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My friends @ Bewise Collective Movement helped me with some beautiful objects for a place I am arranging in Bucharest. I love the reuse of old and broken skateboard decks in design, I also use them in jewelry and now we started this series of objects, all handmade, from skateboard decks.
More pictures and details soon!
design & execution: Bewise Collective Movement team for La Obiect🙂
ps. the beautiful painting is a Cristina Frentiu Socolescu piece and thanks Radu Spiridon for the picture!


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Dance n dust records new cd compilation gives you a new generation of sounds and artists.
You will find here very nice tracks that collect sounds from Israel, Sweden, Germany and Kroatia.This cd is compiled by Dj Asherun and give you the sound you like, from psy progressive minimal up to full on psy morning music.
ZNA Gathering
Beat Wins
Dusty Nation Part 3
Dusty Nation Part One
Not Responding to Light
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Sophisticated, relaxing, and with a tiny bit of show-biz, Upstairs at The Queen's is the perfect place to meet a friend, do
some work, or simply enjoy some 'you time' amid a busy day. This much-loved space has had a facelift and is now ready to welcome you to enjoy
your favourite paninis, luxurious cakes, and traditional Devonshire cream teas, with occasional live background music creating the perfect atmosphere.
Our menu will be growing over the coming weeks, including the addition of afternoon teas and hot snacks, so keep a look out on here for the latest updates.
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Open Monday – Sunday 10am – 4pm
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Enjoy our beautiful view from the new place to be in Ilfracombe. Fresh, bright and airy, the Quarterdeck is serving freshly toasted paninis, delicious cakes and only the best coffees.
We happily welcome well-behaved dogs on leads and children can relax here too (no need for a lead for the kiddies!). But be warned – unsupervised children may be asked to walk the plank!
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Degrees incorporating this pedagocial element :
Biophysical processes observed in neurosciences are very complex. The activity of neurons in the brain and the code used by these neurons is described by mathematical neuron models at different levels of detail. This course gives an introduction to the field of theoretical and computational neuroscience with a focus on models of single neurons. Neurons encode information about stimuli in a sequence of short electrical pulses (spikes).
Topic 1: The first part will present the main stochastic neuronal models: integrate-and-fire neural models, Hodgkin-Huxley models and biophysical modeling
Topic 2: The second part will give present the mathematical tools required to fit neuronal models to neuronal data: stochastic calculus, stochastic differential equations, maximum likelihood
Topic 3: The last part will introduce the case of partial observations of complex neuronal models. These statistical methods are based on EM algorithm, Markov chain Monte Carlo, sequential Monte Carlo and particle filtering, model selection.
Probability, estimation, maximum likelihood
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At the end of the course, the student will be able to implement a MCMC or a particle filter to estimate parameters of stochastic models
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
In Planes: Fire & Rescue, he is seen puffing along a train track as Dusty Crophopper flies past him.
- Unlike the steam train seen in Planes, Muir's mouth is on the front of his smokebox door instead of his cowcatcher.
- These types of engines were used most common on American railroads during the 1800s and 1830s until 1928.
- Muir is likely based on a locomotive that worked on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.


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Our housing team includes specialists who combine experience and expertise with pragmatic advice to achieve the best result. We believe we offer the strongest and largest housing management offering in the country. We have team members based in our Birmingham, Leeds, London and Winchester offices.
