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Robinhood traders slammed the investing app after its cryptocurrency platform suffered a major outage right in the middle of Dogecoin's record-setting rally.
Robinhood said its crypto trading service started going haywire by 10 p.m. Thursday — just as the price of the meme-inspired currency started spiking.
The disruption enraged Robinhood users who accused the startup on social media of intentionally blocking them from cashing in on the Dogecoin surge that's seen the cult coin's price roughly quadruple over five days.
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"I swear to god, if Robinhood does anything to mess with my #doge profit, they are getting a one way trip to the sun," another irritated trader wrote.
The outage came as Dogecoin's price rallied to nearly 30 cents late Thursday, more than double where it traded that afternoon, according to CoinDesk.
The bounce came after the crypto-focused news outlet reported on meat stick brand Slim Jim's effort to increase its Twitter following by engaging with Dogecoin posts.
The digital currency — which started as a joke — jumped further Friday morning to a new all-time high near 33 cents before paring the gain to trade at 30.9 cents as of 8:19 a.m., putting it up more than 5,700 percent for the year, CoinDesk data show.
Robinhood said it had "fully restored" its crypto trading functions by 11:46 p.m. Thursday, blaming the problems on high demand for its cryptocurrency platform.
The crypto service also suffered from "degraded performance" Friday morning thanks to an influx of activity, according to Robinhood's status dashboard. Robinhood said it had fixed the issues for most customers by about 11 a.m. Eastern time.
The Silicon Valley company also flatly denied allegations that it had placed restrictions on Dogecoin trading Thursday, as it did to so-called meme stocks such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment in late January.
"Unprecedented demand for Robinhood Crypto services created temporary issues with crypto trading," a Robinhood spokesperson told The Post Friday. "That's it, plain and simple."
But the company's explanations didn't quiet online criticism of the app, which also reportedly suffered outages as the coronavirus pandemic roiled global stock markets in March 2020.
"Robinhood is screwing their customers again," one Twitter user identifying as the "Chairman" of Reddit's famous WallStreetBets message board tweeted late Thursday. "Absolutely ridiculous. You call yourself Robinhood but take from the poor…"
Despite the outcry, Robinhood was the most popular free app in Apple's App Store Friday morning amid the crypto frenzy.
Robinhood grappled with the crypto commotion after escalating its clash with Massachusetts securities regulators who have accused it of encouraging inexperienced investors to take unnecessary risks.
The Bay State's Securities Division asked for Robinhood's broker-dealer registration to be revoked Thursday, saying the company "continued a pattern of aggressively inducing and enticing trading among its customers," according to The Wall Street Journal.
But Robinhood said it filed its own complaint in Massachusetts state court to block the regulators' case from proceeding while challenging the state fiduciary rule under which the case was brought.
"By trying to block Robinhood, the division is attempting to bring its residents back in time and reinstate the financial barriers that Robinhood was founded to break down," Robinhood said in a blog post Thursday.


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My legal thesis in law school was actually on Section 230 of the CDA, the very law the executive order is affecting. I wanted to include some more information to clarify some fake news I've been hearing online. Plus, a lot of pedes have been asking questions on the CDA. Basically here is a detailed explanation for some of you more interested pedes:
A publisher is an entity that controls the content that they present to a user—Think of CNN. Because they are in control of the content being presented (like a news article), they are legally responsible for it and any fake news that they publish (defamation for example), even if they hire someone else to write it. The less control they exert over the content they publish, the less likely they will be considered a publisher (and less likely to be held responsible for the content).
In 1996 Congress passed the CDA which includes Section 230. Section 230 was passed for two reasons, to stop the spread of pornography on the internet and at the same time to allow other speech to live freely.
Section 230 basically stated that any internet platform which hosts other users is not responsible for the content posted by those users (and therefore not considered a publisher). So, if a user were to post leaked naked pictures on Facebook, then Facebook could not be held jointly liable for hosting those pictures EVEN IF THEY DID NOT REMOVE THE PICTURES. The intent by congress was that if we protect these companies from liability from users then they will avoid taking action by limiting and censoring posts and as such, speech.
However, Section 230 contains a clause which has been the subject of a lot of legal debate. 230(c)(2)(A) provides that even if a social media platform exerts control over material that is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable", then it still cannot be considered a publisher (remember that exerting control over content usually makes you legally responsible for that content).
The problem is that the clause was almost unequivocally referring to violence and porn, but federal courts (who knows why) began interpreting "otherwise objectional" as anything that a platform finds offensive. As such, social media platforms were able to ban and censor speech just because they found it offensive. Thus, exerting control and still immune under the language of 230(c)(2)(A).
In addition to the vagueness of the term "otherwise objectionable". Some promoters of free speech argued that 230(c)(2)(A) is an explicit condition/clause. In other words, a platform can ban things considered "obscene, lewd, etc…" without being defined as a publisher (exerting control) but as soon as they begin to exert control over content that does not meet these criteria explicitly listed, then they are risking moving into publisher territory and no longer immune from lawsuits based on the content posted on their website.
Trump's executive order is attempting to clarify the interpretation of the law and the enforcement of the law. The executive order is basically saying, if you begin to ban or control content that is not under the list in 230(c)(2)(A) then you're going to be considered a publisher. So social media companies have a choice, they can back off and allow free public discourse to take place on the internet, all the while enjoying their (very generous) lawsuit immunity, or they can exercise their free speech rights of association and ban everything to hell, but then they no longer have the immunity.
For those of you that want to read my 35-page thesis on the topic (Written Summer of 2019):
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How Colombia's Natural Diversity Protects Against Coffee Pests
Colombia is more than 50% natural forest. It has 55,000 species of flora and fauna. And according to the Financial Times, 10% of the world's biodiversity can be found in the Colombian Amazon.
