then one week is short as well but so far I didn't hear anything and I hope it stays like this."


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Resolve to network with us in 2013 – full year schedule of Network-and-Lunches
Every month, we get together with a group of communicators and business professionals for lunch. Here's why you may want to attend the Network-and-Lunch events in 2013…
- Affordable. These lunches are free to register and you only pay for the cost of your meal, and chip in for the tip. In many cases, this amounts to between $10 and $15.
- Flexible. At Netw0rk-and-Lunch events, you pick your own food. So it's easy to stay on your diet, or pick a vegetarian option, for example. We picked a variety of cuisines and settings for the monthly lunches, so you're sure to find something you like.
- Convivial. Our group lunches are small and informal, usually between 4 and 8 people attend. This gives us all the time we want to talk to shop, or talk about other things. You really get to know the people who come to our events. And the people are the best aspect of these events. We attract a diverse group of interesting professionals. You will almost always meet someone new, too.
- Convenient. We schedule these events all over the DC area, soliciting feedback from attendees, and at least half of them are close to Metro stops. We want to make it easy for working people to participate.
- Useful. Got a dilemma at work? Need input on an idea? Our lunches are a perfect opportunity to solicit feedback or get quick answers to your work questions.
- Year-round. Not much happens in July and August in DC, but we still have Network-and-Lunches. It's a great time to connect, when schedules are typically less hectic.
Network-and-Lunch events take place on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, at noon. Here's the whole schedule of Network-and-Lunch events for 2013. I hope you will register for many — or all — of them! Register on Eventbrite.
- January 8: Fairview Park Marriott, Ellipse Lounge, Falls Church, VA
- February 12: RT's Restaurant, Alexandria, VA (Mardi Gras)
- March 12: The Tabard Inn, Washington, DC (Metro: Dupont Circle)
- April 9: Neisha Thai, Washington, DC (Metro: Tenleytown-AU)
- May 14: Taverna Cretekou, Alexandria, VA (Old Town)
- June 11: Lia's, Chevy Chase, MD (Metro: Friendship Hts)
- July 9: Silver Diner, Falls Church, VA (Merrifield area)
- August 13: National Gallery of Art, Cascade Cafe, Washington, DC (Metro: Archives)
- September 10: Lebanese Taverna, Bethesda, MD (Metro: Bethesda)
- October 8: Olive Garden, Tysons Corner, VA
- November 12: Cactus Cantina, Washington, DC (Cathedral area)
- December 10: Clyde's, Chevy Chase, MD (Metro: Friendship Hts.)
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San Antonio - The Trinity softball team swept a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader against the University of Dallas (TX) on Sunday afternoon, winning 5-0 and 11-8 to finish off the weekend.
Trinity began the opening game with a run in the first inning on Danielle Ruiz's RBI single, which proved to be enough as Allie Holbrook pitched the Tigers to their second shutout of the season.
Dallas left three runners on in the third, and the Tigers added another run in the bottom of the inning to make it a 2-0 game. Marisa Trevino led off with a double Rylie Goldwait's single to left field.
Trinity did leave the bases loaded twice in the first three innings, though, missing chances to blow the game open.
The fifth inning featured three insurance runs on five hits for the Tigers, including RBI from Stephanie Crumrine, Emily Vaclavik, and Carli Jones.
The Crusaders then left the bases loaded in the sixth, and Trinity held on for the win.
The second game saw Dallas take the early lead with a run in the first inning, but Trinity had a strong answer in the home half.
The Tigers scored six runs on eight hits in their opening frame, with most of it coming with two outs. The scoring started with Brianna Pena's solo homer, then Crumrine capped the first-inning scoring with a two-run single to center that made it a 6-1 game.
Dallas got the bats going in the third inning, scoring six runs on six hits to take a 7-6 lead.
That lead didn't last long as Pena connected for a two-out double that brought in two more runs to put Trinity back in front 8-7.
Three hits and a costly error gave Trinity three more runs in the fourth inning as the lead swelled to 11-7.
