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What is the purpose of a PURE Award?
The Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) Award program offers funded opportunities for University of Calgary undergraduate students to conduct research with a faculty supervisor over the spring and summer terms. Award recipients learn how research projects are developed and conducted, and how research results can contribute new knowledge and insights in their field of study and in the wider community.
Each PURE studentship is a unique opportunity to develop research skills through experiential learning. Students explore personal research interests, develop the abilities to collaborate, think critically and creatively, and communicate with the research community. PURE Award experiences enrich and extend undergraduate learning at the University of Calgary.
Award Value
PURE Awards are funded for periods of 8, 12 or 16 weeks between May and August. 16-week awards are in the amount of $7,500, 12-week awards in the amount of $5,625, and 8-week awards in the amount of $3,750. Students holding PURE Awards will be paid $1,875 from the Undergraduate Awards Office once a month for the duration of the studentship, in accordance with the award values.
2024 PURE Program applications open in December 2023.
Student Application Deadline: February 02, 2024
Supervisor Application Deadline: February 09, 2024
Important dates
2024 PURE Program applications open in December 2023.
Student Application Deadline: February 02, 2024
Supervisor Application Deadline: February 09, 2024
IMPORTANT: Consult with your supervisor before the submission deadline so that they will have time to complete their reference.
Summer studentship information sessions
Information Session 1
This session happened in late November 2022.
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Information Session 2
This session happened mid-January 2023.
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PURE is intended for University of Calgary undergraduate students in good academic standing. We encourage applications from students in the early stages of their programs. PURE awards are only available to continuing undergraduate students in the following fall academic term. Students who have completed the requirements for their degree program are not eligible for a PURE award. Students planning to graduate in June are ineligible.
No, PURE awards are intended to provide University of Calgary students with research experience and University of Calgary funds are dedicated for this purpose.
Yes, if they are registered, full-time undergraduate students. We will require valid Study Permit numbers instead of Social Insurance Numbers. This number can be found on the back of your passport.
Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 to apply for a PURE award. A cumulative GPA includes all courses that count towards a student's current program of study. As the PURE awards application deadline is in February, a student's GPA includes their recent Fall semester grades. We strongly encourage students to connect with a faculty advisor to help accurately calculate their cumulative GPA.
Application process
Be sure to read through the information on this page about eligibility, ethics, reporting requirements and frequently asked questions.
Discover your research area of interest
Research is a valuable undergraduate experience no matter what discipline or faculty you are from.
Find a research supervisor
It is the student's responsibility to find a research supervisor for their PURE project. Learn more about how to find a research supervisor below.
Review application requirements
Find out more about the format of the application and the rubric that will be used to evaluate each submission.
Submit your application
Ensure that you write your PURE application with support from your supervisor, and submit your application and supervisor reference by the deadlines listed at the top of this page.
2023 applications are now closed. Check back near the end of 2023 for 2024 application information.
How do I arrange for a faculty supervisor?
As a PURE applicant, you are responsible for finding your own faculty supervisor. You may have a supervisor from your own faculty or from a different faculty.
For helpful information on finding a faculty supervisor and how to email a potential supervisor, download our tip sheets below.
Applicants may choose to approach faculty members engaged in ongoing research projects of interest. Students must prepare research proposals outlining their specific roles, responsibilities and expected learning objectives.
Students may have supervisors from their own faculty or from different faculties. Supervisors must be full-time UCalgary Academic Staff (Faculty and Researchers) with continuing appointments.
Eligible full-time staff members include assistant, associate, full professor, assistant, associate, and full professors (Teaching), clinical faculty appointments, librarians, archivists, and curators.
UCalgary academic staff who are not on a continuing appointment can co-supervise but will require an eligible academic staff member to be listed as the primary supervisor for the application. Staff who are not full-time include sessional or affiliated instructors, postdoctoral fellowship holders, guest postdoctoral scholars, adjunct professors and instructors, postdoctoral associates, and professor emeritus.
If the supervisor is willing to supervise the student and make appropriate arrangements for ongoing supervision and communication, location is not an issue. However, students should be informed if a prolonged absence is planned.
No, the PURE award is intended to provide University of Calgary students with research experience supervised by University of Calgary faculty members.
Is ethics approval required?
All research involving human participants, animal use and the handling and storage of bio-hazard materials must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate University Board or Committee before research commences.
As part of their commitment, all PURE recipients must submit final reports upon completion of their projects.
Students are also strongly encouraged to showcase their projects at the annual Students' Union Undergraduate Research Symposium.
PURE award holders must file reports summarizing the results of their research in late September.
Details on the submission process for final reports will be communicated in June.
The final report description and template will be shared with award recipients during the research term. The report will ask students to describe their research project and results and reflect on their experience.
Recipients are encouraged to participate in the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by the University of Calgary Students' Union (SU). It is an excellent opportunity for undergrads to demonstrate their exceptional research and celebrate their valuable place in a research-intensive institution. Find more information on the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
The primary adjudication of PURE proposals is done by faculty-based committees. Each PURE application is reviewed independently by two faculty members who have a relevant area of expertise. Based on these reviews, all of the PURE proposals are ranked and submitted to a committee that uses the Faculty-based assessments in determining the PURE recipients. Decisions of the committee are final and cannot be appealed.
PURE applications will be evaluated according to a rubric that includes an assessment of:
- The overview / abstract of the proposal
- The creativity of the research question or method
- The potential benefit to student
- Relevant experience
Results of the Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) summer studentship competition will be available approximately 6 to 8 weeks after the last application deadline. Candidates will be informed by email regarding the outcome of their submission. Successful applicants will be required to formally indicate their acceptance of the award. Please note that all candidates applying for Alberta Innovates, PURE, ATI, ACF ACHRI, Libin and O'Brien Centre Summer Studentship awards apply through a common system and will only receive ONE (1) offer of award if successful.
PURE award holders are to conduct their research in a safe and ethical manner under the guidance and mentorship of their supervisors. During the period of the award they are to maintain regular working hours, unless otherwise agreed to by their supervisor. In no case should PURE students work more than an average of 35 hours per week. They are expected to follow the procedures and rules of the research environment in which they conduct their research, and interact regularly with their supervisor. As part of their commitment, all PURE recipients must submit final reports upon completion of their projects and ensure it meets the expectations of PURE and of the supervisor. Failure to submit a final report could make students ineligible for future awards.
Yes, as long as your supervisor is a faculty member at the University of Calgary and willing to support your project.
There is no limit on the number of PURE awards a student can receive. All interested students are encouraged to submit applications.
To make the most out of the PURE research experience, it is strongly recommended that students take no more than one course throughout their research term. Students are expected to make a full-time commitment to their PURE research and are encouraged to discuss workload and expectations with their supervisor if they wish to take a spring or summer course during their research term.
No. PURE award holders may not simultaneously hold any similar award, such as the NSERC USRA, Research Awards for research in the natural sciences and engineering, Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP), etc. Students may apply for other similar research awards, but can only accept one award.


