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Between Homes
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
(Picador, 2016)
The recent media coverage of Syrian refugees is representative of only a small fraction of the people around the world who are forced to flee their homes in search of safety and security. In 1991, our television screens were inundated not with images of Syrians wearing life jackets, stuffed onto boats, but with thousands of unnamed children, their bellies swollen with hunger. Back then, the Somali Civil War forced upwards of one million people from their homes; around 90,000 of those people ended up in a makeshift camp in eastern Kenya. So while the current refugee crisis is focused on Syrians, make no mistake: the refugee crisis is global and massive and it has been for a very long time. Perhaps this is why it is so difficult for our media to cover it in any meaningful, substantive way.
City of Thorns takes this ongoing and abstract crisis and makes it intimate and relevant. In its pages, we follow nine people through Dadaab, that same makeshift camp in eastern Kenya—which has grown so much that it has become the world's largest refugee camp, home to over half a million residents. "A city made of mud and sticks the size of New Orleans," writes Ben Rawlence. Today, the camp houses Somalis, Sudanese, and other displaced Africans. For every resident, the camp engenders, as Rawlence describes it, "a culture centered on leaving." And, by definition, the camp is supposed to be temporary. Yet with the third generation of people now being born into Dadaab, there is little hope that any of them will ever leave. Many factors contribute to the camp's longevity. In an attempt to understand those factors, Rawlence expertly weaves Dadaab's intrusive policy and bureaucratic nonsense through nine individual lives to show how this camp and the global refugee crisis are an unjust, frustrating, and deeply human problem.
It is these individuals' stories that make this book meaningful and different from other refugee coverage. City of Thorns focuses mostly on Guled, a young man who flees to Dadaab after narrowly escaping induction into the extremist group al-Shabaab. Soon his wife, Maryam, five months pregnant, joins him there, though she quickly begins to plan how to leave. The book also follows a pair of star-crossed lovers, Muna and Monday, who come from different countries and different religions, as well as Nisho, who was born in the camp and now has to care for his invalid mother, among others.
Rawlence, a former Human Rights Watch researcher, layers their individual stories with context about the political and social conflicts that have led to the global refugee crisis. A particularly absurd moment comes when Isha, a proud Somali woman who is shamefully forced to leave her home, finally finds her way to the registration office after days of waiting. She sits down to watch, unbelievably, a welcome video. In the video a man begins by saying, "Welcome to Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world. While in Dadaab you are under the protection of the Government of Kenya and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)." Rawlence goes on to articulate well what I myself was thinking: "This was the moment of encounter. The meeting point between the two contradictory arcs of the 21st century: the rule of law that had spawned the international humanitarian system, and its other legacy: the chaos unleashed by the end of the colonial project to subjugate and carve up the globe."
Already, Rawlence's narrative is an improvement on the tenuous and inconsistent media coverage we typically see. By grounding broad discussions about politics and conflict in personal stories, Rawlence brings something substantial to our public consciousness: a clear picture of this crisis as a human one, not to be ignored. It is a crisis where a woman who has just lost her home and everything she owns is forced to wait five days in the desert with little to no food to ultimately be ushered into a room where she can watch a welcome video.
As Rawlence writes in the prologue, the residents of Dadaab "believed that if only people came to know their plight, then the world would be moved to help, to bring an end to the protracted situation that has seen them confined to camps for generations." While their faith is admirable, I think Rawlence's point is that the relatively brief moments of attention that the media does pay this crisis only bring relatively brief, unsustainable, and ultimately useless flashes of relief—such as occasional increases in foreign aid or visits from Hollywood celebrities.
What this book is interested in is a permanent solution. As City of Thorns makes clear, the first step toward that is simply to see the problem. You can't read this book and continue to ignore the refugee crisis. It has a face, it has friends and children, a job, a lover, a family. And while Rawlence writes that "the world can't cope with more than one disaster at a time," this book leaves you no choice.
The crisis is big and complex; there are a lot of different ways that people are suffering worldwide. But there is only one real solution: figure out a way to get refugees into safe and secure permanent homes. This means that countries like the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. need to start accepting more refugees more frequently. It means that people like you and I have to be willing to accept people with different beliefs and different ways of living into our communities. Historically, this has never been an easy thing for humans to do. To overcome our resistance, there must be a collective shift in consciousness. This seems to be Rawlence's goal. He wants readers to think of themselves not as citizens of nation states, but, as cheesy as it may sound, as citizens of the world—a world where millions of people don't have a safe place to live. By bringing us closer to a small group of displaced individuals, Rawlence makes it impossible to deny our commonality. To continue to distance ourselves from this problem is to deny our own humanity.


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|کد مقاله
|کد نشریه
|سال انتشار
|مقاله انگلیسی
|ترجمه فارسی
|نسخه تمام متن
|سفارش دهید
|دانلود رایگان
In the 1940s, Iran experienced dramatic changes in urban form, as worldwide modernization movements were embodied in new 'modern' neighborhood units in Tehran. Proposals for these neighborhoods, like those in other countries, not only included new housing typologies, but also aimed to alter existing social structures and facilitate nation building. Discussions and proposals regarding new neighborhoods centered on creating healthy, suitable, low-cost housing for new government employees – a group emblematic of Iran's newly established, modern middle class.However, the traditional lifestyle was an undeniable fact of society. Facing the modern socio-urban policies and socially traditional way of living led to both cultural change and landscape transformation. This paper discusses: how do regional architectural traditions transform the global modernity? How are Western conventions of how to be modern transformed by regional tradition and a different lifestyle? How does the institutionalization of modern neighborhoods, based on the lifestyles of its people, create an indigenous modernity?This paper illustrates how urban and social reformation practices towards modernization in the early twentieth century were embodied by Tehran's first modern neighborhood, Chaharsad Dastgah, as well as how domestic Iranian lifestyles influenced this neighborhood and distinguished it from its contemporaries.
Journal: Cities - Volume 60, Part B, February 2017, Pages 37–49

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a 288-page paperback published by the New American Library of World Literature, Inc., this copy published in 1959. The condition is good, with some very light rubbing along the cover edges and tanning to the inside cover.
Book Summary
He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a hogshed. He's Huck Finn, a homeless waif, a liar and thief on occasion and casual rebel against respectability. But on the day he encounters another fugitive from trouble, a runaway slave named Jim, he also finds for the first time in his life love, acceptance and a sense of responsibility. And it is in the exciting and moving story of these two outcasts fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft, that a wonderful metamorphosis occurs. The boy nobody wants becomes a human being with a sense of his own destiny and the courage to choose between violating the code of the conventional and betraying the person who needs him most. Rich in color, humor and the adventurous frontier experience of the Mississippi, this great novel vividly recreates the world, the people and the language that Mark Twain knew and loved from his own years on the riverboats. "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." --Ernest Hemingway


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So many guests ask me "How do I cook the perfect beet"? Well I have one way I do it and they all come out divine. There are so many different kinds of beets out there now a days that you can really push the envelope on what you can do with them. First I want to share with you what I have learned over the years about beets and maybe what I have learned will help you. Let's go all the back to where beets originated.
Beets are native to the Mediterranean, even though the leaves have been eaten since before written history, the beet root was generally used medicinally and did not become a popular food until French Chefs recognized their properties in the early 1800's. To me the sad thing is the fact that it is estimated that about two-thirds of commercial beet crops end up canned.
Please stay away from those large beets which have a hairy taproot. All those tiny roots (hair) are an indication of age and toughness. Most beets that come to the market will be 1-1/2 to 2 inches in diameter. Any larger and they begin to grow a tough, woody center. Although the littler beets are harder to work with, it will be worth it as they will be sweeter and more tender.
So here is my secret to cooking beets. Never cut the tops all the way off and always leave the taproot on. Wash and scrub lightly to get off the dirt, place in a mixing bowl with EVOO, and S &P. Toss around so they are all coated evenly. Wrap each one individually with foil. be very gentle. Place in oven at 350 degrees. Place beets in, I cannot tell you how long they will take because they all vary in size, so have a couple skewers ready to check for tenderness. I keep checking, as I like my beets cooked but still firm. Remember, they will keep cooking as long as they are wrapped. So unwrap and enjoy. I will have some beet recipes to come in the near future, but you get the picture.
From Chef Dave of The Laughing Pear Group……Bon Apetit!


