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December 17th, 2020Tula with the Pan-American Health Organization and Ministry of Health Use Digital Health to Respond to Storms Eta and Iota in Guatemala
In December 2020, at the request of the Ministry of Health in Guatemala and its Indigenous and Intercultural Health Department, Tula delivered a 'micro-training' program for regional health leaders on intercultural approaches to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) amongst indigenous peoples. Tula with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) developed program materials, which foregrounded intercultural considerations in containing COVID-19. Guatemala is home to twenty-one distinct Mayan groups that make up nearly 50% of the population. They suffer a disproportionate burden of poverty and illness. The training program was delivered via WhatsApp to all parts of Guatemala. The ongoing financial support of Global Affairs Canada is appreciated.


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HVAC 608 final exam consists of 50 questions, so we have included these practice questions (and answers) to help you study for this test. Most of the EPA questions are short, with some multiple-choice questions, along with a couple of ' place the answers in the correct order' questions. You don't have a time limit to complete the exam. In fact, you most likely have seen the questions in the review sections of your book in one form or another. All of the review sections in the book are extremely helpful when preparing to take the test, and there is no downside to doing them, right?
You need to answer questions about the basic principles of HVAC …
You can learn this information by completing an in person or online eLearning course. At the end of the course, you will take the final exam.
25 Practise Q & A for the Final Exam
Here are some practice questions and answers to help you along:
Practise Questions for the Final Exam
Attempt all questions providing brief answers
Question 1. What does the evaporator absorb?
Question 2. What occurs in the evaporator?
Question 3. What is the state of the refrigerant at the outlet of the evaporator?
Question 4. What does the refrigerant condense to as the refrigerant expels heat?
Question 5. What is the pressure of the refrigerant at the condenser outlet?
Question 6. A metering device is used for:
Question 7. What is a capillary tube or fixed bore metering system usually equipped with?
Question 8. What is a thermostatic expansion valve system is usually equipped with?
Question 9. What is the colour of the compound gauge?
Question 10. What is the colour of the high-pressure gauge?
Question 11. What measures low pressure (psig) and vacuum (inches Hg)?
Question 12. What does the high-pressure gauge measure?
Question 13. According to the EPA regulations the hoses are to be equipped with?
Question 14. In miles, how high is the stratosphere above sea level?
Question 15. What is the stratosphere comprised of?
Question 16. Ozone molecule is made up of.
Question 17. Protective benefits of the ozone layer.
Question 18. The Ozone layer is important in maintaining?
Question 19. Mention few of the diseases and outcomes caused by depletion of Ozone layer in the stratosphere?
Question 20. Causative agent that depletes the ozone layer?
Question 21. How many oxygen atoms does chlorine molecule break away from ozone molecule?
Question 22. What compound is formed when chlorine molecule reacts with ozone molecule?
Question 23. A single Chlorine atom is capable of destroying how many Ozone molecules?
Question 24. To what extent do volcanoes contribute chlorine as compared to CFC's?
Question 25. Does chlorine in CFC's dissolve in water?
1 Heat is absorbed in the evaporator
2 Heat is absorbed in the evaporator and causes the refrigerant to boil from liquid to vapor
3 The refrigerant is now a low temperature, low pressure vapor
4 It condenses to a liquid
5 The refrigerant is a high-pressure liquid
6 The metering device causes a reduction in pressure, and therefore a reduction in saturation temperature
7 Accumulator which would be located in the suction line directly following the evaporator
8 A receiver, which would be located in the liquid line directly following the condenser
9 Blue
10 Red
11 Compound gauge
12 It measures high side (discharge) pressure
13 Low loss fittings that will minimize refrigerant loss when hoses are disconnected
14 Between 10 and 30 miles above sea level
15 Ozone
16 Three oxygen atoms (03)
17 Harmful ultraviolet radiation
18 It helps maintain stable Earth temperatures
19 Crop loss, increase in eye diseases, skin cancer, reduced marine life, deforestation , increased ground level ozone
20 CFC's and HCFC's
21 One
22 Chlorine Monoxide (CIO) and O2¬
23 100,000 Ozone molecules
24 A small quantity
25 No

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Yes, it's that time of year again - whether you like it or not, Christmas is coming! So, it's time to start thinking about presents, a tree, food, decorations, family… the list is endless. You need to prepare! Here we have compiled a list of things to consider to ensure that Christmas runs smoothly this year...
Get your boiler checked
Christmas is in December. December is cold. You need to have adequate heating in your home to make sure your day is not ruined. You should get your boiler checked annually or as soon as you start to experience any issues - you may even need to get a new boiler installed if problems persist (click the link for more information on costs). Heating is essential over the autumn and winter months, as you don't want to be uncomfortable or to fall unwell due to the plummeting temperatures.
Sort out your presents now
Figure out who you are buying for and what your budget is. See if you can subtly find out what they want and then go from there. Write a list of ideas and then research to see if there are any deals or special offers on (take advantage of Black Friday). By doing all this in advance, you are saving yourself a whole load of stress over the weeks leading up to the 25th. You will feel a real sense of relief, especially if you have to send gifts via the post - you don't want anything ending up lost or delayed, so it is always best to get these sent as early as possible in December, to be placed under the tree ready for the big day.
Have a plan
How many people are going to be under one roof? Are you going to schedule a video call with loved ones who you couldn't be with? What time are you going to eat? All of this and more needs to be considered and if you're juggling a household full of kids, it's easier said than done. By having a vague idea of timings, you will know when you should get up, have opened your presents by, and when to start cooking etc. Of course, it doesn't have to be strict but if you have a loose idea then you should be able to factor everything in and the day should run a lot more smoothly.
Get creative for the kids
If you're planning on having "Father Christmas" send a letter to your kids, or even to visit for some mince pies (and a carrot for Rudolph) then don't forget to get everything you need for this before it's too late. Whether you want to go all out and have a relative come over dressed up bellowing "ho, ho, ho!" or you just plan on leaving some muddy footprints in the kitchen along with a personalised note to create a magical experience for your little ones, make sure you get this sorted before it gets lost within all your other tasks. Although it takes little effort, this can really make the day special for your children.
Book in advance
If you are going away or you're having your Christmas dinner in a restaurant you almost certainly have to book as soon as possible. Especially if it is a popular place, as people will arrange this well in advance.
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New Look appoints new chief executive as losses narrow
New Look's first half losses have narrowed to £11.2 million from £41.9 million in the same period last year.
However, total revenue declined to £523. 8 million from a previous £601.1 million as like-for-like sales declined by 7.4%.
In a statement, New Look said its UK and Ireland like-for-like sales were positive in July and August but September sales were impacted by unseasonably warm weather.
During the period, New Look significantly reduced options by 25% in its stores and by 32% online as it looked to improve the customer experience. It also increased the speed to market with average lead times reduced by 12 days.
New Look has announced that former House of Fraser head Nigel Oddy has been appointed as its new chief executive. Oddy has been working as the company's chief operating officer since April and has now been promoted.
Alistair McGeorge, New Look chairman, said: "Nigel has been running the business operationally since he joined us and in a short space of time has made significant improvements to our buying, product, supply chain and omnichannel offer. As I have said before, his experience will be a great asset as we continue our transformation, which I am confident we are well positioned to deliver."
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Kate Middleton radiates warmth and gratitude in a new message thanking Britons for coming together and sharing their pictures and stories of life under lockdown.
A video of the 38-year-old Duchess of Cambridge was posted on her and Prince William's Instagram page on Sunday, Nov. 15. In the clip, Kate thanked people who took part in her and the National Portrait Gallery's community photography project, "Hold Still."
"I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who submitted an image to 'Hold Still,'" she said, smiling. "I launched the project with the National Portrait Gallery back in May because I wanted to find a way to allow everyone to share their stories and experiences of lockdown. We have been thrilled by the response to the project and I couldn't be more grateful to each and every one of the 31,000 people who submitted an image."
Out of all the submissions, judges selected 100 photographs to include as part of an outdoor nationwide exhibition. The images included photos of essential workers in full PPE and women, wearing surgical masks, meeting their babies for the first time after giving birth.
There were also pictures of couples getting married during lockdown, as well as children painting pictures and playing at home with their families. In her video, Kate sat in front of two submitted portraits.
The Duchess, who is a photography enthusiast, said, "It was so hard to select the final 100 photographs, but we hope we've created a collective portrait of our nation, reflecting on what others have experienced as well as our own journey through this difficult time."
