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UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 25 Jan 2017 | By stephenhvlogtv | Views [462]
So today marked day 1 of a 4 day trip back to Ireland I flew from Gatwick to Cork on Ryan Air I have several blog posts from my last trip Which were very popular So I'm ... Read more >
Tags: blarney, castles, cooking, cork, exploring, history, ireland
IRELAND | Sat, 6 Aug 2016 | By bcpckngbrtns | Views [499]
Our time in Ireland felt like such a short stay but we saw a lot of great things in that time. We arrived in Dublin in the afternoon and caught the shuttle to our hotel which was a student residence that had just opened Only a week and a half before ... Read more >
Tags: bcpckngbrtns, bcpckngbrtns2016, cliffs of moher, dublin, europe 2016, european adventure, ireland
IRELAND | Wed, 11 May 2016 | By ruthygirl | Views [343]
So, I decided to go to Ireland for spring break and use up some airline miles. I had no idea what to expect but it was always one of those places that I wanted to visit so I took the advantage and went for spring break. I flew to Dublin Ireland for spring ... Read more >
Tags: coffee, guinness, ireland
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 | By stephenhvlogtv | Views [398]
#StephenInIreland Day 3 you tubers,Cork,Ireland,#stepheninireland,vloggers,travels So today I went on an open top tour bus around Cork http://www.discoverireland.ie/corkcity The video link is here It's a time lapse video ... Read more >
Tags: blog, cork, ireland, vlog, youtube #shvtvinire
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 | By stephenhvlogtv | Views [393]
#StephenInIreland Day 2 Cork,Ireland,Titanic,museum,travel,blogger So today was my first full day in Ireland I got off the plane and we headed straight out on our first adventure Here is the link to the video ... Read more >
Tags: blog, cork, ireland, vlog, youtube
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 12 Sep 2015 | By stephenhvlogtv | Views [308]
So today was my first full day in Ireland I got off the plane and we headed straight out on our first adventure Here is the link to the video https://youtu.be/Pq0rLHwHv3A But I am writing my adventure ... Read more >
Tags: blogging, cork, ireland, vlogging, youtube
IRELAND | Sun, 14 Jun 2015 | By dohnster | Views [621]
Hello everyone! This is my first official travel blog post, and I am so excited to share my adventures across Europe (and who knows where else) with you. Last weekend, I met up with some old Boston pals as a type of "reunion" in Galway, Ireland.... Read more >
Tags: beer, cliffs, ireland, river, temple bar
IRELAND | Wed, 20 May 2015 | By goannasnake | Views [644]
Ireland Thursday 17 May (Dublin to Moira): After way too many hours in planes and airports, we arrived in Dublin and picked up our hire car. A stroke of luck there, with a free upgrade to a 4WD. We had one place to visit today and then intended ... Read more >
Tags: ireland, road trip
IRELAND | Wed, 8 Apr 2015 | By the_life_of_lady_laura | Views [1326]
I never really got the expression 'craic' before I arrived in Ireland. Pronounced 'crack', it made me think of workmen bending over in shorts that weren't quite high enough to cover their well you know....crack. Luckily Gillian my lovely Shamrockers ... Read more >
Tags: blarney, craic, dingle, dublin, exploring, galway, ireland, killarney, kiss, mayo
IRELAND | Thu, 26 Mar 2015 | By homeless_harry | Views [724]
The next morning I woke up feeling so dastardly that Laura said I was looking very Irish, ie. Green. Half a slice of toast made me go white for awhile and had I doused myself in fake tan like all the pikie women in Ireland did, I'd be a flesh version ... Read more >
Tags: cliffs of mohar, friends, glendalough, ireland, road trip
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 25 Mar 2015 | By homeless_harry | Views [759]
Let me tell you about the luck of the Irish. They are incredibly lucky to live in such a beautiful country. They are lucky that they are all incredibly friendly people. They are lucky their famously cold weather played nice for the entire time or I could ... Read more >
Tags: doolin, friends, ireland, pubs galway, road trip
AUSTRALIA | Sun, 8 Jun 2014 | By sarahlizweaver | Views [384]
After 3 flights and 28 hours of travelling I arrived in Melbourne Saturday around noon. Luckily, the flights were not as bad as I had anticipated, mainly due to the fact that airlines outside of North America treat flyers like human beings. On my long ... Read more >
Tags: ireland, quantas, settling in
IRELAND | Fri, 7 Mar 2014 | By gonefarmin | Views [1920]
Deep within the gusty countryside of West Ireland there's an organic farm that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. Located half an hour from Ennis, Clare, a small wooden plaque hangs at its entrance and reads 'Windy Hill Farm'. Run by ... Read more >
Tags: ireland, organic, rural, wild, wwoofing
IRELAND | Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By daniellemerchant | Views [355]
I frame my shot and focus my lens; I breathe with complete focus. The shutter blinks and a moment is captured. A moment that can define, interpret, and express; a moment for the past, the present, and the future. Those variables are what drive me to ... Read more >
Tags: ireland, travel
IRELAND | Fri, 14 Jun 2013 | By declandevlin | Views [393]
After a long days work and the charts looking tempting, a friend and myself set out for an evening surf. We turn up at our local and its absolutely pumping and best of all we have the entire beach to ourselves, the pleasures of living in ... Read more >
Tags: beach, clean coast, cliffs, donegal, ireland, sea, seaside, surfing, surfphotography, waves
IRELAND | Tue, 11 Jun 2013 | By marcingutnik | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
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IRELAND | Tue, 11 Jun 2013 | By fiddlegirl8 | Views [852]
Ireland - the land where legends don't seem so impossible. But before that I just have to say that I am super thankful to have safely made it through the UK customs. For two reasons; the first was that I do not have a return ticket as I am ... Read more >
Tags: airports, cliffs of kilkee, ireland
IRELAND | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 | By amandaheigel | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Tags: heigel, ireland, killorglin, puck, puck faire, travel photography scholarship 2012
IRELAND | Tue, 15 May 2012 | By travel-tips | Views [5351]
Whipping around Ireland with waving red hair and adorned in a tan trench coat, I felt a bit like something out of a bad romantic comedy about an American girl on the Emerald Isle. Old men would wave at me, as I would drive over rolling green hills, ... Read more >
Tags: ireland, travel, travel tips
IRELAND | Sat, 8 Oct 2011 | By brettcooke | Photo Gallery
Tags: castle, cathedral, church, dublin, generator hostel, guinness, ireland, st. patrick
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Kraft Heinz today (30 July) booked a fresh set of impairment charges alongside a set of half-year results that included higher sales and underlying earnings.
The Heinz ketchup and Planters nuts owner filed US$2.9m in impairment losses off the back of a review of its business and plans for growth.
Over 2019, Kraft Heinz ran up impairment charges of just shy of $1.2bn, which followed a further $15.4bn writedown in goodwill, which was booked with the company's results for 2018.
The fresh charges came after Kraft Heinz carried out its "annual impairment test" during the second quarter, which completed its "enterprise strategy and five-year operating plan".
Kraft Heinz insisted the "overall estimated value for the business enterprise" had not "changed substantially" but added the "recalibration of future investments to align with opportunities for which the company sees greater potential for return has resulted in increases in fair value estimates for certain reporting units and intangible assets, and decreases in others".
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By GlobalDataThe group has recorded non-cash goodwill impairment losses of approximately $1.8bn and non-cash intangible asset impairment losses of around $1.1 billion in certain intangible assets.
The charges included goodwill impairment losses on four of reporting units: some $815m in Kraft Heinz's Canada Retail division, a further $655min its US foodservice arm, another $205m on its foodservice business in Canada, and $142m covering its EMEA East unit.
Kraft Heinz also recorded intangible asset impairment losses of $626m related to its Oscar Mayer brand, $140m on the Maxwell House brand and $290 million related to seven other, unnamed, brands.
In the six months to 27 June, Kraft Heinz grew its net sales on an organic basis by 6.9%. Sales grew in the US, Canada and from Kraft Heinz's third reporting unit for "international markets". In the second quarter, Kraft Heinz's sales were 7.4% higher on an organic basis.
Reported half-year net sales stood at $12.81bn, up 3.6% on the first six months of 2019.
The impairment charges hit Kraft Heinz's profits on a reported basis, with the Plasmon baby food owner booking a six-month operating loss of $569m and a net loss of $1.27bn.
However, the company provided a figure for first-half "adjusted EBITDA" of $3.2bn, which compared to $3.03bn a year earlier.
"Our response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic reflects the hard work and dedication of our remarkable employees around the world," CEO Miguel Patricio said. "We are now starting to realise the benefits of agility and scale, while implementing changes across the company to further drive agility, both internally and how we go to market. We believe this will be the key to returning the company to sustainable long-term growth and profitability, and we look forward to providing greater details on these initiatives during our investor day in September."

