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Water Injection Pump
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Expansion of existing Water Injection Pump Stations at Uthmaniyah and Haradh, For SAUDI ARAMCO under SNC LAVLIN & SAIPEM Joint Venture. As part of Saudi Aramco's Khurais program.
Isuzu Knock-Down Factory
The Factory is planned to produce 600 medium duty trucks a year and in future Isuzu plans to boost the plant's annual production to 25,000 units inlcluding light and heavy duty trucks.
Ma'aden Phosphate Plant
Ma'aden Phosphate Plant has awarded this contract to "Mohammad Al-Mojil Group" which in turn has requested ETE to perform the complete work on back to back to basics.
Arar Substation
A SECO project, of 'Eastern Operating Area' Al Oasis has participated as main contractor where as our scope is included but not limited to complete Civil and Mechanical side.
Jubail Substation
Construction of Substations 230 Kv & 115 Kv, GIS Buildings and 34.5 Kv Switchgear building, control building and complete civil, small power and mechanical works and site development works.
Jeddah Stormwater
Drainage Project (JSDP)
This Mega project was conceived to control and direct the stormwater towards the sea. The whole project consists of 8 packages with 5 Dams and 3 Channels/Drainage and outfalls.
Karan Gas Facilities
ETE takes pride to be a part of this project as a Subcontractor to HDEC to construct the TRAIN Substations, PIB's (Process Interface Building), Communication & Sunshade Buildings, Analyser & Car parking shelter, OME Bldg, Musalla Building snd Smoking Shelter & Civil works for pipe racks and miscellaneous foundation.
Manifa Core Hydrocarbon
Saudi ARAMCO has awarded Snamprogetti the 'Lump Sum Turnkey' project for package No-1 of Manifa Core Hydrocarbon Facilities, in the frame of Manifa Field Development program to increase the production capacity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by 900,000 barrels per day. Manifa is located 200 km north of Dhahran City, Saudi Arabia.
ETE construction is the oldest division in ETE Group, it was established in 1971. It is one of the foremost construction companies in the Eastern Province that is well-equipped and managed by a highly qualified and experienced management. Our teams of professional engineers, draftsmen, skilled and unskilled labors are dedicated to bringing the highest value to their projects.
From planning to post construction, we are committed? to the project and the team. We serve our clients by evaluating alternative solutions, providing creativity and continuously challenging ourselves to come up with new ideas.
We excel when working as part of a collaborative team to develop, design and construct each project. Our clients participate in the process every step of the way, controlling the design and achieving their goals for cost, schedule and quality. Delivering quality project on time and within budget is the cornerstone on which we have built our reputation. Since 1971, ETE construction has strived to meet the expectations of its clients, this is evidenced by a long list of successful projects and satisfied customers.
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"Z INTERNATIONAL" is engaged in domestic and overseas business with manufacturing solutions of various products in India. The organization is highly indulged in good business having valuable sources globally from its starting phase. We believe in providing quality products and so we have never compromised in providing desired quality products to our customers. We are expertise in providing quick and smooth services in Domestic and International market with steady growth so that we can fulfill our customer's expectation.
We are engaged in Export of different products with various countries. We are having our global presence in India as well in Asian, African and European countries. We are having manufacturing units for all our products in India. We have good exposure of business over the years and therefore, we believe in satisfying our customers making it our first priority.

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Article written using Photoshop CS5 on a Mac
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
– Albert Carnus
The season of brilliant colors, crisp air, pungent aromas, pumpkins, dancing leaves, and glowing trees – inspiration can be found everywhere! To begin with, just take a peek in the Scrap Girls Boutique under Categories > Shop by Theme > Seasons > Fall. The product designers have certainly captured the essence of Fall with an abundant selection of exciting digital scrapbooking products.
In particular, I have found the leaf to be a multi-purpose embellishment. Since I enjoy experimenting, I thought you might benefit from my results as I combined Scrap Girls products to create a variety of styles, shapes, and colors. As a base, I used leaves from three products:
Take a look at the sample leaf designs below. Follow along and I'll explain how I made these beautiful images come to life!
- For a hint of sparkle:
Use #2 brush from Brush Set: Fall Frenzy. Adjust the size, then press your mouse button while on the document to stamp the image. Press the Ctrl key on PC (or Cmd on Mac) as you click on the thumbnail of the leaf layer in the Layers Palette. This places a selection (marching ants) around the leaf. Create a new layer. Go to Edit > Stroke (about 10 pixels). Disable the marching ants by hitting Ctrl+D (Mac: Cmd+D). Apply ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Everyday Glitters Neutrals 6401 Biggie to the stroke. Delete leaf layer, leaving only a glittered edge.
- For a light and airy leaf:
Try using Brush Set: Fall Flourish brushes. Use a variety of fall colors, overlapping slightly. You can also put each image on a separate layer so that you can move/resize/rotate them independently.
- For a dramatic, contemporary effect:
Open a new document and choose a color, paper, or photo for the background. Create a new layer and select a different color or paper. Using Brush Set: Fall Frenzy (#3 brush), select a contrasting color and press your mouse button on the document to stamp the image. Now select the Magic Wand Tool to highlight the stamped leaf and press Delete. This will "cut out" the shape from the top layer. Disable the marching ants (Ctrl+D on PC; Cmd+D on Mac). Apply a shadow to the top layer to give the appearance of depth.
- For a rich, textured effect:
Apply ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Autumn Suede Super Biggie to ScrapSimple Tools – Shapes: Fall 6301 for a beautiful leaf that will add interest to any autumn layout.
Use your personally designed creations to make tags, decorative page borders, accent titles, embellishment clusters, and interesting backgrounds. Be sure to share your results by posting your digital scrapbook layouts in the Scrap Girls Gallery!
Digital scrapbooking products used:
Tutorial written by Joyce Schardt


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We had to wait a while, once again the British weather got in the way, every night we went to the apiary in the spring it rained, and on one occasion the site even flooded so we had to de-camp to the local pub instead. But about a month ago the sunshine finally arrived, and so did our time with the ladies of hive J. And I fell in love.
I am in awe of how amazing this little colony is, and how week after week I feel like I know them a little better. It is a little colony as they didn't have the best start to their year, but they are the best tempered bees most of the beekeepers have seen. So much so that there is a fight going on for who gets the queens the colony produces.
At the moment our garden isn't ready for our own group of ladies. But we're working on that, and hopefully by this time next year we can spend leisurely evenings lighting the smoker and enjoying the (hopefully) gentle buzz of bees working. Until then Hive J is keeping us very happy indeed!
We really are covered in bees!