"Hold Still" was launched in May. The Duchess said it has been "fantastic" to see portraits displayed as billboards and posters across the United Kingdom as part of the project's community exhibition. She added, "I am hugely grateful to all our partners for helping us take the images back to the people and communities who took them."
"For me, the most powerful part of the project is that it's shown just how much people and their communities have come together and how important we all are to each other," said Kate. "Thank you so much for being part of 'Hold Still' and for sharing your stories with the nation."
In October, Kate and William made a surprise public appearance in London, visiting some of the portraits on display.


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One-Day Open Mic Festival in Melbourne
September 12, 2014
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March 16, 2014
This year, 2014, I have decided to finish all of the projects and tie them together into a consolidation of multimedia. As part of my personal impetus to gather it all together for myself, but also put it into perspective on this blog, I have decided to create a page for each city I have visited on the journey, tying together samples of the whole multimedia adventure linked to that city.
So here is the page devoted to tying together the pieces of the open mic adventure that I have lived in Melbourne, Australia since I first started here in 2009. At each subsequent Formula One race I visit this year, I will add a new such page. Keep posted….
March 14, 2014
I remember seeing that this place existed in years past, but I'm not sure why I never managed to get there until last night. Even then, I was lucky to get on the list, as by the time I had called up the list was full. But because the Acoustic Cafe on at 187 Johnston Street in Collingwood has the truly great open mic spirit, Glenda – who runs it along with Ian, the instigator of the Acoustic Cafe – told me to come along and she would try to fit me in. As it turned out, there were some who had put their names on the list and did not show up. I will be eternally grateful, since this was one of the great open mic experiences, as I just said.
Located in a very funky little bar with the mic setup at the front window, and with a long corridor leading to a back terrace, the Acoustic Cafe has one of the ingredients that makes for a great open mic in the small size of the room. It is so intimate that everyone kind of has to conform to the attitude of listening to the music more than talking. Another ingredient is the great attitude and approach and openness of Ian and Glenda. Another ingredient is that it attracts some wonderful musicians of all ages, but very clearly it is open to and encouraging of the youngest generation.
It has another thing going for it that I have never seen before anywhere: It's not an open mic with one guitar for people to use, but rather a whole museum of vintage guitars hanging on the walls high above the main room, any of which is there for a musician to ask permission to use, and then use. And not just guitars, but I think I saw a mandolin or two or a bouzouki, although I didn't really check it out. Oh, and it turns out that if you want to buy one of the guitars, you can do that too. They're for sale!
Another cool thing is that Acoustic Cafe records a video of your performance, and they'll make a DVD for you if you ask for it. I was so nervous that I don't think I want to see mine, but I was pleased that I got to play something like five songs in total despite the full list! (My songs: Crazy Lady, Borderline, When You're Gone Away. And also the cover songs: Cat's in the Cradle and Year of the Cat.) I liked that aspect of this place too, which is that they did not set the number of songs to a fixed quota, but let you go on or encouraged you to go on depending on the feel of the vibe of the music and the moment in the spectators.
There were a number of interesting singer songwriters, and that was the emphasis. Cover songs were in the minority, but not banished. It ranged from a mono-chordal Japanese woman of haunting melodies and lyrics to a guy with an eye patch – he said it was the result of a battle between him and a contact lens, and he lost – to a boppy Chilean and a local "many-friends-in-the-crowd" songstress singing (cool) songs about her friends….
So after four years, why is the Acoustic Cafe stopping? They only announced the news for the first time last night, and the reason given was that the owner of the building also owned buildings on either side, and he wants to knock them down and put up an apartment building. (I kept thinking of the Joni Mitchell song about putting up a parking lot….)
So there are going to be two more open mics at the Acoustic Cafe before it closes at the end of March, on the next two Thursdays starting at 7:30 PM, and if you are in Melbourne, I cannot recommend highly enough that you attend, whether it is to play or to listen, or both. Glenda tells me that they will not be seeking to start up a new open mic, but I had some sixth sense that told me that I would not be surprised to see that she and Ian end up finding a new location – but can it be as good as this funky place? Well, if anyone can make a success of any location, I suspect they could….
Because it is the end of the line for the Acoustic Cafe I decided to get a few bits of atmosphere in my videos of the place, and not just music. So check out the atmosphere videos – I loved how the cash register had a number of guitar picks sitting on it….
March 13, 2014
Anyway… last night it was another visit to the mainstay Melbourne open mic of the Great Britain Hotel and/or pub. I say and/or because as far as I can see this place is not a hotel but only a pub. Still, there may well be a hotel upstairs – but if there is, I wouldn't want to go there. Having said that, the open mic is well worth it.
It's a well organized one with a great little stage, a nice sound system, excellent lighting, and an all together cool experience. And it has been going for years. I think this was my third or fourth year playing here, and each time I have actually had different experience. So anything I say about it today, will probably be out of date tomorrow….
But after last year I thought it had taken a little turn for the less crowded and interesting, this year suddenly there was a nice sized audience and a number of very cool and interesting musicians. There were also about four or five comics, which I don't think I had ever seen even one of before.
So expect anything at the Great Britain open mic in Great Melbourne!
And stay tuned for tomorrow at the open mic I attended tonight, because it was a real winner…. (As you can probably guess by the inebriated state of my prose….)
March 20, 2013
In all my four years visiting open mics and writing about the experience, I don't think I have ever had an anecdote to tell that says so much about the ambience and general coolness of the open mic as the following one.
Last night in my last night in Melbourne, I returned once again – for the third or fourth time – to the great and intimate Empress Hotel open mic on Nicholson street in North Fitzroy. The hotel is a well known music venue, and Robin and Frank have been running this open mic on Tuesdays for around six years, although an open mic existed before that. It is an excellent venue with a warms stage, hot lighting, back outdoor terrace, laid-back feel, and spectators who respect the other musicians, listening and generally staying to listen after their own sets.
I recounted on this blog last year how I was in such a state of nervous spent-ness just before leaving for my flight to Malaysia but also needing to interview people for my series of Podcasts, that I walked out of the open mic and went off to the airport having left a great guitar tuning device that I had just bought, AND the huge copy of the Steve Jobs biography that had recently come out. I was halfway through the Jobs book, and loving it, and I had just bought the tuner.
So imagine how upset I was. Well. After posting on the blog about leaving my belongings behind, Robin wrote me to say that they had recuperated the tuner and the book and would keep them for me. For me, this was the end of the story. I completely forgot about the tuner and the book, and yesterday I returned to the open mic a year later without warning Robin and Frank (who operates the soundboard so deftly) that I was returning again this year to play some more music and hear more music at their great open mic.
I got there early to get an early spot on the list in order to get out earlier this year to catch the same flight with less stress…. And when Robin and Frank arrived, Robin marched right up to me and gave me the book and tuner! The battery in the tuner is fully charged, as it was when I left it last year, and the book was in the same condition as well.
This was EXCEPTIONAL! It says all you need to know about this great open mic.
By the way, I here include my first video of me singing my song, "If I Only Had You," because it was a song that until now I was not supposed to sing as my own. I had written it for someone else. But it has now been months since I gave it to them, and I've heard nothing back for many months. So I have decided to re-appropriate the song for myself.
I was filmed last night by my friend Emily Brown, who used to run the great All Nations U-Bar open mic, and as it turned out, she liked the song and said SHE might do something with it! So we'll see if it has a life beyond me after all. The Empress Hotel certainly will have!
March 19, 2013
It was the first time I had been in the heart of this Brunswick area of Melbourne, and when I took the tram from near my hotel on Spencer Street downtown out to Brunswick Road, I thought I had arrived at the edge of the earth. The houses in this area look like they are sitting on the Bayou in the deep south of the U.S., and the store and pub facades look like cowboy movie set facades. But I was assured when I entered the large, cavernous and cool Cornish Arms pub that I had arrived in the hip and cool hot part of town in Melbourne.
OK, OK, I know my observations of the way things look could get me grilled somewhere, perhaps fed to the alligators. But I would say the same thing of certain parts of of my home town of Toronto – or similar reflections on places like Jerhico in Oxford…. But anyway….
The Cornish Arms was another of these very cool Australian pubs with a fabulously cool stage with lighting and a good sound system and practically a proscenium arch. I would love to know the history of why so many of these neighborhood pubs have such cool stages built into them. Perhaps it's from when the prisoners were required to make their own entertainment before the days of television and radio….