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text: ELEMENTARY Welcome News & Announcements Annual Education Reports Faculty & Staff Food Service Student Handbook School Improvement Plan Student Assistance Team Great Explorations Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) Online Event Streaming QUICK ACCESS LINKS Faculty & Staff E-Mail Access Skyward Employee Access Student E-Mail Access Annual Education Reports Educator Access Family Access Elementary School News & Announcements March 25, 2020 Elementary Honor Roll - Third Marking Period The Lake Linden-Hubbell Elementary School would like to congratulate students for making the Third Marking Period Honor Roll. Click below to download the Honor Roll list. Click Here for more information in PDF Format March 1, 2020 Breakfast and Lunch Menu Research shows that starting the day with a nutritious breakfast helps students stay alert and perform better in school. Having breakfast also helps students develop healthy eating habits that contribute to their well being. The Lake Linden-Hubbell School District participates in the School Breakfast Program. Nutritious, balanced and healthy breakfasts are served Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Click here for a copy of the lunch menu. Click Here for more information in PDF Format December 2, 2019 Support the LLHPS Foundation this Holiday Season You can help support the Lake Linden-Hubbell Public Schools Foundation this holiday when you shop at Amazon Smile. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible items to the Foundation. All you need to do is follow the link below and sign in using your current Amazon username and password. Go to Amazon Smile: CLICK HERE September 3, 2019 Late Start Schedule In the event of a two hour delayed start to school, the schedule will be as follows: Jr./Sr. High School - 10:00 am to 3:20 p.m. (Students report to their 1st hour class.) Elementary School - 10:15 a.m. to 3:04 p.m. Local radio and television stations will announce details of the school delays and closings. The Lake Linden-Hubbell Schools will also display the information as an "Urgent Message" on the district home page as well as sending a text message via our emergency alert system. September 3, 2019 Online Food Service Payments Payments may be made online for student lunch accounts. To make an online payment, visit SendMoneyToSchool.com by clicking on the link below. You will need your child's lunch ID number which you may obtain by calling any of the District offices. CLICK HERE to make an online payment. September 3, 2019 2019-2020 School Year Calendar Click below to download a copy of the 2019-2020 school year calendar. Click Here for more information in PDF Format September 1, 2019 Box Tops and Receipts Help Benefit the Elementary School The Lake Linden-Hubbell Elementary School collects GENERAL MILLS BOX TOPS and ECONO FOODS RECEIPTS throughout the school year. Please check the expiration dates on the box tops. Econo Foods receipts should be for the current year. Proceeds from these fund raisers enables the PTO to purchase items and fund requests that benefit the students in grades K-6 at Lake Linden—Hubbell Elementary. Your efforts are very much appreciated. May 21, 2019 Elementary Newsletter Click here to read the latest edition of the Elementary School Newsletter. Click Here for more information in PDF Format


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If you want to witness climate change, just head north and keep going until you run out of globe. Of course, that's easier said than done; the Arctic is a forbidding, isolated area, short of people and encased in ice much of the year. But those who make their way to places like Barrow, Ala. the northernmost point of the U.S. or the icy seas of the Arctic Ocean will witness a part of the planet that is warming and changing faster than anywhere else. While the world as a whole warmed by about 1°F (.55°C) over the entire 20th century, parts of the Arctic have warmed by 4° to 5°F (2.2° to 2.7°C) just since 1950. The physical changes from global warming are visible in the Arctic almost in real time and they are a warning for those of us who live in more comfortable latitudes. As the polar expert Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has put it: "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic."
That's bad news, since not only is the warming threat in the Arctic bad, it's almost certainly intensifying. Earlier this month scientists at the NSIDC announced that Arctic summer sea-ice extent had fallen to its second lowest level since at least 1979, and likely long before that. Just 1.67 million sq. mi. (4.32 million sq km) of the Arctic sea was covered by ice as of mid-September a little larger than the all-time record low of 1.608 million sq. mi. (4.16 million sq km) set in September 2007. And that may be a lowball figure: a separate group of researchers at the University of Bremen in Germany did their own estimate earlier this month and reported that there was even more melt in 2011 than in 2007.
The differences between the two estimates are academic; the larger point is that the current sea-ice extent is more than 1 million sq. mi. (2.5 million sq km) below the 19792000 average. That means the Arctic has lost an area greater than all the U.S. states east of the Mississippi. And what ice remains appears to be getting thinner and weaker as well. "There is plentiful data to suggest that the ice is thinning as well as shrinking in area," Nick Toberg and Till Wagner, polar-ocean physicists from Cambridge University, wrote to me recently in an e-mail from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, where they were doing sea-ice fieldwork north of Norway. "It's a downward spiral because after successive seasons of thinner ice, each [year] gets worse than the one before it."
The question now is what's going to happen to the Arctic as we keep adding carbon emissions to the atmosphere and the climate keeps warming. Some scientists worry that Arctic sea ice may be going from a downward spiral to a "death spiral," one from which there is no escape even if we can manage to reduce carbon emissions. As more ice melts, more dark open water is exposed, which absorbs more heat, accelerating the melting. (White sea ice, by contrast, reflects sunlight, slowing warming.) Until recently, many scientists thought it might take until the end of the century for the North Pole to become completely ice-free during the summer. Now there are estimates that we could see a naked North Pole by 2030 or even earlier. "The melting is happening faster in the real world than it has in the models," says James Overland, an oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That's why doing fieldwork on Arctic sea ice is so important. Models and satellite data can only take you so far. For full accuracy, someone actually has to go to the far north and measure. On their research trip, Toberg and Wagner went to the north Greenland Sea and measured sea-ice thickness at multiple sites using power drills, snow-depth measurements and GPS readings. "Drilling is still the most accurate, and only direct way, of measuring thickness of the ice," they wrote. "This involves simply poking a tape measure down a hole drilling in the ice to note both the total depth of the ice and the thickness of the freeboard [the ice above the water line]." The work is basic science at its best.