Dallas got one run back in the sixth to cut the lead to just three, but another potential run was thrown out at home and the score remained 11-8. The Crusaders also brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh, but Trinity held on to close out the sweep.
Trinity improves its overall record to 13-12 this season, as well as a 7-5 mark in conference play. Dallas falls to 6-24 overall and 1-15 in SCAC.
Brianna Pena hit 3-4 with three RBI in the second game, hitting her 10th double and second home run of the year. She batted 4-6 with three runs and three RBI in the doubleheader and leads the team in nearly every offensive category.
Danielle Ruiz had three hits in the first game and went 4-6 on the day, driving in two runs and scoring two more.
Stephanie Crumrine also had four hits and four RBI on Sunday, including three hits in the first game and three RBI in the second.
Gina Monaco batted 3-6 in the two games, scoring three runs in the series finale.
Allie Holbrook (8-6) earned her second shutout of the season in game one.
Alyssa Jolliffe (1-0) pitched 4.2 innings in relief to earn the game two victory, which is also the first win of her career.
Trinity collected a team season-high 17 hits in game one and produced 16 more in the second.
The Tigers will host NAIA member Our Lady of the Lake (TX) University in a doubleheader at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.


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Is there a Mac web site that preaches backup more than Mac360? If you love your files, find a way to backup.
How many ways are there? Like the grains of sand on a beach… or, a few good ones that do the job.
At Mac360, we have our favorite Mac utilities, tools, applications. Backup may be one of the most important categories.
That being the case, we'll stand by our favorites of SuperDuper! for cloning your Mac, and ChronoSync for backing up files between Macs and on a network.
Today we're adding another Mac application that fits in the middle and contains a range of features you may like.
Decimus Software's updated Synk Pro garners well deserved praise for being both a backup and a synchronization utility.
First, should you back up your Mac's files? The answer is an unqualified yet (assuming the files are important to you).
Second, how should you back up, and what if your files need to be synchronized between Macs or another hard drive?
There are plenty of Mac backup and synchronization tools to do the job. Our favorites simply do it better, more dependably.
So does Synk Pro, which takes a different approach to backup and syncs from other utilities.
When it comes to cloning a Mac volume, one hard drive to another, that's what you want. A clone. File for file and fast.
Synk Pro does that, preserving all the vital characteristics of each file, making your back up a bootable clone of your original.
Back up again using the built-in scheduler, and the next back up takes less time, as not all files need to be copied.
All versions of Synk have a nifty technology called ZeroScan, which makes incremental backups faster than any utility we've used.
After your first backup, Synk's ZeroScan technology watches your Mac's every move. Whenever a file is changed or modified, Synk will back up that file during the next backup, skipping all the files that were not changed.
That speeds up the backup routine dramatically for many scheduled backups.
Another feature that combines and simplifies the best of SuperDuper! and ChronoSync is the N-Way synchronization.
Synk Pro will backup to 64 directories or Macs, in groups, so a number of Macs or hard drives get the appropriate synchronized files at the same time.
Backups and file synchronizations are serious business. Why? Consider the basic scenario—
you turn on your Mac and nothing happens
Your hard drive is dead. What will you do? A good backup plan should get you back to normal within an hour. If not, get another plan.
Our recommendations for backups are basic. Get an external Firewire hard drive (or USB combo for Intel Macs) and clone your Mac's hard drive.
Set a regular schedule for backups. For example, I've used SuperDuper! to clone the hard drive, but ChronoSync to backup select files during the day (between SD clones).
Synk Pro can be set to do both functions with a single application. This page compares Synk's versions with .Mac and other backup utilities.
We've also run across some older, in-depth articles on Mac backup, including cloning tools, and one that says some Mac backup applications are harmful.
We agree, so choose carefully. Since those reviews were published, both Synk and ChronoSync have improved remarkably in their ability to create quality synchronizations and backups.
I notied that the article talks a lot about metadata problems with many other Mac backup utilities.
While factual back then, things change. That was then, this is now.
