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Innovation Ecosystem
The Innovation Ecosystem (IE) is a cross-functional team working to facilitate innovation by preparing CHOP faculty & staff through increasing capacity and training, building connections, and strengthening community around innovation and entrepreneurship. This team strives to enhance CHOP's innovation infrastructure, making it inclusive and easily accessible to every employee who has an idea that could improve the health and wellness of children or the way we care for them.
IE serves to identify or develop innovation tools and best practices and then share them with the groups and departments at CHOP that are best positioned to deploy them. Consider the Innovation Ecosystem the "amniotic fluid" surrounding, connecting, and supporting the hubs of innovation across CHOP.
Ultimately, CHOP's Innovation Ecosystem strengthens and optimizes innovation by developing enterprise-wide community, connections, and capacity, for innovation.
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Things to Consider when choosing a CFII
Your instructor should have signed off at least 5 instrument students in the past year. If they haven't, they most likely are not up to speed on teaching instrument flying (they may be very good at doing it themselves if they work for an airline or as a professional pilot somewhere part time, but they will not be able to effectively teach you instrument flying unless they are teaching it regularly.
Titles and Awards
If you find a CFII that also has a IGI (instrument ground instructor certificate), while it doesn't automatically mean they know any more than anyone else, they have at least gone the extra mile to get an additional certification added to their instrument knowledge, and passed another test to earn the certificate.
AOPA Instructor Awards. Want a list of the top CFI's and CFII's in the country that live close to you? Check out the AOPA flight training experience awards and see who was voted the best CFI's by their students and AOPA.
Similar Experience
Using a retired airline pilot as a CFII can be great since they probably have 25,000 hours of instrument flying, however that was experience in a two person cockpit flying at high altitudes at very high speeds (pretty much the total opposite of what you will be doing in your Cessna). Try to find a CFII with lots of IFR time in GA aircraft and preferably lots of recent experience, not experience from 5,10 or 20 years ago.

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VIDEO: Australian PM: Public Execution Terror Plot Foiled
Two men were charged Thursday in connection with a terror plot that Australia's prime minister said involved plans to carry out a public execution, reports CNN.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said authorities obtained intelligence about a "demonstration killing" -- a killing, Australian media reported, in which alleged assailants planned to kidnap a member of the public, behead the victim and then drape him or her in an ISIS flag.
The foiled plot comes just days after the country raised its terror alert to high and in the midst of Australia committing to helping the United States and a broad international coalition to beat back the Islamic State, or ISIS.
Earlier Thursday, at least one person had been arrested and charged with terrorism offenses and another 14 were detained as police conducted more than two dozen searches in Sydney, acting Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said at a news conference. Hours later, police said nine people who were detained have been released.


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Cov19 pandemic has changed our lives for good. It has also brought valuable opportunities for businesses that are successful in loyalty-building customer interactions. Only those companies managed to survive that offered exceptional customer experience. The fact is that consistent positive customer experiences allow organizations to thrive in just about every type of crisis. To seize the moment, you have to develop a virtual omnichannel call center strategy for 2021.
What Is An Omnichannel Call Center?
Before you can create an omnichannel strategy, it is essential to understand an omnichannel call center. In the simplest of words, an omnichannel contact center is a contact center dedicated to offering exceptional customer service to customers to ensure that they keep coming back using multichannel communication on all-in-one platforms. Omnichannel solutions for contact centers help customers based on the communication channel that they want. The answers are highly effective as they give the agents vital customer information at their fingertips without losing the last conversation.
Through omnichannel contact center technologies, agents can deliver the ultimate customer service successfully. In addition, the technologies help elevate customer engagement and overall customer service.
What Makes for a Good Omnichannel Customer Experience?
The best omnichannel customer experience is a seamless one. If executed correctly, long-term customer loyalty is built to rely on the business to resolve its issues effectively and quickly. The following essentials of effective omnichannel customer service will help you better understand what makes an excellent omnichannel customer experience.
1. Seamlessly Connected Channels
When there is an omnichannel solution in place, customers should have no trouble communicating through different channels such as texts, emails, phone live chat, and video chat. All the channels would be seamlessly connected.
2. Intelligent Routing
To reduce time wasted going back and forth, customers will be directed to the right agent with intelligent routing. Customer data and information are linked by omnichannel capability from all sources. Integrating other applications such as customer relationship management tools with customer service systems makes it possible to ensure intelligent routing to resolve their problems quickly.
3. Well Integrated Applications
With new communication channels being introduced, it is crucial to integrate them fully. To ensure a true omnichannel experience, integration is required at the time the new channel is launched. NOLA ensures that applications are integrated the moment they are introduced.
4. Continuous Information Gathering Throughout the Customer Journey
An omnichannel solution is genuinely effortless. It is based on continuous information gathering throughout the customer journey to provide the best customer experience. As customers are followed from one channel to the next, data is collected along the way. This enables the agent to better cater to customers.
The Best Omnichannel Contact Call Center Practices
The following omnichannel call center practices will allow you to provide a better customer experience.
- Start with a cloud contact center solution
- Integrate tools
- Map out the entire online customer journey
- As AI keeps evolving its good to start using but not 100% relay on it
- Pay close attention to social media
- Ensure consistency is maintained across all channels
- Track and evaluate consumer preferences as they continue to evolve
We at NOLA are committed to helping our customers exceed the expectations of their customers. With a fully customizable, omnichannel call center solution like ours in 2021, you can have your customer service team be more responsive than ever before and deliver what they need most – whether that's an SMS, interactive IVR, or live chat, or an email response much more!


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Las Vegas offers a wealth of authentic, award-winning Asian restaurants in the ever-expanding Chinatown neighborhood, but sometimes a lazy Sunday calls for a greasy, no-frills buffet. While there's no scientific proof that an endless selection of noodles, egg rolls, and orange chicken is the cure for the common hangover, it's certainly a theory worth testing. From a seafood-focused buffet with a sushi selection that could rival many Japanese restaurants to one of the cheapest Chinese buffet lunch options in the city, here are five Asian buffets to consider should the craving strike this weekend.
A pan-Asian option
As the spelling of Krazy Buffet indicates, this place isn't trying to be too fancy — and that's just fine for diners in search of a cheap buffet with plenty of options. This pan-Asian buffet offers up everything from crab legs to steamed barbecue pork buns in a spacious setting. American dishes including pizza and French fries even make an appearance, as they have a habit of doing at inexpensive Asian buffets.
Krazy Buffet, 8095 W. Sahara Ave.; 702-869-6699
A Las Vegas buffet chain
Americanized Asian food options are curiously sparse in Las Vegas, but for those who are in the mood for a plateful or two of it, Buffet at Asia is the most convenient option from just about anywhere in the city. The casual Asian buffet has three locations in Las Vegas, all of which offer lunch and dinner. Buffet items include salt and pepper shrimp, wontons, sushi, fried rice, and a stir-fry station.
Buffet at Asia, 2380 S. Rainbow Blvd.; 702-307-8800
AYCE Asian fusion near the Strip
Located just a few blocks east of the Strip, Kirin Buffet is a popular place for tour buses to drop off groups of hungry travelers. The central location makes it a great option for anyone else looking for an affordable, filling lunch or dinner. The clean, pink, and yellow interior is a comfortable setting for an indulgent meal of lo-mein, crab Rangoon, spare ribs, and soft-serve ice cream for dessert.
Kirin Buffet, 1518 E. Flamingo Road; 702-892-9888
A seafood buffet
Makino scores points on quantity alone. In a city filled with AYCE sushi options, it takes a lot for a sushi buffet to stand out — and Makino offers a lot of maki rolls along with nigiri and sashimi. In addition to sushi, diners can enjoy Japanese dishes including ramen, tonkatsu, and udon.
Makino Buffet, 3965 S. Decatur Blvd., Suite 5; 702-889-4477
An astoundingly cheap lunch buffet
Golden Dragon Chinese Cuisine has been around for awhile — always a good sign in the ever-changing culinary landscape of Las Vegas. The modest spot on Tropicana serves a very inexpensive Chinese lunch buffet ($7.49 per person) and a unique AYCE dinner menu featuring items including sweet and sour pork, general Tso chicken, and Sichuan shrimp. Takeout and delivery are also available.
Golden Dragon Chinese Cuisine, 6120 W. Tropicana Ave., Suite A1; 702-253-5148
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The 2015 proxy season is underway and all indications suggest that it will be another record-breaking year for the number of proposals targeting companies on their corporate political spending and lobbying activities. In 2014, political and lobbying disclosure comprised 22% of all shareholder proposals with 86 that went to a vote. Meanwhile, the Fortune 250 has seen proposals targeting these activities increase by 120% since 2010.
The dramatic increase in these proposals can be traced back to the often-misunderstood Citizens United ruling five years ago. Responding to unsubstantiated fears that corporations would unleash spending to achieve their public policy goals, liberal groups and social activist investors implemented a campaign to ultimately defund business groups and trade associations through the levers of corporate governance. Instead of debating the merits of public policy on the playing field of ideas, they have resorted to a playbook of name and shame tactics that follow on the heels of a virtuous plea for more disclosure.
Behind this campaign is a tight-knit community of liberal policy groups such as the Center for Political Accountability, Committee for Economic Development, and their social investor partners including Green Century Capital, Walden Asset Management, Trillium Asset Management, the Clean Yield Group, As You Sow Foundation, Northstar Asset Management, Domini Social Investments, and several other Union-backed and Religious Pension funds. In fact, in 2014, activist investors and organized labor submitted a staggering 91% of the Fortune 250 proposals. These are groups with a political agenda unrelated to the economic vitality of the companies they invest in.
Initially, activists targeted the disclosure of general corporate dues to trade associations, but now their focus has shifted to line-item specifics such as lobbying related expenses. Since 2011, the lobbying disclosure proposals have increased from 15% to 55% of spending type proposals. This change indicates their intentions to threaten the companies they know are advocating for policies with which they do not agree.
Meanwhile, investors across the board have overwhelmingly rejected these shareholder proposals, seeing them for what they are: immaterial. 81% of investors in the Fortune 250 voted against political spending disclosure proposals in 2013 and 2014. In 2012, it was 83% of investors who said no. And in 2014, the five largest mutual funds voted against and abstained from these proposals 99.4% of the time.
These are important facts for corporations, investors, and policymakers to consider as we embark on the next proxy season. This is a campaign driven by a small group of activist investors in coordination with policy groups that apply pressure inside and outside of the boardroom to limit speech to only those they agree with. Keep this in mind the next time you hear about the "virtuous" proposals related to disclosure…


