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On September 28, 1980, PBS aired the first episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: a Personal Voyage. For me, it was like someone finally showing me the back room of the museum, you know, where all the good stuff is. I was 12.
I'd been learning about science in school, of course, but I was always disappointed by it. Where was all the good stuff? Where were the connections, the links to my life experience, the relationship between science and religion, art, culture, music, and so on? Cosmos brought it all together for me, showed me that science was not just a subject in school. It was a way of seeing the world. A way of seeing with new eyes.
Since I've already reviewed all 13 episodes of Cosmos on this blog, for this 30th birthday I'll just list some of my favorite Sagan quotes from the series. There are so many more, and of course the context is greater still – an emergence that changed me (and others, too) forever.
"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation of a distant memory, as if we were falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
"We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos."
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
"National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our Earth as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and the citadel of the stars."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
"A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1."
"We speak for Earth."
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."
"Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"The Cosmos if full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature."
"We embarked on our cosmic voyage with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each generation asked anew with undiminished wonder: What are the stars? Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
" . . . the Cosmos is also within us; we are made of 'star stuff' – we are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
Happy birthday Cosmos!
I've read and reread the passages on quantum erasers and delayed choice in Brian Greene's wonderful book The Fabric of the Cosmos. I think I'm finally getting a feel for what it means. And I also think the existence of quantum erasers says something amazing about, believe it or not, free will.
Stay with me here, because the going will be a bit treacherous. I've written before about the double slit experiment. I've also written a little bit about entanglement. When you combine those two crazy ideas together, you get, well, craziness. But a very particular kind of craziness, the kind that makes the whole mind-blowing subject, I think, a little more human.
OK start with the basic idea. You can't know both the particle-nature of a photon (which slit it went through) and the wave-nature of that same photon (interference pattern). Anything you do that reveals "which path" information automatically makes the interference pattern disappear.
What's interesting about the quantum eraser is that you can set up things so that which path information exists, but is still hidden. One way Greene describes this is by polarizing the photon either clockwise or counter-clockwise. If you do this, even if you don't collect the information, the interference pattern is destroyed. This is key: the mere potential of collecting which path information destroys the interference pattern. This is important for later.
The quantum eraser takes that information back out. The polarization is erased by removing the tag. Now the photons can interfere once more. Remember, as long as the potential for which path information exists, the interference pattern disappears. But (and again, this is key) once that potential is erased, the interference pattern comes back. This is important, too.
OK, now let's think about another way to make which path information potentially available. This is a method that is even less invasive than the polarized tag. This time, we use something called a down-converter. Where at first one photon existed, we now create two, each with half the frequency of the original photon, and each entangled with the other. Call one photon the signal photon, the other the idler photon.
Suppose we send the signal photons toward a double slit. Will they form an interference pattern? The answer is, it depends on the idler photons. As long as these idler photons exist and give us the potential to discover which path information, the answer is no, no interference pattern will form. If, on the other hand, these idler photons are recombined in such a way that which path information becomes impossible to retrieve, then the interference pattern, in a certain specific sense, reappears.
Here's the incredible part, though. The choice about what to do with the idler photons, whether to measure them directly or to recombine them to erase which path information, can happen after (even well after) the signal photons have formed their pattern. Note that, due to some clever bookkeeping by nature, you can never actually "see" the interference pattern until you obtain some extra information about the recombined idler photons. It's all part of that amazing way that nature has of covering her tracks. It's pretty clever, and if you want to know more about it I urge you to read Greene's book, this Wikipedia article, or even the original paper (look at how graphs 3 and 4 each show an interference pattern, but when you combine them into graph 5, as always happens in the real experiment, the pattern disappears. Nature is shrewd!)
But astounding as all that is, it's still not the most amazing piece of this. Here's the most amazing piece. We already saw that we can reveal honest-to-goodness, no-mistaking-them interference patterns if we erase the which path information before the photons hit the screen. Remember the important points bolded above. What we can't do is reveal an honest-to-goodness, no-mistaking-it interference pattern if the which path information is erased after the signal photons hit the screen. There's a before-after dichotomy. The universe behaves differently regarding a choice that's been made and a choice that might be made. And while it would be mind-blowing either way, I find this result (the future can't affect events that have already happened) just as mind-blowing, maybe even more mind-blowing, than the alternative. Why? Because as long as the idler photons exist, as long as the potential for which-path information is there, the signal photons will not form an interference pattern. It's as if they're saying, "You might find out, you might not, so we're not taking any chances." But if we might find out and we might not, then we have the choice. We aren't constrained by the past, and all future paths are open to us.
The refusal of those stubborn signal photons to form an interference pattern, no matter how we promise that no, really, we'd never go and detect your idler friends, demonstrates to me an amazing fact. We have free will. The future is open. We can make our own choices.
This is a big deal, because there are philosophies that say the future is just as determined as the past, that time is an illusion, that all future events are controlled by conditions right now. But the delayed choice quantum eraser denies that idea. It says that I control my own destiny, and the universe, recognizing my autonomy, must behave accordingly. And that's pretty cool. Damned be determinacy! Long live the idler photons, for they have set us free!
I've been researching brain imaging technologies for a project I'm working on. It is incredible stuff. SQUIDs, superconductive quantum interference devices, can detect the tiniest of electrical currents in the brain. MEG (magnetoencephalography) uses an array of SQUIDs to observe how these electric currents change over time. PET scans and MRI scans reveal thoughts as they happen. We can actually see into a person's brain and watch her think. It's amazing, and it drove home an idea that of course had to be true all along.
Everything is real.
What I mean is this: if a person says she's heard the voice of God, or thinks an angel has visited him, or just has a "feeling" about one or another fact about the nature of the world, then that voice, that vision, that feeling are all real things. We can map them in the brain. We can see what started the thought, where it came from, even. If you hear a voice, maybe there was no sound to vibrate your eardrum, but that doesn't make the voice any less real in your brain. A real event happened in there. Thoughts are real things.
That doesn't mean the origin of the thought is supernatural. Just the opposite, in fact. Everything is real. Did that thought come from some outside signal? If so, we have a chance of detecting it. Did it come from another part of the brain? We have a chance of detecting that, too. Suppose these voices are beamed to us from the second planet circling Epsilon Erandi (I'm not saying they are, but just suppose). Now that we can see the brain in action, we have a chance of figuring that out. If supernatural claims have any basis in reality, at some point the stimulus stops being supernatural and becomes a real thing happening inside someone's brain. If every effect has a cause, even inside a brain, then the whole notion of supernatural starts to lose its mystery. Maybe, like the brain was for so long, it's just something we don't (yet) understand.
Terry Jones wants to burn something.
I suggest The Turtle and the Universe (I hear it's on sale at Amazon).
If you do so, Pastor Jones, I promise I won't blow anything up. I won't riot in the streets. I won't even write a strongly-worded letter. Of course if I did, you'd probably burn that, too.
But why burn a children's science book?
Well, take a look inside and the reasons become quite obvious. I claim that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old. I claim that dinosaurs and people never walked together. I lead children (innocent children!) down a path of moral decay, into a world where they believe in, no I can't type it, you know, the e-word.
So here's what I suggest you do, Pastor Jones. Purchase 1000 copies of my book. Toss them in a heap and light them on fire. Dance around the bonfire and celebrate the souls you've just rescued. It'll make you feel better. Do it for the children!
And, on the odd chance that Pastor Jones isn't a regular reader of Turtle Universe (unlikely as that may be), any of you loyal readers out there (both of you) are encouraged to get the ball rolling by purchasing your own copy of The Turtle and the Universe and having it shipped directly to:
Dove World Outreach Center
5805 NW 37th St
Gainesville, FL 32653
If it works out, just turn the other cheek. It'll all be ok, really it will.