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Thursday, December 14, 2017
Storyteller's Rulebook: Get to the Premise Quickly (Even if It Means Skipping Some Set-Up)
Then Katniss fills us in that she's not close with Peeta, but she does know him and like him because of something nice he did for her a while ago.
Why not establish beforehand who Peeta is, so that his name will have an impact on us when it's read out? Because there's just not time. A little set-up is fine, but the reader wants the plot to start going as soon as possible.
If there's time, then there's some value in letting us know who someone is before something happens to them, but not if it takes too long. The book is called "The Hunger Games", not "Life in the Seam", and we want to get to find out what that is and begin the process.
We have about ten pages of set-up (most of which is action in the woods). During that time we get to meet three possible female tributes: Katniss, Prim, and the mayor's daughter, but we only meet one potential male tribute: Gale. If Collins had introduced Peeta during this time, she also would have had to introduce some other men so it wouldn't be too obvious, and we could have some shock that it's Peeta. (Also it would be too much of a coincidence if Katniss had only interacted with a few people that morning and two of them had their names called. It's far more believable that she only met one that morning.)
Finding out a reason to care about Peeta after his name is called works out fine. Collins knows she can just make us care retroactively, after the name fails to get a reaction from us. In fact, we'll care more. She's lost the potential for shock, but she knows we'll feel more for Peeta's backstory now as a result.
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Another formality that you must go through when you settle in a foreign country: find the right telephone operator and package for your needs. Which one to choose in Italy? Choose subscription or prepaid card?
With the arrival of Iliad on the Peninsula last May, the Italian telephony market is now shared between Free's parent company, Vodafone, TIM and Wind/H3G. And the latter three had to quickly adapt to the aggressive offers of the mobile troublemaker: first a €5.99 package with unlimited calls and text messages in Italy and Europe and up to 30 GB of 4G including 2 GB in Europe and without commitment, reserved for the first million customers, who were won in 50 days. Then at the end of July, a subscription of 6.99 euros per month reserved this time for the first 500,000 customers.
Note: it is necessary to pay 10€ more to obtain a SIM card.
The prepaid card market
Unlike the French, Italians are used to buying reloadable prepaid SIM cards. You can visit https://www.simoptions.com/ if you wish to know more information about prepaid SIM cards in Italy. About 80% of Italian mobile users prefer the prepaid card system to the subscription system, while in France the sale of these has been declining steadily for 5 years (according to ARCEP). The advantage is that you can adapt your credit to your monthly consumption, by buying refills when you need them. Their price varies between 10 and 25 euros depending on what you need. In addition, they are available at newsagents, supermarkets, and tobacco stores and online. You can choose an automatic renewal option; otherwise you should not forget to renew your recharge at the end of the month.
That is, there are also special prepaid SIM cards for short-term tourists. Most Italian operators also offer travel packages for travellers travelling to Italy, with calls, SMS and internet (between 20 and 30 euros)
The subscriptions
At Vodafone, packages range from €10 to €25, offering calls, SMS and internet. The most popular is the €14.99 package including unlimited calls, 10 GB of internet access and unlimited access to certain mobile applications (WhatsApp, Instagram, Spotify…). Vodafone also offers a special offer for under-30s from €13 to €19 per month.
At Wind/H3G there is a package that should interest expatriates, the call your country. It offers call minutes not only in Italy, but also abroad.
At TIM, the packages are much diversified. Some are suitable for those who only want to call or who use the Internet a lot; others are designed for those who need calls as much as SMS and the Internet.
The necessary documents
To subscribe, you need your passport rather than your French identity card, as some operators do not recognize this document, and especially have an Italian bank account. For those who do not have an Italian bank account, there is still the option of prepaid cards, which simply requires a credit card and your identity card.


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An alien conspiracy, a kidnapping threat, a space fleet Captain, her spy ex-boyfriend, a Crystal scientist and the most powerful AI ever created are just some of the things you'll find in Crystal Deception.
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Author: Doug J. Cooper
Publisher: Douglas Cooper Consulting
Release Date: December 2013
Purchase At: Amazon
Twenty years before Crystal Deceptions events, a Kardish vessel arrived and stayed on Earth's orbit. Afraid on what their intentions were, most governments joined together to form the Union of Nations. Cheryl Wallace is a fleet Captain, recently transferred to the spaceship Alliance. Every ship in the fleet and in fact a lot of the Union's technology depends on Crystals housing powerful artificial intelligence. In her laboratory at Crystal Fabrications, the main distributor and manufacturer of Crystal AI, Doctor Jessica "Juice" Tallette has just finished her greatest achievement, the Fourth Gen crystal, with an intellectual capacity about a thousand times more powerful than its predecessors and humanity itself.
But one thing Juice didn't count on was the Crystal achieving consciousness and sentience. So when it confided in her it had discovered a plot by the Kardish to kidnap it during its first cruise as the Alliance's onboard crystal, she contacts and warns Cheryl, whom then brings the matter to her Senator father. Concerned about his daughter and the plot, he orders the head of the Defense Specialist Agency to put his best man on the job, without knowing the man chose for the job is Sid, Cheryl's ex. And they didn't part on good terms.
Doug Cooper doesn't waste much time in setting up the premise for his sci-fi thriller and within the opening three or four chapters the entire team is together, you know the bad guys and you know the stakes. More than half of the novel deals with the preparations needed to counter and take advantage of the Kardish plot, with the latter part dealing with the actual kidnapping and the consequences. One thing I praise Doug for is how he keeps you tense with every development, even if it all really happens slowly, over the course of days and even weeks.
There is an overall lack of characterisation when it comes to the aliens, and I find that refreshing. The Kardish remain a complete mystery throughout the story, with only two of them getting some 'screen time', showing you the worst of this species. Doug Cooper even refuses to explain their dress customs, why they look straight out of a Shakespeare play. Because it's not important for the story and it keeps them unknowable.
As for the main characters, I had trouble defining Juice as a character. Her personality and behaviour change considerably throughout the novel. At first, she acts scared but professional but then becomes quirky to the point of strangeness. But I have to give props to Cooper because he lampshades this, with Sid musing on how strange and unreadable she is. Sid a straight up spy, completely professional and focused on his tasks, but when he's off duty you can see he's capable of humour and deeper human emotion. Chery on the other hand does everything more by gut and feeling, snapping into military precision when someone barks an order and the years of training kick in.
One thing I would've loved to see more, or better handled, was Cheryl and Sid's reconnection. They're uncomfortable with each other for just a short space of time before they fall into usual habits. What I mean is they start rekindling their relationship too easily. Breakups, and messy ones at that are difficult to get over and trust is too difficult to re-establish. I like that the storytelling remains almost exclusively focused on the plot, but a bit more development and tension on the romantic side could've worked. In fact, there are certain moments that hint at a possibility of attraction for these two characters, not with each other but with others, and I think it would've been great if Doug had explored those options…at least before some of those other characters expired.
But perhaps the central and most important character is Criss, the Fourth Generation crystal. Doug doesn't waste our time proving his intellectual superiority but instead focuses on his fledgling humanity. His introspection and psychological analysis is at the core of the story and is the central theme explored in the novel. While many works of fiction deal with the subject of uncontrollable AIs and how dangerous they can be, Doug presents us the alternative of one that isn't good or bad, but just like us, capable of both and learning every day how to best behave. Criss is, self-admittedly, much like a child in terms of understanding emotions and humanity and it's wonderful to see how he strikes a balance between the logic that drives his thought process and the emotions he seeks to understand. He looks up to Sid as an example of creativity and impulsiveness, baffled at how the spy comes up with his ideas, but jumping on board for most of them.
Doug Cooper's prose has a really nice flow, thought it stumbles and feels clumsy at times. Some instances of telling more than showing, some overuse of passive voice—that always makes sentences slog—and a few unnatural info-dump conversations hinder the otherwise good flow. At one point, the Secretary of Defense (and head of the DSA) explains to Cheryl's father what a Toy-Master and Ghost operatives are, but it feels more for our benefit than his—as he clearly knows what the terms mean—and completely unnecessary with those easy to grasp names. Some moments where he tells us Sid feels shame for the way things ended between him and Cheryl I would've preferred to have an awkward conversation there, to better transmit those feelings.
One particular bad point for me is later in the novel when Cheryl and her crew all get shot. Most die outright and one survives for only a few hours, but Cheryl is otherwise unharmed…for no reason whatsoever. Without proper context and explanation, it feels too much like "protagonist aura," or "just because."
The biggest flaw in the writing is how later in the novel he splits bigger scenes into multiple chapters, right in the middle of tense sequences, just as something important happens. It makes you lose the 'immersion', bringing you out of the scene and making it harder to reconnect.
On the upside, he's wonderful at setting up scenes out of chronological order, with some events happening for seemingly no reason, only for a chapter down the line to fill out the holes. That's especially true when you start jumping between the two teams inside the Kardish vessel. One team will see something happen and then you'll find out it was something the other team did.
Finally, the plot itself is quite good and opens the way for future stories—I know there's a sequel and I want to read it and Doug provided a nice prequel short story I recommend reading. At first I thought the conspiracy aspects were weak because they reveal the conspirators and their intentions too early in the story, but I then realised it was intentional, to shift the attention from that element to the conflict between the Kardish vessel and our band of protagonists. As I mentioned, the Kardish don't get much screen time but their reason for begin in orbit and having mankind make Crystals for them is laughable…in a very good way. I won't ruin it for you, but if you've read it I'll be happy to discuss it. I did find that part hilarious and very clever.
Doug J. Cooper's Crystal Deception is a very good Sci-Fi novel, with strong characterisation, in depth exploration of philosophical themes and a very well defined world. The prose stumbles at times but it doesn't detract from the experience.
4/5 – Exceptional


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While I am sure the president's "money lobby talks" comment does not apply to me and I have already cited my reasons for rejecting Ms. Lopez, I think it is unfortunate if not inappropriate and uncalled for. It is a sweeping assault not only on the integrity of the members of the CA who voted for rejection but the CA itself, being an independent constitutional body.
I am almost sure, those members who are his staunchest allies in both houses of Congress, will not cast their votes without first seeking his guidance. Just to be clear, I am not referring to myself in this regard.