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5th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure for UAM
Sept. 20-21, 2021 — Virtual
The 5th Infrastructure Workshop was a great success! Thank you to all of our organizers, panelists, sponsors and attendees!
The entire event (nearly 14 hours of video recordings) is available for purchase for $300 on our Vimeo Channel.
VFS is hosting its virtual 5th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) on Sept. 20-21. This two-day meeting is the fifth in a series of solution-focused workshops.
This fifth semi-annual virtual workshop will focus on infrastructure operations and safety as they relate to eVTOL aircraft capabilities and performance. The workshop sessions will include presentations from key players and experts from the industry.
In the 1st workshop in Sept. 2019, industry representatives and regulators focused on the "defining challenges" of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, identifying key stakeholders and strategies for moving forward.
The 2nd Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, held virtually (due to COVID-19) in a series on sponsored webinars in April and May 2020, covered foundational elements needed to support the development of safe, functional and economically viable infrastructure to support UAM applications.
The 3rd Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, held virtually (due to COVID-19) in a series was held in September 2020, covered foundational elements needed to support the development of safe, functional and economically viable infrastructure to support UAM applications. A virtual tour of the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City was also part of the program. The output of the workshop was captured via audience inputs and used to set the content for the 4th workshop.
The 4th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure was held virtually in March 2021, addressed policy changes needed to support the development of safe, functional and economically viable infrastructure to support UAM applications.
In order to maximize the educational opportunity and the diversity of attendees, we have set the registration rates very low.
Watch the 4th Workshop recordings now! (Microsoft's Internet Explorer/Edge browser is not compatible with our registration site. First time users, be sure to click the popup to "Allow Cookies." You do not need to be a member to register but you need an account.)
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Notes: Since this is a working meeting, members of the press are welcome to attend, but attributions made by FAA employees must be reviewed by the FAA Communications team.
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|5th Infrastructure for Urban Air Mobility Workshop
|September 20-21, 2021 | GoToWebinar
All times are in EDT (UTC-5)
|September 20, 2021
|1000 - 1030
|Welcome and Introductions
|Jim Sherman, Vertical Flight Society
Rex Alexander, 5-alpha and VFS
|1030 - 1200
|Vertiport Automation
|Moderator: Jonathan Daniels, CEO & Founder, Praxis Aerospace Concepts International
Joseph Block, Crown Consulting
Ray Adams, ULTRA
|1200 - 1230
Lunch Break
|1230 - 1400
|Aircraft Performance and Vertiport Design
|Moderator: Rory Feely, US Marine Corps
Torrie Meliska, Wisk
David Webber, FAA
John Tritschler, US Navy
Terrence McKenna, US Air Force
|1400 - 1415
|Short Break
|1415 - 1545
|Vertiport Fire Safety
|Moderator: Aaron Johnson, Fire Marshal & Fire Code Strategist
David Phelan, Davidson Code Concepts
Todd Stevens, IFP
Michael Gorin, NFPA
Jose Brett/Steve Moore, DetTronics
|1545 - 1600
|Short Break
|1600 - 1730
|Vertiport Weather Safety
|Moderator: Don Berchoff, CEO, TruWeather Solutions
Andy Thurling, NUAIR Alliance
Colleen Reiche, Quantitative Scientific Solutions
Peter Zaal, NASA Ames Research Center
Dario Milani, DM-AirTech GmbH
|September 21, 2021
|1000 - 1030
|Welcome and Introductions
|Jim Sherman, Vertical Flight Society
Chuck Clauser, PS&S
|1030 - 1200
Heliport Case Studies
|Moderator: Ken Swartz, Aerocommunications
Danny Sitnam, Helijet International Inc.
Jeff Hyman, HHI Heliport, Kearny, NJ
Patricia Wagner, Atlantic Aviation East 34th Street Heliport, NY
|1200 - 1230
|Lunch Break
|1230 - 1400
|Wildlife Hazard Assessment for UAM
|Moderator: Dr. Jasenka Rakas, Deputy Director, UC Berkeley National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR)
Phyllis Miller, APHIS Wildlife Services
Richard Dolbeer, APHIS Wildlife Services
John Weller, FAA
|1400 - 1415
|Short Break
|1415 - 1545
Vertiport Airspace, Hazard Mapping & Risk Analysis
|Moderator: Cliff Johnson, Senior Research And Development Engineer, FAA
Alexia Payan, Georgia Tech.
Jonathan Godfrey, LZControl
Paul Flanigen, University of Michigan
|1545 - 1600
|Short Break
|1600 - 1730
Vertiport Turbulence Modeling
|Moderator: Sharon Schajnoha, Strategic Director Infrastructure, RWDI
Perry Comeau, National Research Council of Canada
Guy Larose, RWDI
Matthias Steiner, National Center for Atmospheric Research
There are limited number of sponsorships available. Fill out this eVTOL Workshop Sponsor Application to apply for a sponsorship.
- Gold Sponsorship (5 max): $2,500 — includes logos/signage, flyer, three complimentary registrations and a 20-minute speaking slot. (Subject to approval and availability.)
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- Advertiser (10 max): $500 — includes logos/signage. (Subject to approval and availability.)
The Vertical Flight Society, founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, is the world's leading professional organization working to advance vertical flight. VFS has been a leading advocate and supporter of what we call "The Electric VTOL Revolution." We held the world's eVTOL technical meeting in 2014 and our 9th Annual eVTOL Symposium will be held in Jan. 2022 in Silicon Valley; we now have 200+ hours of informative and educational videos on electric VTOL. A summary of the work that VFS and its partners have done, along with information on previous events and activities, can be found on this webpage.
Please contact Jim Sherman for more information.
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Cliff Johnson is a research engineer, program manager, and technical expert for the Aviation Research Division at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. He leads several research and development activities that seek to improve aviation safety, primarily focused on rotorcraft, unmanned aircraft, and vertical lift (i.e. eVOTL). Mr. Johnson is qualified on the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems platform and has supported several unmanned aircraft and rotorcraft simulations and live flight tests as a test director, pilot, and flight test engineer.
Rex is a 40-year veteran of aviation and is the co-founder and president of Five-Alpha (5α) LLC, a globally recognized aeronautical consultancy specialized in helicopter and vertical flight infrastructure development, safety, training, and education. He currently serves as Infrastructure Advisor to the Vertical Flight Society, is Co-chair of the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team's (USHST) Infrastructure Working Group and is a committee member on the National Fire Protection (NFPA) 418, Standard for Heliports. He is past president of the National EMS Pilots Associating (NEMSPA) and past president of the Indiana Association of Air Medical Services (INAAMS). Rex is an alumnus of Parks College of Aviation at St. Louis University and is a former U.S. Army Warrant Officer and 'Aeroscout' Helicopter Instructor Pilot having served both on active duty and in the Indiana Army National Guard.
Mr. Michael Dyment is the Managing Partner of NEXA Advisors, an aerospace investment banking and corporate finance advisory firm. A highly experienced transportation, aerospace and defense industry consultant and trusted financial advisor to top management, he has decades of industrial and transportation research, corporate finance and infrastructure investment familiarity. Aerospace clients have included Airbus, Thales, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and NASA to name a few. NEXA Advisors has undertaken Urban Air Mobility business intelligence and finance programs for eVTOL vehicle and service providers and directly for NASA. In support of its institutional investment clients, NEXA recently completed a ground-breaking business intelligence study, Urban Air Mobility—Economics and Global Markets, which provides market intelligence, supply chain analysis and 20-year economic forecasts for 75 of the world's largest metropolitan areas.
Dawn M.K. Zoldi* is a licensed attorney, an U.S. Air Force veteran and the founder and CEO of P3 Tech Consulting, connecting people and their advanced tech platforms with full spectrum policy-relevant information. Ms. Zoldi was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992 and commissioned through direct appointment in the United States Air Force in July 1993. In her almost 25 years of active duty as a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, Ms. Zoldi ultimately attained the rank of Colonel and performed a myriad of duties at various command echelons in the continental U.S. and deployed forward. Ms. Zoldi is currently the Deputy Director of the USAFA's Center for Character and Leadership Development. She is an internationally recognized expert on unmanned aircraft system law and policy, and a recipient of the Woman to Watch in UAS (Leadership) Award 2019.
*Ms. Zoldi is appearing in her private capacity.