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I am sure you already know what the Full EMI of home loan means.
But what is Pre-EMI of Home Loans in India (2023)?
The Pre-EMI option is available in case one is buying an under-construction property, where disbursement of a home loan is done in parts linked to every stage of construction. So what happens is that when one opts for the pre-EMI option, the borrower only needs to pay monthly interest on the disbursed loan amount only. And this interest is called the pre-EMI (equated monthly instalment) interest. The Pre-EMI is paid from the date of each disbursement up to the date of commencement of the regular full EMI. As the disbursed amount increases, it also keeps increasing the pre-EMI interest payable as the principal drawn till then increases too.
Full EMI Vs. Pre-EMI
Let's take a small example to understand the difference between Pre-EMI and Full EMI of a home loan.
Suppose you take a home loan for an under-construction property of Rs 50 lakh for a 20-year tenure at an interest rate of 8%.
If you take the full EMI route, i.e. you begin paying the full EMI from the start, then you need to pay Rs 41,822 per month as EMI. Do note that you can opt for Full EMI even for home loans on under-construction properties. In full EMI, you are paying the loan EMI as per the sanctioned loan amount and not the actual disbursed amount. Full EMI includes principal repayment as well as interest payment.
But if you take the pre-EMI option, then the pre-EMI you will pay will depend on the amount of loan amount disbursed till now. That is, you only pay the interest on the actual disbursed amount. There is no principal repayment here.
So suppose a Rs 10 lakh disbursement happens every 6 months. So the pre-EMI will be as follows:
- First disbursal of Rs 10 lakh. Pre-EMI is Rs 6667 per month
- Second disbursal of Rs 10 lakh after 6 months. Total disbursal till now is Rs 20 lakh. Pre-EMI is Rs 13,333 per month.
- Third disbursal of Rs 10 lakh after 12 months. Total disbursal till now is Rs 30 lakh. Pre-EMI is Rs 20,000 per month.
- Fourth disbursal of Rs 10 lakh after 18 months. Total disbursal till now is Rs 40 lakh. Pre-EMI is Rs 26,667 per month.
- Fifth & final disbursal of Rs 10 lakh after 24 months. Total disbursal till now is Rs 50 lakh. Now full EMI will be applicable, i.e. Rs 41,882 per month.
So the full EMI starts only after the final disbursal.
In the 24 months (time between the first disbursal and the last one) while you were paying the pre-EMI, you will have paid a total interest of Rs 4 lakh (Rs 6667 x 6 + Rs 13,333 x 6 + Rs 20,000 x 6 + Rs 26,667 x 6).
Mind you that in the case of the Pre-EMI option, the loan principal outstanding at the end of 24 months still remains Rs 50 lakh as till then, no principal repayment has been made.
If you compare this with the Full EMI, your home loan outstanding at the end of 24 months will only be Rs 45-46 lakh. So eventually in the case of pre-EMI, you end up paying a lot of additional interest.
As we can see, the borrower pays an additional Rs 4 lakh through these 24 months in case of the Pre-EMIs whereas if the borrower opts for regular Full EMIs from the start itself, he pays Rs 10 lakh over these 24 months. But what's worth noting here is that this Rs 10 lakh is part of the regular loan repayment and included in the 20-year tenure, whereas in the case of Pre-EMI the Rs 4 lakh paid is not a part of the regular loan repayment, and the 20-year tenure starts after this payment.
Also, note that this Pre-EMI duration is not included in the original tenure of the sanctioned loan. The Pre-EMI period is over and above the actual tenure of the home loan. So if you were confused about the impact of pre-EMI on loan tenure, then understand that there is no impact on loan tenure because tenure is only counted from the date of complete disbursal of the loan and not when pre-EMI is started. So if you pay pre-EMI for 2 years before the Full-EMI begins, then your total loan time will be 20+2 years.
That was an example of a Pre-EMI calculation.
Note – The regular Home Loan EMI Calculator will tell you that regular full EMI includes both components of the principal amount and the interest on the full sanctioned loan amount. But if you check the Pre EMI Calculator, you will find out that it only includes the simple interest (and not principal) on the loan amount disbursed (and not the sanctioned limit/amount).
But there are some risks with Pre-EMI schemes of home loan repayment. In case of any construction delays (or stalled projects), even by just a few months, the borrower will have to continue paying the extra interest as the pre-EMI.
Now we look at the benefits of pre-EMI Vs full EMI.
Benefits of Pre-EMI
- Since the borrower is paying only the interest on the disbursed amount alone (and there is no principal repayment), it is lighted on the pocket of the borrower. Given that during the construction phase, the borrower might also be staying on rent, this reduces the overall burden of pre-EMI + rent on him till the time construction is complete when compared to full-EMI + rent in case of full EMI approach. If affording house rent and Full EMI is tough on your finances, then taking the pre-EMI is a good option. Of course, the problem with availing of the pre-EMI interest is that you will incur a higher interest cost than the regular full EMI option.
- This one is for more adventurous ones. If you can somehow invest the difference amount between the full-EMI and Pre-EMI to generate returns higher than the loan interest rate, then that can be a profitable option. But for most people, it will be tougher than howsoever easy it may sound.
- Since your EMI outgo is lower, you will have more surplus left with you and if you need money temporarily for some other important expenses/needs, then it can give you the financial bandwidth to do so.
Benefits of Full-EMI
- Since the borrower pays the full EMI but interest is only calculated on the lower disbursed amount, the outstanding loan principal goes down much faster. So the loan gets repaid much faster.
- If you want to become loan-free at the earliest (and you should know that a shorter loan tenure can save you money, lot's of it), then taking the full-EMI option is better. But when it comes to home loans, you need to be careful about managing home loans wisely.
- Since delays in construction projects are very common, it would be better to go for the full EMI option if you expect any delays in the completion of the project. That way, you won't have to wait for long periods to start principal repayment.
Is Pre EMI good or bad? That depends on your requirements and your financial capability to service the Full EMI comfortably without breaking a sweat.
You may ask – Is Pre EMI compulsory?
Generally the lender, as a minimum, would require the borrower to at least begin paying the simple interest on the disbursed loan amount (called the pre-EMI interest). But if one wants to immediately begin principal repayment as well, then the borrower can start with the Full EMI as well.
You may also ask – Can I Convert Pre EMI to EMI?
It's possible that the bank from which the home loan is taken would be fine with conversion if your home loan repayment is scheduled from Pre-EMI to Full EMI.
And for those who want to understand the Pre EMI meaning in Hindi, here is your answer:
Pre-EMI Interest Vs Full EMI interest (Hindi): प्री-ईएमआई क्या होती है? – ईएमआई (EMI) यानी लोन चुकाने के लिए हर महीने जमा की जाने वाली धनराशि। ईएमआई 2 तरह की होती हैं- पहली प्री EMI और दूसरी रेगुलर EMI. आपको इसका सही मतलब जरूर समझना चाहिए. प्री ईएमआई (EMI) विकल्प सिर्फ अंडर कंस्ट्रक्शन प्रॉपर्टी में उपलब्ध होता है। इसमें होम लोन का डिस्बर्समेंट कंस्ट्रक्शन फेज के पुरे होने पर होता है। प्री ईएमआई (EMI) विकल्प में होम लोन लेने वाले व्यक्ति को सिर्फ उस समय तक हुए होम लोन अमाउंट डिस्बर्समेंट पर हर महीने इंटरेस्ट (ब्याज) देना होता है।
With all that aside, let's see what are the tax benefits for home loan in different EMI options.
Tax Benefits of Pre-EMI Vs Full EMI
As you might know, when it comes to tax benefits for the under-construction house, there are no tax benefits for housing loan repayment before construction completion or you getting the possession.
The benefit for principal repayment (under Section 80C Rs 1.5 lakh limit) done before construction completion cannot be adjusted later. However, the interest paid during the construction period can be claimed as a deduction in 5 equal installments under Section 24 over the next 5 financial years. But remember that the tax benefit on interest payment under Section 24 is limited to Rs 2 lakh for a self-occupied property (no limit on the let-out property). For more details, do read about the tax benefits for under-construction house.
The Home loan EMI starts after possession but the pre-EMI is only applicable to under-construction houses. So once you purchase an under-construction property on a home loan, your bank/lender might link the disbursal of the home loan amount to the construction stages of the property. In such cases, you would have the choice to either pay pre-EMI or go for the full EMI payments. Which Is Better in Pre-EMI Vs Full-EMI? From the total interest paid perspective, it's better to go for Full EMI. But of course, that will lead to higher EMI outgo in the construction phase and if that is too much of a burden for you (along with paying the rent), then taking the Pre-EMI option might be more comfortable for you.
I hope now you understand what is home loan Pre-EMI and which is better in Pre EMI Vs Full EMI. So that was about taking the Pre-EMI or Full-EMI on home loans in India (2023).