But these aren't just impressive facts. They're also part of the reason my country is able to produce great coffee. It shapes the flavour profiles. It even protects from pests.
SEE ALSO: Diversification in Specialty Coffee Farming: The Agricultural and Economic Case
Colombian coffee cherries. Credit: Caglar Kiran
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Colombia's striking natural beauty. Credit: J. Sierra
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And this diversity can help it to be grown organically, despite the risks of pests.
Coffee growing in Colombia. Credit: Caglar Kiran
Biodiversity: Natural Pest-Repellents
The coffee borer beetle, broca, has caused devastation to coffee crops around the world. It crawls into coffee cherries to lay its eggs. Then, once the eggs have hatched, the larvae consume the cherry and destroy the beans.
Yet if a farmer produces shade-grown coffee at around 21 degrees C – on average, 1,300 m.a.s.l. – then they can use the microscopic fungus Beauveria bassiana. It's spread by the natural moisture of the forest, and it kills the insect by attacking its respiratory system. It's a way to fight against the coffee borer beetle without endangering the health of consumers and farmers – or the ecosystem.
Similarly, aromatic plants are natural repellents for crickets and beetles, both of which love eating young coffee trees.
Coffee grows in the forest near Yalí. Credit: J. Sierra
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On top of this, growing coffee in a forest can provide useful nutrients, like nitrogen, for the soil – and even provide additional sources of income, such as fruit.
In Yalí, Antioquia, in the northwest of Colombia, you'll Finca San Gabriel. This farm lies at 1,200 m.a.s.l. and benefits from the forest. The coffee trees are protected by the shadows and high humidity. Plus, the temperature drops by around 16 degrees C at night, leading to sweeter cherries.
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Colombia has over 1,900 species of birds. Credit: Caglar Kiran
If you were to spend some quiet time in Colombia's countryside, I would recommend that you first close your eyes. Listen to the millions of sounds that are produced by the wind, grass, trees, insects and birds. Smell the sweet aromas of the fruit and flowers, combined with the humid soil.
And when you can't bear to not look at the beauty causing all these sounds and smells, open your eyes. You'll see the array of colors that this amazing land has to offer.
Colombia's biodiversity is staggering. And you can taste it in every cup of coffee.
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- Dicit Dominus: ego cogito cogitationes pacis; invocabitis me, et ego exaudiam vos, et reducam captivitatem vestram de cunctis locis. We had a Low Mass with hymns (sung in full, a legacy of Fr James implementing the best of Anglo-Catholic practice; I listen) and still had out the catafalque with the black covering and six yellow candles from All Souls. And I didn't bring a camera today! Printed in '57, my missal's table of movable feasts ends in '87. No saints' commemorations in '62.
- St Charles Borromeo, the inventor of the seminary. Trying to reform the church by making sure priests were educated enough.
- Yesterday Donna and I went to a 30th-anniversary party for one of her co-workers, at an 'independent Bible church'. Renewal of vows. Very sweet as you can imagine (a grandson was a ring-bearer). A bit of the heartland in south Jersey, or not all evangelicals are Southerners even though that's their turf. The pastor ('married for 40 years: yes, to the same woman') gave a great sermon defending Christian marriage, impressive for a kind of Christianity that doesn't call it a sacrament; could have fooled me. An unliturgical shop but of course we're liturgical beings so the service had echoes of the Prayer Book. Big plain wooden cross on the apsidal wall and a 'This Do in Remembrance of Me' altar front and center. (I understand the funny word order is the King James using the same order as the original Greek.) Anyway, because I notice those things, I saw that the couple have an Irish name and, sure enough, their wedding album showed what looks like a big postwar Northeast Philly parish. Can't pry but you wonder what went wrong. To be fair, as I like to say, 20-30 years ago, in practice (because of that awful council, in the dark ages before Pope Benedict), the church s*cked. Sad, but that these fine folks turned right and not left tells me their heart is in the right place. God is merciful.
- From Cracked: It's Not About Latin™ (but I like using it) and the only tradition English-speaking Catholics really have of praying in English is the Rosary (so even the liberals stay Tudor with the Our Father for example), but 'this just in': praying the Rosary in Latin is good for your health! (Scroll down here.) Namely your heart. Sweet. Ave Maria gratia plena...
- Peter Kreeft, a Protestant-turned-Catholic, on that kind of ecumenism. The church and the mainstream liberal Lutherans agree that faith vs. works was never the real difference! It's about authority: infallible church vs. fallible (ironically, claiming more power, to rewrite doctrine, than a divinely instituted infallible church). But... is Kreeft's face-saving answer for Protestants a protestantized church or does he have a point? Chesterton: the reformer is right about what's wrong but wrong about what's right. Confessional Lutheranism's (the good conservative ones) semi-Catholic.
- The communion of saints. Of course I believe in their invocation but in my opinion 'it's just like asking a friend to pray for you' is enough.
- Funny old world, isn't it? I hate the 'Reformation' (literally forcing people away from the body of Christ: omnes sancti martyres Anglorum, orate pro nobis) but I'm as Christ- and Eucharist-centered as a Missouri Synod Lutheran or Bob Hart Anglican. It's Not About Latin™ but I worship in Latin; I hate Vatican II but believe in religious liberty and even ecumenism. (But ecumenism's played itself out, it's gone as far as it'll ever go; the sides know what the others really teach and are no longer trying to kill each other. Corporate union is possible with the Orthodox — because sacramentally we're the same — but probably won't happen. The way forward is still individual submissions to the church.)
