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Propagation News – 13 August 2017
Last week, the solar flux index continued in the mid-70s, with a single sunspot group making its way across the visible disk. Compare and contrast this with the same week last year, when there were actually five sunspot groups visible. This confirms, as it we didn't know, that Solar Cycle 24 continues to decline. The current estimates for sunspot minimum place it around 2019 to 2020, so get used to more of the same.
The good news last week was that conditions were more geomagnetically stable, with the K-index mostly around one after Monday, the 7th. This meant that there was DX to be had, including some short-lived openings to the Far East on 20 and 30 metres around 1800hrs. Milton, ZP9CTS in Paraguay was also worked by Tony, G4CJC on Tuesday using the new digital mode FT8 on 10 metres.
Next week may start off unsettled due to another solar coronal hole, which became Earth-facing on Wednesday. This suggests unsettled geomagnetic conditions could occur from Friday, the 11th, and run into this weekend. This could spark auroral conditions, but may ultimately result in depressed maximum useable frequencies.
Once the weekend is over, next week should be more settled and conditions may settle. Look for DX openings on 30, 20, and 17 metres, with occasional sporadic E openings on higher bands at times.
VHF and up
The big problem with multiple weather models is that they usually predict ridges of high pressure and troughs across the country at different times. It's best therefore, to provide generalised operating guidance for the different weather types.
This week, the ridges of high pressure will tend to favour the south of the country for tropo, principally into the continent and across Biscay to Spain. The troughs and lows usually bring rain scatter and there's been some good examples with the heavy thundery downpours lately. Look for heavy rain, shown as bright colours on the many online rainfall radars, to get the best from any large storm events.
The Perseids passed their peak at the weekend, but activity will still be high over the next few days for meteor scatter enthusiasts.
Sporadic E is still hanging on into the last part of the season with a few openings on most days, but not necessarily reachable from the UK. It's quite likely that the unsettled weather currently bodes well for sporadic E, since the powerful upper atmosphere jet streams that drive the rainy weather are also good for sporadic E.
The lunar cycle continues on its predictable way. Now, and for the next few years, lowest path losses are coinciding with highest declination in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that Moon windows are longest when losses are at their lowest. This week should be good for EME, with falling losses as we move towards perigee and maximum declination on Friday.
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Nick Schreger is a people, wedding and lifestyle photographer and videographer from Switzerland. Besides his work as photographer, Nick offers popular workshops for both interested beginners and advanced photographers covering various areas of his craft. He also writes essays on various photography topics for several publications. His Fujifilm journey started in the summer of 2014 with an X100S, and soon he left his entire DSLR gear behind, switching to several Fujifilm bodies and lenses. Nick defines his personal style as "digilog photography", combining the spirit and character of analog photography with modern tech, quality standards and post-processing methods.
The FUJIFILM X Series managed to change my photography world within 4 weeks I spent in Mexico with an X100S and TCL-X100 converter. Having been a DSLR shooter for 12 years, I left Switzerland with a lot of doubt and returned with the best travel pictures I had ever taken. Today, a proud collection of several Fujifilm bodies and many lenses have turned what used to be a "job" into pure joy. I know that I could take on any photo assignment with any body/lens combination and still deliver outstanding work. Never before could I rely on image quality the way I can today. Being able to travel to an assignment with hand-luggage only while still carrying an entire set of lenses and bodies is another huge improvement I would never want to miss again.

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taniaaust1 wrote:When you run a close thou (I think I can speak well of this as Ive attended many psychic classes of various kinds etc), you dont tend to get people there who dont believe in what is being taught. People who dont believe arent willing to put money into paying for something they dont believe in. Many classes are quite expensive thou some arent (either way I have never encounted a disbelieving person doing class for something they dont believe in).
Well that is true most of the time, they can't learn what they don't believe in. What I'm trying to get at here, is that people should open their minds for new things to enter their lives. If they ended up not believing then its their choice, however, they should totally comprehend and respect the fact that you are interested in such thing because it is your belief. This is the case with most people these days- intolerance.


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WiLAN and UTStarcom Settle Patent Litigation
Published on: 11th Aug 2010
Note -- this news article is more than a year old.
Patent holding company, Wi LAN says that it has settled its ongoing patent litigation with UTStarcom. The terms of the settlement are confidential.
In June 2008, WiLAN initiated litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against a number of major handset suppliers, alleging infringement of certain patents owned by WiLAN including. In July 2008, UTStarcom completed the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, UTStarcom Personal Communications to Personal Communications Devices Holdings. The surviving entity, Personal Communications Devices, was added to this litigation on August 31, 2009.
To date, in this action, settlements have been reached with Research in Motion and UTStarcom. LG Electronics, Motorola and PCD remain as defendants in this litigation.
"UTStarcom becomes the 11th handset maker and 99th company to reach an agreement with WiLAN, joining Research in Motion, Nokia, Samsung and many others," said Bill Middleton, Senior Vice-President & General Counsel. "We are very pleased that we have been able to resolve our dispute through negotiation rather through continued litigation."
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Tuesday, 4th July 2017
New bird hide at National Forest Cycle Centre
Local Brownies, a Scout troop and local people gathered recently with funders and supporters at Hicks Lodge, between Ashby de la Zouch and Moira village, for the launch of a new bird hide.
Friday, 26th May 2017
Forest Holidays supports The National Forest
The National Forest Company was delighted to receive a cheque for £17,190, presented as a charitable donation by Moira-based Forest Holidays at a recent event to mark the first anniversary of the two companies working together.
Tuesday, 21st March 2017
Bluebell Business Blooms as Part of 'Forest Life'
Lodge Hill Bluebells, formerly the Bluebell Woods at Yoxall Lodge, opens in April and will offer bluebell walking trails through 20 acres of mature woodland, a pop-up café, lawn games and plenty of space for families to enjoy time together. Its the latest business to sign up to The National Forests forestlife campaign.
Tuesday, 21st March 2017
National Forest Company Welcomes EFRA Committee Report on Forestry in England
The National Forest Company today welcomed the publication of the EFRA Committee Report on Forestry in England: Seeing the Wood for the Trees.
Friday, 10th March 2017
Tourism Businesses in The National Forest Look to an Ambitious Future
Ambitious plans to drive continued growth in the tourism sector were announced at The National Forest Tourism Business Forum at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire this week.
Wednesday, 1st March 2017
Deadline for Forest Creation Approaches
The deadline for applications to this years fund to plant trees in The National Forest is just over a month away. The National Forest Companys Changing Landscapes Scheme is open now to anyone who may be interested in planting trees and creating other habitats on land extending over one hectare or more.
Tuesday, 28th February 2017
Runners Support The National Forest
Go Ultra Events, the organisation that brought a brace of gruelling long distance running events to The National Forest last year, has entered into a new partnership agreement with the National Forest Company.
Monday, 13th February 2017
Charnwood Forest, one of the most iconic parts of The National Forest, is the focus of a new landscape partnership bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. If successful, the bid will result in £3million worth of projects to restore and celebrate the areas many wonders.
Friday, 10th February 2017
Everyone loves trees, and The National Forest offers the perfect Valentines Day gift this year: give a National Forest Plant a Tree package and youll be supporting a whole forest!
Wednesday, 21st December 2016
More than 8.5 million trees may have been planted in The National Forest over the last 25 years, but there are still lots of opportunities to get involved with tree planting and woodland creation.
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As a child Debra Watson firmly planted herself in front of Dick Clark's American Bandstand every Saturday to watch the newest bands and solo artists. Her mother took her to see Elvis when she was four. Though she doesn't remember, some fans might say there is a definite influence by her hip action during live performances. When she was in San Francisco on her first vacation away from home, she was almost knocked over by a wild woman dressed in red, white and blue. That woman turned out to be none other than the great Janis Joplin. To this day, Debra feels she was 'touched by Janis'. In Austin, Texas Debra joined Esther Follies, Austin's premiere sketch comedy troupe. Later she co-formed her own Austin comedy sketch troupe 'Better Than Tv Players'. Debra eventually spread her wings and took off for Los Angeles where she formed the Backyard Angels with guitarist Michael Carter. In Los Angeles she sang with many blues and swing bands including J.J. Bad Boy Jones, William 'Soul' Porter, Flat Top Tom & His Jumpcats and Swing Syndicate. Later, she assembled some of L.A.'s finest musicians to form Debra Watson and The Smokin' Aces. On this CD she collaborated with pianist, Karen Hammack and wrote 'That's Right' and 'Tow Truck Blues'. 'That's Right!' was written to all the fabulous men she has had the pleasure of dancing with. Her first CD, 'Come Dance With Me' can also be found on CdBaby.com.