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How to calculate Adam LZ's net worth
My enjoyment of creating posts like this wouldn't be so weird if I was so horrible at math while in school. What little knowledge I had back then is long gone, but that has never stopped me from be a stats freak. I love calculating stats and figures to help bring clarity to the unclear, especially when it comes to my hobbies and the things I'm most interested in. So – here I go attempting to calculate the net worth of Adam LZ.
Based on my calculations (which I explain in greater detail below), I estimate Adam LZ's net worth to be $1,570,000. He has many valuable assets and skills, but…he is very loose with his money. IMHO, That net worth could be a lot higher if he had a bit more motivation in reigning in his bad habit of impulse-buying cars.
Why is a discussion of the Adam LZ brand worth discussing?
Those of you who have no idea who Adam LZ is (and why anyone would want to calculate his net worth) should backpedal right out of this post and check out some of the other stuff that I've written lately.
But even if you don't know who this guy is, he's worth taking the time to learn about. I recently wrote an entire post explaining why Adam LZ is so interesting, and it would be a good primer for you if you want to learn more about his background and how he grew from nothing to be one of the most popular automotive YouTubers ever.
Those of you who are familiar with him (and his videos) will know exactly why I spent the time to pour over the data and assemble it all into this easily digestible breakdown of how financially strong the Adam LZ empire really is.
Enough dilly dallying – let's talk about the net worth of Adam LZ
Those of you looking for the quick and easy answer may be shocked to read that I calculated his net worth to be roughly $1,570,000. Not bad for a middle class kid from Connecticut who started with nothing and built everything he has on his own (from the ground up).
In summary:
- The value of the Adam LZ YouTube channel: $2,000,000
- The value of the Adam LZ merchandise business: $100,000
- The value of Adam LZ's cars: $800,000
- The value of his "compound" (the headquarters in Florida where all of his cars and garage space is): $1,500,000
- How much money he earns with sponsored content: $10,000/m0 (so let's just say that's an asset worth $120k over the course of a year)
- The value of his partial ownership of DriftHQ: $200,000
- Minus the cost of the divorce (which will be coming out of his pocket for years to come): –$1,450,000
Total net worth: $2,570,000
I'll get into the nitty-gritty in a moment to reveal exactly why I believe his net worth to be so high, but before continuing, I think it's important to take a moment to appreciate how he did it.
Long story short, he busted his you-know-what with laser-focused attention on the things he wanted to be successful with. He wanted to be a pro / sponsored BMX rider, so he did it. He wanted to learn how to work on cars (from body work to engine building), so he did it.
He wanted to become one of the best drifters in the US, so he did it. And did I mention that he has an incredibly popular YouTube channel with millions of subscribers? That's one heck of an impressive list of achievements for someone so young, and it's going to be exciting to see what he does next.
How exactly did I come up with a net worth of $2.57 million?
One of the nice things about trying to calculate the net worth of a popular YouTuber is that they tend to put themselves "out there" for all the world to see. Adam LZ is proud of who he is and the things he has built, and since I've been a subscriber for over 4 years, I'd like to think that I have a pretty good sense of what he's got going on in life.
The trick, of course, is to estimate the value of each of his endeavors so that it's easy to calculate an accurate net worth. Let's take a brief look at all his current business deals and assets, and use that to tally it all up at the end.
The value of the Alam LZ YouTube channel: $2 million
I'll refrain from getting too deep into the nuts and bolts of how I place a value on a YouTube channel, because I just did it in my post about Doug Demuro's net worth. I'd recommend reading that if you want to learn more about my thoughts on the subject (spoiler alert: there's no way to put a value on a YouTube channel with 100% accuracy).
However, using the same line of thinking that 1000 views earns $1 in ad revenue, is fairly easy to apply it to the Adam LZ channel to estimate how much it's really worth.
Looking back over the last 6 months, each Adam LZ video is viewed an average of 297,000 times. And if we use Social Blade to see what his daily average view count is, we can see that it's roughly 491,000. Holy crap. These numbers aren't as impressive as what the Doug Demuro channel does, but Adam's viewership is impressive no matter how you look at it.
Adding up video views (and applying it against his massive subscriber base) is an excellent way to calculate a majority of Adam LZ's net worth. Ad revenue from his videos is arguably his largest source of income, and it is likely to be that way for the foreseeable future.
If Adam were to sell his channel today, it's likely that he could get $2 million for it. Easily. It generates that much on its own annually (which would lead some to believe that he could sell it for 10x that amount), but without Adam, the channel would likely never grow any bigger than it is today. That's why I'm sticking firm to my $2 million evaluation.
The value of the Adam LZ merchandise business: $100,000
Of all the really big automotive YouTubers out there at the moment, Adam LZ merch is probably the most lucrative and successful merch line of them all.
Some may argue that TJ Hunt's brand (Hunt and Company) is larger and more profitable, but keep in mind that TJ sells a lot of products that aren't specifically designed and created for Hunt and Company (such as aftermarket car parts).
Adam's brand (LZMFG) is all about selling the "Adam LZ" lifestyle (cars and BMX). Every product he sells (such as T-shirts and hats) is Adam LZ branded, therefore making it to be what I consider the largest personal brand of all automotive YouTubers.
The best part about the Adam LZ merchandise business? He started it way back when he was heavily into BMX, and we all know that demographic (young boys with parents who have disposable income) goes crazy for T-shirts and sweatshirts featuring the name of their idols. As Adam turned pro, his mech business exploded.
Adam had a warehouse and an employee dedicated to this business while still in college (and before he transitioned to automotive content), so It has been thriving (and growing) for years.
Based on the large number of fans Adam LZ has spanning across BMX and cars/drifting, I'm tempted to believe that his merchandise business is more profitable than his YouTube channel. However, based on how little I see him promoting his products in his videos, I'm going to assume that his YouTube channel is more profitable.
My estimation of the value of the Adam LZ merchandise business is $100,000. I calculate that by assuming (based on the size of his warehouse and online store) that he does $3,500 a month in sales.
Multiply that by 30 (the rate at which it's common to value a business when buying / selling) and it comes out to roughly $100k. Not a bad way to boost the net worth of Adam LZ.
The value of doing sponsored videos: $10,000/mo
If there is one thing that Adam is good at, it's making sound business decisions. From creating content that his viewers want to see, to growing a YouTube channel and merchandise line simultaneously, it seems everything Adam touches becomes massively successful.
However, he isn't perfect. One of the things I don't agree with is the fact that he doesn't appear to do a lot of sponsored content. Of course he promotes random automotive products every now and then, but for the most part, he has resisted the urge to accept free products from parts manufacturers in exchange for making a video about them.
From what little sponsored content he does (and based on my own personal experience with doing sponsored content for my YouTube channel), I'd estimate that he's making roughly $10,000 from these promotions.
That may sound like a lot, but it's actually low considering how much reach he has on all of his social media platforms.
His decision to limit sponsored content is both good and bad:
- Good because it's annoying to sit through a video which is so blatantly sponsored (and comes off clearly as being an advertisement).
- Bad because I believe that refusing to do sponsored content is something that is preventing Adam LZ's net worth from exploding into the stratosphere.
The value of his cars: $800,000
This is the part of the net worth evaluation that I feel the least confident about (which is ironic since I'm a die hard car guy). The problem with tying to evaluate the net worth of Adam's fleet of cars is that they are all custom built from the ground up.
As such, there is no real way of calculating the value of any of them with any twinge of accuracy. Custom built cars are only worth what the buyer is willing to pay.
As an example, what about his cream 240 (the car that basically started his drift career). It's probably worth $15k on a good day considering how beat to snot it is. His other non-pro drift cars are maybe worth $40k each (and I'm being generous).
Based on the above, I'd estimate the total net worth of Adam LZ's cars to be roughly $800,000.
The value of his automotive compound: $1,500,000
Of all the purchases I've ever seen an automotive YouTuber make, it was the purchase of his automotive compound in 2021 (in Florida) which was the most impressive. It's essentially a large piece of property filled with garages and houses – a place for he and his entire team to live and work.
The nice thing about this property is that it is larger than what he actually needs. This means that he can rent out the space he does need to recoup some of the expenses of maintaining such a large property.
The value of his parts business (DriftHQ): $200,000
Adam purchased a partial ownership of DriftHQ in 2021, which instantly put him into the automotive parts business. The details are thin, but it's safe to assume that his involvement brings in a respectable amount of income.
Oh yeah, and then there's the divorce: -50% of everything
Based on everything discussed so far, it seems as if Adam has been on top of the world (at least financially) for a good long while. Well, prior to October 2018 that is. That's when he and Nichole (his wife) announced their separation from each other. And at the time, a separation was all it was.
In January 2019, Adam started dropping hints that a divorce was immenet (and that it was going to be costly). Considering how much a part of the Adam LZ YouTube channel Nichole has been over the years, it's safe to assume that she got half of everything – for several years at least.
She likely got half of all advertising revenue, half of his merchandise business, and perhaps half of the value of all his assets (cars). Ouch.
I've always been a firm believer that men typically get unjustifiably screwed in divorce, but in this case, I think that Nichole being awarded half of everything is fair. She no doubt was a reason for bringing in a large number of subscribers of the years, and Adam never would have been successful as he is now without her help along the way.
With that being said, the net worth of Adam LZ would be a lot higher today if it wasn't for the divorce.
Adam LZ's annual expenses
As you can see, Adam has a very large amount of money coming in from a variety of sources. However, he has a very large amount of annual expenses as well. Here are the most significant:
- Employees: $500k: At any given time, Adam has a team of employees helping him with things such as car builds, shop maintenance, and merchandise sales.
- Cars: $500k: As we all know, Adam is very loose with money when it comes to cars. He's always buying something new.
- Car parts: $200k: With a fleet of cars so large (and the way that he drives), car parts are a significant portion of his expenses.
- His pro drift team: $1 million: Adam is a pro drifter, and the logistics of operating a winning team are complicated. From cars and parts, to travel, to employees…the costs add up fast.
- Compound / headquarters maintenance: $500k: The size of his compound and the amount of buildings that sit on it means that things are always in need of repair. Based on what I know about commercial property, a half million dollars in annual expenses sounds right.
In summary
Adam and the Adam LZ empire is massive. And downright impressive considering that he built it all at such a young age.
While the divorce was an unfortunate setback to the growth of the Adam LZ empire, Adam has the benefit of a raving and die hard fan base to keep him moving forward.
His net worth took a huge (and slightly damaging hit), but he seems to be recovering from it quite well. Financially at least.