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The whole mess centered around the mistranslation of the bible verse by Fr. Luther who must have just been having a bad day: ". . . by faith ALONE." There is no "alone" in that verse or in the thought behind that verse.ReplyDelete
OK some nasty Church politics and corruption, but also all that nasty Continental politics. Interestingly, the Father of Protestantism was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I am not sure of this but I seem to recall reading some where in my dim past that Father Luther also believed in the Immaculate Conception!
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Right, he fudged scripture to fit his message, but he remained Catholic in other ways (yes, he believed in the Immaculate Conception), which is why orthodox Lutheranism is semi-Catholic.ReplyDelete
The whole mess centered around the mistranslation of the bible verse by Fr. LutherReplyDelete
That is quite an over-simplification. Luther's mistranslation of that verse was (as the YF points out) a consequence of Luther's belief in justification by faith alone, not the basis of that belief. So it is not and cannot be "the center of the whole mess." Right or wrong, Luther was a serious theologian with a lifetime's worth of writings extant. You can't responsibly reduce his thought to a single verse and to "having a bad day."
why orthodox Lutheranism is semi-Catholic
Or, as we Lutherans like to say, the Catholic Church of the West rightly reformed.
Lutheranism is "semi-Catholic" not simply because Luther himself remained Catholic in many ways, but because the intent of the Lutheran Reformation was to reform the Church as little as possible and no more than necessary (our churches dissent in no article of the faith from the Church Catholic, but only omit some abuses which are new, and which have been erroneously accepted by the corruption of the times, contrary to the intent of the Canons (Augsburg Confession)). Catholics and Lutherans will disagree, of course, as to whether that intent (to reform as little as possible) was realized. But the point is that the commonality between Lutheranism and Catholicism is not due to the opinions of one man (however important Luther was to Lutheranism), but is a consequence of the nature and intent of the Lutheran Reformation.


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- Waqar played 262 one day international matches and took 416 wickets
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We really love Kindred Kids. Yep, we love it because one of our fabulous volunteers started the non-profit after she saw a need in the community. And we love it because it helps families of children with differing needs. We love that it involves kids in helping kids, and that they find creative ways to involve the community. We love it for all of those things – and we love it because it's the thrifty thing to do.
You should check out Kindred Kids new website (some students from MATC designed it – not too shabby, eh?!) and read all about their mission. But you should also check out Kindred Kids because they have a toy lending library for all kids. And it's only $5 a month. WHAT you say? I was surprised the first time I heard about it, too. But it's such an awesome idea. Your kids love new toys, but your budget doesn't. For only $5 you can go to Kindred Kids and borrow toys. Just return them a month later, and get some new ones! New toys every month for a total of $60 a year, the price of two toys at Toys'R Us. That certainly is thrifty! The toy lending library is free for any children of differing abilities.
All toys and clothing not purchased that is donated at the end of the sale goes to this great non-profit. They sell the clothing cheap (not only as a resource for families, but to help them raise funds for the services they offer), and they add the toys into the lending library. Kindred Kids even purchases items at Half-Pint to add to their resource area for families with children of different abilities to use (for example, chairs like bumbos are great for kids who have a hard time sitting up).
When I asked Wendy, their director, what Kindred Kids was up to since we last visited, she had a lot to say!
"So much has changed! We've moved down the street – now we are much bigger (5400+ sq feet compared to 1700 at the old location!) We have a retail area with a snack bar in case the little ones get hungry for a healthy snack. We even have carts to push and cars for the kiddos to ride around in!!!
The building has several different areas, which is great because we used to have to drive from storage unit to storage unit to pick up the specialized equipment that families needed. Now one area in the building stores all of those items. We also now we have one area that is the toy library, another area that is a play room that has a party room attached to it. There is a nice sized community resource room and library, and another whole room devoted to just kids gear.
Starting the first saturday in April we are expanding our ours and will be open 12-5 tues-fri and 10-1 on saturdays. Thursday nights we have a ladies volunteer group. It's always drop in and project focused so that mamma's can stop in after 6pm for munchies and conversation while we work together on a variety of volunteer projects. Nursing babies are welcome, too! We are also gearing up for a Tuesday morning playgroup to start sometime in the next few months.
Our new addy is 951 W. James street,which is right next to Dollar General… a Columbus landmark on the main drag that is easy to find. We also have tons of parking in our lot that is not next to a major highway so it is convenient and safe for moms and kiddos."
Lots of folks really love to get their items back post sale (no problem, happy to do it) but if you are considering donating unsold items, Kindred Kids will be thrilled to accept the donation. "Half-Pint Resale is such a blessing for our organization," says Wendy.
No, Wendy, Kindred Kids is such a blessing for our community! We – and the Half-Pint Community – are happy to help.
-EC and LS


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Greetings, everyfurry! Sorry that we have not posted in a while. Lots of things have been happening here at Casa Furry Bambino, so I will give you a brief update.
Mom dug up some dirt in the front yard and planted some stuff.
The nice people who live next door adopted a tuxedo kitten!
Mom and Dad went to visit Gramma and Grampa in August. Mom and Dad took Cookie and Caramel with them. Mom and Dad and Gramma went to a festival called a "Llama Plop".
Grampa had surgery in August, so Mom and Dad visited Gramma and Grampa again.
Introoder kitty, AKA "Blackberry" has been introoding in our back yard!
Mom and Dad visited our friend Tammy Faye while her parents were out of town.
Mom and Dad visited our new friends, Clarence and Alabama, while their parents were out of town.
We'll tell you more about each of these exciting events in our next few posts. Just wanted to let ya'll know we're still blogging!
And, we have a Big Announcement. Coming soon to a Furry Bambino blog near you.