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Indigenous Cultures Institute
Indigenous Cultures Institute is currently developing the 50-minute children's play "Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet," written by Miakan-Garza tribal members, about the Coahuiltecan's version of how the first bluebonnets came to Texas. Developing the play in 2017-2018 with Dallas Children's Theater (DCT premiered the play in March 2018), the Institute plans to produce the play independently as its "first-time production" and tour this authentic indigenous work into Central and South Texas cities in 2019. The Institute also represents the following performing artists: Cuicani In Xochitl – a dynamic Aztec dance company with dramatic sound, movement, and colorful regalia; Dr. Mario Garza – elder, accomplished storyteller/flute player lauded by veterans' groups and community audiences as funny and entertaining with both traditional and original "Chato" dog stories; Adrian Villegas – award-winning, Emmy-nominated comedic performer, with his uproariously funny, one-man show Barrio Daze and other works; Emma Ortega – Apache elder storyteller, retired school teacher who is excellent with children audiences and renowned in the powwow circuit; Aaron Pyle – accomplished composer/musician, Native American flute player; and Miltotiliztli Yaoyollohtli – phenomenal Aztec dancers in awe-inspiring, traditional, feathered regalia, who include audience-participants in their dance circle. Photo by Maria Rocha.
Maria Rocha
PO Box 1414
San Marcos, TX 78667
phone 512-393-3310
e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
public performance/concert $500 - $3,000
school performance $100 - $500
workshop fees $500 - $1,500
travel/per diem/lodging $50 - $750
website http://www.indigenouscultures.org
Donna Ingham
For over 20 years Donna Ingham has taken the ancient art of storytelling and given it a Texas twist. A college English professor in her former life and author of six books, she creates finely crafted stories from history, folklore, and her own personal experiences. And although she did not set out to be a liar, she has been named the Biggest Liar in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and, yes, the whole state of Texas. Her stories reflect her native roots in the Lone Star State, and she chooses appropriate stories for all ages and stages. Her "Tall Tales and True" offering is a flexible, well-received program adaptable for all ages, with some stories complemented by guitar, ukulele, or washboard accompaniment. Representative stories allow for multicultural elements and geographic scope. In addition to programs and performances for schools, libraries, conferences, and festivals, she also offers keynotes, luncheon and after-dinner speaking, author visits, workshops, and residencies. Photo by Donna Ingham.
Donna Ingham
1025 Coventry Road
Spicewood, TX 78669
phone 512-656-8186
phone#2 830-693-1641
e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
public performance/concert $500 - $2,500
school performance $450 - $1,000
workshop fees $500 - $1,000
travel/per diem/lodging $250 - $1,000
website http://www.donnaingham.com
Invincible Czars
The Invincible Czars make hard-to-categorize music for lovers of everything in the "other" category. They've evolved from a rag-tag art-rock group on Austin's Red River scene to a reverse classical-crossover powerhouse playing clubs, theaters and universities all over the US. Their unique instrumentation, ambitious projects and variety of styles & influences attracts fans of Frank Zappa, Brave Combo, Faith No More and Danny Elfman. Musicianship, humor and experimentation abound. They also have a sweet wardrobe collection. Their whimsical, Austin-tacious version of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite" became a Central Texas holiday tradition when it debuted on KUT FM in 2004. Since then, they've played nearly every major holiday event in the state. Lately, the band has been focused on its silent film work. They began scoring/accompanying silent films live at the original Alamo Drafthouse in the 00s. Touring coast to coast in the US and portions of Canada during 2016-17, they've come to be known as THE silent film accompaniment group from Texas featuring their own soundtracks to silent movies "Nosferatu," "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde," and five others. In 2017 they had a weekly residency at the Alamo Ritz in Austin and were featured performers at the Seattle International Film Festival. Photo by Suzi Spies, Josh Robins.
Joshua Robins
6300 Huntleigh Way
Austin, TX 78725
phone 512-656-0357
e-mail email@example.com
public performance/concert $1,000 - $4,000
school performance $750 - $2,500
workshop fees $500 - $1,000
travel/per diem/lodging $400 - $1,000
website http://www.invincibleczars.com


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Another letter written from Braco, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on 2 Nov 1855 by my 3x great-grandmother Jane Elizabeth Fairbanks Duff to her cousin Mary Martha Fairbanks Twining in Halifax. This is probably the saddest letter out of all of them, as Jane and Mary discuss the recent death of their mutual first cousin Frances "Fanny" Allison.
There is also some ominous foreshadowing. In the letter Jane writes: "It is indeed a solemn warning to us who are in health and strength to be also ready seeing we know neither the day nor the hour when death shall come." She would die only months later.
[Transcription follows the letter itself. Click on the images to enlarge or download. Letter courtesy of Catherine Duff & Family.]
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Braco Nov. 2nd [1855]
My Dear Mary,
If I had not been very much engaged for the last week, I should certainly have thanked you very much sooner for your kindness in writing [words crossed out] at a time when you knew I should feel very anxious to hear although you did not say anything in your first letter to alarm me about Fanny. I felt quite uneasy about her after receiving it and thought frequently that there was cause for apprehending danger. I don't know that I should have thought so much about it had it not been for the death of a young person here in somewhat
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similar circumstances – she was just Fanny's age and died in an equally sudden manner, she too was sick for a day and then was seized with vomiting and after your mentioning that I could not get her out of my thoughts. Although I cannot say I was in any way prepared for the sad reality when your second letter came. Poor Aunt Mary. I feared almost to hear again dreading what might be the effect of such an overwhelming blow as this, we all know her intense affection for her children and although she has been sorely tried before this in the removal of younger ones, former afflictions must have been light in comparison to this.
[Frances Elizabeth "Fanny" Allison was the daughter of Jane's aunt Mary Ann Fairbanks Allison (1800-1896). Fanny died 21 Oct 1855 at the age of 24. My records indicate Fanny died in Bermuda, but I'm not sure word would have gotten back to Halifax so quickly as to be sent to Jane before November 2, 1855. Jane mentions that Mary Ann was "sorely tried before this", making reference to the fact that Mary Ann's children Ellen and Agnes died in 1836 at the ages of 1 and 2 years respectively. They are on the same tombstone in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax. Mary and her husband David Allison also lost their son Joseph at age 3 in 1839. ]
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Fanny must have been everything to her this summer while dear Aunt Eliza's loss ["must have been" is crossed out] was so fresh and the want of her society so keenly felt, and now my heart aches to think of such a desolating bereavement as hers. [words crossed out here] her death under any circumstances would have been an awful hole but it seems so very sad that she was not aware of her danger at least as far as friends could know, for many hope at least she was not unprepared by the many of Him with whom nothing is impossible. It is indeed a solemn warning to us who are [crossed out word] in health and strength to be also ready seeing we know neither the day nor the hour when death shall come. I have thought more of Aunt Mary's
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sorrow knowing the intensity of her feelings, but alas there are many to share in it. Her husband and children so suddenly bereaved, the latter can have at present little sense of their loss but poor Sam [Fanny's husband, Dr. Samuel Wells] will be utterly unprepared for such dreadful feelings and his friends will deeply sympathize in the grief of all. May he who has sent the stroke administer consolation also, for earthly friendship can do but little. Mrs. Cossman was here the evening I received your letter telling of her confinement and she told me thought she had never seen any person look so strangely as Fanny. She said her face has such an unnatural color and appeared to her to be very much swollen so what she said alarmed me also, but still I hoped
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all would be well. It is so natural to hope for the best. I have had letters from all at home since, but yours contained the most particular account and I must again thank you dear Mary for your kindness and thoughtfulness in writing for I daresay you did not feel very like doing so at the time. There was some hair in the envelope was it Fanny's? Perhaps you intended saying but closed without [saying]. My poor baby has been quite ill for a whole week and although she is better she had two days she will scarcely let
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any one look at her and for hours will not let me put her out of my arms. She is so very cross. Her teeth have been the cause of it but I hope the worst is over now. We are all tolerable well, but Aunt Margaret and myself have been very busy with house cleaning getting up stores and other arrangements necessary at this season. We shall have more leisure soon, I hope. It did not matter at all about the chemises, just send them when quite convenient. I must not write more today but with much love to Martha and all at Dartmouth.
Believe me dear Mary your ever affectionate
Jane E Duff