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Aakash-2 is not 'Made-in-China' product: DataWind
Keywords:China Aakash 2 circuit-boards capacitive touch
"For the first 10k units for IIT, and for expediency sake we had the motherboards and kits manufactured in our Chinese subcontractor's facilities, and then the units have been 'kitted' in China at various manufacturers for expediency, whereas the final assembly and programming has happened in India," clarifies Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind.
"This was well discussed and we got approval prior to shipping."
The initial devices were assembled and programmed at our facilities in New Delhi and Amritsar.
"We finished this batch of 10k units and delivered them to IIT and will be starting another batch of 20k units for them in two weeks."
The article appeared in HT claimed DataWind may have procured Aakash-2 devices off-the-shelf from manufacturers in China for $42 (Rs 2,263), exactly at the price the company sold these to the Indian government.
"We also have four partner manufacturers across India that will work on the deliveries to the government but we just couldn't get them started to assemble our new Aakash-2 units in time but they will start to ship early in December."
The advanced version of Aakash was launched on November 11 by the President Pranab Mukherjee.
DataWind said both versions of Aakash were built in India including all the circuit-boards in Hyderabad. The primary difference between Aakash I and 2 is the capacitive touch screen. "This is the most expensive and important element and this product is manufactured in our Montreal facility. This is one of the primary reasons why our devices are lower cost than others, as we use a proprietary technology."
The company is setting up its second touch screen facility in India, which is going through pilot right now. The full clean room facility will be up and running in another month.
"We have been strong proponents of developing a manufacturing base in India, and our actions continue to reflect this," Tuli added.
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Two new videos of the 2016 Lexus LX 570 have been posted on Youtube.
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Official Lexus tuner Modellista will release a body kit for the 2016 LX 570 to mark the model's arrival in Japan.
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It's no secret; careers in nursing and medicine consistently rank as some of the most rewarding, secure and financially lucrative professions around. However, the calling is not for the faint of heart.
Accepting responsibility for the health and well being of others is a serious matter and requires candidates who are just as serious about learning.
Once accepted into a nursing or medical school program, candidates will endure a rigorous curriculum heavy on the basic sciences—anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology, pathology, and pharmacology. In addition, a heaping wallop of behavioral and social psychology and the basics of compiling clinical and health profiles round out the first two years of study.
Many students also juggle part-time or full time jobs along with their courses. Make no bones about it; medical school is tough. Students are expected to master voluminous amounts of specific information at a high rate of speed. Balancing school, work and some vague semblance of a social life can be one of the most challenging aspects of nursing or medical school.
Luckily, we have some answers to help keep some sanity in what can quickly become an overwhelming routine.
Time Management
It's Friday evening and some friends have invited you to a party. It would be a chance to get better acquainted with some of your classmates outside the rigid confines of the classroom or anatomy lab. You'd like to go, but that paper you been putting off for three weeks is due on Monday and you haven't even gathered all of your sources yet.
In your mind you had planned to "cram" the paper into this weekend, but that was before you knew about the party. Procrastination may help you get your work done, but it leaves little room to accommodate for the unexpected.
Chances are, if you'd managed your time better, you'd have the option of going to the party without facing serious academic repercussions.
Effective time management strategies can help balance the scale between school and social life. Though, for those unfamiliar with these practices, the very idea can seem more trouble than it's worth.
According to the experts, the time invested will pay off in the long run. Managing your time with some sort of day runner or easy to use calendar on a daily, weekly and finally, semester-by-semester basis will afford more options in the long run.
Tap Your Resources
Built in to any university nursing or medical school program is a tremendous support network that is yours for the taking. Nursing and medical schools are known for the counseling, guidance and mentorship programs their faculty and staff provide to help you succeed. Ask your guidance counselor or admissions officer for more information about these services and how to contact them.
Ultimately, your time is yours. Understanding your learning needs and preferences will help you devote the time necessary to the subjects that need more of your attention. A commitment to managing your time will help avoid sacrificing all social life at the altar of your nursing or medical school program.
In general nursing and medical schools are committed to their students and to helping them succeed. More than 95 percent of all students enrolled succeed in earning their M.D. degree.


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Great call quality
Feels much like a toy
Sits comfortably in the hand
Good balance between functionality and affordability
Terrific 4-inch Super AMOLED display
Surprisingly fast performance from its dual-core CPU
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Big and heavy, Poor battery life
Feels like a brick, Very outdated software
'Quad-band support.'
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Poor screen and less than impressive keyboard
'The display on the Charm is not as vibrant as most other Android phones.'
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The Samsung Dart has a slim and compact design. It ships with Android 2.2
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October 14, 2012 (CHICAGO) --Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is reportedly the subject of a federal investigation into whether he used campaign money to decorate his Washington home.
The story was reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Just last month the Jacksons put the home on the market for $2.5 million.
They said they needed the money to pay Jackson's medical bills.
The congressman has been treated for bipolar depression and has not campaigned even though he is up for re-election.


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Back at the beginning of the year, I decided to set a goal to run 1,000 miles this year. At under 20 miles a week, that may not be really ambitious to some people, but you need to understand a few things about me and running.
For most of my life, I've played sprint sports, like baseball and tennis and racquetball. I'm not a power hitter, so the most I ever really had to run in baseball was 180 feet (home plate to first base to second base). A tennis court is about 39 feet from one corner of the baseline to the opposite corner at the net. Racquetball is played in a 20-by-40-foot room, and since the ball bounces off the wall, you never have to run the full diagonal.
Before I signed up for that half-marathon last year, I'd only run longer than a 5K (about 3.1 miles) a handful of times. I also turned 40 this year, and I promise I am not getting faster and more agile as I get older; nor are my knees turning back the clock.
Until I was 38, I had maybe run a 20-mile week once, ever.
So that's me and running.
Why set the goal? Well, I wanted a reason to keep running. I think it's now ingrained in me enough that I'll keep doing it as long as my body allows, but I could have easily stopped after that half marathon last year. I can't say I enjoyed much of that training at all.
My goal-crossing run Monday was different, though. Instead of holding on to some 3-hour podcast so that I'd have something to listen to, I put my trust in iTunes to shuffle my way through 11.3 miles. I may have danced a little bit. It was cold and raining, but I smiled a lot. I made sure to run by some of my favorite downtown spots, like the
I stopped off where my wife was working to give her a kiss.
I also wanted to see if I could set a realistic goal for a whole year. It took me 354 days to get there. It's a leap year, so that's just about 97% of the year it took me to get to 100% of my goal. I'm going to say that was exactly the right number of miles to shoot for, if you're me.
I tweaked a calf during a race earlier this year, and it's been bothering me for a while. It flared up around mile eight, but I wasn't going to let it stop me from getting to where I wanted to be. I'm sure it'll bother me for a good while, so I might be looking at bicycles and elliptical machines for a couple of weeks to get it some rest.
I'll share with you some tunes from my run, because who doesn't love a little music in their life?
1. Jane's Addiction's cover of The Grateful Dead's "Ripple" — this one got me out the door and down to the pavement.
2. Asylum Street Spankers, "Monkey Rag" — I might have been dancing up Habersham Street. OK, I totally was. Bonus, this animation is adorable.
3. Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road" — This came on about halfway. If you thought you saw some crazy dude grinning and saying good morning while running down West Bay Street, this was in my ears.
4. Edesio Alejandro, "El Sopon de Yuya" — Yeah, so I was doing the rumba (badly) in the bike lane. So?
5. Gooselove & Antara, "Change With Me" — You know how some artists are formative in your life for the eight months you really needed them and then they disappear, only to show up in your earholes 15 years later?
6. Willie Nile, "History 101" — This is the song that was playing when I hit my thousand-mile mark.
Honorable Mention: Ellis Hooks, "Uncomplicated" — This came on as I turned toward home. It's one of my faves, but I can't find a video, so here's an
OK...it's almost 2017. What are you up to for the year?