Some of the meta data in question in older reviews isn't something most Mac users should worry about, therefore, some backup utilities with a poor rating are actually quite good and will do a decent job for you.
At Mac360 we tend to be somewhat selective about which applications we choose to guard our Mac files. For backups, it's a short list of SuperDuper!, ChronoSync, and we've added Synk to the mix.
As always, your mileage may vary, though any developer that gives you a 30 day trial period and runs a forum for users has confidence in their product.
What's missing in Synk? Not much. It's fast, stable, relatively easy to set up and straightforward to get running within minutes.
The interface is a bit different than the standard "left to right" configuration for most cloning and synchronization utilities. It's vertical, but it makes sense when you realize can you use Synk for backing up all over the place.
Pricing starts at $25 for Synk and there's a competitive upgrade discount for users of some other Mac backup utilities.
What's your favorite Mac backup utility and why? What problems have your encountered when backing up your Mac? Share with other readers in the comments section below.


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Aeromexico, a founding member of SkyTeam, is Mexico's global airline, operating more scheduled passenger flights per day than any other Mexican airline with service to 43 destinations in Mexico and 49 international destinations, with the most modern fleet of Boeing and Embraer jet airliners.
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Aeromexico's Club Premier is the first frequent flyer program established in Latin America. Members earn Premier Points for flying with Aeromexico, Aeromexico Connect, all SkyTeam member airlines, and for using co-branded cards or a range of services from other loyalty partners.
Members primarily use their Premier Points to obtain free flights on Aeromexico and other affiliated airlines.
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TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
Not Impressed
After the 2016 U.S. General Election, fake news websites have become a growing concern on social media sites, without too many solutions existing to combat this problem.
Notably, we saw this TechCrunch article mentioning a new Chrome Extension: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/01/facebook-fake-news-flags-reliable-news-source/ However, after a closer inspection, we've noticed that the extension used a manual list of websites to power it, and with fake news sites popping up and shutting down on a regular basis, we didn't think that this would be an efficient long term approach.
What it does
1) Notim.press/ed allows a user to quickly check the authenticity of a news provider. It uses machine learning to dynamically determine a trust metric for a given news article, based on metrics from a variety of sources:
Alexa Ranking Sentiment Analysis Bounce Rate Headline Clickbait detection Machine learning technology allows our product to improve its accuracy over trials and trials, with a significant benefit over other Chrome Extensions.
2) We compile that result for different articles per domain, and put the geolocation of the domain on a Map based on the trustworthiness of its related articles.
3) As a BONUS we are providing a Chrome extension in order to quickly check the trustworthiness of a piece of news.
How we built it
We're using Node.js for the backend, with the help of IBM Watson's Alchemy Language api to provide semantic analysis on the articles text. We've implemented our machine learning system using a neural network with 4 hidden layers and 10000 iterations. We're using a mix of ESRI and THREE.JS for mapping the geolocations of the news providers we've tested.
Challenges we ran into & Accomplishments that we're proud of
We didn't know much about machine learning when we first began the hackathon, so we felt pretty good about learning about it on-the-fly and managing to make it work! Also, the new version of ESRI had some very tricky changes compared to other versions and making it integrate correctly with THREE.JS wasn't a piece of cake.
What we learned
How to implement successfully a form of machine learning and working with the latest version of ESRI ARCGIS in conjunction with THREE.JS.
What we won
Our project was given a mark above 3, and we were provided with tickets for TechCrunch Disrupt London. On Tuesday 6th December I visited TechCrunch Disrupt, where I saw the finals of the Statup Battlefield and networked with other startup companies.


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/ ˈi ti əˌleɪt /
verb (used with object), e·ti·o·lat·ed, e·ti·o·lat·ing.
to cause (a plant) to whiten or grow pale by excluding light: to etiolate celery.
to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor.
verb (used without object), e·ti·o·lat·ed, e·ti·o·lat·ing.
(of plants) to whiten or grow pale through lack of light.