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John Tizard is director of the Centre for Public Service Partnerships (CPSP@LGIU). This article was originally posted on the Public Finance Blog
The government's expected decision to publish the Localism Bill on the same day that it informs local authorities of their grant allocation could be construed as a clever piece of 'joined-up government' or a cynical move so that as council leaders reel from the financial pain they can be told 'you have more freedoms'.
Whichever of these descriptions is most accurate I suspect that for most local authorities, especially those with some of the greatest social and economic challenges that previously were endowed with significant special grants by New Labour, the Localism Bill will not seem like an early Christmas present. If the Bill and the settlement are both published as predicted, on Tuesday 7 December, then it will mean more "freedom' to spend much less money.
Specific grants will be cut from April 2011 for key services with little prospect of replacing the lost funds. Town halls will be at risk of taking the blame for local service cuts over which they had little choice. There will be none of the opportunities that Total Place offered to become the lead strategic commissioner for the wider public sector.
Other public sector partners face significant cuts to their budgets too and, in the case of the NHS, major reform and the dismantling of primary care trusts. Elected police commissioners potentially move the police further away from local government. It is ministerial promotion of a localism that is more about bypassing town and county halls than empowering them.
I could continue this list of woe and questions for local government. I won't, but the picture is clear. However, there is some light in this gloom.
There will be some positive announcements in the Bill that should be welcomed by local authority leaders, councillors and officers including the ending of much over prescriptive performance management; fewer external inspections; less ring-fenced funding; and a new general power of competency. Community Based Budgets are to be welcomed but appear to be a pale substitute for the potential offered by Total Place.
Local authority leaders have to respond to whatever the government throws at and to them in a positive manner. With the public, local businesses and the third and community sectors facing hard choices and a difficult environment, it is the time for local government leaders to demonstrate their community leadership.
They should not wait for instruction or even permission from central government. They have to act boldly and resolutely to protect and promote the interests of their communities. This will mean making some hard and often painful decisions about what services to stop or close; which to alter fundamentally; which to charge for; which to ration; and which to deliver through partnerships or contracts with others.
It may sometimes means making the 'least worse' rather than the 'best decision'. It certainly will mean persuading and influencing partners in the public and other sectors. And it will require the willingness to cede authority and resources to others.
Local authorities have to find ways to support building capacity in communities and to facilitate community activity. They have to resist trying to control or even monitor it. This will require partnerships with infrastructure bodies and community groups. It will require local ward councillors playing a 'community organiser' role and not a role over-focused on town or county hall or one that seeks to control or second-guess local opinion.
The government programme could so easily reduce the accountability of locally elected politicians. This has to be resisted but not at the expense of a thriving community sector and empowered citizens.
Even if this is difficult for sorting the 2011/12 budget it would be sensible to start to strategically plan and act for the longer term. It is imperative to attempt, as far as is possible, to avoid taking short-term decisions that will prejudice and/or impede longer-term approaches. This requires having a longer-term vision and community strategy for the locality and winning shared support for these across the key agencies in the public, private, trade union, third and community sectors.
Ideally it would be good to have engaged and consulted citizens too so that there is a consensus in place – if not for the immediate budgets certainly for plans in future years.
It also requires leadership based on principles and values; and for leaders not to be tempted to put these aside for expediency.
The financial pressures should not mean that local authorities and their contractors and partners have to stop being good employers engaging staff and unions in decisions and protecting decent terms and conditions. Sadly, there may have to be some loss of jobs but again this can and should be handled in a sensitive manner consistent with best human resources practices.
There is a case for considering how workforce planning and deployment might be handled on a locality cross agency basis and not in silo institutions – these could mitigate the number of job losses and widen opportunities for public service workers.
Equally these pressures should not be an excuse for unreasonable and short-term attacks on funding and contracting with the third and community sectors. Healthy and robust third and community sectors are going to be essential for the future of civil society and the delivery of and innovation in many public services. There is some irony in the fact that many councils and their public sector partners claim to be supportive of the 'Big Society' whilst cutting its lifeblood.
Relations with private sector providers too must continue to mature and be commercially sound for both parties. There is no long-term benefit in forcing profit margins and prices so low that decent companies withdraw from the market and service quality and the workforce are squeezed so hard that service users in turn suffer.
The challenges ahead are not easy and should never be under-estimated. The Localism Bill may not contain everything that local government wants; it may lead to confused local accountabilities and new relationships between local government and communities; and the grant allocations will be very, very painful for many authorities but local government and its leaders have to show their resilience, their creativity and above all their leadership.
They can win much credit from their communities or they could too easily fall into the trap which government could be setting them of being seen as part of the problem not the solution. The choice is theirs to make.


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My name is Júda Ronén. It's nice to meet you too.
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My work here on Wikisource is mainly on Ælfric's Lives of Saints, which is a fabulous collection of hagiographies in Old English.
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If yes, then please note down that RAJASTHANI is our language and not HINDI......... Please don't use this language as this language is destroying our culture and our language.
Since last 60 years all people of our rajasthan are using HINDI, just because of this we are still Underdeveloped as a state.
Because of HINDI, Following are main problems in Rajasthan:
- There is huge unemployment in Rajasthani people, because anyone who knows HINDI can apply for job in Rajasthan and work there. If you know, Rajasthan is very low populated state and UP & BIHAR are higly populated area. They don't get job there and apply in Rajasthan.·
- Almost all the call centre relating to Mobile phone, Electricity, Gas and many more use HINDI as the only language and no one is using Rajasthani. Because of this many people from UP, Bihar, MP, Punjab, Himachal, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh are getting jobs at these call centres in Rajasthan and because of this lots of Rajasthanies are losing their jobs in their own state.