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After earning third gate-pick in Qualifying around the man-made track overlooking the intu-Xanadu shopping complex in the Madrid suburb of Arroyomolinos the Frenchman coolly chose the fifth gate to give himself the perfect angle into the first turn of race one to emerge ahead of his championship rivals in second. After a lap to settle into his rhythm he immediately started to post the fastest laps of the race as he worked on finding a way around the local hero Prado, always a difficult rider to pass, for the lead. The pressure almost paid off on lap eight of nineteen as he diced inside the Spaniard but the berm was broken and the Kawasaki rider experienced a hairy moment to regain control in an incident which temporarily lost him two seconds. Quickly regaining his composure Febvre soared back onto the rear wheel of his rival, the KX450-SR picking up tremendous drive out of the turn before the waves for a scintillating pass. Once in front he immediately raced clear, building an advantage of eight seconds entering the final lap before calmly throttling back to avoid any unforced errors to clinch an ecstatic victory which closed the gap at the head of the championship table to just a single point. A switch to gate three to avoid handing an inside line to the fast-gating Spaniard back-fired immediately in the first few metres out of the gate as his new neighbour immediately moved over on the Kawasaki and Febvre found himself in traffic on the edge of the top ten. Worse was to follow just as couple of corners further as the Frenchman found himself involved in a midpack tangle which left him temporarily trapped under his bike with a mountain to climb from twenty-fourth at the first split. Decisively carving his way through the pack he was already fourteenth a lap later and within ten minutes, setting similar lap times to the leaders despite racing in traffic, had broken into the top ten before his progress inevitably lost the same momentum as the leaderboard men had taken advantage of a clear track to gap their chasers. Showing great character Febvre continued to push, narrowly failing to catch the rider in sixth to earn fourth overall on the day, just a single point from the podium, and maintain his second place in the championship standings as the series heads to the final five rounds in the space of eighteen days.
Romain Febvre: I felt amazing on this track; it very well-prepared so the conditions were perfect already in the morning and I was happy with a third gate-pick. I got a good start in the first race, second behind Jorge Prado; I tried several times to pass him without success and I also made a few mistakes in the process but finally I passed him and put in several fast laps to make a gap. I was happy to win this moto but unfortunately my second start wasnt so good and in the third corner I collided with other riders and crashed; I was under my bike so I lost a lot of time; I came back in the race last but I had good speed and was able to come back to seventh. Everything was OK apart from this crash; I was actually happy to finish seventh as I couldnt imagine that was possible when I got back on my bike. Now we move to Arco; it is one of my favourite tracks and I expect more great results there to continue our challenge for the title.
For Polisport, it has been an honor to support the team and to be associated with one of the best in the sport. We had the opportunity to work with the Monster Energy Kawasaki Racing Team, supplying our best products for tracks, like the Bike Stand, Bike Mat, Pro Octane, Pit Board, and, of course, our Replica Plastics.
We wish the best of luck to Ivo and Romain in their future races. It was a pleasure to see them in action!
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For a Company that's been in the electrical business since 1921, one of the things that bothers me the most is to see how many people are taken advantage of day after day for their lack of knowledge concerning Electrical installations..
We actually earned the right to have a double page advertisement in the yellow pages. We didn't have financial backers to funnel money to us in hopes of gaining a profit.
So, I hope to spell out the scams that many electrical companies with big expense accounts use to sell you poor electrical services at absurd prices.
SQUARE D Equipment. Did you know there is a huge difference between a SQ-D equipment and most other manufacturers? Most Electrical Contractors will not give you a choice and install an inferior panel, such as GE, Cutler Hammer or Siemens. The problem with these other electrical panels is they have more of a tendency to overheat, corrode and their circuit breakers are not as sensitive, thus creating a hazard. So, you possibly saved a couple bucks, but now you have to hope that the circuit breaker will trip (or open the circuit) when a short occurs on the system.
TYPES OF WIRING. Did you know there is a huge difference between Aluminum and Copper wire?
Do you know why?
Do you know to ask?
Aluminum wire tends to heat up quicker and over time if connections are not maintained, could cause flickering lights and even worse….fire.
This is important because your cost will depend upon it. You should NOT pay as much for Aluminum as you do for Copper, but that's what other electrical contractors will install without you knowing or asking, but charge you the same!
Did you know that many Contractors will obtain the permit applications for your town and then mark up the price? WE DON'T!! We obtain all your permits that are necessary to complete the job and ONLY charge you what it costs us.
With Danley, we save you the time and frustration of dealing with your municipality filling out forms, waiting in line, and it won't cost you ONE PENNY MORE.
Here's to making your electrical project Headache free with Danley!
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Department of Pharmacy Practice,University of Balochistan,Quetta,Pakistan
Received date: 04/06/2021; Accepted date: 18/06/2021; Published date: 25/06/2021
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text: NYSDOH eliminates the 15-minute wait time rule for cleaning dental operatories May 12, 2021 On May 11, the NYS Department of Health (NYSDOH) eliminated the 15-minute wait time rule for cleaning dental operatories from its Interim Guidance for Dentistry during the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency and the Reopening New York Dentistry Guidelines for Employers and Employees. Under the section titled "Hygiene, Cleaning and Disinfection,"the following guidance has been removed: "Responsible parties must ensure that DHCP wait at least 15 minutes after completion of dental visit or procedure to allow potential contagious droplets to sufficiently fall from the air before beginning cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces in the dental operatory per CDC Guidance on Generation and Behavior Airborne Particles." In order to mitigate the spread of the virus, you must continue to follow all other infection-control protocols as stated in the NYSDOH guidelines.These protocols include mandatory health screening practices of DHCP, patients, and visitors. We encourage you and your staff to carefully review the guidelines. We continue to monitor updated guidance, along with all COVID data,daily and will share information as it becomes available. NYSDA thanks Commissioner Zucker for reviewing our request to update NYSDOH guidelines to align with the CDC and end the confusion about observing an unnecessary 15-minute wait period before cleaning dental operatories. Stay up-to-date with the latest advocacy news on our website at nysdental.org/advocacy.


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It took 25 years for Warner Bros. to get around to making a sequel to Space Jam, the 1996 live-action/animation hybrid that teamed a squad of cartoon cutups with Michael Jordan at the height of his fame. It takes 25 minutes for Bugs Bunny to tunnel his way into that sequel, becoming the first Looney Tune to appear in this supposed Looney Tunes movie. Maybe the rabbit and his studio both took a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Space Jam: A New Legacy takes almost nothing but wrong turns, all leading to a glittering CGI trash heap of cameos, pat life lessons, and stale internet catchphrases. Its first misstep: keeping Bugs, Daffy, and the rest of the gang on the bench for about as long as it would take the audience to watch three and a half Merrie Melodies.
The star of a new Space Jam has big Air Jordans to fill, but only when it comes to star power; as an actor, His Airness was as flat and rigid as a backboard. LeBron James, heir apparent to MJ's throne, seems on paper like a dream trade—he stole plenty of laughs in Trainwreck a few summers ago. Sadly, LeBron doesn't look much more natural than Mike did trading banter with green-screened tennis balls. And he just looks bored during the Tuneless opening stretch, which establishes the conflict between this fictionalized version of James and his preteen son, Dom (Cedric Joe). The source of their familial strife seems calibrated to speak to '90s kids and their own more tech-savvy offspring: The King wants his boy to follow in his size-15 footsteps, while Dom would rather design basketball-themed video games.
The space of this Space Jam is cyber-, not outer-. LeBron and Dom end up sucked into the Warner Bros. "serververse," a nondescript computer void ruled by a sentient algorithm (a miscast Don Cheadle). Al G. Rhythm, as the villain is witlessly named, wants to digitize LeBron's likeness and pair him off with a bunch of characters from the Warner vault… which is, you know, exactly what A New Legacy sets out to do. A streak of self-aware humor doesn't extend to the, well, algorithmically calculated nature of the premise: If there's an irony in the film essentially realizing the evil plot of its bad guy, one Harry Potter and Game Of Thrones reference at a time, it seems lost on director Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) and his whopping six screenwriters.
It's once LeBron is hurled into Tune town that the movie goes full Ready Player One. The NBA superstar joins forces with Bugs Bunny to track down all his old friends, who have taken up in the various satellite worlds that make up the Warner Bros. portfolio. This means we get a quick race through an animated Metropolis and Gotham, Matrix bullet-time gags a couple decades past their expiration date, and some Zemeckis-style splicing of characters into preexisting live-action movies that might leave the respective directors of said movies gritting their teeth or rolling around in their graves. When the action inevitably shifts to the game of hoops, where father must face off against son in a video-game bastardization of basketball with no internal logic, A New Legacy fills the stands with a century's worth of intellectual property. This proves more distracting than likely intended: We are not, presumably, meant to be counting background Jokers during the big tear-jerking climax of the movie.
Look, the original Space Jam, released long enough ago that its adolescent fans might now have adolescents of their own, was shameless product, too. It limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan's swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put the rock through the net. Worse still, it turned some of the most beloved characters in the history of animation into NBA mascots, their slapstick personalities "comically" replaced with sports-gear cool. (Successfully, it must be noted: This writer was at the right age to see a lot of classmates in Taz jerseys.) But if that modest hit took inspiration from a series of commercials, this simultaneously new-fangled and nostalgia-courting reboot basically is a commercial. What it's selling is Warner Bros. itself, via a brand-crossover jamboree with all the fun and creativity of a stockholders meeting.
Looney diehards will have to make do with one traditionally animated stretch that puts a cartoon James in the Elmer Fudd role. It's no "What's Opera, Doc?" but it at least approximates the comic slapstick style of these characters, however briefly. After that, the Tunes are around only to shill for their studio stable mates, say stuff like "Winning" and "Well, that happened," and—in the film's nadir, teased on Twitter a couple weeks back—engage in a truly mortifying half-time rap battle. They don't even look like themselves, thanks to a mid-film makeover into 3-D plush dolls. Still, in at least one respect, A New Legacy is successful: Even those who hated the first Space Jam may find themselves suddenly nostalgic for its comparably quaint charms.


