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My kid will be home from college in a few days (four, but who's counting?), and boy-oh-boy, have I learned a lot this year. Yes, you read that correctly. I, THE MOM, have learned a lot from my boy's first college year.
When I started this post, I intended to write about all the things my boy has conquered, is in the process of conquering, or even wants to conquer. If you read The pomp following the circumstances, you'll remember that his academic journey hasn't been easy. Now that he's finding his footing, I realized that the rest of the story–still being written–is his to tell.
So I'll tell you mine.
After years of trying to find the right buttons to push, I've handed my bub the control panel. That hasn't been easy, but it hasn't killed me, either. In fact, I'm starting to like it.
Here's what I've taken away from these first two semesters.
- True motivation comes from within. We all know this, right? The concept is easy enough to apply to ourselves, especially when we want to push back against someone who is pushing us to do something. I'll do it when I'M ready, not when you tell me to. Or think about any time you've tried to lose weight for a wedding, a high school reunion, or a trip to the beach. I don't know about you, but once the event is over, I jump right back into my old habits. Oh, it's not intentional, but once the external motivator has passed, I'm rudderless. So how does this apply to my first year as a college mom? I've had to recognize that my boy has to find his motivation the same way. I can't push and prod and cajole and wheedle him into learning, not at this level. I can and will support him any way he wants me to, but the drive has to be all his. Not being there to look over his shoulder has helped us both grow up.
- Sometimes you have to screw up to understand the lesson. Failure is a part of life; it teaches you how to handle adversity. You learn what doesn't work so you can get right back to trying what does. (CLICK HERE to check out this short vid if you question the value of failure. It's worth the eleven minutes.) I screw up all the time, and it teaches me to not do the same thing in the same way if I want to succeed. That may seem self-evident, but when it comes to my kids, reason flies out the window. I know it in my head, but in my heart, Momma wants to make it all better. … You know what's coming. I got a phone call from my son midway through the first semester. He had screwed up, and he called to tell me about it. Thankfully, I kept my mouth shut and listened. I found that he was mad at himself for being stupid, and he had already taken steps to deal with the incident. He had a plan and he followed through on it, correcting his mistake and moving forward. The phone call wasn't to ask for help. It was to give me the courtesy of letting me know. Lesson learned–for both of us.
- What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'm usually the first person to share introspective commentary; heck, I have years of blog posts to show for it. But those are for me. If you find value in them, great, but my kids? I have to protect them! Keep them safe! I have to take care of things! Umm…yeah. Clearly humility is not my strong suit. It's pretty egotistical to think I can fix everything, and it's downright selfish to buffer them from life's important lessons. If I had to learn them on my own, they probably do, too.
- Letting go is rewarding. I'm much better at the end of this year than I was at the beginning, but I still have a lot to learn. It hasn't always been easy (though the miles have helped to remove daily interaction in the minutiae), but I love this new phase. The conversations about philosophy and politics and just regular life stuff have started to outweigh the exchanges about logistics and to-do lists. I'm seeing him as a person and not just my kid–and I really, really like this guy.
It's hard to helicopter from 1100+ miles away, so I've had to assume a sit-back-and-try-to-relax posture. Some of my lessons have been hard-won, and others have sneaked up on me. Hopefully they've sunk in. Spending the next three months under the same roof will make it easy to slip back into old habits; check back with me at the end of the summer to see if I've really taken these lessons to heart.
P.S. I've got one more year till my daughter leaves for college. She's a completely different personality, so I suspect I'll be blessed with a whole different set of lessons. Stand by.