text: San Francisco-based shoegaze/dreampop act Echodrone formed in 2005 and have been churning out high-quality tunes since, a trend that continues on their sixth full-length release, Past, Preset and Future. As the album's self-titled track shows, the band embraces heavy guitar textures with warm reverb, within a dreamy soundscape and distant vocals reminiscent of Canadian act Stars. Eugene Suh's remain an integral part though, his serene nonchalance adding nicely to the mix. The quartet do well in meshing shoegaze and dream-pop with a warmly layered assortment of sounds. The album, just released this week, can be streamed in full below:


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Ian Howells, VP and head of marketing at the accounting software firm Sage Intacct, is a big fan of author Geoffrey Moore, whose seminal book, "Crossing the Chasm," has been required reading for students of marketing since 1991. Howells quotes the author with frequency and is particularly enamored with Moore's "bowling alley" analogy, which counsels a pin-by-pin approach to market development and segmentation. Howells brings his own striking insights, laying out the art of micro-vertical targeting for the next generation of B2B marketers.
Before entering a new micro-vertical like small law firms, Howells and a group of senior employees conduct as many as 50 interviews. Importantly, each interviewer has been trained. Explains Howells, "So many people have gone on target account courses, solution selling courses—where's the course to make you best-in-class interviewing customers?" Turns out, they had to create their own and once trained, the insights revealed made it easier and faster to knock down legacy competitors in each new market segment.
How do you get started down the road to micro-verticals?
In approaching these micro-verticals, the fundamental part of the process is interviewing the customer and understanding the customers. The core thing is to interview more customers than your competitors will—to understand the market better. For example, if you think about most CFOs, if they have a problem or if they want to fix something, they probably confide in two or three other people, not 50. If you do 50 interviews you end up knowing more about the market than the people within the market. That's really the ultimate goal.
Do you do all of your interviewing in-house?
Because learning about market verticals and interviewing customers is the most important part of the company culture, the very last thing you should do is outsource it to some outside writer. This is so important that your key people should be doing this and should be really good at it. Key people, senior people, should be certified at interviewing. The worst thing you can do is A) outsource it or B) be bad at it.
How are you getting these interviews in the first place?
I think the key thing is if somebody wants a $25 Amazon voucher for doing something—that's not really the relationship you want. One of the key things that I enjoy most about doing this is when you interview people, you get to know them and you get them featured on blogs, enhancing their careers and helping them get promoted. I mean that's a real buzz because you enhance their careers. You want to have people who want to tell their stories, then just give them the platform to showcase the great job that they've done. That's a different kind of relationship.
How do you know when you really understand a micro-vertical?
People stop too early. If you stop with five, thinking you know the answer, you're crazy. It's more like, at least 20. And then you see it when you see the same pattern occurring over and over again, the same phraseology, the same kind of pains —when you can always predict what people are going to be saying, you know that you understand the micro-vertical.
When do you know you need to move on from a micro-vertical?
Great question. There are two big areas where people make mistakes. Using a Bowling Alley metaphor, people always want to conquer a new pin because it's kind of exciting discovering a new market. If you're in an existing pin, maybe 20,000 customers there, and you've got a thousand—you need to keep mining that pin until you get to the majority of the customers, then go to new pins and the second and third pins will drop more quickly. That's the kind of area where people make mistakes—creating a new micro vertical in a new bowling alley is really hard.
As an avid bowler, I'm with you. So, don't move to a new alley too quickly, right?
It's much harder to create a new bowling alley than knocking down a second and third pin. If you can have a choice of a second or third pin, then the fourth fifth and sixth, just do that because they'll knock down much more quickly. The investment in time to create a new bowling alley is high. If you truly have a micro-vertical, these people very often know each other and talk to each other and you kind of go viral. The more customers you get, the more you become part of that community. Since they will have very similar kinds of problems and they recommend you, you get a big referral network as well.


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Thunderstorms passed through Yosemite National Park on Saturday, September 9, 2023, bringing 179 lightning strikes, a small amount of precipitation, and some...
Parish church dating from 15th century, still active today, where infant King James VI was crowned. This is a most extraordinary jewel in the Scottish crown. Not particularly inspiring from the outside it is breathtaking from the moment you set a foot inside. It has all the presence of a cathedral church. This must be one of the most wonderful churches in Scotland – certainly on a par with Glasgow Cathedral. And it is clearly loved and cared for.
The Church of the Holy Rude is the medieval parish church of Stirling, Scotland. It is named after the Holy Rood, a relic of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The church was founded in 1129 during the reign of David I, but earliest part of the present church dates from the 15th century. As such it is the second oldest building in Stirling after Stirling Castle, parts of which date from the later 14th century. The chancel and tower were added in the 16th century.
Stirling Castle has long been a favoured residence of the Scottish monarchs, and was developed as a Renaissance palace during the reigns of the later Stewart Kings. The Church of the Holy Rude, adjacent to the castle, became similarly associated with the monarchy, hosting royal baptisms and coronations. It is one of three churches still in use in Britain that have been the sites of coronations.


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Glen Yuen is a long time industry employee who for the last 6 years has worked at the Fairmont Empress Hotel as a banquet server.
On Thursday last week it was Glen Yuen's 45th birthday and Geoffrey and I met with him to present him with a cheque for $5000.
Glen was most appreciative as he is under severe financial pressure. He has had to relocate to Vancouver to await and undergo a bone marrow transplant, associated with his Leukemia treatment.
On March 26th, his colleagues and friends held a fundraiser at The Reef restaurant in Victoria. The BCHF pledged to match funds raised up to $5000. The event raised $7700 and with our cheque Glen will receive nearly $13,000.