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Blackwaterside never fails to entertain
Whether it's the Celtic music savvy crowd at a Scottish Highland Games or the families at a Sunday concert in the park, Blackwaterside never fails to capture an audience. I know that any time I book these four musicians, it'll be a great show.
Susan Winsberg leads the group with her flutes and whistles. Drawing on her Scottish heritage, she interprets the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland with great skill. She moves easily from the familiar silver flute to the piccolo, a wonderfully mellow wooden flute, and Irish whistles. The incredible sound of her bass flute (Christa calls it "Nessie") always gives me shivers.
I love to hear Christa Burch sing. Her voice is rich and warm, and she is great interpreter of the Irish and Scottish music she loves. Her lively and expressive bodhrán playing adds a happy touch to the music. Guitarist Sean Clegg's background in classical and rock music informs his interpretation of the Celtic repertoire. His interplay with Susan's flute adds a great depth to the music, and it's a treat when he takes a vocal solo. Tim Blair plays recorder or whistle in harmony with Susan's flute, and he adds percussion to the band with his bodhrán and bones.
With any great band, the total performance is more than the sum of the individual contributions of its members, and that's certainly true for Blackwaterside. The show is always hugely entertaining, and the audience leaves with a smile.
Dick Jay Chairfolk, San Diego Folk Heritage Entertainment Director, San Diego Scottish Highland Games February 21, 2018
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Blackwaterside is our go to band for all our Scottish themed events. The group led by Grammy award winner Susan Craig Winsberg embodies incredible musical and vocal talent. Over the many years the St. Andrew's Society of Los Angeles has worked with Susan, she and her band have never failed to deliver. There are other Celtic bands out there but as the leading organization in Los Angeles devoted to the promotion and preservation of Scottish culture we demand the real thing and that is why we repeatedly rely on Susan and Blackwaterside.
St. Andrew's Society of Los Angeles -- February 16, 2018
Susan Craig Winsberg Soloed for the Chicago Symphony When She Was 16 but Found Freedom in Folk Music
By JOHN ROOS, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES - Los Angeles Times Friday April 6, 2001
The leader of the Celtic folk quartet Blackwaterside has come to master all varieties of the flute. But if not for her mother's love of tea, Susan Craig Winsberg would never have been introduced to the exotic sounding instrument at all. When she was a 10-year-old living in Chicago, Winsberg had to pick an instrument to play in the school band. Already an accomplished pianist, she wanted to play the cello. But on Instrument Night at her school, the line for cellos was very long, indeed. Her mother, Millicent Craig Winsberg, grew impatient. "Being British, my mom said, 'Let's go home . . . I need my cup of tea,'" recalled Winsberg by phone from her apartment in Hollywood. Her dad said he'd get her an instrument, not to worry. Then the next day after work, he came home with a flute he picked up at a rental store. "I'm sure his thinking was how much easier this smaller instrument would be to deal with. And my initial reaction was only, 'Oh, how pretty.' I still to this day adore the cello, but I took to the flute like a dog on a bone. Before long, it felt like it was an appendage."
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In addition to becoming a virtuoso on all things flute, Winsberg has fostered an adventurous streak that takes herself and listeners on unpredictable sojourns. For instance, on her 1995 debut CD titled "Blackwaterside," she breaks from tradition by playing 10 Scottish and five Irish songs on the modern silver - rather than the wooden - flute. Winsberg decided to mesh her love of poetry and music on her subsequent release in 1999 of "La Belle Dame," the title inspired by John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." With additional contributions from poets Kathleen Raine and Christina Rossetti--plus the beautiful, emotive voices of guests Susan McKeown, Kathleen Fisher and Molly Pasutti--the 12-song collection offers a richly-textured collage of words and sounds with a decidedly dark, melancholy tone.
None of these fragile tales of love, longing and sorrow is as haunting as "When I Am Dead, My Dearest," which includes Rossetti's 1848 poem titled "Song," along with music composed by Winsberg. Backed by the eerie-sounding archlute, Celtic harp, violone and a 19th century wooden flute, McKeown sings: "When I am dead, my dearest/Sing no sad songs for me/Plant thou no roses at my head/Nor shady cypress tree." If the project's prevailing mood is too blue for some, Winsberg understands. "I don't like to shy away from anything just because it's on the dark side. It's an important part of the spectrum of human experience, and that's the emotional space I was in at the time. In fact, I was in a melodramatic mood for a whole year," she said laughing. "But beyond me personally, the Scots are known for their dark, sometimes downright depressing approach. I've been over there several times with my mom, who was born and raised in a town near Glasgow called Hamilton. People face rough physical elements and climate everyday . . . I mean, the Highlands and the Hebrides are cold, dark and difficult." That said, Winsberg insists that concertgoers won't be in for a downer when Blackwaterside-- which also includes new vocalist Susan Picking, guitarist Sean Clegg and percussionist Tim Blair - makes its Orange County debut Saturday in San Juan Capistrano. "We will play some of the heavier songs," she says, "but you'll hear some livelier tunes as well. Celtic music can be light and fun, and the mood will certainly be more upbeat than on 'La Belle Dame'. The great thing about this kind of music is that there are so many different emotional layers to uncover, and it's our intention to share all of its depth and variety."
Prior to her fascination with Celtic music, Winsberg--whose American father is Jewish--was heavily immersed in classical music. Formally trained, she performed as a flute soloist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16 and since that time has performed in various symphonies throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. But while auditioning for several German symphonies in 1986, Winsberg suddenly realized that her future lay elsewhere. "I reached a point where I felt that the orchestra scene just wasn't for me," she said. "I got fed up because it was just too rigid, technical and competitive . . . I still love, play and teach classical music, but Celtic music is more personal to me." For years, Winsberg played works by legends like Chopin and Bach but never felt brave enough to try composing. "Writing my first song, 'Spell of Creation,' was a big step for me. The Celtic music has simply emboldened me." The multi-faceted flutist, arranger and composer has also worked as a music teacher, actress, insect wrangler for the film industry, yoga instructor, and translator of several languages, including German, French and Spanish. Her latest passion is rescuing small creatures, such as cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, and--let's not forget her favorite--spiders. "With the assistance of a couple of rescue organizations, so far I've found good homes for two bunnies, two guineas, three cats and a dog," says Winsberg, who appears on her web-site (www.craigrecords.com) with a 7-inch tarantula crawling towards her shoulder. "I was raised in a home that was called 'the zoo,' so I'm completely comfortable with animals. I'm just trying to find a home for one little homeless creature at a time--and I don't draw the line at warm, fuzzy and cute."


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Ramaphosa has gone after Moyane.
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The Presidency announced on Friday that it has served currently suspended SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane with disciplinary charges.
The charges relate to accusations of misconduct regarding violating his duties and responsibilities in terms of the South African Revenue Service Act, Public Finance Management Act and SARS's Code of Conduct.
Retired Constitutional Court Judge Kate O'Regan has been appointed as the presiding officer for the disciplinary inquiry.
The inquiry will be conducted in writing to make findings, except when Judge O'Regan uses her discretion to hear oral evidence.
The Presidency said that this approach has been chosen to guarantee a speedy and procedurally fair process.
An additional separate process will focus on tax administrative issues such as VAT refunds and the shortfalls in revenue overseen by Moyane during the last two days.
Moyane was suspended by Ramaphosa in March after he refused to resign after being directly asked to do so by the president. A report in April also alleged that Moyane did not disclose his close connection with a company that the revenue service awarded a large contract to.
Regarding the VAT refunds, Moyane has been accused of being personally linked to a rather suspicious payout of R70m. A R70 billion tax rebate to the Guptas while there was a R40bn tax shortfall overall, did not go down well with anyone.
On top of all that, Moyane has also been accused of "looking the other way" in terms of tax payments that needed to be made by former President Jacob Zuma.