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Tyre fitting
Tyre fitting is the most in-demand service asked for at least twice a year.
Seasonal change of tyres requires significant emotional costs from a driver: first of all it's very difficult to catch the moment when it's right high time, besides you can't avoid the question "Where?"
Actually much depends on correct installation of tyres. First and foremost, safety, but comfort plays an important role too. That's why, this simple at the first glance procedure should be trusted only to professionals. In Tyre&Service centers tyres are fitted using the last generation equipment by means of electric drives, airlifts and manipulators. Thus, all possible effects such as sense of discomfort while driving, shaking, squeaking or protector damage are reduced to nothing. The guarantee for tyres and wheels installation will be obligatory issued.


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Importance of Regular Medical Check Up in Preventing Diseases
Involves visiting a general medical practitioner on a regular basis for them to conduct tests and tell how ones health is. They help on keep track of their health and detect any ailments at early stage for easy treatment. Checkups help people control any kinds of diseases in their body either when it is at its early stage in the body or there is a likelihood of it infecting the body.
The advantage associated with regular medical examination is as follows. With regular health screening, people lower their healthcare costs since it is aimed at mitigating any potential ailments that may turn out to be dangerous and affect ones health. Regular checkups help doctors to diagnose a disease before it grows to greater proportions in the body making it easier to cure them and these check ups are done depending on age, sex, history or lifestyle.
During health screening, doctors may also do blood tests to eliminate any risks of diseases that show themselves in blood for example diabetes among others and also ensure that the various body organs are functioning properly. Regular checkups help doctors to diagnose and detect any stress related problems before they turn out o be worse and offer support and advice to the affected individuals. Screening results tells the doctors what they are supposed to know about ones health and then give advice on how one can maintain their health in a better way to reduce their risk of diseases by going for annual health check up.
The following are reasons why adults of recent times need checkups. Adults go for routine medical checkup when they are suffering from an illness or when they feel they are about to get ill or when they are managing some chronic conditions in their bodies. People visit medical practitioners to check on the effects new medicine may have on their health or the risk activities such as smoking has exposed their bodies. Checkups help meet ones individual needs and ensure that proper care is taken during the pregnancy period and that the family planning method used is safe for ones body.
Parents should do their part in ensuring that their kids conduct regular checkups and they make come to a decision on what schedule to follow by working with doctors. Checkups are essential in childrens health and they help in ensuring that they are developing in a required way and also their treatment is effective in case they earlier had conditions. In order to make children have a good impression and attitude towards doctors, take them to regular checkups when they still feel good and healthy thus they would not be exposed to any medication.


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I had some ricotta left over from the Cannelloni I made at the weekend and after asking my followers on Facebook and Twitter for recipe suggestions (always better and more entertaining than looking through recipe books), I concocted this beaut of a recipe. The ricotta gives it a wonderful lightness, although thanks to the chorizo's meatiness you certainly feel like you've had a meal. If you didn't have any fresh thyme, you could try rosemary....or even a tsp of dried mixed herbs would be fine! Enjoy!
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Chorizo, Ricotta and Thyme Frittata
A chorizo, ricotta and thyme frittata recipe
prep time: 10 minscook time: 15 minstotal time: 25 mins
- Glug of garlic oil
- 1 onion
- 2 fresh chorizo sausages, cut into pieces
- Sprig of Thyme,
- 6 eggs, beaten
- Splash of milk
- 150g Ricotta
- Salt and Pepper
- Small handful of chopped parsley
- Step 1: Preheat the grill. Fry the onion in the garlic oil until softened in a medium frying pan. Turn up the heat and add the chorizo, fry until cooked. Add the thyme leaves making sure they don't burn.
- Step 2: In a jug whisk together the eggs, milk, salt and pepper then pour into the frying pan.
- Step 3: Dollop spoons of ricotta over the frittata and let it cook for 7 minutes. Transfer to the grill for a minute until the top is just set
- Step 4: Turn out onto board and cut into 4 large wedges. Serve with a green salad and bread.


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On December 17th, 2011 several Kingwood and the surrounding area residents OCCUPIED the corner of Lake Houston Boulevard and Kingwood drive. What was most evident was a mostly positive response from the community.
That a largely conservative town like Kingwood Texas is receptive to the Occupy message speaks volumes of the level of discontent with the current body politic.It is evident that many in Kingwood are realizing that they are the movement as well to reclaim this country for the middle class.
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Basic Education Grades 1-9
Eastern Finland University Teacher Training School comprises two schools, namely Rantakylä Teacher Training School and Tulliportti Teacher Training School. Rantakylä Teacher Training School offers single-structure basic education for grades 1-9. Tulliportti Teacher Training School operates in two different units, primary school grades 1-6 being located in Länsikatu and lower secondary grades 7-9 in Tulliportinkatu.
Cross cultural themes, international visitors and a versatile language programme create a rich cultural learning environment for our pupils. The teacher training programme together with experimental research bring variety and modern perspectives to teaching methods. Our school also offers a wide variety of optional courses, from Lego automation and drama to hunting and fishing.
Active participation in field trips, study visits and various events, for example in the annual international SciFest science event, are a vital aspect of our school. Our student board arranges events and various charities to improve the pupils' sense of community. There is also a parents' association, Nowa, which enhances cooperation between the school and parents.