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Aubergine rosesa stylish veggie option(this dish is suitable for vegetarians)
My partner is vegetarian, and we often encounter difficulty in finding interesting and unusual dishes when eating out, trying to avoid the ubiquitous pasta dishes which tend to be heavy and repetitive. So, at every opportunity at home, I try and experiment and create new dishes, which are both flavoursome and beautifully presented.
The idea for aubergine roses came from a video posted on social media, making a sweet version out of sliced apples. I made this version myself, but when doing so, thought that this idea could easily be used to make a savoury version – hence the creation of this dish. Roll out the pre-rolled puff pastry on a floured surface and cut along the pastry (horizontally) making four separatestrips of equal width.
Take 1-2 teaspoons of tapenade and spread evenly across each strip of pastry (and to just before the ends of the pastry).
Then sprinkle the pastry with the grated cheese and season (be easy on the salt as tapenade is quite salty).
With a vegetable peeler, make ribbons of courgette by drawing the peeler across the length of the courgette, trying to get as much of the dark green outer on each ribbon as possible. Then, lay these across the top half of each pastry strip.
Fold up the bottom half of the pastry so the Courgette strips are tucked within the pasty, showing out of the top.
From whichever side is most convenient, start to roll the pastry tightly making sure all the courgette slices are tucked within the folds of pastry (this will create the petal effect when finished and cooked).
Continue to do this until all the pastry has been rolled up.
Place each 'rose' in a lightly greased cupcake/muffin tin and put in the oven (using the cooking instructions on the back of the pastry packet).
Serve individually as a starter, or two as a main course with a seasoned side salad or roasted vegetables.
Claire Meredith, Head Chef at Tŵr Cymru Culture Towers, June 2016
Also from the Head Chef at Tŵr Cymru Culture Towers:
Salmon and king prawn lasagne, March 2016Pesto, pistachio and puff pastry tart, September 2014Roasted fennel and Welsh goat's cheese salad, September 2014Blackberry Napoleon desert, September 2014Pomme dauphinoise (made easy), September 2014 Salmon and Thai fishcakes, June 2014Artisan rice pudding with blackberry compote, March 2014Coquille Saint-Jacques, March 2014Salmon teriyaki with pumpkin seed crust, March 2014Vegetable spring rolls, December 2013Broad bean, wasabi and crème fraîche pâté, September 2013Salmon ramen, September 2013Carmarthen Canapés Caerfyrddin, June 2013Apple and elderflower crumble, March 2013Smoked salmon puff pastry parcels, March 2013The only Welsh cakes recipe you'll ever need, June 2012Roast butternut squash, garlic and sweet chilli soup, March 2012Cauliflower, roasted onion and Welsh cheddar soup, March 2012Tiramisu, March 2012Smoked mackerel and horseradish pâté with hot brown seeded-rolls, September 2011Almond, cherry & Bourbon tart, September 2011Chic party food ideas 3, June 2011Smoked mackerel and horseradish pâté with hot brown seeded-rolls, September 2011Almond, cherry & Bourbon tart, September 2011Chic party food ideas 2, June 2011The cupcake revolution, February 2011Chic party food ideas, February 2011Stylish party canapes, September 2009
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Inspired by Jon Reades' great visualizations of flows using the TfL Oyster card data, we are now starting to examine the statistical properties of the data, beginning with an analysis of what goes on in the nodes. The data yields 666 hubs or nodes which have entry and exit volumes – in graph theoretic terms the in-degrees of the sources/origins and the out-degrees of the sinks/destinations. We have this data for 20 minute time segments of the entire day, giving us 72 temporal slots defining the diurnal sequence.
Now the tube and rail are closed during the dead of night and as is characteristic of such data, all 666 nodes are never active at any one time in terms of the data set. But there are records for at last one hub in every one of the 72 segments and they build up so that for the most part, most of the 666 are in use between 7am and 11pm. More or less. What we have done so far with this data is simply examine the changing profile of the hubs in terms of their volumes and an easy way to get into this is to rank them in terms of the size for each time slice and then order them, forming a rank size distribution which we fist examine as in the video below as a Zipf plot. These change at each time slice. We start the simulation at midnight and the volumes then drop dramatically until around 5 am things begin to pick up reaching a morning peal around 8am and then falling off a bit and then picking up for the evening peak at 5pm and thence declining slowly through the evening as we move back towards midnight. Click on the image below and you will get the Vimeo link where you can see the animation. I must confess that I have forgotten how to embed the Vimeo directly into the post and someone doubtless will remind me
You can see the peaks more or less as we color the plots from white at midnight to red at midday and back down to white again in the rest of the day. The color balance can be improved and we need to do this and probably this would look really good if we used a more powerful graphics language but as a first pass, it suffices. Of course the next step is to examine the local volatility of the hubs and to put all this into the rank clocks software which in fact would be our first application where the clock where truly a clock and the diurnal cycles the dominant driver. More soon.
The idea is that we present a paper on this at the forthcoming meeting organised by the Urban Design Studies Unit of the School of Architecture in partnership with ICSS Institute of Complex System on the subject of the Evolution of Complex Transportation Networks (ECTN) Workshop to be held at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on 29-30 August 2011.


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Midway through one SEC schedule, we can't wait to see the next one. The SEC slate for 2013 has been released. Here's a break down of the winners and losers.
South Carolina [Winner] Florida and Georgia both play LSU. The Gamecocks drew Arkansas and Mississippi State. The Georgia game returns to the Mark Richt suspension zone on Sept. 7. They also get two months between the Georgia and Florida games, instead of within three weeks and having LSU as the sandwich.
Alabama [Winner] Pencil the Tide into 2013 BCS Title Game. Their SEC East Draw is Tennessee (home) and Kentucky (away), again avoiding Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. They play LSU in Tuscaloosa. Virginia Tech will be their only viable non conference team.
Texas A&M [Winner] The Aggies get a rough opener with Alabama at home, but three of their SEC road games – Arkansas, Ole Miss, Missouri – are winnable. Their other SEC east opponent is Vanderbilt at home.
Arkansas [Loser] The Razorbacks get Florida and South Carolina from the SEC East on consecutive weeks, sandwiched between Texas A&M and Alabama. Their next coach could be staring at an 0-4 start in the SEC with a road trip to LSU still awaiting him.
Georgia [Loser] Unlike recent years, the Dawgs will be tested and tested early. They will face South Carolina, LSU and Clemson before Oct. 1. Worth noting: Georgia's last defeat of a very good to great team was Florida in 2007.
Kentucky [Loser] The Wildcats start the SEC season with Florida (home), South Carolina (away) and Alabama (home). Good luck with that!
LSU [Loser] The Tigers have rival Florida (home) and Georgia (away) from the SEC East. Their away trip to Starkville is sandwiched between those two games. They also play Alabama on the road. Uphill climb for the Tigers.
Tennessee [Loser] Tennessee's next coach will see five FBS opponents from Sept. 14 through Oct. 26: (at) Oregon, (at) Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, (at) Alabama.
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Nexus 6P vs Galaxy Note 5 comparison: the new giants
Nexus 6P vs Galaxy Note 5 contrast: construction and set up top quality
We wear'nited kingdom comprehend precisely what the Nexus 6th (2015) will appear such as, however because this's being made by Huawei, all of us may glance at the Huawei Mate S and draw four conclusions from that. Rumors advise it'll consist of a fingerprint scanner and that it'll contain a unibody aluminum design.
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A new international research project will develop functional building exteriors intended for the mass market to produce electricity and heat, it has been announced.
The German-based project, called 'Large-Area Fluid Windows', plans on creating new glass components for buildings' exteriors that will automatically adjust the light coming in and will harvest exterior heat, which will then be sent to a heat pump.
According to Dr Lothar Wondraczek, a leading researcher of the project, this will be made possible by combining two glass layers, one made from a very thin, tensile-strength cover glass and one layer of structured glass.
"This structured glass contains micro-fluid channels through which a functional fluid circulates," explained Dr Wondraczek.
The initial stage of the project involves laboratory testing of such exteriors and window modules in order to optimise the materials and their functional interaction. Depending on their results, the scientists plan on testing these under 'real' conditions.
"As of today, there is no production process for such large-sized glass sheets with integrated micro-structures. Moreover, the new glass façades have to be able to be integrated into conventional window systems," said Dr Wondraczek.