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Bike repair basics: Maintain your rear shock
Overhaul the air can every 40 hours of ride time to ensure it is cleaned, lubed, and properly sealed and inflated.
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Mountain bikers should remove and lubricate the air can (or air sleeve) from an air shock after every 40 hours of riding unless the bike is typically ridden in very clean conditions. This may seem like a ridiculously frequent schedule of maintenance, but think about it for a second. You don't think twice (or I hope you don't) about changing the oil in your car's engine every 3,000 miles, do you?
Well, 3,000 miles is 50 hours of driving at 60mph, and the engine has a lot of oil volume and an oil filter to keep pulling contaminants out of the oil as it circulates. Now consider your bicycle shock. Its piston is constantly going up and down as you ride, it has less than a teaspoon of lubricant in it, and it has no room for an oil filter. Forty hours does not seem so extreme in that context, does it? If you don't do the air-can service yourself every 40 hours, have a qualified mechanic do it for you. Re-grease the eyelet bushings after every 40 hours of riding along with doing the air-can service.
Air-can overhaul
Because the air can should be serviced frequently, these instructions will show you how to overhaul it in a hotel room or parking lot, without a vise. And even a vise may not be enough to push the can on far enough to screw it back on anyway, so reassembling the air can this way, on the bike, may be a must in any case.
- Deflate the shock. Sit on the bike while depressing the Schrader valve pin with a blunt implement (hold a rag over it to keep oil from spurting on you) to release as much air as possible; do it slowly in case it has a negative air spring.
- While sitting on the bike, grasp the air can with your hands and unscrew it. Turn it counterclockwise, as if it were a lid on a jar. If you cannot get enough of a grip to twist the air can, wrap an inner tube around it first. Alternatively, after removing the shock as in step 3, you can clamp the faces of the shaft eyelet (the eyelet at the big end of the shock) between soft jaws or wood or aluminum blocks in a vise and unscrew the air can there.
- Remove the shock from the bike. This can be as simple as removing the two mounting bolts and pulling the shock off. But if the shock doesn't pull out of its mounting tabs when you remove the bolts, there may be a hollow, threaded shaft through the eyelet that overlaps into the holes in the frame tabs. In this case, install one bolt a few threads and tap it inward with a hammer to knock the sleeve out of the near tab. Remove the bolt, and tap the sleeve the rest of the way out with a hex key or the like.
- Slide the air can off. If the mounting hardware in the body eyelet bushing is too wide to allow the can to slide off, you'll need to remove it. Pull top-hat-shaped aluminum spacer/reducers out with pliers or a vise, or by twisting them out with an easy out (spiral-flute screw extractor) on a tap handle. Alternatively, if you have a long sleeve through the eyelet bushing with an aluminum spacer on either end, pull off the spacers and push out the sleeve with your fingers or a vise.
- Clean all seals and contact areas. With a clean, lint-free rag and isopropyl alcohol if need be, thoroughly clean the seals at the narrow end of the can, the seals around the piston, the inside of the can, the threads, and the O-ring that the can screws up against. Wipe down the piston shaft and the shock body as well.
- Inspect the seals and replace if needed. If any are damaged, or if you have had significant air or oil leakage, buy a seal kit for the shock, and install those seals. Remove O-rings and rubber square cross-section seals (square seals or quad seals) from the shock body (piston) by squeezing and pushing them with your thumbs until a loop pops up that you can grab and roll off with your thumb. The backing rings surrounding the seal are split and will pull off easily. Dig the seals out of their grooves in the narrow end of the can with a sharpened pick of some sort. A couple of long nails you sharpened by spinning them in a drill against a belt sander will do fine; leave one straight, and bend the other one near the tip so that you have some options for digging the seals out of their grooves. Rather than going in under the edge of each seal with your tool, which could scratch the shock's anodized coating and create an air leak, stab each rubber seal and Teflon backing ring with your sharp pick, and stretch the seal up over the lip of its groove and pull it out. Press the new O-rings, rubber square seals, glide rings, seal-backing rings, and so on back in place where the old ones were.
- Lubricate the seals. Wipe some Slick Honey grease on the piston seals and the seals in the end of the air can. Better yet, squeeze Fox Float Fluid from a 5mL blister pack on the seals, lay a bead of it on the shock body, and squirt the rest of it inside the can just before it meets the threads in step 8, below.
- Slide the air can back onto the shock body and, if you can, up against the threads. If you have the shock in a vise or can do so in your hands, screw it on (clockwise) hand tight. If you can't get the air can screwed on, you will in step 10. Not being able to press the sleeve far enough to engage the threads is actually a good sign, indicating the seals are effective at building pressure behind the piston. Slip the travel-indicator O-ring onto the shock body.
- Install the shock in the bike. First grease the eyelets and reinstall the aluminum spacer/reducers or mounting sleeves and spacers (press them in with a vise if they won't go in by hand alone). Replace any bolts, washers, and sleeves you removed.
- Sit on the saddle to compress the shock and screw the air can back on. Using the leverage of the bike to compress the shock is the most effective way to overcome the air pressure building behind the piston as the can slides on and get the threads on the can and shaft eyelet cup to meet up. While sitting on the saddle, grab the air can and screw it on clockwise, as if it were a jar screwing into its lid. Turn it by hand until it stops with the seam of the wraparound label lined up behind the shock.
- Inflate the shock to your desired air pressure.
- Slide the sag-indicator O-ring back against the can seal. You're ready to ride another 40 hours!
Adapted from Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 6th edition, by Lennard Zinn, with permission of VeloPress.