The place was great too for its wide open space, terrace, vast bar and decent meals available on the menu. So I ate dinner, signed up right at 7:30, got a slot for 10:15 – although I think I was probably within the first three or four to arrive, and it's a rush for the sign-up – and did my songs. It's a 15-minutes slot, which comes to three songs.
(more videos to come shortly, as they upload…)
My only criticism of this open mic, really, though, was that like that of the Great Britain pub last Wednesday, it was another of those situations where people came, sang and left. I did not really get a sense of a scene, a happening, or support of fellow musicians the way I do in so many of the best open mics, and in so many in my "home" town of Paris.
But I know those have existed in Australia – like with Emily Brown's open mic in the past at the All Nations U-Bar, or a little at the Arthouse, and definitely at the Empress Hotel – and apparently it exists at the Artcafé, but I missed that one.
From that point of view, my evening was once again saved by the amazing singer Aarti, who did this great a cappella song that I videoed, and with whom I spoke much of the evening. I had met her at the Great Britain last week, remember. But this time you can see the image of the video much better, thanks to the great lighting. And the sound is better too – so check it out….
March 18, 2013
Before embarking on my fifth worldwide tour of open mics and jam sessions last week, I announced on this site that one of my projects for the year would be to expand my popular "Thumbnail Guide to Paris Open Mics," by adding making a collection of such pages, by adding a new page for each of the 19 other countries I visit around the world this year.
Today I have taken the first step, by putting up my guide to Melbourne, Australia open mics. I have also rearranged the blog to simplify and make sense of the new series of thumbnail guides. The Paris guide and the Melbourne guide and all future guides will be located in a new menu item at the top of the blog page, called "Worldwide Open Mic Thumbnail Guide," which has a page with a full explanation of the project.
As I explain, the new pages will not be as exhaustive as the Paris page, since I live in Paris. But I hope they will help travellers and locals, and I also ask for locals and travellers to provide me with any open mics they think should be listed, by sending a word in the comments area on the relevant page, and I will add it to the list.
March 15, 2013
I see Wayne just about every week now, as we both continue to attend the Ptit Bonheur la Chance open mic. And when he learned I was going to be in Australia this week, he told me that his daughter was performing with Moriarty in a few dates in Australia, and as it turned out, the band was playing in Melbourne last night at The Famous Spiegeltent, at the Melbourne Arts Centre. Wayne also told Rosemary, and she put me on a list to get in to watch the show.
That was really cool, and it turned out that the Spiegeltent was a few stops on the tram from the racetrack where I do my day job, so how could I not go?! Of course, the only thing that might stop me was the open mic at the Acoustic Café scheduled for last night, in another nearby part of Melbourne. And this is, after all, my open mic adventure.
But I really enjoy the songs of Moriarty that I have heard on the radio in France – frequently – and the videos I have seen, and I thought this would be a fabulous opportunity to see – and potentially meet – the band, and continue the Moriarty moments on the open mic adventure. The adventure, after all, is all about adventure and not getting stuck in too much of a pattern in life. Moriarty, you might say, is a little about the same – given that the name of the band comes from the character, Dean Moriarty, in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road"….
The band started out doing traditional blues and rock 'n' roll, but with the departure of some members, specifically a drummer, they went more acoustic and more vocal oriented. (Last night after the show when I mentioned to the bass player, Zim, about how fabulous it was that I did not need to use my earplugs during the concert, he said that was something they always insist on, that the decibels be lower than what most bands pump them up to in order that people may actually listen to the music, hear the music without destroying their future capacity to hear anything….)
Founded in 1995 amongst a bunch of friends from Paris who mostly came from a multicultural mix – three of them now have one or two American parents – their music naturally gravitated to American music. That's who they are. But they were actually in Australia first of all to play in the Womad festival in Adelaide, and although the band cannot really be described as "World Music," it is definitely eclectic, and the influences range from just about everything to just about everything else. With a strong dose of country, blues, pop, but even, as the radio personality – no name, sorry – who introduced them last night said, "Depeche Mode."
So I showed up last night to find a GIANT line up of people waiting for the doors to the Spiegeltent to open, as the few chairs and the rest of the standing room only areas of the venue are served up on a first come first served basis. I was surprised there were so many people, as I was unaware of Moriarty being well known in Australia. In fact, they are not that well-known, but they have toured here before, and one spectator I spoke to said she had seen them three times – ie, each time they came.
There were also a number of people from France. But there was a very healthy number of Australians. Another couple of spectators, also from Austraila, who stood behind me in the line told me that they had never heard of Moriarty, but they gladly paid the $45 for the tickets because they knew that in general the shows at the Spiegeltent were very good.
Indeed! The Spiegeltent is this kind of theatre-in-the-round building that travels from city to city, and originally came from Belgium in the 1920s. It reminds me most of a kind of circus tent, or even carrousel, but it is filled with mirrors and brocaded columns, wood, canvass and glass. The stage was small, but all spectators had a pretty close up view, despite that the room was packed. How many? 500 people? 700? I can only guess.
I ended up finding a nook right beside the stage that allowed me the freedom to do some videos without obstructing anyone else's view, but it was not the best vantage point to see the band straight on and get the full feel for the stage antics. Still, it felt like a privileged position as I could grab lots of images from the side and behind and get a backstage kind of feel to it.
I have now written almost a 1000 words building up to this and saying nothing. But what can I say, really? Watch the videos and listen. The band was simply fantastic. The show was complete with lively stage presence and patter and antics and a very talented multi-instrumental group of musicians.
They are also very international, as I said, and a funny moment came during the show when a an Australian woman standing next to me turned to me and said, "Why do they all have American accents?" She was no doubt surprised and feeling somewhat invaded when I responded in my "American" accent and told her because they had American parents….
Anyway, Rosemary's voice, I would just like to add, which I had heard only on the radio or Internet in the past, is absolutely superb, rich, and strong, and she and the other band members all have great stage presence. I can see why they have gone so far, but they deserve further recognition and success – let's hope the hits keep coming. They are in no way a "traditional" music band, with some very avant garde touches and a newness and nowness to the band.
I also saw just how professional every one of the band members is, when they all went out from the "tent" after the show to meet with their fans and stand around and talk and sign autographs and copies of their latest CD. I spoke to just about all the band members, and Rosemary and I talked for quite a while – much of it about her father, Wayne. Wayne it turns out, has also played and recorded with the band – and that's the next thing on my list I'll want to see. But when I see and hear Rosemary, I cannot help but hear and see the Wayne influence in the background, and I imagine the upbringing….
So, now that I'm well above a thousand words, you can see that I have no regrets about missing an open mic myself last night…. I learned a lot, and had a great time. And, by the way, I also went along to this concert with my friend and fellow Paris-based F1 journalist, Adam Hay-Nicholls, who has joined me in Paris to see Wayne Standley and me play at the open mic – and Adam has also done a nice – but more sensibly short – item on the concert, in his new cool blog, the F1 Social Diary.
March 14, 2013
Last year in Melbourne I had a great time at the open mic of the Great Britain pub on Church Street, at Swan. So last night on my first night in Melbourne when I searched around for places to play, I immediately decided to head for the Great Britain again. This time, it started off by clashing with my memory, entirely.
Oh, I found the place buzzing with life and activity as usual, with the bar in the front having a few clients, another few playing pool on the table off to the side, and a steady stream of conversation coming from the outdoor terrace in the back.
It was the middle area of this pub where things seemed desolate and deserted, to start with. I got there at almost precisely 8:30 and found myself lucky to be able to sign my name on the second to last available slot for the open mic. The evening is divided into 15 minute slots for each performer from 8:30 to 11:30.
So I had avoided one of my worst open mic nightmares on this worldwide adventure – ie, travelling to the other side of the world and arriving on the very same day jet-lagged out and finding myself unable to participate in the open mic because the list is full! Having got my spot, I went off to eat in a Greek restaurant on Swan, where I had an excellent glass of red wine – Shiraz from Adelaide – with a less than excellent kebab.
I got back to the open mic by 9:30, thinking that with a completely full list like that I would find the place just buzzing with energy and activity. What I found upon arrival, was once again the bar itself and the rear outdoor terrace bubbling with life. But the room in the middle, where the open mic takes place, was dreary, dreary, deserted, lifeless, unmanned, all except for the duo on stage and maximum three or four spectators.