Words nearby etiolate
ethynyl group, ethynylation, eti, etic, etidronate disodium, etiolate, etiolation, etiologic, etiology, etiquette, etna
Origin of etiolate
OTHER WORDS FROM etiolatee·ti·o·la·tion, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for etiolate
I can not believe that, to produce one roseate complexion, she must etiolate a thousand.The Book of Khalid|Ameen Rihani
British Dictionary definitions for etiolate
/ (ˈiːtɪəʊˌleɪt) /
botany to whiten (a green plant) through lack of sunlight
to become or cause to become pale and weak, as from malnutrition
Derived forms of etiolateetiolation, noun
Word Origin for etiolate
C18: from French étioler to make pale, probably from Old French estuble straw, from Latin stipula
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Scientific definitions for etiolate
[ ē′tē-ə-lā′shən ]
A pathological condition of plants that grow in places that provide insufficient light, as under stones. It is characterized by elongated stems and pale color due to lack of chlorophyll.
Other words from etiolationetiolate verb
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15th Annual University of Michigan ECSS
Stable Isotopes in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is pleased to present an exciting international symposium to be held Saturday, March 16, 2019 in 1060 Biological Sciences Building, 1105 North University Ave., Central Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stable isotopes of common and trace elements have a wide range of applications in modern and ancient ecosystems. The ratios of rare to common isotopes are used to gain insights about nutrient cycling in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems, dietary ecology of modern and fossil animals, vegetation and climates of the past, life histories of long-lived organisms, evolution of photosynthetic pathways, and movement ecology. The ECSS committee includes faculty, postdoc, and graduate students from EEB, the Museum of Paleontology, and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences to highlight some of our common interests.
The symposium will feature both established and novel uses of stable isotopes across a wide range of organisms, ecosystems, and time periods. Our goal is to create a program with contributions from evolutionary biologists, plant and animal physiologists, paleobiologists, ecosystem ecologists, and conservation biologists. The program will include two keynote talks by senior speakers and six talks by early-career speakers.
STUDENTS (grad and undergrad) and POSTDOCS from ALL UNIVERSITIES are invited to present their RESEARCH POSTERS on ANY TOPIC. See this link for further information.
Thank you!
ECSS 2019 Committee
Jake Allgeier, EEB
Giorgia Auteri, EEB
Catherine Badgley, EEB and Museum of Paleontology, ECSS Committee Chair
Dan Fisher, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleo, and EEB
Katie Loughney, EEB and Paleo
Knute Nadelhoffer, EEB and UMBS
Ben Passey, EARTH
Bian Wang, EARTH and Paleo
Administrative support
Event coordination: Molly Hunter
Event promotion: Gail Kuhnlein
Graphic design/art: John Megahan
Photography: Dale Austin


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Starium PLC is a reliable professional accounting and business service provider in Estonian market. We have operated in Tallinn since 2007 and we have in-depth knowledge of Estonian market.
Our objective is to provide our customers with compact selection of various services, in order to reduce customer's workload and help them to focus on their main activity.
By using our services, the customers can cut their expenditure on staff (accountants and personnel workers). We also offer solutions for full-scale re-organising the work of Management.
Main line of business of Starium PLC is the provision of accounting service, but we can extend the services according to the customer's needs. As a commited partner we will solve all problems in a quick and operative manner.
What we offer:
• Accounting in Estonia
• Tax consulting in Estonia
• Tax representation in Estonia
• Setting up a company in Estonia
• A ready-made company in Estonia
• Organising the management of the company
• Activity licence registration
• Search for cooperation partners in Estonia and in Scandinavia
• Temporary or contractual management of the company
We are sure, that after examining our list of services you can find a way to save time and money, and make the operation of your company even more efficient.


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When my brother purchased his dental practice in 2004, he felt like he was operating in the Dark Ages. As a new, wrestling dentist low on funds and making an attempt to establish his practice, he couldn't afford to update his eighties-style office ( I know, I had to sit in the dental chair and stare at the appalling wallpaper ), but worse still, he was trying to operate the practice without-gulp!-dental software.