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Scriptures and Prayers To Jesus Christ For Sep 6, 2019
Please read Proverbs 29:11 or click on this link and then choose the drop down for the Bible version and language you want: https://www.biblegateway.com/
( Click on this link for more English Bible Versions: https://servantsforjesuschrist.org/inspiration.aspx?b=1&d=251 )
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me not be a fool and give my opinion on something I know little about or even information that is not from the direct source. Let me learn more about a situation before I comment on it. In Jesus' name I pray.
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Nov 17, 2021
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No matter if you're a grizzled veteran of the iron or a newcomer to the gym, you've heard of creatine. Depending on your experience and level of knowledge you may have heard wildly different things about creatine (e.g. it's a steroid, it causes hair loss, etc.). Rest assured that none of those urban legends about creatine are true.
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3 Benefits of ElevATP That Can Transform Your Training
When you think about exercise, training, and performance, one thing you've probably heard is that ATP plays a crucial role – and it does. ATP or adenosine triphosphate is an energy-carrying molecule that helps your body function optimally – including all the way down to the cellular level. We mostly hear about it in terms of energy production for skeletal muscle during workouts and how it can help improve body composition. One area where we talk about ATP and its production is through a supplement like creatine which is the most research supplement on the market. Well, that's where ElevATP comes into play and the conversation.


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H/T: Vlad
NOTE: If memory serves, the fascists Croats had no problem mingling with the Muslims in the Nazi SS Handschar division either.
H/T: Vlad
NOTE: If memory serves, the fascists Croats had no problem mingling with the Muslims in the Nazi SS Handschar division either.
In 2009, Jobbik launched a campaign to expunge from textbooks the accepted theory according to which Hungarians are a Finno-Ugric people, and replace it with one according to which they are related to the Huns, Avars and Scythians, Indo-Iranian nomads that inhabited large parts of the Eurasian steppe in the first half of the first millennium C.E. The party, whose EP delegation is led by a professor of criminal law and whose paramilitary offshoot, the Hungarian Guard, has recently been banned, called on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and universities to rectify their curricula, asserting that the Finno-Ugric theory was a Hapsburg plot to break the self-respect of the Hungarian people. link
In 2010, Orban plainly demonstrated his bias against the West September 11, 2010 Arab-Hungarian Friendship Day
In 2012, Hungary again revised the number of religions recognized as official by the government and for the first time gave recognition to Islam under a coalition formed between the Hungarian Islamic Community and the Hungarian Islamic Council and Tan Kapuja Buddhist Church, Buddhist Mission . From comment at Islam v. Europe blog:
"The two islamic community united, but altogether last year they had 700 members.(from the 4 million tax payer only 700 people offered them the 1% of their taxes) The community which one wanted to built Hungary's first mosque (after the turkish occupation more then 200 years ago there were no operating mosques)didn't get the recognition."
Don't Hungarian children still read Géza Gárdonyi's "Eclipse of the crescent Moon"? Learn about the Siege of Eger ( "Egri csillagok")?
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Even with the recent advancements in renewable energy technologies, it's going to be tough to satisfy the electrical needs of our booming human population in the coming years. However, if this international nuclear reactor can ever come online, we may see fusion-driven, utility-scale power grids within our lifetimes.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor located at the Cadarache scientific research facility in the south of France and grew out of earlier work around plasma physics. It's being built as part of an international effort — involving the US, China, the EU, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea — to harness and recreate the immensely potent energy production capabilities of our Sun. The ITER is, simply, a miniaturised sun serving as a proof of concept. If this reactor proves successful, safe, and stable, the lessons researchers learn and the date they collect will be leveraged to create a commercial-scale reactor.
Even as a proof of concept, the ITER is enormous. It's twice as big and 16 times as heavy as any other tokamak reactor ever built. The 830 cubic metre doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, where a mix of deuterium and tritium isotopes are heated to 150 million degrees Celsius to form plasma, which is then confined and controlled via powerful superconducting magnetic coils, is 19.5m in diameter. These coils are necessary to keep the plasma from burning clear through the containment wall. The structure as a whole will be well over 30m tall, weigh 4641 tonnes — double that of the Eiffel Tower — and produce 500MW throughout its 20-year operational life.
When that operational life starts, however, is still up for debate. Crews first broke ground in 2007 with hopes of completing in 2016, but a seemingly endless string of delays and budget overruns have pushed the ribbon-cutting back more than a decade, to 2019 at the earliest. And though it is expected to start running in 2020, it likely won't be running at full power until 2027. Given the current political situations among the seven participatory states that seems a rather optimistic timetable, still if it does prove successful, it could substantially alleviate — if not entirely eliminate — global energy demand. [ITER – Wiki]
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A new integrated helicopter distress beacon jointly developed by Eurocopter and Kannad has been recognised with the 'High Technology' award at an industry conference during the MEDEF Summer University in Paris.
The beacon, dubbed Integra, features an integrated antenna and GPS which sends out a crashed aircraft's coordinates to search and rescue agencies.
"We are especially proud to receive this distinction, which recognises our innovation strategy and our technological leadership in the distress beacon market," commented Jean Yves Courtois, CEO of the Orolia Group, Kanad's parent company. "For Kannad, the partnership with Eurocopter allowed us to define the functional characteristics of the product to best meet the clients' needs, and to test the product in real life conditions thanks to the technical methods and materials that Eurocopter has available. At the same time, we have benefited from an exclusive licence carrying the Eurocopter patent."
"This improves the efficiency of search and rescue agencies in locating helicopters in difficulty or in emergency situations," added Claudius Zwicker, Eurocopter's senior vice president of avionics systems. "Thanks to this partnership, Eurocopter now has a new technology that provides the most reliable pinpointing of helicopters in critical situations."
A new commercial team has been established to market Integra in North America.


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Engage your Season Ticket Holders
How does a Major League Baseball (MLB) team speak with and making the event personal and engaging?
The Milwaukee Brewers utilized Access Live™ technology to speak live with their season seat holders in preparation for the upcoming MLB season. The event featured Brewers play-by-play announcer Brian Anderson and General Manager Doug Melvin, and enabled season seat holders to hear about plans for the upcoming season. Participants were able to ask Mr. Melvin questions and give the team feedback about who they thought should be "breakout player" of the year and what their favorite


text: John Moore and Missing Star's latest single "Work It Out" recently caught our ears in a lovely way. Moore has been hanging around Buffalo for a while – previously fronting the WNY-based act 53 Days. This time around, he and the Missing Star has pairing a twinkly guitar riff with spacey keys and haunting vocals, revolving around a haunting but catchy refrain of "Gonna work it out, gonna work it out again." Check it out below and pick it up his latest album on Bandcamp if you're feeling this jam as much as we are.