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Mauritius has removed the need for a day 5 antigen test during a holiday to Mauritius. This is for fully vaccinated travellers staying in a hotel or other accommodation on the island, including B&Bs, guest houses and villas.
The removal of the day 5 antigen test makes travelling to Mauritius even easier. Once holidaymakers have done a PCR test prior to flying to the island and a test on arrival in Mauritius (day 0), they no longer need to test unless symptomatic.
The removal of the day 5 antigen test allows guests to fully relax during their Mauritius holiday from day one.
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Released on September 20th 2019, "Rambo: Last Blood" is the sixth entry in the long running "Rambo" franchise. Starring Sylvester Stallone as the titular John Rambo, a timeless action hero who began his legacy back in 1982, the plot follows an aged Rambo attempting to save a teenage girl from a vicious Mexican gang, all the while he is fighting the urge to descend back into his violent past through severe coping methods like medication and constructing rat tunnels reminiscent of those constructed by the Vietcong during the war.
Despite its short 1 hour and 39 minute run time, Rambo has an extremely slow beginning. This might be interpreted as an attempt to call back to the less action focused original movie, "First Blood," but any emotional weight from the first movie has since been drained out, leaving characters who are there just long enough to get on one's nerves.
Between the subpar writing and acting, the plot struggled to elicit any emotion from the audience other than annoyance. This is partly due to Rambo himself who, at least at the start, is barely a shell of his former self. Gone is the damaged Vietnam veteran from the first film, or the badass commando of the latter entries. All that's left is a tired old man stumbling blindly around the dangerous streets of Mexico.
It isn't until the movie's second act where things start to become somewhat interesting. Without delving into spoilers, the action does pick up to a more exciting degree. The final few minutes are especially fun for fans of explosive and bloody action sequences that call back to a time where action heros dominated the silver screen. The special effects, which thus far had been embarrassingly awful, pick up as more practical stunts are put to use.
Even the setting of the battle is thrilling, taking place in the claustrophobic tunnels that forced the enemy to fight on Rambo's terms. But aside from the action, there is little else of note anywhere throughout the movie, save one sequence that delves unnecessarily deep into the realities of prostitution and human trafficking. While such a dark topic may fit a more mature movie, here it comes off as tasteless and needlessly cruel, only serving to make the audience hate a villain that was already fairly loathsome.
It was of little surprise to learn that this was only the second movie by director Adrian Grunberg. It largely comes off as unpolished, with story threads that don't go anywhere, scenes that are remarkably similar taking place one after the other, and shoddy camera work that resembles a student's film project instead of a Hollywood production.
In the end, the movie has little qualities to redeem it. While some may be satisfied with the admittedly entertaining action sequences, many are likely to be turned off by the film's clearly meager skills behind the scenes, as well as bland and, at times, vulgar plot.
Hopefully, "Rambo: Last Blood" will honor its name and be the final installment in this iconic series.
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I thought New York was a big challenge. Brooklyn, is a piece of cake compared to this part of the world. I started out in Switzerland as I mentioned in my last entry. That went so good, we had altars full of people all the time. Praise the lord!
Then comes Israel and the challenges of Arab and Jewish relations. There is so much hurt here it takes what feels like an eternity to heal. I am grateful to be a small part of what God is doing here. I may sound a little on the side of complaining but, on the contrary, I am excited about being here. Upon arriving here, I decided a day off would be a good thing before getting started here. During the day, I received several phone calls that set my agenda for the next week. One of these calls was from a woman who is a messianic believer. She has a shelter caring for needy Jews who have found themselves in situations where assistance is necessary. She shared with me a story about an Arab family. A man, wife and 4 children from the west bank of Ramalla. They were accused to be collaborators with Israel and the man was badly beaten. They were able to escape with all of his family to Israel and landed on the beaches of Tel Aviv. After making the beach their home for some time, the civil services discovered them and took them to the social services department. The lady I was speaking with on the phone was contacted by social services asking her if she would help this family. She took them in and was excited to have the opportunity to help this family. The community that she lived in is a moshave ( that is small farming Israeli secular Jews). They discovered the Arab family from the West Bank living there and they went up in arms demanding that this Arab family be removed from the moshav.
That's why she called me in to help. Tanya is the founder of "Holyland Ministries" helping needy families. She has been hosting this family for for a month and has asked me to assist in any way I can. i went to see what i can do. I met with Tanya and the Arab family to get a "debriefing" of. This Arab couple are hurting so much. After being rejected by their own then being rejected by the people they were accused of "collaborating" with, they find it extremely difficult to trust anyone. My heart breaks for this family. I began by comforting this man and his wife and told him that Tanya and I will not leave him and that we will do everything through the Lord Jesus to help him. The interesting thing is that no one spoke Arabic and the family did not speak any English or Hebrew. This really should be a book. They told about the love they have received from this woman and the other believers. How they did everything to comfort them. I am so thankful for people like Tanya who offer the compassion and love of Jesus Christ to others...even when this family couldn't communicate with words to Tanya...the love and compassion was communicated clearly.
It was pentecostal daye her in Israel which is considered a holiday. The dinner was brought and we all broke bread together. As we were eating, I was sharing with the Arab man about Jesus and the reason why he is here. The man said, "You know, for one month I am living here, I felt like I was living in heaven. if Jesus is the reason for all of this then I want him to be my lord too." I looked at his wife who was sitting next to him and she said, "Yes, me too". I am such a "softy"...I broke down in tears. I shared with the rest of the believers and they broke in tears as well. We took them to the roof of the house (a Jewish tradition to pray on the roof ). We sat under the open sky and I began to walk them through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation explaining why Jesus is the way and then shared with them how God changed me from a former "Arafat Man" to a lover of God and people. They were so shocked when they found out I was a Muslim too. They were in tears now. We prayed with them and prayed and prayed and we all were in tears thanking the Lord for this gift of new souls on this modern day of Pentecost.
This set the course of my next days with a new fire,... GOD IS SO SO GOOD. ALL THE TIME. Praise His name. more exciting things to come. Keep checking back here as God continues to do incredible things for His glory.