While these conditions may not seem so bad to the common observer, for my brother– let's call him Dentist Dan ( that is what I call him, anyhow ) –it was a source of both humiliation and frustration, especially when all the other dentists in the area had fantastically decorated offices and the most recent dental software technology.
Don't get me wrong, Dentist Dan had all of the mandatory tools to provide wonderful patient care and once he hooked me up to the nitrous oxide for my procedures, I found the wallpaper to be quite tolerable.
As time and funds allowed, Dentist Dan had the good sense to forego new internal design plans for the office, opting instead to speculate in a reliable dental software programme. While display is clearly critical in creating a nice experience for your patients, no sort of waterfalls, chandeliers and marble floors can compensate for solid, streamlined office processes. Some features to consider before you invest in a dental software program include:
Flexibleness: Can the program be simply tailored to your needs? What are the digital radiography and integration capabilities?
Trustworthiness: Does the programme have enough power that it will not crash? Is there sufficient and useful support available?
Practicality: Is the programme user-friendly enough that everyone in your office can learn it without being techies?
Innovation: Can the program grow with your practice?
Dentist Dan's office has come a long way since the Dark Ages of building his first practice. Gone is the floor-to-ceiling wallpaper typical of eighties decor. It's very friendly and updated and I'm happy with it, not only because it's my brother's dental practice, but because it now exudes professionalism he merits.
But more important than the vast enhancements in interior decor is the efficient manner in which the office runs thanks to the quality dental software used. Thanks to modern dental management technology, my bro and his team are efficient and alert.


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By now we have all come to know certainly that passport applications across the US would definitely receive a massive boost during the years 2017-2018. This has its roots to the fact that there were certain changes in regulations regarding the US passports in the year 2008. As such, that was basically a time when the US passport industry saw an immense boost. Thus, most of the passports which has been applied for at that point in time has been nearing the end of their tenure. Thus, most of the people who had applied for the passport then would have to apply for a renewal during these two years. Then there would be new passport applications because as per the recent statistics, nearly 50 percent of the Americans still don't possess a passport. Thus, the never ending demand for the passport would always be there. Continue reading
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2017 Might be the Record Year for Passport Applications in the US
2017 has been predicted as the year by the experts which is going to see the greatest surge in the history of the American passports. This has definitely been the aftermath of the changes in the American passport regulations in 2007 which had ensured that there was a surge for the US passport at that point in time. Keeping all these aspects in mind and the problems which were encountered during the earlier surge the authority has decided to stay prepared for the surge this time around. All the passports of 2007 would be due for renew during the current year along with millions of new application is going to make the queue long and hard to break. Continue reading
Changes in US Passport in 2017 – Things You Should be Aware of
People have been hearing about changes that are to come in the US passport. Since no exact information is available, people are apprehensive about the changes that will come to the little blue book. One thing is for sure that the blue book remains the blue book only. No changes are coming in the looks and appearance of the US passport. Mentioned below are certain things that you must know about the changes in the US passport: Continue reading
Surge in passport applications as Syrians flee: report
Surge in passport applications as Syrians flee: report
The documents are now issued without the prior consent of Syria's security services, which used to have the final say on issuing all passports. A presidential decree has doubled the cost of a new passport to $ 400 (355 euros), or $ 200 for a renewal. Al …
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PHL Embassy in Madrid issuing machine-readable passports starting June 29
"The Philippine Embassy in Madrid wishes to inform applicants for Philippine passports that due to technical difficulty with passport production in Manila, Machine-Readable Passports (MRPs) will be issued starting 29 June 2015 and will continue until …
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If we pull up the drawbridge we become a nation of hypocrites
Those who brandish a "good passport" (and the UK variety ranks fourth for visa-free acceptance) to cross most boundaries without hindrance or suspicion have no right to fret about the minor inconveniences of people-processing in bulk. Everyone who …
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Toutdom in control at regional passport office
"The total fee charged for a passport is Rs 1,500, but if one were to approach a so called agent you could end up paying Rs 5,000 or more. We have seen many applicants being misled, but there is little we can do as they operate from public property …
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Syrians fight for passports in Berlin
Syrians fight for passports in Berlin
According to him, he and his fellow campaigners have documented some 1,800 cases of Syrians being "abused by the embassy in consular questions." For instance citizens whose passports were not renewed, or who were refused copies of birth certificates.