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Distribution and contamination status of heavy metals in estuarine sediments near Cua Ong Harbor, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
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The distribution, controlling geochemical factors and contamination status of heavy metals in estuarine sediments near Cua Ong Habor, Ha Long Bay (Vietnam) were investigated. 36 surface sediment samples were collected and analyzed for major elements (Al, Ca, Fe, K, Mg, S), heavy metals (As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn), organic matter, loss on ignition (LOI), grain size composition and pH. Spatial distribution patterns of heavy metals as well as their controlling factors were elucidated based on geochemical mapping and statistical methods such as the Pearson Product-Moment linear correlation and Factor Analysis. The results illustrated that the distribution patterns of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn are mainly controlled by organic matter and clay minerals and determined by the distribution of the fine-grained fraction (Φ < 63 µm) in the sediments. In contrast, Fe and Mn compounds seem to exert some control on the distribution of Co. Carbonates partly control the distribution of Mn, but are not important with respect to the other studied heavy metals. The contamination status by heavy metals was assessed based on comparison with Canadian, Wisconsin- United States and Flemish numerical Sediment Quality Guidelines, and calculation of Geo-accumulation Index (Igeo) and Enrichment Factor (EF). The results indicated that natural processes such as weathering and erosion of bedrock are the main supply sources of heavy metals in sediments near Cua Ong Harbor. Among the studied heavy metals, only As is of concern whereas Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn seem to reflect their background concentrations in sediments of Ha Long Bay.
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The bullwhip effect (BWE) is a phenomenon, which is caused by ineffective inventory decisions made by supply chain members. In addition to known inefficiencies caused by the bullwhip effect within a supply chain product flow, such as excessive inventory, it can also lead to inefficiencies in cash flow such as the cash flow bullwhip (CFB). The CFB reduces the efficiency of the supply chain (SC) through heterogeneous distribution of cash among supply chain members. This paper aims to decrease both the BWE and the CFB across a SC through applying a simulation-based optimisation approach, which integrates system dynamics (SD) simulation and genetic algorithms. For this purpose, cash flow modelling is incorporated into the SD structure of the beer distribution game (BG) to develop the CFB function. A multi objective optimisation model is then integrated with the SD-BG simulation model. Finally, a genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to determine the optimal values for the inventory, supply line, and financial decision parameters. Results show that the proposed integrated framework leads to efficient liquidity management in the SC in addition to cost management.
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Cards of LoveFebruary 12, 2012
Valentine cards just seem to get better & better each year. We have gotten in some pretty sweet designs–here are a few of my favorites.
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by Joao Ribas
Photographs were once—and sometimes still are—perceived as objective depictions of the visible world, recording reality, rather than interpreting it in the manner of a painting or drawing. This "truth-telling" reputation has served as a tool for social activists keen to expose social ills (think of Jacob Riis's images of the poor of New York City), photojournalists documenting news events and tabloids looking to catch people in flagrante delicto.
For artists, however, photography's presumed ability to render the world as it is has been a problem since its beginning: the mechanical process was considered to undermine aesthetic considerations. "If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether," wrote Charles Baudelaire at the dawn of modern art.
But artists, rather than having been restricted by the precision and literalness of the medium, have been able, creatively and imaginatively, to manipulate the process—and turn it into an art form. Examples from the 19th century include the hand-tinting of negatives, combining the printing of several photographs into a single image and staging 'tableaux vivants' which imitated painting. They also used optical tricks to capture emanations from the spirit world on film.
These 19th-century manipulations have obvious echoes today: It can be argued that the 'digital darkroom'—using computers to extensively alter or even create a photographic image—is merely the latest image-tinkering method. It seems 'purity' in photography has always been a chimera.
Rather than being the exception, in fact, digital manipulation of images is the rule today. Few fine-art photographers still preserve the process of film negative to print with no computer manipulation. Leading contemporary practitioners such as Andreas Gursky, Gregory Crewdson and Thomas Demand all use digital alterations—from subtle to explicit—to enhance their photographs. They may use polarizing filters or radically alter color, and a large number of these photographs are not only manipulated, but also digitally printed.
And many emerging photographers are now forgoing film altogether and turning to purely digital means in their practice—with no qualms about challenging the conventions of what a photograph can be. Artists such as Loretta Lux and Anthony Goicolea, for example, compose their photographs directly on a computer.
Such a widespread use of these digital tools begs the question: Is there a divide in contemporary photography between a digital vanguard and 'purist' artists, dealers and collectors?
Walead Beshty, heralded by several curators and critics as one of the best emerging photographers around, rejects the notion that photography could, or should, be split into such camps. "I use digital, as does almost anyone who makes prints larger than 16" x 20," says the L.A.-based photographer and critic. "I don't believe that's not photographic—it seems arbitrary to draw a line between computer-aided and darkroom-dependant printing," he adds.
Many photography dealers admit to an initial unease with the use of digital technology, but most have now fully embraced it. And the fact that today's photography market is booming seems to confirm that buyers are equally comfortable with digitally altered and printed images.
"Digital manipulation used to bother me," says Sarah Hasted, a partner of Hasted Hunt, a Chelsea gallery specializing in contemporary photography. "Because I come from a very traditional background in photography, I thought that was the end of it as I knew it. The truth is it was just the beginning of something fantastic. I've been in this field for 20 years now. I've seen the end of one generation and the beginning of this whole new aspect," she adds.
Hasted, whose current exhibition features the work of Erwin Olaf, who combines 'traditional' photography with digital composition, continues: "Digital photography first got the same reaction color photography did—initially people were skeptical about whether it could go anywhere. I personally don't really care how an artist gets there, I just look at the photographs and decide if I like where they are. Good photographs are good photographs. If I look at a photograph and think it's accomplished, that it's for me."
Hasted also thinks employing digital tools now has little impact on the photography market; it seems the digital divide only pertains to purist collectors of vintage black-and-white photography, not to those of contemporary work.
"If you're collecting contemporary photography you cannot avoid it, because most people are now using some form of digital manipulation; it's more prevalent than we know—because a lot of people don't admit to it. Most collectors of contemporary photography don't care if it's a Polaroid or a digital. I think, like me, they just care if it's something they simply need to have," Hasted says.
Bruce Silverstein, a photography dealer who shows both leading contemporary photographers and handles the estates of Andre Kertesz and Robert Doisneau, sees digital technology as helping to advance the art form. "The use of digital photography has opened up the field beyond the external visual world," Silverstein says. "It has given the photographers greater flexibility in truly creating the content of a photograph. As far as I'm concerned, that's always good.
"Photography is an art form, and to suggest it cannot evolve, like any other art form, is very limiting," Silverstein adds. "The idea that somehow value should be determined by the materials of a photograph is something that in my view will slowly dissipate."
Aesthetics still dominate the debate. "The digital camera has made it easier for people to become photographers," Hasted explains. "The problem is, just because you have a camera doesn't mean you're a photographer."
In the end, it might be wise to remember: "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs," as Ansel Adams said—who, by the way, touched up clouds on his negatives.


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- InFocus A2 will be available in India via offline retailers
- The handset comes in one variant - 2GB of RAM
- There are special offers for Reliance Jio users and MobiKwik users
After releasing InFocus Vision 3 smartphone in December, 2017 in the Indian market, the Oregon based US company has now launched its latest entry-level smartphone InFocus A2 in India. To challenge its major counterpart Xiaomi Redmi 5A, this device supports 4G VoLTE and is available in Black and Champagne Gold color options.
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The InFocus A2 phone carries a price tag of Rs. 5,199 and will be available for sale through offline retailers only. Furthermore, the InFocus A2 comes with launch offers for Reliance Jio users as well as MobiKwik users. The Jio subscribers can avail up to 30GB of additional 4G data by purchasing the handset and on the other hand the MobiKwik users can additionally receive Rs. 300 as cashback on the purchase of the handset by using the e-wallet.
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On the photography end, the InFocus A2 device carries a 5-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash. Interestingly, this camera at the back of the handset is accompanied by some interesting features such as FaceCute, innovative camera filters, pro mode and zero to seven beauty levels. The selfie snapper is a 5-megapixel camera with no LED flash.
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Carefully planned surgery provides innovative epilepsy cure
Zack Logan first noticed strange rush-like feelings when he was a child. He didn't tell anyone, even though the feelings became more frequent and intense. It was only after he had a convulsive seizure, three years ago while working as a line cook at the Halifax Infirmary cafeteria, that Zack realized his earlier experiences had also been seizures.
"I was cracking an egg onto the grill and the next thing I remember, I was sitting in emergency in a wheelchair in my work clothes, with a badly burned forearm," recalls Zack, now 25. He's fortunate his coworker, Rolanda Kane, noticed him leaning oddly over the grill. She ran to him, grabbed his arm off the grill and eased him to the floor before he fell face first.
Emergency physicians referred Zack to Dr. Mark Sadler, a neurologist who specializes in definitively diagnosing epilepsy by taking a careful history and examining the results of a variety of electrophysiology and imaging studies. These include MRI and EEG (electroencephalography) studies conducted over days or weeks in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU). Dr. Sadler diagnosed Zack's epilepsy after just five days and located the source of the seizures in a small area of his right temporal lobe.
"Because the seizures were coming from a small area, I could have surgery to possibly cure my epilepsy," says Zack. "It was a scary prospect, but medications weren't controlling my seizures and Dr. Sadler made me feel confident, so I went ahead."
After thoroughly mapping Zack's brain to ensure surgery wouldn't disrupt vital functions, neurosurgeon Dr. David Clarke removed the area of misfiring neurons. Zack has been seizure free ever since. "Epilepsy was taking a toll and would have shortened my life," says Zack. "Now I feel great and was inspired by my experience to re-train for a new job."
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Update: Newmar RVs Recalled for Propane Leak Defect, Fire Hazard
Newmar is recalling the following motorhomes which were equipped with propane stoves that may leak gas, increasing the risk of a fire:
- 2019-2020 Newmar Bay Star
- 2019-2020 Newmar Ventana
- 2019 Newmar Ventana LE
- 2020 Newmar Canyon Star
- 2020 Newmar Dutch Star
- 2020 Newmar Kountry Star
- 2020 Newmar Super Star
- 2021 Newmar Bay Star Sport
These motorhomes have Dometic 3 burner cooking stoves with saddle valve securing bolts that may be overtightened, potentially damaging the o-ring seal and causing a continuous gas leak. "A gas leak can increase the risk of a fire," NHTSA said.
This recall began on January 19, 2021.
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Newmar RV Brake Caliper Recall
Newmar Corporation is recalling certain motorhomes for a potential defect that could result in a loss of braking ability, increasing the risk of a crash and serious bodily injuries. According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), this recall affects the following Newmar Motorhomes built on DTNA chassis:
- 2019-2020 Essex
- 2019-2020 London Aire
- 2019 Mountain Aire
- 2019 Ventana LE
- 2019 Ventana
- 2020 Kountry Star
The brake caliper mounting bolts may have been insufficiently tightened on affected RVs, NHTSA said. Loose brake caliper mounting bolts can reduce brake effectiveness, increasing the risk of a crash.
Newmar Corporation is notifying owners and dealers will inspect the RVs, free of charge. This recall began on May 19, 2020.
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If you or a loved one has been injured by a recalled Newmar Motorhome, you should contact our law firm immediately. You may be entitled to a settlement by filing a suit and we can help.