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While a wide range of participatory and enquiry-focused teaching and learning activities are appropriate for Politics and Society a number of specific methodologies may prove particularly valuable for supporting learning. These include discussion and debate, the use of a variety of contemporary media, data collection and analysis, portfolios and reflective journals.
Central to Politics and Society is the idea that learners should be exposed to competing ideas about their world, have an opportunity to apply these ideas and to evaluate them in light of the evidence that is available, and to come to conclusions. As a consequence, discussion, deliberation and debate are important learning methodologies for Politics and Society. More generally, the ability to constructively engage in debate as a means of coming to reflective and informed positions is a central skill for democratic participation.
At their most basic, debates are a series of formal spoken arguments for and against a definite proposal. While debates can be valuable for developing skills of analysis, critical awareness and appreciation of differing points of view, the development of these skills will be dependent upon the way in which the debate is structured and upon the broader classroom environment within which debates happen. It is sometimes valuable to distinguish between the method of debate and its end goal. In Politics and Society the method will involve different learners in forming arguments that are supported by data, listening to and critiquing the arguments of others and responding to those arguments constructively. The end goal should be for everyone to move towards a more reflective and informed conclusion (rather than for one side to 'win' and for the other side to 'lose'). It is important to remember that cooperative learning approaches have a greater positive impact upon student learning than competitive learning; therefore debates should be structured within the context of a cooperative learning environment. Discussions also create the possibility for different ideas to compete with each other. However they typically do so in a less-structured context than is used for debate. Like debate, discussions should also take place within a cooperative learning environment.
The skills needed to participate in discussion and debate are the same as those for communicating with others outlined in strand 2. Such skills will often need to be demonstrated to learners and practised by them, and small-group settings are often ideal for enabling all learners to participate in debate, to practice their skills and get feedback on them. Mixed-ability small groups can be particularly effective in supporting a range of abilities within a class. When learners work in groups, the tasks set should be devised so as to ensure that successful completion of the task will require input and participation from all group members. This will encourage participation of all group members and will also highlight the importance of listening skills to group members.
Learners will gather information about their social and political world from a variety of media, including print media (such as books, newspapers and magazines), broadcast media (television and radio) as well as a range of other digital media, such as websites, social media and online publications. These categories are not mutually exclusive in that print and broadcast media locally and from around the world can be accessed through digital media. One of the key concerns of Politics and Society is that the learner develops the ability to identify different perspectives that underpin arguments presented in such media. Learning outcomes specifically related to this goal are found in sections 2.6 and 4.4 and more generally throughout the specification . The use and analysis of the messages presented in a wide variety of media also enables teachers to select current issues and contexts in which the ideas and concepts of Politics and Society can be explored.
Learners can engage with a variety of contemporary media in a number of ways, including:
ICT can be used to support other approaches to learning. For example, portfolios or reflective journals can be kept and managed in electronic format while data collected during small research projects can be analysed using spreadsheets or word-processing software.
Developing in learners the skills of analysing and interpreting data is an important objective of Politics and Society. In this regard, Politics and Society will build upon the skills of collecting and analysing data that students develop through the study of mathematics. An experience in collecting and analysing both qualitative and quantitative data can enable learners to understand the use of data in social and political sciences from the inside. A small research project on one of the concepts or ideas in Politics and Society will also enable learners to relate the idea to concrete contexts with which they are familiar and so enhance their learning. Such a small research project might then form the basis of a learner's citizenship project for assessment towards the Leaving Certificate.
The development of a small research project will typically move through a number of stages:
By participating in this type of small research project, learners will gain an understanding of some of the key issues that impact on the quality of conclusions that can be drawn from data. This will, in turn, support them in being able to critically evaluate a piece of research that they have not previously seen, making reference to the quality of the evidence and the conclusions drawn from the study (a learning outcome that is referenced in sections 2.5; 6.1; 7.5 and 8.2 of the strands of study).
Reflective practice is important for both students and teachers. Reflection on learning can be supported by the use of portfolios and/or journals. In addition to supporting formative assessment, these can also help in preparation for summative assessment.
Skills development is an integral part of Politics and Society. Skills such as communicating, working with others, and working with and analysing information from social scientific research are central to Politics and Society. Such skills may be related to, but at the same time distinct from, the way in which people already use such skills in everyday life. For example, while people may communicate within groups in everyday life, they might not do so in a way which shows a capacity to listen carefully to other points of view, to develop empathy and see alternative perspectives and to express emotion in appropriate ways. In order to be clear about the precise meaning of the skills being developed through Politics and Society a precise set of learning outcomes for each of these skills is clearly laid out in the specification. This will allow learners to be clear about what is expected of them.
In order to develop such skills, learners will need opportunities to practice them. Such practice will often initially happen in classroom contexts. Teachers may clarify the skill that is to be learned, demonstrate it to learners, and provide an opportunity for guided practice of the skill and for formative feedback. Ultimately, learners will need to practice such skills independently in their life outside of the Politics and Society classroom.
Portfolios provide a structured approach for learners to identify how the skills, concepts and ideas of Politics and Society can be related to their own life. As such they are related to, but are often more structured than, reflective journals. A portfolio could include a selection of the learning outcomes for Politics and Society as well as spaces for learners to document how they are demonstrating in practice the skills described in the Politics and Society learning outcomes; what they are learning about how to develop these skills; and the extent to which these skills are improved and perfected over time.
Such a portfolio can be an invaluable tool in enabling learners to plan their own learning (for example, through identifying what skills they still need to develop and using this to choose an activity that will allow them to demonstrate the skills), to monitor their own learning and to evaluate their own learning. The skills of planning, monitoring and evaluating their own learning are strongly associated with developing the ability to learn how to learn, one of the goals of senior-cycle education more generally.
Portfolios can play an important role in enabling learners to collect evidence about their own learning, and may be used, for example, as a way of documenting their learning of the skills of working with others and of being personally effective when working in communities; skills that will ultimately be assessed as part of the citizenship project.
Politics and Society aims to enable learners to apply the concepts and ideas of social and political sciences when engaging in active and reflective citizenship in communities. In this way, ideas that appear on a superficial viewing as abstract—such as power, democracy, identity and human rights—should come to be seen to have a direct bearing on the lives and everyday decisions of the learner. This is sometimes referred to as developing the ability to see 'the general in the particular'.
Learners will learn to apply these concepts to their everyday life by being given the opportunity to do so. Politics and Society has been structured as an exploration of ideas from social and political sciences in the context of young people's own lives. Many of the contexts chosen for attention (decision-making in schools, government policies that impact upon young people, decisions as to what is and is not in their curriculum, what young people buy and how they engage in charity or volunteering work and so on) will allow young people to start by looking at their own experience and then applying concepts and ideas to that experience.
In practice, this can mean learners starting by reflecting upon and documenting their own experiences in a reflective journal. This can be seen by taking the example of one of the learning outcomes addressed in section 1.1, 'Students should be able to describe the processes of power and decision-making in their school …in relation to one aspect of school rules related to safety, for example, policies on fighting or bullying'. Engagement with the topic may begin with learners reflecting upon a situation in which personal safety was an issue for them in school, and on who was involved in making decisions about the rules that related to that situation. Learners can then relate back to this when trying to apply the ideas and concepts about power and participation in decision-making that are developed throughout topic 1. Entries in the reflective journal may be revised and reviewed by learners as they further develop their understandings of relevant concepts, ideas and data.
In Politics and Society learners will sometimes be dealing with issues that are personal to them. This means that whatever the methodology employed, there is a need for attention to be paid to creating an environment of safety within which learners can engage with issues. Learners will learn the skills of creating a safe and constructive working group environment throughout this course and particularly in strand 2 of Politics and Society. In the case of reflective journals, it would be appropriate from the outset to discuss and agree the boundaries of what is shared in such journal entries. These might include:
An awareness of such boundaries will often form the basis of working in a whole range of subjects that raise personal issues for learners (religious education, English and Social Personal and Health Education for example) and is closely linked to ensuring that the classroom environment is experienced by learners as a warm and caring environment in which trying things, making mistakes and learning from them is welcome.

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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says the company expects to achieve global coverage with its Starlink internet service by around September this year.
But she added that although it may have the capability to provide a worldwide service at that time, SpaceX will still need to gain approvals from national regulators to launch Starlink in each country.
Shotwell announced the timeframe during an appearance at the online Macquarie Technology Summit this week, Reuters reported.
SpaceX is building out its Starlink service using thousands of small satellites that it's been sending into low Earth orbit in batches of 60 in regular rocket launches since May 2019. The main focus of the multi-billion-dollar initiative is to provide broadband services to unserved or underserved communities around the world, but the company is also seeking to offer its services to businesses such as airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi.
"We've successfully deployed 1,800 or so satellites, and once all those satellites reach their operational orbit we will have continuous global coverage, so that should be like September," Shotwell said at the conference, adding, "But then we have regulatory work to go into every country and get approved to provide telecoms services."
With nearly 2,000 Starlink satellites already in orbit, SpaceX was able to launch a beta service in 2020 that's gradually expanded to 11 countries. In the U.S., Starlink users are required to pay a one-time fee of $499 for the Starlink kit and then $99 per month for the broadband service.
Shotwell said Starlink currently has "almost 100,000" customers, adding that "half a million people" want to sign up for the service.
A CNBC survey in April questioned current U.S.-based Starlink customers about their experience with the service. Most seemed pleased with elements such as pricing, equipment, and speed, but some spoke of challenges installing the dish and other equipment, while others were worried that SpaceX might bring in data caps later on.
Starlink is also dealing with some broader issues, namely concerns that sunlight reflecting off the satellites could disrupt the work of astronomers. In a bid to solve the issue, SpaceX has been experimenting with different satellite designs, including attaching visors to reduce glare. And with Amazon and the U.K.'s OneWeb, among others, also aiming to launch similar internet services using small satellites, there are fears that low-Earth orbit could become overcrowded, risking an increase in hazardous space junk.
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PLANNING: Working through our committee we scrutinise planning applications monthly. We examine aspects of Planning, Transport, Traffic, Road Safety, Environmental Issues and local wildlife habitats, together with Green Space, Trees and the Green Belt, and Climate Change implications. We communicate with councillors, our MP, Barnet Council and affiliated bodies in order to press our case as best we can. We may co-ordinate and work with other charitable organisations in the area. MHPS are represented on the Local Area Conservation Committee.
We do not always object to applications. On many occasions we feel it appropriate to leave matters up to local residents, and in other situations (far too few regrettably) we are able to advise at an early stage and assist in the design process, and support an application at planning stage.