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Plenty of parents want to, but aren't helping their kids become financially literate. In a recent survey, nearly half of parents say they miss opportunities to talk to their kids about money and finances. And a quarter say they are very reluctant or extremely reluctant to discuss financial topics with their children. Kids, on the other hand, are eager for their parents to share their wisdom.
Even if you're not teaching your kids, they will learn lessons about money one way or another. If you want to play a key role in shaping your children's feelings, thinking and values about money, you need to give them the gift of financial literacy from an early age.
The earlier you start a child's financial education process, the better. Lessons should begin before age seven, because research shows that money habits and attitudes are already formed by then.
Once your kids are old enough to know they shouldn't be sticking pennies in their mouths, you should introduce them to coins and cash. Explain what money is and how it is used. Actually, showing them how money works is more effective. So let them see you making purchases with cash. Even if you pay with a debit or credit card, explain that you're using your money to make purchases. When you shop together, show them receipts with the amount you paid.
Your kids' early interactions with money will likely involve spending. They see you using it to purchase things. So it's important to teach them from a young age that money isn't just for spending—they should be saving money regularly, too. Learning to save isn't just an essential money habit, it teaches discipline and delayed gratification, goal-setting and planning, stresses being prepared, and builds security and independence. Help your kids get in the habit of saving by giving them a piggy bank or savings jar where they can deposit coins or cash.
You can also open their own account at WKFCU. We have Scottie Savers for ages, birth - 12 years and Extreme Teen for ages 13 to 17. There is more about this at the end of the article.
Kids need to have money of their own so they can learn how to make decisions about using it. An allowance can accomplish that. However, you should consider requiring your kids to do certain chores to earn their allowance. Just about everyone values money they earn differently than money they receive.
In addition to helping kids to understand that money is earned, you can introduce an allowance system so they could learn to live within a budget. They can track how much they have coming in and going out and how much they're saving. Learning how to budget now will help them when they enter the real world. Give them three jars for spending, saving and giving. They have to put some of their allowance in each jar but don't specify how much. The decision is up to them.
A key reason that it is important for you, as a parent, to teach your kids financial lessons is because you can share your money values through those lessons. If you value giving to others, you can instill that value in your children by helping make it a habit for them from an early age.
Just as important as the lessons you teach your kids about money are the ways you discuss and handle money when you're around them. For example, if you complain about having to spend too much on certain things and then take your kids on a shopping spree, you're sending mixed messages.
If you want your children to develop good spending and saving habits, they need to see you making smart spending and saving choices. In short, practice what you preach. And preach with consistency. Educating your children about personal finance is a process that can take time. But if you put in the effort and continuously communicate a clear message about money, you will instill good habits that will serve your children well.
April is Credit Union Youth Month! We are celebrating our youngest members!
Be a Credit Union Saver & Your Savings Will Never Go Extinct is the theme this year. The Jurassic theme makes saving for the future fun and helps younger members appreciate the importance of putting money aside for the future.
Now is the perfect time to open an account for your child or grandchild for FREE.
We will waive the $5 Enrollment Fee and Make the First $5 deposit.
We will have a Kids Cash Giveaway -- 2 $25 Prizes -- on Thursdays - April 8, 15, 22, and 29.
When you open a new kids account or make a $25 deposit into an existing account, your child will receive a special gift bag full of goodies.
To Open A Kids Account:
You will need your child's Social Security Card and your ID to open an account. Teens 15-17 will need to sign the account card and will need a second form of ID, such as a student ID or a Driver's License. Teens 16-17 may open a checking Account.
For complete details go to our website at www.wkfcu.org/Kids-and-Youth/Youth-Month
(Partially reprinted from Forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance.)
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Are you getting the most value from your creators' best content? With a variety of head-scratching algorithms at play, even the most engaging influencer posts have a limited lifespan. The typical Instagram post is relevant for 48 hours, Stories last 24 hours and Facebook post engagements dwindle after a mere 5 hours. With this in mind, turning to paid media to amplify the impact of high-quality influencer content will bring extra value and more conversions than the original post. We'll share why it's time to start creating paid ads with influencer content and top tips to put it into practice!
Why mix paid media with influencer marketing?
First things first, let's explore why it's a good idea to combine influencer content and paid media. Brands can reap the benefits of both strategies by using the precise audience targeting and calls to action that comes with paid media to elevate authentic and engaging influencer content. Paid media allows brands to repurpose top-performing influencer-generated content (IGC) for sales-generation with ads that often outperform brand-owned content.
Whatever the size of your influencer's audience, paid media offers an even wider reach helping brands target a high volume of people, with strategic ad placement and retargeting increasing online visibility compared to one-off feed posts.
The added benefit of using paid media to promote influencer content is the tracking and attribution of sales. Brands can get meaningful insight into content performance by analyzing the click-through rate and number of sales generated through ads using influencer content.
In summary, the benefits of using paid media to maximize the impact of influencer content are:
- Increased conversions
- Wider reach
- Sales tracking and content performance insights
- Precise audience targeting
- Reduced costs of content creation
Integrate social ads as part of influencer campaigns
This first strategy is about capitalizing on the momentum and organic engagement of your influencer campaigns to run paid ads, generating an even greater reach. Using an omnichannel approach by mixing influencer content with paid media amplifies the brand message and makes more of an impact thanks to multiple opportunities for interaction with branded content. This could work well for a product launch campaign. You could work with influencers to tease and build excitement around the launch then drive home the message using ads with a clear call to action to buy the product.
Another approach to using social ads in synchronization with influencer campaigns is to identify which influencer-generated content is performing well organically and then elevate it further by boosting it with ad spend on social media channels, or repurposing it to use as an ad on another social channel. For example, you could use a great snippet from a YouTube video to create a paid ad on TikTok or repurpose a stunning Instagram visual for a Facebook ad.
Use influencer content for whitelisted ads
Once your influencer campaign is done and dusted there's still an opportunity to leverage IGC for paid media. Influencer content embodies the influencer's personal style, making it more engaging and relatable to social media users than brand-owned content. That's why repurposing it as part of an ongoing paid media strategy can yield impressive results.
We highly recommend using influencer whitelisting. It's a very simple process, whereby brands are given access and permission to run ads through an influencer's social profile, with benefits for both brands and influencers. Whitelisted ads have the added benefit of including the influencer's profile photo, and handle while also featuring them in the content itself, so are instantly more familiar to online audiences.
Whitelisting is a great technique for maximizing the reach of IGC. Setting up ads through your influencer's ad profile allows you to create a highly targeted 'lookalike' audience based on their follower demographics. You'll target a relevant audience and extend your reach beyond your influencer's followers, increasing impressions and the chances for conversion.
Drive sales with shoppable ads
Brands now have many social commerce features at their disposal to promote and sell their products directly via social channels. On Instagram you can incorporate shoppable tags in feed posts and product stickers in Stories, offering product information and pricing, with the possibility to purchase through Instagram Shop, without ever leaving the platform. Facebook offers a dedicated format called 'Collection ads' featuring a hero video or image and a grid display of products, allowing you to mix and match IGC and high-quality product catalog images.
Using influencer content that features them using the product or quotes that act as social proof effectively incorporates discovery, consideration, and purchase within one piece of content! These ads are perfectly primed to generate maximum sales by featuring authentic influencer content, a clear call to action, and in-app checkout at the click of a button, showing the huge potential of integrating influencer content and paid advertising.