The room itself, is wonderful: sofas, chairs, tables, and best of all, a great sound system and an actual stage. I mean, a real stage with curtains and lighting, the whole deal. Very beautiful, if worn at the edges.
But what was missing was one of the most important aspects of an open mic: And Audience. And so proceeded the open mic. Act after act went up and took to the mic, and as they did so, segments of audience entered the room to listen to their friends while other corresponding segments left the room once their friends had played. I mean, this was grave….
As I was the last one on the list, I was pretty sure I would be playing to an empty house. I mean, this was dreary!! I know from experience that open mics are better some weeks than other weeks. But I wondered if I had had a faulty memory on this one.
Then things changed a little, even a lot. What happened, at least concerning me, was that when I heard one of the performers, named Aarti Jadu, singing her songs, I loved her voice and songs, and I decided I had to tell her that. For me she was the stand-out performer of the night. So it was just natural….
Well, it turned out that she was there with friends and family, and so she very kindly said that they would wait to listen to my set. Hey, I had spectators! But I also ended up talking to her a little more, partaking a little of the ambience that existed, and then finding myself once on stage, actually feeling committed to singing to expectant ears.
That changed the dreary situation into something quite fun, and made the open mic worth it. Then during my songs, a few other people came in to listen, notably two or three guys, one of whom asked me afterwards if he could use my guitar to sing and play. So he and his friend made up the last act.
All of which meant, human exchange, taking part in the evening, not feeling so cut off, and ultimately "meaning" had been given to the open mic – at least for me, the jet-lagged foreigner who had suddenly parachuted in from nowhere.
But I hope that the Great Britain open mic – a mainstay open mic of Melbourne – has a little more atmosphere than this on most other weeks. The idea of having people go in and out of the music room depending only on whether their friend is playing, is one that while I can understand it, is not the greatest in open mic styles….
March 25, 2011
Last night in Melbourne was the true beginning to my third worldwide musical adventure to the open mics and jam sessions of the planet over the next nine months. My first was in 2009, when I played my guitar and sang in 17 countries, nearly 30 cities and on every continent except Africa (where I did once live and play) and Antarctica (where I do not want to live or play). I did roughly the same adventure last year, and I will probably do even more this year – I think I have 18 countries planned….
The first year I worked on a book about the adventure – which I am still editing down from its initial 1,000 single-spaced pages!!!-; last year I put posts up on this blog about the adventure; and this year I will do the blog again, and I also have another project in mind that may involve linking it all together in a sound and/or image narrative.
But last night showed me that although this is the third year of the adventure – which, by the way, follows the trajectory of the Formula One world championship, that I report on for the International Herald Tribune and New York Times – and for an F1 blog at the NYT and as the About.com F1 guide – it is not just a repetition of the past.
Life changes, things change and move in ways we cannot predict, and last night I realized that this parallel life of playing in musical venues around the world for the third year has new possibilities I had not imagined: Call it a snowball effect, or a building up of experience. Last night I ended up playing again at the All Nations U-Bar open mic at 2 Spencer Street in Melbourne, which I had discovered last year. But I did that in the company of my friend Lara, whom I had met at the Softbelly Bar open mic in the first year of the adventure – and whom I had not seen since (although we maintained a correspondence).
I was a little disappointed with the U-Bar open mic this year because the sound system was horrible, and I performed very early and so probably the atmosphere had not developed into the fabulous, rollicking evening I had discovered the year before. But our impressions change from one year to the next, and I had also noticed that Emily Brown, the very cool woman who had organized and MC'd the show last year was not there. I thought maybe that was the problem.
I suggested to Lara that we leave and go somewhere quiet and have a drink and talk. And as we left and crossed a nearby street, I heard a shout in the distance from a woman.
I turned back and crossed the street to find that it was Emily, and she had recognized me out in the dark road as she returned to the U-Bar where she still IS the MC, although someone else was briefly filling in for her last night. She asked me if I had played yet, and I said I had. She said that she was bringing along a Latin music band to do the second part of the evening, and I thought, there we go – the open mic evening probably would turn out to be as good as it was last year. I had simply not given it enough time.
But most of all, I was delighted at how Emily had recognized me, a year later in the dark and slightly rainy street in Melbourne. (Yes, the weather is crap.) It gave me the sense of having musical friends around the world thanks to this adventure. And there I was, of course, with Lara from two years before. Melbourne was feeling like one of my many homes!
I decided to continue on to another bar with Lara, so we went to the Softbelly bar on Little Bourke Street, where we had met at the open mic on the Wednesday before the F1 race in 2009. I did some advance work this year and wrote to the organizer of the Softbelly open mic and found that it no longer exists…. Until we got there and Lara noticed a little poster that said there IS an open mic at the Softbelly on Wednesdays, starting at 7 PM – but it obviously has a different organizer.
I think part of the reason I did not feel quite so good at the U-Bar was also, in fact, because of Lara's presence. Having her there made me very nervous when I sang my songs, as she had arrived only around 10 minutes before I had to sing, and I was terribly self-conscious all of a sudden about singing in front of the beautiful Lara and letting her down. (As it turned out, I need not have been too worried, as I received some compliments from a couple of people – as well as from Lara – on my four-song set afterward, as Lara and I left the bar.)
But I also had the terrible task of deciding if I should sing the song, called "Lara, Lara" – that I had written for her two years ago. Could I really do it in public here in front of all these people – for there was a fairly decent number of clients at the All Nations U-Bar. I decided I would not sing her song for fear of embarrassing her. But later on I realized I had made a mistake.
Here is the recording I did of "Lara, Lara" in 2009:
So it was that when we sat in the U-Bar and talked, I mentioned that I had considered singing the song and I could see she would have liked that. So I decided that we had to find a secluded alley somewhere and I would sing her the song, as she had pointed out she had never heard me sing it for her live.
We crossed the street from the Softbelly and found a perfect secluded alley where there were no private residences. Together we sang there for probably close to an hour. We went through a large part of my cover song repertoire and a few of my own songs, including Lara, Lara – which was the first I sang. Together we also sang "Cat's In the Cradle," which of course was the subject of yesterday's post…. Lara's voice was magic; her musical talents and skills are well developed as she has many years' worth of training on the violin.
So this was an amazing first musical evening in Melbourne, the first true day of my new adventure, and it was made new and unusual by the fact that it was Year III of the adventure and there is a building up of connections and friends and situations.
The only problem was that I managed to do only two videos of the U-Bar open mic, and only one of these is in any way worth putting on the site. I do a panoramic turn around the bar with the camera, and I particularly like the painted mural on the wall that you see near the end of the short video.


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U.S. Army Spc. Emily Moller a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Regiment, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, leads a group of Soldiers to negotiate a complex task during the command's 2018 Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year Competition Leader Reaction Course lane in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, May 6-11, 2018. The Leader Reaction Course helps Soldiers to learn to work together as a team and take control of a difficult situation. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Claudio Tejada, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command)
Perhaps the Army's biggest transformation challenge has been embracing and navigating the right approaches to team building while cultivating mental and physical toughness in the individual Soldier. Old habits of thinking such as "suck it up and drive on," indoctrinated past generations into believing that that was the way to accomplish the mission.
In 2009, Army psychologists collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to establish a program dedicated to reinforcing a resilient culture based off of the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Program (Reed & Love, 2009). As a result, the Army implemented its first resiliency program called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF). This eventually evolved into the U.S. Army's Ready and Resilient (R2) Program.
R2 performance centers are institutional domains where Soldiers, Department of the Army (DA) Civilians, and family members of Soldiers certify as Master Resilience Trainers (MRTs). They learn 14 resiliency skills in a span of 80 hours, and are then considered commanders' subject matter experts on resilience excellency.
The ultimate goal of the R2 program is to "empower individuals to achieve and sustain their personal readiness and resilience so that they are best equipped and enabled to support the U.S. Army mission in environments of uncertainty and persistent danger" ("R2: Personal Readiness and Resilience," 2015, para. 1).
There are currently over 20 R2 performance centers located in the United States, Germany, and Korea, which can provide a variety of resources to any Army organization in support of multiple echelons (Army Resiliency Directorate, n.d.). Staffing consists of a number of Master Resilience Trainer-Performance Experts (MRT-PEs) who generally possess degrees in sports and performance psychology, one Performance Center Manager (contractor), and one Program Manager (senior noncommissioned officer).