- All the education system in Rajasthan is in HINDI; because of this people from UP & BIHAR are getting jobs to teach all most all the subjects in Rajasthan. This is one of the reasons of Unemployment.
Now you will ask what does this matter, INDIA is one country and anyone can work anywhere:
- In other state like Maharashtra, Gujarat. All the jobs are based on their own language so all the people of the state are getting first chance and prefrence to get jobs there. Rajasthani, some passing graduation and some leave in-between. They run out of the state because they are not able to get job in Rajasthan. ·
- These Rajasthanies who run away from state are become Chay-wala, Bhangar-wala etc in other state.
Influence of HINDI on Rajasthan and Rajasthani culture:
- People hesitate to speak Rajasthani. Most of families nowdays speak HINDI to talk in between family. If they do so... where is the family value remain? We are just like stranger in our own family (because we speak with strangers in HINDI)·
- People think that whoever speak Rajasthani are Anpadh-Ganwar·
- We lose our cultural value and lose our ancestor's connections·
- Because of HINDI there is huge unemployment in Rajasthan and Rajasthan remain under-developed.·
- We already lost two of our own scripts in which we were writing our language (Many people are asking ''is there any script of Rajasthani language?'', yes there was which we have already forgotten)·
- Rajasthani language is now corrupt. Nowdays lots of HINDI words are mixed with Rajasthani. Because of this we lost lots of original Rajasthani words from our language.
There are many more to say, but I think you will notice many more thing from this. This is 60 years time period in INDIA. We have lost many things. Our state is still poor. Just wake-up and join us to fight for our state, our culture and our language.
Just remember, your language is RAJASTHANI.... You are known as Rajasthani or Marwadi. If you don't speak your Rajasthani or Marwari, then I don't think you will be identified as Marwari in near future. Don't lose your identity.
Jai Rajasthan, Jai Rajasthani
From The son of Marudhar des Rajasthan,
HanvantSingh Rajpurohit
(Proud to be Rajasthani)


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Products that contain asbestos
Because of the fire and heat-resistant properties of asbestos, it was used in many building products as a fire-retardant insulator, in plumbing, electrical, and structural applications. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous nature of building products that contain asbestos means that asbestos still has a significant presence in our lives. Below is a partial list of products that contain asbestos, many of which are still in existence in older buildings:
Building exteriors
- Stucco
- Building overhangs (thermal spray)
- Brick and block mortar
- Asbestos cement siding and roof panels
Building products that contain asbestos in an unbound or loosely bound form
- Sprayed insulation (fire-resistant, acoustic, condensation control, thermal)
- Insulating cements
- Insulation block (calcium or magnesia silicate)
- Textiles
- Sheet vinyl flooring (asbestos paper backing)
- Vinyl asbestos tile
- Floor leveling compound
- Stippled finishes
- Thermal spray
- Plaster or drywall jointing materials
- Steam and hot water heating supply and return lines
- Gaskets in flanged pipe joints
- Domestic water supply and drain lines
- Rain water and sanitary lines
- Acoustic and stippled finishes
- T-bar ceiling tiles
- Asbestos cement ceiling tiles
- Plaster or drywall jointing materials
Service Areas
- Crawl spaces (insulation on pipes, ducts)
- Machine rooms (insulation on pipes, ducts, floors, ceilings, walls)
- Insulation in boiler rooms (pipes, ducts, boilers, vessels, incinerators, floors, ceilings, walls)
- Fan rooms (insulation of pipes, ducts, chillers, floors, ceilings, walls)
- Incandescent light fixture backing
- Firestopping
- Welding blankets and screens
- Incinerators (internal insulation)
- Wire insulation
- Heating cabinet panels (asbestos cement)
- Fire dampers and fire stop flap
- Emergency generators (thermal insulation and exhaust manifolds)
- Elevator brake shoes


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Films, series, games, music – as much as you want. New apps every day and access to a growing variety of content – that's what your METZ blue Android TV offers you. Stream the latest series on Netflix, subscribe to your favourite YouTube channels or share Spotify playlists with friends. Clearly laid out menus allow faster location of your favourite content; personalised recommendations in Google Play Store, YouTube and apps create an even more individual TV experience. A single click on the live TV tile in the Android menu takes you directly to TV programmes currently on the air.
Original series. Comedies. Dramas. Kids shows. Netflix streams your favorite TV shows and movies instantly to your favorite devices. It's fast. It's easy. It's changing the world of entertainment. So many ways to watch. Your shows and movies. Your way. Start watching on your smartphone. Finish on your METZ blue smart TV. Netflix starts playing right where you left off.
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Tri-County Council for Western Maryland
The Tri-County Council for Western Maryland, Inc. (TCC) is a Local Development District serving Allegany, Garrett, and Washington Counties. Its mission is to provide a forum for local governments and citizens throughout Western Maryland to identify the issues and opportunities that are facing the region.
TCC, through its Summit Financing Solutions, offers two loan programs for Western Maryland's small businesses:
- Western Maryland Revolving Loan Fund - This loan fund is gap financing. A bank lends part of the money and TCC financing "fills the gap."
- State Lottery Terminal (SLoT) Fund - This loan fund is a direct lend program, that is, no bank participation is required.
Natural Capital Investment Fund
The Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF) is a small business loan fund that supports entrepreneurs who are creating jobs and businesss in underserved communities in Central Appalachia and the Southeast. NCIF offers flexible capital loans and advisory services to small businesses, agricultural enterprises, and community organizations.
NCIF also has small technical assistance grants available. Those grants can be used for a variety of technical equipment and services, such as website design, setting up e-commerce, POS systems, etc.