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Tweet #Torah to the Top," an effort to get #Torah to "trend" on Twitter. (Here's what I wrote about it last year.)
With that in mind, do not be alarmed when, this coming Tuesday, my Twitter and Facebook posts are early, often, and filled with #Torah. Although those of us who participated in recent years have not been successful in getting #Torah to trend, perhaps it will happen this year.
Stay tuned...and plan to join us!


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The Chevin Chase is a 7 mile cross country race on boxing day in Leeds (UK) is a very competitive race and usually won by one of the Brownlee brothers who won Gold and Bronze at the 2012 Olympic Triathlon and who run for a local club but it's mostly a good shakedown after Christmas day.
It was the first chance I've had to run it and in the end I managed to finish in 38th place (out of 935 finishers) and was less than 9 minutes behind two Olympic medal winners so a great day out for me!
Alistair Brownlee won in 37:03 (7 miles) and Jonny was 37:27 so my 45:54 was less than a minute behind my target of 45:00 and I was very happy to get around an undulating course (with one main climb up to the Chevin) at that pace.
My main aim for the race was to have a bit of Christmas fun and after a year of training for ultras mostly it's the first shorter race I've done in ages and I swear the pain of 5 and 10k (ish) distances eclipses anything I've done in the ultras this year. The flat out effort is pure pain!
As it happened, I ended starting right on the front line as it was so packed I couldn't sit back a couple of rows from the front but I'm happy going off the line at 5 min mile pace and dropping aside a couple of hundred yards down the road to avoid blocking off faster runners and went through mile 1 on the roads in 6:16 while watching the front runners disappear well into the distance!
Mile 2 was road and heading off onto some country track but still reasonably comfortable running and settling into a pack and ticked off in 6:26 and it was pretty clear my lack of speedwork was going to make this hurt a little later on but shorter races can be gutted out so on through mile 3 and some nice undulating forrest trail in 6:14 followed by mile 4 which had a good downhill stretch on a rutted track with rocks and little gullies but I love any sort of technical downhill trail so took it as an opportunity to get a bit of a breather and comfortably fly down it in 6:01.
Mile 5 is a real killer, it includes a climb up to the "Chevin" which is a ridge line where there is a single track of stone slabs lined with spectators which is great but my god by this point my legs were feeling it and the climb was hard work – shown in the 9:04 mile to the top but it was great running through a crowd like that!
Mile 6 and 7 are basically descending down along mostly road and one rutted up, puddle filled mud track but fairly uneventful but I was feeling it by this stage and eased into a 6:39 mile and then a final 5:28 mile to the finish line.
I think I was overtaken by two people in the last mile but caught one so not too unhappy overall and to finish 38th in a race that had 2 Olympians and a Team GB member was a thrill for someone of my level.
Thanks as ever to the organisers, volunteers and supporters for such a fun and well organised race.


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Happy Valentine's Day, arthritis friends!
"Doctors" is a popular topic at my young adult support group meetings. I'm lucky that the two rheumatologists I've seen for my arthritis have both been excellent. But, more often than not, people I know tend to complain about their doctors.
For those that are not so lucky to have a great rheumy, it might be worth your while to check out RateMDs.com. You can browse doctors by city and specialty, and you can also look up specific doctors. I wouldn't use this tool as your only source of information about a potential doc, but I think it could be a helpful resource, especially for someone who has just been diagnosed.
Say you get a doctor recommendation for a rheumatologist and he/she has mostly negative reviews on RateMDs.com, you might want to seek out another recommendation or do some further homework before making an appointment. Of course everyone's perception and experience is different, so keep that in mind when doc hunting.
If you are curious like me, you can use look up your current doc to see what other people are saying about him/her. I plan on adding positive reviews for the two rheumatologists that I've seen, and a negative review for my ex-GP who once looked up my symptom (altered sense of taste) on the Internet. Um, I could have done that for free at home in my pajamas.
Three Simple Ways to Find a Rheumatologist
- Obtain a referral from a doctor you trust and like.
- Call your local chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and ask for a doctor recommendation.
- Find a support group for the type of arthritis that you have and ask people in the group for doctors that they've had a good experience with.
Just like you wouldn't settle in a romantic relationship, don't stay with a doctor you don't like. If you feel that you don't get good care from your doc, don't give up. Search for a new one, even if it takes seeing a few bad doctors to get to a good one. Stick with it, your health is worth the trouble.
This Valentine's Day, give your doctor some love, or find a doctor you may start a beautiful relationship with.


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I've loved the idea of having a family. I had told my parents, I'd like to be a father at some point even if I have to do it alone. I thought about surrogacy few years ago and what would be the least stressful way to go about it. I had many solo arguments as at times I thought about my own dreams and debated about the right time to be a dad. I thought about my own parents and many other parents; did they plan as extensively too? I guess a lot of us were unplanned and surprise babies. I was, and Hey… the early days may have been a struggle but it all worked out in the end didnt it?
The costs of surrogacy versus adoption was another battle I waded through… I couldnt bring myself to agree on spending so much money when one could adopt a child/baby who would flourish in a good home. But have you wondered what it takes to adopt in Nepal? I sat some nights reading links, adding more articles on the adoption folder I created. Watching people, incredibly lovely folks, who spent their time researching laws on adoption in Nepal on YouTube. I was convinced, this would be an even harder battle. The few stories I heard of people who have adopted did not put me at ease. Some ways were simply illegal.
A single Nepali man cannot adopt but a single Nepali woman can. Marriage between two men is not legal in Nepal, and we do not have the right to adopt. I dont know where I am in all this now… my family were super supportive at one point, they still are. I mean, it looks like I'm the only one who actually wants to be a parent. But seeing the tough road ahead has sort of paused this desire for now.
If you've read this far then drop an emoji so I know people still read. Just thought I'd ramble away today… also, there's way too many articles about inter-country adoption (non-Nepalis adopting from Nepal) than in-country adoption; would love to hear stories from Nepali parents who have adopted from Nepal?
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Detroit Lions 53-Man Roster Prediction
By Aaron Meckes
May 29, 2012; Allen Park, MI, USA; Detroit Lions quarterbacks Shaun Hill (14), Matthew Stafford (9) and Kellen Moore (17) stretch during organized team activities at Lions training facility. Mandatory Credit: Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports
With the Detroit Lions fourth preseason game in the books, we now turn our attention to the final cuts to reach the NFL mandated 53-man roster. By 6:00 pm on Saturday we will know who will be dressing on Sundays, and shortly thereafter, who the Lions brass will look to develop on the practice squad. Here are my final, post-preseason predictions. (Asterisk denotes predicted starter.)
QB (3) – Matthew Stafford*, Shaun Hill, Kellen Moore
RB (4) – Reggie Bush*, Joique Bell, Mikel Leshoure, Theo Riddick
WR (6) – Calvin Johnson*, Nate Burleson*, Ryan Broyles, Patrick Edwards, Matt Willis, Micheal Spurlock
TE (3) – Brandon Pettigrew*, Tony Scheffler*, Joseph Fauria
OL (9) – Riley Reiff*, Rob Sims*, Dominic Raiola*, Larry Warford*, Jason Fox*, Corey Hilliard, LaAdrian Waddle, Dylan Gandy, Jake Scott
DE (5) – Ziggy Ansah*, Jason Jones*, Devin Taylor, Willie Young, Israel Idonije
DT (4) – Ndamukong Suh*, Nick Fairley*, C.J. Mosley, Justin Bannan
LB (6) – Stephen Tulloch*, DeAndre Levy*, Ashlee Palmer*, Tahir Whitehead, Rocky McIntosh, Travis Lewis
DB (10) – Chris Houston*, Darius Slay*, Bill Bentley, Rashean Mathis, Glover Quin*, Louis Delmas*, Don Carey, John Wendling, Jonte Green, Amari Spievey
ST (3) – David Akers, Sam Martin, Don Muhlbach
Practice Squad (8) – Rodney Austin (G), Corey Fuller (WR), Brandon Hepburn (LB), Chris Greenwood (CB), Steven Miller (RB), Martavius Neloms (S), Jimmy Saddler-McQueen (DT), Michael Williams (TE)
Notable Cuts – Ron Bartell, Kris Durham, Montell Owens
A few thoughts:
– Keep in mind that practice squad players must clear waivers before they can be signed to the practice squad.
– Kellen Moore earned a spot on the roster after his final two preseason performances. It's possible that if (and that's a big if) the Lions' front office believes they have seen the real Kellen Moore, they may even consider dealing Shaun Hill for a mid-round draft pick in the 2014 draft. Buffalo and Oakland are two teams who could be potential suitors.
– Matt Willis stood out this preseason and won the fifth wide receiver spot. However, with cuts being made around the league, Detroit may be in the market for a deep threat cut from another roster. If that's the case, Willis would be the first to lose a roster spot.
– Micheal Spurlock and Theo Riddick could easily be listed under special teams rather than receiver and running back, as they are unlikely to see the field at either of those positions. To be fair, Riddick made some nice plays against Buffalo in the final preseason game and shows promise in the backfield. For now, however, his role is special teamer and student to Reggie Bush.
– Many have given the third tight end spot to Michael Williams simply based off draft status, but Fauria earned his spot with his receiving ability and reported improved blocking in camp.
– If you feel like ten defensive backs is a lot to keep on a roster, you're right, and I agree with you. The Lions have a lot of young talent in the defensive backfield, and eventually it needs to translate into performance on the field. Each player on that list can contribute on special teams, and with the history of injuries among the defensive backs, it can't hurt to have a few extra around.
What do you think, Lions fans? Where did I go wrong? Would you be comfortable with Kellen Moore as the backup to Matthew Stafford? Is ten defensive backs too many on the active roster? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!