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Visitors to a human evolution exhibit at the museum might not immediately recognize a reconstructed Neandertal as a close relative. Much of this lack of recognition would stem from the species' distinctive facial anatomy, which features a very large, very projecting nose.
This peculiar nose is the subject of much study, mainly because the nasal design of indigenous peoples reflects the climate they live in, and by extension, the climate that they may have evolved in. For example, Eskimos have narrow noses (which increase airflow turbulence) to warm and humidify the cold, dry air of their frozen environment. This process of warming and humidifying inhaled air within the nose prevents damage to the lungs. By contrast, the people of equatorial Africa have broader noses (which minimize turbulence) to avoid heating inhaled air.
Neandertals lived in cold climates, and yet their noses were wide and broad, with large nasal cartilages, features typical of noses adapted to warmer, wetter climates. This puzzle intrigued Steven Churchill, of Duke University, who set out to test the widely believed theory that the Neandertal's odd nasal structure enhanced turbulence. He created an experiment to examine the great variation in modern human noses, which, once analyzed, would shed light on the adaptive significance of the Neandertal nose.
Though the nose seems straightforward enough, a peek within reveals it to be a far more complicated structure. There are variations in the bony shelves within the nose (known as conchae), the height of the nasal floor, the angle of bones of the nose, and so on. Dr Churchill reasoned that by studying this variation in modern cadaver noses, he could come close to determining which features led to turbulent versus smooth airflow.
Analyzing water and dye (used to make flow patterns visible) as it flowed through anatomically accurate nasal models, Dr Churchill found that nasal flow patterns are highly variable from person to person. Previous studies using a single physical or computer model had concluded that airflow was either definitively smooth or turbulent. He also discovered that the features of modern noses that most closely mimicked Neandertals' features created smooth streamlines within the rough airflow.
Dr Churchill's results indicated that the modern human nose, which is relatively simple in design compared with the Neandertal's, has no problem producing turbulence at any flow rate. The significance of the Neandertal's complex turbulence-minimizing features remained a mystery.
Turning to the Neandertal's environment, climate, niche, and fossil remains for clues, Dr Churchill found an answer that satisfied him.
Neandertals had large chests and very thick, robust bones, which indicate a high physical activity level for the species. The Neandertals, a highly active species in a cold, dry habitat, were constrained to nose breathing (mouth breathing being too inefficient), and struggled to find food, which was quite limited.
The connection between nose breathing, exertion and diet seems an odd one, but since the simple act of breathing takes energy—hundreds of calories a day for a modern human—the Neandertal, in its evolution, would have undergone an intense selective pressure to conserve energy wherever possible.
This led Dr Churchill to the idea that the Neandertal nose needed to be more energy efficient, since the Neandertals lived on the very edges of their caloric budgets. An evolutionary compromise was struck: Slightly drier, colder air in exchange for a lower cost of breathing.
Since the Neandertals persisted for about 200,000 years, something in their unique anatomy allowed them to be successful. While the nose itself was probably not the sole trait that led to their endurance, Dr Churchill believes that it was certainly part of a suite of adaptive characteristics that gave the Neandertals their longevity. Indicating, perhaps, that it was not such a superfluous snout, after all.
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Marquette Park Pavilion on the shores of Lake Michigan is a beautiful venue. It is so often overlooked by couples. It offers stunning indoor and outdoor venues for a ceremony and reception. It has great parking right by the main hall, thats a huge bonus in my book.
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The natural setting is ideal for wedding photography. It sits on the edge of rolling dunes at the lake shore, surrounded by trees, dunes and water.
The ballroom is huge and can hold up to 250 guests. The natural light from the huge windows is a photographers dream. Add the high ceilings, balcony and columns and its just perfect for receptions.
Marquette Park Pavilion offers a sunken lounge area for cocktails with a bar and room for guests to mingle without bumping over each other.
One of my favorite things about weddings here is the close proximity of the beach for formal photos and sunsets you just cannot get anywhere else. There are concrete paved areas close to the hall for most formals with great views of the lagoon, but adventurous brides can go to the beach in a smaller group, or just as a couple and will be rewarded with amazing backgrounds and sunsets.


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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is condemning President Obama's decision to wage war in Syria, despite White House claims of documented proof President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people.
Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, unloads on Obama in a Facebook post titled: "Let Allah sort it out."
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"Bottom line is that this is about President Obama saving political face because of his 'red line' promise regarding chemical weapons," Palin wrote.
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Palin argues the U.S. has "no clear mission in Syria" and Obama has not yet laid out a persuasive case for American military intervention amid a "centuries-old internal struggle between violent radical Islamists and a murderous dictatorial regime."
"If our invasion of Iraq wasn't enough of a deterrent to stop evil men from using chemical weapons on their own people, why do we think this will be?" asked Palin.
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She blasts Obama's plan to "punish evil acts in the form of a telegraphed air strike' and says the president's war plan "has given Assad enough of a heads-up that he's reportedly already placing human shields at targeted sites."
Palin also questions what the ultimate American goal in Syria would be.
"So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" Palin asked. "President Obama wants America involved in Syria's civil war pitting the antagonistic Assad regime against equally antagonistic Al Qaeda affiliated rebels. But he's not quite sure which side is doing what, what the ultimate end game is, or even whose side we should be on."
Thousands of Palin's Facebook followers weighed in on her comments. Among the responses:
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- "Right on! The slaughter is horrific, but it is not our civil war."
- "There is no one in the political arena that is as real and as dead on as Sarah Palin. I love Ted Cruz, but he can't reach those that Sarah Palin can. She 'IS' America. I love this woman like I loved Reagan."
Palin's Facebook posts were published prior to Obama's Rose Garden speech Saturday afternoon in which he announced he will wait for congressional authorization to punish Syria for a chemical-weapons attack, even though he has decided a military strike is needed.
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"I'm confident we can hold the Assad regime accountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior, and degrade their capacity to carry it out," said Obama.
The president also announced U.S. military forces are positioned in the region to strike at his command.
Soon after the president made those remarks, House Republican leaders announced that they would take up Obama's request after returning to Washington Sept. 9.
Senate Democrats say they will begin to hold hearings and ask for more briefings from the administration this week, with an eye to holding a final vote sometime next week. That puts the House and Senate on the same timetable.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said prospects for approval in the Democrat-controlled Senate were good, but that there was a better-than-even chance the Republican-led House of Representatives would say no.
"I think all of the bad things you can imagine are all more likely if we get involved in the Syrian civil war," Paul said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., said he doesn't think Congress would approve such an authorization.
"I don't think they will," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "It may sound real easy when people like Secretary Kerry say that it's going to be quick and we're going to go in and send a few cruise missiles, wash our hands and go home. It doesn't work that way."
After he concluded his remarks Saturday, Obama ignored a question from the press about whether he would move forward if Congress did not authorize a strike.
"As I said before," Palin concluded, "if we are dangerously uncertain of the outcome and are led into war by a Commander-in-chief who can't recognize that this conflict is pitting Islamic extremists against an authoritarian regime with both sides shouting 'Allah Akbar' at each other, then let Allah sort it out."


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When speaking of class sizes, it's long been known that bigger is not better.
According to the Department of Education, studies have consistently identified a positive relationship between reduced class size and improved student performance. In an article in "USA Today," this relationship exists because in smaller classes, kids can often get more face time with their teachers.
Despite the glittering rewards of small class sizes, the front row of desks in high honors and AP classes has been scooting closer and closer to the whiteboard, accommodating more and more students.
According to junior Mara Leane's, her 28-student Honors Physics class may be smaller than her 30-student AP US History class, but the hands-on nature of physics makes it difficult to teach when there are many students involved. Leane recalls waiting twenty minutes for her teacher to help her with a lab.
"It's not his fault. There are just so many people that need help," Leane said.
According to Leane, the more time a teacher has to help you one-on-one, the better you'll learn.
Leane's ideal class population is 25. Though five extra students don't seem like a big deal, in physics, "it's another lab table the teacher has to go to."
Spanish teacher Ryan Schultz also believes in the value of a small class.
Big classes make it more complicated for world language teachers to use DiLL, audio network technology that allows students to record themselves speaking Spanish, and listen to their teacher through headsets, in the comfort of Prospect's language lab.
If the class exceeds thirty, teachers can't take students down to the lab because of space constraints. The downwardly spiraling class size issue ends with Spanish 4 Schultz not being able to prepare his students as well for the AP test at the end of their next year as Spanish students in AP Spanish. The AP Spanish test has a speaking portion practiced on DiLL.
Furthermore, Schultz believes that it's simply easier to learn a language in a small class because students are forced to participate and can get more individual instruction.
Schultz wishes his class size was closer to 20, but currently has 30 kids in his largest class, Spanish 4.
However, there is logic behind the madness.
According to a USA Today article in written in 2009, when falling state budgets pushed class sizes higher in poor rural and urban areas, and the recession forced districts to lay off teachers, classrooms in those districts became significantly larger. Three years later, the same phenomenon is occurring in the middle class suburbs of District 214.
District 214 reduced the number of full time staff at Prospect by eight teachers, although Prospect's enrollment has increased by thirty students.
A term commonly in education, an FTE, or full time equivalent is the equivalent of a full-time teacher. When teachers are on part time, they count as less than an FTE. Currently, Prospect employs 137.7 FTE's, down seven FTE's from last year. These seven FTE's represent eight teachers. Seven of the eight teachers either started working part time or stopped teaching at Prospect altogether for personal reasons, but one of them was let go in this summer's reduction in force to contain District 214's costs.
While the number of full time equivalents drops, student enrollment has been rising. Home buyers seek out Prospect's neighborhoods because of its reputation for academic excellence.
To decide on the appropriate number of teachers for a given year, District 214 uses projected enrollment. District 214 forms an estimate based on the number of kids attending elementary school. However, this estimate can be inaccurate. There is no way to predict if students are going to move in or out of Prospect's neighborhood between elementary school and high school.
According to Principal Kurt Laakso, relying on sometimes inaccurate projected enrollment to show numbers that correctly predict Prospect's large population isn't a good way to get more staffing from District 214. Instead, "continuing to contain costs, working to be as lean as possible, and finding hidden slack is."
In what he calls "a balancing act," Laakso plans to simply make do with staffing allocation for now, and work to make sure no programs get cut.
"We're trying to find the best way to optimize our staffing," Laakso said. "We want to spread the burden."
This burden has fallen most on higher classes, because of the belief that students in less advanced classes need more one on one attention.
Despite the difficulties involved in allocating teachers, Laakso believes that the decisions he makes are for the good of the Prospect's students.
"Our educational mission goals and the interests of our students inform our staffing decision-making," Laakso said.