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The discussion is the latest part of the MedAID Health Forum, which was conceived as a communication platform between field diagnosticians, laboratories and relevant disease management authorities in Mediterranean mariculture. The first such forum, which took place in July, focused on Sparicotylosis and was followed by a discussion on viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (VER/VNN) during the autumn.
The forum on tenacibaculosis will cover infection of marine fish species with bacteria from the genus Tenacibaculum. Tenacibaculum species are opportunistic pathogens that primarly cause extensive skin lesions and gill abrasion, and subsequent systemic infections. Previously known as flexibacteriosis the disease affects a variety of marine fish species and its presence can cause over 30 percent mortalities.
It generally affects fish up to 100 grams and the prevalence and intensity of infections vary in relation to environmental parameters and rearing conditions. They are also influenced by handling, mechanical lesions or stress and interfering parasitic infestations.
If you want to know more about Tenacibaculosis, visit the MedAID blog and read the Mini-review written by Alain Le Breton. To learn more about all aspects of this devastating disease join the MedAID Health Forum discussion which will be moderated by Jean-Francois Bernardet, INRA, Centre de Recherches Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaire, France and Alain Le Breton, VET'EAU,France.
Objectives of the discussion
- To exchange the latest scientific data with health experts dealing with the problem caused by tenacibaculosis in farmed fish.
- To help farmers understand the circumstances for clinical disease outbreaks.
- To help farmers implement sanitary measures aiming to prevent tenacibaculosis.
- To share farmers' tips on how to deal with Tenacibaculum infected fish.
Process proposed to focus the discussion
The farm health experts are encouraged to share their valuable practical knowledge; the current prevention strategy should be profoundly evaluated and analysed.
Topics for discussion
- Epidemiology of tenacibaculosis in seabass and sea bream.
- Sanitary regulations.
- Best practices for the prevention of Tenacibaculum infection.
- Diagnostic methods in different labs.
Those who wish to take part must visit the MedAIDHealth Forum registration site. Registration is fully anonymous and it is impossible to disclose the identity of participants if they register using a nickname.
The organisers encourage all those who want to ask the questions and are not feeling comfortable in English to do it in the mother tongue whether it is Spanish, Italian, French, Greek, Turkish, Croatian or Arabic. MedAID partners will assist in translation.


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"Snapping Pictures"
Jeffrey: "How has your art changed in the last few years? What new directions, inspirations etc.?"
DIANA: "Since I saw you last I'd say the biggest influence was the decline in my visual acuity. It changed the way I see light and shade and made certain styles impossible as everything got less sharp and more fuzzy. Also , because I have less time to paint now I stopped painting stuff I didn't enjoy painting ( still lifes for example) and focused more on figurative work."


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Price to target Japanese Sportbikes
Another big suprise for the new BMW Superbike is the price. It won't be priced in HP2 territority, or up there with with Ducati and MV Agusta, but rather within $1000 of the Japanese competition. Can they do it? A look at the production bikes does reveal a few cost saving measures like the full-floater front brake rotors which appear to bolt directly to the front wheel without carriers, like a Ducati Multistrada. Both wheels also appear to be lightweight castings, rather than the forged race wheels find on the higher spec Italian bikes. Other components like the steel rear subframe also look fairly heavy. In current form this is a nice street bike, but not a competive weekend racer. We will have to wait for next year if a higher-spec track version is made available.
The bike is available for pre-order in Europe right now for early-summer delivery. The USA pricing nor a press kit haven't been released yet, but in Germany the bike will retail for 15,150 Euros. That's about $19,700, but that price includes the 19% German sales tax. By comparison, the 2009 Yamaha YZF R-1 sells for 14,895 Euros in that same market. So the new Beemer Superbike in Germany is priced within $400 of thr Yamaha. Add in shipping to the USA and the price difference could increase to perhaps $1,000 more, although the US Dollar is becoming stronger under current economic conditions.
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Here at Amazing Journeys, we're lucky to have the best jobs in the world—and we think our good fortune is worth sharing. So, when your next journey seems like a distant dream, take a few minutes to explore our WANDERLUST blog—it's chock-full of engaging tales and helpful tips from our travels around the world.
Hanukkah Shopping Guide: Travelers Edition 2017
Nov 28, 2017
With Hanukkah right around the corner, we're all racking our brains, trying to find that perfect gift for friends, family, or what to tell others we want… Amazing Journeys to the rescue! Here is our 8 Nights of Hanukkah Travel Gift Idea list! Buy for others or share the list to hint at what you want!
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Travel safe with your everyday essentials organized. This handbag is designed for security with RFID protection, slash resistant body and shoulder straps. Available here.
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City's only theater for the disabled takes on a new challenge
Theater Breaking Through Barrier's new production, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, is more physically challenging for its cast members than its traditional repertoire. The group has just brought the play to Croatia.
East Meets West: Taiwanese Actress Debuts Off-Broadway
Living between American culture and Taiwanese culture, a new actress in off-Broadway found the contradiction not only in the character she played, but in her real life.


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Adrianne Lenker doesn't stop. The singer, who in 2019 released two critically acclaimed albums with her Brooklyn band Big Thief, and has just shared two more quarantine-recorded albums – the acoustic 'Songs' and sound collage 'Instrumentals' – under her own name, is sitting in her newly renovated trailer outside a studio in Topanga Canyon, California, where Big Thief are currently hard at work on yet more new material.
A little over a month ago, Lenker kitted out her new home in New York state, before driving it all the way to Los Angeles. After the current recording sessions wrap up in a week or so, the singer is set to take the trailer across the country again, planning stops in Arizona, Colorado and her home state of Minnesota, before heading back east. "My plan is to live in it the whole way," she says happily. "I've yet to have a winter in it, but I think this little wood stove will do a pretty good job in this tiny space."