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Eagles place 3 players on Reserved/Injured list
Just after trimming down the roster to 53 players, the Eagles lose more players to injury. According to the team, Jack Driscoll, Tyree Jackson, and Josiah Scott have been placed on the Reserved/Injured list.
Alongside the injuries, the Eagles signed Hassan Ridgeway to the 53 man roster and made their practice squad additions of KeeSean Johnson, Marvin Wilson, and Nick Eubanks official.
Driscoll is dealing with a pec strain and will likely miss the next few weeks. Without him on the offensive line, Philly will have to rely on Brett Toth and Andre Dillard if Jordan Mailata or Lane Johnson go down with an injury. Tyree Jackson is going to miss the next two months with a back injury suffered in camp.
Ridgeway has been a rotational piece on the defensive line for the last few years and was waived during Tuesday's training camp cuts. Philly will be slim at cornerback without Scott, so hopefully, Steven Nelson and Darius Slay can remain healthy. The good news is the Eagles have some time before their season opener against the Atlanta Falcons on September 12th.
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AbstractA dynamic RC-network equivalent thermal model is constructed to analyze the behavior of a three-phase pulse-widthmodulated (PWM) voltage source inverter using silicon carbide MOSFETs (SiC MOSFET) as the switching devices. A Spice model containing parasitic parameters is introduced to evaluate the switching energy loss that significantly affects the switching device thermal behavior. A prototype based on SiC MOSFET is developed and tested to validate the proposed model. Furthermore, the model is extended to perform a generalized trade-off study consisting of different topologies and switching devices. It is shown from the trade-off study that a SiC MOSFET based PWM inverter is the optimal choice for the specific system discussed in this paper.
|Date of Award
|31 Aug 2013
|Original language
|Jorge L. Duarte (Supervisor 1) & Jeroen van Duivenbode (External coach)


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Tag Archives: JavaScript
Behind the Websites: JavaScript the WordPress Way / Part 2
June 4, 2010
In Part 1 we introduced the
wp_register_script and
wp_enqueue_script functions developed to avoid JavaScript conflicts.
In this section we'll deal with a more complicated example. We'll also take what we've learnt about including JavaScript and apply it to our CSS.
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Behind the Websites: JavaScript the WordPress Way / Part 1
June 3, 2010
Problems arise when your theme or plugin both use the same JavaScript library or if Prototype and jQuery are both used on the same site.
Two of the most important WordPress functions are often ignored by WordPress theme and plugin developers. Introducing:
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Behind the Websites: Charging for themes? Do the right thing!
November 12, 2009
Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.
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Behind the Websites: Partying like it's 1999
November 6, 2009
Within a couple of months of writing that I prefered my own base JavaScript file to an exisiting framework, I was a convert to jQuery. Why the turnaround?
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Behind the Websites: Including WordPress's comment-reply.js (the right way)
August 14, 2009
I prefer a slight variation
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Behind the Websites: Caching on the Google AJAX Libraries API
January 16, 2009
Using the Google Ajax Libraries API, there are several options for specifying the version numbers of the library you wish to use, for example, three URLs point to the latest version of jQuery.
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Behind the Websites: JavaScript Equal Height Columns
December 24, 2008
The desire for equal height columns in a CSS layout is nothing new; there are many solutions available, some use JavaScript, others use CSS with negative margins, and then, there's the faux columns method using background images. All of these methods have their place as perfectly valid solutions, and, depending on the situation, may be the best solution available.
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Behind the Websites: Base JavaScript File
December 8, 2008
Upcoming posts on JavaScript will include references to functions in my base JavaScript file; rather than explain these functions each time, they?ll be detailed in this post for future reference.
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A portion of Russell Road and U.S. Highway 95 in Henderson will be getting an upgrade.
The Nevada Department of Transportation will begin a $3 million, 2-mile beautification project along U.S. Highway 95, at Russell Road on Oct. 22.
The project calls for 15,000 tons of decorative rock and boulders along both sides of the highway that will provide visual enhancements, according to NDOT, with Fisher Sand & Gravel as the contractor,
Work will also include curtailing slope erosion and drainage improvements.
Construction will be Monday through Friday during normal daytime work hours. Rock deliveries will be scheduled at night, resulting in freeway shoulder closures one mile north and south of Russell Road.
Department spokesperson urged motorists to use caution when traveling through the work zone.
The project is scheduled to be complete by late February 2019, according to NDOT.


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Posted by Phil S. on February 25, 2000 at 13:52:42:
In Reply to: Gaboon Viper posted by Mercedes Denton on February 09, 2000 at 14:30:11:
The best tip I can think of for safely keeping a Gaboon is not to use side opening cages. They are not as adept at striking upwards and it is easier to deal with them from above. I'm from Florida and currently live in Arizona. I've kept venomous snakes for most of my life (I'm 38) and have never been bitten. Most of my friends who have kept them have never been bitten. One has died of a cobra bite. I liken keeping venomous snakes to skydiving. If you do it right you won't get hurt. If you do it wrong you will die or be horribly injured but most likely no one else will be injured or killed. I think the state should let people do what makes them happy as long as they do it responsibly. If they die while keeping venomous snakes then they died happy. Its no different than racing cars except that auto racing is much more dangerous to bystanders. Hognosed vipers are poisonous by the way. They are found in central america. I don't know what a hognosed "sand" viper is. Currently I keep 2.1 Baja ratsnakes, 2.2 E. Foxsnakes, 2.4 Mole kingsnakes, 0.1 scarlet kingsnake. I have no venomous currently but would like to keep Tiger Rattlesnakes when I can get out and find some.