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After the recent release of a lengthy Department of Justice report on the Baltimore Police Department, the city's police department has entered the national spotlight for its deeply embedded racial discrimination.
However, the Department's findings reveal another disturbing problem that has not gotten as much attention. According to the report, some police officers targeted "members of a vulnerable population — people involved in the sex trade — to coerce sexual favors from them in exchange for avoiding arrest, or for cash or narcotics."
To make matters worse, the report states the BPD "failed to adequately investigate allegations of such conduct, allowing it to recur." While disturbing, this type of abuse of power is not at all limited to Baltimore.
In fact, sexual misconduct is the second most common type of police misconduct in the country.
Last year, a report by the Associated Press found that approximately 1,000 officers nationwide had lost their badges over sexual misconduct for rape, sodomy, and other sexual assault over the course of six years.
As The Huffington Post notes, "that number reflects only officers who lost their badges in states with laws in place to decertify them for such behavior (large law enforcement agencies in California and New York, for instance, do not follow such protocol)."
In order to better understand and contextualize this rampant problem, ATTN: interviewed Katherine M. Koster, communications director for the Sex Workers Outreach Project, via email.
ATTN: How widespread is this problem?
Katherine M. Koster: This is really common. Individuals who are criminalized in general, and criminalized for sex work in particular, are less likely to report victimization to the police, and they are less likely to be believed, so they are most often targeted.
I think we saw this pattern playing out in Oklahoma City, where Daniel Holtzclaw preyed on low-income, African American women with criminal records until he assaulted the wrong target, who was a middle-aged middle-class African American woman who just happened to enter his beat. Another woman had filed a report against him almost a year earlier and she was ignored. It took someone without a criminal record, who was middle class, for the police to follow up on misconduct reports.
ATTN: Why are sex workers especially vulnerable? What factors contribute to this problem?
Koster: Because police impersonate men who are paying for sex on prostitution stings, police sexual misconduct with a sex worker is especially common. Over the last few years, entire vice units in Cleveland, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City have suspended prostitution stings because police are having sex with people before arresting them. This was such a problem in Hawaii that they actually passed a law banning police from having sex with sex workers during sting operations. In Sebastian County, Arkansas, a cop was actually fired for exposing police department policy of initiating new vice cops by having them have sex and then arrest sex workers, so sexual misconduct during sting operations in a prolifically widespread problem.
And because having sex with and then arresting sex workers is such a common practice, this gives rise to the problem of individual police officers on beats coercing sex out of sex workers, especially street-based sex workers of color, in exchange for not being arrested. [There are also] individuals impersonating police to get free sex or to rob or rape a sex worker.
Also, filing a misconduct report essentially involves admitting to doing something illegal–people are afraid of being arrested upon filing a report.
Additional vulnerabilities compound this — if someone is engaged in street-based sex work, if someone has a criminal record, if someone is trans or a person of color, etc.
ATTN: When this happens to them, what choices do sex workers have?
Koster: Sex workers have a number of choices. I think the two best ones are:
- They can report to an organization operating "a bad date list," [which circulates details of persons that may pose a threat to sex workers]. This helps them avoid having to deal with institutions that they have repeatedly experienced violence from and going through the revictimization that all survivors experience with rape/DV/misconduct reports. There are a number of private ones, and organizations like HIPS-DC, the St. James Infirmary, and the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition also operate bad date lists. They can also call us at (877) 776-2004, and we can pass along their report to appropriate lists.
- They can also contact a rape victim advocates organization. The level of sex worker competency varies from organization to organization, but most will provide the person with non-judgmental guidance about what their options are and can send someone as a hospital advocate, a police interview advocate, and a court advocate so that they don't have to go through talking to the police, prosecutor, judge, trial, etc. on their own.
While sex workers are particularly vulnerable, women who have been sexually assaulted by police officers face similar fears and challenges.
Chief Bernadette DiPino of the Sarasota Police Department in Florida told the AP during their investigation, "It's happening probably in every law enforcement agency across the country. It's so underreported and people are scared that if they call and complain about a police officer, they think every other police officer is going to be then out to get them."
Even with the groundbreaking sentencing of former Oklahoma officer and convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, the trial revealed how police departments and the criminal justice system typically fail to hold officers accountable for sexual assault.
*This interview was edited for length and clarity.
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Having just said that "this is about communication, not calligraphy (yet)" I went out to the bookstore and bought a calligraphy brush and ink. It was clear which kanji I would draw. So I drew it and after 4 sizes (each one larger than the previous) I decided to draw the title of Kare Kano (as most English speakers know it), 彼氏彼女の事情. This is translated to "His and Her Circumstances" in the official release, but I thought they could probably do alright leaving it. What does His and Her Circumstances tell you that Kare Kano doesn't? I suppose the original intent of the Japanese authors to communicate something. But there seems to be something lost in translation, the kanji 彼氏 translates to boyfriend and 彼女 definitely translates to her or girlfriend, they might have been stuck with business considerations -- since the title is pretty long already. Anyway, 事 and 女 were in row 8, 彼 was in row 12, and 氏 and 情 are both higher level than the course I'm currently following teaches. Not even my own ambition of JLPT N4 and Grade 3 Kanji contains these two kanji. But that's really fine. When you don't know a kanji you can look it up. Think back to before the Internet was as handy as it is now. What would you do if you didn't know a kanji? Look it up in the back of a book? Look it up in a Japanese-English dictionary? That's right, language acquisition was a lot more difficult when I started. Now it feels like we're riding a pretty effective plan toward our eventual goal of knowing a foreign language.
June 2, 2021
I do practice, I try to do grammar, but I'm kinda stuck. I'll have to find a good book or speed through Japanese for Busy People sooner. Appendices are especially nice for me. I found multiple issues with one sentence in the appendix. いま can be either 今 or 居間. It depends on the sentence. いっかい can either be 一回 or 一階 or any number of words. In this sentence, it's clear that they are trying to say 一階に居間があります。 "The living room is on the first floor." If we tried the other words, it wouldn't make too much sense: "Now is one time," which would be easier said 今は一回です。 But I'm probably wrong because abstract sentences like that are hard for me to compose unless I use the standard xはyです。 sentence format.
June 3, 2021
I did a lot but didn't blog it. It's all in my hundreds of lines of IRC logs. I did a kanji test and got 12 wrong out of 26, I finished vocabulary and figured out a way to test. I went to Kinokuniya and got a manga which is hundreds of pages of Rurouni Kenshin. It's funny to see one of my favorite anime of all time (from way back) in manga form. I also went to Uwajimaya (the real reason for the trip to Kinokuniya) and got Sriracha, 15 lbs of rice (6.8kg), and some other groceries.
June 4, 2021
I watched another video by Yuta about Japanese grammar. It's surprising to see how different his advice is compared to "books". I would be embarrassed to talk to Japanese people in keigo incorrectly, but how about talking with Japanese people informally incorrectly? I really think that overall people should accept that foreigners are going to speak terribly until they get a pattern of speech and recognition that works toward communication. I also wrote a short script to turn my vocabulary list (which goes kanji hiragana english) into a hiragana vocabulary list. This will make it so that I'm not learning kanji as much for this vocabulary, but will really hammer home the readings, which are more important.
I did the test and got two wrong. That's close enough, which means... I'm going to move on to the next row. It's friday, which means I'm 9 days ahead of my intended test schedule. I realized that I haven't actually shown what my desktop looks like while I do the kanji test. So no one actually knows how I'm drawing these kanji. So I put an image below that shows what I'm doing. Click to see a full size version. Apologies to Jen Psaki for a not 100% flattering screenshot. I'm sure she's okay knowing that I listened to her for 40 minutes this morning.
I use a tablet to draw kanji and hiragana in GIMP. I use a bash script to give myself random English definitions of kanji to draw. When I'm done, I have another script that gives me the kanji which I copy and paste into GIMP to check my work. You may have noticed that I've gotten a few readings (hiragana) wrong if you know Japanese really well. This is because I don't check all the readings because I'm fairly confident (perhaps overconfident) in the readings.
So what else is there to do? I can do a bit of grammar today if I feel like it. I have to think about the kanji I failed. I only got two wrong and I forgot one reading.. I forgot 理 and 家. While I was thinking about 家 I couldn't bring it to the fore of my mind and instead drew the first part of 屋 which I also forgot part of (which is partly why that isn't drawn).
食 鳥 天 元 初 魚 肉 海 洋 杯 君 物 家 工 料 部 次 理 地 十 米 持 好 字 連 特 月 全
You can tell that this test is higher resolution by a factor of 2. In previous tests I zoomed in to 200% so that I could draw more effectively and realized that the quality of my drawing doesn't really depend on resolution, so I chose to increase the resolution. That tripled the file size, but since it's only 91KB I think we can survive the extra bandwidth necessary to communicate the extra quality. Note how this is actually the size at which I draw -- previous tests are showing half resolution.
Going through the hundreds of words of N5 vocabulary (800 if the youtube video is right) over the past few days really shows me how much Japanese I already know. I didn't know every word, but I felt like I was pretty close to 90%. 90% of 800 is 720 which is pretty outstanding. How does that work? 1) We may never know 2) human beings are communication machines and 3) I have devoted hours of my life to this pursuit.
What other possible conclusion is there? That I spent hundreds of hours learning Japanese and have a really poor handle on it? This is the sort of attitude that is natural for me. I spent hundreds of hours writing and testing a game only to have numerous issues come up that I can't fix easily. Not once, but multiple times. So why is Japanese different? The true test of whether I know Japanese is whether I can communicate with a Japanese person. I don't have any opportunity to communicate with Japanese people besides watching videos or listening to podcasts, so until a test happens that is at my level we're not yet at the same place as my video game (that is nearly ready to publish). Now that I read this, I feel like voiced visual novels are pretty close to my level. I'm not able to understand completely by any stretch, but the text helps. The use of kanji without furigana is unfortunate but with hacking I am able to throw the kanji into a dictionary and attempt to understand.
Okay that's that, thanks for reading if you read any of this. If you put a single letter in the comment field and a url you want me to visit in the url field, I'll visit the url. I'll erase the comment unless I find some reason to leave it.
Until next time!
I'll hopefully post all tests as I pass them. Wish me luck.
Previous episodes:
Learning to Read and Write Kanji
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 5
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 6
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 7
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 8
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 9
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 10
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 11
Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 12
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Outdoor grilling is a perfect way to spend time with friends and family.
You'd need a BBQ to enjoy that moment, but an over-the-top BBQ isn't all that it's about. Acquiring the best BBQ accessories will help you get the most out of your grilling experience.
Here are some of the must-have BBQ accessories;
1. Chimney Starter
Charcoal BBQs are the most preferred to use since they are cheaper, and they add more flavour to your food.
Using lighter fluids to light your charcoal is ill-advised. A chimney starter becomes the best option since it accelerates the time it takes for a charcoal barbeque to reach the perfect cooking temperature.
2. Heat-Resistant BBQ Gloves
Well, it's always been safety first. You wouldn't want to burn your fingers, getting injured as you do what you love. The heat-resistant gloves can handle very high temperatures. By using such gloves, you can be sure to enjoy grilling without having to fear suffering burns.
3. Grill Brush
It's always mandatory to maintain high standards of cleanliness when handling foodstuff. Keeping your grill clean also helps to keep it in the best state for use. Always clean the grates before use and oil them to prevent the meat from sticking onto the grates.
4. Digital Meat Thermometer
Trusting your instincts to tell you when the meat is ready puts you at risk of serving uncooked or overcooked meat. That's why a meat thermometer is a crucial BBQ accessory to own. Checking the meat's internal temperature by inserting the needle of the thermometer into it is a sure way of telling if it is properly cooked or not.
5. BBQ Grilling Lights
There are just those days when it's too hot to go outside during the day, and you prefer to barbeque in the cool breeze of the night. Then having barbeque grilling lights is a complete necessity. It helps you work just effectively as you would have during the day.
6. Grilling Basket
Grilled meat is always served best with accompaniments like vegetables. And that's where the grilling basket comes in handy. You won't have to worry about small pieces of your vegetables or meat passing through the grates into the fire.
7. Heavy-Duty Tongs
You sure can't barbeque without a pair of tongs. You'll want to own heavy-duty tongs capable of withstanding the high cooking temperatures. Consider choosing tongs that are long enough to keep your hands away from the fire.
8. BBQ Apron
Aprons fashioned for BBQ aficionados are worn more for service than for aesthetics. They've got pockets in which you can insert your grilling tools. There are different types in the market. So, when choosing, be sure to pick BBQ aprons made of a material strong enough to protect you from heat and prevent stains from penetrating through to your inner garments.
9. Rib Rack
Ribs take up a lot of space on the grill. Cooking them vertically on a rib rack enables you to cook more at once. Using a rib rack, therefore, means getting your food ready in no time.
10. Basting Brush
What's grilled meat without flavour? We all know that a little seasoning added to the grilled meat makes it yummier. A basting brush is your best bet if you'd like to glaze your meat with seasoning while grilling.
Having a good quality BBQ grill, the above accessories, and the right ingredients for your grilling will make your experience more memorable. The beauty of it is that all these accessories are readily available in the market.
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Also sprach Kubrick und Clarke. Long before Douglas Adams, in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke tackle Life, the Universe and Everything. The result? Monolithic! A movie where everything exciting happens in the human mind. No aliens blasting at each other as if they were cowboys from 1870 Earth, or rocketsleds blaring loudly in space and … Read More
A Midget in the Footsteps of Giants. No one said it would be easy. Following in the mythic footsteps of Stanley Kubrick and equally legendary Arthur C. Clarke. Maybe it was this inimitable pedigree that gave lowly Peter Hyams the impetus to craft such a reasonably watchable sequel to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. A tension-filled space trek where we laugh … Read More