Oh, and she also managed to acquire a new puppy on her cross-country journey. Oso, a great pyrenees/blue heeler cross who Lenker discovered at the side of the road in New Mexico, has been given a bone to chew on for our interview, in the hopes that it will keep him occupied (it doesn't work).
As for all of us, this wasn't how 2020 was originally set to go for the singer. Rewind eight months, and Lenker was in a cab on a rainy New York City day, on her way to fly to Europe for a run of headline Big Thief shows, including the band's biggest gig to date, at London's 5,000-capacity Hammersmith Apollo. The band's 2019 albums – March's sunny, enveloping 'U.F.O.F.' and dusty, gnarled October follow-up 'Two Hands' – pushed the band to significant new heights, leading them to be quickly heralded as one of the best folk-rock bands of their generation. The 2020 tour was set to be the biggest of their career to date, taking them to South America, Glastonbury, Japan and beyond.
Read more: Adrianne Lenker – 'Songs' and 'Instrumentals' review: a soothing balm
"I heard a muffled news report on the radio of [coronavirus] happening in China," Lenker recalls of the cab journey, "and I remember knowing that it was going to be global and really intense, on an intuitive level. I heard this thing puttering along the radio waves," she says, before lifting the Britney mic she's donned for our interview to her face, and recounting the hazy broadcast: "'Da da da da da, Covid-19 outbreak in China, looks like da da da da'". "I got a sense of knowing that this would happen," she says. "It was like the foreshadowing that you'd see in a movie."
Less than a month later, the four members of Big Thief were standing on a frozen street corner in Copenhagen, trying to keep warmth in their fingers as they played a short impromptu set outside the 1500-capacity Vega venue. They had played an early show that night, and had just minutes remaining before they were set to return to the stage a second time for a later gig. Which is precisely when the Danish Government immediately outlawed public gatherings of over 100 people due to the increasing threat of the virus, bringing an early end to the tour. The band packed their bags, and raced home to the States.
"It takes a while to sink into not being on tour," Lenker says of the sudden newfound freedom that followed, a period of stasis that led her to create her stark, gorgeous pair of new solo albums. "I was definitely geared for operating on tour, because I had been touring for six years straight," she adds. "I felt like I snapped into place and into my routine as soon as I was on tour again. When I was outside of that context, I felt a little bit anchor-less, and not really sure what to do with myself."
In fact, the trailer she's currently sitting in is the singer's first place she's had to call her own since Big Thief began touring in the middle of the 2010s. "It takes time to learn about yourself in a new context, and where to put your energy, and how to spend your time," she ponders, finally unplugging from the non-stop touring machine. "I still feel like I'm just starting to get in there, all these months later. I'm just starting to become acquainted with the parts of myself that exist outside the vacuum of touring."
For the early part of her quarantine, Lenker travelled to visit her sister in the foothills of the Western Massachusetts mountains, staying in a one-room cabin. Going through a break-up as well as digesting the rapidly changing world in the Covid era, the singer was processing personal and global grief at once, and began instinctively writing. Nine of the 11 tracks that make up 'Songs' were written while she was staying in the mountains.
"Life dramatically simplified," she says of the experience. "There was a wood burning stove and compost toilet, and no running water, so I was carrying water and chopping wood and emptying the compost, and cooking meals for myself, and going on walks."
The "totally unexpected" experience then led her to invite producer and friend Phil Weinrobe up to the cabin to record an album together. "I had most of the songs written that I wanted to record before I started recording," she says, "but I just kept writing, and the songs I was writing then felt more important to record. It was different."
She picked Weinrobe up in her truck in New York early one April morning, and they proceeded to create a studio from scratch in the cabin, an inspirational place that she describes as sounding like "the inside of an acoustic guitar".
The albums created out of this period are records of great beauty and simplicity. Recorded on a sole acoustic guitar on an 8-track tape recorder with minimal overdubs, they find Lenker digesting and processing, in an open and unafraid way, the sense of loss that surrounded her. "Is it a crime to say I still need you?" she ponders on 'Songs' opener 'two reverse', while she sings longingly of "pulling your face close, wanting the inmost" on the hypnotising 'forwards beckon rebound'. It's a record of great longing, but, ultimately, of learning to work with what you have left.
'Instrumentals', its companion record, consists of the improvised acoustic guitar Lenker would play at the start and end of every day in the studio. Deeply calming and ambient-like, it features two just tracks, each around 20 minutes long, of Lenker noodling around on the guitar, periodically hitting a thunderous stride before retreating once again into soft plucking. On 'music for indigo', we hear the crackle of the tape, false starts, rain outside the window, and a playful chuckle after she narrowly misses one of the piercing harmonics that punctuate the track – it's flawed, instinctive and wonderfully human.
Lenker says she wanted 'Instrumentals' to feel "like a friend playing the guitar to you in the corner of the room," and the feeling of closeness between artist and listener that it inspires is undeniable. "I've been playing guitar like that since I was six years old, just making stuff up," she says. "That instrument has been my main friend, my companion. It's comforted me a lot. The way we recorded the instrumentals and how I played guitar almost feels more vulnerable [than 'Songs'], because it's not trying to be anything too much."
"This is a confessional, personal record – and maybe that's indulgent right now"
The innate calmness and balance of the tracks that make up 'Songs' also makes far more sense once having listened to 'Instrumentals'. It's easy to imagine writing soothing and grounded songs after beginning and ending every day in the studio twiddling away on such transcendent music.