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No.27/1/2007 -Dir(C)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, P.G. and Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)
Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market,
New Delhi, dated 26 February, 2015
Subject: Extension Ad-hoc Recognition of Service Association of Employees of Non-Statutory Departmental Canteens/Tiffin Rooms of Central Government Offices under CCS(RSA) Rules, 1993 – regarding.
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department's O.M. of even No. Dated 03.09.2013 wherein ad-hoc recognition to All India Central Government Canteen Employees and Workers Association was granted for period of one year subject to verification through check-off-system within this period, It has been decided by competent authority to extend ad-hoc recognition given to All India Central Government Canteen Employees and Workers Associations for further period of one year subject to the condition that ad-hoc recognition would cease after one year if verification through check -off-system is not completed during
the period.
(Pratima Tyagi)
1 All Ministries/Departments of Government of India (As per Standard list).
2 All Nodal DDOs nominated by Ministries/Departments(as per standard list) with request to arrange to send the consolidated information regarding deduction of subscription of the employees to the All India Central Government Employees and Workers Association. Continuation of recognition is based on verification through check-off system, as such requisite information may please be furnished at an early date.
3, Departmental Canteens(as per list attached).
4 Sh. Jogesh Chandra Nayak, Secretary General, All India Central
Government Canteen Employees and Workers Association, AG.
Departmental Canteen, Office of AG. Orissa, Bhubaneswar.
5. Dir(JCA), DOPT, North Block, New Delhi.
6 Section Officer(Canteens), with 20 spare copies.
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Senryū Shōjo Anime Reveals 4 More Cast Members, New Visual
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The official website for the television anime adaptation of Masakuni Igarashi's Senryū Shōjo (Senryū Girl) manga revealed four new cast members and a new visual for the series on Thursday.
Sayuri Yahagi as Amane Katagiri
Rikako Aida as Koto Ōtsuki
Misaki Kuno as Kino Yakobe
Sumire Uesaka as Tao Hanakai
Previously revealed cast includes:
Kana Hanazawa as Nanako Yukishiro
Tasuku Hatanaka as Eiji Busujima
The anime will premiere in April, and will air on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS' "Animeism" programming block.
Masato Jinbo (Shomin Sample, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!!, Restaurant to Another World) is directing the anime at CONNECT, and is also credited for supervising the series scripts. Maki Hashimoto (animation director on Restaurant to Another World, BONJOUR Sweet Love Patisserie, Yona of the Dawn) is designing the characters.
The manga centers on Nanako Yukishiro and Eiji Busujima. Nanako is a girl who can only communicate what she wants to say by using senryū (a poetry style similar to haiku more focused on humor). Eiji is an intimidating but kind boy who is a member of the school literature club. The manga tells the story of the pair's cheerful everyday interactions through 17 syllables.
Igarashi launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in October 2016. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled volume on December 17. The series has more than 500,000 copies in print. The manga ranked at #16 in the printed manga category of last year's Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in August.
Sources: Senryū Shōjo anime's website, MoCa News, Comic Natalie


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16 Bathroom Design Trends to follow in 2020
Keeping on top of the latest modern bathroom trends can be a tough task. From year to year, all sorts of new color schemes come in vogue, as well as fashionable fixtures, fittings and systems. So weve decided to make it much easier for you to stay up to date with the very latest emerging developments on the bathroom scene, by compiling a list of 16 bathroom design trends to follow in 2020. Read on to discover some inspirational ideas to give your bathroom or en-suite a stunning upgrade heading into a brand new decade
1. Contemporary Lighting Solutions
Light fittings are a typically underrated element in the makeup of a stylish bathroom. But that could be set to change in 2020, with bigger and bolder contemporary lighting solutions set to come to the fore. Chandelier designs are an increasingly popular option, and this type of fitting would surely represent somewhat of a bathroom focal point. They can be quite expensive as such. Contrasting modern lighting options come in the form of understated downlights, which can be integrated into the ceiling. And another alternative is mirrors featuring dotted lights or a lighting strip, which will help to maintain a neat, compact vibe. The latter options are an especially tempting proposition for smaller bathroom or en-suite areas.
2. Freestanding Bathtubs
In all honesty, freestanding bathtubs could probably be included on any bathroom trends list dating back to the 90s. And theyll probably still be featuring in similar resources decades from now. A timelessly classic design vice, freestanding tubs are another component that can really dominate a space. Theres the opportunity to choose between modern finishes such as silver or black acrylic, or stick to a tried-and-tested ceramic white or copper model to retain a vintage aura. Selecting a clawfoot bathtub is another fail-safe means to introduce a grand sense of tradition to your bathroom.
3. Wall Hung Toilets
Incorporating a diminutive design, wall hung toilets often sport a box profile for a sharp sense of designer style. These fittings are ideally suited to smaller bathrooms, helping to maximize space and make room for the installation of other essentials. To further enhance space and create a coordinated appearance, a similarly styled wall hung bathroom sink could be fitted nearby.
4. Heated Bathroom Flooring
Trendy and practical! One of the most irritating parts of the day can be stepping onto cold bathroom tiles in the morning or at night. Now, with heating technology advancing at a rapid rate, heated flooring is becoming much more affordable and sought after. Especially so, the rise of electrical floor heating is allowing for a cost-effective resurgence in the popularity of the solution. With electric floor heating, a thin panel is fitted beneath the floor and controlled by a timer and thermostat. Electric floor heating can be purchased for around $700, relatively inexpensive in comparison with hydronic floor heating, which necessitates the installation of rubber tubes all throughout the house to circulate heat.
5. Hidden Storage Solutions
One of the most practical ideas on the list, concealed storage solutions can greatly improve the functionality of a bathroom. Typically, youll upgrade existing fixtures such as cabinets, shelves or bathroom vanities by incorporating extra storage room. For example, add miniscule components within a vanity for the specific storage of toiletries, segregating these items from personal belongings. You might also be well served to add extra shelves to bathroom cupboards if possible. Keep a concealed pull out stool close by if you can. These can prove invaluable to smaller bathroom users to reach towels or other items from higher up if required.
6. Open Plan Spaces
Open concept bathrooms are timelessly popular. In accordance with your personal preference, you can create a space primed for privacy or a wide open area. A liberating aura is to be expected from bathroom areas free of restrictive walls and barriers, so why wouldnt such a space stay in vogue for 2020?
7. Contrasting Tile Textures
Opt for contrasting tile textures to bring a subtle sense of dynamic flair to your bathroom decor. More than just an update from a touch perspective, some really interesting aesthetical alterations can be made with the introduction of diverse tiling. Weve already touched on underfloor heating (UFH) earlier in the article, so you might wish to opt for a heat-absorbing floor material as opposed to cold tiles if youre planning to invest in UFH. Theres also ample opportunity to update the tiles encased within your shower enclosure, opting for alternate patterns and colors to the rest of the bathroom. Give your bathroom a real sense of spontaneity with tiles of different patterns, colors and textures.
8. The Sound of Music
Whatever type of ambience want to set in your bathroom at any given time, the sound of music can help you achieve it. Whether you want a bright, bouncy and lively mood as you get ready for a night out, or a soothing and relaxing atmosphere to wind down in the tub after a long day at work, music is the answer. There are plenty of waterproof speaker options available, equipped with Bluetooth connectivity for the easy streaming of all your favorite tunes! Make your bathroom a musical hub of the home in 2020.
9. Statement Shower Systems
Theres all sorts of statement shower systems on the market in a wide variety of ultra-stylish modern and traditional designs. So essentially, theres bound to be an ideal option to suit any sort of bathroom decor. Ultra-contemporary shower panels are always a popular pick, and offering the delivery of a spa-like showering experience, its easy to see why. Several shower panel designs provide waterfall shower functionality, which you can learn more about the many benefits of in this guide. Essentially, you can look to invest in an eye-catching shower system that will allow you to enjoy a sensational daily shower as well.
10. Pastel Shades
The 2019 Milan Design Show put forward some interesting colors that are set to be huge in 2020. The dominance of pastel shades was notable, with pumpkin red, light yellow and champagne hues all touted to make an impact in the new decade. Each shade would add a touch of rustic quality to a home, and could be best suited to more traditionally styled bathrooms as a result. Of course, you wont want to be refreshing your bathroom color scheme on the regular. So if any of these fashionable colors dont suit your taste, consult our piece on 10 Timeless Bathroom Color Ideas for further inspiration.
11. Minimalist Vanities
Much like many of the 2020 bathroom design trends mentioned in this article, the maximization of space features prominently within this recommendation. Space-saving options such as console vanities are set to be all the rage, whilst diminutive sink-inclusive designs are sure to be popular as well. Something like the pictured 15.75 White Wall Hung Bathroom Vanity will bring clean, streamlined style to any bathroom, and will stand out especially well against a darker backdrop if you have stone gray or smooth black bathroom decor.
12. Retro Photo Gallery
An excellent idea not only for the bathroom, but elsewhere in the home too. Introduce family snaps for a beautiful homely feel. With your nearest and dearest adorning the walls, youll be reminded of blissful family times such as past holidays whenever you enter the bathroom. Perfect for an area of rest and relaxation. Black and white pictures are the safest options in terms of meshing well with any kind of surrounding decor, and will bring a retro aura to the space too. But if lighter pastel hues dominate your bathroom walls, then brighter images in full living color might work even better.
13. Pick up some Plants
If youve followed suit with many of the design trends mentioned in this article, your bathroom is unlikely to include dull or drab traits to any real extent. But when you think about it, a lot of traditional bathrooms particularly can give off this sort of vibe unintentionally. Plenty of tiles, steel and stone will contribute to that feeling, so spaces littered with such can really benefit from a touch of green. Plants bring vibrancy and life to a bathroom, and tend to actually grow better considering the limited light levels, high humidity and general warmth of the space. What type of plant you opt for will obviously depend on personal preference, especially with regards to the size. Smaller orchid plants are a popular choice for a bathroom, infiltrating the space with an eye-catching shot of color without stealing attention from other fixtures and fittings. Spider and bamboo plants can achieve similar, whilst bigger and bolder options exist in the form of peace lily and ivy plants, as well as indoor azaleas to name just a few.
14. Magic Marble
Another design concept that could feasibly feature in any bathroom trends list regardless of the era. Timelessly classic in appearance and boasting evident quality in its makeup, marble will always represent a glamorous bathroom upgrade vice no matter how it is used. Marble countertops, walls, bathtubs and flooring all exude effortless designer style that will dominate the look of modern and traditional bathrooms alike. Marble countertops can be accentuated beautifully with golden details for a stunning luxe look, leading into number 15 on our trends list
15. Traditional Sink Faucets
The type of bathroom sink faucets you select will obviously be influenced by surrounding decor and the accompanying sink and its material. Traditional sink faucets are set to be a big hit in 2020, and faucets laden with a golden finish particularly so. The pictured Elizabeth traditional bathroom mixer faucet will complement a marble countertop sink ideally. Theres also wall mounted options such as the Elizabeth traditional wall mounted cross handle bathroom faucet if such a design better suits your bathroom layout. Each style incorporates a classic aura, but you arent solely restricted to gold finishes. Theres brushed nickel, oil-rubbed bronze and chrome designs, to name just a few, that will provide the perfect finishing details to stone or ceramic sinks.
16. Work Wonders with Windows & Drapes
Windows can play a massive role in setting the tone of a bathroom. Their size, for a start, will determine how much natural light will flood into the area. And the location of the window can also largely dictate appropriate positioning for other fittings and fixtures. Windows stationed nearby bathtubs and bathroom vanities are often favored, offering lovely outdoor views for users to enjoy first thing in the morning. In 2020, drapes are a fashionable fancy as well, and theyre likely to be chosen for much more than the privacy they provide and their propensity to block out sunlight when required. In fact, the increasingly vast array of patterns and colors that drapes are available in make them a real aesthetical upgrade prospect. Drapes can also deliver a sense of warm softness to a bathroom, in idyllic contrast to the harder materials typically found elsewhere in the space.
Shop the latest Bathroom Trends with Hudson Reed USA
At this point, you should have gained a good idea about some of the hottest bathroom design trends to implement in 2020. You can find a lot of what youll need at Hudson Reed USA, as well as plenty more stylish luxury bathroom items sure to enhance your space. These include designer radiators and towel warmers, premium quality bathroom sinks, tub faucets and much more.
If you would like any further assistance or advice for upgrading your bathroom, dont hesitate to get in touch with our friendly team. You can contact us via our website, or give us a call on 1-877-778-8460 if you would prefer. Happy bathroom shopping!