But it's not all that simple. Toberg and Wagner are also working with laser 3-D scanners that enable them to capture a high-resolution replica of an ice floe essentially allowing them to take the ice back to the lab, something that would otherwise be impossible without the help of a very large refrigerator. That data gives them a much deeper understanding of what's happening to Arctic ice, a big improvement over what you can get from satellites, which struggle to measure ice below the water level. (And as anyone who watched Titanic knows, that's where most of the ice hides.) "Snow cover, surface meltwater and the high variability in ice properties hide the full picture of what is happening with the ice under the sea," write Toberg and Wagner. "The information we gather can help verify satellite data and ultimately improve the accuracy of complex computer models."
The more on-the-ground information scientists can gather the better because ice, despite its seeming simplicity, is extremely complex. The rate of melting in the Arctic isn't just a function of temperature change; local weather conditions, snow cover and ocean currents can also influence ice loss. That's what makes it so difficult to predict exactly how rapidly we might see the Arctic go ice-free. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research even predicted in a recent study that Arctic sea-ice melt might pause or reverse over the next decade, depending on northern-wind patterns. But that would simply be a pause in the inexorable decline inexorable, that is, if we don't curb carbon emissions soon. At that point, Arctic ice becomes a memory, and we will find ourselves on a very different planet.


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After taking an Oxford degree in Oriental Studies and working for the British Council in Japan, Peregrine Hodson recently returned to Japan as an investment banker for the Tokyo branch of a London Bank. During his stay in Tokyo, he kept a diary and recorded his impressions of contemporary Japanese life. Hodson uses the Japanese literary forms of the shosetsu, or "I-novel" and the zuihitsu or "random notes" to offer an unflattering portrait of contemporary Japanese culture.
To Western eyes, Japan has always seemed to be a rather closed, insular society, even for the gaijin, or "foreigner," fluent in Japanese. Behind the facade of inscrutability, however, Hodson found not the wisdom and serenity of Shinto or Zen, but a self-absorbed, status-conscious society in which the pursuit of materialism has all but vanquished traditional values. From within the corporate world of a Tokyo investment bank, he observes the conformity, rigidity, joyless hedonism, and spiritual emptiness of his Japanese colleagues. His travels to the Japanese countryside, with its traditional way of life, heighten the contrast with urban life in Tokyo.
There is a tone of disillusioned idealism in A CIRCLE ROUND THE SUN that may account for Hodson's dreary view of modern Japanese culture. Despite his apparent sophistication, Hodson's view of Japan seems constrained, for Tokyo is by no means all of modern Japan, nor is the Japanese corporate world limited to international banking. Hodson gradually comes to realize that no matter how fluent he becomes in Japanese, he will never know the culture from the inside without thinking like the Japanese. Though his observations are perceptive, one might wish for a more balanced assessment of Japanese culture.


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The Basics Of Syncing Your iPad with iTunes
When you first connect the device to your computer, Apple guides you through the setup, but at some point you will want to be familiar with the options available to you when syncing iTunes on iPad, which is basically the only way you manage most of your iPad's contents, including music, contacts, photos, apps, and ebooks, and keeping it updated.
This article will give you an overview for syncing your iPad with iTunes. More detailed information can be found in Apple"˜s own free iPad User Guide The 2 Free iPad Guide Books That Start From Basics Read More and similar books. You might also want to check out my MUO article about the general settings Set Up Your iPad: Detailed Look at General Settings Read More of your iPad.
First off, I assume that you have already synced your iPad with iTunes at least once in order to get signed up. That process is required for you to own and use the iPad.
If you're like me, you probably won't be syncing your iTunes on your iPad on a regular basis. It's much better when you can sync and update content wirelessly than having to plug and connect the USB cord between your iPad and your computer. Syncing your iPad to your iTunes is mainly useful for adding songs, TV shows, podcasts, photos and other related content to your device. Some content like purchased iTunes songs, apps, and ebooks for iBook Reader can easily be downloaded wirelessly, via Wi-Fi and 3G connections from the iTunes App Store.
When connecting your iPad to your iTunes, here are some of the basics features you need to know about:
Summary Overview
By connecting your iPad to iTunes you get to see all your media content – apps, music files, movies, TV shows, podcasts, etc. One of the first things you can learn, if you have forgotten, is the memory capacity of your iPad. In other words, how much stuff it can hold. The above screenshot shows that my iPad can hold up to 14 gigabytes of content. 64GB is the largest capacity iPad model you can purchase right now.
At the bottom of the information panel is a bar that illustrates a breakdown of content on your iPad. This is very important to know especially if your iPad is filled to capacity. If you're new to the iPad, I'll assume you haven't added a lot of apps to your device. But basically, you will want to keep in mind that songs and videos will take up most of the space on your iPad. Photos, apps, ebooks, and other documents (e.g. PDFs, iWorks documents, other graphic files) tend to take up less space.