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Soft2Bet puts on a show with Winota
Market-leader pulls back the curtain to reveal scintillating new brand
Casino and sportsbook platform provider Soft2Bet has announced the launch of its latest digital casino, Winota.
The newest addition to the company's 30+ operator portfolio, the MGA-licenced brand offers an exhilarating array of slot, table and live casino games in a cabaret-themed extravaganza that's jam-packed with engaging gamification features.
Allowing users to unlock new achievements by collecting stars, the site's intriguing live performance stage opens and shuts to reveal the thrilling set of bonus options offered to players who steal the show.
As Soft2Bet's most recent B2B project, Winota joins a lauded casino offering that includes the SBC-award-winning Wazamba, as well as more than 5000 games from leading suppliers such as NetEnt, Play'n Go and Pragmatic Play.
Boris Chaikin, CEO at Soft2Bet, said: "We are delighted to announce the launch of Winota, an enthralling new casino with an engaging theme, highly innovative gamification features and a plethora of exciting games.
"Showcasing a diverse range of content, we feel confident that the brand will continue the success of this year's premium product rollout, which includes the gamified sportsbook Betinia launched in January 2021."
Alin Vadan, CEO at Winota, said: "Winota is a unique brand with an intriguing theme and an exhilarating set of games, all underpinned by Soft2Bet's powerful proprietary platform.
"We are thrilled to be teaming up with the company in a move that will undoubtedly take this project to the next level, delivering an unrivalled entertainment experience to players across the globe."


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With their forthcoming album, Detroit-based folk pop outfit Frontier Ruckus invites us to "enter the kingdom"—however, in their world, that kingdom is set in the crumbling remains of the Motor City, and provides insight into the hardships endured in realizing that permanence is sometimes an idea instead of a fact.
In this kingdom, old neighborhoods barely exist, buildings are abandoned, fathers are searching for jobs on Craigslist, and life feels dated. Everyman-style lyrics abound; each song is poignant, clever, and employs stream-of-consciousness verbal gymnastics—involving everything from ibuprofen to curly fries—that convey a novel's worth of information in only a few, short minutes.
Frontman Matthew Milia, who appears to have an affinity for women named Sarah and Jennifer, sings of love lost and love explored, as he reveals yearning snapshots of time. In album standout "27 Dollars," he sings of a girlfriend who has outgrown the relationship— "Now you're lost in your mother's sweater," he observes of his beloved, who still owes him $27.00, and she "knows what it's for." Milia's melancholy tenor is utterly charming; you can virtually see the wink of his eye and hear the hopeful smile in his voice as he sings, beautifully accompanied by harmonies from bandmate Anna Burch. Each song is brought to life through a host of varying instrumentation—from acoustic guitar and soaring strings to lilting banjo rolls and possibly a saw, as they create lush sonic landscapes that evoke every emotion.
Though the ideas and observations made find their footing in harsh reality, Enter The Kingdom is a pleasure to experience on every level; there's an air of endearing optimism that rings throughout, creating what will likely be one of the most engaging records of the year.
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Remember my evening look here wearing this stunning dress? I promised to show you a causal version and here it is. You probably thought it would be impossible to wear that gown casually but I did it and here is, what do you think?
I am obsessed with this HM sweater. If you follow me on Snapchat you will see that I wear it everyday. The shape is perfect to wear over sized, it;s look sos good with everything and only cost me £14.99. Don;t forget to check out the mens section in HM, I love it.
When I originally designed this dress with Francesca Couture I wanted a separate skirt made so I could achieve this look. Due to the lack of time I thought it would't be possible and decided to style the dress to achieve two looks. I also do not have my car in Paris (to change in) and couldn't exactly walk around the streets of Paris like this so I was under pressure to make an evening gown look less glam. If you did not want to buy this dress I am wearing I would suggest asking Francesca Couture to just make a skirt version, maybe this is more wearable for you? I can not wait to order another one of these dresses in another colour.
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American Thinker's David Solway has some interesting observations on the state of higher education in the US. Excerpt:
I have just been perusing a towering stack of student essays that my wife, a university prof, has been grading over the last week. The spectacle of ineptitude, ignorance, and tactical evasion of once standard commitment is light-years beyond belief. According to my reckoning, perhaps four fifths of the students registered in both her arts undergraduate courses and graduate seminars exhibit one or several of the following deficiencies. To put it in bullet form, they:
- lack interest in anything apart from their congenial pursuits, a phenomenon demonstrably less evident in precursor generations.
- lack coping ability with real-world events, against which they seek not engagement, but insulation – the infantile or "snowflake" mentality that has grown so prominent.
- have little knowledge of English grammar and concinnity.
- suffer from impoverished vocabularies.
- cannot follow text or topic directions.
- are given to outright plagiarism from online sources, which, extrapolating from the submissions I am examining, is a tactic adopted by approximately one fifth of the cohort in question.
- claim exemptions on grounds of disability where almost anything, from exam anxiety to memory failings to agoraphobia to time management issues, counts as a certified disability in the current permissive and anti-scholarly climate.
- are incapable of reading text with understanding or of discriminating among narrative planes – i.e., cannot tell the differences among the view of the author, the view of the narrator, and the view of the characters in the novel under discussion. The almost complete absence of hermeneutic discernment is pervasive. Reading, as Furedi points out in Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter, connotes more than literacy, "involv[ing] interpretation and imagination" in an effort to "gain meaning." Of course, reading in Furedi's terms depends upon literacy, so it is not surprising that these mature students tend to function on a grade eight level.
I can think of a few things that would help reform the existing system of higher education or, if it collapses completely, instituting a new one:
- Get government out of education. Government almost never improves anything. The explosion of government-sponsored financing and loans has (this is Economics 101, folks) been the key factor behind the explosion in education costs. This will help to…
- Return higher education to its core purpose, which is producing young adults with marketable skills. A return to a market-based system would also have the desirable effect of eliminating all the bullshit Underwater Ethnic Dog-Polishing degrees too much in evidence today.
- Drop all the "every kid should go to college" nonsense. A good, free-market network of trade schools producing qualified welders, pipe-fitters, carpenters and electricians would be great for young folks looking to get into the job market and in the long term, great for our economy.
Solway concludes: Academia is by this time too radically compromised and too extensively diseased to be revived. Clearly, this is not a happy scenario. Some few exceptions to the general rout will survive – a Hillsdale College, for example, and perhaps a university here and there will manage to halt or at least delay its subsidence into irrelevance and desuetude. But the university system as we know it has signed its death warrant. The sooner it disappears, the sooner we can begin rebuilding from the foundations – assuming the culture has not stagnated beyond salvage. Sometimes collapse is the only remedy.
Well, I have an answer: Disconnect government from education. At all levels.


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Local community groups and organisations interested in crowdfunding are being invited to a workshop hosted by Teignbridge District Council.
Taking place on Wednesday 31 October, 6pm to 8pm at Forde House, Newton Abbot, the workshop will see the official launch of Teignbridge's Stronger Communities Fund which supports local projects in Teignbridge as part of Crowdfund Devon.
Crowdfund Devon has been set up to support community groups, start-up businesses, charities and individuals across the county to raise money from the crowd and unlock extra funding alongside Teignbridge's partners at Devon County Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, West Devon Borough Council, East Devon District Council, Exeter City Council and Torridge District Council.
Campaigns launching as part of Crowdfund Devon could be eligible for a contribution from Teignbridge of up to 50% of the total funding target, with a maximum contribution of £2,500.
The workshop, run by Crowdfunder.co.uk, will provide the opportunity to bring your own ideas and work through your project plans to find out more about how Crowdfunding could work for you.
Topics which will be covered during the workshop include:
- introducing Crowdfunder
- what is crowdfunding?
- the funding available through Crowdfund Devon
- what makes a good crowdfund project?
- three steps to success
- accessing advice and support
Places are limited and if you would like to attend visit www.teignbridge.gov.uk/crowdfund
Cllr John Goodey, Teignbridge District Council's Portfolio Holder for Community Neighbourhoods, said: "This event is a great opportunity for community groups and others who have ideas for local projects to understand how crowdfunding can help bring their ideas forward with the support of Teignbridge and its partners that form Crowdfunding Devon.
"Crowdfunding is not new, it is a popular way for residents who become motivated to participate in something that helps make a success of the project and a lasting difference to communities."
Teignbridge's ten year strategy outlines 'strong communities', with a commitment to helping communities to become more self-supporting and self-sufficient. This includes providing grant funding to support community activities and growth.