The less likely scenarios such as windows made of photovoltaic modules or in which micro algae are being bred to provide a house with its own biofuel could be feasible if more effort is directed towards the improvement and development of functional materials, according to Dr Wondraczek.
"Only a fraction of this potential has been tackled so far, as the relevant materials and production processes are still missing," he added.
"This requires close collaboration of architects, materials researchers, and civil and construction engineers."
A total of 14 organisations are part of the project, out of which three are universities and 11 industrial companies from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic and Germany.
The European Commission will fund the initiative with €6m as well as the partaking companies, which will contribute a total of €2.1m. Energy-efficient buildings are one of the key strategic areas that the European Commission intends to develop.


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Beer, Meet Wine. Wine, Meet Beer.
To be honest, there is a difference between beer aficionados and wine enthusiasts. Wine has had plenty of time to build a solid reputation and an elite following. Beer has only recently developed a seriousness and still faces the challenge of being a respected and collected nectar. Yet, it seems the two may share a more common path in the future.
Shipyard Brewing Company of Portland, Maine recently announced a marketing partnership with the California based Fess Parker winery. Shipyard, which already boasts a 40,000 case per year presence in California, hopes to increase sales by 25 percent by latching on to the marketing arm of a winery founded by the man who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. (You can't make this stuff up!) Fess Parker Winery will introduce Shipyard to restaurants and stores in the highly competitive California market. The 700-acre winery is now linked with the 15th largest microbrewery in the United States.
Pairing wine with beer (or even the other way around) is no strange idea. Archaic laws limiting alcohol sales in Pennsylvania have actually helped local wineries form strong bonds between brewer and vintner. Kim Waltz, co-owner of the Waltz Vineyards in the beer heavy county of Lancaster, provides products to craft breweries and specialty pubs in the area.
"My wines provide an option to people who are with a partner or spouse who enjoys handcrafted beers by providing an upscale, hand-crafted, small batch option for the non-beer drinker who appreciates a little more freshness and boldness in their wine just like their partner appreciates in the beer," said Waltz.
Pennsylvania has a separate license for wineries who would also like to sell beer. Things are not so rosy in Kentucky. Back in 2005, SB73 amended the state's law regarding wineries selling beer reading: "The retail malt beverage license ... shall limit the licensee to the sale of malt beverages for consumption on the premises only." It seems some politicians objected to one winery's increased sales of cases to go. So, now wineries can only sell beer that must be consumed during a patrons visit.
It might be a while until beer aficionados and wine enthusiasts are truly married, but at least now some are holding hands.
Your Beer. Your Choice. Drink Up.
- Beer Universe
Michael C. Upton is a staff writer for Beer Universe, you can follow him on facebook.


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Twenty-two-year old Rekia Boyd was an innocent bystander when she was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer last March. It happened during a confrontation with Boyd's friend, who was scheduled to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges in connection with the confrontation.
That misdemeanor case may be delayed again at the request of prosecutors.
Any police-involved shooting, especially one that has led to a lawsuit against the city as this one has, will not move quickly. But, Rekia Boyd's brother doesn't understand the absence of answers, particularly since he says he received an apology from the officer involved.
"I wake up some times and I expect to see her, and I haven't realized she's not coming back," Sutton said.
Sutton is smothered in grief and questions many months after the death of his sister. She was shot in the head by off-duty Chicago police detective Dante Servin on an unseasonably warm night last March.
Detective Servin was reportedly upset with late night noise behind his home across from Douglas Park and from his car had told a group of four people to quiet down. There were words, an object raised, and the detective fired his gun.
Antonio Cross was hit in the hand. The object he had raised was a cell phone. Boyd was hit in the head and pulled off life support the following day.
"I'm not an officer, but at least I know you're not supposed to shoot into a crowd," said Sutton.
Sutton told ABC7 that two months after his sister's death, he went to the shooting scene with a French television crew doing a story on victims of Chicago gun violence. While there, Detective Servin approached Sutton, asked for a hug, and explained that while he felt threatened that night, what happened was an accident.
"As he hugged me, he said, 'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen. It shouldn't have been your sister that died. I didn't mean to shoot her.' He was telling me how sorry he is and how apologetic he is," said Sutton. "He said we deserve the right to know what happened."
What has perplexed and angered Rekia Boyd's family is that they have not heard an official version of what happened, nor has there been an apology or a decision on discipline.
"I was looking at the paper yesterday and the talk about how the streets have a code of silence. What about the code of silence inside the police department?" said Sutton. "You expect people on the street to speak, but you're not speaking when you take unlawful actions against us?"
Detective Servin was placed on administrative duty, ABC7 has learned.
The Independent Police Review Authority says its investigation is ongoing, but its preliminary findings were sent to the state's attorney's office last March.
ABC7 has asked if criminal charges are being considered against the officer, but have not received an answer.
An attorney for Rekia Boyd's family and a spokesman for the city's law department confirm that settlement discussions are underway in the Boyd lawsuit against the city.


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Gov. Pat McCrory remains undecided on whether North Carolina should appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the state's ultrasound law.
His office issued a statement Wednesday without taking a position. "We respect the court's decision and review of the process," McCrory spokeswoman Kim Genardo said in the statement. She declined to answer further questions about whether the governor supported the law or whether McCrory would support a challenge to the judge's ruling.
The 2011 law requires doctors to show women ultrasound images and describe them in detail between four and 72 hours before performing abortions. For two decades, the state has required an ultrasound for any patient scheduled for an abortion, but the ruling specifically focused on the narration doctors are required to provide.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles, who was nominated to the court by President Barack Obama, described the clause as a "one-size-fits-all provision" that is "an impermissible attempt to compel these providers to deliver the state's message in favor of childbirth and against abortion."
Attorney General Roy Cooper has not yet decided whether to appeal. Spokeswoman Noelle Talley said the office is "reviewing the ruling, and will make the decision about an appeal in consultation with the governor and the legislature."
Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, an Eden Republican, said Tuesday that he supports an appeal. House Speaker Thom Tillis appears to be leaning in the same direction. He said Saturday that he was disappointed in the decision and "could see the potential for the ruling going to the U.S. Supreme Court."
The abortion issue is a sensitive one for the governor. McCrory is facing criticism for signing a law in 2013 that puts restrictions on abortions after pledging in the campaign not to do so.
With the political implications of the lawsuit, Cooper, lawmakers and the governor may disagree about how to proceed. Cooper would make the final call as the attorney for the state.
"This is one of those situations where given the nature of the issue, you could end up with conflict between the attorney general and legislative leadership ... but it's probably not going to happen in this case because the attorney general already defended it in court and will most likely listen to the client," said Michael Crowell, a professor at the UNC School of Government.
If Cooper chooses not to appeal, lawmakers could petition the court to intervene and keep the case alive. The lawmakers approved a measure in 2013 to give themselves the authority to petition the court, but it remains untested.
Crowell said the judge would have to grant the legislature's attorneys standing, which is more unusual at this point in the case. "Trying to intervene on appeal would be odd," he said.
A Tillis spokeswoman declined to discuss the case or the potential options available to lawmakers.


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MILLS and DR
1. Gentlemen, welcome to the Committee. As you
know, as well as doing some longer term enquiries, we are having
a short, sharp stab at things from time to time and you are one
of those being subjected to that. The first question, Mr Mills,
is: what happens now?
(Mr Mills) What we have tried to do in our memorandum
indicates what should happen and what we believe will happen.
Could I make three very simple points, Chairman? We reckon we
have a very good future. Trading is extremely competitive; the
margins are extremely tight; and there is a lot of risk and hard
work in the Market. We are reasonably confident that the problems
that we had five or six years ago have been overcome and now,
with the diversification that we have in mind, things are very
promising. We are, if I may put in a plug, also conscious of our
historic past. I am not sure if members of your Committee realise
that we go back in fact to the thirteenth century when monks from
Westminster Abbey used to sell their surplus produce to the public
in what was known as Convent Garden. We are very conscious of
history but we are conscious of our future. We have two and a
half thousand people working in the Market, a very active group
of tenants in the Tenants' Association, and equally we have the
Transport and General Workers Union and their members. Collectively
with the Authority, we are quite a cohesive unit and confident
of the challenges we have to face.