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Woman of Sunlight
By Mary Connealy
After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. And it may cost them everything.
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Book #2 of the Brides of Hope Mountain series. My heroine is a wild west Tarzan and she's tough enough to live in the wilderness and in the big city.
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Spatial pattern of Kd(PAR) and its relationship with light absorption of optically active components in inland waters across China
Abstract. The spatial distribution of the attenuation of photosynthetic active radiation (Kd(PAR)) was routinely estimated in China lakes and reservoirs. Higher mean value of Kd(PAR) was observed in Northeastern plain and mountainous region (NER). A linear model is used to predict Kd(PAR), as a function of light absorption coefficient of pigment particulates (aphy), colored dissolved organic matters (aCDOM), and inorganic particulate matters (aNAP): Kd(PAR) = 0.41 + 0.57 × aCDOM + 0.96 × aNAP + 0.57 × aphy (R2 = 0.87, n = 741, p < 0.001). Spatial Kd(PAR) was relatively dependent on the inorganic particulate matters (average relative contribution of 57.95 %). When only consider the contribution of absorption of aOACs to Kd(PAR), the results found that the aOACs could explain 70 %–87 % of Kd(PAR) variations. In the lakes with low TSM concentration and non-eutrophic lakes with high TSM, aCDOM was the most powerful predicting factor on Kd(PAR). In eutrophic lakes with high TSM, aNAP had the most significant impact on Kd(PAR). This study allowed Kd(PAR) to be predicted from aOACs values in the inland waters. Besides, results of this study are suggesting that new studies on the variability of Kd(PAR) in inland waters must consider the hydrodynamic conditions, trophic status and the distribution of optically active components within the water column.
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Finnish professional ice hockey player who is recognized for his work as a forward for the Turun Palloseura club. He is also known for playing as a right wing and center for the Finland national ice hockey team.
He started his career in 2016 when when he played for the TPS Junior League. His international career started in 2018 when he played for the Under 18 Finnish national team. That same year he won the gold medal at the Under 18 World Championships held in Russia.
He is known for having won the gold medal with the Finland national ice hockey team at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Canada.
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Then again, the five cars described below with their high insurance costs are quite a handsome flock as well. Rather appealing, if I do say so myself. These are the Top 5 Most Expensive Vehicles To Insure In America.
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Automakers in Brazil last month notched their strongest sales in nearly four years, adding to optimism as the auto industry kicked off the biannual Sao Paulo International Motor Show.
Tesla's competition is about to get more crowded next year with many legacy automakers and luxury brands launching a record number of battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
Good and not so good news from Argentina. Merval, the main index of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, rose 0.79% to 32,505.59 points on Friday, a new settlement record that marked the 13th consecutive session of gains to the Argentine stock market. Merval had a weekly gain of 7.11%.
Industrial output in Brazil rose for a second straight month in May, government data showed on Tuesday, underpinning hopes that the economy will not fall back into recession despite an escalating political crisis.
Brazil's auto industry produced 174,200 units last month, down 19.5% from August and a whopping 42.1% from September 2014, the national Association of Car Manufacturers, or Anfavea, said on Tuesday.
Bilateral trade between Mercosur two main partners, Brazil and Argentina (first and third largest economies in Latin America) dropped 21.2% last year and with a 139 million dollars deficit for Argentina, according to the Argentine Commerce Chamber, CAC.
Argentina's industrial output rose 7.9% on the year in April and was down 0.2% on the month, the country's manufacturers association, UIA, said in a statement. In the first four months of the year industrial output was 9.2% higher than the same period in 2010.
Argentina's industrial production in January continued to expand at a quick pace, led by strong output of machinery and equipment, food, non-metallic minerals and chemicals, a local think tank reported Wednesday.
India is likely to take the fourth position in the global automotive market by 2015, according to a study conducted by Booz & Co. Currently that spot is held by Brazil, another emerging market, which is likely to give India a challenge.
Land Rover's global sales almost doubled last month, with demand for the 4x4 vehicles growing strongly as the world economy recovers.


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The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has protested against the Madhya Pradesh government seeking to declare that all the tribal villages affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam as having been rehabilitated, a flawed stand, it claims, was also taken by the previous state BJP rulers of Madhya Pradesh, as also the present rulers of Maharashtra. Pointing out that the present Congress rulers had assured reconstitution of all rehabilitation committees, NBA in a statement wonders, why they have still not been formed.
"Where are the MLAs, MPs and ministers, who gave statements in favour of the affected people?", asks NBA, pointing out, "The extent of plight on the tribals can be seen when one looks at Manilal Gopal Tadvi, aged 75, and his wife Judd Kaki, whose houses in Manibeli village of Maharashtra were drowned in 1993. Like many other Tadvi families, they have received no assistance."
The situation is the same with "After declaring Bhitada as the model village of Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh in 2008, it is now abandoned for drowning", the statement continues, adding, "Rayabhai of Bhitara, who had gone to demand the allocation of residential plots to eligible families affected by the illegal drowning of Sardar Sarovar dam, has been told by the tehsildar they have been given notice, and they should quit."
Pointing out that many farms of Bhitada have also been drowned, NBA said, "In 2017 around 17 houses of Bhitada were suddenly demolished with the help of the police. They were not given any alternative housing plots, hence they rebuilt their houses", adding, the Madhya Pradesh government "has not set up a rehabilitation site for even a single village in Alirajpur district… The housing plots were to be allotted yesterday. But this work has been postponed till Monday."


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In the near future, when concrete walls have been erected around the ghettos of suburban Paris and the police have abandoned them to lawlessness, a neutron bomb is stolen by a drug lord and set to kill millions of people in blighted District B13. Steely undercover cop Damien (Raffaelli) springs former criminal and B13 local Leito (Bell) out of jail to infiltrate the underworld, dismantle the bomb, and free Leito's kidnapped sister Lola (Naceri) equipped with little more than their hands, feet and fearlessness.
This breathless, breakneck French flick dances along the cutting edge of real-life action, rejecting big-budget CGI for daredevil stunt work. Bell, who helped popularize a death-defying European street sport of parkour, literally runs up the walls and leaps from rooftops to land on his feet (these sequences served as inspiration for the memorable opening chase sequence in "Casino Royale"). The brainchild of producer Luc Besson (often called the Spielberg of France) and first-time filmmaker Morel, this cheeky, kinetic barnstormer is an irresistible marriage of cartoonish shoot-'em-ups with actual, I can't-believe-what-I-just-saw physical feats.