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Symi Island (Greece)
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Symi Island (aka Syme and Simi) is part of Rhodes regional unit (Greece), with total area approx 66 km2 (25 ml2) and population around 3,000.
The island is mountainous and includes the port town Symi and the adjacent upper town Ano Symi, plus smaller localities and mythologally and historically important areas. Island's economy was traditionally based on shipbuilding and sponge industries, with peak population around 23,000. Today Symi's main industry is tourism.
The town host the annual Symi Festival (July through September) attracting tourists and many popular Greek musicians to perform live at the main square's free of charge open-air concerts, plus many dance and theatre events. Popular tourist attractions on Symi Island include Archangel Michael Panormitis (18th century Orthodox monastery on the southwest coast, still inhabited by monks), The Kastro (castle overlooking Ano Symi, built by the Knights of Saint John as expansion of a former Byzantine castle), clock tower (19th century), War Memorial (in Symi Harbour, with the Dove of Peace monument).
Symi town has 13 churches and dozens of chapels, some of which from the Byzantine Empire (330-1453).
Symi Island cruise terminal
Cruise ships to Symi Island dock (anchor) at Symi - port town on the northern coast.
Port Symi Island cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Symi Island, Greece. To see the full itineraries (ports of call dates and arrival / departure times) and their lowest rates – just follow the corresponding ship-link.
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Error code P0011 indicated that the ECM has detected that the bank 1 intake camshaft is more advanced than it was instructed to be. It's a generic error code produced by an over-advanced condition which typically occurs during the retarding or advancing of the camshaft timing.
Most people will notice some issues with the engine prior to the P0011 code being generated. It may become erratic, stall regularly, or may struggle to start on occasion. They may also notice excessively high fuel consumption and various issues with the overall performance of the vehicle.
If left unchecked for an extended period of time, it can cause issues with the valve train or the engine itself.
Common Symptoms
- The Check Engine Light will be illuminated and the ECM will instruct the camshaft to return to its starting position if possible
- If the camshaft is stuck too far forward or in a retarded timing position the engine may struggle to start
- Fuel consumption will increase and fuel mileage will be worse than normal due to the misalignment of the camshafts
- Depending on the camshaft positions, the engine may stall or run rough
- The issue could lead to excessive emissions and the car is likely to fail an emissions test
Possible Causes
- The crankshaft sensors have detected that the camshaft is more advanced than the ECM has instructed
- The camshaft is in a more advanced position when it has been instructed to retard to a lower timing level
- There may be clogged passages in the oil control solenoid in the bank 1 camshaft
- There's a lack of oil flow to and from the camshaft phasers as a result of the oil being too thick
- The camshaft phasers may have become stuck in the advanced position
What To Check
Inspect the wiring, electrical connectors and valves of the oil control valves in the bank 1 intake camshaft. Ensure the engine has access to clean oil with the appropriate thickness, as this is a common cause of the error.
A screenshot of the error should be taken before restarting the vehicle to see if the error returns. If the error returns, pinpoint testing should be performed to determine the exact cause of the error.
How To Fix It
- Initially, the code should be reset and a road test should be performed to see if it returns
- The oil should be changed to ensure the correct viscosity is being used, and the filter should be replaced
- Inspect the wiring and connections to the bank 1 intake camshaft oil control valve, replacing or repairing as required
- Replacing the bank 1 intake camshaft oil control valve
- Check for issues with the timing chain alignment
Additional Tips
Ensure that you conform to the manufacturer's specified oil viscosity, as the oil control valves and camshafts are a specific size. This means that if the oil is too thick or thin it can cause issues with the timing phasers, leading to camshaft failure and potentially other engine issues due to the lack of lubrication.


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For over 70 years, Elephant Holdings Limited has been synonymous with professionalism and excellence in the fields of sound and audio-visual engineering. Our scope of work includes the consultation, design, supply, and installation of Hi-Fi products, audio-visual and sound systems, CCTV equipment, and electronic church organs. Our dedicated and customer-focused team also provides training as well as repair and maintenance services and support for its extensive range of clients.
As the representative and distributor of many top-of-the-line brands in Hong Kong and Macau, Elephant Holdings has a proven track record in the custom design and supply of turnkey systems to meet customers' needs in the shortest time possible. We handle projects of all sizes for both the public and private sectors. Our company's qualification as a continued major contractor and supplier to the Hong Kong Government is a testament to our technical excellence and quality-assured service.
Elephant Holdings Limited strives to provide professional and comprehensive services to help our clients create the dependable acoustic and audio-visual environments of their wishes. We pride ourselves in our ability to design and install audio-visual, CCTV and Hi-Fi products and systems of the finest quality.


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Dr. Michaels is a dedicated interventional pain medicine specialist and anesthesiologist with a passion for quality care. Whether it's chronic back or neck pain or anything in between, Dr. Michaels will find a way to help ease your discomfort. Patients appreciate his flexibility, communication, and thorough treatment plans that minimize and eliminate pain. Michaels works with patients to develop a care plan tailored to their individual needs and preferences. He understands the impact pain can have on a person's life and works to make life better for the individual using a comprehensive pain management approach.
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A swing door operator (also know as a "swing door opener" or an "automatic swing door operator") is a device that operates a swing door for pedestrian use. These devices can be controlled by hand held transmitters / wireless wall mounted push buttons / paddles or motion detecting sensors. Some of the areas of use are:
- Condos / Apartments
- Assisted Living Facilities
- Business Storefronts
- Disablility/Wheelchair access – residential or commercial