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|American musician, songwriter and founding member of the Eagles
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Bernie Mathew Leadon III is a famous songwriter and musician along with being the founding member of Eagles. He was also the member of three highly influential and renowned country-rock bands. He also introduced music to his mainstream audience when he used to work with the Eagles band. He has released two solo albums also which were a big hit. He had a gap between his two solo albums, and the gap was about twenty-seven years. He has also appeared as a session musician on various records.
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He was born on 19th July in the year 1947 in Minneapolis. He had other nine siblings also, and he is the son of Ann Teresa and Dr. Bernard Leadon. His mother was devout of Roman Catholics. His father was an engineer and physicist and shifted the family to the United States. His family always used to enjoy music from an early age, and that's why he developed an interest in music. He also learned acoustic guitar, mandolin, and banjo.
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Bernie Leadon's age is 76 years old as of today's date 27th September 2023 having been born on 19 July 1947. Though, he is 1.45 m tall, he weighs about 43 kg.
Personal Life: Affair, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids
He is the brother of Tom Leadon who is also a musician. He used to play band Mudcrutch, and this band also began the career of Tom Petty. In the mid-1970s, Leadon used to live in Topanga Canyon which is a bohemian enclave and famous for the musician residents. His house was owned by the famous songwriter and singer, Neil Yong earlier.
Career, Awards & Nominations
At first, he joined Scottsville Squirrel band but didn't last with them for a long time. Later on, his father shifted to Gainesville in Florida. He started going to Gainesville High School, and he met Don Felder there. He joined a group during his high school with which he released two albums, but there was no commercial success, so he left the band. He decided to join Eagles band and have hit alumnus with the band. He was able to gain a huge amount of wealth and fame by being in this band.
Bernie Leadon's Net Worth & Salary in 2023
As of 2023, The net worth of Bernie Leadon is around $11 million which he has accumulated by working as a songwriter and musician. He started playing different instruments when he was just a child, and he learned acoustic guitar at an early age. He played instruments with various music bands and gained fame soon. He also gave hit albums with made his famous in the music world. He was also the guitarist for the band, the Eagles with which he was known as a great guitarist worldwide.
Leadon has been divorced and now has a son. He is living in Nashville in Tennessee and works as a producer and musician. He used to live with Patti Davis who used to campaign for the president at that time. They used to live together without marriage, and they also co-wrote a song. This song was included in the music album against the choice of his bandmates.


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Starting today April 1st until April 16th our new collection of Civics and American History Books is available for viewing. We encourage all McCone County residents (whether you have visited the library before or not) to stop by the library and look at the new arrivals. These books are grouped by topic in displays throughout the library. We have so many exciting choices for readers of all ages.
Did you have questions during the last election about the Electoral College? I know I did and now we have a book about it. Do you know someone who is a first-time voter or are you a first-time voter? Do you have questions about the process and how to be an active citizen? We have several books for that. We even have books for future voters. We have books for pre-school, elementary school, and even a book for babies about voting. You did read that correctly… babies, and it is super cute! We have books about the history you were not taught in school, the history you may have forgotten, and hidden histories that have been lost until now. Do you just need a good laugh after the year that we have had? Try Sarah Vowell. She is from Missoula, wrote for Rolling Stone Magazine, and now writes quirky essays about her obsession with really specific bits of history … like presidential assassinations, Plymouth Rock, and General Lafayette.
If a book interests you, we can place a hold on it so that you can be one of the first to check it out. You can call us at the library, contact us on Facebook, or visit our website at www.mcconecountylibrary.org.
These books were provided through an LTC grant in conjunction with the American Library Association and the Association of Rural and Small Libraries. In addition to this grant, we will be hosting Rep. Jerry Schillinger in our library on Thursday May 13th at 7pm. He will be discussing the latest legislative session and answering questions from his constituents.
I hope that this new selection of books interests you and that you find something great to read. See you at the library!


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Security packaging solution boosts sales and deters theft
MeadWestvaco Corporation has launched Intercept, a groundbreaking security solution that promotes open merchandising while protecting products against theft throughout the supply chain. The Intercept lock utilises ProTeqt Technologies' proprietary security technology.
Shoplifting, employee theft and organised retail crime are epidemics that have far-reaching effects on retailers, brand owners and consumers. Retail 'shrink' (loss) equates to $120 billion globally including over $35 billion in the US.
"For decades retailers tried to stop loss by using cameras and exit alarms that both employees and thieves have learned to ignore before turning to limiting access to products, putting them in plastic boxes, locking them on peg hooks or in cabinets," explains David Miller, global director of MWV's Security Packaging Systems. "These solutions annoy customers, reduce sales and cost retailers millions of dollars to operate. Retailers and brand owners have been challenged to find a solution that balances security with the need for open merchandising. MWV's Intercept is that solution."
Intercept features a wireless-enabled lock placed on the product such as in the micro USB port on a mobile phone. The Intercept lock disables the product's functionality until the lock is deactivated utilising ProTeqt Technologies' system during check out. If the product is not legally purchased, thieves end up with a worthless product.
Intercept is the only solution that provides retailers and brand owners with the security they need to combat all forms of theft including shoplifting, organised retail crime and employee theft. It allows consumers to fully interact with the products in-store and take their purchase straight to the check-out register. This solution is particularly helpful for retailers and brand owners that offer high-value products that are the target of thieves including consumer electronics, office supplies, video games, pharmaceuticals, jewelry and accessories, fragrances and other personal care products. The system's flexibility allows it to protect almost any category of product offered at retail.
"Through our years providing strategic security packaging solutions, MWV understands the delicate balance of marrying retail accessibility and protection," says Jeff Kellogg, vice president of MWV's Consumer Electronics and Security Packaging Systems division. "In-store product interaction is key in the consumer's path to purchase and Intercept is the first security system that neither interferes with that experience nor sacrifices product protection.
"Intercept will help facilitate open merchandising, decrease theft and improve retailers' and brand owners' bottom line. This solution provides retailers and brand owners with peace of mind that their products will be safe without sacrificing consumer access."


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Rachel Maddow opened her show with an assessment of former director of national intelligence, James Clapper's book "Facts and Fears."
Maddow says that Clapper is ready to reveal all the insights into President Trump's White House.
"Now that he is out of government service and a private citizen, James Clapper is ready to say what he really thinks on that front and what he saw happen," she said.
While quoting his book directly, Maddow broke down the Russian investigation into the presidential election.
Clapper says he has "no doubt" that Russia swung the elections.
Maddow told viewers clearly exactly what that meant.
"He served as director of national intelligence for 6 1/2 years, including for the duration of the Russian attack on the 2016 election. He says that Donald Trump would not be president if not for that attack," Maddow said.