2. All that may be true but as long as I have
been in this House you have been on and off with privatisation.
Does there not come a time when someone has to make up their mind
what they are going to do with the Market?
(Mr Mills) I think we actually have reached that point.
I say "we"; that point has been reached. As you will
recall better than I, Chairman, in 1990 the previous administration
announced their intention to privatise the Market, which would
of course require an Act of Parliament. In the mid-Nineties, the
then Permanent Secretary may have indicated that the issue had
been put on the back burner. Then, with the new administration,
the issues was raised again. The previous Minister in this administration
announced that he wanted to privatise. All that led to great uncertainty
amongst the work force, the traders and the local authority, and
it was considerably upsetting. You are absolutely right about
that. When the current Minister came round in January 1999 and
had a look at the Market himself and discussed the issue with
traders and the union, he promised to go away and reconsider the
basis of the assumptions that underlie the policy of selling the
Market. To be fair, the Minister kept his word on that. He came
back in April and said that it is a going concern and it is a
working, profitable market and, although the Government did not
want to be an owner of the wholesale market, which I can understand,
that they would only sell it as a going concern. In a sense, the
anxiety and uncertainty was largely if not completely allayed
because it is the Government's intention still to sell the Market,
but only as a market.
3. Did he give any indication as to when this
phantom legislation may take material form?
(Mr Mills) I do not think he is in a position to do
that, Chairman.
4. Did he express any urgency about it?
(Mr Mills) Relatively, I suppose is the answer.
5. You cannot be relatively urgent.
(Mr Mills) I think you can. Seriously, he said: "Yes,
we want to sell the Market". In that sense it is urgent but
relatively in the sense that there was very little opportunity,
and he indicated this to me, then or even now to get a measure
into the Queen's Speech which could have parliamentary time to
be enacted. That is why I say "relatively". I believe
that the Ministry each year put in a request to the Leader of
the House to ask for parliamentary time for a Bill to sell the
market and each time it has gone away through lack of time.
6. Do you want to be sold?
(Mr Mills) Yes, in one sense: if that once and for
all removed the uncertainty. In another sense, we are quite happy
as we are with the Ministry. The Ministry now is a supporter of
the Market. The more interesting point arising from that is, if
we are going to be sold, who are the possible purchasers? That
is the key matter. Our turnover as a market authority is about
£7 million a year, out of which we made a gross pre-tax profit
of about £1.4 million last year. Estimates of the cost of
the Market, if it were going to be sold as such, vary and all
the trading concerns in the Market have an annual combined turnover
of about £480 million; it could be £20 million but it
could be £40 million plus. I cannot conceive of anybody spending
£20 million, £30 million, £40 million or £50
million on buying the Market if the only profit they would get
out of the Market is £1.4 million a year based on a turnover
of £7 million. The only people who could buy the Market are
those perhaps with markets of their own. There is only one of
7. Before we come to the City of London Corporation,
with respect, you do not give the impression that you regard this
as a burning issue which has got to be sorted out. You seem content
to float along, as it were, with the present circumstances. Is
that accurate or are you agitating to get something finally decided?
(Mr Mills) I am not agitating but, with respect, I
am not floating along.
8. What are you doing?
(Mr Mills) I am cautiously optimistic. We have had
considerable problems in the last three years: first, about new
leases coming up; and, secondly, about new types of diversification
we wanted. All sorts of consultations had to be gone into about
whether that was possible or practical. We have solved most of
those problems. We are quite content to carry on as we are under
the overall umbrella of the Government but I recognise that if
the Government wants to sell us, it must only sell us as a going
concern. As I have said, my colleagues and I have looked as the
possible purchasers, and I can only see one.
9. While we are talking generally, can I examine
what your visions for the world of wholesale markets is. In France,
Rungis has demonstrated an ability to be a truly one-stop shop
for a whole variety of purchases of everything from fruit and
vegetables through to cheese, poultry and meat; you name it, they
have got it. To a degree, that is mirrored by the wholesale market
in Birmingham, which has now amalgamated under one roof a similar
range. Do you have a vision as far as London is concerned that
a similar provision is at a point in the future the way things
will go?
(Mr Mills) The answer is: yes, very much so. You are
absolutely right about Birmingham. I have been there. They sell
all types of food produce under one market roof. We want to get
to the position, as I indicated in the memorandum, of being the
one-stop food shop for London. The great advantage we have is
the location of the market. We think there is a case these days,
and I know the Minister thinks this because he has said it publicly
and I think it is reflected in the MAFF evidence to this Committee,
and now the modern caterer needs to get all his food produce from
one place rather than go to different places. The one-stop food
market is the answer. There is a subsidiary point. As you all
know very well, the number of retail outlets for horticulture
has declined considerably. As a rough estimate, I would imagine
that in the market now the amount of food produce, fruit and vegetables,
sold to the retail trade is about 20 or at the most 30 per cent
of total volume. The 60 to 70 per cent plus goes to the catering
trade. Again, as I am sure you know, Chairman, well over one-third
of food eaten in the UK is eaten outside the home. The importance
and the prevalence of hotels, restaurants and catering establishments
is going to increase. That makes catering supplies the key. Supermarkets
are not in the game of supplying the catering trade and there
is a need for the Market. The catering trade needs to have one
single place where they can go. If they can get their fish, meat
and vegetables in one place, we think that is the answer. That
is my vision. That is the way forward. We are now starting on
that process.
10. Chairman, for the benefit of the Committee
and our questions, I think it would be right to sketch a little
of my relationship with the Covent Garden Market Authority. When
the Spitalfields Bill was going through the House, I had a job
that was described as the go-between between the Covent Garden
Market Authority and the City of London to enable and facilitate
that legislation, which was amicably sorted out in the end. Obviously
I got to know people in the City and, as a result of that, I became
a Freeman of the City of London. I think I can say that any questions
I ask are appropriately balanced, but I do have a considerable
interest in Covent Garden, as I have done for a long time. Mr
Mills, I wanted to probe you a little bit about some of the trends
particulary that you outlined in an answer a moment ago. In the
annual report on page 3, paragraph 12, there is perhaps a depressing
chart which shows a decline in the turnover of wholesale goods
going through the Market, and yet in the fine print in paragraph
9 the more interesting area that you have also described is mentioned
numerically. I wondered in presentational terms why, for example,
you have not got a chart that juxtaposes the decline of the traditional
activities of the Market, the wholesale aspects, with the rise
in the matters that are dealt with in paragraph 9?
(Mr Mills) There is no particular reason. That is
the answer. The facts are there. That is important. If you look
at that chart on page 3, it shows that the value of the Market's
business is no longer in decline. In fact, if you look at the
fruit and vegetable market, for example, you see an increase.
If you look at the flower market, there is a marginal decline.
I think we have turned the corner in terms of volume and in terms
of the trading space that is now occupied. As you see in the figures
below, 98 per cent of the trading space is now let and over two-thirds
of the offices. If you went back five or six years, there would
have ben about 30 per cent vacant space in the fruit and vegetable
11. When I was looking through your submission
to the Committee, you made the statement about feeling more optimistic
but it is difficult to see any projections. Could you help the
Committee by giving us a feel as to how you see, in business terms,
the words you have just uttered being translated into something
(Mr Mills) There are two ways in which we can expand
the diversification of food product. One is that we have a tiny
amount of vacant space but we have about 20,000 square feet of
space that is currently occupied by a furniture storage company,
which was brought in during the dark days of the early to mid-Nineties
just to get some revenue to help the Authority when it was in
a difficult position. I am sure you probably recall that, Mr Jack.
They are under a licence and we can dispense with them in a matter
of months. We have the potential space there. We also have one
or two parts of the Market where new buildings could be erected.
So we have the space. We have now got the support of the Ministry
in having a considerable part of the total business of the Marketit
could be up to 50 per cent or even more than thatthat could
go into non-horticultural produce, ie fish, meat and related activities.
We started this process a few years ago. We have a couple of ice
companies, a couple of cheese companies, a lobster company and
a smoked salmon and smoked meat company. We have about three other
companies in fish and meat with whom we are currently in discussion.
We shall probably be advertising the opportunity to come to the
Market in various of the newspapers.