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Fred Bloggs.
I'm feeling rather facetious today, and I feel like taking the piss out of the Greens.
Here I go:
World War one is often seen as one of the worst and most costly, in terms of lives, wars of all time, but many people do not realize that whole new enviroments for great bio-diversity were created in those four fateful years.
To name a few of these habitats of indigenous widlife is quite easy: the vast amounts of shell and mine craters were turned into artificial lakes, which housed all kinds of life, such as frogs, newts and, in some cases, cod. The vast amout of trenches were in turn repurposed into interconnecting rivers, which created vast wetlands which were a safe haven for endangered birds and wildlife.
Also the craters mangled the farmland so much that it was unusable to grow crops, due to the fact that farmers' tractors would repeatedly fall into, and get stuck in, the large pits, so all of the land was used to plant trees, which in turn created the Ardennes forest specificaly so that in WW2, German troops could use it as a recreational area, as it was ideal for long walks.
On anoter note, horses were widely used instead of cars, because the Allied Command and Centeral Powers Command unamiously agreed that the fact that horses create very little CO2, was very desirable.
During the Battle of Jutland many artificial reefs were created for the wildlife of the North Sea.


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According to research by skin experts, most of the dirt accumulated in the cortex, such as oil and cosmetic residues, are negatively charged.
The deep cleansing procedure of the LED skin care device can completely soothe the skin and fully expand the pores. At this time, the use of the characteristics of opposite sex attraction can effectively clean dirt and take away cosmetic residues.
Red light: Red is the most penetrating color. Red light has a stronger ability to penetrate tissues than other wavelengths of colored light, and it has a warming effect on the skin and mucous membranes. Red light stimulates blood flow, accelerates blood circulation, enhances the vitality of human cells, and increases skin elasticity and luster.
Blue light: The blue light in the LED light beauty device is a calm color and is regarded as a cool color. Blue light can inhibit oil secretion, reduce inflammation and sterilization, eliminate Propionibacterium acnes, and treat acne and scars. Some facial equipment for home use will adopt this kind of light.
Green light: Greenlight is the most common color in nature and is regarded as a neutral color. It has the effect of balance and stability, can improve skin roughness, wrinkles, blackheads, acne, and acne caused by fatigue and mental stress, balance and adjust skin pigmentation, and improve dullness.
Yellow light: The yellow light in the LED light beauty device can penetrate the skin 1-2mm, effectively repair skin redness, erythema, relieve redness, pigment redness and other effects, improve immunity, help accelerate lymphatic circulation, and eliminate toxins.


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Anko is sweet azuki bean paste which is often used to make various Japanese sweets. This is a type of anko called tsubu-an. Tsubu-an contains skins of azuki beans.
Cook Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
1/2 lb. or 1 1/3 cup azuki beans
2 cup Japanese Johakuto (white sugar), or 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar *adjust the sweetness to your preference
1 tsp salt
How To Make:
Put lots of water in deep pot. Soak azuki beans in the water overnight. Heat the beans on high heat and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat to medium and simmer beans for about 10 minutes. Drain the beans. Put the azuki beans in the pot again and add about four cups of water. Heat the azuki and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat to low and simmer the azuki beans for about one hour, or until softened. Drain the liquid from the pot. Add sugar and salt in the beans. Stir and simmer beans until thickened. Stop the heat and cool the anko.


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The prospect of wiring the towing electrics may seem daunting at first for both people undertaking fitting a towbar for the first time, and those who have fitted a towbar previously and are considering fitting a towbar to a modern car.
Numerous contemporary cars reduce weight, size and amount of the wiring looms by using electronic control systems to work the car's lights. You could hear these operational systems referred to as "multiplexed" or "CAN-Bus" systems, which all seems quite complicated. The systems are complex, but it is not necessary to have a complete understanding of these systems in order to fit towing electrics in some ways. This guide will not attempted to offer this kind of complete understanding, rather to provide a broad notion of the character regarding the systems – it will never be regarded as an electronics textbook, certainly the vaguaries for the guide might seem wrong into the specialist – nevertheless the specialist is perhaps not whom this guide is targeted at.
Just what exactly are "multiplexed" and "CAN-Bus" systems?
The expression CAN-Bus describes a managed area system which, to your DIY towbar fitter means nothing at all. Its more straightforward to visualise utilising the term "multiplex". Really, these systems carry low-current and often low voltage signals through the illumination https://besthookupwebsites.net/miss-travel-review/ controls right down to the lights, which "tell" the automobile lights what you should do. The sign wires could also carry varying signals, for example when it comes to just one brake/tail light bulb, it is solitary sign cable can hold 2 signals – one instructing the light light bulb to light at low strength, one other once the brake system are operated to light the light bulb at high strength. These signals whenever analyzed by having a easy circuit tester with a filament bulb seem to be constant signals, nonetheless they could be quick pulses of electric present, that are faster in regularity compared to time a bulb takes to illuminate – and may also be quicker than discernable using the eye, and so the sign seems constant.
This causes the fitter a challenge in that the trailer or caravan illumination is conventional filament illumination with one cable per function and it is maybe maybe not fashioned with these "multiplexed" systems in your mind. What's required is a real method of "translating" the car's pulsed provided signals into constant 12 volt materials to every light regarding the trailer or caravan.
The 7-way smart bypass relay does the task of translating these signals and it is an easy in-line fit between your towbar wiring and also the automobile loom. The need that is fitter have a close comprehension of the "multiplexed" system – the smart bypass relay's inbuilt microchip does all that. Fitting is quite direct.
The way the relay works
A relay seems complex but basically it really is simply an electrically operated switch. Imagine a push-button switch. If your little finger forced the switch, energy is permitted through the switch (ON). If your hand is taken away, energy is blocked through the switch (OFF). Now visualise that switch but changing your hand for the wire that is electrical. Whenever energy is delivered along the wire, this "pushes" the switch, switching the relay on. As soon as the energy along the "finger" cable is eliminated, the relay switch is switched off. The bypass that is 7-way a miniature bank of 7 of the electrically operated switches. Whenever fitted this has a primary 12 volt power in to the 7-way device, and 7 production cables resulting in the towbar's electric socket. Additionally to the relay are 7 "switching" cables which hook up to the vehicle's light circuits. Whenever by way of example the braking system is operated, a little present through the automobile's braking system light comes to the relay and switches the towbar's brake circuit that is light. Energy will be allowed through from the key 12 volt relay supply wire, and out from the relay towards the towbar electric socket's brake light cable. Whenever braking system lights regarding the automobile set off, there is absolutely no present to the relay's braking system light switching wire, therefore the power to the trailer braking system light is powered down.
Suitable the bypass relay.
The conventional means of wiring in a towbar's electrics would be to simply just take each one of the illumination wires to its matching cable from the vehicle (for example. Blue for foglight to foglight cable on automobile, Brown for right tail light to right end light on automobile an such like). The bypass relay is simply fitted in between since the vehicle's signal wires are incompatible and of too low a current rating to supply each light in this way. The principle of connecting keeps almost exactly the same.
An easy direct connection installation up to a non-"multiplexed" automobile
Installation utilizing a bypass relay is certainly not far taken off the connection method that is direct. The relay is probably placed amongst the socket while the true point of link with the automobile
Step-By-Step Installation
1) Firstly feed the 7 core cables through the towbar sockets in to the automobile, ensuring the cable is held well out of the automobile exhaust and also at along side it where in actuality the primary vehicle loom operates (observe that some cars have loom which splits into left and right at the front end associated with vehicle and it is given down both edges – in which particular case pick the part where in fact the foglight -and reverse when fitting a grey supplementary socket- wiring is situated. On these "separate loom" systems it will be required to expand a few of the cables to help make the connections to your functions regarding the contrary region of the car where in actuality the towbar wiring is installed.)
Remove the exterior insulation of this 7-core cable/s by around 3 inches – then strip 3-4mm through the insulation of each and every wire that is individual. Simply take the bypass that is smart, and place each one of the after wires through the EBONY 7-core cable to the screw terminals regarding the relay, and tighten up the screw. Make certain that no stray strands of wire are protruding through the terminals as well as there is no un-insulated wire that is bare after the connection happens to be made.