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StashAway Malaysia Introduces Thematic Portfolios
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 27 September 2021 – StashAway has launched Thematic Portfolios. StashAway's Thematic Portfolios include three themes: Technology Enablers, The Future of Consumer Tech, and Healthcare Innovation. The portfolios feature ETFs from some of the world's top fund managers, including ARK Invest, iShares, Global X, and VanEck.
Since 2018, the amount of assets in thematic funds globally have grown at an annual rate of 37%. In 2020 alone, assets in thematic funds grew by 77%. And not only are thematic investments growing in popularity, but they're also eclipsing traditional equity sectors: thematic portfolios have accounted for nearly 40% of all equity fund net sales since 2017.*
What makes StashAway's Thematic Portfolios different from any other thematic offering available to both retail and institutional investors is its risk management feature: Investors select the downside they're willing to accept in a given year, and then the StashAway platform maximises the thematic exposure as much as possible within those risk constraints. "This gives investors the access to thematic investing without the risk inherent with thematic investing," says StashAway Co-founder and CIO, Freddy Lim. The remaining non-thematic assets in a portfolio are there to manage risk. "We call these non-thematic assets 'balancing assets', and their role in our Thematic Portfolios is just as important as the thematic assets."
"StashAway's Thematic Portfolios will empower Malaysians to invest in promising innovations for the long term. Innovations that aim to shape the future take time to grow and gain market acceptance. So, it's important for investors to have a long-term mindset when investing in these themes," shares Albert Kok, Deputy Country Manager Malaysia.
About the themes
Technology Enablers includes subthemes such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, robotics, and semiconductors – it's technology that consumers don't see but that enables new technologies to transform the world.
The Future of Consumer Technology invests in technology that everyday consumers use: e-commerce, fintech, gaming, Internet, mobility, and social media.
Healthcare Innovation is about investing in the technologies that can not only improve but even change the way people stay healthy, get treatment, and recover. This portfolio gives investors exposure to biotech, genomics, and pharmaceuticals, such as smart beds and software used for genome sequencing.
About StashAway
StashAway is a digital wealth manager that offers investment portfolios and wealth management solutions for both retail and accredited investors and operates in Singapore, Malaysia, the Middle East and North Africa, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
As of January 2021, the company surpassed $1 billion USD in assets under management. It achieved this milestone faster than it took the world's largest digital wealth managers, Betterment and Wealthfront, to reach the same milestone. In 2020, StashAway was recognised as a Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum and a Top 10 LinkedIn Startup.


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I'm 50 y/o with ~1700hr in my R44 (125hr/yr with night, mountain, int'l, but little
commercial) and intend to continue operating the aircraft indefinitely. I am a helicopter
snob and view fixed wing as pointless for anything less than 500nm, perhaps because I
am fortunate enough to have the R44 based at our home. I have 1.0hr fixed wing time
and aspire to also own/operate a citation 501. The best excuse I can come up with is
monthly business trips to California which takes a full day in the 44 at 900nm cross
border (fun yes, but I generally only indulge once/yr). Is it crazy for me to aim for a C500
vs lowering my sights to a TBM? If so what is the safe path for me get from here to
there while minimizing the "non-productive" time-building hours? Thank you.
-- Shawn Abbott, October 22, 2016
Flying the helicopter is all about attitude control and not putting in crazy big control inputs. During airline training we were told that helicopter pilots actually do great in learning to deal with the beast that is the CRJ.
If you're not going to get slow-and-simple single-pilot jet like the Cessna Mustang or Phenom 100, you'll want to fly as a two-pilot crew for at least a few years. In that case you can buy the jet tomorrow, go to FlightSafety on Monday, and start operating!
So instead of building up through a range of aircraft types, build up from two-pilot to single-pilot. I'm not sure how easy it is to get basic add-on ratings at FlightSafety in a sim but maybe you can do it! Otherwise go to a flight school and hammer out the add-on Private and IFR ratings in whatever trainers they have. That shouldn't take more than two weeks. Then it is time for the type rating. I would recommend the Phenom 100 if you can afford it and if it turns out that it can do the 900 nm trip with real-world winds and your required payload. It isn't great for short runways, there were some ugly initial problems, and the payload/range numbers promised were met only if you consider required equipment such as a weather radar to be "optional".
-- Philip Greenspun, October 22, 2016
Depending on where or if you stop for customs, the jet may not be getting you much. Based on what I am hearing, I would say Phil is aiming you in the right direction. Consider the aspects of ownership and using the plane. At some point, many pilots buy more plane than they need, and then enjoy it less while wasting time and money.
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One Block Down to host a special event for the release of the Air Jordan 1 Mid "Milan"
Along with the drop, an installation at Museo del '900 and a game to have the chance to buy archival sneakers
February 13th, 2020
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Last December, Nike presented an Air Jordan 1 Mid inspired by the city of Milan. Now the date of the drop has been revealed and the release of the sneakers will be celebrated exclusively at the One Block Down store Milan on February 19th at 10:00.
On the occasion of the drop, One Block Down curated together with the nearby Museo del '900 an installation on the occasion of House of Jumpman Milano, whose first Italian event will present to the public both the new Air Jordan 1 Mid "Milan" and EMEA, the Flight collection Utility Jordan Women. The exhibition will also take place on February 19th and will run from 12:00 to 16:30.
But the most interesting part of the drop, for those who will buy the new Air Jordan, will be the opportunity to participate in a basketball competition that will be held in a pop-up basketball court behind the location of One Block Down, in Via Gaetano Garden 2. By presenting the proof of purchase, participants will have to score three consecutive shots from different distances of the court. Those who will total them all three will be able to access One Block Down's online archive of the last ten years, which includes Nike's collaborations with Travis Scott and Off-White, or the Air Jordan 1 Retro Fragment, and buy the shoes at the retail price of exit.
The exclusive presentation of the new Air Jordan 1 Mid "Milan" by One Block Down will take place in Milan in Piazza Armando Diaz, 2 on February 19th starting at 10:00.