12. With respect, you have given us a word picture
which is more optimistic. If I were to say to you, "Do you
have a five-year business plan, numerical projections of both
your own income for the developments you have just described and
some indication of the trading prospects?" does such a document
(Mr Mills) No, because it would be very difficult,
if not impossible, to produce a business plan that had coherent
statistics in it. The statistics are in this factual account of
what is happening. We have 280 separate companies in the Market.
We amass the total turnover of those figures, which gives us our
total annual turnover of £480 million, but they are individual
companies with their own projections and their own plans.
13. As an Authority, do you have any financial
benchmarks or targets that you are hoping to achieve? I appreciate
the point that you make, that it might be difficult to accumulate
numbers for the sum total of all the businesses, but, as an Authority,
do you have an Authority financial plan where you are trying to
say that you want to move from X of lettings income to Y over
the next period?
(Mr Mills) No. That would be inappropriate in my view.
We do have a statutory duty to break even, and that is enshrined
in all of us, which we do. We are profitable and, as you know,
we have no public debt and no taxpayers' money of any shape or
form in the Market. We have survived on the income that is generated
by the activities of the Market. We do not have a projected figure
of total turnover because in that sense we are there to provide
a market. We are not there, with respect, to supply a dividend
to a whole range of shareholders. We are not under that imperative.
Our statutory duty is to provide a wholesale market and for that
market to break even. We are not like a plc which can say that
over five years we expect growth to be X and dividends to be Y,
and so forth. There is one other point, if I may, Mr Jack: we
are very conscious of the fact that, against what I have just
said, we do need, I would estimate, about £20 million of
capital expenditure in the next few years. That is going to be
a major problem for us. The market is just over 25 years old;
a lot of the infrastructure needs refurbishment; the roof for
the flower market needs replacing, and so forth. We estimate that
the amount of capital needed for that is about £20 million
to £21 million. The question is: where do we get that money
from? There are various possibilities but against that, if we
borrow the money, we would obviously have to make sure that we
can repay it without affecting our statutory financial duty. Is
the Government going to give us the money? Hardly. Do we get it
from the National Loans Fund? I do not know. In financial terms
that is the particular concern we have at the moment.
14. What discussions have you had with the Ministry
about this problem?
(Mr Mills) Several.
15. Can you give us a flavour, rather than "several",
as to where this is going, because clearly this is central to
the well-being of the future investment in the Market?
(Mr Mills) You are absolutely correct. The words I
would use are: "They are considering the matter".
16. You make a distinction in paragraph 7 of
the report on page 3 between the wholesaler and the catering distribution
side of the business in terms. I think it says here that the figures
do not reflect any trade in produce not physically passing through
the Market nor activities of agents, importers and non-horticultural
users within the market. Perhaps you could explain a little bit
about the contents of paragraph 7 for the Committee?
(Mr Mills) Yes. I think we are not unique but exceptional
in having to produce detailed figures on the trading companies
themselves, on which these figures in paragraph 7 are based, for
the fruit and vegetable market and for the flower market. There
are in the fruit and vegetable market about 60 wholesalers; there
are about 60 catering distributors; and about eight processors,
the people who actually buy the food and clean it and package
it as opposed to simple distribution. That is why there is a difference
between wholesalers and catering and distribution. That is the
basic breakdown of the market. The flower market speaks for itself.
On top of those figures, which are based on the returns from the
individual trading companies that operate in the Market, we have
the turnover of the other people, like fruit importers, who are
based in the Market and who again supply the Market with produce
from overseas. They do not have to produce a detailed figure in
the sense that the actual traders do but they give estimates.
We estimate on that basis, plus the turnover figures, and that
is why we get to the figure of £480 million for total turnover.
17. I want to return quickly to a more detailed
point about your finances. When I was looking at page 17 of the
balance, there was an intriguing item that said "return on
investments", so I turned to page 26 for greater understanding.
I noted that you have £2.5 million of short-term investments,
of which £2.3 million is on short-term loan with a local
authority. That seems to be quite a lot of money to be parked
in somebody else's account. Could you tell us a bit more about
(Mr Mills) Yes. That is in relation to the Market
Towers' account. When the Market was moved from the old site at
Nine Elms, the idea was that the twin tower building known as
Market Towers, just near Lambeth on the outskirts of the Market,
would serve as offices for the traders, plus for the Authority.
The completion of the building was delayed until after the Market
started trading, so the traders got offices in the Market itself
rather than go to Market Towers. That slightly vitiated the point.
The ownership of Market Towers was vested in the Authority. Then
by 1990, the Market Towers building was sold. The proceeds of
that sale allowed us to wipe off the outstanding debt we had with
the National Loans Fund. So we have no debt at all. We actually
own 56 acres in the centre of London. But there was a contingent
liability in respect of the people who were tenants in Market
Towers. We had a liability in respect of their existence and future.
We were allowed to put in that contingent liabilityfrom
memory, about £2 millionby the Ministry to provide
for coverage for that liability.
18. How long does that contingent liability
last for?
(Mr Mills) Until the Ministry say that it does not.
In fact there are hardly any of the original tenants in the building.
19. So there is a minimum liability. When was
the contingent liability provision last examined in detail?
(Dr Liggins) It is not examined in detail, Mr Jack.
It is simply a sum which accumulates interest and rolls over each
year. The amount of money needed to cover the contingent liability
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Author Notes: Did you know raw cranberries can taste really good and are super good for your health! This holiday inspired recipe uses raw cranberries, orange juice and zest, jalapeño, and maple syrup for sweetener. This sauce gets better over time, so make sure to let it marinate at least overnight before serving. —Poppies and Papayas
Makes: about 2 cups
ounces raw cranberries
medium orange, juice and zest
tablespoons maple syrup
pinches sea salt
deseeded jalapeño (optional)
- Rinse cranberries and strain. Pour onto a clean kitchen towel and pick out any soft cranberries.
- Add the fresh cranberries into a food processor. If you want to add any jalapeno, do so now as well. Process until finely minced. Be careful not to process it too much, because then it will become too soggy.
- Spoon into a large bowl and mix with orange juice, zest, and maple syrup. Season with a pinch or two of sea salt. Allow to marinate overnight.
- Store in a glass jar for up to one week. Note: This chutney gets more flavorful with time. Tastes great tossed in salads, in wraps, sandwiches, or along with your Thanksgiving turkey.
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Geomatics Yukon's new GeoYukon application has been released today. This new tool will allow you to access Yukon government's most current and comprehensive collection of spatial data and imagery.
You can access the application by visiting: http://mapservices.gov.yk.ca/GeoYukon/
The GeoYukon application will allow you to:
View all the data in Yukon government's Corporate Spatial Warehouse (CSW)
This is the first release; however, we will be continuing to make improvements and offer additional functionality in future releases.
We hope GeoYukon will allow you to more efficiently access Yukon government spatial data and imagery. We welcome any suggestions so that we can better meet your needs. Please use the feedback link on the GeoYukon home page to send us an email about the data or the application.
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We are a 7 piece Doo Wop band from Winnipeg, Canada. We enjoy not only playing the music from the golden era, we absolutely love entertaining our audiences and hopefully bringing smiles and happiness to those that share memories of an era that is truly special to many!
We play and perform a wide variety of classic hits aimed to please all crowds and ages. As a 7 piece group, our sound resonates everything from Elvis, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Little Eva, The Drifters, The Platters, and many more of the greats from the 50's and 60's era.
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You will not find our "real names" as we have chosen to pen our books as Human Angels, a collective identity that heartily welcomes, embraces and transcends our individuality and belongs to all those who have chosen to live with Unconditional Love in the Oneness.
We write our books driven by the wish to share our healing journey, that has been a long and sometimes difficult trip through the illusions and the pitfalls created by the ego to our rebirth in the Oneness. We have transmuted our experiences into Awareness and Love with the help of powerful, channeled energies that have, increasingly, guided and enlightened the path of our journey.
We currently live in Europe in a quaint village in the Alps, far from the frantic and noisy world of today, but always connected with the Uni-verse.
With the wish that our books will awaken the Human Angel within yourself!
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This is a book that answered some questions that I had. I recommend this to everyone, it is a must-have. I am very pleased with it.