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Tommy Makinen may be 51 years old, but he looks like he could be 21 the way he throws the new Toyota GT86 rally car around a rally course. Makinen has been named team principal of Toyota GAZOO Racing leading up to Toyota's return to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2017. He looks like he should still be driving a rally car.
Tommi Makinen, a celebrated WRC veteran, will be offering his expertise and he has lots of experience to draw from. Makinen is the winner of 24 WRC rallies and holds four drivers' titles over his 18-year WRC career. Makinen will be overseeing preparations of the Yaris WRC for its competition debut in 2017, against some very stiff competition.
It looks like Makinen is sharpening his driving skills the way he is driving a Toyota GT86 rally car on a dirt road in Finland in this video below.
Akio Toyoda, Team Chairman said Makinen showed him the appeal of rallying and the relationship between vehicle development and rallying. It's easy to see why Toyoda asked him to come aboard with Toyota GAZOO Racing. Makinen hasn't lost his love for rallying and it looks like his driving skills haven't diminished either. He makes the new Toyota GT86 respond to his every desire on the gravel road in Finland.


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Sphinx is a documentation generator which is based on a plain text format for its sources. Typically it uses Restructured Text as its source format, thanks to a plugin system, other formats like Markdown can be used as well.
Sphinx allows to render the documentation into various formats. The PDF output is based on LaTeX and at times somewhat tricky to set up. In this post I describe a fairly lightweight setup which I found based on the combination of Nix and Docker.
Chosen approach
For this need, I wanted to have a container which is targeted for the usage on a developer's machine and it should be easy to build it locally and to customize it if needed. Based on this I decided to avoid the need to have a local setup of Nix for building the container image.
Instead of using Nix' builtin support to generate images for Docker containers, I used a minimal based image which does provide Nix inside of the container, so that I could use it like a regular package manager to install the needed dependencies.
Due to the flexibility in Nix' approach when it comes to customization, I did hope to end up with a fairly small container image which should be also quick to build locally.
Original approach
My original attempt was based on using an existing container specification which the Sphinx project uses for its CI setup out of the repository docker-ci.
With a few tweaks I did end up with a container which allowed to build HTML and also PDF results fairly well. It did have two drawbacks though: The image size was in the range of 2.5 GiB and the time to build the image was in the range of half an hour.
This did not seem to be a good approach in the current time, when people seem to give any approach up to max. 5 minutes to produce some results to work with. This drove me to give a Nix based approach a try.
Found results
The results where quite surprising.
The size of the container image dropped to around 400 MiB and the time to build the image got into the range of about 2 minutes.
For my personal taste I would still like to get the image size further reduced, still I find this is something which one can sufficiently work with.
Technical details
Base image
I found that the image lnl7/nix:2018-03-13 serves well as a base. It has been prepared by LnL7, the sources can be inspected in his Github respository nix-docker and also allow to build and customize the base image on your own (if you want).
FROM lnl7/nix:2018-03-13
The Nix specific part consists of two steps:
- Copy the environment definition file into the container.
- Install it via nix-env, so that the packages are available in the container.
I found that running the garbage collector at the end does nicely reduce the final image size.
COPY sphinx-env.nix /tmp RUN nix-env -f /tmp/sphinx-env.nix -i \ && nix-env -iA nixpkgs.gnumake \ && nix-collect-garbage -d
The other fragments are specific to Sphinx and the extension sphinx-autobuild:
RUN mkdir /source WORKDIR /source EXPOSE 8000/tcp CMD sphinx-autobuild \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 8000 \ --ignore '.git/*' \ --ignore '.*' \ . _build/html
Nix environment definition
I started by creating a Python environment which contains Sphinx and adds m2r for Markdown support and sphinx-autobuild to make the local workflow nicer by having automatic HTML build being served up in the container:
sphinx-env = python.withPackages(ps: [ ps.sphinx ps.m2r sphinx-autobuild ]);
To allow for PDFs to be generated, I also added a customized version of Texlive and combined both into a regular environment:
full-sphinx-env = pkgs.buildEnv { name = "full-sphinx-env"; paths = [ sphinx-env ] ++ (pkgs.lib.optional withPdf latex); };
Compose specification
docker-compose proved to be especially useful when using containers to run commands in isolation. It allows to nicely specify mappings for ports and volumes, so that the usage is very convenient:
version: '3' services: build: image: sphinx-build build: context: _services dockerfile: build.df volumes: - .:/source ports: - "8000:8000"
Typical usage
Have sphinx-autobuild available serving the HTML version:
docker-compose up build
Building HTML or PDF in the container:
docker-compose run build make pdflatex docker-compose run build make html


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200 Series Food Grade Pneumatic Hypneumat Units
These S24 series Hypneumat units are custom built, per customer specifications, for the food industry. The units are fully chromed or anodized and utilize food grade oils and greases for lubrication. Capabilities: 4" stroke length, 235 lbf of thrust at 100 psi, and 38 lb-in of spindle torque.Read More
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This Hypneumat DQ46 series feed unit is built to order for a food grade application. These units have aluminum front and rear heads, cylinder body, and rear housing. The remaining key parts are stainless steel; spindle, quill, and fasteners. All lubrication, including bearings, utilize food grade oils and greases. Capabilities: 6" stroke length, 1,107 lbf…Read More


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Harvestable rights allow landholders (owners or occupiers of land) to capture and store a proportion of the rainfall runoff from their landholding in one or more harvestable rights dams without a water access licence, water supply work approval or water use approval.
Harvestable rights dams can be located on:
- non-permanent minor streams
- hillsides
- gullies
but cannot be located on:
- or within 40 metres of a third-order or higher order stream
- a declared floodplain (note that no floodplains are currently declared in the coastal-draining catchments)
- or within 3 kilometres upstream of, a wetland of international importance (listed under the Ramsar Convention).
Each landholding has a maximum harvestable right dam capacity, which depends upon the location and size of the landholding.
Restrictions may apply to the use of water stored in harvestable rights dams, depending on the location of the landholding.
Harvestable rights areas and how harvestable rights water can be used
The proportion of rainfall runoff that may be captured under harvestable rights depends upon where a landholding is located. In the:
- coastal-draining catchments harvestable rights area (previously part of the Eastern and Central Division) – up to 30 per cent of the average annual regional rainfall runoff may be captured and used for domestic consumption, stock watering and extensive agriculture. Learn more about harvestable rights in coastal-draining catchments.
- central inland-draining catchments harvestable rights area (previously part of the Eastern and Central Division) – up to 10 per cent of the average annual regional rainfall runoff may be captured and used for any purpose.
- Western Division – all rainfall runoff may be captured and used for any purpose.
Find more information on the capacity and permitted water uses for mixed-rights dams in the Harvestable rights – mixed rights dams fact sheet (PDF, 122.11 KB) and Frequently asked questions.
The boundaries of the harvestable rights areas are shown in the map below.
Download a high resolution version of the map (JPG, 1231.71 KB).
Maximum harvestable right dam capacity
The volume of water a landholder can capture and store under harvestable rights is expressed as a maximum harvestable right dam capacity for a landholding.
The combined volume of all dams (or parts thereof) that capture and store harvestable rights water cannot exceed the maximum dam capacity.
To calculate the maximum dam capacity for a landholding, landholders must use the Maximum Harvestable Rights Dam Capacity Calculator. The calculator takes into account the size and location of the landholding.
Landholders should save a copy of their results from the calculator for monitoring and compliance purposes.
Approvals and notifications for harvestable rights dams
Dams built to capture and store harvestable rights water do not require a water access licence, water supply work approval or water use approval.
However, dams that store water captured under harvestable rights as well as water taken under another right or licence (known as 'mixed-rights (PDF, 122.11 KB)' dams) may require a water access licence and water supply work approval prior to construction.
Harvestable rights permit the capture of rainfall runoff moving naturally across the landscape. Any channels or diversion works constructed to capture and transfer rainfall runoff into a harvestable rights dam are not provided for under a harvestable right. They may require approval prior to construction.
Further information on constructing harvestable rights dams, water licences and approvals is available on the WaterNSW website.
Landholders may need to obtain consent under local environment plans and other planning regulations before constructing a new dam or enlarging an existing dam. Please contact your local council for further information.
Landholders should also be aware of, and seek other approvals that may be applicable under legislation such as the:
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 | (contact your local Council)
- Fisheries Management Act 1994 | see Activities requiring a permit
- Crown Land Management Act 2016
- Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016
- Coastal Management Act 2016.
Landholders in the coastal-draining catchments harvestable rights area must complete and submit a notification form to exercise their right to capture and store water in certain circumstances. For further information visit the notification form.
Failure to comply with the above requirements may result in compliance action, including removal of unauthorised structures.
Harvestable rights orders
The harvestable rights areas and rules for capturing and using harvestable rights water are specified in harvestable rights orders.
In May 2022 the new:
- Harvestable Rights (coastal-draining catchments) Order 2022 commenced. Further information on the rules and requirements of this order are available on the harvestable rights in coastal-draining catchments webpage.
- Harvestable Rights (central inland-draining catchments) Order 2022 also commenced, as the Central and Eastern Division is now separated into two orders.
The Harvestable Rights - Western Division Order remains unchanged. See NSW Government Gazette number 40 dated 31 March 2006 (pages 1628 to 1631).
Further information
For further information about harvestable rights, see the fact sheets or contact our Water Enquiries line on 1300 081 047 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Find further information about harvestable rights in coastal-draining catchments.
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Katie Loxton Baby Organiser In Grey
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Hey baby! Keep all of your baby bits safe with our handy Baby Organiser in Grey. Designed in vegan leather, this sweet style has gorgeous bear ear details to the top and luxe gold-tone hardware. More »
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Perfect to stash all the smaller baby essentials in, this gorgeous pouch features a soft vegan leather design, gold-tone hardware.
Height 14cm
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New Mercedes-Benz A-Class facelift spy shots have emerged of a bright blue prototype recently spied testing at the Nurburgring. Thanks to this prototype wearing minimal camouflage as well as an undisguised model snapped recently, details about the new A-Class's design are already known.
From a visual standpoint, the facelifted Mercedes-Benz A-Class will include a refreshed front fascia incorporating new headlights. Additionally, a different front bumper will be installed as will a bespoke lower front splitter and reshaped air intakes. Elsewhere, some minor tweaks are expected for the side skirts while the rear bumper will also be modified. Completing the changes will be new taillights.
Alongside the plethora of exterior changes, the facelifted Mercedes-Benz A-Class will adopt some modifications throughout the interior with an updated COMAND infotainment system one of the most likely things to be changed.
Elsewhere, the German firm recently confirmed that the facelifted Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG will receive a power boost from the current 355 hp to over the 362 hp delivered by the Audi RS3 Sportback. Preliminary reports suggest it could deliver 375 hp.