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Donations Appeal for the underwater research project in the waters around the archipelago of Malta:
The island Republic of Malta is a member of the European Union and is located in the center of the Mediterranean about 100 kilometers southeast of the Italian island of Sicily.
I am Prof. Hubert Zeitlmair h.c.Dr. a native Bavarian-German living in Malta. I am an internationally recognized Prehistory and Atlantis researcher; Founder of Maltadiscovery and Chair of the Research Executive Committee into the Mysteries of the Civilized Nation of Atlantis. I am the discoverer of the underwater megalithic temple complex "Gebel Gol-Bahar", situated in the northern waters of Malta.
Maltadiscovery Prehistory Research Foundation is a private "Non-Profit Organization" that is registered by the number of 111 in Malta. We are therefore allowed to issue donation receipts!
About me:
For almost 30 years I have been meticulously studying prehistoric texts written in cuneiform on clay tablets and on stone tablets with strange characters.
The expressiveness of the stone tablet texts makes it clear that the interpretation of many myths and legends regarding the first high human culture of the last Ice Age are pure inventions. In consequence of this the expressiveness of the texts enables proof of the existence of this cultural nation and thus the final solution to the Atlantis mystery!
Based on the results of my years of study, I therefore propose that the present archipelago of Malta was once the leading Center of the Ice Age cultural nation lost in the darkness of history.
About underwater research:
After the end of the latest Ice Age some 13,000 years ago, the water level in the world's oceans rose by about 200 meters. The search after the ten city-ruins of Poseidia around the archipelago must therefore focus underwater!
About the equipment:
In order to be able to realize our underwater research project, we urgently need a technically highly modern ship/Yacht with that we are going to meticulously search the seabed for structural relics of the former advanced civilization.
The project was given the green lights but we have not enough funds to commence the work. If we would have enough money Maltadiscovery Research would wade into this venture with great passion to make a dream come true!
Your donations are the sinew of this venture! Any contributed amount is greatly appreciated. Only with your help we are able to realize our underwater research project!
All research results are published on our web page… www.maltadiscovery.org or www.atlantis-heritage.eu
This way, every donor can find out about the progress of the work.
Anyone who now feels being drawn under the spell for this research can help to bring back to light that what was "gone" with a contribution small or large!
Please do all donations via PayPal (Subject: Underwater research project).
Your donation is deductible on your tax declaration!
My profound gratitude for your interest and generosity!
Prof. Hubert Zeitlmair


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This major new exhibition by Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams interrogates and satirises the role of cultural establishments within contemporary society.
Via sculpture, video, painting and drawing, Williams parodies the often fetishistic architectural motifs and bureaucratic hierarchies appropriated within the culture sector and the city.
"It's weird being an artist. I think about it a lot in Screwfix, in Tesco, and when I'm driving. There's buildings that are built for us to do things in. That these buildings are often funny shapes or appear to teeter or lean but still have toilets and dustbins and all the basics as well." Bedwyr Williams, 2021.
Williams has created a hybrid, pale, freckled protagonist who is half building half bigwig: Milquetoast (meaning bland, inoffensive and unassertive). This recurring architectural character is present throughout the exhibition, represented in multiple forms. Milquetoast responds to the boom and inevitable fatigue of progressive cultural architecture, and the rise of the 'Uber Curator' across Europe during the 1990s when Williams began his career as an artist.
In Dilston Gallery a series of imagined concrete buildings populate the space, itself a former concrete church. This serene boulevard of buildings bathed in moonlight, appear humorous and absurd with anthropomorphic details. These buildings respond to architectural and art world tropes of the 1990s.
In Militia (2021) we are transported into a familiar urban environment, the 'Culture Quarter'; a site at the core of city place-making and urban regeneration. Williams' deadpan voice-over describes the surrounding city's occupation by protesters. A splinter group of these protesters has occupied the city's art gallery next door to the Maritime Museum. The militia enter via the gift shop, and we observe their ghostly presence through the eyes of the gallery staff, as they watch the devastation unfold via the building's CCTV.
Donation boxes are overturned, phallic ceramic knick-knacks are smashed and children's activity packs are hurled along concrete corridors. As the occupation continues, the group's behaviour is gradually influenced by the architecture of the building and its civic functions. The institution itself asserts its agency, influencing the behaviour and actions of those within, reminding us of the power buildings can have in shaping our life experiences and knowledge.
"… you're not supposed to make work about being an artist but I can't help it. I still find it such an odd environment. The hyperbole, the raptures, the backtracking, the misfires. The way artists talk to and about each other both online and offline. It's all odd, and nothing in my childhood prepared me for being around people like this in buildings like this". Bedwyr Williams, 2021.
At Lake Gallery the hand of the freckled protagonist motions us into an imagined landscape populated by apparitions, recollections and imagined scenarios. Monolithic institutions reminiscent of those seen at Dilston Gallery are cast adrift in haunting, dreamlike panoramas.
Williams' paintings explore curatorial spectres, gestures and affectations, and objects he associates with the 'art world' and its players. They include fashions and tools of the modern-day curator or cultural worker, from Le Corbusier style spectacles to a neat square of Ritter Sport chocolate.
In the vitrines we meet a cast of fictional stereotypes and satirical scenarios drawn from Williams' experiences of living and working in Wales and London over the last two decades. Drawn compulsively on a daily basis (always in the same size sketchbook), the drawings diarise and reflect life in contemporary society – its politics and its cultures, both on and offline.
An installation of Williams' iPad drawings is presented here for the first time in a public institution. Here the notorious digital drawings are magnified, emphasising the brightness of a tablet screen and accompanied by a seething, menacing soundtrack.
An online screening programme available on our website will run throughout the exhibition, showing Bedwyr's previous video works that relate to his fascination with architecture.
Hotel 70° (2014) 28 May – 11 June 2021
Hypercaust (2017) 11 June – 25 June 2021
Tyrrau Mawr (2016) 25 June – 9 July 2021
The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication of over 100 of Williams' drawings, This is Everything 1. The book is designed by South London's Pagemasters published by Southwark Park Galleries. A new range of exhibition merchandise is available in our gallery shop and online.
The exhibition supported by the Arts Council of Wales, The Colwinston Charitable Trust, The Paul and Louise Cooke Endowment, Arts Council England, Southwark Council, Omni Colour, Wrexham County Borough Council, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion County Council, Theatrum Mundi and King's College London
The short story 'The Militia' was commissioned by Theatrum Mundi for 'Concrete and Ink: Storytelling and the Future and Architecture', published by nai010 in 2021.
This is Everything 1 publication is made possible by the generous support of the Arts Council of Wales through funds derived from the National Lottery.
Bedwyr Williams is represented by Southard Reid, London.
Exhibition Touring Information //
MILQUETOAST is a Southwark Park Galleries touring exhibition in partnership with Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and KARST, Plymouth.
Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham // 24 July – 11 September 2021
KARST, Plymouth // 24 September – 17 December 2021
Aberystwyth Arts Centre // Feb 23 – April 18 2022
Biography //
Bedwyr Williams lives and works in North Wales. Solo exhibitions include 'Foundation of things to Come', Fondazione Sandretto de Rebaudengo, Turin, 'The Gulch', The Curve, Barbican Art Centre, 2016 'The Starry Messenger', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2015, 'Echt', Tramway, Glasgow, 2014 'My Bad', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Recent group exhibitions include 'Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future', Hayward Gallery, London, 2018. 'The Land We Live in – The Land We Left Behind', Hauser and Wirth Somerset, 2018. 'Stress Field', Hubei Museum of Art, China. In 2013 he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Artes Mundi Prize in 2016
Visitor Information //
- The exhibition is free and does not require booking, but we are limiting capacity to ensure safe social distancing
- The 'Militia' video at Dilston Gallery repeated on the quarter-hour, with a subtitled screening on the hour and seating available.
- Both galleries are fully wheelchair accessible
- Dilston Gallery and the Salter Room at Lake Gallery are dimly lit, all other spaces are well lit.
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RecFest 2018 – Peewee Division
We hope everyone is excited about RecFest 2018 happening tomorrow at UBC!
Thunderbirds Skills Competition
All peewee recreational players are welcome to come try your hand at the Thunderbirds Skills Competition taking place on the Protrans Rink from 8:00 am – 12:45 pm. No registration is required, simply go into any of the dressing rooms at Protrans, change into your full hockey gear and head out to the bench where one of the skills staff will get you set up. Just show up at any time during that period and they will get you onto the ice as soon as they are able to.
3 on 3 Tournament
Thanks to everyone who has registered for the tournament! We still have room for 4 more skaters in the peewee division – please email Tanya asap if you would like to join in the fun – first come first served.
For those that have registered, please see the team lists below along with the schedule. Don't forget to head over to the Thunderbird Skills Competition while you are waiting to get back on the ice. See you at the rink!
Schedule for 3 on 3
|Team A
|Team B
|10:15-10:40 am
|Team C
|Team D
|10:40-11:05 am
|3 - Playoff Game #1
|11:15-11:45 am
|4 - Playoff Game #2
|11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Team Lists
|Team A
|Team B
|Fletcher Morrish - Forward
Kai Ogawa - Forward
Marcus Pavan - Forward
Tak Sheldon - Forward
Max von Dehn - Defence
|Henry Carter - Forward
Nathan Fraser - Forward
Aleksandr (Sasha) Kim - Defence
Aristides Manolis - Forward
Kyle Zhang - Forward
|Team C
|Team D
|James Au - Defence
Charles Junior Ho - Forward
Jeffrey Jamieson - Forward
Nikolas Kravariotis-Escuer - Forward
Haoyan(Sam) Liu - Forward
Alexander Tham - Forward
|Lukas Aloni - Defence
Jack De Witt - Forward
Cameron Tsang - Forward
Harry Mei - Forward
Ethan Yee -Forward
|Goalie Rotation
|Jacob Leader
TJ Joa
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"we felt this was the responsible thing to do"
A well known Indian restaurant in Bradford has been temporarily shut down after seven employees tested positive for Coronavirus.
Bradford's public health chief has welcomed the decision by the restaurant bosses.
She stated that there is "no reason to believe customers were at risk because the restaurant's front of house Covid-19 safety measures are very robust".
Akbar's restaurant on Leeds Road was closed for a week as a precautionary measure after the seven staff members contracted Covid-19 during the month of August.
The positive cases at the restaurant all came within a short three-week window, with the last known case reported on August 20, 2020.
The owners of Akbar's made the decision to shut down the premises for five days in order to protect staff and customers.
All infected staff members are self-isolating for at least 10 days until there is no longer a chance that they will be contagious.
Owner Shabir Hussain explained his reasons for the closure:
"We could have sent a number of our staff home to self-isolate and stayed open using other employees but we felt this was the responsible thing to do to make sure we are 100 per cent safe going forward.
"It also gives us a chance to give our people a bit of a holiday because they have been so incredibly busy during the 'Eat Out to Help Out' promotion.
"We apologise to all our customers who have made bookings but hopefully they will understand that we all have to make sacrifices if we are to get the Covid-19 virus under control and protect the most vulnerable in our district."
Bradford Council's director for public health Sarah Muckle has praised Mr Hussain's decision to close his Indian restaurant.
She explained:
"The restaurant had good Covid-19 safety measures in place to protect customers and we agree with their decision."
"We are extremely grateful to the Akbar's team for the way they have worked with us on this and for the responsible, professional, proactive action they have taken.
"We have no reason to believe customers were at risk because the restaurant's front of house Covid-19 safety measures are very robust.
"It's never an easy decision to close a business but this kind of leadership is exactly what we will need if we are to get on top of small outbreaks and stop the virus spreading into our communities."
Bookings are still being taken for when Akbar's re-opens for business on Friday, September 4, 2020.