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If you would like to make a suggestion or complaint, please fill out a form detailing your case, what you would like to request and the documents you are providing. This form must be signed and submitted to the centre's Secretary's Office.
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If you need a certificate stating your grades or that you are registered at the centre, please fill in the following document, specifying why you need it, and submit it to the Secretary's Office.
You must collect your Work/Final Project/Integrated Project (original piece and copy of the project), in the first trimester of the following second year, but no earlier than October. It is obligatory to request collection in writing at the Secretary's Office and we recommend arranging the day and time by telephone in order to speed the process up. It is compulsory to have requested the qualification and paid the corresponding fees.
During the period that the Works/Final Projects/Integrated Projects are left at the centre they may be exhibited as part of the different activities organized by the school. They may only be used to promote or raise awareness about the centre, and may never be used for the centre's profit; the authors of the works will always be informed of their various uses and the authors' names will be given.
In the event that there is still a dispute after the final grade in a module/course has been awarded, and a request has been made for the teacher to review it, students, or their legal representatives in the case of minors, may request in writing that this grade be reviewed within two working days from the date on which the communication was made.
The review request must contain all the allegations that justify the disagreement with the final grade. This application must conform with the form included as Annex VII in the Order of Procedural Safeguards.
The review request will be processed by the head of studies, who will transfer it to the head of the Department of Didactic Coordination that governs the module with the contested grade, and will communicate the situation to the student's tutor.
During the process of reviewing the final grade obtained in a module, the teaching staff of the corresponding department will check, on the first working day following the end of the review request period, the actions followed in the assessment process, paying particular attention to ascertain that the assessment objects, content and criteria applied meet those in the corresponding teaching programme. After this study, the teaching coordination department will prepare the corresponding reports, which will include a description of the events and prior actions, the analysis performed in accordance with this point and the decision taken to modify or ratify the final grade under review.
The head of the corresponding Didactic Coordination Department will transfer the report to the head of studies, who will inform the student's tutor by providing a copy of the written report.
The head of studies will inform the relevant parties in writing about the well-founded decision to ratify or modify the reviewed grade.
In the event that the disagreement with the final grade obtained in a module persists after the school review process, students, or their legal representatives in the case of minors, may make a request in writing to the school management, within two working days from the last communication from the school, asking that the complaint be submitted to the corresponding Provincial Delegation of the Department of Education.
The school management will send the complaint file to the corresponding Provincial Delegation, including the reports prepared by the centre and any data it considers relevant about the student's assessment process, as well as the claimant's new allegations and the director's report on these allegations, if appropriate.
The person in charge of the Provincial Delegation of the Department of Education will make the relevant decision, which will be immediately communicated to the school management so that it can be applied and transferred to the relevant party.
The decision by the head of the Provincial Delegation of the Department of Education will bring the administrative procedure to a close.
In the event that the claim is upheld, the appropriate measures will be taken to correct the grade in the assessment report.
In the event that the claim is rejected again, the student may initiate a contested administrative appeal.
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Decree 185/1997 of 15 July 1997.
- Intermediate Vocational Training Course in Screen Printing
- Advanced Vocational Training Course in Artistic Bookbinding
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Decree 107/98 of 12 May 1998
- Intermediate Vocational Training Course in Gold and Silversmithing Techniques
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Decree 183/97 of 15 July 1997
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For a while now we have been spoken about the higher culture, for many tribes they call for the superior culture… It is the time to remember!
The Great Mother is leading the way, and this initiation that is happening everywhere in the world, is not about learning but about remembering, She is indeed, leading the way home… The Great Father, is bringing a new manifestation, your realization of the self, for the new world is a world of Balance.
You born with an original vibration, a code, a key, a key to open your multidimensionality, the many worlds, for human beings are multi dimensional beings by nature, as you grow, this beautiful planet will give you your next octaves, this means your next truth available… what happened for human beings is that you were trained by the patriarchal system to not trust yourself, and told you that you suppose to be someone else to be able to function in this dysfunctional world, and you exchanged many of your original tones… now human beings are bringing back your original vibration for you are remembering and adjusting again to a new perspective of reality that meant to be for all humans.
It was the one that created you, the one that is inside of you, the essence of all life forms the one that hid in your DNA that vibration, the Original vibration, long time ago, and wait for this time space to open that realm inside of you so you remember and through this remembrance bring back the "higher culture" a new way to relate, and all starts within you… for the only one that you need to reach is YOU.


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Semper Fortis Esports PLC (AQSE:SEMP) has signed a competitive esports player as the first to compete in its play-to-earn division, where players will be incentivised to compete on behalf of the company for cryptocurrency-based returns in the form of NFTs.
The company's esports team, SMPR, has signed Aleksei Bakumenko, known professionally as 'Iner', on an initial three-month contract to compete in NFT trading and battling game Axie Infinity and digital collectible card game Hearthstone. The contract, which has an option to review for an additional six months, has an annual salary and performance-based incentives
In Axie Infinity, developed by Vietnamese studio Sky Mavis and is nearing 2mln daily active users, players collect, breed, raise, battle and trade creatures known as 'axies', which are digitized as NFTs.
Semper Fortis said the game uses a model known as play-to-earn or pay-to-play-to-earn, where participants can earn a token which is traded on Binance as an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency, with players able to exchange in-game assets as NFTs and to cash-out these tokens for monetary gains every 14 days.
Semper Fortis said the appointment made it one of the first professional esports companies to enter the play-to-earn market and will look to expand through further development and recruitment to earn NFT based rewards through games as a revenue model.
Chief executive Kevin Soltani said: "Semper Fortis is determined to revolutionise the play to earn space, in merging it with competitive esports play. Our latest signing will pioneer our strategy to build out the SMPR play-to-earn division, opening doors for a new pool of players entering the esports space and diversifying the company's revenue model. Gaming and blockchain are two of the fastest growing industries and with our team being highly experienced in both, we are geared for an exciting season ahead."
Bakumenko is ranked ninth worldwide in the Hearthstone game, the free-to-play game published by Blizzard Entertainment, which is played as an esport in tournaments such as Blizzard's official World Championship, which features a prize pool of up to US$1mln.
The addition of the ninth active players to SMPR's roster, adds a player with a "distinguished digital footprint" and a significant following in his competitive region of Russia, a market there Semper Fortis said it sees as a large opportunity to capture in the esports space.
Nolan Bushnell, a non-executive director at the company, added: "The play-to-earn movement is currently in rapid growth and we are very excited to see its evolving nature in the world of competitive esports."