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Maximum Length Of IP Address: 15 (IPv4) & 39(IPv6)
You are designing a database table for a web application that requires to store IP address of users who visits the site. The IP address is required to be stored a character data in the table. To define size of the character column you need to know maximum length of IP address. So, what is the maximum length of an IP address?
The IPv4 version of IP address is in the following format
To store IPv4 address we require 15 characters.
The IPv6 version of IP address is grouped into sets of 4 hex digits separated by colons, like the below
To store IPv6 address you require a 39 characters long column.
As IPv4 and IPv6 are the commonly use protocols, you better define a column with 39 characters length so that both the format address are saved in to the table without any issues.
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Police from San Fernando Valley, California are displaying the remains of recent motorcycle crashes to increase awareness for Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. On March 1, 37-year-old Jerramy Barrios was killed when the driver of a Ford van made a left turn directly into Barrio's path. With the front wheel missing and the front part of the bike shattered, it is obvious that the motorcycle took the worst of the impact. The van was displayed nearby, with the front bumper hanging and an obvious dent on the passenger side door.
Police are using the two wrecked vehicles to show how riders are the ones who usually suffer the worst injuries during motorcycle crashes. There have been 21 reported accidents so far this year in San Fernando, an alarming increase from just 10 last year. Authorities are hoping presentations like this will help increase awareness of the dangers drivers pose to motorcyclists when they do not look out for them.
With the increase in motorcyclists on the road, it is imperative that motorists look twice before making turns or changing lanes. However, accidents still happen and people still suffer personal injuries at the hands of a negligent or distracted driver. If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident involving another driver's negligence, please call our national injury attorney today at (866)377-3800 for a free consultation.
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After discordant irksome never ending music, a tiny disinterested female voice greeted from the other side. I started narrating my recent ordeal and the continuous torment I go through while dealing with their logistics company for my eCommerce start-up. Her voice changed from disinterested to apologetic to timid all at fairly great pace. After a while, I was transferred to whom I believe to be her senior manager. After getting treated like a football for quite a long time, I decided to stop wasting my time. I abruptly cut the call after giving my standard assertive warning to lodge a complaint with consumer forum against them. Next in the check list was "to attend to a few non-delivery and customer returns' reports". Evening was blocked for a hand-loom manufacturers and retailers meet up cum exhibition cum networking in town. In the meanwhile, I had to add six more items to the to-do list, review the SEO article written by a friend, review few illustrations sent by my freelance designer, make a list of requirement/feedback to give to the weavers and vendors, call and pitch in to the new set of sellers, and review the website and suddenly I feel like I am blacked out. I realize it's time for another cup of strong coffee. This pretty much sums up my memorable 2017.
2017, Mid-April was definitely one of the biggest milestones of my life. I could finally launch my hand-loom and handicraft eCommerce portal, Asomkriti. In short, I could tick off one of my very important dreams before I die. "Start my own venture irrespective of whether it is a disaster or a success ". I decided to leave my stable high paying corporate job to finally take the entrepreneurial plunge. People say, 'Entrepreneurship is hard'. I say, 'Entrepreneurship is a bittersweet experience, an addiction with an unpredictable consequences'. I feel accomplished when I receive a random call asking me to explain more about Assamese attire and hand-loom products. Accomplishment double folds if she/he is converted and praises the dress and the culture. I feel ecstatic when my sales target exceeds even before the month end. At the same time I feel demotivated when my close ones taunt me, 'why did you study so much if you wanted to sell a sari!' I become speechless and expressionless when some other set of close relatives accidentally see my old corporate pay-slip and start lecturing on opportunity cost. Nevertheless, next morning I wake up again and start working with the same zeal and passion. My salary has been almost zero per month for more than a year now. I came to terms with the fact that no one can be 100% independent, financially or mentally. I changed from an arrogant, egoistic super-independent girl to be a dependent wife both financially and emotionally. With love and support of my understanding husband, I started to be more patient and hard working. I have come to the terms that success and failure do not have a set formula. I can do my best, make optimum utilization of my resources and nothing else. Whether I would be a successful or unsuccessful entrepreneur, I will have to wait and see but giving up easily is not an option.
Amid hardships and struggles, fate still decided to remain caring and tender towards me. I could keep some of my passions alive in me. While I literally struggled with time to maintain my writing passion, my passion to see the World remain intact this year too. My dream of Europe trip finally came to life in May, 2017. I could travel to five new countries in this year including a small trips in my own beautiful country.
2017 also made me realise, how mechanical and social media dependent we have become. Thus, I put in some effort to re-unite and keep in touch with long lost friends without really depending on social media. Overall, as always I had a good year and looking forward to super fantastic year ahead.
I hope for a better and more successful year ahead for everyone too. I am four days late but never too late to wish one and everyone a very happy new year 2018. Stay blessed.


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About Asset Finance Association of India
The Asset Finance Association of India is an initiative by the Indian Securitisation Foundation to bring together the stakeholders of the asset finance sector in India. The organisation is intended to promote, help, develop, protect, encourage and secure, in India, general interest of various forms of asset backed funding by acting as industry association, to organize industry events, forums, discussions to promote research, generally to take care of the interest of trade, industry and commerce, stakeholders, participants and investors in asset finance and generally to act in the best interest of the Indian asset finance sector.
Primarily, the asset finance activities to be catered to by the Association include leasing, factoring, trades in receivables, etc.
While leasing is over 40 years old in the country, the taxation environment for the business has remained anomalous, for no obvious reason. This is one of the rare activities which are charged to tax both as a sale and a service. While judiciary may simply be doing interpretation of the law, the key issue is – whether there is a policy basis for creating a non-level playing field which puts leasing to such a disadvantage.
If this was not enough, the recent Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020) gave another blow to the industry by seeming to withdraw the EPCG benefits on leased assets.
Though there is a lot of hopeful wait in the introduction of Goods and Service Tax, but issue is, is leasing industry at all in the radar of the lawmakers, or they think positive about it? There is a substantial communication and advocacy issue in hand.
There is no doubt that the interest in the leasing sector is increasing – quite obvious in an era where cashflows seem to be the only way to come out of stress. New entrants with substantial global presence and depth of international experience are entering the market, but they are often dismayed by the regulatory structure.
Factoring is yet another area where, despite an admittedly-supportive legislation, not much headway has been made in the recent years.
About Indian Securitisation Foundation
Indian Securitisation Foundation (ISF) is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956, a representative body of the securitisation industry in India. ISF is formed with the objective of developing, promoting and protecting the securitisation, structured finance markets in India in particular, and market for fixed income securities in general.
Securitisation in India is not just a fixed income investing instrument, but essential for the idea of financial inclusion, in form of priority sector lending. Banks meet their priority sector targets partly through portfolio acquisitions and securitisation, thereby putting securitisation at par with the banking book. Infrastructure sector also depends substantially on securitisation for equity extraction. In essence, the significance of securitization to India's financial sector cannot be under-estimated.
Over time, credit default swaps are also expected to be prevalent as ways of synthetically replicating credit risk. It is a clear policy choice to have a strong market for fixed income securities in India: structured finance securities are an essential part of that market, to provide variety, choice and alignment to investor needs. In this background, ISF was conceptualised to provide direction, leadership, advocacy and support to the securitisation and structured finance industry.
Executive Committee Members
Mr. Sunil Badala
Mr. Sunil Badala is a partner with the financial services tax practice of the Indian Firm of KPMG. He specializes both in domestic corporate tax and international tax and entry and exit strategies for multinationals and large domestic companies investing into/ outside India. He has a total of about 18 years of experience, including 14… Read More »
Mr. Shrirang Tambe
Mr. Shrirang Tambe founder and CEO of ORIGA Leasing one of the first FinTech asset leasing companies for high growth oriented companies with philosophy of access to finance. His expertise lies in advising and nurturing growth oriented companies across financial and strategic areas. Over his 12 year experience in financial services, he has worked with… Read More »
Ms. Nidhi Bothra
Ms. Bothra is a consultant on leasing, asset backed lending, securitisation, structured finance and corporate finance and is Executive Vice President in Vinod Kothari Consultants P Ltd. Nidhi has conducted various training workshops on leasing, and has handled several consulting assignments on leasing in different markets. Nidhi has analysed state of leasing industry in several… Read More »
Mr. Dipankar Sen
A MBA graduate with specialisation in finance, He has over 20 years of experience in leasing and financial services and today heads the leasing portfolio for Orix in India. His experience has been in both fund based and fee based activities where he has managed the SME, Corporate and PSU segments for their leasing requirements… Read More »
Ms. Simi Thapar
Ms. Simi Thapar is a Head – Equipment Leasing and Financing Solutions – Corporate Finance at Tata Capital. Simi has 25 Years Work Experience in Financial Services across diverse industries and diverse asset and product categories. Ground experience in new business initiative, product development and in devising strategy for organic and inorganic growth of business.
Mr. Gautam Munish
Mr. Gautam Munish, currently serving Hewlett Packard financial services as regional sales director is a seasoned finance professional with 20 years of diverse work experience across Asset, Liability and Investment products. He has extensive experience in building and managing business from ground up, with exposure to detailed competitive landscape analysis, compliance and regulatory adherence and… Read More »


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I am getting ready for the annual Big Saturday Art Show at Charlotte Country Day School. I love being a part of this show, but my studio is not big enough to get everything framed, wired, inventoried, etc. That's where the dining room comes in handy!
I'll post photos of the paintings later once they are all framed and looking proper.


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Dr Bron graduated from Otago University in 1993, moving to Australia to gain training experience in 1995, working across a variety of disciplines in hospitals in NSW, SA and WA. She gained her Diploma of Child Health in 1997, and her Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1998, before commencing General Practice training. Dr Bron has recently completed her Masters in Family Medicine, and has a special interest in all aspects of Family Medicine and Aboriginal Health.