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Columbus Metropolitan Library, in partnership with Learn4Life and Columbus City Schools, will participate in the Supporting Partnerships to Ensure Ready Kids (SPARK) program, a home visitation program designed to increase high-risk children's school readiness and parents' effectiveness as learning advocates for their students. The project's service area is west Columbus, which has some of the highest poverty rates and lowest standardized test scores in central Ohio. Family activities will aid in the development of children's reading, language, and social skills and will link families to other service providers that can improve children's health and wellbeing so that they can enter school ready to learn.


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ABOVE PHOTO: Siblings Davion and Jasmine FerrEll proudly show off their awards at the Urban Youth Racing School 15th anniversary Gala dinner held at PA Convention Center last weekend.
(Photo by Webster Riddick)
By Chris Murray
For the Chris Murray Report
and the Philadelphia Sunday Sun
About 15 years ago, Anthony Martin used to watch auto racing on television with a buddy of his at his home on 21st and Tasker.
A huge fan of racing, Martin once dreamed of being a race driver himself, but was too old to pursue the sport at the time. He wanted to kids to experience the passion he had for the sport in the hopes that they would someday become race professional car drivers, however.
Martin somehow got in contact with Indy racecar driver Michael Andretti who brought his car to a location in West Philadelphia.
"The first event that I ever did I got Michael Andretti to bring his race car into West Philly and that was huge," Martin said. "It brought 300 kids out… What we saw from the kids who were there that were inner city kids that liked racing."
For the last 15 years, the Urban Youth Racing School has not only become a place where kids can learn how to race cars and study the mathematical and scientific aspects of the sport, it has become a full-service venue that provides mentoring and educational opportunities that go beyond the sport of racing.
"The thing that was more powerful than anything else is our passion for the kids," Martin said. "My passion has always been for the kids being successful whether they be engineers or not."
More than 3,500 students have come through the doors of the UYRS's headquarters on North Front Street where they have introduced young people to career and educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.
The Urban Youth Racing School recently celebrated its 15th anniversary during its awards banquet at the National Constitution Center near Independence Mall. The young people in the program, who range in age from 6 to 18, were honored for their participation and their achievements in the program.
Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams attended the award ceremonies and said the UYRS has done an outstanding job in terms of reaching young people and guiding them in the right direction.
"I'm awestruck by the breadth and the impact and the reach of the program," Williams said. "There are a lot of anti-violence initiatives, but clearly this program is a standard bearer… Considering everything that's occurred in this country in Boston, Connecticut or the lives of the kids who die on the street of Philadelphia, this program represents the possibility of not only removing children from harm's way, the but the possibility of them doing something for themselves and others."
While the dream of having one of their students compete as drivers on major racing circuits such as NASCAR has not been fulfilled, the UYRS program has expanded into several initiatives such as Urban Youth Naval Engineering Program and the What it Takes E-Mentoring Program.
"It's grown a lot," Martin said. "We're strong in STEM (science,technology, engineering and math) now and our e-mentoring program."
Over the years, the UYRS has also developed partnerships and relationships with NASCAR along with several racing teams within the sport including Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Rensi Motor Sports, the U.S. Navy, Chevrolet, Bank of America and the Knight Foundation.
U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Kevin McCoy, who gave the keynote speech at the awards ceremonies, said the Navy needs young people, especially those of color, to consider careers in the sciences and that programs like UYRS do well with helping steering kids in that direction.
"If you look at the 99 percent graduation rate and if you look at the 90 percent who go on to college and the close association that they have with the Naval professionals at our ship engineering centers here, we think we're get these young folks back into our employment and they're going to be the engineers and scientists of the future that keep our Navy No. 1."
The impact of this program is not only felt on kids in Philadelphia, but children in other places. 17-year-old Christopher Morgan participated in the program even though he lives in Brooklyn, New York. His parents drove him down the New Jersey Turnpike every weekend for 22 weeks so that he can be a part of the program.
"This program means a lot to me because you learn commitment because you can't expect everything to fall in your lap, you have to be committed," Morgan said. "In New York, there were no mechanical engineering or racing programs like UYRS. I love racing and I want to do that or design engines."


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By Kusum Pant Joshi Almost a year after Covid was unleashed on the world, Holi arrived at the end of March 2021, flooding us with
Category: History
By Reginald Massey David Ochterlony was born in Boston in 1758 and at the age of eighteen managed to procure a cadetship to serve in India.
Yale University: the Indian connection
By Reginald Massey On April 5, 1649 there was born in Boston, New England, a boy named Elihu Yale. The Yales were of Welsh ancestry


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Dream 17 is in the books and it was a night that saw most of the favorites win. Lightweight champ Shinya Aoki increased his winning streak to six straight by beating former WEC champ "Razor" Rob McCullough with a mean neck crank in the first round.
Long-time lightweight contender Tatsuya Kawajiri survived an early scare to beat Joachim Hansen in the third round with an arm triangle submission. "Lion" Takeshi Inoue finished UFC veteran Caol Uno by KO with a head kick. Aging legend Kazushi Sakuraba was forced to tap to Yan Cabral in the first round.
A number of split decisions marked the event with Satoro Kitaoka, Gerald Harris and Antonio Banuelos all picking up wins.
Complete results:
Shinya Aoki def. Rob McCullough via submission (neck/face crank), Round 1.
Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Joachim Hansen via submission (arm triangle), Round 3.
Takeshi Inoue def. Caol Uno via KO (head kick), Round 1
Yan Cabral def. Kazushi Sakuraba via submission (arm triangle), Round 1
Satoru Kitaoka def. Willamy Freire via split decision.
Gerald Harris def. Kazuhiro Nakamura via split decision.
Antonio Banuelos def. Hideo Tokoro via split decision.
Bibiano Fernandes def. Takafumi Otsuka via submission (rear naked choke), Round 1
Masakazu Imanari def. Abel Cullum via submission (armbar), Round 3.
Rodolfo Marques def. Yusup Saadulaev via unanimous decision.
Ikuhisa Minowa def. Baru Harn via submission (scarf hold), Round 1