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This book contains only about 7,000 words. But it brilliantly distills in a few words the steps you could take to find peace and freedom of soul. I recommend this book to everyone, whether you think you're spiritual or not. And to those on the spiritual path, I recommend this to you whether you are a seasoned sage or a greenhorn in the path. Other books could be written to expound on the 7 keys to overcome the ego and the 7 keys to live with the heart. This is book is a jewel! To those gifted souls who wrote the book, a million thanks to you!
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I am very pleased with the book and i recommend it!
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This is an excellent book in the nature of an angelic meditation. My own book The Way in Divine Metaphysics after covering all world religious philosophy,magic,shamaism philosophy and science reaches similar conclusions that humans can be and always have been angels. To develop your angelic potential is to play a responsible role in the God in whom we live and move and have our very being.
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The underrepresented users in the library are the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning better known as GLBTQ. Alexander and Miselis in their article note that this group is not represented in the library by the amount of materials offered. There are many possible reasons that explain this including censorship. But why should libraries recognize these patrons?
This user group tends to be teens or young adults and if young adult librarians can reach out to them and offer a welcoming comforting environment then they are likely to become a life long user. Plus public libraries are public spaces and shouldn't discriminate against any person or user. Society has recently become of aware of this group as a member of society and librarians should include them in their collection development as a whole.
As Alexander and Miselis have proved in their study GLBTQ teens have information needs and the library is a logical place for them to acquire them. YA librarians need to be aware of the collection development policy at their library and how they can obtain materials for these users. Censorship and even self-censorship effects the collection development for GLTBQ material in the library. Administration and YA librarians need to work together to understand the need for materials that can aid these teen's needs. Because not even considering GLTBQ materials is censorship and librarians have a duty to include all of the different types of users.
There are great materials and book lists provided by the professional organizations that supply great books to add to the collection. This is helpful because it can aid the YA librarian who is unsure what to add, and it is good evidence to the library board and admistration that librarians as a group are thinking about this user group.
Great books to include in your collection that cover these topics:
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole
Putting makeup on the fat boy by Bill Wright and Lauren Linn
Money boy by Paul Yee
Sweet like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman
With or without you by Brian Farrey
Pink by Lili Wilkinson
- If unsure what to include in the library collection ALA has a great resource of a bibliography of GLTBQ sources http://www.ala.org/glbtrt/popularresources/children
- 2012 Rainbow list consists of great choices for children and teen http://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/953
Alexander and Miselis, "Barriers to GLBTQ Collection Development and Strategies for Overcoming Them," Young Adult Library Services, Spring 2007, pp. 43-49


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Thanksgiving is a day for us to remember what we're thankful for. Uncover the history behind this holiday!
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Pirelli Scorpion Verde All Season is Pirelli's Green Performance Crossover and SUV tyre that takes full advantage of the most modern resources, structures and tread patterns to guarantee savings, respect to the environment, comfort and safety on all road surfaces.
A Load Index of 110 and Speed Rating H indicates the tyre can carry a load of 1060 kg at a maximum speed of 210 km/h .
Features & Benefits
- Optimised profile and innovative tread materials for higher mileage and reduced fuel consumption
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- Large contact patch and four wide longitudinal grooves improve safety in wet
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SKB Baby Taylor/Martin LX Hardshell Guitar Case
SKB Baby Taylor/Martin LX Hardshell Guitar CaseDetails
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To make it as easy as possible for you to get the gear you want, we offer a range of instant finance options. If you spend £50 or more online, you can choose to pay over 48, 36, 24 or 12 months. The majority of decisions are given instantly, so you could get your new gear sooner than you thought!
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To help you understand how our finance options work, the examples below are based on a total order value of £50:
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You should get an instant answer on whether your application has been successful, though in some rare cases Klarna may need to look at the application in more detail.
Please note: This is only available on orders placed via the website consisting of a single delivery, and is not available in store or via phone currently.
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Highly Durable Construction
This SKB Baby Taylor/Martin LX Hardshell Guitar Case is designed to accommodate the Baby Taylor and Martin LX acoustic guitars but will fit a range of smaller acoustic guitars. The case itself its comprised of SKB's patented reinforced trigger release latching system. The case features a rigid EPS interior foam that offers full length neck support and is shock absorbent. The moulded in bumpers provide optimal protection for the aluminium valance resulting plus the case features an accessories compartment for storing strings, tuners and more. With its multitude of highly durable design components and its lightweight construct, this case is ideal for any travelling musician looking to transport their instrument safely and securely.
- Moulded in bumpers
- Full length neck support
- Plush lined rigid EPS foam interiors protect instruments
- Reinforced trigger release latching system
- Bumper protected valance
- Rubber over-moulded handle
- Injection moulded feet
- Includes an accessory compartment
- Interior Length: 34.50 in, 87.63 cm
- Exterior Length: 37.00 in, 93.98 cm
- Exterior Width: 15.25 in, 38.74 cm
- Exterior Depth: 6.25 in, 15.88 cm
- Instrument Body Length: 16.00 in, 40.64 cm
- Instrument Body Depth: 4.25 in, 10.80 cm
- Instrument Lower Bout: 12.50 in, 31.75 cm
- Instrument Upper Bout: 9.25 in, 23.50 cm
- Carton Length: 38.50 in, 97.79 cm
- Carton Width: 24.00 in, 60.96 cm
- Carton Depth: 7.00 in, 17.78 cm
- Product Weight: 6.60 lb, 2.99 kg
The product price includes 6 years' warranty and 180 day money back guarantee.
However, the Gear4music extended warranty scheme provides an enhanced service, and is designed to offer a higher level of protection than many 'free' warranties offered by some retailers and manufacturers.
The highlights of this enhanced warranty service are:
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- Our Money Back guarantee is extended from 30 days to 180 days (terms apply after 30 days)
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This enhanced warranty is in addition to the standard Gear4music and manufacturer warranty policies, and the Gear4music terms and conditions of trade. No statement or condition of sale contained within these terms affects or restricts your statutory rights as defined under the Consumer Contracts Regulation 2014.
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I'm not sure how to explain my new love Agata Wierzbicka's art. Maybe it has something to do with her use of sketchy lines and pastel colours, giving her work that unfinished quality that somehow makes me want to see more. Since discovering her work only a couple of weeks ago, I have already saved a catalogue on Pinterest – it was love at first sight, I tell you.
Agata is a Warsaw based freelance interdisciplinary designer. Combing design and art, she mainly draws digitally but loves using acrylic, oil and pencil, and mixing techniques.
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Think back to the first time you saw an artwork. You probably can't remember, because it was likely long before you went on a school trip or on a family day out to a gallery. Your first look at a work of art was probably printed in a book, which may even have been just in black and white (with colour ink the preserve of pricier publications), or on an overhead projector – remember those?
Over time there are certain perceptions you associate with an artwork, that become acutely familiar to you, even if you've never seen the artwork in real life. A faded poster of van Gogh's Sunflowers in your Aunt's living room that if removed would leave a sad, pale rectangle on the wall, a Turner postcard perched perilously on your greasy student fridge, a greetings card of Monet's Water Lillies that you gave to your Mum on her birthday four years ago and has been on the same spot on the window sill since.
With images in books, cards and magazines restricted to the size of their static medium, and not capable of giving the level of detail now achieved on, say, museum websites, when you did come across art or an object in a gallery or museum, you'd of course judge it upon your only frame of reference – seeing it in print. Naturally you might assume an artwork would be bigger in the flesh than it appeared on paper. But art can now been seen on screen in multiple ways, not just the desktop computer, but also a mobile phone, tablet and even in the cinema.
This week, inspired by our online team's recent visit to the Museums and the Web 2013 conference, we're asking how seeing an artwork digitally changes the way you see it in real-life. Has your relationship with seeing artworks changed over the years? Do you think these technologies enrich your experience for when you do see art up-close and do they give new possibilities to those unable to view it in the flesh? Or would you rather art go back to the school books, so you can trace, tear it and pin it on your wall? Let us know what you think.
I studied Sally Mann's "Candy Cigarette" every year for 3 years in College, I based an entire project around it but I'd only ever seen it in a book or in the internet. In my third year we went to a Sally Mann exhibition and it was there. Completely changed the way I looked at the image.
In my humble opinion, seeing Art on a screen first does not change how we will experience the Real Art later. If anything the relative poor quality of reproduced images whether on screen or paper etc allows us to experience the real thing as if it were the first time.
often the sheer scale of a piece, first, then perhaps the delicacy, the deftness of the workmanship, the subtlety, the sublimeness will become apparent.