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Restorations are a major part of dental practices. Restorations include fillings, crowns, bridges, and dental implants. When patients are in need of dental crowns in the Pleasanton area, they may believe that several weeks and many appointments are needed to complete the process from start to finish. Thanks to advanced technologies such as CEREC, patients of StarBrite Dental can have their crowns done in just one appointment!
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Porini Bush Camp is an eco-friendly lodge situated in the award winning Ol Kinyei Conservancy of Masai Mara in Kenya. The camp is mobile, with no permanent structures set up for minimal a impact on the Masai Mara environment. Porini Bush Camp operates from 15 July to 15 October, known as the high safari season, when the Wildebeest Migration in the Mara eco-system takes place.
Guests are taken on day and night game drives in a customised 4x4 safari vehicle, accompanied by a professional safari guide and tracker. Encounter wildlife closer on educational bush walks with a Maasai guide and have a bush breakfast and sundowners at breathtaking points within the conservancy. A resident lion pride, consisting over 20 lions, can be seen at the camp including several leopard are territorial within the Ol Kinyei Conservancy. Other wildlife to sight is the fastest mammal the cheetah, giraffe, Cape buffalo and elephant. In the evening when guests return from their game drive, guests relax around the camp fire where they can socialise, enjoy a drink and exchange sighting stories.
The tents at Mara Intrepids camp are raised on stilts and overlook the Talek River, one of the main crossing points during the wildebeest migration. The best time to visit is between July and October.This is a larger camp with with 30 tents.
Karen Blixen Camp is set on the bank of the Mara River in a private concession adjoining the reserve. It enjoys open access, but also privacy within the concession. Zebras, elephants and hippos drink from the river throughout the day offering superb game viewing.
Cottars 1920's Camp is an exclusive and private concession between the Masai Mara and Serengeti National Park. It is a good camp to see the migration as it enters and exits the Masai Mara - between July and October.
Mara Plains Camp is small tented camp located in a private conservancy sharing. It shares an unfenced boundary with the reserve. The private conservancy offers safari guest privacy as well as unrestricted access to the entire reserve.
Little Governors' Camp was built in 1976 around a small waterhole that teems with wildlife and birds. It has a prime location in the Masai Mara, originally being the favourite safari location of Kenya's governors.
Olonana Tented Camp is a luxurious camp situated in a private area of the Mara River at the foot of the Siria Escarpment. The tents offer beautiful views overlooking the Mara River playing host to an abundance of wildlife.
Sarova Mara is a very large safari hotel most suited to families. It is located in the southern section of the reserve. The extensive facilities and the fact that it has a fence around it makes it ideal for families.
Governors' Camp is situated on the east bank of the Mara river in the preferred safari location of the original colonial governors of Kenya. It is ideally located for the wildebeest migration between July and October.
Offbeat Mara Camp is a small and exclusive seasonal tented camp located in a private concession on the Olare Orok River. A great place to enjoy a private safari as well as having unrestricted access to the Masai Mara Reserve.
Elephant Pepper Camp is a small luxurious safari camp located in a private concession in the northern Masai Mara. Between July and October, wildebeest and zebra cross the plains, migrating from the Serengeti.
Kicheche Mara Camp is located on the Aitong Plains in the northern Koiyaki Lemek region of the legendary Masai Mara in Kenya a prime wildlife area. The camp is a traditional tented camp tucked away underneath an orchard of wild olive trees offering magnificent views.
Meaning peaceful, calm or serene' in the Masai language, Serian Camp is set in the tranquil shade of large Oleadendra and Walburgia trees in the secluded valley flanking the Mara River close to the Siria Escarpment.
Ol Seki Mara Camp is a seasonal camp situated on a beautiful rocky peninsula in the northern Mara, with spectacular views over the savannah plains.
Richard's Camp is situated in a conservation area north west of the Masai Mara in Kenya. This area is known for the most exceptional big game viewing. It is a small and exclusive camp within a very personal environment.
Mara Serena Safari Lodge is a large 74 roomed lodge situated in the Mara Triangle. It is well located for the migration, but mostly used by groups and package tours. Situated on a hill, the lodge overlooks 1 800 sq km of rolling plain, woodlands and rivers.
The award-winning, eco-friendly Porini Lion Camp offers a unique opportunity to take guided walks with Maasai Warriors and experience day and night game drives within the Olare Motorogi Conservancy
Mara Bushtops is located in a private conservancy, bordering the Masai Mara. It has spectacular views overlooking a valley with the Masai Mara in the background. The tents are luxurious and spacious and offer breathtaking views, delicious African cuisine.
Mara Porini Camp has 6 guest tents pitched in the shade of the yellow barked acacia trees along the banks of the Laetoli, a permanent spring within a private conservancy. involved in running the conservancy through a partnership with the local community.
Keekorok is a large comfortable motel-style safari lodge. It has good facilities to suite families or groups, but is not suitable for a small private safari. The lodge is situated in the very heart of Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve.
Naibor Camp is a luxury tented camp and offers a secluded spot in a prime position overlooking the Talek River in the heart of the Masai Mara. It is ideally located for the migration between July and October.
Il Moran Camp is situated along the banks of the Mara River in the heart of the Masai Mara, perfectly positioned for the migration. The camps' tents line the winding banks of the river, with the best game viewing right on your doorstep.
Campi Ya Tembo is a small luxury camp situated in a private conservancy. Exclusive use of the area, great scenery and a superb camp make Campi Ya Tembo one of the best camps in the Mara. Located 10km from the main Saruni Lodge and offers fantastic wildlife viewing.
Saruni Camp is situated in a private conservation area outside the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, one of the most incredible wildlife parks in Africa. Saruni is small and offers a personal safari experience catering for only 12 guests at a time.
Basecamp Masai Mara is situated on the banks of the Talek River in a private safari concession. he camp is situated in a private concession which is just a few minutes away from the Masai Mara's gate in Kenya. The tents offer private verandas overlooking the river.
Mara Explorer is an exclusive safari camp and offers 10 luxurious tents with uninterrupted views of the Talek riverbank. Mara Explorer lies at the confluence of the Reserve's four main game viewing areas, offering prime views of the spectacular wildebeest migration.
Rekero Camp is a seasonal safari camp situated in a ravine forest close to the Mara and Talek Rivers. The camp is open from June to October and again from December to March and caters for between four to twelve guests ensuring a private and personal safari experience.
Naboisho is a tented camp in the heart of the Masai Mara. It is ideally situated to see the annual wildebeest migration between July and October.
Encounter Mara Camp is a small classic camp located in a private concession. It shares an unfenced border with the Masai Mara giving guests unrestricted access to the reserve and the exclusive concession area.
With an attractive setting on the banks of the Maasai Mara's River Talek, Tipilikwani Mara Safari Camp offers a high standard of accommodation for a Kenya safari. The camp overlooks the plains of the Mara region and has an exclusive feel with just 20 luxurious riverfront safari tents.
Just a few kilometers downstream from its renowned sister camp, Mara Plains, is Mara Toto; perfectly positioned in a small bend in the Ntiakitiak River where thick forest meets savannah. A balanced blend of comfort, adventure and intimacy set this brand new camp apart from the many others in the Mar...
Kichwa Tembo Bateleur Camp is located in the Masai Mara National Reserve, which lies directly in the path of the annual wildebeest migration. A premier lodge commanding sweeping views over the spectacular Mara plains.
Little Naibor Camp is located within the immediate vicinity of Naibor Camp, and is made up of two spacious suites which are uniquely designed.
Ngerende Island Lodge offers luxury accommodation within the popular Masai Mara. The lodge can sleep up to 14 guests, providing contemporary designed suites. The lodge is the perfect location for weddings and honeymoons.
Olarro Lodge is founded on the principles of conservation, sustainability and community empowerment. The lodge not only provides accommodation, but also aims to create a self-sustaining tourist operation with a goal of improving the standard of living for the local Maasai community. Olarro Lodge st...
Our expertise in African travel comes from years of experience travelling the continent, canoeing the rivers, walking the bush trails, and seeing the stars. We've been on the game drives and watched the sunsets, spent nights wrapped up in remote areas, and eaten great food around the fire. Our recommendations come first-hand, and they are your assurance that a safari booked with us is one we know you'll love, because we did.
We know a safari can be pricey, but we guarantee that we're giving you the best deal on your travel. We don't want your trip to Africa to be a once in a lifetime experience, we want you to do it again, and again! Through nurtured relationships with our suppliers, we can offer you the best deal they've got, and you'll never pay more than you should for your accommodation. If you find the same holiday for less, we'll confidently better the price.
Just like the spots on a leopard's back, each of our tailor-made itineraries is unique. Every journey has a personality, carefully designed to match the desires and expectations our clients bring to the table. Every element is taken into consideration to stitch together a personalised safari experience, grown from seed and cultivated to embody the perfect adventure. Our tailored itineraries are your safari dreams, defined.