In the left panel of the iTunes interface, when you click on the triangle of the iPad folder under Devices, it will reveal all the media files, except for your apps and photos, currently added to your iPad.
Software Update & Backups
Typically when the operating system (OS) of the iPad needs to be updated, it will be checked and done automatically by iTunes via a Wi-Fi connection. But if you have missed an update or you want to make sure that your device has the most recent update, just click the Check for Update button and you will get a report back. A recently released iOS4 for the iPhone is scheduled for the iPad next Fall. But there may be minor updates for the iPad before then.
Each time you sync your iPad with iTunes, it will back up new content, such as new apps and documents, added to your iPad since the previous backup. It will not back up your songs and videos that already stored in your iTunes library.
Depending on the size of the content, backing up and syncing the content of your iPad can take several minutes. If you need to know the last time your content was backed up, you can click Apple>Preferences>Devices.
If you want to keep iTunes from automatically syncing your content when you connect it to iTunes, you can disable it on the Preference box. When disabled you will need to manually sync it by clicking the Sync on the bottom-right of iTunes.
If you want to sync your device to add or delete content without backing up, you can cancel the process by simply clicking the little x in the progress bar at the top of iTunes.
The same can be done if you want to cancel a sync before it's completed.
If you ever need to restore your iPad to its original state, you simply click the restore button. Official how-to details about restoring your iPad can be found here on the Apple site. The important thing to remember is to periodically allow iTunes to backup the content of your device just in case something happens.
Other Options For Syncing
The six other options on the Summary panel include the following:
- Open iTunes when this iPad is connected: You may want to uncheck this box if you often sync your iPad to another application, or simply want to manually open and run iTunes when you want the syncing process to occur.
- Sync only checked songs and videos: In iTunes you can actually uncheck songs and movie files so that iTunes won't play them automatically. Checking this box ensures that your unchecked media files will not be synced to iTunes.
- Prefer standard definition videos: This generally refers to the resolution quality of the videos imported onto your iPad. High Definition video is typically of higher resolution than standard definition; however, high definition may result in larger files.
- Manually manage music and videos: Check this box if you prefer to manually select and unselect the songs and video content that you want to sync or un-sync on your iPad. If you leave this box unchecked and instead have iTunes automatically sync your media content, then all the media files will be grayed out when you click on the folders inside the navigation panel of your iPad.Manually syncing also means that you can drag and drop music and video files on your iPad, via iTunes.
- Encrypt iPad backup: If you"˜re importing sensitive data on your iPad, check this box if you want to encrypt that data when it's backed up on your computer. Note: if you encrypt your data and forget the password, you will not be able to, according to Apple, "restore from backup, and your data will be unrecoverable. For more information on encryption, see Apple"˜s official documentation here.
- Configure Universal Access: Click this box if you want to access features that are most often used for the visually and eyesight impaired. Clicking Voice Over, for example, speaks items that you tap and double-tap on the screen. If you click Speak Auto-text, it means that when you're typing on the iPad, auto-corrections and auto-capitalizations will be also be voiced. These features can also be turned on and off in the Settings app of the iPad, under General.
In part 2 of this article I will cover the other syncing features found in the other panels of iTunes. These panels include more about syncing music, books, podcasts, and the like.
Feel free to ask any questions you have about syncing your iPad to iTunes. If there are issues that you run into with the syncing process, feel free to share them as well.
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Paz y Saludos
Hoy es el trecero día de Ramadan. Todo día, decimos un oración. Hoy es nuevo oración. disfruta!
Today is the third day of Ramadan. Every day we say a dua ( prayer). Today is a new prayer. Enjoy!
Una AfroLatina y Musulmana in Atlanta
Islam Es Para Todos
I wanted to share a few stories of other people and their experiences in fasting. I found this great piece and wanted to share
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Cooking as a spiritual exercise; day 1 of Ramadan
Today as of the sunset marked the first whole day of Ramadan on June 18th I partook in one of my favorite spiritual exercises; cooking. I admit, it took a lot out of me to fast but in the time I cooked and ate before dawn and also at sunset I found serenity, calm, but […]
We have made it to another year! Alhamdulillah. This month all Muslims will give up their desires to worship Allah even more and to remember the importance of this month.
This moth we pray even more asking Allah to forgive us and have mercy on us.
When you see a Muslim. Smile and tell them Ramadan Mubarak!