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336 applications received at passport camp
New applicants filed their application on the websitewww.passportindia.gov.inand took the copy of their Application Reference Number, which contains the registration details, at the camp. Applications for new passports and renewals were also received.
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UK passport applications: how to renew without delays
UK passport applications: how to renew without delays
Along with the completed application form, you will need to submit two identical photos that meet the requirements outlined here and your old passport. It will be cancelled and …. …just WHEN will our government stop lying to us???!!! The root cause …
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Rockwell Collins And Atkins Developing Fully Integrated Common-use Identity …
Rockwell Collins is integrating its ARINC vMUSE™ and ARINC Veripax™ technologies with the Atkins Identity Management toolkit to capture a traveler's identity using biometrics and match it with the passenger's passport and boarding pass information …
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US diplomats vulnerable to security lapses
The recent attack on United States Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert by a knife-wielding activist shows the need to tighten security for American diplomats, even in countries that are considered "safe. … The overhaul is aimed at streamlining …
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Online appointment system makes passport applications easier
New Offices Open to Accept Passport Applications In Emergencies
On November 23rd, 2010, the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire opened to the public for the first time. The new location allows US citizens living in New Hampshire to submit emergency passport applications without having to travel to another state.
The center is one of 21 regional passport agency offices that serve the United States. While that may seem like an insufficient number of offices to serve all 50 US states, it's actually an improvement. For example, in September of 2009, there were only 19 of these facilities.
As rules requiring passports became more strict after 9-11, the US Department of State has become increasingly focused on opening up new regional passport agency offices to assist US citizens. This year, regional passport agency offices have opened in Buffalo, New York and Hot Springs, Arkansas. Next year, the State Department expects to open additional locations in Atlanta, Georgia; San Diego, California; El Paso, Texas and St. Albans, Vermont.
Regional passport agency offices are open to US citizens who need a passport to travel within the next 14 days, or who have travel planned in the next 30 days that requires a foreign visa. All agency offices are open by appointment only.
Naturally, the locations and operating hours of these facilities are not convenient for everyone. For US citizens who need their passport applications processed quickly but can't make it to a designated appointment slot, a private passport expediting company like Rush My Passport can be a solution. An expediting company submits your application to the Department of State on your behalf, so you don't have to travel to a regional passport agency office yourself. There are additional fees involved, of course, so it makes sense to consider your own personal needs and situation before deciding whether to submit your application directly to the Department of State or through a private company.
Alison Kroulek is a freelance writer and blogger with a focus on the travel industry.
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Get Your Passport Application Ready: September 17 is Passport Day
Have you been meaning to apply for a new passport but been stymied by your local passport office's inconvenient operating hours? Get your birth certificate and your black ink pen ready: next month, passport agencies and post offices across the country will be celebrating Passport Day in the USA by accepting passport applications on September 17, 2011.
Right now, you're probably asking yourself "So what? Isn't that what passport offices are supposed to do? What's the big deal?" Go check your calendar, though, and you'll see that September 17th is a Saturday. All passport agency offices, which are operated by the Department of State, are generally closed on Saturday, while most post offices have limited Saturday hours and may not be available to accept passport applications.
During Passport Day in the USA, it's much easier for people who work during normal business hours to turn in their passport applications. It's also an excellent opportunity for parents of children under the age of 16, since both parents need to be at the passport office to give permission for the child to be issued a passport.