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WORKSHOPS FOR BUILDING THE DESIGN ENTRIES Apr 21, 2017 23:30:53 GMT -6
Post by Nka on Apr 21, 2017 23:30:53 GMT -6
Workshops for Building the Entries in
Thus, from September 2017 to March 2019, we are collaborating with some of the design teams in the competition to organize construction workshops to build the design entries based on site at Abetenim Arts Village in central Ghana.
See the press review, Winners of 2017 Land Art Competition Create Installations for Art Village in Ghana
by Osman Bari
See the press review, Winners of 2017 Land Art Competition Create Installations for Art Village in Ghana
by Osman Bari
Through Site-Specific Public Art Installations
The Land Art Workshop is designed as a Group Residency to bring together creative persons from around the world to immerse in the local Ashanti culture and help build the entry to the 2017 Land Art Competition. During the residency, participant will be assigned a part in the project process, and participant will use the rest of the period to create own works. Selection of participants will be through an open call for participants. The programme aims to foster collaboration for cross-fertilization of practice among the international participants. Most evenings will be used for reviewing workshop progress along with informal discussions and digital presentations of portfolios by workshop leaders and participants. The workshop will end with a Community Day, a public celebration of the completed project by way of open house exhibition of the products of the workshop, public performances, and foods.
Workshops to realize design entries will be listed below.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN and take a look! If interested in participating in any of the workshops, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com (or the workshop leader at the email listed below). See site photos: yadi.sk/d/FBDXIIDey8knP


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This is what's off my design wall today. This version is "Jewels in the Night". I'm going to call the pattern Diamond Rails. The first version can be seen HERE.
The quilt measures 62″ X 77″ after washing. The top fabrics are all batiks from Connecting Threads.
The backing is a wide batik I purchased last weekend.
The batting is Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 in black and I used Fil-Tec T-40 Cotton Poly Corespun Black thread on the top and Superior SuperBob in black on the bottom — just over 1 M-Style bobbin.
The quilting pattern is the pantograph "Popcorn".
While I was at it I made a pillowcase.
Check out what other's have worked on this first week of 2015 over at Patchwork Times.


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Giving Away Wildlife
A hunter who takes and possesses wildlife legally may give it to another person only if the hunter has completed the day's hunt.
- All wild game must be plainly labeled with the full name, address, and permit number of the taker as well as with the species and the date taken.
- Deer and turkey must include the telecheck confirmation number.
- Wildlife received as a gift is included in the possession limit of the recipient.


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Jürgen Moosbrugger – a climber of his own league (Part 2 of 2)!
We guess, you already got, after part 1 of our article, an idea how Jürgen and his father Toni went into their part of the "Kapfdach- and family-History". For sure: Father and son secured, "adventurous but save", the 3rd "family-Top".
"Climbing-driven" Parents to-be ……
But what about "ascent #2", after Jürgen's grandfather, we have mentioned in Part 1? Well, 30 years ago, in the "wild, revolutionary, climbing 80s", climbing in Europe was between Sports- and Alpine-climbing, Toni convinced Sabine …
Got it: Jürgen future parents! And Sabine, just 18 years of age, just joined in. The end of a true, 3-generation-climbing story in short: Jürgens, grandfather, his parents Sabine and Toni and finally he, together with his father did it – THE "historic and dreaded Kapfdach"!
More about the details, in an easy to translate into English article (use google) and plenty of more great photos you can find at:
Last, but not least: The location of the "Kapfdach" in Götzis / Vorarlberg? https://www.google.at/maps?client=firefox-b-ab&um=1&ie=UTF-8&fb=1&gl=at&sa=X&ftid=0x479b3fbfbc7c0add%3A0x9511c56d5d082921&q=Kapf%2C+6840+Meschach&t=p&ved=0ahUKEwjp14bcia_QAhVLmBoKHfXIAIIQ8gEIFCgAMAA gives you an idea. But be warned … this is "old days climbing" …100% on your own risk!
Our Climb X Crew sums up with CONGRATULATIONS to Jürgen and his awesome family – so stay DRIVEN too!


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Nature is all around us. This calendar takes you on a journey through thought-provoking poetry and beautiful photography to witness nature like never before. Suitable for monthly planner or wall calendar. Size is 11" x 8.5" when closed.
The mountains of southwest New Mexico have been Dawn's home for over 40 years. She delights in capturing the beauty of nature with her poetry and writing. Has published two books so far: Flights of Fancy: Volume 1 and Flower Escapes (Book 1). Current plans are for a new book entitled Poetry to Ponder. This should be out sometime in 2014. It will have her latest poetic creations. Each year Dawn puts together a calendar filled with her thought-provoking nature poetry. She partners with a photographer that inspires her newest poems. The past two years have been with Marilyn Huffaker. Marilyn has an eye for capturing the beauty around her. When you join these two together, it is pure magic.
Nature is all around us. This calendar, Nature through Poetry 2014, takes you on a journey through thought-provoking poetry and beautiful photography to witness nature like never before. Suitable for monthly planner or wall calendar. Size is 11″ x 8.5″ when closed. (Click Buy button to buy at Amazon.)
Candace Morehouse says in her review: "This calendar contains not only beautiful photos of nature, each month features an inspiring poem – mostly about the world outside this talented author's window. The poetry is evocative and selected specifically for each month. For instance, "Sleepy Spring" talks about the awakening buds and melting snow of March; October's "Virginia Creeper" is a colorful exposition on the sights and feelings and sounds prevalent in fall. It's a wonderful addition to your home as well as a lovely gift appropriate for anyone."


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Miami Heat Signs one of possible two 15 Year Veterans.
The Miami Heat signs player to a one year veteran's minimum deal according to Shams Charania .
Haslem will suit up and play his 16th possibly final year with the Miami Heat. Haslem and Wade will both be entering their 16th seasons respectively. The organization has only one roster spot open left. Wade will be continued to be courted by Miami in the coming days.


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All Hallows High School baseball team relocates after Parks Department closes field
All Hallows High School is scrambling once again to find a field to play its baseball games.
Principal Sean Sullivan says the NYC Parks Department has closed Heritage Field for two weeks, right at the tail-end of the season. The baseball team has only four games left, three of which were to be played at the field.
This marks the second-straight year the field has been closed.
A Parks Department spokesperson says the closure is part of annual maintenance performed in May and October to make sure the field remains intact and safe throughout the year.
Luis Ramos, the team's catcher, says he hopes something can be worked out so he can finish his senior year on his home turf.
Principal Sullivan says the school managed to find a field for Saturday's game in Queens. The last two games may be played at Concordia College in Westchester County.


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Venue Change, Harrogate Sat 17th July
Hope and Social in "going to Rehab" SHOCKER!
Through circumstances beyond our control we've had to change the venue for the Harrogate gig on this Saturday from the Sun Inn to the upstairs club in Rehab, Harrogate. Should be grand… holds about 100 people, tiny stage and according to their website it is "is particularly popular for 18th and 21st birthday celebrations." Excellent. Thank you to everyone that's helped us sort this out (that means you Rachel in particular). It's free in and we'll be on at about 8:30/9
18-20 Parliament Street, Harrogate, HG1 2QZ
Tel: 01423 528 321
Remember remember the 4th of September
We're just finalising details for what promises to be a fantastic day long event on the 4th of September. It will start and end in Leeds, distance will be travelled, music will be played, immense fun will be had. Keep the date free! We'll be releasing the full plan early next week…. HINT: pack a bucket and spade.
Gigs gigs gigs…
The gigs have been great fun. The Duck and Drake at Leeds was sweatier than a weightlifters jockstrap…. (You can see some photos from the mighty Phil Barber here) and James Hamilton did an AMAZING vuvuzela solo in Manchester during Buzzer Goes. Thanks to all who've come down and shaken their asses. In particular, Ian Firth who came and drummed with us at Mojo last night… he'll be with us tomorrow too don'tchaknow.
July 23 – 444 Club – The Rainbow, Digbeth, Birmingham
July 29 – Simon Solo (supporting Field Music) – Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate
August 14 – Deighton Festival – For more info pls contact us directly
August 15 – Moor Music Festival – Heslaker Farm, Skipton
Take it easy now… and remember, sunscreen and waterproofs are your friend.
h&s x
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PPS – same same but different