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Itronix GoBook Notebook
A notebook for all seasons-and office environments
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This story appears in the September 2001 issue of HomeOfficeMag.com. Subscribe »
If you're rough on your office equipment, your home might not be the safest place for your notebook. Itronix has the solution for potentially damaging home environments; its GoBook notebook is designed for rugged indoor and outdoor use. Featuring either an Intel Pentium III or Celeron 600MHz processor, 256MB SDRAM and up to 20GB hard-drive space and a 12.1-inch SVGA TFT display, the Bluetooth-ready GoBook has a built-in fax modem and an integrated peripheral bay that accepts a 24x CD-ROM, 8X DVD/CD-ROM, floppy drive or a second battery pack. Another cool feature of the GoBook is its night-viewable keyboard.


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The factsheet presents the guiding principles with respect to the human rights of children set out by the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and briefly illustrates the disastrous sexual and reproductive health as a result of violations of their rights. Statements of international commitments presented at the Beijing Plus Five 2000 and ICPD Plus Five, 1999 are also included. The fact sheet can be used as advocacy tools for anyone working in the area of young people's sexual and reproductive health.


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Armacell is a manufacturer of engineered foams and the world leader in the market for flexible technical insulation materials. The company produces thermoplastic insulation materials, covering systems, fire protection and noise control solutions as well as special foams for a multitude of commercial and industrial applications. Armacell in India specialises in the manufacture of thermal and acoustic insulation, edge protection and custom seals and gaskets for original equipment manufacturers which it produces at its Pune based plant, which is also its hub for exports. KESHAB CHOPRA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, ARMACELL INDIA PVT. LTD. spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on the role played by his company in the country's insulations space and the prospects ahead.
Give us a sense of Armacell's business focus here in India in the last couple of years against the background of the economic slowdown?
Armacell decided to enter India in 1999 which is when they hired me – I was their first employee. It was decided to set up an insulation business here. At that time the rubber insulation market in India itself was not present. Insulation meant polyurethane foam and fibre glass. The company decided to invest here because it was realised that India would be a key market for the future. They were happy with the feelers they got from the market and in 2004, Armacell decided to invest in a manufacturing facility in India - it was the first global insulation company to do so. So we had a fully-owned subsidiary firm and we set up this manufacturing facility in 2005 and commissioned it in 2006. That was the first stage of our operations. The second stage was when the market really picked up from 2006. It was a case of being at the right place at the right time. We decided to add our capacity in 2009 and commissioned capacity expansion in 2010. Getting to the point you made about the slowdown in the economy although the rate of growth has slowed down in the last two years we do not see as a downturn. Our business has not decreased and we are happy with the growth – it can always be better, yes.
Tell us about the areas of your business?
Our major driver for business is still the construction industry, and it is normally commercial construction which could mean offices, IT parks, hospitals, multi use commercial buildings. Our products are used primarily where there are centralised air conditioning systems. These normally happen in the metropolitan cities. To give you the geographic spread of our business the top 10 cities of India would contribute to most of it. The other business comes from residential and industrial applications. With the standard of living going up, most high-end residential complexes require AC systems so we are also focused there.
Could you talk about your product portfolio?
We make special insulation which is used primarily for lower temperatures applications – below ambient and above ambient as well. Our temperature range can go up to -200, which is really low, to +150. So that gives us advantages in air conditioning, refrigeration, and low temperature applications. Our product itself is foamed rubber for insulation applications, a technology which Armacell developed in 1954, and which has been used by many over a period of time since then. The key for any insulation material is to have the right balance of low thermal conductivity which enables good energy efficiency.
The second is long-term characteristics and the third is good fire behavior, because it is the mechanical and electrical services which are common throughout the building. In India there is no government mandate on fire itself but many private companies, on their own, have very strong requirements on fire and that focus enables us to offer really high quality products to these customers so that people in their facilities really feel safe. If you see campuses of IT companies, they have very high people density with thousands of people concentrated in a small area. A fire outbreak there would be disastrous for anyone of them. Against that background the kind of products which they select need to have high fire resistance and that is where we come into the picture.
Tell us about the acoustic solutions offered by your company?
We offer acoustic products which are again made from rubber which is the core technology we have. The customer segments here are commercial constructions as also industrial applications. Our acoustic solutions are very efficient in terms of noise absorption and noise barriers and are used globally by TV channel companies in their studios, the Reliance studios, the Big Cinemas; they are also used in Terminal 3 in New Delhi. I also understand that they are used by well-known personalities in their home theaters and by several celebrities from the film industry. Apart from commercial buildings they are actively used in niche applications because they are extremely reliable and efficient. The product we have in the market in the acoustic segment is Armasound.
Are there acoustics applications in the area of infrastructure?
I would certainly say they have found usage in our airports. They don't have a presence on Indian roads though. In some countries abroad there are roads that are acoustically treated. However in India, acoustic sensibility—which offers a very high level of comfort—is not high and that has pretty much to do with the evolution of society.