All twenty-four regional passport agency offices will be open on September 17th to participate. These offices are usually reserved for emergency passport applications only, for US citizens who need a passport for travel within the next two weeks. They are also usually appointment-only. However, for Passport Day, these requirements will be waived. Anyone can apply, whether they have upcoming travel plans or not, and no appointment will be needed. However, the standard processing times of six weeks for regular processing and three weeks for expedited processing will apply to all applications submitted on Passport Day.
If you need an emergency passport, you must make an appointment and apply during the week.
In addition, many local passport acceptance facilities, like post offices, libraries and court clerks, will offer extended hours for the holiday as well. To find the nearest participating location where you can submit your passport application, check the Department of State's website. Also, be sure to research the process of applying for a passport thoroughly beforehand so that you know what documents you need to have, how much money you'll need and what payment methods are acceptable. Call the National Passport Center at 1-877-487-2778 for clarification if you have any questions. The passport office can't help you if you don't have the right documentation!
Alison Kroulek is a freelance writer and blogger with a focus on the travel industry.


text: Starting up businesses at the moment can be considered one of the oddest and riskiest things to be doing. The post brexit referendum is turning somewhat chaotic and depending on which side of the divide, there is to be either such a magnificent opportunity for every company to trade world wide with no hold ups, no barriers and no tarrif restrictions. Or, there will be massive problems with customs barriers being put up and our goods – when we have anything to export, will not be allowed in to certain areas of europe without the recquisite documentation. In the old days of commerce, all kinds of export paperwork had to be prepared for every items going abroad and especially for exhibiiton gear – they needed to be brought back too. There are such divides between the carious camps it is difficult to know which way to think and proceed. So long as someone trades, somewher, at some time, we should all be ok.


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I'm illargi Dover, aka Zipi - I'm passionate at Photography, Decor and Fashion. This blog is a place where I want to share all the things I love, from SL, with you.


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"The Story of Martin Luther King Jr."
By Johnny Ray Moore, illustrated by Amy Wummer
Ideals, 21 pages, $6.95
Ages: 1-4
The life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. in easy-to-understand language for small children.
"Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
By Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier
Hyperion, 40 pages, $6.99
Ages: 4-9
In this beautifully illustrated biography, Rappaport tells the tale of young King looking up to his father's work, his own work and even his death in age-appropriate language.
"Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr."
By Jean Marzollo, illustrated by J. Pinkney
Scholastic, 32 pages, $6.99
Ages: 4-8
A child-friendly look at the life, work and death of King, in simple wording which plays up both his message and his character.
"A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr."
By David Adler, illustrated by Robert Casilla
Holiday House, 30 pages, $7.95
Ages: 4-8
Part of Adler's series of illustrated biographies of significant Americans, this easy-to-read story introduces children to the life and work of King, with great emphasis on his childhood and family.
"Martin Luther King Jr. Day"
By Margaret McNamara, illustrated by Mike Gordon
Simon Spotlight, 32 pages, $3.99
Ages: 4-8
Mrs. Conner's students study King's life and work in this book, and in so doing, they come to understand his positive message.


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Could boosting the gut microbiome be the secret to healthier older age?
Faecal transplants from young to aged mice can stimulate the gut microbiome and revive the gut immune system, a study by immunologists at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, has shown. The research is published in the journal ...
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After surfing the web for too long one night, Tomoko, knowing deep down that she won't be getting skinship with a real boy anytime soon, tries other means to get into sexual situations: first by trying to induce wet dreams–which don't come, except at the worst possible moment; second, by wishing that someone would at least molest her–which does not have the outcome she expected or wanted; third, buying sexy panties with help from her now-fashionable friend Yuu–which are exposed in the most humiliating, and unusual, way; and finally by buying a BL game and a "massager"–which is discovered by her father. It seems that Tomoko is destined to be "pure," and not voluntarily either.
The episode opens with a scene that I can relate to wholeheartedly: spending hours into the night surfing the web, reading one random article after another long past your bedtime. Tomoko is a hikki in training! But the bulk of the episode is about sex, sex, sex, and unlike Nakamura's railing about it in Aku no Hana, it's not boring.