In a Gallery for example the Art is always enhanced for the bettter, by the viewing experience as a whole, we enter prepared to SEE the Art, to FEEL it.
that is a very important part of the experience.
Whether screen or print media, nothing can beat seeing the real thing hanging on a museum wall. Just one example: the vibrant colours of Van Gogh and actually seeing his brush strokes, the texture of the paint etc - nothing compares to this experience. So viewing some artwork on screen can only trigger my appetite to go and see the original (at the Tate?).
I feel that art gains another perspective from seeing it digitally, as the viewer seeing a piece of work digitally illuminates scale and depth. This can lead to us understanding the work in a complete different way to how the artist intended us to see it.
The book 'Ways of Seeing' by John Burger, really opened my eyes to how we see an image for the first and like MissNatalieee was saying, you can do a whole project on a particular piece of art without going to see the real thing. Where when we see the piece in it flesh or opinion changes, this could mean that all the work we have done previously becomes irrelevant.
You only have to think about the painting of the 'Mona Lisa' by Da Vinci to understand that it needs to be seen for real. Just by typing the word into the internet shows how an image can be seen differently and lead to conversations like this.


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Honda Motor Corp.
Posted on 12 Feb 2010
Honda recalls are adding to Japanese automaker woes. In a press release, the automaker announced it has expanded a previously announced recall of certain 2001 and 2002 model-year vehicles to replace the driver's airbag inflator in an additional 378,758 vehicles in the U.S.
The driver's airbag inflators in these vehicles may deploy with too much pressure, which may cause the airbag inflator casing to rupture, resulting in metal fragments passing through the airbag cushion material and possibly causing injury or fatality to vehicle occupants.
Honda says it is aware of 12 incidents related to this issue as of February 2010. While Honda knows of two additional events when the decision to first expand the recall was made in July 2009, the automaker says it is not aware of any new events that have occurred after July 2009. However, Honda says it cannot be completely certain that the driver's airbag inflator in the vehicles being added to this recall at this time will perform as designed. Therefore, the carmaker decided to add certain 2001 and 2002 Accord, Civic, Odyssey, CR-V, and selected 2002 Acura TL vehicles to this recall.*
Honda announced the recall expansion to encourage all owners of these vehicles to take their vehicle to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive notification from Honda that their vehicle is affected. Notification to customers will start within this month.
Honda says that it originally brought this matter to the attention of NHTSA and has kept NHTSA apprised of its decision to include additional vehicles in the expanded recall.
As background, sixteen months ago Honda announced to NHTSA a plan to conduct a recall on fewer than 4,000 model year 2001 Accord and Civic vehicles to replace the driver's airbag inflator, based on our analysis of four instances attributed to the cause of airbag deployments that resulted in rupture of the driver's airbag inflator.
After the original recall in November, 2008, two additional incidents were reported, including one fatality from a vehicle not included in that recall. Our ongoing analysis led Honda to recognize the potential for additional vehicles to exhibit this symptom, and in July, 2009 Honda expanded that recall to include approximately 440,000 model year 2001 and 2002 Accord, Civic and certain 2002 Acura TL vehicles.
*Honda is also adding one (1) Honda Pilot and one (1) Acura CL vehicle, each produced in late 2002, to this recall.
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Bangkok's third Pullman Hotel offers upscale accommodation in heart of the 'City of Angels'The Pullman brand continues is strong expansion in Asia Pacific with the signing of the Pullman Bangkok Grande Sukhumvit. The former Grand Millennium Sukhumvit Bangkok will rebrand to become the third Pullman in the 'City of Angels' and adds 325 spacious and beautifully designed rooms to the region's most dynamic upscale hotel brand.
"The Pullman Bangkok Grande Sukhumvit is a terrific addition to the network, providing stylish, upscale accommodation designed for today's sophisticated traveller," said Michael Issenberg, Chairman and CEO AccorHotels Asia Pacific. "The hotel boasts an unbeatable location, outstanding meeting facilities and modern restaurants that make it popular not only with guests but with Bangkok locals.
"Bangkok holds a special place in the history of the Pullman brand as we opened our first Pullman there – the Pullman Bangkok King Power back in 2008. To add our third Pullman in Bangkok – at a time when the brand has over 55 hotels in the region - is testament to how well the brand has been embraced by travellers and owners alike over the years."
The Pullman brand has really found its place in the hotel sector, striking the perfect balance between performance and enjoyment, business and leisure, with a focus on keeping guests connected.
The hotel features a highly visible sail-shaped glass façade, a range of room styles from deluxe rooms to executive suites and a presidential suite as well as 2 restaurants, a deli lounge, a cocktail bar, outdoor pool, well-equipped gym and extensive spa. There are great facilities for functions or celebrations, with ten meeting rooms including a pillarless grand ballroom for up to 500 guests.
In Asia Pacific alone, Pullman has a strong pipeline of over 40 hotels in the next few years and will continue to expand aggressively. Pullman is now the largest five-star hotel brand in Australia and the fastest-growing AccorHotels brand in China, reflecting its popularity in the region.
Sukhumvit is one of Bangkok's most famous streets and also the longest road in Thailand. The Pullman's position at Asoke (Soi 21) puts it right in the centre of the best bars and restaurants, nightlife, transport hubs and shopping. It is just moments from Asoke BTS, Sukhumvit MRT and the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, making it perfect for both business and leisure travellers.
As part of the rebranding the hotel will build on its already outstanding guest experience by improving its facilities.


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Thomas Jane Would Like to Clarify That Gay-Hooker Quote
A few months back, when the very frank Thomas Jane told Vulture that his Hung character would never go gay, his controversial choice of words. ("I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show") got him in a little trouble with the gay community. To make up for that quote, Jane opened up to the L.A. Times about his time as a homeless 18-year-old in L.A., suggesting that he used to moonlight as a gay prostitute. (That quote: "I was 18. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?") Most people did, in fact, think they knew what he meant, but Jane claims the comments were misconstrued. "In the interviews that I did, I never said I was a prostitute. I was talking about my [early] time in Hollywood: I said that I'd had a sexually adventurous time and I was trying to relate that to how I play a prostitute on TV." So: "Buying a sandwich" is not a euphemism we're using just yet (unless you are referencing "adventure.")


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"And this is the the point of spiritual practice to make us teachable. To open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are." ~Rolf Gates~
Last week I attended a "Yoga Writing" workshop. As I put my mat down I met a woman who was in the same writing class as me 2 years ago. We embraced and her first words to me were: "Has your writing become better?" A simple question, no harm meant and my response came very fast, without thinking. "No it is actually worse!" I sat down and we meditated and I noticed the nagging question and my answer repeating itself in my mind over and over. It made me insecure, confused and deeply worried. A day later the question was still haunting me,
following me like a lurking shadow. The fear of exposure, or writing something wrong, pulled me down beyond the surface of any creativity, it closed me up. Anxiety lingered for 3 days until I sat down and got my thoughts clear. Yes, I do struggle with writing correctly, with grammar and vocabulary. I should mention here that English is not my mother tongue. I often don't know what to write or how to express on the page, so it makes sense for the reader. But the point is I like to write, I like to express my feelings on the page, I like to get clarity and know which direction to go next. I like to play with the words and create a game of war with them or a play of light. I like to write about my struggles with the world, the pain in my heart, or the beauty of the birds or the amazing flowers in my garden, or how lakes and streams make me feel. I like to swim in the ocean of writing not knowing where it will take me. I like to learn more and become better.
I have learned from my teacher Valley, that no matter what, keep the pen moving, even if you do not have anything to say, or if you are stuck. We are all writers, because we all have words, stories, dreams and places that cling to us, that wait to come out on to a page, to become alive. Writing down from our deepest insides, from our souls allows us to remove and let go of pain and suffering. Allows us to get clear with our feelings, finding acceptance and then moving forward on that path which is called life. We are allowed to be free on the page and make mistakes. Most of the time the writing is just for us, it is to free our endless stream of thoughts, to make sense of moments, find answers and healing, trust and acceptance, hope and love. If we judge ourselves or are being judged we negate what the writing is all about and provides for us.
Needless to say, enter silence then unleash the power of your soul and keep the pen moving……