So what is the state of evolution in India as far as your products are concerned?
For India in market terms the primary areas of concern would be fire and security. In India, as a whole, you have different segments with different stages of evolution in terms of requirements of end users for safety and comfort. The large metros are different from the small towns and the villages. We have product categories which can offer each of those; these products address the basic need of availability and efficiency; and we have products which can go beyond high degree of safety and comfort. We also offer value-added products which reduces the skill sets required for application at site, are very easy to install and are very reliable.
What is the advantage Armacell brings to the Indian insulation market?
The USP we bring to the market is reliability of the product. The reliability and consistency with which we make our products is the same every time, this is what Armacell offers. The other set of advantages we bring is technical parameters, innovation and pre and post application support and field support.
Tell us about your manufacturing facilities – also plans to expand or set up new plants in other geographies if any?
Pune is currently the only manufacturing plant we have in the country. We have a fully integrated plant here in Pune where we mix our own raw materials. We have lines manufacturing Armaflex, lines for our acoustic products and some auxiliary lines. We also export to the other countries from our Pune plant.
What is your view of the opportunities for firms such as yours in growth zones like industrial corridors and smart cities?
There is definitely a great business opportunity there and we are working with the people who are involved in the developments. That is normal part of our business operations but we would like to go beyond that. Our role would also be to highlight to the technical bodies there the kind of specifications that need to go into buildings constructed in these zones.
What are your strategies to push your products in new markets?
We are already well represented in the top 10 cities where we have business but with the growth of the Indian economy and the percolation of wealth we see an evolution in building standards and comfort levels in B-class cities as well. Therefore, over the last few years, we have created an infrastructure and distribution network to service our prospective customers. We see the percolation happening but it is a slow process and it will take its own time. Right now our products are available, have found usage and people view them as efficient.
What is your outlook for the business through 2014-15?
It is quite positive. However we feel that to continuously grow we need to bring new technologies and products into the market. We have a pipeline of new technologies and products which we are bringing to the market from our parent company. Armacell globally is quite strong in terms of technology.


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Blur 2 Might Have Looked Like This
Blur 2 Might Have Looked Like This
This footage from a cancelled Bizarre Creations racing game will make you sad.
One of the more depressing studio casualties of the past couple of years was Geometry Wars and Project Gotham Racing developer, Bizarre Creations. While I have fond memories of Fur Fighters for the Dreamcast, most will remember Bizarre for its racing games, the last of which was 2010's Blur. The footage to the right is from a prototype of an unannounced racing game very much in the vein of Blur that the studio was working on when Activision shuttered it in 2011.
The unnamed game is using tech and assets from Blur, but it's running on a separate, and sadly never used, engine. So, why does a game in a supposedly pre-alpha state looks so polished? Bizarre's former art director, Chris Davie, explains:
"We were using a whole new engine at this point that had been developed internally; it was really nice tech that we sadly never got to ship a game with. When we were told the project was being canned and that the studio was facing closer, I bloody mindedly decided to keep working on the art on this track, so much work had gone into the game already, it seemed a shame that nobody would get to play a finished track, even the dev team, so my goal was to get this Dubai track as close to final as I could before the lights went out for good.
A couple of guys chipped in here and there and got some nice new bits for their (soon to be required) portfolios, and I started grabbing old assets from previous projects to fill in bits of the scene that hadn't been started.
By the end it had gotten to about an alpha level, there was some really nice things in there, though we still needed to add a load of destructible objects inside the shopping mall and tram station we drive through in the video, and inside the hotel lobby of the building we drive on the outside of here. More animated scenery like the trams too, but time just ran out."
While I'm generally not a racing game fan, I do enjoy giving gravity the middle finger. The fact this game will never be finished drives me up the wall. Get it? No? See, the car drives on the- oh, forget it.
Source: Chris Davie's Really Cool Tumblr
Sigh, Blur is possibly my favourite racing game ever (tied with Driver: San Francisco), it's a shame we never got to play a sequel, particularly one which involved driving up the sides of buildings in Dubai.
I enjoyed Project Gotham Racing back on the Xbox, but I admit I had no interest in Blur... until I tried it at a LAN and it just blew me away. It really is just Mario Kart with a NFS Underground paint job, and I mean that in the best possible way. The gameplay was ridiculously fun, as you'd expect from anything like Mario Kart. Sadly I only played it long after Bizarre Creations folded.
Love that activision already tore down the videos. gg acticreeps.
The videos have been removed... I actually really liked Blur 1, if anything I thought it could have used more power ups and a stronger playerbase. It was really fun and really aesthetically great. The Blur 2 screenshots look awesome. Blur was such an over the top game that just made it so fun to play.