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Tuna salad was a household staple growing up. We'd add it to toasted sourdough bread, scoop it up with Triscuit crackers, or add it to a few crispy romaine lettuce leaves. My mom would throw together a few ingredients — freshly squeezed lemon juice, sea salt and black pepper, mayo, and capers — and we would dive right in.
Fast forward 15 years, and I don't crave tuna salad like I used to. I'm also weary of toxins and contaminants in the environment, and certain types of tuna have high mercury levels (also, most canned tuna is loaded with sodium!). You can read more about tuna's mercury levels here. Instead, I now opt for a hearty salmon salad made with Alaskan salmon, creamy avocado, spicy dijon mustard, aromatic capers, and fresh dill.
When it comes to navigating the canned fish aisle, there are some products that are best avoided altogether — whether due to environmental concerns, sustainability, toxicity, labor ethics, or all of the above. As a conscientious shopper, I ensure that the label indicates the salmon I'm buying is either Alaskan pink salmon, sockeye, or red salmon. All of these terms indicate that the salmon is a) wild and b) from North American waters. The Alaskan salmon fishery is one of the most well-managed, safe, and sustainable fisheries in the world, so as long as your salmon is wild-caught, it's almost always an ethical choice.
If a can indicates that the fish is Atlantic salmon, keep in mind that Atlantic salmon is always farmed; this type of fish has essentially been driven to extinction in the wild. Farmed salmon, of course, is a poor choice due to antibiotic use, toxins such as PCBs (man-made chemicals like carbon and chlorine), and pollution of waterways (where the salmon are kept in vast pens). You should also try to avoid salmon that has been shipped overseas for processing. If the label tells you your salmon is a "product of Thailand," that means the fish was caught in the U.S., shipped across the world, processed, and then shipped back for sale. Appetizing? I didn't think so!
All of that said, canned pink or sockeye Alaskan salmon is low in contaminants and high in heart-healthy omega-3s. It's also ethically caught in Alaska and priced very well, making it a great choice all around. Now, there is no denying that fresh salmon is a powerhouse, but it's expensive and sometimes finding wild-caught sockeye is hard to do. That's why I love canned salmon —it's cheaper, super versatile, and can be used in salmon cakes, salads, seafood stews, and pastas. That said, when I'm not buying canned salmon, Pride of Bristol Bay is my go-to! Their salmon is sustainably harvested, and I keep it in my freezer.
For this recipe, you can easily the salmon salad to a bed of arugula or massaged kale, use it as a spread on fresh bread, serve it with cucumbers, carrots, celery, or radishes, etc. The options are endless, and I promise you won't miss the mayo. It makes for a fast weeknight dinner, desk lunch, or weekend snack. Enjoy!
Healthy Avocado Salmon Salad
- 2 cans wild-caught, boneless, skinless, Alaskan pink salmon (otherwise, bake + cool a medium-sized filet of Pride of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon)
- 1 small small ripe avocado (or 1 heaping tbsp mayo)
- 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- 2 tsp minced garlic
- 1/4 cup capers
- 3 tbsp fresh dill
- juice of 1 lemon
- cracked black pepper and red chili flakes to taste (optional)
- In a large mixing bowl, add the canned / cooled salmon and pitted avocado. Mash together.
- Into the large mixing bowl, add your dijon mustard, minced garlic, and lemon juice. Mix together. Fold in your capers, chopped dill, black pepper, and red chili flakes.
- Place the mixing bowl into the freezer for 10 minutes (or into the fridge for 30 minutes). Serve chilled.
- This serves 2-4 people, but it can be enjoyed as leftovers the next day (just store in an air-tight container in the fridge).


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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
The Upper Cretaceous Beypazarı granitoid of the western Ankara, Turkey, is composed of two different units, on the basis of petrography and geochemical composition; these are granodiorite and diorite. The granitoid is subalkaline, belonging to the high-K calc-alkaline I-type granite series, which have relatively low initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.7053-0.7070). All these characteristics, combined with major, trace element geochemical data as well as mineralogical and textural evidence, reveal that the Beypazarı granitoid formed in a volcanic arc setting and was derived from a subduction-modified and metasomatized mantle-sourced magma, with its crustal and mantle components contaminated by interaction with the upper crust. The rocks have \epsilonNd(75Ma) values ranging from -5.5 to -2.0. These characteristics also indicate that a crustal component played a very important role in their petrogenesis. The moderately evolved granitoid stock cropping out near Beypazarı, Ankara, was studied using the oxygen and hydrogen isotope geochemistry of whole rock, quartz and silicate minerals. \delta^1^8O values of the Beypazarı granitoid are consistently higher than those of normal I-type granites. This is consistent with field observations, petrographic and whole-rock geochemical data, which indicate that the Beypazarı granitoid has significant crustal components. However, the \delta^1^8O relationships among minerals indicate a very minor influence of hydrothermal processes in sub-solidus conditions. The oxygen isotope systematics of the Beypazarı granitoid samples results from the activity of high-\delta^1^8O fluids (magmatic water), with no major involvement of low-\delta^1^8O fluids (meteoric water) evident. The analysed four quartz-feldspar pairs have values of \Deltaqtz-fsp between 0.5-2.0, which are consistent with equilibrium under close-system conditions. No stable isotope evidence was found to suggest that extensive interaction of granitoids with hydrothermal fluids occurred and this is consistent with the lack of large-scale base-metal mineralization.
Beypazarı granitoid, Upper Cretaceous, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, crustal contamination, western-central Anatolia, Turkey
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Electronic components are normally assembled to printed circuit boards (PCBs). Such components generate heat in operation which must be conducted away efficiently from the small mounting areas to frames where the PCB is fixed. The temperature of the component depends on heat dissipation rate, technology and parameters of mounting, component placement and finally effective thermal conductivity (keff) of the board. The temperature of some components may reach significant magnitudes over 100°C while the PCB frame is kept at near-ambient temperature. The reliability of electronic components is directly related to operating temperature; so the thermal project should be able to provide a correct temperature prediction of all PCB components under the hottest operational condition. In space applications, the main way to spread and reject heat of electronic equipment is by thermal conduction once there is no air available to apply convection-based cooling techniques. The PCB keff is an important parameter for the electronics thermal analysis when the PCB is modeled as a simplified homogeneous board with a unique thermal conductivity. In this paper, an intrinsic uncertainty of such approach is firstly reveled and its magnitude is evaluated for a real space use PCB. The simulation uses SINDA/FLUINT Thermal Desktop and aims to determine the keff of the PCB by comparison between a detailed multi-layered anisotropic model and an equivalent homogeneous single-layer model. The model was validated using available data for two-layered FR4-copper PCB. Multiple simulations are performed with different dissipating component position and mounting area.
PCB; Spacecraft Thermal Control; Effective Conductivity
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Is Dion Foulkes Really Serious?
The FNM likes to take credit for things they did not invent and are masters at rewriting history. You would think from this headline that this policy is something brand new but it isn't. It's a long standing policy of the PLP. The other lie that was told by the Minister is that the parade on Labour Day was the first time there was a united march of the two umbrella organizations in 40 years. False. False. A lie in other words. The video shows that back in 2004, Vincent Peet led a joint parade of both umbrella unions. Mr. Peet was a PLP Minister of Labour.