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Medina (or Madinah), is the second holiest site in Islam and very important to it\'s people. This cultural city is located in the north of the Holy City of Makkah. Madinah known as the "City of the Prophet". It is reportedly home to the three oldest mosques in Islam. In ancient times, the city was known as Yathrib. Upon the Prophet's arrival, the city became known as Madinah An-Nabior. Madinah is thrived and became the center of the growing Islamic nation. The city also known as the home of the second holiest mosque in the world and tomb of the Prophet Muhammad's.
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You Will Laugh Out LOUD When You See Which ABC Show Is Fundraising for Hillary — IRONY
Is Hillary just laughing in the faces of Americans with this move? Check out who is happily fundraising for Hillary, the middle of her Email-gate scandal. Is this ironic or intentional?
The cast of Scandal, including President Fitzgerald Grant, will host a fundraiser with Hillary Clinton in DC next week, and it will feature the cast of Hillary Clinton's own top scandal: her Chappaqua bathroom email server.
According to Variety, the fundraiser will take place next Wednesday, and tickets range from $250 for a single attendee to $1,000 for a "friend." If Hillary's bundlers wrangle more than $5,000 in donations for the event, they are designated as "co-hosts" and get to attend a special meet and greet with the Scandal cast.
It's not unusual for Shonda Rhimes, Scandal's creator, to be raising money for a Democratic candidate. She's starred in Clinton campaign ads, she's raised plenty of money for Democrats, and she even invited Clinton to spend a day on the set of Scandal in February.
What is unusual, is that the self-indulgent Clinton campaign failed to recognize the implications of having their scandal-ridden aides appear alongside Scandal stars. Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan are the two highest-placed Clinton aides connected to her email scandal.
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Dandelion is a home geothermal company offering affordable geothermal installations that provide heating, cooling and hot water to homes by ...View Company Profile
Our Geothermal Senior HVAC Installers have an integral part in the success of Dandelion Energy. As we are growing and expanding our services, we are looking to hire an experienced, driven, proactive HVAC/R Installer who's excited about helping people improve their homes by switching to renewable energy. You'll be responsible for the installation of heat pumps in residential settings while coaching and leading our installation crew to perform the task with the highest regard to quality and safety. This role reports to the Regional Operations Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
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You'll love working at Dandelion because:
We're solving the world's hardest problems. You'll have the opportunity to pioneer renewable heating and cooling from the ground-up (literally). There's no established playbook for fighting climate change, so your work will be messy, challenging, and build a better, cleaner world.
We're good people. It sounds simple, and it is. We are passionate, vision-driven, low-ego, and treat one another with kindness and respect. We challenge ideas here, not people.
We hold each other accountable. We celebrate our wins and learn from our losses. We're honest, realistic, and transparent across all areas of the business, every day -- not just at our monthly all-hands meeting.
Since spinning out of Google X in 2017, Dandelion Energy has been an energy innovation company working to electrify home heating. We create and install geothermal heat pumps to replace fossil-fueled furnaces and boilers. We've grown into an organization of over 100 employees and have become the largest residential geothermal heat pump installation company in the United States. Our carbon impact to date is the equivalent to taking over 25,000 cars off the road... and that impact is accelerating with our growth!
Our cross-disciplinary team consists of experts in geothermal, drilling, heat pump software engineering, HVAC installation, solar and solar financing, behavioral economics, and high-growth operations amongst other backgrounds. With the potential to catalyze and scale a widespread transition to sustainable and affordable heating and cooling, our work is both complex yet rewarding. We are working to create a wholesale shift in how people heat and cool their homes — join us!


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Adobe has issued a proclamation that starting in July, the vast majority of e-reader apps and hardware devices will not be able to read purchased eBooks anymore.
This announcement stems from a massive upgrade to the encryption system Adobe has implemented in their new Digital Editions 3.0 and will have reverberating effects on ePub books all over the world. Unless thousands of app developers and e-reader companies update their firmware and programming, customers will basically be unable to read books they have legitimately purchased. In effect, Adobe is killing eBooks and e-readers.


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When my sister and I were kids, my mom used to put us to work at various points throughout the summer helping her prep vegetables for freezing. She used to do a lot of canning, originally. Probably before we came along, or before we were big enough to help. Or before she and my father bought that really big stand-up freezer and put it in the basement. I think it maybe just became easier to pack things in the freezer in plastic containers than to can them. I don't know.
All I know is, my sister, me, and our friend, Dolores, if she was at the house, became extremely cheap labor.
We'd be put to work shelling peas or snapping beans or shucking corn. My mother would take the shelled or snapped or shucked results, blanch them maybe, or just measure them out in little plastic bags or lidded containers and Dad or one of us kids would tote them down to the basement and line them up on the white shelves.
My favorite was the corn. I loved the summery taste of it in February, when there was snow and ice outside and no sign of a garden anywhere, when the old radiators in the house got very hot and made clanking noises as the hot air surged through them, when the windows in the kitchen would fog up when Mom made a big vat of stew or a pot roast on a Sunday.
I also liked the look of the corn. How, instead of a bag of lots of individual kernels of corn – like you'd get from the grocery store – our bags had little sections of conjoined niblets, just like when Mom sliced them off the cob. I think it just said "summer" to me.
What would happen, was Mere, Dolores and I would sit out on the back steps, or on the little back porch, with the bushel basket of corn from Schartner Farm on one side of us, a bowl or bag for the husks in the middle, and a platter for the cleaned corn on the other side. We'd sit there in our shorts and tee shirts, shucking the husks off and picking off stray strands of silk from the ears. Mom would make us lunch – sandwiches of some kind and potato chips, probably – and we would talk and laugh and eat and work.
Mom would take the shucked corn into the kitchen and, a few at a time, drop the ears into a pot of boiling water for a minute or two, just to partially cook them before freezing them. Then she'd stand the ears, one at a time, on end on the wooden cutting board and slice the kernels off in wide, nubbly strips. Then she'd scoop up the kernels and divvy them up between little plastic bags. I don't remember if she measured them out by the cup or by weight. The little opened plastic bags of corn would sit on a tray, wisps of steam rising from the cooling niblets, until the tray was full and the corn had cooled enough to go into the freezer.
Next, she'd press the air out of the bags and twist the open end tightly and then double it over and secure it with a little white twist tie. The bags were squat and yellowy and lumpy, with little tight twisty loops above. Down to the basement they'd go, and I used to like lining them up on a shelf or on one of the narrower shelves of the door. I think it appealed to my rather obsessive and rigid personality. It still does.
Sometimes when Mom was slicing the corn, she'd hand us pieces of the sections of kernels to eat. I remember holding them carefully, partly because they were still hot, and partly because I didn't want the fragile puzzle piece to break apart before I got it into my mouth. It tasted so good. No butter or salt or anything – just super fresh, barely cooked, local corn.
On Friday a friend and her 3 kids and Julia and I went to the local farmers' market. I brought a couple of empty bags with me. Wasn't sure what I was going to get, though I figured I'd get some more goat milk and maybe some corn. We also planned a picnic lunch. Well, as it turned out, my goat milk guy wasn't there that day, so no milk. But. There was plenty of corn. I scouted around to see what corn was selling for, and I was quite happy to discover that Shartner Farm was there and their corn was both bigger and less expensive than some of the other farms. It was meant to be.
I paid for 4 dozen ears, and after the woman working there handed me back my change, I started filling my bags. I might have been better off with 3 bags, but hey, I only have two hands anyway, so it really wouldn't have mattered. Both bags were filled to capacity, and I willed the little nicks and frayed bits along the straps not to split or rip until I was home. I could just imagine the entertaining image of me scrambling around gathering dozens of loose ears of corn, my useless, strapless bags lying on the ground. Not something I wanted to happen.
Amazingly, the bags held, despite the great weight, and I scurried carefully across the field to where my friend's car was parked. I loaded the corn into the back and then went back to eat lunch with the others. As I'd asked, the straps of one bag waited until we were in my driveway before they broke.
I was home around eleven or so, and I set to work immediately. We were going to another family's house for dinner at four or so, and I needed – all by myself – to bring water to a boil, shuck all the corn, blanch it, slice it, pack it, and get it into the freezer and then take a shower before it was time to go. I'd have asked Julia for help (Bill and Alex had gone fishing), but I also had plans for the corn husks and I didn't want them torn during the shucking process.
What plans? Tamales. Rather than spend silly amounts of money in a store for dried corn husks, I figured I'd dry my own and we'd have them on hand for the next time (soon) we need to wrap tamales.
So…I needed to shuck carefully, but quickly, and I didn't want the husks to split in the process. And after a bit of trial and error, I figured out the best way to accomplish this.
I held the corn with the stalk end up, and, with a sharp paring knife, I sliced around the circumference of the husk, right at the point where I could feel the wide, bottom edge of the corn.
I sliced through layers of the fibrous husk, turning the corn as I went, until I'd come full circle. Then I'd break off the stalk end.
Sometimes I'd slice too deeply and lose a bit of the corn in the process.
But eventually I got to the point where most of the time I cut just to the edge of the corn kernels and when I snapped off the stalk end, all of the corn remained.
After that, the husks peeled off easily, sometimes several at a time.
I put the husks in big bowls to deal with later.
Meanwhile, I had 3 large pots of water on the stove, all the burners turned up to the highest setting.
It worked out nicely, actually – by the time the first (smallest) pot of water started to boil, I'd shucked all the corn.
I put 4—6 ears of corn in each pot as it boiled, put the lid on to keep the heat in, and let the corn boil for just two minutes. Then I picked the ears out, dropped them in an ice water bath to stop the cooking, and stacked them on a tray.
Yep, that's the lot. I was quite happy with my stacking ability, too.
I cleared some space and started slicing. I decided that the corn sprayed less and I did a better job of slicing if I broke each ear in half first.
Look! Conjoined kernels!
Yes, I ate some. You know, for quality control purposes.
After all the slicing and dividing up, I ended up with 14 bags, each containing about a pound of corn. And into the freezer they went.
Fourteen pounds of sliced corn. Not a bad haul!
I also ended up with far more corn husks than I probably need. I hung the husks in batches of five from our clothesline.
They've been drying like that since Friday. Today I'll take them down, I think, and let the little bent parts that were under the clothespins finish drying. And then I'll bag them up and store them in the pantry.
I think I need to make tamales soon.