At least we have other sites that actually give a crap about the people using them... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwjnae_prototype-de-blur-2-annule-brighton_videogames
Download 'em before activision takes 'em down! (savefrom.net works quite well)
While I don't think Dubai would appreciate the idea of people racing over their finely polished buildings, I think they would appreciate how much work the developers put into making their architecture as shiny as it is in real life.
The videos are down, making Activision the "Worst Publisher Ever" once again.
Here are your mirrored, 360p re-uploads of the Blur 2 prototype videos, Escapists;
Absolutely love the Dubai video.
I've never played Blur, though I've been tentatively interested in it lately after hearing that it's a lot like if Need For Speed or Burnout got smashed together with Mario Kart.
Great that the original videos have already been pulled by Activision. Class act right there. The mirrored videos look pretty damn cool, though.


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It's a new month and a new year. Before we wipe the slate clean, here's one last look at the restaurants that opened and closed in Miami this past month.
In December, restaurants hustled to open before the city's most lucrative time of year. Beaker & Gray, the Wynwood bar and eatery by partners Ben Potts and Brian Nasajon, began operation for the Art Basel madness with a limited food and drink menu rather than wait out the rush. The 3,600-square-foot restaurant is now fully operational and offers a weekday happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, AKA Chef Bee, finally opened his homage to Thai street food, NaiYaRa, in Sunset Harbour. The restaurant, decorated in a mix of industrial chic and sepia tones, offers a menu of favorite dishes such as sea bass in green curry ($24) and Burmese noodle wraps ($15).
Restaurants that have come this far in the season tend to ride out the wave of good fortune in the bustling tourist season, so there were no notable closings this month. There was one shocking announcement, however: Le Cordon Bleu announced the start of a process to close all of its U.S. campuses. The schools are accepting new students through January 2016, and a "teach-out" will gradually close the schools by September 2017, allowing all current students in good standing to complete their studies and graduate.
Looking ahead to 2016, there are many exciting restaurants on the horizon with choices ranging from doughnut shops like the Salty Donut in Wynwood to Giorgio Rapicavoli's garden-inspired Glass & Vine in Coconut Grove. (A rundown of Miami's ten most anticipated restaurant openings can be found here.)
- 33 (3195 Commodore Plaza, Miami)
- The Bar Next Door ( 2519 NW Second Ave., Miami)
Beaker & Gray
- Choka's Caribbean Restaurant & Lounge (710 Washington Ave., Miami Beach)
CoyoTaco pop-up at Shore Club
- Da Tang Unique at Four Ambassadors (801 Brickell Bay Dr., Miami)
- Dr. Smood (2230 NW Second Ave., Miami)
- Ergon Greek Deli + Cuisine (2982 Grand Ave., Miami)
Hy Vong pop-up at Bookstore in the Grove
Jaya at the Setai Hotel
- Komodo (801 Brickell Ave., Miami)
- NaiYaRa (1854 Bay Rd., Miami Beach)
Pao at the Dome by Paul Qui at Faena Hotel Miami Beach
- Palmeiras Beach Club (4 Grove Isle Dr., Miami)
Tatore(15180 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura)
The Tuck Room at iPic Movie Theater
- Le Cordon Bleu
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Coming Attractions
- 5411 Empanadas - From Chicago to Coral Gables
- Angelo Elia Pizza Bar - Opening at Aventura ParkSquare project.
- Alinea - Famed restaurant will pop-up at Faena Miami Beach
- Ariete - Michael Beltran to open Coconut Grove restaurant.
- Azucar - Opening near FIU.
- Bachour Bakery and Bistro - The master baker opens a bistro.
- Bake House - Opening in Miami Beach
- Bikini Barista - Coming to midtown.
- Biscayne Bay Brewing Company - Opening in Doral.
- Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill - Opening in Miami.
- China Grill - Moving to Brickell.
- Cake Thai Kitchen - Opening in Wynwood.
- Choices Cafe - Opening in Coconut Grove.
- Dragonfly - Third of the Florida chain and first in Miami-Dade coming to Doral.
- Estefan Kitchen - Gloria and Emilio are at it again.
- Farinelli 1937 - Upscale pizza by the owners of Strada.
- Freddo Helado - Opening in Doral.
- Glass & Vine - Giorgio Rapicavoli comes to Coconut Grove.
- Gravity Brewlab - Opening in Wynwood.
- Graziano's - Opening at Aventura ParkSquare project.
- Groovin' Bean - Coffee house and lounge opening in Overtown.
- Hank & Harry's - Buzzy Sklar to open
NY-styledeli in SoBe.
- Harry's Pizzeria - Chef Michael Schwartz expanding several locations.
- IGA Culinary School - Opening in North Miami.
- IceBox Cafe - Opening at Aventura ParkSquare project.