Cpl. Janelle Travis, a combat medic assigned to 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, mentally prepares to engage in the M249 squad automatic weapon and M240B general-purpose machine gun qualifications for the 3rd ID's Best Warrior Competition May 3, 2018, at Fort Stewart, Ga. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Arjenis Nunez)
To help illustrate the need for the R2 program, imagine your Soldier is attempting to qualify on a rifle qualification range. Distracted by high anxiety, stressful issues at home, and difficulties at work, the Soldier's performance begins to spiral. The Soldier becomes tense, their heart rate escalates, and they begin showing signs of agitation. As the squad leader, you attempt to coach the Soldier through their qualification, but it seems to worsen. Protocol suggests the Soldier receive remedial training, but nothing helps. The four fundamentals of marksmanship has rendered the Soldier combat ineffective.
Should you give up on your Soldier? Or should you utilize the Army's R2 Program to help them overcome their anxiety and proficiently perform their job?
"Ready and Resilient is a collection of comprehensive and far-reaching capabilites designed to guide the Army's efforts to build the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and family preparedness and resilience of the Total Force" ("Ready and Resilient Campaign," 2018, para. 1). MRT-PEs help Soldiers optimize their performance while overcoming high anxiety. Anxiety and stress undermine positive decision-making skills during events ranging from physical fitness training to combat missions.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael McMillan, 35th Infantry Division, behavioral health noncommissioned officer in charge, confers with Capt. Trever Patton regarding the mental and behavioral health of Soldiers returning from combat deployments at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Oct. 30, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Tina Villalobos, 35th Infantry Division Public Affairs)
Circumstances in a Soldier's personal life can also negatively affect their emotional well-being, which can result in mission failure, injury, or death. To minimize negative effects on performance, MRT-PEs integrate perpetual cognitive training skills which combine Army-based physical training, plyometric exercises, and hands-on practical exercises. By encompassing all three, it assists Soldiers with successfully meeting the physical demands of the job while simultaneously making cognitive decisions as it pertains to job responsibilities.
Consider the Soldier mentioned earlier who experienced difficulty qualifying on their assigned weapon. Had the Soldier received previous training on deliberate breathing techniques, or efficient use of vision for target acquisition, or even the Army's Engage training module to reduce the amount of stressors in their lives, the qualification process could have gone a lot smoother and the Soldier's, and unit's, readiness scores would be higher ("Leader's Guide," 2016).
Implementation of cognitive skills training is critical to individual and collective tasks, but it is important for leaders to know the intent is not to teach Soldiers how to perform their military tasks. Instead, MRT-PEs assist Soldiers in refining the skills they already possess. They do not train Soldiers how to fire weapons, conduct convoy operations, or instruct physical fitness. Rather, they coach them how to fire more proficiently, enhance situational awareness, and practice energy activation techniques to increase physical endurance. The ultimate goal is to optimize performance after Soldiers have learned the basic fundamentals of their military tasks.
Some other capabilities R2 performance centers can provide are team building events, 10-day MRT certifications, Executive Resilience and Performance Course (ERPC), Leadership Development Course, Deployment Cycle Resilience Training (DCRT), Resilience Challenge Course for Families, and Engage Training (based on bystander intervention). Leaders at the brigade level or below may coordinate for MRT-PEs to provide training at qualification ranges, Field Training Exercises (FTXs), Army training centers, physical training events, FRG events, etc.
Members of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) watch the sunset from the top of the Thousand Steps Trail in Franklin Mountain State Park, Nov. 4, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. Soldiers took part in the hike as a Ready and Resilient training exercise to boost morale ahead of Warfighter 19-02. Warfighter 19-02 is a computer-simulated war game that is scenario based and integrates troops from Fort Bragg, N.C., Fort Stewart, Ga., Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Fort Hood, Texas and Fort Bliss, Texas. 7th SFG(A)'s participation in the exercise promotes conventional and special operations integration and interoperability, which is critical to success on the battlefield. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Sean Hall)
How can Soldiers "promote and safeguard the morale, the physical well-being, and the general welfare of the officers and enlisted persons" (Department of the Army, 2014b, p. 2) as deemed essential in AR 600-20: Army Command Policy? The simple answer is the proper use of the unit MRT. Unit MRTs serve as the commander's consultant for resilience training. They allocate resources, manage the Digital Training Management System for resiliency training updates, and monitor Global Assessment Tool (GAT) statistics.
Soldiers, DA Civilians, and family members of Soldiers may certify as MRTs. Utilizing the train-the-trainer concept, students participate in a 10-day course (80 hours) where they learn core competencies, resilience, and performance enhancements skills. When used properly, MRTs can positively impact the culture of an entire organization and enhance unit readiness by promoting better health, increasing optimal performance, and building connections.
Note: MRTs are not counselors. While the curriculum is psychology-based, MRTs are only trainers of resilience concepts. In accordance with AR 350-53, 12 of the 14 skills should be taught to all Soldiers annually. This includes the annual requirement to complete the GAT survey.
The Army's Ready and Resilient program is as diverse as it is unique. Its capabilities and resources are critical to unit readiness and focus on both leader and Soldier development. The MRT-PEs and MRTs are essential as they broaden our learning of cognitive and performance-level skills at the organizational level.
"Ultimately, the goal of R2 is to assist in the facilitation of positive change through leader engagement" ("Ready and Resilient," n.d.).
Army Resiliency Directorate. (n.d.) Army.mil. Retrieved from http://readyandresilient.army.mil/r2performancecenters.html
Comprehensive Soldier & Family Fitness. (2016). Army.mil. Retrieved from http://readyandresilient.army.mil/CSF2/training-centers.html
Department of the Army. (2014a). Army regulation 350-53: Comprehensive Soldier and family fitness. Retrieved from https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/r350_53.pdf
Department of the Army. (2014b). Army regulation 600-20: Army Command Policy. Retrieved from https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/r600_20.pdf
Eidelson, R. (2012, June 04). The Army's flawed resilience training study: A call for retraction. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dangerous-ideas/201206/the-army-s-flawed-resilience-training-study-call-retraction
Leader's guide for building personal readiness and resilience. (2016, December). Retrieved from https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/r2/policydocs/leaders_guide_building_personal_readniness
Ready and resilient. (n.d.). U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Retrieved from https://usacimt.tradoc.army.mil/rr.html
Ready and resilient campaign (2018, August 01). Army Public Health Center. Retrieved from https://phc.amedd.army.mil/topics/healthyliving/hpr/Pages/R2C.aspx
Reed, J. & Love, S. (2009, August 5). Army developing master resiliency training. Army.mil. Retrieved from https://www.army.mil/article/25494/army_developing_master_resiliency_training
Sgt. 1st Class Danny Lampkin currently serves as the 101st Airborne Division (AASLT) Ready & Resilient (R2) Program Manager. His previous duties have included platoon sergeant, operations sergeant, equal opportunity Leader, and observer controller/trainer (Belt Buckle #521) at the National Training Center from 2015 to 2017. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Homeland Security and Emergency Management from the University of Ashford. Lampkin has deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.
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Warlike Collage
Based on "Antigone" by Sophocles and "Iphigenia in Aulis" by Euripides.
Kibbutzim college, Tel-Aviv, 2006.
Writing, directing and design by Ruthie Osterman
From the play "Warlike Collage"
When people were evacuated from "Katif" area in the Gaza strip, the Israeli nation was divided into two groups: one, in blue, supported the evacuation. The second, in orange, was against it. The struggle between these two different worldviews constituted the basis of this artistic work.
The internal struggle I felt as a creator between the belief in God and the Zionist values on which I grew and the passion and freedom to create converged with a cruel political situation in which, for the sake of achieving peace, many of my friends had to leave their homes against the values on which they grew. The question of self-sacrifice and its limits versus the state of the law bothered me a lot.
At that time of evacuation, while I was 70 kilometeraway from Gaza, on the roof of the building of the "School of Art" in Tel-Aviv, I composed this play, combining texts from Greek tragedies, which I like very much, and some of my personal texts.
The creation of the play was inspired by "Theatre du soleil" by Arian Mnushkin in France.
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L.A. Blockbuster Wants Everyone To Know It Won't Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Times used to be, you wanted to have a scary movie night with your pals, you hop in the car and head to Blockbuster for a VHS and a bunch of Twizzlers. Those times are long gone, but this Los Angeles Blockbuster isn't about to fade from the scene without a fight. Oh, no. It's going down in a blaze of glory.