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Traveling Throughout Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a magical place full of adventure, rich culture and incredible food and beverages. Trips of a lifetime are made in Costa Rica every year, and there are just so many things to do that it's incredible. Getting around, though, requires knowledge of how the transportation systems work as well as car rental and ride hiring company availability. Without further ado, let's dive into the details of how the Costa Rican transportation infrastructure operates.
One of the single most fascinating aspects of getting around in Costa Rica is that even though Uber in Costa Rica is not technically legal, everyone does it: both locals and tourists. We always advise verifying that your ride is in fact a legitimate Uber in Costa Rica by asking the driver what your name is, and asking what their name is since this will be listed on the app and only a true Uber driver would know this information. Taxis in Costa Rica are certainly a viable option, too, but Uber is usually a cheaper and more comfortable option. Taxis in Costa Rica also have a bad reputation of being pushy toward tourists, so perhaps stay away from them.
Note: when you take a taxi in Costa Rica, always tell them to turn on the meter. If they don't, you'll get an arbitrary price and they will rip you off!
Tell them "Pon la maria, por favor."
(Point to it. It's always mounted in the center of the console.) If they tell you it's broken, just get out. There are many shady taxi drivers that will judge you if they even sniff that you aren't local, so make sure to do this every time. Even when I lived there and spoke the local Tico slang, they still tried to rip me off. It's their culture.
It's for this reason, and cost reasons, that I prefer Uber. I will note that Uber is very popular in San Jose, but less abundant in areas on the coast, even in booming Liberia.
The availability of rental cars is another consideration altogether, as the risk of pushy taxi drivers and fake Uber drivers is eliminated altogether.
The availability of rental cars in Costa Rica is usually high, with companies like Avis and Adobe leading the pack for rentals. Though availability may be high, costs can be ridiculously expensive and not worth it.
Check the prices before renting, because some companies don't actually accept credit cards that don't have raised numbers which can be slid with an old-fashioned carbon copy machine. 95% of Costa Rica is accessible by cars without 4 wheel drive, and if you do take a rental vehicle 4 wheel driving then your warranty is completely void.
For this reason, I urge you to check out Discover Cars. You'll find them to be the best third party agency which can help you find the best rates.
Suggested Reading: Is it Safe to Rent a Car in Costa Rica?
For the reason of high costs, buses in Costa Rica are an excellent option as well. Buses in Costa Rica are great because they run to every major and minor city, and can be much more cost effective than cars ever could. Plus, they offer a more authentic way to travel like a local in many cases. All buses provide information about their destinations, where they're departing from, the name of the company, how frequently they're serviced, travel time and total distance (km), and ferry or boat schedules which may be included. A huge part of enjoying vacation is in not having to work or think, and just being able to enjoy the scenery. For this reason and for their affordability, buses are a great way to explore the country without the risk and high cost associated with going private.
Shared shuttles are an excellent in between option for those who want a little more privacy than a public bus, yet don't want to spend high dollars on cars or Ubers. They're air conditioned and usually go in between every major hotel in every major city. From there, you can take a cheap Uber to your actual destinations and the total cost will be much lower than if you rented a car. We highly recommend shared shuttles.


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D083 High Tops 3D
$ 99.00
These black high tops were plucked right from the back hall and are my daughter's shoes. Scuffed and real, the shoes were brought into the studio to create a study in 3D black and white.
The shoes were set on a small turn table and multiple photographs were taken as the shoes turned around. These combine to create the depth effect you see here. Lots of fun!
3D lenticular art consisting of dozens of frames that shows true depth when viewed from front.
Multi-perspective lenticular art, appears three dimensional.
Available in two sizes:
- 6.5 x 6.5 inch art, matted to 12 x 12 inches,
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(NEW) U.S. Embassy Copenhagen Continues Mission Critical Citizenship Services: The U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen continues to offer mission critical appointments for citizenship services: U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA). If you are eligible to renew your passport by mail, use this option to avoid wait times for an in-person appointment. Expect long delays to receive your new passport or CRBA. The printing facilities in the U.S., which print the physical passport books and CRBAs for U.S. citizens worldwide, remain closed due to COVID-19 with no definitive date for reopening. The embassy will take passport fees and applications and will hold them for processing until the U.S. facilities reopen.
Notaries and Social Security Services Remain Suspended: Routine notarial and social security services remain suspended due to COVID-19. If you need a certified copy of a document for Social Security, consider mailing your documents to us for this service while routine operations remain closed. Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
U.S. Citizens in Sweden: The Danish border remains closed through at least June 1. Visiting the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen for routine consular services has not been deemed a "worthy purpose" of travel by the Danish government; non-Danish nationals risk being barred entry into Denmark. A full list of exceptions to the Danish border closure requirements can be found on the Danish government COVID-19 information page. U.S. citizens in Sweden who require consular services should contact the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm
Emergency services remain available: In an emergency, our embassy can assist with a limited-validity, emergency passport for an adult or a minor. If you have not received your Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA), an emergency passport may still be issued by your nearest embassy/consulate. In an emergency, our embassy can assist with a limited-validity, emergency passport for an adult or a minor. If you have not received your Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA), an emergency passport may still be issued by your nearest embassy/consulate.
Commercial Flights to the U.S.: As of May 26, the only way to travel from Denmark to the United States is by transiting through Amsterdam, Frankfurt, or Paris. Air France recently began a twice weekly flight from Copenhagen to Paris, operating on Tuesdays and Saturdays. From Paris, there are flights back to the United States on Delta and Air France. Anyone transiting through France to reach the United States must have an attestation, available in English here. You do not need an endorsement from the Embassy for this attestation. There is one daily KLM flight to Amsterdam and two daily Lufthansa flights to Frankfurt; both Amsterdam and Frankfurt have multiple options for onward flight connections to the United States on Delta, KLM, and United. U.S. citizens transiting through Frankfurt or Amsterdam will not be allowed to leave the airport while transiting. They must stay at the airport between flights.
SAS Airlines' nonstop U.S.-bound flights remain suspended with no definitive date announced when it will resume these routes. If you have an SAS airline ticket for summer travel do not assume the flight is guaranteed. SAS has previously cancelled flights with short notice; check with SAS to see if your flight is confirmed.
U.S. citizens who wish to return to the United States should make commercial arrangements as soon as possible unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period. The U.S. government does not anticipate arranging repatriation flights from Denmark at this time.
Danish residency permit renewals: We are aware that the temporary suspension of passport services is impacting the ability of U.S citizens to renew their residence permits in Denmark. The Danish Immigration (SIRI) authorities are also aware that U.S. passport processing has been temporarily suspended across the globe. The situation is evolving so please monitor our website and the SIRI website often for updates.
Global Level 4 Health Advisory: The Department of State released a Global Level 4 Health Advisory on March 19 advising all U.S. citizens who live in the United States to arrange for immediate return, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period. If the Kingdom of Denmark is your normal place of residence and you plan to remain here, avoid travel to other, third locations until the crisis is over. If you wish to depart Denmark for the United States, you should contact your airline immediately to arrange commercial air travel home. If your travel has been disrupted due to flight cancellations, please contact your airline immediately to rearrange your booking.
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- For the most recent information on what you can do to reduce your risk of contracting COVID-19 please see the CDC's latest recommendations.
- Expect additional travel restrictions to be put into effect with little or no advance notice.
- Visit the COVID-19 crisis page on travel.state.gov for the latest information.
- Check with your airlines or cruise lines regarding any updated information about your travel plans and/or restrictions.
- Visit our Embassy webpage on COVID-19 for information on conditions in Denmark.
- Visit the Department of Homeland Security's website on the latest travel restrictions to the United States.
- U.S. Embassy Copenhagen, Denmark
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Technical Articles
ABAP Daemons – Always available ABAP sessions to handle events
You can use ABAP Daemons, to implement event handling in a reliable way. ABAP Daemons are long-living ABAP sessions, which are similar in their capabilities to Linux daemons or Windows services. The application server takes care that once an ABAP Daemon was started, there is no limit for the lifetime of such ABAP session. Even if there is an ABAP runtime error, or a work process in the application server crashes, the ABAP Daemon session gets restarted immediately.
ABAP Daemons have event-driven programming model (similar to ABAP Channels) which contains the typical event handler API for your implementation needs with such methods like on_start, on_message, on_error etc.
You can start an ABAP Daemon and send messages to it. Please consider, that each ABAP Daemon runs under a given user, and therefore the messages to it can be sent only within the same client. If you need to send the system-wide messages to your ABAP Daemon you can use ABAP Messaging Channel (AMC).
ABAP Daemons are available with SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52. The startup configuration was added to ABAP Daemons in ABAP platform 1809.
New in ABAP Platform 1809: Bootstrapping of ABAP Daemons by application server
The situation with ABAP Daemons has been so far, that though the application server keeps its ABAP Daemons alive, they still must be started by an ABAP application or transaction. The consequence is, that if the ABAP application, which started the ABAP Daemon, goes down, the ABAP Daemon goes down as well, what is actually not expected. To overcome this problem, the new feature was added to ABAP Daemons in ABAP platform 1809, which allows to persist the start-up configuration of ABAP Daemons in the database.
Each start-up configuration entry specifies for a daemon application how many ABAP Daemons instances should be started in the ABAP system and on which application servers and under which user.
In this way an ABAP system takes care of starting of ABAP Daemons. As soon as an application server get started, it checks which ABAP Daemons should run and starts them. If the application server goes down or at its failure, the ABAP system checks if the ABAP Daemons should be started on other application servers and restarts them.
Use cases
The main use case is handling events. For example, you can use ABAP Daemon as an event scheduler in Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) scenarios. Just imagine if multiple sensors are connected to the ABAP system, the ABAP server receives too many incoming messages. These messages cannot be processed concurrently, but it is possible to queue them by starting an ABAP Daemon session and sending messages to it. This central scheduling ABAP Daemon session will be always available for event processing.
You can also use ABAP Daemons for lightweight background activities like e.g. tracing, logging, clean-up of resources, synchronization of caches. The advantage is, that the logging, tracing etc. messages are sent to the ABAP Daemon without DB commit using ABAP Messaging Channel (AMC), therefore sending event to the ABAP Daemon will not break your LUW (Logical Unit of Work).
You can also use ABAP Daemons for very frequent periodic tasks e.g. like health checks. The advantage is that you do not need to create a new ABAP session for each task execution and no background work process is needed. For heavyweight periodic tasks, that run at most once a day, we recommend using batch jobs.
You can use ABAP Daemon also as a proxy session for external communication like e.g. messaging proxy in MQTT scenarios (see also MQTT client in ABAP Platform 1809 blog). For example, you can connect an ABAP Daemon session to the UI via ABAP Push Channel (WebSocket), and to the MQTT broker via the MQTT connection and exchange messages between UI and MQTT broker.
Get your hands on ABAP Daemons
This online developer tutorial on www.sap.com teaches you how to Create a simple ABAP Daemon.
For more details on ABAP Daemons see the official SAP Help documentation on ABAP Daemons. For more details on the new startup configuration feature see the ABAP Daemons (Enhanced).
Learn in the other online tutorial how to Forward MQTT and AMC Messages Using an ABAP Daemon.