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The Resort Range 8.1m x 5.2m
The name says it all.
The Resort is the pinnacle in pool design and the latest offering from Barrier Reef Pools. The name says it all. It's called the Resort as it epitomises a swimming pool found in first-class holiday destinations. There's no need to take a trip away when you can enjoy some luxurious downtime in your own backyard.
The new Resort pool is a one-piece configuration which is 8.2m in length with a width of 5.2m. The depth ranges from 1.1m to 2.04m. It has a large swim out area and a spa so you can combine relaxation and swimming.
The spa can run together with the pool or separately depending on your own requirements.
The Resort has a generous platform area, ideal for children to play and splash around, or for friends and adults to rest, and admire those doing some serious swimming in the main deeper section. Its size means it's the perfect pool to complete laps to raise fitness levels.
As with all our pools, there's a child-safety ledge which wraps around the structure for peace of mind.
The separate spa area can comfortably fit eight adults. This spa comes with jets, an air bed and a blower. There's also the option for a remote control to operate the jets. For total relaxation the spa can be utilised with a separate pump.
All pools built by Barrier Reef Pools Perth are manufactured in Perth WA. The fibreglass shells are tough but also allow for slight flex with any earth movement, the shell is slightly thicker than most, at 12mm compared to the standard 10mm.
Each one comes with a Lifetime Structural Warranty and a Lifetime Internal Warranty for peace of mind. There's a choice of different finishes so you can choose one that works well for to suit your requirements.
You cannot fail to be impressed by the Resort, so come and look at this new design – the latest from Barrier Reef Pools – at one of our three showrooms across Perth.
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Welcome a classic into your life with Zig-Zag Orange papers. The quintessential 1 ¼ rolling paper, these have built their reputation on a smooth, slow burn. Whether you're an old school smoker or brand new to joints, you'll appreciate the quality of these papers. For your sealing convenience, they have a gumline made of 100% natural arabica gum.


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Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.