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The hosts reveal their setups prepared for working outside the home. Michael's home office is a mess and Rafal's rediscovered his passion to soccer.
Listen to the No Office podcast on remote work and managing a dispersed team
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- How Michael's procrastination is Rafal's fault (more home office improvements revealed)
- What tech pouches you should have to be prepared for any situation
- New useful features recently shipped or about to be shipped in Nozbe Teams
- Why Michael's been reading some fiction recently and what books are these
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Barilaro, NSW Premier still 'tight' despite koala bust-up
NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro says his relationship with Premier Gladys Berejiklian remains "tight" after a recent spat over laws protecting koalas.
Mr Barilaro is facing a motion of no confidence from the Opposition in state parliament that will not pass unless government ministers vote to get it up.
"It's actually about respect and we can resolve this," Mr Barilaro said in question time on Tuesday.
"The Premier has involved herself in that outcome. We've now got a pathway agreed to resolving the issue."
He said he was able to come to an agreement with the Premier because of "how tight" their relationship was.
Mr Barilaro, who heads the National Party in NSW, led his colleagues on a failed rebellion last week over planning policies aimed at protecting the state's koala population.
They threatened to vote against the government until changes were made, but had backflipped within 24 hours, with the two leaders releasing a joint statement on Friday saying the Coalition remained intact.
Nationals MPs met on Tuesday morning for the first time since the dust-up, with Mr Barilaro remaining as leader.
Mr Barilaro would not comment on party room matters.
It goes without saying that we completely support our colleagues.
— Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Premier
The Premier said the koala issue had not yet been discussed in cabinet meetings and would not reveal when it would be.
"I think all of us appreciate it's heads down and back to business," Ms Berejiklian told reporters on Tuesday.
"It goes without saying that we completely support our colleagues."
She said Tuesday's joint party room meeting was cordial and constructive.
Labor's motion will be up for debate on Wednesday, but that didn't stop Opposition MPs pressuring the Deputy Premier in Parliament.
Asked by Labor Leader Jodi McKay if he would resign, Mr Barilaro simply said: "No."
Liberal MPs who had criticised Mr Barilaro during the chaos last week were asked by the Opposition if they stood by their comments.
Transport Minister Andrew Constance, who said Mr Barilaro staying on as Nationals leader was a "matter for his conscience", was "upset" by text messages about the koala laws targeting bushfire victims in his electorate.
"What I saw last Friday upset me quite rightly," Mr Constance said.
"In terms of what's occurred and what needs to happen now, is acting in the interests of people in NSW.
"This nonsense about this divide between the city and the country, that isn't the way it was in the old days."
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Rice Crisps : Nacho Cheese (Vegan) (4.5oz)
$4.79 - $57.48
gluten-free • non-GMO • zero trans fat • vegan
Made from a satisfying mix of lentils, potatoes, and our special vegan cheese, Wai Lana's VEGAN CHEESE TWISTS offer a tasty, crunchy, dairy-free snack alternative.
Ingredients: Potato Flakes, Potato Starch, Yellow Lentil Flour, Sunflower Oil, Corn Flour, Sea Salt, Maltodextrin (corn), Plant Fiber, Cane Sugar, Onion, Corn Protein Extract, Yeast Extract, Vegan Cheese Flavor, Turmeric, Paprika, Rosemary Extract.
I ordered a few bags on sale and they arrived next day! They are light, crunchy flavorful and kids love them for their corkscrew shape, fun to eat with healthy ingredients.


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Coral reef maintenance results from the balance between constructive forces – mainly growth and calcification of corals and crustose coralline algae-, and destructive forces. Among destructive forces, biological erosion, also called bioerosion, is the main force of reef degradation. Bioerosion is due to various organisms that comprise grazers (e.g. gastropods, urchins, fishes), macroborers (e.g. sponges, polychaetes, bivalves) and microborers (e.g. cyanobacteria, green algae, fungi). These organisms use diverse mechanical and chemical mechanisms to chew, rasp, drill and dissolve reef carbonate substrates. Grazers are external agents of bioerosion and feed on phototrophic microborers. This synergistic activity, when very intense like in the Galapagos, is extremely efficient and can reduce dead corals into sand particles and dissolved calcium and carbon within a few years. Internal agents – macroborers and microborers- live inside live and dead carbonate substrates and depend on the water column characteristics. In addition to their destructive role, bioerosion agents play an important role in the maintenance of habitat diversity, reef sedimentation, benthic primary production and biogeochemical cycles.
Unfortunately the balance between reef growth and reef erosion is increasingly threatened by climatic and anthropogenic factors such as ocean acidification, warming and eutrophication. These factors tend to reduce calcification of corals, and increase both coral mortality and bioerosion rates. For instance, ocean acidification affects negatively coral growth and calcification while it increases growth of the boring microflora, therefore increases rates of carbonate dissolution by microborers. Eutrophication favors the development of filter feeding macroborers such as sponges and bivalves. Macroborers can thus be very abundant in coastal areas such as on the northern Great Barrier Reef, and in disturbed reefs of Indonesia and in the Caribbean's. When reef bioerosion exceeds reef accretion, there is physical loss of reef structure putting in jeopardy reef diversity, maintenance and services to local human populations.
Despite the important role played by bioerosion agents in coral reef ecosystem functioning, this process has been less studied than reef accretion. Agents and processes of bioerosion in coral reefs will be presented in the context of global change and anthropogenic activities.
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