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Book release – The Perfect Protein
"But what if there was a healthy, animal sourced protein that both the fat and the thin could enjoy without draining the life from the soil, without drying up our rivers, without polluting the air and water, without causing our planet to warm even more, without plaguing communities with diabetes, heart disease and cancer."
It is the one animal protein that's rarely mentioned in the endless reports about big agriculture and hunger crises. It's the protein that's the healthiest for your body; low in cholesterol, brimming with brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids and nutrients like riboflavine, iron and calcium. It's one of the most ancient foods, and it's most likely the last wild creature you'll eat, the last pure exchange between Earth and your dinner plate."
Extracted from the recently released The Perfect Protein by Andy Sharpless.


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I just got back from visiting one of our favorite local haunted events: The Empty Grave in Anaheim, CA. Once again, the attraction has outdone itself with some all-new gimmicks and scares as well as kept a lot of the older ones that worked. The Empty Grave's monster talent was intense and all stayed in character throughout our visit. Additionally, most had a lot of physical presence to bring to their scares – that energy really matters in this kind of attraction. The set design was well thought-out and featured a lot of variety – from a swamp land cemetery to the inside of a haunted building, the course of the maze keeps you guessing as to where you will end up next. The location is still inside the Anaheim Garden Walk shopping center (Google Map) and they definitely make the most of their space. The Gardenwalk location is a boon to the guest experience as, after getting freaked out at The Empty Grave, you can walk a VERY short distance to a number of eating and drinking establishments to relax.
While I don't wish to spoil any of the cool things you will encounter inside The Empty Grave, I will give special mention to the monster talent who was… "Chained up", so to speak. You were awesome.
The Empty Grave is on now and runs on various dates through November 3rd, 2012. For ticket information and more info, please check out their official website.


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NEFES 2021 will be held in Xi'an University of Technology. (Jinhua campus, 金花校区)
Address: No. 5 South Jianhua Road, Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi. (陕西省西安市碑林区金花南路5号)
About Xi'an University of Technology (西安理工大学)
Xi'an University of Technology (XUT) is a comprehensive public university featuring mainly in science and technology, which is jointly constructed by the Shaanxi provincial and central government. It was known as Shaanxi Institute of Mechanical Engineering before 1994, which was established by combining Beijing Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Shaanxi Polytechnic University in 1972.
At present, the university has 32 national and provincial key scientific research bases, including 1 National Key Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Research Center, 2 Key Laboratories of the Ministry of education, 1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 1 Promotion Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 1 Key Laboratory of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
As of May 2021, Xi'an University of Technology has 3 campuses (Jinhua, Qujiang and Lianhu Campus, with the total area of 100 ha), a combined student body of 26,000 students and 2,600 faculty members. XUT conducts academic exchanges in cooperation with more than 60 foreign universities or research institutions. It commits itself to actively promoting cooperation and exchanges with famous universities in the world. With great initiative, it strives to turn the university into an open and comprehensive high-level research and teaching-led university with unique features and make the university of important influence in the world.
Today, XUT commits itself to three obligations to society: to cultivate intellectuals, to research and to serve society. Xi'an University of Technology consistently emphasizes closely combining its development with the national economy development and social needs, and manages its teaching goals: standard management and high education quality are its strong features. With a broad overview of today and the future, our university has cultivated thousands of intellectuals with solid theoretical knowledge, excellent practical skills and great enterprise who are playing active roles in their fields both at home and abroad.


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1. Microalbumuria in non-diabetic elderly subjects is predictive of vascular disease and mortality, and related to levels of blood pressure.
2. This study was designed to examine whether more restricted periods of urine collection retained the relation to the prevailing level of blood pressure and successfully identified subjects with microalbuminura.
3. Fifty elderly subjects (aged over 60 years) made two consecutive 24-h urine collections for measurement of urinary albumin excretion, divided between daytime and night-time periods. Thirty-three subjects also provided a random 'spot' urine sample. Clinic and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure were also recorded.
4. Median 24-h urinary albumin excretion was 15.75 mg; 17 subjects had microalbuminuria. The median 24-h albumin—creatinine ratio was 1.91 mg/mmol. A threshold albumin—creatinine ratio of ≧ 3.0 mg/mmol in a random urine sample predicted microalbuminura with 92% sensitivity and 90% specificity. Alternatively, threshold values of 2.5 mg/mmol for men and 4.5 mg/mmol for women in an overnight urine collection predicted microalbuminuria with 88% sensitivity and 100% specificity.
5. The closest relation between albumin—creatinine ratio and blood pressure was that between spot albumin—creatinine ratio and clinic systolic blood pressure (r = 0.64, P < 0.001). Albumin—creatinine ratio was generally related to clinic systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and ambulatory systolic blood pressure. Microalbuminuric subjects had significantly higher levels of clinic and ambulatory systolic blood pressure than non-microalbuminuric subjects.
6. Microalbuminuria in the elderly is most closely related to clinic systolic blood pressure. Screening for microalbuminuria in the elderly can usefully be performed by the measurement of albumin—creatinine ratio in a random urine sample, with a threshold of ≧ 3.0 mg/mmol.


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