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Maybe you popped some E over the weekend, and now your unenlightened employer selected you to pass a drug test first thing Monday morning. Or maybe you're considering rolling for the first time, but you're not sure how long the drug is gonna stick around in your body.
Well, you came to the right spot.
Before breaking this down, it helps to understand a little chemistry behind the MDMA molecule. MDMA is water-soluble, meaning it dissolves in water. In contrast, THC, the intoxicating component of weed, is fat-soluble, meaning THC naturally dissolves in only fat or oils.
MDMA's water-solubility determines its detection windows for drug screenings. Unlike weed, it'll clear out of your system much faster, usually within just a few days. Weed, on the other hand, can show up on drug tests months after the last toke.
For the average person, after taking a "recreational dose" of 50 to 100mg of MDMA, about half of the MDMA should clear out of your system within 8 hours. It'll take another 40 hours for 95 percent to clear. But detection windows also depend on the dose and the type of screen used. Additionally, compounds that are chemically similar to MDMA, such as MDA, follow similar if not identical clearance timelines.
Urine tests look for MDMA, but the most damning evidence comes from detection of MDMA metabolites, not MDMA itself. (After all, why would you have MDMA metabolites in your urine if you didn't pop any? Or so the legal argument goes…)
The detection window for MDMA under a urine screen is usually 3 to 4 days from when it was last taken.
Blood tests are usually administered by police, since they're quick and show that MDMA metabolites were circulating in someone's system at the time of the blood draw. Usually blood tests can detect MDMA and its metabolites for up to one or two days after popping it.
Hair follicle tests analyze hair samples. Or, to be more precise, these tests detect drug metabolites excreted through skin oils, which eventually become trapped in growing strands of hair. Since the metabolites are trapped inside of the hair and not just sticking to the hair's surface, hair follicle tests can detect MDMA up to a year after it was taken, though usually it's gone within three months.
Saliva tests are fairly uncommon when it comes to finding MDMA in someone's system. These work in a similar fashion to blood screenings, so expect MDMA to show up on these tests one to two days after rolling.
How to Speed Up the Clearing Process
So, maybe you're the unfortunate individual at the beginning of this post who has to undergo a drug screening shortly after taking some MDMA. What now?
Since MDMA is water-soluble, you could, potentially, flush some of its metabolites from your body. Simply chug water prior to the screening, and make sure you're peeing a lot. Just don't keep flushing yourself right up to the point that you're taking the test, otherwise the lab techs will find out because your urine sample has the wrong color, wrong pH, wrong creatine levels, etc. If the techs suspect that you flushed your system or tampered with the sample in any way, that's usually an automatic disqualification.
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Metabolism also plays a huge role in determining how long MDMA will stay in your system. Obviously, those with faster metabolisms will clear it out faster than those with slower metabolisms. You could, theoretically, perform a bunch of sweat-breaking exercises — like running, biking, or other cardio activity — to speed up the clearance process, but it's not a guarantee.
Of course, cheating a drug test may be illegal depending on your state and circumstances (e.g. maybe not against the law for an employment screening, but definitely illegal AF if it's for probation or parole). Intentionally flushing your system or otherwise fooling a drug screen is something we don't recommend.
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How to get rid of itchy skin? Itchy skin is also known as "pruritus" "dermatitis" and "Eczema". Pruritis or itching basically is an irritating and uncontrollable sensation that makes one to scratch skin to relieve himself. This is very irritating and uncomfortable condition and it makes the person irritated of. In this condition person usually rubs or scratch his/her skin to get comfort. Scratching comforts skin temporary but later it leads to different infections and injuries which might be crucial later on.
Causes of Itchy skin:
Itchy skin may be due to internal conditions such as kidney or liver dysfunction or hyperthyroidism, or it may be due to external factors involved such as allergy due to different animals like cat and dog allergy. Some people have itchy skin and blisters appear on their body due to use of certain foods, i-e people who are allergic to tomatoes. Itchy skin can be due to use of drugs, insects bite or it is common in certain female during pregnancy.
Contact dermatitis is a condition in which itching is so crucial that a person become an allergic event to soaps, detergents and WATER even. This is severe condition and it is usually common in kids. Proper medical care is necessary in contact eczema as it is harmful to body.
Symptoms of itchy skin:
Symptoms of itchy skin range from the redness of skin to the formation of blisters, patches on the skin, and urge to scratch that area of skin increase. If you see a redness, blisters, irritated skin or patches on your skin then rush to Doctor to seek medical care. There are several ways to get rid of the itchy skin. Certain home remedies are available as well for natural treatment of skin. Dermatologists usually prescribe certain anti-allergic medication to such patients who have itchy skin due to a specific type of allergy.
How to Get Rid of Itchy Skin:
1) Cleanliness:
Make cleanliness a habit and regularly wash your skin specially wash your hands before eating any food item, take extra care while eating market made items. Do wash your fruits before you eat them. Wash your hands before doing any household work and after completing your chores do wash your hands with soap.
2) Moisturize the skin:
Itchy skin may be developed due to dry weather, so try to keep your skin moisturize. Must apply the moisturizer on your hands, feet and other exposed body areas. Dry skin usually leads to a formation of blisters on the skin.
3) Baking soda:
Baking soda used in our homes for baking is an effective remedy to get rid of itchy skin. Take one cup of baking soda and put it in a bucket full of lukewarm water and use this water to take bath. Taking bath with this water usually sooth the skin and prevent itching.
Baking soda paste can also be used on skin to prevent itching. Take one tablespoon of baking soda and mix it in 2 tablespoon water and apply it on affected area.
Note: DO NOT use baking soda on open wounds or injured or irrupted skin.
4) Lemons:
Lemons are a natural remedy to sooth the itchy and rubbed skin. Take 2 to 3 lemons and squeeze out its juice and apply on the affected area of the skin. Let it dry and wash it with lukewarm water at the end. Lemons usually have a soothing effect and it prevents the burning of scratched area of skin.
5) Cold water:
Ice cold water is another home remedy that is used to get rid of itchy. Take bath with cold water 2 to 3 times a day to lessen the affect of scratching and to prevent the pain resulting from itchy skin. Because itchy skin leads to scratch that area and it later hurts and give pain. Cold water has a cooling affect on skin.
6) Basil leaves and Aloe Vera:
Basil leaves usually help prevent the itchy sensation of skin, for this soak few basil leaves in water and soak them overnight. Use this water to clean the skin and if itching is on whole body take bath with this basil leaves water to prevent itching sensation.
Aloe Vera extract or aloe Vera juice if applied on affected area of skin may help reduce the itchy sensation and reduces the itchy skin symptoms. It also reduces the redness of skin and give a cooling affect on skin.
7) Oatmeal:
In different parts of world, people use oatmeal to get rid of itchy skin symptoms and it is considered as an effective home remedy to prevent the skin scratches and itches. Take half bowl of oatmeal and put it in a water tub and left it for few minutes. Take bath with this water or make a past of oatmeal and water and apply on affected skin.
8) Avoid scratching:
Avoid scratching even if urge to scratch is its peak. Because it is harmful to skin. Keep your fingernails short so to keep your skin away from injuries.
Next time, if you ever feel any itching or burning sensation of skin, try these effective home remedies rather scratching your skin like crazy!
IF the itching and scratching continues and home remedy do not work and redness of skin or patches or blisters formation persists then consult a physician for further treatment, dermatologist are there to treat such itchy skin types and different allergies of skin.
Medication commonly used to get rid of itchy skin:
Different medicines are used to get rid of itchy skin, like Anti itch creams and lotions. These creams and lotions contain certain chemicals like camphor, menthol, phenol, promoxine, like Caladryl and Tronoline. Diphenhynedramine as Benadryl, or benzocaine can also bring relief from itchy skin and may reduce the blisters formation and scratch on skin. Redness is also reduced due to use of these medicines. BUT, these medicines usually have side effects on people who are already allergic to drugs so in that case home remedies are employed to soothe the skin and to get rid of this itchy skin sensation.
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IRENE Workshop at SmartGIFT 2017
IRENE results have been presented during the 2nd EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies in London on March 27. The following presentations were given by the project partners.
- Opening: The IRENE project
Andrea Ceccarelli (Univ. of Florence), Oliver Jung (AIT)
- A Tool for Evolutionary Threat Analysis of Smart Grids
Zoppi, Tommaso; Ceccarelli, Andrea; Mori, Marco (University of Florence)
- A Tool that uses Demand Side Management for Planning the Grid Response to Outages
Bessler, Sandford; Hovie, Daniel; Jung, Oliver (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
- An Overall Grid Modelling Tool for Modelling Smart Grids
Lau, Eng Tseng; Chai, Kok Keong; Chen, Yue (Queen Mary University of London)


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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 December 2017, 9:42 by Denis Chabrol
The owner of the popular WaterChris Hotel and Restaurant, Gregory 'Peppers' Christiani.
He succumbed at a city hospital early Saturday morning, hours after he suffered a brain aneurysm.
Christiani was 64 years old.
After he was found helpless in his office at about 3 PM Friday, he was taken to a hospital.
Christiani's enterprise ascended to prominence by catering for several major airlines operating out of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in the 1980s and 1990s. WaterChris also catered for touring international cricket teams and major regional and international conferences that were held in Guyana up to the mid 2000s.
The restaurant was well-known for attracting people who engaged in stimulating conversations about Guyana's political landscape.
In recent years, the business suffered a major decline.


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A couple of inmates, serving life sentences for murder, have died in prison. The Iowa Department of Corrections reports 76-year-old Leonard Berg died Sunday of natural causes from coronary artery disease. He was discovered unresponsive in his cell at the Iowa State Penitentiary.
Berg was convicted in the 1984 killing of Cedar Rapids Police Officer Bret Sunner. Sunner was responding to a domestic disturbance call at the time.
Another inmate, assigned to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, died on Saturday. Leroy Basham was 65 and died of lung cancer. Basham was serving a life sentence for a 1987 murder case in Boone County.


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A Norwegian radio journalist quit on the air after complaining about her job and saying she wouldn't read the day's news because "nothing important has happened" anyway.
Pia Beathe Pedersen accused her employers at the regional radio station of public broadcaster NRK of putting too much pressure on the staff.
Pedersen said in the live Saturday broadcast that she was "quitting and walking away" because she "wanted to be able to eat properly again and be able to breathe."
She ended her nearly two-minute announcement by saying there wouldn't be any news on Saturday. The disgruntled reporter had worked at NRK for 18 months. Her station covers Oslo and the Ahershus region.
NRK spokesman Oeyvind Werner Oefsti says Pedersen's actions were a surprise.