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Good news is always welcome in these trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic, and such news has recently arrived from Paso Pacífico, a Nicaraguan NGO engaged in conservation activities in that country. Paso Pacífico's mission is to restore and protect the Pacific Slope ecosystems of Mesoamerica, reconnecting people and wildlife. Guided by Paso Pacífico, restoring these damaged ecosystems and reconnecting them to support wildlife is happening through lots of people working hand in hand. Some of the key strategies include protecting core areas, especially to assist farmers to revive forest fragments on their lands.
The foundation for Paso Pacífico's long-term goal to reconnect Mesoamerica's dry tropical forests is its first wildlife corridor, the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor. It is located in the narrow isthmus that separates the Pacific Ocean and Central America's largest lake, Lake Nicaragua, and has the potential to connect Costa Rica's abundant wildlife with north-western Nicaragua. Yellow-naped Amazons (Amazona auropalliata) are found in these dry forests, where they eat wild fruits and spread the seeds to new sites. Thus, the important role of the Yellow-naped Amazon in sustaining forest health persuaded Paso Pacífico to adopted it as a flagship species, and the Loro Parque Fundación to commence its support of the project in 2008.
Sadly, the wild population of the species seems to be plummeting almost everywhere in its geographical distribution, resulting in the Yellow-naped Amazon being listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. However, the Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor in Nicaragua is an exception to this trend. Here, the population has stabilized, and there are even indications that it is increasing. Through youth education, careful nest and population monitoring, and conservation incentives paid to local people, the project is successfully reversing declines in this endangered species. One element of the project which holds great promise for the future of conservation in Nicaragua is the 'Junior Ranger' programme, whereby Paso Pacifico educates children ages 8 to 12 about local ecology and conservation.
One technical innovation which has really helped the monitoring of natural and artificial nests has been installation of camera traps which, through video and photos, have been able to capture a level of detail previously not possible. Furthermore, as in previous years the project benefited community members which act as nest guardians. In 2020, ten rural families earned conservation incentive payments from protecting 32 baby Yellow-naped Amazons, with US$2,600 paid out in total. Such incentives made a difference to families during these difficult times, given that the minimum wage in Nicaragua in the agricultural sector is just under $95 a month. Each nest guardian family received an average of about $260, or just over $81 per amazon chick successfully fledged. One farmer, a former parrot poacher, contacted the Paso Pacifico team to say thank you, and that without the incentive programme his family would not have had food to eat this year.
Such hardship has also directly touched Paso Pacífico, which in June tragically lost to COVID-19 a long-time member of its team, Luis Fernando Díaz Chávez, a brilliant ornithologist. However, Paso Pacífico, on its 15th anniversary this year, is committed to fulfilling its mission, and has sent the uplifting news that the 2020 nesting season was a record year for Yellow-naped Amazon babies. No less than 39 young Yellow-naped Amazons fledged from their nests and are now flying free in Nicaragua. This number far surpasses the project's previous in-country record of 29 young parrots.
Paso Pacífico is also forging ahead with its broader strategy for the future. It co-founded in 2019 a network called the 'Alliance for Yellow-naped Amazons', to design conservation action plans for the amazons. It is coordinating closely with El Salvador's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources as it develops a national conservation plan for the Yellow-naped Amazon. In El Salvador scientists estimate that there are fewer than 250 individuals remaining in the entire country. Paso Pacífico has also joined a new anti-wildlife-trafficking network called 'Parrots without Borders' which is active in both Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Such collaboration has helped to make possible the bumper crop of young amazons in 2020, and will surely help to make strides for the conservation of Central America's amazing wildlife.
Author: David Waugh, Correspondent, Loro Parque Fundación
Photos: Paso Pacífico
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Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 27 January 2006
Soft rock is the new punk and the Feeling are its Sex Pistols, reports Pete Paphides. ...
The Feeling: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 6 November 2006
IT HAS BEEN less than a year since the Feeling released their first single, but in that time the London quintet have chalked up several ...
The Feeling: To the Manor Born
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 11 January 2008
WHEN IT CAME to recording the follow-up to their million-selling smash debut album Twelve Stops And Home, The Feeling did it in style. ...
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Capcom managed to make the Resident Evil franchise popular again with the release of Resident Evil 7 in 2017. The title took the series back to its survival horror roots, which is something that fans of the series had been calling for. One of the biggest highlights of the game was the terrifying encounters with the Baker family. If you ever wanted to know more about the family, you may be in luck as Capcom is releasing a Resident Evil 7 prequel.
Resident Evil 7: Walkthrough the Fear will release on 25 October, and will be a virtual reality experience. Unfortunately, it will only be available in Japan. According to Capcom, the game will take players back to Louisiana, with the player trapped in Jack's basement and the only objective to escape.
Players interested in playing the prequel will only be able to do so at The Plaza Capcom Ikebukuro VR-X booth in Japan. Currently, there's no word of this experience being made available anywhere else. The experience will be about 40 minutes long and requires two to four players.
This isn't the first time that Capcom has delved into virtual reality as Resident Evil 7 was fully playable in PSVR. This is also the second Resident Evil VR experience as Biohazard Valiant Raid was released in July at the same location.
Capcom has been doing an amazing job with the Resident Evil franchise in recent years. It's a shame that not all players will be able experience this new prequel. They still have Project Resistance to look forward to though.
What do you think of this new Resident Evil prequel?


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List of Ingredients
- 24 OZ. of pork tenderloin
- 14 OZ. of Italian "type 2" flour (about 3 cups)
- 14 OZ. of Piccadilly or plum tomatoes
- whole wheat flour
- cashews
- 3 TBSP. of capers in oil
- 3 TBSP. of cucunci (large capers) in salt
- 15 of capers, rinsed
- fresh brewer's yeast
- 1 egg
- Honey
- Lemon
- Wild fennel
- Extravirgin olive oil
- Salt
In a bowl, mix a teaspoon of honey with 1 3/4 cups room temperature water and the crumbled yeast. Then add the flour and start kneading, then add the rinsed, minced capers and 1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons salt and knead until combined. Form the dough into a ball and let it rise for 1 hour in the bowl, covered with a damp tea towel. Briefly knead and let it rest for another 45 minutes. Mince the cashews with the cucunci and 1-2 pieces of lemon zest.
Tie up the fillet so that it keeps its shape during cooking and sprinkle it with the minced cashews and cucunci. Fry it in a hot pan coated in oil for 3-4 minutes on all sides. Remove from heat and allow everything to cool. Roll the dough into a square about 12 inches on each side, then cut it into long strips about 1 inch wide, brush them with the beaten egg and use them to wrap the fillet irregularly.
Set the wrapped fillet on a baking tray lined with parchment, let it rest for 5 minutes, then bake at 400°F for 40 minutes. When cooking is complete, the inner temperature should be 170°F. Remove from the oven and let it rest for 20 minutes. Finely mince together the fennel fronds and capers in oil. Cut the tomatoes into chunks and dress them with the minced fennel and capers and a drizzle of oil. Slice the fillet and serve it with the tomato mixture.


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Homecoming Court 2019
The purpose of Homecoming Court is to select and present representatives of the LSU
student body who have positively contributed to the LSU community through leadership,
service and spirit. The selected Court members will serve as ambassadors for other
LSU students by promoting Tiger Pride throughout the Homecoming Week events, and are
determined by a student body vote.
Congratulations to our 2019 Homecoming Queen, Sarah Catherine LaBorde and King, Hayden Guidry!
Evan Doré
Emily Wood
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Dominique Cravins
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February 19 2015
Slick Rick's 50th Birthday Celebration
Slick Rick recently celebrated his birthday in Brooklyn. Happy Birthday to one of the greatest legends!
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February 17 2015
Love Your Life: Happy Birthday Huey Newton
"Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws." -Huey Newton
Lots of Love,
June 16 2013
Tupac Shakur: Keep Your Head Up (Live)
Happy Birthday, Tupac!
June 16 2013
Tupac Shakur: Dear Mama (Live)
Happy Birthday, Tupac!
June 3 2013
Lauryn Hill Singing Curtis Mayfield
Lauryn Hill singing, "The Makings Of You." A great rendition!! Happy Birthday, Curtis Mayfield!
April 22 2013
The Charles Mingus Sextet: Take the 'A' Train
Happy Birthday, Charles Mingus.
April 9 2013
Fly Flicks: Lena Horne & Paul Robeson
Happy birthday Paul Robeson.
April 2 2013
Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Marvin Gaye Edition
"Most fear stems from sin: to limit one's sins assuredly limits one's fears, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit." – Marvin Gaye