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Square Enix is staffing up to develop a new action game project, and one of their new recruits is none other than former Capcom developer Ryota Suzuki. This info was revealed on a recruitment PR page for Square Enix, which emphasized the company's search for developers with skills and experience in AAA titles as well as "action scene and battle part design". That being the case, Suzuki's resume fits the bill, as he served at Capcom as a Gameplay Player Lead on Dragon's Dogma, Game Design Lead on Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, and as a Designer on Devil May Cry 5. He also helped with programming for Monster Hunter: World and its Iceborn expansion.
The PR page also included a brief interview with Ryota Suzuki, who revealed that he joined Square Enix in 2019, and is Battle Director for the new AAA title. The interview didn't focus too much on the game, as the page's purpose was to draw in potential applicants rather than tease details, but it did shed some insights on Square Enix's motivations and structure. When asked about the timing of the search of experienced action game developers, Suzuki noted that Square Enix is best known for RPGs and command-based battle systems. But with the increase in hardware capabilities over new generations, more and more RPGs have incorporated action elements, making the tools and and talent to develop those types of systems in-house increasingly necessary.
Continuing with the topic of current trends, Suzuki noted that "command battle" games are often thought of as "old-style", and even marked out by overseas players with the "JRPG" label. He suggested younger players raised on Grand Theft Auto and first-person shooters may not jive with the more static methods of command selection during battle. Square Enix's long history making more stat-based RPGs and Suzuki's own experience with action-RPGs (referring to Dragon's Dogma) would enable the company to establish the capacity to create "high-quality RPGs with world-class action elements".
The interview then pivoted to what it was like to work at Square Enix. Suzuki praised the company's "White Company" characteristics (Note: "Black Company" is a term in Japan for companies with a culture of excessive crunch or reputation for worker exploitation), as well as its support for workers, daily and monthly working hour limits, and office rest and lounge spaces. He acknowledged that due to the nature of game development, there's no surefire way of avoiding at least some cases of workers working long hours, the physical and mental health support Square Enix provided was, in his view, generous.
Ryota Suzuki also revealed a little more about the company's structure and career support. He said that in most creative companies, getting results as a creator and being promoted often came with additional management and organizational work done off-site. At Square Enix, he said, specialized project management and production assistance is on hand to help creatives tackle their management duties without losing focus on surmounting development challenges. He praised a work culture that makes it easy for people with initiative to consult with superiors, and didn't overemphasize seniority when deciding which pitches and projects to entertain.
The interview closed with a brief message from Suzuki to potential Square Enix applicants: "Aim for the top in both RPG and Action". Future updates to the page will include an interview with Takeo Kujiraoka, Director of Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT and a battle developer on the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy.


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In its commentary, Elf preferred the 3d line attachment against the keima enclosure over the textbook play by 10½%. Elf has strong opinions, so I do not expect any other bot to have that large a preference, but I do think it will probably be substantial for that bot. It would not surprise me if another bot preferred to approach the White stone on the right side at or around a or b.
I don't think of the 3d line attachment as a non-human play. It was played in various contexts during the 19th century, and the bots may be bringing it back.


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Pandora Media said on Monday it was pleased that the U.S. Copyright Office agreed that the company's pact with Merlin Network, a global rights agency for independent musicians, was admissible as a benchmark in royalty proceedings.
Trading of Pandora was halted twice in the morning, and spiked up 14.7 percent to $22.60. In early afternoon, Pandora traded up 5.6 percent at $20.82.
A three-judge panel called the Copyright Royalty Board has been working on setting royalties for Internet radio, companies like Pandora and Jango, and is due to come to a decision in mid-December. Internet radio has urged a lower rate as it struggles to be profitable.
In August 2014, Pandora reached an agreement with Merlin over royalties to be paid in the United States.
The Copyright Office said on Monday that the board may consider the rates that Pandora and Merlin hammered out in reaching its decision on what royalty should be paid for songs streamed on the Internet.
"We look forward to the certainty that December's decision will bring, and are prepared to thrive in a number of potential outcomes," said Dave Grimaldi, Pandora's director of public affairs, in a statement.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Diane Craft)
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.


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1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of its street and of the river, from here and from there, was a tree of life producing twelve fruits: according to one month each yielding its fruit. And the leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations.
3 And every curse will no longer be. And the throne of God and the Lamb will be in it; and His slaves will serve Him.
4 And they will see His face; and His name will be on their foreheads.
5 And night will not be there; and they have no need of a lamp or a light of the sun, because the Lord God will shed light on them. And they shall reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His slaves what must happen quickly.
7 Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one keeping the words of the prophecy of this Book.
8 And I, John, was the one seeing and hearing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel showing me these things.
9 And he said to me, Behold! Stop! For I am your fellow-slave, and of your brothers the prophets, and of the ones keeping the words of this Book. Do worship to God.
10 And he said to me, Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this Book, because the time is near.
11 The one acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly; and the filthy, let him still be filthy; and the righteous, let him still do righteousness; and the holy, let him still be holy.
12 And, behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each as his work is.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last.
14 Blessed are the ones doing His commands, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and by the gates they may enter into the city.
15 But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving a lie, and making it.
16 I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the bright and morning Star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And the one hearing, let him say, Come! And the one thirsting, let him come; and the one desiring, let him take of the water of life freely.
18 For I testify together with everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add upon him the plagues having been written in this Book.
19 And if anyone takes away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and of the things having been written in this Book.
20 The One testifying these things says, Yes, I am coming quickly. Amen. Yes, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.


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With the notable exception of your 21st, birthdays are generally not considered particularly dangerous.
Nor has anybody knowing your birthday generally been considered dangerous. Hell, even Gillette often knows your birthday — thanks in part to a variety of public databases — which is why they send a lot of guys a free razor on their 18th birthday.
When I scroll through Facebook, I can see the self-identified upcoming birthdays of Judge Tony Hazel, Inlander movie critic Nathan Weinbender, Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer and County Commissioner Josh Kerns.
But yet at the same time, the Washington State Legislature is prepared to pass legislation to redact the dates of birth from Washington state employees from public records requests, arguing that allowing the public to obtain the dates of birth of state employees represented a risk to their privacy and safety. In particular, employee unions have raised concerns about identity theft.
The measure comes after a Washington state Supreme Court case last year, where the Freedom Foundation, an anti-union organization, successfully argued that employee birthdates were public. The Freedom Foundation had been requesting employee information as part of their efforts to persuade state employees to stop paying their union dues.
But a majority of judges on the state court concluded that state employee birthdays are very much a part of the public record.
"No Washington case has ever held that employee birth dates associated with names are private," they ruled last year. "While preventing identity theft and the misuse of personal information is an important policy objective, we must recognize that the [Public Records Act] embodies a critical public policy in its own right."
So is it actually risky for people to know your birthday? The Inlander spoke with Spokane Police Detective Stacey Carr, who says that your birth date is useful for an identity thief, but it's not enough by itself.
"If I were to steal your identity, I would need a little bit more," Carr says. A social security number is particularly useful.
"Your veterinarian does not need your social security number," Carr says. "Keep that card locked up."
And be particularly wary of those silly little Facebook quizzes that ask questions like "what was your first pet" and "what was your mother's maiden name." In general, the more information a thief has, the more they can pretend to be you when they tries to get into your bank account or steal your cell phone information.
A birth date, whether for a detective, a journalist, or a con artist, is a useful thing to have.
"If I want to track someone down, I go to their Facebook. I look for their birthday wishes on their profile," says Carr. "So then I can figure out probably what day they were born. So it helps me build information on the suspect. I can usually find out when they graduated from high school."
Your birth date is probably already out there, Carr says. But you probably shouldn't go out there and shout it from the rooftops, or on Facebook.
Others came to similar conclusions. In 2008, Snopes took on the question of whether searchable birthday databases could be used to steal your identity, and concluded that "a scammer generally needs something more than that (such as a social security number, at least) to start applying for charge cards or opening lines of credit in someone else's name."
Still, a 2013 NOVA story says that, by using a birthdate and location, a thief could theoretically brute force their way to correctly identifying a social security number in certain instances. But it also notes that it's unclear whether identity thieves go to all that trouble. More typically, thieves go the simpler route of stealing identities in bulk — by, for example, using social security numbers after scammers tricked credit bureaus into selling to them.
"Thieves are not going after one identity but thousands or millions of them," says Cormac Herley, a security expert with Microsoft Research.
It's not clear whether public records request in Washington state have ever been used to aid in identify theft: After all, use a public records request to try to steal someone's specific identity, you yourself would create a record of that request — and possibly trigger a third-party notification to the intended victim.
The worries from public employees, however, go beyond pure identity theft. Lucinda Young, lobbyist for the Washington Education Association, argued in a committee hearing that protecting birthdates was also about protecting employees from stalking, harassment and domestic violence.
"When you have a date of birth, you can find where an individual lives," Young says. "There is a direct link."
Union representatives shared stories about death threats made against psychiatric employees and about a bus driver who'd survived domestic violence.
"The stories that I heard were compelling," says Washington state Rep. Marcus Riccelli, noting "the ease that somebody could go to get that information targeting a specific entity and their place of employment."
But that's where another issue comes in: If you vote in Washington state, your birth date — and a lot more — is almost certainly already publicly accessible.
"I carry around the birth dates of 3.7 million Washingtonians in my phone," says Toby Nixon, president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. "Anybody can download the voter registration database from the Secretary of State."
I did just that. The voter registration database is a 700-megabyte text file that has so much information that it tends to crash the OpenOffice application when I try to open it. It includes not only your name and date of birth, but also your home address, your gender and a record of every time you voted.
If I made a records request of a list of state employee information, their home addresses would be already exempt from disclosure. But that's not the case with the voter registration database — nearly everyone's address is right there. I can tell you Gov. Jay Inslee's home address, and when he and his wife celebrate their birthdays.
Not only that, but within a minute, I was able to use the voter database to find the home address of one of the state employees who shared his story about being targeted by having his home address posted on an anti-psychiatry website — and a record of every election he'd voted in.
The voter database is one reason why some transparency advocates, like the Seattle Times editorial board, have suggested the efforts of House Bill 1888 are more about protecting union dues than, say, identity theft.
"Whenever they're talking to the public it's a bill about safety," says Rowland Thompson, lobbyist with Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington. "But when they're talking to me, it's all about how they want to make sure the Freedom Foundation can't get access to their birthdates."
But the voter database is useful for politicians. Many of the same state representatives who voted to protect the birth dates of public employees from public record requests, use the voter database every two years to know which doors to knock on and who to send mailers to.
Fortunately for those who've been targets in the past, there's an alternative: The state allows victims of stalking and domestic violence — and criminal justice employees who've been harassed — to register with the Address Confidentiality Program. Around 4,500 Washingtonians are members of the program. On public records, their address simply shows up as a P.O. box in Olympia.
But even for employees who aren't in danger, there's the feeling of an invasion of privacy.
Imagine, Washington Education Association spokeswoman Linda Mullen says, some stranger calling your boss and demanding that he fork over your private information.
"Public employees don't believe that their personal information should be available through their employer," Mullen says.
Even though most state employees are part of the voter registration database, there are some people, like, former state Sen. John Smith, where a birth date might be necessary to narrow them down. For journalists, that's an important step to take before accusing them of a crime.
Smith tells the Inlander he recalls being held at the Canadian border for several hours on Sept. 12, 2001, while being cross-referenced with all the other John Smiths.
"Apparently, then, there were over 75 with outstanding felony warrants," Smith says.
Records related to public identity can be crucial to holding public figures accountable: In fact, last year, the Inlander used voter registration information, including names, birthday and a home address, in order to identify that a former Freedom Foundation employee had become the pseudonymous author of a post-apocalyptic fiction-writing star in the Redoubt movement. And then it used the same database to confirm that his new wife, another pseudonymous prepper fiction author, was another former Freedom Foundation employee.
The birth date exclusion bill that passed the House, at least, established an exemption for media outlets. I would still be able to get the full birth dates of public officials through records requests. You probably wouldn't.
But that's a privilege that many journalists are uneasy with.
"We believe one should be able to access information about those who work for and on behalf of them, regardless of their profession," the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington wrote in a statement opposing House Bill 1888. "Gatekeeping who can and cannot access information is contrary to our belief that a thriving democracy relies on an informed public."
In fact, at one time, the names, home addresses and phone numbers of most people in a city were publicly available to anyone who wanted to crack open a big thick yellow book. But even then, there were people who were uncomfortable with that.
"I'm old enough to have been in the phone book and old enough to have taken my name out of the phone book," Mullen says. "I was a single person living alone and didn't want it out there."