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Smite is a third-person MOBA game that's becoming increasingly popular. It was released on 2014 by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows computers and gaming laptops, PlayStation 4, and XBox One. But what makes Smite an exciting game compare to other MOBA games is that instead of featuring champions and heroes, the game offers players a diverse selection of mythological figures to control.
And amidst these mythological figures are a few with unique lore and interesting designs that stand out. Let's meet some of them:
Izanami, Matron of Dead
Izanami is a Japanese mythological figure, who died giving birth to the god of fire. In her Smite lore, it was said that her husband, Izanagi, traveled to the underworld to redeem her soul. However, upon seeing his wife as a rotting corpse and no longer the beautiful lady she knew, Izanagi broke his vow and fled. Betrayed, Izanagi swore that she would take one thousand lives each day to pay for the broken promise he has made.
Scylla, Horror of the Deep
Scylla, in Greek mythology, is a monster that lived in the deep sea. She was described as a monster with enormous black tentacles with hound heads. But what people fear the most about Scylla is her child-like laugh as she murdered men and dragged them into the abyss. In Smite, Scylla is revealed as a young girl hiding her true form and her dog-headed tentacles. And she has come ashore to terrorize humankind.
Ratatoskr, the Sly Messenger
Ratatoskr is a mythological figure in Old Norse that was described as a squirrel who runs up and down Yggdrasil to carry messages. In Smite, the developers didn't change the classic perception of Ratatoskr and introduced him to the game as a squirrel. A first in the game, Ratatoskr has come to Smite to prove that he is more than just an errand boy.
Thanatos, Hand of Death
Thanatos is known in Greek mythology as the personification of death. With the use of his scythe, he ends the lives of mortal and brings their souls to the underworld. But in Smite, as another war starts among gods and goddesses, Thanatos enters the battlefield with one mission, and that is to find out if a god can truly die.
Cupid, God of Love
Known as the god of love and son of Aphrodite, Cupid is a Greek mythological figure associated with desire, affection, and attraction. With the use of his magical bow and arrow, Cupid can make anyone fall in love with the next thing they see. In Smite, Cupid is depicted as the cute chubby cherubim popularized during the Hellenistic period, which makes him a rather interesting figure to play.
Serqet, Goddess of Venom
Serqet is an Egyptian goddess of fertility and nature. She is the deification of the scorpion. In Smite, Serqet is introduced as the goddess of venom and can control poison of any kind. Although her sting can cause death, she is not a deity of retribution but guardianship. But in Smite, the gods are faced with a goddess that will sting them to death if pushed too far.
Skadi, Goddess of Winter
Skadi is a mythological figure in Norse mythology, known as the daughter of the Jotun Thjazir. What makes her unique is that she is the only Jotun allowed to be a goddess through her marriage to the god of summer, Njord. In Smite, as the war starts in Pantheon, she fights alongside Odin and Loki, to protect the only family she has left.
Chang'e, Faerie of the Moon
Chang'e is popularly known as the goddess of the moon and the wife of the Hou Yi. According to the stories, a burglar tried to steal his husband's elixir of immortality from her. Chang'e drank the elixir herself and became immortal. She was swept into the sky and since then, has lived on the moon, forbidden to see her husband.
Smite offers several more mythological figures from Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Mayan and even Hindu. Interested? Get to know more of them at https://www.smitegame.com/gods/


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I see a line of champion runners from Sweden, Germany,
the Netherlands, and so forth. I am not surprised
to see they are all black. I predict that the winners
of almost any Marathons will be blacks.
If they were half white, these runners would lose.
The fastest short-distance runners come from one
side of Africa, the fastest long-distance runners
from the other. So far, nobody has any trouble with
the obvious fact I have just pointed out.
Now I look for the countries that lead USEFUL technical
development. Not pyramids or human sacrifice cults
and huge and impressive accumulations of slaves, I
mean USEFUL.
I also mean the countries which 1) lead the way and
2) to whose lands all other peoples want to immigrate.
Orientals can copy from them, but Orientals stagnate.
Just as all the runners are black, all these peoples
are white.
You have to believe that any race not only can do
what whites do, but they WILL do what whites do. You
have to believe that half black whites could and WOULD
do exactly what whites do.
Do you BELIEVE?
The same people who created the homeless problem by
de-warehousing the mental cases also warehoused the
There was a time when the age of fourteen was a critical
time in the process of moving toward adulthood. That
was the age at which a king "came into his own" if
his father had died during his childhood. Even today,
the Amish want their children to leave school at fourteen.
In earlier ages, a boy about fourteen would be apprenticed
or he would be "reading law" in a real lawyer's office
and witnessing a real practice. Aspiring doctors studied
under real doctors. Very few went to colleges, and
colleges at that time were openly Fantasyland. Young
men studied Latin and Greek and Mythology. They did
not pretend they were learning about The Real World
in some sociology class.
Today, fourteen is the age at which kids begin eight
years of warehousing. They sit through four years
as freshman, sophomore, junior and senior in high
school and repeat the same thing and call it college.
Where do children sit during the required eight-year
extension of their childhood? They sit in modified
high chairs, with a single adult sitting at a desk
in front. And this, ladies and gentleman, is Reality
to twentieth century young people.
During this century, the single adult who represents
the only reality to these hopelessly overgrown babies
have taught generation after generation of young people
that professors should rule the world. The kids in
their high chairs have been fed words like Revolution
and Liberation, but it always comes back to the same
bottom line:
Professors should teach bureaucrats who will go out
and run everything from criminology to the government-planned
In other words, the kids in their high chairs learn
from the permanent adolescent who teaches them that
he and they should rule the world.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all there is to
the so-called "political left."


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So Thanksgiving morning we have the 1st Square of Saturn to Neptune exacting at 7:15am. They meet at 7:02 degrees Sagittarius and Pisces, respectively.
If you are totally bought into the story of your physical life, you will have some challenging times over the next 8 months as things just don't materialize.
If you understand you are a Soul having a human experience, you will be able to roll with it to see where the next adventure begins. Saturn is in the Sign of 'adventure and travel,' both outward and inward. Whatever your philosophies are, they may be morphing now to in ways that allow you to cope with the uncertainty of this time. Neptune is where we need to simply TRUST the process and get comfortable not being able to see more than 2 feet in front of us.
If you're an Aries Sun or Aries Rising, you will have your philosophies, mentors, higher education stuff (maybe loans), legal issues morphing
If you're a Taurus Sun or Taurus Rising, you will have some shared resources (debts, loans, inheritance, alimony, child support) and intimate relationships morphing
If you're a Gemini Sun or Gemini Rising, you will have some partnership situations, close friends and open enemies morphing
If you're a Cancer Sun or Cancer Rising, you will have some morphing around your work, health, service morphing
If you're a Leo Sun or Leo Rising, you will have some morphing around your entertainment, fun, creativity and children areas of your life
If you're a Virgo Sun or Virgo Rising, you will have some mom, home, family, land morphing/dissolving
If you're a Libra Sun or Libra Rising, you will have some local transportation, sibling/cousin, local community situations morphing
If you're a Scorpio Sun or Scorpio Rising, you will have some earned income structures morphing, along with issues of beauty, women, etc.
If you're a Sagittarius Sun or Sagittarius Rising, you will be morphing yourself, your image, your body and self-assertion
If you're a Capricorn Sun or Capricorn Rising, you may be unnerved by the way some things are ending and want to isolate as you morph your subconscious mind
If you're an Aquarius Sun or Aquarius Rising, you will be morphing your social network, hopes, wishes and dreams, groups you belong to and your philanthropic activities
If you're a Pisces Sun or Pisces Rising, your career, public reputation and social status are morphing
NOTE: If you read a description for your Rising Sign that doesn't seem to fit, read the description above or below. The Square occurs at 7:02 so your House cusp may be before or after this degree.
There is one other aspect on Thursday.
At 8:01pm Venus at 20:34 Libra Semi-Sextiles Jupiter at 20:34 Virgo.
This is a minor aspect, but it is between the 2 Healing Planets in the Signs of 'service' and 'relating'. As far as getting along with everyone at the dinner table, this is a very fortunate aspect to have applying all day. Everyone will be happy to serve each other and to converse in refined and optimistic ways.