By glory, we of course mean that this Blockbuster (spotted by Consumerist reader Peter in L.A.) is letting the entire world know exactly how many days left it has on this earth. As of this photo, six. There are six days left to get your kicks at the Blockbuster, in case you couldn't tell from the eleventy billion "going out of business in six days!" signs.
We asked Peter if he was tempted to go inside and check out what a dying dinosaur looks like from the inside, but alas, he said there's no parking near it. And also?
"I've never been in there because it's Blockbuster and it's 2013."
Enough said.
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I had wanted to speak to this soul – a powerful Illuminati witch and possibly Grande Dame/Mother – during the time the Door was open to the slaves/ex-slaves. Of course, back then I had Keys. Now, those Keys are gone – at least from me. However, during that time, despite praying for this soul – BRENDA DUKE, of the Illuminati DUKE bloodline – a Door to her soul never did open. I post this for the world to see and know and beware and DO something about it if possible. There are many, many slaves – literal slaves of the … Continue reading
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"Sucker Punch" or How to Make Monarch Mind Control Sexy | The Vigilant Citizen. "Sucker Punch" or How to Make Monarch Mind Control Sexy By VC | July 19th, 2011 | Category: Movies and TV | 132 comments Sucker Punch is an action fantasy thriller that promises its viewers two things: girls and explosions. And it delivers both. But behind the slur of short skirts and CGI effects hides a disturbing underlying story: Sucker Punch is about the life of a mind control slave who dissociates from reality to escape the trauma caused by abuse. This article looks at the hidden meaning and symbolism in … Continue reading


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Personal development encompasses the growth of learners beyond the academic, technical, and vocational. Embedded across our curriculum, it is the provision of:
- opportunities that enable pupils to discover their interests and talents
- experiences that support learners to develop their characters, including their resilience, confidence and independence
- the skills and knowledge that help pupils to keep physically and mentally healthy
- the development and deepening of pupils' understanding of British Values and spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education
- an effective careers & transition programme so that pupils are equipped to make the transition to life beyond Linden Lodge successfully
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- Pupil's voices are captured through surveys, careful advocacy, and opportunities to join various committees, including Student Council and the Pride Youth Network.
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People in Hong Kong were restless before and following the handover in 1997. They were in a state of anxiety-a kind of political psychology that was neither resistant nor compliant. Beneath quiescence on the surface, people were groaning and grumbling. This paper is an attempt to probe the political psychology of uneasiness and anxiety among the people of Hong Kong in the transitional year. The objective is to look at the popular mood in Hong Kong after the handover, showing the hidden fears and suppressed emotions among the ordinary people. Through descriptions of ordinary people's reactions to events and non-events (from the official celebrations of the handover to the airport fiasco) happening in the transitional year, we shall see how this state of uneasiness is buttressed in the deeper structural conditions shaping the formation of Hong Kong identity. Copyright © 1999 Carfax Publishing Ltd.
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Swimming Pools – In-Ground Vs Above-Ground
When you decide to have a pool constructed in your backyard, you not only create a recreational environment for your family, but you stand to enhance the value of your property. Owning a pool provides many opportunities for fun and relaxation in the warmer months, more so if you live in a temperate climate that yields more time to swim and play. Question is, once you've decided to build that pool, should you go for an above ground model or in-ground?
Regardless of the style of pool you choose, you're certain to enjoy the cool water and play with your family and friends. Both models are seen in backyards throughout the country, but as a homeowner you must decide which is best for you. Above ground and dug pools each have their own benefits and challenges, so if you are not leaning directly one way or the other here are a few considerations to help sway your choice:
How much does it cost to install a swimming pool? For in-ground models, prices will vary depending on size and depth. Do a search on the Internet and you may find numbers ranging from just over five thousand dollars to as much as ten grand – also factor in whether or not you have somebody install it for you.
By contrast, a nice above ground pool won't set you back as much. Depending on size, you could pay as little as a few hundred dollars to as much as five thousand – the price often factors in the materials used to make the pool's interior and walls. Traditionally, the above ground model will be less expensive, but that doesn't mean it is always the correct choice for you.
Above ground pools have come a long way in the last few decades. Once upon a time, we might skim a peek over the fence to see the round blue object in the neighbor's yard, while these days homeowners may choose between round and oval models. Above ground swimming pools typically start at twelve feet in circumference and may be extended to as much as thirty-three for round and oval models. If you have the yard to suit, you can even buy an oval kit that stretches forty feet long.
With in-ground pools, however, you can be more creative. Pool designers can offer designs from the simple rectangle to curvaceous shapes that give your backyard an aesthetically pleasing look. Depending on where you live, too, you can have one end as deep as eight feet. Above ground models, by contrast, usually go no deeper than four and a half feet…otherwise you'd need a tall ladder to get in!
Just because you have an above ground pool doesn't mean you can get away with not buying a pump and filters and chemicals to clean the water. You cannot treat this model like an overgrown kiddie pool – it will need to be maintained the same as you would care for an in-ground pool. Issues like mold, clogged filters, and pump maintenance carry over to both types of pools.
To get into an above-ground pool, you'll use a ladder. However, you can always enhance the look of your swimming area by constructing a raised deck around the edge. This not only makes for better socialization space around the pool, but easier access for swimmers – if a family member or guest has limited mobility, it may be difficult to get into the pool otherwise.
With an in-ground pool, there are ways to beautify the area with landscaping as well. In-ground models may also come with a diving board, something you don't normally see on an above ground pool.
Swimming pools come in different shapes and sizes, and if you intend to have one installed at home you have the advantage of choice. Take into consideration all characteristics of above ground and in-ground pools before making your decision, then enjoy the water!


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Two GOP primary losers in Colorado fail to pay for recounts
Colorado's secretary of state's office on Wednesday said it has told two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of those races because they failed to pay the required amount by the deadline.
The office informed Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who lost her race for the GOP nomination for secretary of state, and state Rep. Ron Hanks, who fell short in his bid for the party's U.S. Senate nomination, that it was moving forward finalizing the results of the primary. Neither candidate paid the $236,000 that was due by July 15 for the recount.
Both Peters and Hanks have promoted the false claim that President Joe Biden did not actually win his election against former President Donald Trump in 2020, and they also claimed widespread fraud led to their losses in the GOP primary. They are part of a growing number of deniers of the outcome of the 2020 election also questioning their own primary losses.
In letters sent Tuesday to the secretary of state, the two candidates said they would not pay for the recount because it would not be done by hand.
The secretary of state's letters said a hand recount is not allowed under the office's regulations and dismissed the candidates' concerns about possible fraud. It said they have one last window to pay for a recount — until July 26.
Wednesday is the deadline for counties across the state to certify their election results.
"The Secretary of State's Office followed all statutes and rules regarding requests for recounts, and Mr. Hanks and Ms. Peters chose to not provide the certified funds as required under law," spokeswoman Annie Orloff said. "Coloradans made their voices heard and candidates should accept the results of a secure and fair election – not spread disinformation."
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Total Omega 3: 8.6 milligrams
Total Omega 6: 17.3 grams
Although almonds are high in fat content, it is mostly of the monounsaturated omega-9 variety. The principal fatty acid contained within almonds is oleic acid, which is found in higher concentrations in olive oil. Research has previously shown that this type of fat has many beneficial health attributes, including the ability to reduce your risk of heart disease.
During the recent 2014 session of the American Society of Nutrition scientific meetings, six new studies involving the health benefits of almonds were presented. One such study explored the concept of almonds as the optimal snack.
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Dr WOODRUFF - The Building and Construction (Regulatory Reform Amendments) Bill passed on 15 October. Within that there was an amendment to Crown land leases and landholder consent. I read from the Hansard from Mr Ferguson's second reading speech -
As it currently stands if a person wants to undertake a project on crown land they need to enter into a lease or licence before landholder consent will be granted. Council will not currently consider a development application unless the proponent can prove that they have landholder consent from the Crown.
This is a very important topic to have clarity on. There are a number of times where councils are to proceed on development applications that include Crown land for development and the change that has been proposed effectively enables Crown land to enter into a lease and licence agreement before the development application has been approved by council. It is a step up from the existing situation of provisional approval.