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Creepy clown sightings : Are they domainers?
Creepy clown sightings are sweeping America, and several other countries to the north of the US. Masquerading as "bozo" clowns with fake bleeding teeth, are these creeps really clowns or, is the answer something far more sinister? Investigative journalist Beau Zoh, found the following correlation between clowns and domainers, and suggests that the creepy clowns […]Copyright © 2019 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.


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A: Here are five fantastic, fun and fabulous ways to say thank you and show your gratitude to your customers:
1. Write a Note. A proven way of showing gratitude. Can you remember the last time you received a handwritten thank-you card?
2. Spend Quality Time Together. Schedule breakfast/lunch at your customer's office; invite their team and then just chat.
3. Start a Loyalty Program. Customers love the red carpet treatment. Keep it simple… the easier it is to understand the more value it will have.
4. Send a Treat. Who doesn't love presents!
5. Offer a Surprise Upgrade or Discount the Bill. Thank customers with a free, spontaneous upgrade, coupon, discount or reward just for being your customer.
Never underestimate the power of a sincere expression of thanks!


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One derivative article is titled: Russia took to Twitter to stoke fear during protests at Mizzou: Report
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This article demonstrates how social media is a tool for modern information-age warfare. It builds on analysis of three distinct topics: social networking, propaganda, and news and information sharing. Two case studies are used to show how state and nonstate actors use social media to employ time-tested propaganda techniques to yield far-reaching results. The spread of the propaganda message is accomplished by tapping into an existing narrative, then amplifying that message with a network of automatic "bot" accounts to force the social media platform algorithm to recognize that message as a trending topic. The first case study analyzes Islamic State (IS) as a nonstate actor, while the second case observes Russia as a state actor, with each providing evidence of successful influence operations using social media. Coercion and persuasion will continue to be decisive factors in information warfare as more countries attempt to build influence operations on social media.


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Restoration of India's rivers can help in attaining water security and promote sustainable livelihood, particularly for the deprived sections of the country's large rural population.
Most rivers in the country have progressively degraded in quality due to rapidly increasing waste input from different sources, exacerbated with reduced flows, primarily due to large water diversion for multi-sector use.
Multiplicity of uses often conflicts with environmental concern. River restoration, with time dependant recovery, require committed long term approach, supported with hydrologic, quality of water and socio-economic studies to identify causes, contaminant sources and polluted stretches in order to plan compatible measures.
Restoration efforts face both natural and human induced constraints including varied hydro-climatic zones in the country, climatic vicissitudes, and anthropogenic actions producing undesirable situation.
Intensity and duration of rainfall varies widely in this vast country, from humid Meghalaya to arid Rajasthan, which has an unmistaken impact upon the flow regime. Major (12) and medium (48) rivers have been recognized, depending upon climatic condition, geographical locations and size of catchment, which reportedly contribute nearly 85 per cent of the total flow.
River courses, particularly perennial ones, may derive their water from multiple sources, such as catchment precipitation, snow/glacier melt, effluent streams and tributaries. Climatic changes can modify precipitation pattern, affecting runoff.
Ecological degradation can be inferred from enhanced biological oxygen demand (BOD), low levels of dissolved oxygen (DO), increase in toxic concentration of heavy metals, pathogens, load of organics including hydrocarbons and pesticides etc.
These changes could occur due to disposal of raw or partially treated sewage containing organic, inorganic and hazardous waste through various modes on river stretches. Open defecation, disposal of dead bodies and carcasses of animals, encroachments in flood plains, infrastructure affecting river course, agrarian activities and erosion are among other causes.
The polluted river waters create unfavourable habitat for the aquatic species such as fish, turtles etc and affect the livelihood of dependant communities, engaging in fisheries, boat / barge operation, cultivation, livestock rearing, among others. The use of degraded river water quality also affects human health, exposing vulnerable population to water borne diseases, besides endangering animal health as well as survival of aquatic biota.
Improvement in quantity and quality of river water and the ecological habitat therein, is attainable by applying available technology of waste containment, barring input along with waste dilution and dispersal by allowing sufficient natural flows for waste assimilation.
Waste generation e.g. municipal sewage and industrial effluents & emissions need to be curbed, as per existing guidelines. Agricultural activities including large use of irrigation water, overspreading chemical fertilizers, crop pesticides can contribute significantly in water quality decline. Waste can also travel from surface and shallow aquifer routes.
Although natural flow is impeded by dams, barrages, flood protection structures and river course modification etc, voluminous short-span precipitation and runoff during monsoon necessitates their storage in dam reservoirs for utilization during lean flow or dry period.
Uncontrolled massive load of sediments, debris and other land originated suspended and dissolved matters in flood waters needs to be regulated and minimized. Pollution loads from municipal, agricultural, industrial and other watershed sources including storm water, need proper evaluation for developing preventive and remediation methodology.
Concerted effort is required in implementing guidelines, policies and planned restorative actions together with sufficient financial infusion.
Among the corrective actions may include adopting conservation procedures, including bank stabilization, forestation and preserving surrounding wetlands and flood plains etc, managing storm water inflow to minimize watershed washout, systematic coverage of urban, semi-urban or rural settlements' solid waste & wastewater collection and efficient operation of sewage treatment plants of sufficient capacity at anomalous locations, planned reuse of treated effluents on the land for non- domestic purposes with risk assessment, and sensitizing riparian communities and the public at large in sanitation and hygiene for sustainable river utilization.
River use planning with emphasis upon the conservation of river water in all its usage should entail entire catchment, since partial approach is likely to be insufficient in a populous scenario.
The river management structure, therefore, may need a relook, in view of seemingly fragmented nature of water resources responsibilities undertaken by different agencies, both at state and Central levels.
An inclusive management strategy in cooperation with riparian states and stakeholder communities, may need to be established for each hydrological basin, some of which may even extend beyond state boundaries and national borders. Taking riparian communities into confidence, holistic planning should be able to integrate genuine ecological concern with sustainable development.
Knowledge-based social awareness campaign leading to habit change, respecting pollution bye-laws, formation of people's interest groups are among more notables to be carried out by civic bodies/administration in coordination with people at local levels.
(Author's comment: The article is developed on the premise that persisting river use problems in the river basin and their causes needed to be clarified for the purpose of developing and / or reviewing effective restoration programme. Most information is derived from different published and on line sources, including agencies data, observations and experience for which the author is truly indebted.)
By Dr Rashid Ali Khan former Water Resources Expert with Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)@India Water Review