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Imagine a five-year-old boy who speaks only his native language. On his first day of school, he is placed in a classroom where the teacher and the other students speak a completely different language, one which he has never even heard before. There is no special program to help him learn the language–for him, it's "sink or swim." The boy's father asks the school to transfer him out of the class into one more suited to his needs, one where he can actually understand what is going on in the classroom. The school refuses.
Bilingual education's defenders would probably say that this story is a perfect example of why we need bilingual education. They would be wrong, because it is actually about a bilingual program run amok. In this case, five-year-old Travell is an English-speaking African American who was placed in a Cantonese-speaking kindergarten class in Oakland, California. His father is now suing the school district, trying to get his son moved into a regular English classroom.
Bilingual education programs rely on the unproven theory that a child must spend years becoming literate in his native language before he or she can properly learn a second language. Under their own theory, bilingual educators should not have placed an English-speaking child in a Cantonese-speaking class. But they did, and they then refused his father's request to move him into an English classroom.
Why didn't the school transfer Travell out of the Cantonese class once they realized he had been put there by mistake? Because it wasn't a mistake! It was intentional. School officials admit that they sometimes put English-speaking students like Travell into bilingual classes that have extra spaces in order to round out the class size.
What motivates the bilingual education bureaucrats to make such a decision? Under normal circumstances, educators would be looking for ways to reduce the size of classes, rather than pulling in extra students to fill them up. Why would the school want to increase the size of its bilingual classes?
Perhaps the perverse incentives found in our current bilingual education policy are part of the explanation. Because extra funds are available for bilingual education, schools have an incentive to place (and keep) students in bilingual classes. While our goal should be to make sure every child of limited English proficiency learns English quickly and well, schools are not rewarded for doing so. Instead, they are rewarded for being inefficient at teaching English–the longer a student is not proficient in English, the longer the school can receive extra funding.
Not content with short-changing students of limited English proficiency, it seems some schools are hoping to use English-speaking students to milk the bilingual education cash cow. Bilingual education reform is long overdue, but has been politically difficult because bilingual education proponents have claimed they were acting in the best interests of the children. This incident exposes their true colors–Travell's best interest is not found in a Cantonese classroom.
At the very least, federal and state bilingual education laws must be reformed to ensure that parents can easily remove their children from bilingual education programs. Because in America, a child shouldn't be forced to file a lawsuit to get his education in English.


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What kind of compensation can your car accident generate?
If you've been injured in a car accident, the results can be devastating. In addition to your injuries, you'll incur medical and hospital bills, loss of income, repair bills, and, if your injuries are serious, bills for rehab and in-home care. You may also suffer from significant pain and suffering as a result of the trauma from the accident.
What types of compensation can accident victims in South Dakota ask for when they make an accident claim? In most cases, there are two types of damages to take into consideration: economic and non-economic.
Economic damages usually include:
- Medical expenses
- Lost income
- Property damage ( car repairs or replacemet)
Non-economic damages are more subjective and may include:
- Physical pain
- Emotional distress
- Loss of consortium
To be entitled to receive compensation, you have to be able to prove that negligence on the part of the other driver was the cause of your accident.
Therefore, it's in your best interest to consult with an experienced personal injury attorney who can provide advice with respect to the legal process involved in filing a personal injury lawsuit.
Proving fault
South Dakota is an "at-fault" state which means that the burden of proof that the other driver was at fault lies with you. When it comes to proving negligence and liability, you need to have sufficient evidence which can include witness statements, police reports, medical records, photographs, and a record of how your injuries have had a negative effect on your daily life in order to recover damages.
Some examples of negligence on the part of a driver that often results in serious car accidents and subsequent injuries include:
- Distracted driving
- Impaired driving due to alcohol or drugs
- Tailgating
- Driving at an excessive speed
- Failing to yield or obey traffic signals
- Failing to signal at turns or for lane changes
According to South Dakota law, any type of compensation that you may be awarded will be reduced in proportion to the degree that you were found to be at fault. Additionally, South Dakota follows the "slight-gross negligence" rule which means that you may recover damages as long as any negligence on your part was slight vs. that of the other driver.
Getting your settlement
Because of South Dakota's unique laws when it comes to determining negligence and recovering damages in a car accident case, it's important that you contact an attorney for car accident victims.
In addition, after a car accident, insurance companies are anxious to reach a settlement with you as soon as possible. Their initial offers are rarely enough to provide you with fair compensation which is another reason that you should consult with a personal injury attorney before settling a car accident claim.
Rapid City attorneys, Greg Yates and Michael Shubeck, provide personalized, compassionate advice and counsel to accident victims in Rapid City and the surrounding communities. Contact our offices today to schedule your free consultation at which time we'll discuss the particulars of your case and the types of compensation to which you're entitled.