Let's be honest: for a lot of nerds/geeks in high school, one of the most frustrating things is feeling like there's no outlet for all those hormones rushing through your body. You're not handsome/pretty enough, you're not popular enough, no one will go on a date with you, and so while all those other people are making out and learning all about their bodies, you're just left standing there with only sad fantasies to keep you going. And I can tell you that this is even true, perhaps doubly true, if you have a religious upbringing.
There's both a refreshing and a troubling level to the things that happen to Tomoko in this episode: it's refreshing in the sense that Tomoko is not the "virginal pure" type of high school girl that we often see in otaku-oriented anime. Her lustfulness, which gets taken to deliberately absurd heights, is much more believable on a human level, and all the more sad in that we know her efforts are going to be thwarted. (It doesn't help that she comes off as creepy, even to Yuu.) Her unhappiness over being undateable and untouchable is easy to relate to for some of us.
That feeling is tied to the troubling aspect, particularly in the molestation storyline, where the story seems to make light of harassment and even rape by the end. Yes, we get that Tomoko is desperate, though part of her does seem to get that this is no picnic; and yes, perhaps the point is that she so starved of validation that her lonely mind can think that this is fine. But it's not fine, and the show's ambiguity on the point breaks the tension between comedy and tragedy that the show had negotiated so well. It wants us to laugh at her mindset, but I found it more depressing than funny, and so I couldn't laugh at that segment at all. Can someone be so starved for touch that she'd think being molested is preferable to nothing?
(Note: I'd be interested to hear whether there are people who can answer that question, or if this episode is a fanciful projection, which is what I suspect it is. And if it is, that's not a good reflection on the mind of the creators.)
We are still treated to the same incredible facial expressions as before, fortunately, and the same genius comic timing/cringe humor, particularly by the third part when she discovers the BL game and the vibrator. (Come now, that's what we are supposed to think it is and is the basis of the scene's humor.) Those parts did make me laugh, though the pain vs humor ratio is a lot higher overall. You begin to think, "so this is why Japan's birthrate is so low…" and why surveys show that the Japanese are the least sexually satisfied out of major developed nations. Combined with the hikikomori phenomenon–and Tomoko is well on her way toward being one–the humor of WataMote might be a reflection of the sad state of affairs that many of the "less desirable" people, men and women, face for relationships. It's not pretty.
The raunchiness of this episode, is, admittedly, sometimes both fun and funny. But it's a mask for Tomoko's humiliation and loneliness. There is one ray of light: we see her dad gently, non-judgmentally carry her to bed after she's fallen asleep in front of the game with the massager still turned on. Despite her callous treatment of her brother and his reciprocal disdain, Tomoko at least still has a family and a real home. Right now, it's the only place she really has where she can more or less be herself. Let's hope she'll be able to move forward even further.
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I'd rather not put my name to this quite yet because it'd reveal just how much of a sad human being I was as a high schooler, but yes, you can be so starved for affection and contact that you think being molested by creepers is better than nothing, and that girls who are complaining about it are really just bragging about being attractive enough to get hit on.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this series, so I'll go ahead and toss in my two cents. I completely empathize with Tomoko. I was not even remotely popular in school, I assume because of my weight and/ or comical nature. I never even held a girl's hand. I would fantasize about suddenly being beset upon by a ferociously hormonal woman, never dreaming that I could initiate any kind of romantic interaction. However, there is a big difference between men and women. Even now, men are expected to ask the woman out and initiate a relationship. I would say that having this mindset is even harder if you are male. The percentage of women that would be interested in me is cut even smaller by also including the requirement that she would ask me out first.
On a tangentially related note: Men. Beware women who initiate. Two years ago, I began dating a girl because she, in fact, asked me out. Fast forward to about 3 months ago, and I find myself in a heart-wrenching break-up because she had been cheating on me with someone who was my closest friend in the world. I have, therefore, banished these people from my life.
Men! Beware the tiger woman! Spurn the hungry lioness! She feeds upon your loneliness and will dash your heart upon the jagged rocks of despair.
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