Isn't this more of a commitment from Crown Land Services prior to a development being approved by council that they will be going ahead with a developer on leasing and licensing agreements because there is a commitment, a contractual signing off of a commitment on both of those things before the development application has been to council? Isn't it the case that it is more of a commitment that makes it more difficult for Crown land to do anything other than hand over publicly owned land for a development even when it has not been through council?
Mr JAENSCH - This is a question for me in another capacity regarding Crown land and landholder consent.
Dr WOODRUFF - I ask it now because of the council side of things. Ralphs Bay jetty was a recent example where the community wanted to know if it could be ruled out in the first stage and were told it was provisional that the change -
CHAIR - Dr Woodruff, let the minister answer the question, please.
Dr WOODRUFF - I was making sure that he understood the change that has happened.
Mr JAENSCH - The arrangement is that stages in a development assessment where Crown land is involved, the evidence of landholder consent is required for the proposal to be able to proceed through the DA process.
Importantly, as I understand it, as I am advised, the consent is not for the development to proceed. It is consent for the development application to be prepared and assessed. As in the case that you mentioned regarding a jetty, the development of a DA can also serve the purpose of bringing to light a range of information which can then be used by the landowner to determine if it is prepared to proceed with the development if it is approved.
In the case of the jetty at Sandford you are referring to, the DA did not receive approval from the council?
Dr WOODRUFF - That is right.
Mr JAENSCH - As I understand it, the decision was also able to be made that the proposal wouldn't be accepted for further assessment and lease and licence either, based on the information provided through the DA process.
Dr WOODRUFF - Because it was knocked back by council?
Mr JAENSCH - No, because of the information that was included in the DA.


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Enterprise Suite 8.0: Modernizing Mainframe Applications for the Cloud
Jun 29 2022, 3:00pm UTC
57 mins
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Eddie Houghton, Guy Sofer, Graham Owen and Misty Decker, Micro Focus
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Cloud is the #1 driver for digital transformation (DX) according to recent research. So, if you're not planning for at least some usage of Cloud as part of your larger IT strategy, you may quickly find yourself a step or two behind the competition. No need to worry. After decades of experience modernizing COBOL and mainframe applications on and off the Cloud, we have the technology and experience to help you navigate this journey. Join the Micro Focus product team for an exciting product launch event—the v8.0 release of Enterprise Suite. This webinar has 2 parts: Moving to Cloud with Enterprise Suite (first 30 minutes) Join the Mainframe Solutions team for a closer look at Enterprise Suite 8.0, including how this release supports the latest innovation for mainframe modernization to the cloud. We'll explore how to move up to this latest Micro Focus technology, including customer stories of mainframe modernization using Enterprise Suite. What's New in Enterprise Suite (second 30 minutes) For Micro Focus customers already using Enterprise Suite technology, we'll examine the latest modernization tools, IDE updates and deployment platforms. You'll also hear from existing mainframe customers as they share their modernization success stories leveraging Enterprise Suite. Take this opportunity to pose your questions to our expert panel as you plan your next move or upgrade to Mainframe technology. We'll see you there!
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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Homicide Branch announce two arrests have been made regarding a fatal shooting that occurred on Saturday, January 12, 2019, in the 1700 block of Benning Road NE.
At approximately 2:05 p.m. that day, MPD Fifth District responded to the listed location for the report of a shooting. When they got there, officers found three victims suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services transported one victim to an area hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries. After all life-saving efforts failed, the victim was pronounced dead. The other two victims were also transported to local hospitals and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
The decedent has been identified as 22-year-old Michael Taylor, of Northeast, DC.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, pursuant to DC Superior Court arrest warrants, two Northeast men aged 18 and 21-years, were arrested and charged with First Degree Murder While Armed – Felony Murder.


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Family Tip Sheets
The Office of Early Learning (OEL) has created Tip Sheets for families, with hopes that school districts and educational centers will provide them on a monthly basis or as needed to the families in their prekindergarten programs. Each Tip Sheet covers one area of learning, and provides strategies, activities that can be done at home, and additional resources. They are listed below by title/topic.
Getting Ready for School: Healthy Bodies & Healthy Minds
Meeting the health and nutrition needs of your preschool child and establishing regular routines is important for your child's success in school. The Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds tip sheet provides families with strategies for starting the school year.
Getting Ready for School: Play
Play is an important part of your child's development. Play helps build children's brains and bodies, and they learn about everyday life. Participating in your child's play helps build strong bonds between you and your child. It's fun to play together!
Getting Ready for School: Math
There are many opportunities for children to learn about math in their everyday routines at home. At home, children can practice counting objects, identifying shapes, make patterns, and sorting objects.
Getting Ready for School: Science with Your Child Everyday
Young children are natural born scientists! They are curious. When they play, they observe, experiment, ask questions and try to figure out how things work. Observing, experimenting, asking questions, and trying to figure things out are all key skills for school and life. You can support your little scientist!
Getting Ready for School: Read with Your Child Every Day
Reading books aloud with children in any language can introduce them to new information, expand their imaginations, and build their vocabulary. When your child sits with you and listens to a book you are sharing, you also are strengthening your parent-child relationship.
Getting Ready for School: Writing With Your Child Everyday
Writing is one of the most complex skills children will develop! Learning to write requires children developing knowledge about print, the alphabet, and how sounds are represented by letters. It also requires fine motor skills to hold a pencil and to control how it moves. Writing is a very complex skill, but you can support your child to become a writer!
Getting Ready for School: The Outdoors
Children need time outdoors each day to develop a variety of skills. Weather permitting, find a safe space outdoors that allows children to run, jump, skip, and explore nature. Outdoors, children can move in ways that use their whole body, such as rolling, without the confines of walls that indoor play spaces have. While outdoors, children learn through their senses and movement. Their senses are naturally stimulated through the ever-changing sights, sounds, smells, tastes and touches of the world.
Getting Ready for School: Helping Your Child Learn About Feelings
Young children need to learn how to identify and use language to express their feelings, how to calm themselves down when feeling strong emotions, and how to recognize what others are feeling. Children who learn these social and emotional skills will be more successful in school and life.
Getting Ready for School: Smooth and Successful Transitions
Transitioning from one early childhood setting to another or starting school in a formal setting for the first time can be overwhelming for both children and adults. Meeting new people, adjusting to a new routine and classroom environment can make children excited, anxious, or nervous. Whether your child is transitioning into a prekindergarten program or to kindergarten, it is important to talk with them and prepare them and yourself for the new experience. Having a plan and being prepared before the first day of school can help lessen the anxiety and pressure around the first day of school.
Getting Ready for School: Talk with Your Child Every Day
Good communication skills are important for your child to be able to express what she or he needs, wants, thinks and feels. Talking with your child in any language helps your child develop good speaking, listening, and early literacy skills. It also strengthens your parent-child relationship.


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Opioid misuse and overdose continues to be a national health crisis. Addiction to prescription opioids, heroin, and other synthetic opioids such as fentanyl is leading to overdose, death, and chronic health problems. More than 47,000 people died in 2017
due to opioid overdose. More than 1.7 million Americans are suffering from a substance use disorder related to opioids and an additional almost 700,000 Americans suffer from heroin use disorder.
New England has been hit hard by this crisis. One in 25 people in the Commonwealth has an opioid use disorder (OUD), according to data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Massachusetts DPH estimates that over 2,000 people in the Commonwealth
died from an opioid-related overdose in 2019, and preliminary data suggest the number of such deaths increased in 2020. The percentage of these deaths caused by fentanyl has increased as deaths from heroin and prescription opioids have decreased.
Addressing the opioid overdose crisis has been the number one public health and advocacy priority of the Medical Society over the last several years. The Massachusetts Medical Society recognizes first and foremost that addiction, also referred to as severe
substance use disorder, is a chronic, relapsing brain disease. The society continues to be at the forefront of addressing the devastating effects of this disease through education, advocacy, and legislative efforts.
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We'll help you find the model able to keep up with your hot water needs while supporting energy efficiency too. Many of our ENERGY STAR®-certified models have enhanced insulation, heat traps and more efficient burners, which can lower energy use by as much as 8 percent.
No matter what your hot water needs are, you'll be able to choose from multiple capacities of storage tank water heaters with help from the professionals at Broad Ripple Service Experts.
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A tank heater holds water that's constantly the right temperature, so it's prepared whenever you need it. Sizes run from 20 to 80 gallons, but most families do well with a 40- or 50-gallon tank.