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Merger and Acquisition Strategies
How to Create Value
Angelo Dringoli
Chapter 4: Identifying the opportunities for successful M & As
Angelo Dringoli
Growth through M & A can assume different patterns according to the direction of the expansion to be carried out: horizontal, vertical or diversified. The specific growth pattern that a firm should follow, in order to create value, depends on the characteristics of its business system and the external environment, in particular the structure of the industry and its dynamics. Therefore, it is necessary, on one hand, to analyse in depth the structure of firms involved in the merger, for discovering which activities and resources can offer the best opportunities for successful M & As. On the other hand, it is very important to analyse the structure and the dynamics of the industry where the firm wants to expand its activities, so as to properly understand opportunities and risks.
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Design Claudio Bellini
The Elinor collection is the result of the collaboration inaugurated last year with Claudio Bellini, leader designer of the office furniture contemporary scene. Elinor table springs from a new perception of space; the concept brings to mind the soft, curving lines of the namesake executive chair, conveying a refined yet contemporary image. The result is a product with premium aesthetic credentials that meets the needs of a constantly-changing market. Designed to furnish contemporary office spaces and domestic settings, the Elinor table has a simple yet distinctive design, with carefully refined details. The base is formed of two moulded elements of fixed dimensions, made from rigid polyurethane foam and upholstered in genuine leather; they support a table top in ultra-thin 6mm solid laminate, with rounded lacquered MDF support beneath it which conceals the steel structure. The Elinor tables can be adapted; the two elements of the base can be positioned in several ways to create different geometric arrangements, allowing a variety of aesthetic results. These moulded elements, when arranged in an asymmetric way, donates lightness to the setting thanks to the space between them, by ensuring great stability. The table tops can be square (1500 x 1500mm) or rectangular (1100 x 2000mm, 1100 x 2600mm, 1100 x 3000mm), always feature soft edges.


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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government has been warned by a cabinet minister that there could be dozens of resignations next week if Conservative lawmakers are banned from voting for a plan to stop a no-deal Brexit, The Times newspaper reported.
Work and Pensions minister Amber Rudd "is warning No 10 that it could face dozens of ministerial resignations next week if Tory MPs are banned from voting for a plan that helps stop a no-deal Brexit," Times reporter Sam Coates said.
Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge. Editing by Andrew MacAskill


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Of Spam & Men - Tag - IM Spam, Security, Spam, Spam, Jabber and Spam 2019-12-05T00:03:34+01:00 Arnaud Abelard urn:md5:4921 Dotclear facetime: IM & P2P attacks on the rise urn:md5:768be8981025d74326848c5140ad8ba5 2007-07-23T15:11:00+02:00 ArnY security IMmalwarestatistics
Facetime Security Labs, an IM Security focused research lab, recently reported that IM & P2P attacks were on the rise: a 5% inscrease of incidents targeting public IM and P2P channels for Q2 2007 compared to Q1 2007. Just to compare, over the same period in 2006 a 35% decrease was seen.

The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog summarizes:

From Q1 to Q2 2007, attacks spread via the mainstream networks (Yahoo, MSN and AOL) dropped from 74 total incidents in the first period to 64 in the second quarter. Attacks spread via AOL dropped by more than half > (from 28 incidents to 13). Overall, the MSN network accounted for 50 percent of the attacks on the major networks, followed by Yahoo at 30 percent and AOL with 20 percent.

As we predicted earlier this year, attacks spread via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) continue to account for a growing percentage of all attacks. In fact, the percentage of attacks that are IRC-based has risen in each of the last six quarters, rising from a 59 percent share in Q1 2006 to 72 percent in the current quarter.

via The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 http://blog.devnull.fr/post/2007/07/23/facetime%3A-IM-P2P-attacks-on-the-rise#comment-form http://blog.devnull.fr/feed/atom/comments/135256 IM worm on Yahoo! urn:md5:c11a092bbb4c8e70f54450dbbfd04624 2007-01-10T16:16:00+01:00 ArnY virus IMviruswindows
Trend Micro has a report of a new worm using Yahoo (which has unfortunately nothing common with my ICQ mystery). The worm sends links looking like pictures for some of them (but they are not):

 1. http://{blocked}.info/who.jpg 2. http://{blocked}.info/friendpic1.jpg 3. http://{blocked}.com/Gallery/albums/album/index.php 4. http://{blocked}.com/Gallery/albums/album/index2.php 5. http://{blocked}.com/Gallery/albums/album/YMworm.exe 6. http://{blocked}.com/Gallery/albums/album/worm2007.exe

In fact the url are actually pointing to http://{blocked}.info/who.jpg/index.html (and the like) and the following file will attempt to download:

 # index2.php - HTML_SOHANAD.AL # YMworm.exe - WORM_SOHANAD.AL # worm2007.exe - WORM_SOHANAD.AG

From Trend Micro
 http://blog.devnull.fr/post/2007/01/10/IM-worm-on-Yahoo#comment-form http://blog.devnull.fr/feed/atom/comments/69574 Research: IM Malware Attacks on the Rise urn:md5:bc631eea5832a902b07ad49598649304 2007-01-03T11:31:00+01:00 ArnY security IMmalware
According to a new research report produced by security software maker Akonix Systems, in San Diego, experts at the company unearthed some 406 new IM-borne threats over the last 12 months, compared with 347 attacks tracked by the company in 2005.

In 2004 the company's security analysts discovered just under 50 attacks that were carried out either via IM or peer-to-peer technologies.

However, attacks delivered via P2P networks appear to be falling in popularity, as Akonix researchers recorded an 11 percent decrease in that type of threat during December 2006, with only 16 such attacks reported for the month. Akonix traditionally reports its research of IM and P2P threats simultaneously.

New IM worms arriving during December included the Blowhen and Skyper viruses, as well as Sohana, which was the most common attack seen by the researchers, with five variants, followed by Blowhen, with two.

This actually reminds me of my "varezov on icq" mystery

via eweek
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Signs You Need a Mouth Guard for Teeth Grinding
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How Much Does Teeth Whitening Cost?
As the demand for teeth whitening products grows, so does the variety of products available to meet these demands. So how do you know which teeth whitening option is right for you? In this blog, we compare the process, duration, results, and costs of a few types of teeth whitening methods to help you decide.
Dental Implant Procedure
If you have made the decision to replace a missing tooth through a dental implant procedure, you are in good company. It is estimated that nearly 3 million people currently have a dental implant, and that number is rapidly growing. Dental implants are a popular and effective method of replacing a missing tooth or teeth.
Traditional Dentures vs. Implant-Supported Dentures
Science and medicine are constantly evolving, and the field of dentistry is no exception. Dentures have been around since 700BC, but it wasn't until the 1950s that a major breakthrough was made....
Dental Implant Materials: Titanium vs. Zirconia
Today, dental implants are one of the most popular and effective methods of replacing missing teeth. Since the 1960s, titanium has remained the industry standard for dental implants. In fact, titanium implants have become one of the most successful medical devices with a long-term medical success rate of 94-97%.