"When I write, it feels like a really loving gesture towards myself," she says, and the warmth and closeness of 'Songs' and 'Instrumentals' feel particularly vital in a world so divided and detached. The records share many of the same feelings and emotions – an earthy warmth, emotional openness, and unguarded intimacy – as Taylor Swift's recent quarantine album 'Folklore', which was produced by Aaron Dessner of previous Big Thief tour mates The National. It's an album that is likely to be remembered as the quintessential 2020 lockdown record.
"Woah – it's so weird that you mention Taylor Swift," Lenker exclaims animatedly. "I had a dream about Taylor Swift last night! It just came flooding back." She remembers more and more details as she speaks. "We were in some part of the world – I think maybe Trinidad. There were all these gyms and fitness centres everywhere. Taylor Swift rolled in with her party, and invited me to do something with her – and then she kissed me. We were standing there, and we kissed, and then the whole thing dissipated and she had to do her thing. And then I thought, 'Will she even remember me?! Is this gonna happen again, is this a thing? Wait, hold on – I think I'm in love with Taylor Swift!'"
Sadly, at the end of the dream it transpired that Swift only did it "to get some juice in the press," and Lenker was left distraught. Well, we've all been having strange dreams in lockdown, have we not?
Though they were ultimately released via 4AD, Big Thief's label, Lenker originally considered archiving the records and keeping them to herself. She says that she had a "a number of different thoughts" about the world into which the albums were going to be released, and whether it was something that added value right in these darkest and strangest of times. "This feels like a personal confession," she explains, "and a personal record – maybe that's indulgent right now. Maybe in an age where everyone's trying to circulate important information about so many things that are happening in the world, this is just going to clog the feed."
In the end, though, she concluded that "artists shouldn't refrain from sharing their art," and is right to believe in sharing two records that possess such deep, vital comfort into a world that remains upside down. "I think it's important," she says, "just to offer it up in some way."


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The current consumer mindset is to choose weight loss supplements that include natural ingredients that produce minimal to no side effects and are safe for people to take.
Nutraceuticals, the makers of Drs. Select Weight Loss 4, has done just that.
They have combined four "breakthrough" ingredients that they claim can produce tremendous results. But with all the other natural weight loss supplements out there to choose from, is this one any better or is it just the same thing in different packaging?
What is Doctor's Select Weight Loss 4?
The active ingredients in Drs. Select Weight Loss 4 include green coffee bean extract, white kidney bean extract (10,000 mg), raspberry ketones (125 mg) and cayenne pepper extract (88 mg).
All of these compounds have been clinically proven to do everything from helping you burn fat and lose weight to suppressing your appetite and boosting your metabolism.
Green coffee bean extract contains chlorogenic acid which increases your metabolic rate. An increased metabolism means you can burn calories a lot faster. White kidney bean extract is said to prevent carbohydrates from absorbing into your bloodstream so you will not gain weight.
The recommendation is to take one capsule before each meal three times a day. It is also recommended that you take it with water.
The cost for one bottle ranges between $14.99 and $17.99, depending on which online store you select (US only). Drs. Select Weight Loss 4 is suitable for both men and women.
The Pros of Doctor's Select Weight Loss 4
What this product has going for it is mostly its full disclosure of ingredients as well as the amount of them in the pills. And the fact that these ingredients are completely natural means you are not ingesting a bunch of chemicals and/or lab-made compounds.
This is always a good sign. It is also easy to find and is considerably less expensive than many similar products. Men and women can both take Drs. Select Weight Loss 4 as opposed to other weight loss supplements that only target one specific group or gender.
The Cons of Doctor's Select Weight Loss 4
As good as this product looks and sounds, it is not without its many faults. The first is the fact that there is no website for the product, which means you have to order it through a third party.
This seems strange coming from a well-known manufacturer trying to sell a "breakthrough" product. Along the same lines, without a website, there are no published reports or scientific studies available to support the claims of Drs. Select Weight Loss 4—just the generic info that the online store offers.
The only thing a potential customer has to go on are the minimal (and unspecific) reviews that are left by other customers—some of which are mixed. And if you do choose to buy the product, there are no guarantees, so the money you spend is gone without having the opportunity to return it if you do not like it for any reason. Many other supplements offer a one-hundred percent, money-back guarantee within thirty days.
The caffeine that is found in green coffee bean extract may be too much for certain people if they already consume high levels of caffeine. There is also the risk of developing an allergic reaction to some of the ingredients as was listed on one website.
Probably the most alarming and upsetting point about Drs. Select Weight Loss 4 is that there is no mention of modifying your diet or changing any aspect of your lifestyle. They are basically saying you can take the pills, continue with your normal lifestyle and still lose weight.
Not only is this irresponsible, but it is not true—at least not for the long-term. Sure, you may lose some weight initially with the product, but unless you actively change the way you eat and regularly exercise, the weight loss will be very short-lived, not to mention unhealthy.
Should You Try it
For the low price that it costs, you certainly will not go bankrupt if you decide to try this product. However, use it at your own risk since there is no guarantee from the manufacturer that it works other than citing the benefits of each individual ingredient.
But who knows if a combination of all of them actually works or if it is too much of a good thing. Not having a product website does not make for a comforting feeling. It is as if the product's makers just threw some things together and shipped it off to stores to sell without worrying about questions that people might have about the product.
You may be getting natural ingredients, but what you may not be getting is realistic results once you start using the product. In other words—spend your money on products with the same ingredients that can at least support its claims through proven research, customer testimonials and a money-back guarantee.
Where To Buy, Stockists
Can be bought from US online pharmacy CVS as well as Amazon.
Recommended Slimming Pill
Cayenne pepper, green coffee and raspberry ketone are all highly effective ingredients given the right set of circumstances.
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