When the dishwasher, washing machine or shower is going, hot water is pulled from the top of the tank and flows promptly to where you need it. The water heater then pulls cold water into the bottom of the tank and heats it so more heated water is prepared when it's needed.
Tank water heaters are typically less expensive to purchase and install than other water heaters. While tankless water heaters are the champions of energy efficiency, a tank heater can still be efficient—particularly ENERGY STAR models.
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Antidiuretic hormone (arginine vasopressin) induces a cyclic process of docking, fusion, and endocytosis of water channel-containing vesicles in the collecting duct. There is now evidence that docking and endocytosis are mediated by an array of proteins associated with vesicles and target membranes. In recent studies, we have shown that cellubrevin, a member of the vesicle-associated membrane protein family, as well as other docking proteins, are expressed in the rat inner medullary collecting duct. We now show by immunogold electron microscopy that cellubrevin is present on vesicles containing water channels, that it is associated with both coated and uncoated vesicles, and that it is present on the apical membrane. Cellubrevin, therefore, is in a position to mediate one or more steps in arginine vasopressin-induced water channel cycling.
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|English (US)
|Pages (from-to)
|American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
|Issue number
|3 38-3
|Published - 1995
- antidiuretic hormone
- aquaporins
- arginine vasopressin
- inner medullary collecting duct
- vesicle-associated membrane proteins
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology
- Cell Biology


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Everyone loves to travel. We all love to feel the excitement that comes with being away from home. Cruising has proven to be the best way to do this, the sensuous view of the ocean and the ability to see a lot of places all at once is heavenly.
United States of America records tons of cruisers who route the city, for several reasons, the new life it immediately breathes at your first entry, to the beautiful gems and museums, the delicious foods, the very interesting and intelligent people amongst several others. However, as much as America is beautiful, Americans still love to experience other places. Americans are natural cruisers.
Typically, for any cruise leaving the U.S. port to places like Bahamas, Florida, New England, a valid passport is required. In cases where there is no passport, a state-certified birth certificate for cruises, or an original certificate of U.S. citizenship and naturalization, this is to issue a new passport, however, for a Hawaii inter-island cruise, as long as you don't go beyond the islands, all you need is a government-issued photo.
Also, for cruisers leaving from a non-U.S. port, you are required to have a valid passport of nothing less than 6 months expiration. Generally, when preparing for any cruise, ensure to read your traveler's checklist, research the destination well to have a spot to look out for, delicacies to explore and other activities to experience. Ensure to apply for your passport, by providing your birth certificate for cruises early enough.
The question is, where else is as beautiful as America that gives a fascinating and top-notch experience as always:
States like Bahamas, Dominica, Cuba, Jamaica and several other countries are found fascinating by a lot of Americans. Their beaches give an aura of luxury particularly when you travel through the Caribbean cruise. Highly rich in good food, museums, scuba-diving. The pleasure is just indescribable.
Hungary and Budapest are the most exciting destination for any cruiser, the best way to experience all of it is to take a river cruise. It is the capital of warm, soaking, mineral-rich waters, world-class opera performance, large indoors and outdoors pools and very gallant architecture. Indeed, it's everyone's choice.
Remember the vibe around the Game of Thrones? Tour Dubrovnik and be sure of such experience, its medieval feel makes it a great choice for many lovers of culture and arts.
This is the top spot for many American cruisers. Many cruise ships spend hours in front of the Margerie Glacier, which allows travelers to view the ice picturesque.
Singapore is just so clean, sophisticated and well structured, you find everything well-articulated. It is easy to navigate, and a popular spot is the Orchard Road, Sentosa and the colonial district.
You ought to enjoy your next cruise, and it starts by preparing properly. Read our recommendations for cruise destinations, let's know the destination you found fascinating and which you visited.


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Tresemme Keratin Smooth Blow Dry Collection Set
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Tresemme Keratin smooth blow dry collection set
A powerful 2200W hairdryer with smoothing ionic conditioners and tourmaline-ceramic technology, delivers fast drying with a smooth finish. With cool shot to set your style.
A full kit for creating salon styles at home, Includes a soft finger diffuser, large paddle brush, 2 selfgrip rollers, 2 sectioning clips and a full size Keratin Smooth Heat Protection Spray.
Key features:
- 2200W for fast drying
- Ionic to fight frizz
- Tourmaline-ceramic technology
- 3 heat / speed settings for drying control
- Cool shot
- Slim concentrator nozzle
- Curl enhancing soft finger diffuser
- 2 x self-grip rollers
- Large paddle brush
- Sectioning clips
- Keratin Smooth Heat Protection Spray (200ml)
- 1.8m cord
- 3 year guarantee
What's in the box:
1 x Keratin Smooth Hair Dryer
1 x Keratin Smooth Heat Protection Shine Spray (200ml)
1 x Concentrator Nozzle
1 x Soft Finger Diffuser
2 x Sectioning Clips
2 x 44mm Velcro Rollers
1 x Paddle Brush
1 x Information Booklet
How to use
- Use the Keratin Smooth Heat Protect Spray before heat styling your hair. Our spray helps to create a barrier against the damage of blow-drying, straightening and heat curling up to 230°C degrees. Giving you the perfect base to start styling.
- The dryer has 3 heat/speed settings. Use the high heat/speed setting to rough dry hair. Use the low heat/speed setting to finish blow drying, when shot or using the diffuser.
- Use the cool shot on warm hair to "set" your style.
- After use, switch off and unplug the appliance. Allow to cool before storing.
Hazards and Cautions
This appliance must not be used in the bathroom. Do not use the appliance near water contained in basins, bathtubs or other vessels.
Contains: 1 x TRESemmé Keratin Smooth Heat Protection Spray
INGREDIENTS: Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Amodimethicone, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Benzophenone-4, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethyl Palmitamine, Disodium EDTA, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Parfum (Fragrance), PEG-12 Dimethicone, Polysorbate 20, Propylene Glycol, PVP, Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Seed Oil, Sodium Benzoate, Trideceth-12, Triethanolamine, Amyl Cinnamal, Benzyl Alcohol, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Geraniol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool.


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Episode 50: Real Tech for Real People–the First Year
It's been a while since I linked to Real Tech for Real People, but as we wrap up our first year of doing the tech podcast I wanted to make the latest episodes available to those of you that are not necessarily regular listeners, but perhaps regulars to my blog.
Real Tech for Real People was started by Tony Pittman and me to talk about tech issues that everyone has–not just those issues that are of interest to the tech elite, or the "technorati." Many that do podcasts lose sight of the fact that not everyone has extremely fast broadband into their homes (cable or FiOS), and those there are people that use computers but don't want to spend time every day working and tweaking.
We try to answer the every day questions that every person has. What should you consider when buying a notebook computer? Are there differences in monitors? What are the differences between all these new phones?
And if you like our podcast, and want to show your support, please do it while giving yourself a little something as well. Â We are selling coffee mugs, t-shirts, and mousepads (along with other great gifts) through CafePress. Â Just visit http://cafepress.com/rtfrp and order your item today. Â Show everyone that YOU are a real person!
REAL TECH FOR REAL PEOPLE: For people with tech in their lives, that don't live for the tech
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BCS NEWS: Graham Spanier to be next BCS Chair. (okay, football news…)
Google lets you make phone calls from GMAIL. Check the story at their blog.
Apple TV Rumor. More Disintermediation?
Sun Attacks Earth! (in 2012, maybe, according to scientists…) The news from India.
USAF C-5 gets "Makeover†— emerges at C-5M (from the "News from Last Year†category…)
Disney and Time Warner duke it out. Why I have issues with Cable!
ESPN 360 is great for online sports–*IF* you can get access
Commodore…. it's BACK
APP CORNER: The Daily App Show with Adam Curry. (search for the iPhone App)
TIP of the WEEK: Google GMail LABS. Adds all sorts of cool tools, including the option to "undo sendâ€, send and receive SMS "text†messages in chat, and a wealth of other items.
PICKS of the WEEK:
Steve: nextup.com TextAloud
Steve's info: [blog] http://theprofessornotes.com [twitter] @scmprofessor
Tony's info: [blog] http://getthenext.com  [twitter] @tonypittman
Chris' info: [blog] http://targuman.org/blog  [twitter] @targuman
Josh's info:  [twitter] @joshfink
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