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Jeff Bush of The Washington Update, the industry thought leader guiding domestic clients through the complex and ever-changing political and tax environment, recently spoke at the 1st Global National Conference about what the midterm elections mean for investors and their financial advisors.
Because the Democrats took control of the House, Bush says not to expect new fiscal stimulus – neither spending cuts nor tax reform – or the 10 percent middle class tax cut. Likewise, with increases in defense spending or border wall funding unlikely with a Democratic-controlled House, the growing deficit may be at least somewhat controlled in time for the Dec. 7 budget deadline.
Also, Chinese import tariffs could mean higher prices on U.S. consumers. Citing the example of metal tariffs costing Ford $1 billion in profits so far, Bush projected that the proposed increase in Chinese tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent in January would reduce 2019 economic growth by 0.75 to 1.1 basis points.
While both parties agree on the need for increased infrastructure spending, they differ on how to fund the project. The President's plan is to incent local and state governments to raise funds to access matching federal funds, while the Democrats plan would be to increase the deficit. Bush pointed out that either way, construction, material stocks, telecommunications and technology industries would benefit.
Maxine Waters, the new chair of Financial Services Committee, seeks to impose bank regulation, reverse Dodd-Frank rollbacks and vigorously pursue "bad actors." As the SEC is an independent agency, legislative changes are unlikely. However, they could be subject to extensive hearings, which Bush says creates headline risk for financial service companies.
Bush warned, "Tax volatility is the new risk to retirement that no one's talking about." While fiscal stimulus, tax reform and reduced regulation should continue to be favorable for the economy and market, things could change as soon as the election cycle in 2020. Bush argues the advisor role has never been more vital, especially in light of what he called tax volatility, or the risk to one's investment income based on changes to the tax law. To mitigate tax volatility, he recommends a three-bucket approach of taxable, tax-free and tax-deferred investments to diversify sources of income generation.
Stay tuned to 1stGlobal.com/blog as we share more exclusive insights like this from our National Conference 2018 speakers in the coming weeks.


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Sons of Arugal are level 20 elite worgen mobs found in both Shadowfang Keep and Silverpine Forest.
They can be a frustrating surprise for low-level Horde in Silverpine Forest.
- [Arugal's Gift]ω ϖ—Inflicts 175 to 225 Shadow damage to an enemy every 60 sec. for 5 min.
They are sons of Archmage Arugal, the former mage of Dalaran, who brought the worgen back into Azeroth. He can be found in Shadowfang Keep and his shade is in Grizzly Hills.
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Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): Level change.
Prior to this patch these creatures were level 25 elite.
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(Reuters) - The House of Representatives passed historic legislation on Friday to overhaul financial regulation.
Below is a summary of the 1,279-page bill's provisions.
* Establishes inter-agency Financial Services Oversight Council, with staff and funding, chaired by Treasury secretary
* Council could tighten regulatory screws on high-risk firms due to their "material financial distress" or "nature, scope, size, scale, concentration and interconnectedness"
* Council members include Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, other bank supervisors
* Firms' debt-to-equity ratio could be capped at 15-to-1, credit exposure to unaffiliated companies limited to 25 percent of capital stock, among balance-sheet strengthening steps
* Firms could be ordered to hold contingent capital, or long-term hybrid debt convertible to equity in emergencies
* In extreme cases, firms could be ordered to restructure, restrict executive pay, sell businesses, or otherwise break up
* Treasury secretary would have to approve an order to divest assets of more than $10 billion; president would have to approve orders involving more than $100 billion
* Risky firms would undergo annual "stress tests" and submit "living wills" on how firms could be unwound quickly
* For first time, Federal Reserve monetary policy would be subjected to audits by congressional watchdog
* In emergencies, FDIC could back debts of solvent firms, drawing on Treasury borrowings and fees charged to firms
* FDIC could liquidate risky insolvent firms through orderly receivership, like FDIC now dismantles failing banks
* Fully secured creditors in FDIC dissolutions could have up to 20 percent of their claims treated as unsecured claims
* "Systemic dissolution fund" of $200 billion would help pay for FDIC actions, drawn from fees charged to firms with more than $50 billion in assets, and Treasury borrowings
* Fees paid by banks into FDIC's existing Deposit Insurance Fund would become risk-based, cutting small banks' fee burden
* In financial emergencies, Fed could extend loans to a wide variety of businesses up to a total of $4 trillion
* Office of Thrift Supervision would be abolished and its operations merged into Office of Comptroller of the Currency
* Lenders would have to retain 5 percent of credit risk of loans securitized for sale onto secondary debt market
* Over-the-counter derivatives would go through clearing and exchanges or equivalent facilities where possible
* Swaps not cleared centrally would have to be reported to swap repository or to regulators
* "End users" of swaps, such as airlines and agribusinesses, could be exempted from central clearing
* Regulators could set position limits on swap trading
* Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be created to regulate mortgages, credit cards, other financial products
* Fed, other existing agencies would be stripped of consumer protection duties, which would go to CFPA
* Exempted from CFPA oversight would be auto dealers, retailers, accountants, tax preparers, real estate agents
* States could have tougher rules than CFPA, but regulators could block state laws in some circumstances
* Banks with less than $10 billion in assets would not have full-scale CFPA exams, but would have to follow agency's rules
* SEC standards for brokers and investment advisers would be harmonized, mandatory investor-broker arbitration curbed
* SEC's budget would double, enforcement powers stiffen
* Investors would get annual, nonbinding votes on executive pay, while pay encouraging excessive risk could be prohibited
* Hedge funds, private equity firms, offshore funds would have to register with SEC
* Venture capital firms and funds with less than $150 million in assets would be exempted
* SEC would get new oversight over agencies, which would be exposed to more investor lawsuits
* Federal Insurance Office (FIO) would be set up to monitor insurance industry for first time, but not regulate it
* FIO could not preempt state insurance laws except under limited circumstances, preserving state-level regulation
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Our Furniture is proudly manufactured locally. Our 2 year guarantee on our Zenandi Range is limited to manufacturing and material defects that appear under normal, indoor residential use.
Truewood Furniture will assist with in-home inspection to do needed assessment. Truewood Furniture will repair, replace or substitute your piece. This will be at the sole discretion of Truewood Furniture.
Please note that refunds are not available. Our warranties are voided by evidence of excessive water damage, improper cleaning, treatment, abuse, or abnormal use.
Unacceptable Defects that may occur (Covered under Guarantee)
From time to time there may be a situation where an unacceptable defect may occur. These defects will be covered under our guarantee and the furniture items will either be repaired or replaced depending on the extent of the defect. These include:
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If the furniture is used as it is intended (no dancing on the table) and any component breaks during normal use – it will be fully covered
The component or product will be replace
Our furniture is made of the highest quality of wood. Our moisture content are between 8% and 12% and checked for quality.
Wood is a living substance and swells and shrinks through the various seasons.
By following recommended care on our products it will assist minimizing the swelling, shrinking and warping.
Truewood Furniture has been producing the Zenandi Range for over 10 years and has proven Truewood Furniture's quality and craftsmanship with thousands of customers.
Wood has a unique feature of assuming a character of its own with age.
This range is for interior use and direct sun and water will have a detrimental effect on the product.
This is part of the aging of wood. It is unavoidable over time but can be managed with the correct oiling/ maintenance regime. Sunlight and dry air are the main cause of checks
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Verdant green foliage, delicate cow parsley and pale pink buds illustrated by Hollyhock Lane decorate this botanical save the date. Ideal stationery to set the tone for those planning weddings with masses of leafy green decor.
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Promoting Access to Primary Education
Many vulnerable children do not have access to primary school, and those who do are often unable to continue past grade 4 or 5. Children face strong economic and social pressures to join the labor market, pressures which increase, as they grow older – often forcing them from school and denying them their full potential.
Stung Meanchey Dumpsite: Education opportunities promoted to child garbage pickers on the dumpsite
The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports have an 'Education Sector Support Program (2004-2008)' which aims to address the major issues in Cambodia's education sector. Activities are directed at constructing or renovating schools in remote areas and providing schools with an operational budget to ensure that children do not need to pay to enroll. Unfortunately however the most vulnerable children in the community are not usually known to social services, largely because communities and schools are not well connected.
Scholarship Children receiving school uniforms and kits
The Vulnerable Children's Assistance Schools Program (VCASP) will work closely with public school head teachers, teachers, and the wider community to ensure that the most vulnerable children have access to the ministry's priority action programs. Vulnerable children are identified by public school administrators and communities, and provided with the opportunity, support, and encouragement they need to complete their primary education.
Those needs not met by the ministry's programs will be addressed through the other program operations of the VCASP.