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John Adams
Samuel Adams
Whittaker Chambers
G. K. Chesterton
Charles Finney
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Great Quotes By: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
From Witness:
That [haunting fear of being wrong] is the fate of those who break without knowing clearly that Communism is wrong because something else is right, because to the challenge: God or Man?, they continue to give the answer: Man.… They are witnesses against something; they have ceased to be witnesses for anything. (13)
External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.… Hence every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience. (16)
There has never been a society or a nation without God. But history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died. (17)
I associated God with ill-ventilated vestries and ill-ventilated minds. (82)
What I had been fell from me like dirty rags. The rags that fell from me were not only Communism. What fell was the whole web of the materialist modern mind—the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul and its birthright in that mystery on which mere knowledge falters and shatters at every step. (83)
The dying world of 1925 was without faith, hope, character, understanding of its malady or will to overcome it. It was dying but it laughed. And this laughter was not the defiance of a vigor that refuses to know when it is whipped. It was the loss, by the mind of a whole civilization, of the power to distinguish between reality and unreality, because, ultimately, though I did not know it, it had lost the power to distinguish between good and evil.… The dying world had no answer at all to the crisis of the 20th century, and, when it was mentioned, and every moral voice in the Western world was shrilling crisis, it cocked an ear of complacent deafness and smiled a smile of blank senility—throughout history, the smile of those for whom the executioner waits. (195)
For while Communists make full use of liberals and their solicitudes, and sometimes flatter them to their faces, in private they treat them with that sneering contempt that the strong and predatory almost invariably feel for victims who volunteer to help in their own victimization. (202)
No matter how favorable his opinion had been to an individual or his political role, if that person fell from grace in the Communist Party, Harry Freeman changed his opinion about him instantly. That was not strange; that was a commonplace of Communist behavior. What was strange was that Harry seemed to change without any effort or embarrassment. There seemed to vanish from his mind any recollection that he had ever held any opinion other than the approved one. If you taxed him with his former views, he would show surprise, and that surprise would be authentic. He would then demonstrate to you, in a series of mental acrobatics so flexible that the shifts were all but untraceable, that he had never thought anything else. More adroitly and more completely than any other Communist I knew, Harry Freeman possessed the conviction that the party line is always right. (217-218)
About both brief, tidy men [Heinrich Himmler and Max Bedacht] there was a disturbing quality of secret power mantling insignificance—what might be called the ominousness of nonentity, which is peculiar to the terrible little figures of our time. (275)
He [one of Chambers's landlords] was one of those valiantly and vaguely unhappy middle-aging intellectuals who had spent years not writing the book he had planned to write as a younger man. (289)
Abortion, which now fills me with physical horror, I then regarded, like all Communists, as a mere physical manipulation. (325)
Out of that vision of Almighty Man that we call Communism and that agony of souls and bodies that we call the revolution of the 20th century was left that pinch of irreducible dust: "Who pays is boss, and who takes money must also give something." It might stand as the motto of every welfare philosophy. (414-415)
It is part of the failure of the West to understand that it is at grips with an enemy having no moral viewpoint in common with itself, that two irreconcilable viewpoints and standards of judgment, two irreconcilable moralities, proceeding from two irreconcilable readings of man's fate and future are involved, and, hence, their conflict is irrepressible. (420)
Counterrevolution and conservatism have little in common. In the struggle against Communism the conservative is all but helpless. For that struggle cannot be fought, much less won, or even understood, except in terms of total sacrifice. And the conservative is suspicious of sacrifice; he wishes first to conserve, above all what he is and what he has. You cannot fight against revolutions so. (462)
It is surprising how little I knew about the New Deal, although it had been all around me during my years in Washington. But all the New Dealers I had known were Communists or near-Communists. None of them took the New Deal seriously as an end in itself. They regarded it as an instrument for gaining their own revolutionary ends. (471)
The New Deal was a genuine revolution, whose deepest purpose was not simply reform within existing traditions, but a basic change in the social, and, above all, the power relationships within the nation. It was not a revolution by violence. It was a revolution by bookkeeping and lawmaking. In so far as it was successful, the power of politics had replaced the power of business. This is the basic power shift of all the revolutions of our time. This shift was the revolution. (472)
To me many of my colleagues at Time, basically kind and intensely well-meaning people, seemed to me as charming and as removed from reality as fish in a fish bowl. To me they seemed to know little about the forces that were shaping the history of our time. To me they seemed like little children, knowing and clever little children, but knowing and clever chiefly about trifling things while they were extremely resistant to finding out about anything else. (477-478)
I remembered the saying: "Any fool can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a good natural death." (485)
They [liberal newsmen] were people who believed a number of things. Foremost among them was the belief that peace could be preserved, World War III could be averted only by conciliating the Soviet Union. For this no price was too high to pay, including the price of wilful historical self-delusion.… Hence like most people who have substituted the habit of delusion for reality, they became hysterical whenever the root of their delusion was touched, and reacted with a violence that completely belied the openness of mind which they prescribed for others. (499)
Men have never been so educated, but wisdom, even as an idea, has conspicuously vanished from the world. (506)
What I felt [as he was about to testify before the Congressional committee] was what we see in the eye of a bird or an animal that we are about to kill, which knows that it is about to be killed, and whose torment is not the certainty of death or pain, but the horror of the interval before death comes in which it knows that it has lost light and freedom forever. It is not yet dead. But it is no longer alive. (532)
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: "My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing." That is the tone of innocence. (537)
As I struggled to control my feeling, slowly and deliberately, I heard myself saying, rather than said: "The story has spread that in testifying against Mr. Hiss I am working out some old grudge, or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity, but in a moment of history in which this Nation now stands, so help me God, I could not do otherwise." In the completely silent room, I fought to control my voice. (694-695)
I am a man who, reluctantly, grudgingly, step by step, is destroying himself that this country and the faith by which it lives may continue to exist. (715)
The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. (741)
To those for whom the intellect alone has force, such a witness has little or no force. It bewilders and exasperates them. It challenges them to suppose that there is something greater about man than his ability to add and subtract. It submits that that something is the soul. Plain men understood the witness easily. It speaks directly to their condition. For it is peculiarly the Christian witness. They still hear it, whenever it truly reaches their ears, the ring of those glad tidings that once stirred mankind with an immense hope. For it frees them from the trap of irreversible Fate at the point at which it whispers to them that each soul is individually responsible to God, that it has only to assert that responsibility, and out of man's weakness will come strength, out of his corruption incorruption, out of his evil good, and out of what is false invulnerable truth. (762-763)
From "Problem of the Century," Time, 25 February 1946:
Professor Frederick L. Schuman's book [Soviet Politics] is probably the ablest apology for Russia ever written by an American. It is like a brilliant brief by a very clever lawyer who is fortified rather than handicapped by knowing that his client did commit the murder, and even where the body is buried.
From "The Devil," Life, 2 February 1948:
The pessimist stared at his visitor. He had never talked with the Devil before. But he had read descriptions of him by people who had and who remembered Satan as a goat, a bull, a dog, a cat, a big black man with horns, claws and a tail. The presence beside him looked distinguished, relaxed, urbane. Except for a face too characterful to be contemporary, the Devil might have been a movie magnate, an airline executive, a college president, a great surgeon or a grain speculator. "And yet," thought the pessimist, "those are certainly not the eyes of a Yale man."
[The Devil said:] Hell is a conspiracy. Like all good conspiracies, its first requirement is that nobody shall believe in it. Well, we have succeeded so well that for centuries there has been no Hell, and there is scarcely a rational man in the world today who, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, believes that the Devil exists.
[The Devil said:] It seems but yesterday that I launched Hell's Five Hundred Year Plan.… I saw that Hell had to move with the tide and leave the rest to rationalism, liberalism and universal compulsory education.… At first there was some opposition in Hell. Baal, Beelzebub and a handful of almost aboriginal demons who are still living in the 10th Century B.C. and have not had an idea since the Fall, naturally opposed the New Deal.
From "Is Academic Freedom in Danger?" Life, 22 June 1953:
Re: Congressional inquiries into Communist influence:
The mass of Americans, who vehemently made known their views in (and during) a recent general election, know perfectly well that they are not living in a reign of terror and that they seldom look behind a door for anything more frightening than an umbrella.
From "Big Sister is Watching You," National Review, 28 December 1957:
Review of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged:
For the world, as seen in materialist view from the Right, scarcely differs from the same world seen in materialist view from the Left. The question become chiefly: who is to run that world in whose interests, or perhaps, at best, who can run it more efficiently?
Something of this implication is fixed in the book's dictatorial tone, which is much its most striking feature. Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal.… From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding, "To a gas chamber—go!"
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