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Part of their World Storytelling Day celebrations and hosted by award winning Scottish-Kenyan storyteller Mara Menzies (who will also tell her own story), the event will feature reimagined Scottish folktales, stories and myths, a 21st Century look at some of Scotland's oldest stories with guests:
- Kirsty Logan, LGBT Scottish novelist and poet
- Niall Moorjani, Scottish-Indian storyteller and writer
- Sunnah Khan, Scottish-Pakistani poet
Stories will include the tale of Beira, the winter goddess who built mountains, to a mixed race and queer reimagining of Thomas the Rhymer, to a multicultural myth of the first fairies to arrive on the banks of the Clyde.
This event will be livestreamed free via the Historic Environment Scotland and Historic Scotland Facebook pages and their YouTube.
The pre-recorded event (filmed in accordance with all COVID-19 regulations and guidance in place at the time of filming) will also be available via these channels after the livestream.
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In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Clayton's Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night tabled an appeal from a local developer looking to stop the rezoning and subsequent building of a luxury apartment on a city-owned parking lot at 8049 Forsyth Boulevard.
At the Jan. 9 Board of Aldermen meeting the Board approved a rezoning from High Density Commercial (HDC) to Planned Unit Development (PUD) to allow a mixed use, commercial and multi-family residential development project to be built by Flaherty & Collins Properties, which allegedly bought the property from the city for $1.1 million before the end of the year.
The process was halted when on Jan. 17, the City received a letter from Gary H. Feder, counsel to KP Development, the owner of two story commercial buildings at 8019-8027 Forsyth Boulevard, directly adjoining the subject property, appealing the decision to approve the planned unit.
In the appeal, Feder claims that the rezoning to PUD of only the subject property denies KP Development the ability to effectively use or develop its property in the future. Feder argued that the appropriate decision would be further study by the city's plan commission.
In front of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Feder also pointed out there is no record of the deed of sale being recorded with St. Louis County.
"I would just point out that the only people here who I think know whether this property actually did close in 2017 are Flaherty & Collins and the city," Feder said. "I'm not suggesting otherwise, however, just as a matter of clarification, I would say that since Jan. 1 I have had my paralegal check every day with the recorder of deeds office to see if the transaction has closed or not. As of today, we are unable to find any evidence that the deed was recorded or that any other documents were recorded."
Without any vote, Mayor Harold Sanger, speaking on behalf of the Board, said they should further consider the appeal being presented to them.
"I think we have all read what you have submitted and the reason for the appeal. I don't think that we are prepared to vote on standing at this point, so I think we might spend a little more time on it and take it under advisement and come back on it another day," Mayor Sanger said.
The decision to delay the vote caught Feder a little off guard.
"I was very surprised tonight," Feder said. "But I think that bit of information that I shared with them caused them to think on it a little more."
Indianapolis-based Flaherty & Collins is planning a $70 million apartment tower on the site. Plans call for a 22-story, 228-unit high-rise would include a 373-space parking garage and 7,800 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.
Although it's been approved by the city planning commission and Board of Aldermen, business owners in single-family residential homes adjacent to the proposed rezoning have expressed their opposition through speaking up at public meetings.
Some neighbors and others had questioned whether the amount of parking to be provided will be adequate in the project, being proposed at the site of a current city surface parking lot on the northeast corner of Brentwood and Forsyth boulevards. The developer wants to buy the lot from the city.
The current city lot has 29 hourly, metered parking spaces and 103 monthly-leased spaces. City officials have said a minimum of 132 parking spaces in the garage must be made available for public use. Charles Hull, architect for the project, has said the spaces would be shared, with residents able to use those spaces in the evenings and shoppers and others able to use them during the day. He said the parking not available to the public may be restricted by a gate and/or permit process.
KP also claims the rezoning should have included the entire block rather than a single parcel and that the project fails to meet the public benefit test because the existing 132 parking spaces on the subject site will be replaced as "shared" parking; shared parking allegedly will negatively impact future residents, restaurant patrons and new retail customers along with the current leased parkers.
The applicant also alleges some procedural errors and claims the Board of Aldermen had no justification to take a final vote at the same meeting as the public hearing and should have delayed voting to further study the project.
The Board will take the appeal under advisement and likely vote on it at the Feb. 27 meeting.
In other business, the Board tabled an ordinance to approve a contract with Gershenson Construction Co. Inc. for the Oak Knoll Park site improvements and parking lot project.
Bid documents for the site project were issued on Jan. 3. The scope of work includes improvements to the entrance of Oak Knoll Park, replacement of the parking lot, installation of lighting and site improvements along Big Bend Blvd.
Alderwoman Michelle Harris from Clayton's Ward 2 pointed out that some residents are still not caught up on the city's plan, which brought on a motion to delay.
"Some residents are feeling kind of left behind on what the plan is, and because — at least on Ridgemoor — these neighbors have had such dire issues with water over the years, as soon as they heard something was going on with water they flipped out," Harris said. "I would like to suggest that even though I feel comfortable with this plan, we table this until we can educate these homeowners. I think that would be fair."
The city received five responsive bids for this work on Feb. 1. City documents call for the Board to authorize the execution of a contract with Gershenson Construction in the amount of $588,000 for the project.
The Board also signed off on a contract extension with Midwest Pool Management for aquatic services at the Shaw Park Aquatic Center and Center of Clayton.
The city entered into a contract with the company in February of 2016 and approved the extension to outsource the hiring off staff at both its indoor and outdoor pools for $2,103,048 through 2021.