- Jodi's Italian Ice - Opening soon.
- Juan Valdez Cafe - Opening in North Miami.
- La Muse Cafe - Jamie DeRosa opening a Brickell cafe.
- Ladurée - Pops up in Design District for Art Basel
- Laffa Mediterranean Kitchen - From the My Ceviche team.
- Latin House Grill - Opening near FIU.
- Le Macaron - Opening at Dadeland and other locations.
- Ms. Cheezious - Planning expansion.
- My Ceviche - Coming to Midtown and MIA
- Naked Burger - Chef Ralph Pagano at it again.
- Itabe - Kevin Aoki and Roman Jones collaborate on a restaurant.
- Magnum Lounge - a new version by the Bar Lab team.
- Panther Coffee - Opening in MiMo, and Little Haiti.
- Paraiso Bay Restaurant and Beach Club - Michael Schwartz opening a restaurant at this Edgewater complex.
- PB Station - The Pubbelly Boys open in Miami.
- Persona Pizzeria - California chain coming to Miami.
- Phuc Yea! - Popular pop-up opening in MiMo
- Puroroast Coffee - Opening in Brickell.
- Quinto La Huella - Uruguay's Parador La Huella coming to Miami.
- Palmeiras Beach Club - Opening in Coconut Grove
- Paulie Gee's Brooklyn pizza - Coming to Upper Eastside.
- Pasion del Cielo - Opening in Brickell and Doral.
- Pincho Factory - Opening several locations in Hialeah, Doral, West Kendall, Pinecrest, and Orlando.
- Pubbelly Sushi - Opening
- Quinta La Huella - Opening soon.
- Revolution in Bloom - Vegan and vegetarian cuisine.
- Salty Donut -
Doughtnutshop coming to Wynwood.
- Sarsaparilla Club - Janine Booth and Jeff McInnis to open
restaurantat Shelborne Wyndham Grand Hotel.
- Segafredo - Opening in Bayside.
- Stellino's - Italian cuisine coming to Doral.
- Sugar Factory - Opening
secondlocation on Lincoln Road.
- Sullivan St. Bakery - Opening in Little Haiti.
- The Spillover - Lokal explores the sea.
- Spring Chicken - 50 Eggs doing fast casual chicken in four locations.
- Tanuki - From Moscow to South Beach.
- Tap 42 -Fort Lauderdale gastropub opening in Coral Gables.
- Taste Buds of India - Coral Springs rest opening in South Miami.
- Toasted Bagels - Coming to Coral Gables.
- Tobacco Road - New and improved Road opening this winter.
- Trust & Co. - Bank meets Steampunk in Coral Gables.
- Tutto Il Giorno - Authentic Italian fare coming soon.
- Velvet Creme - Iconic doughnuts returning to Miami.
- Which Wich - Opening several locations in Miami.
- Whole Foods Market - proposed megastore in Sunset Harbour.
- Zak the Baker - Planning an expansion of his cafe and bakery.
- Zest - Cindy Hutson opening a restaurant and fast-casual concept.
Projects in the Works
- Jugofresh's Matthew Sherman and Darren Laszlo plan to open a new concept in Sunset Harbour.
- Chef Alex Stupak is shopping for a location in Miami for a taco restaurant.
- Joel Robuchon and Jean-Georges Vongerichten are opening eateries in the Design District.
- Arjun
Wanjey, a partner at Zuma and Coya, will open a French restaurant in Brickell in the coming year.
- Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth will open a seafood restaurant in the former PB Steak location in Sunset Harbour.
- Jose Garces is rumored to be opening a Miami restaurant.
- Alfredo Patino to open a French concept on 79th Street.
- Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth to open seafood concept in Sunset Harbour.
Embarek Alibaywill open a cafe adjacent to his La Parisienne Bakery (1909 NE 154th St., North Miami Beach)


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May 21, 2009
CLEARWATER, Fla. – In a game that was suspended in the top of the fourth inning on Wednesday night and resumed Thursday morning, Louisville used a seven-run first inning and never looked back en route to a 12-2 victory over Notre Dame in winner's bracket game from the 2009 BIG EAST Tournament at Bright House Networks Field. The Irish are now scheduled to play St. John's, who they upended 14-5 in the tournament opener, later Thursday night in an elimination contest. First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
Notre Dame drops to 34-22 overall, while the Cardinals improve to 42-14.
Freshman Ryan Richter was charged with the loss for the Irish. Richter (South Bend, Ind.) lasted just 0.1 innings in his third career start. The freshman surrendered seven runs, four of which were earned, on four hits. Richter also walked two.
Tyler Mathis picked up the victory for Louisville and improved to 1-3 on the season. The righty tossed 5.0 scoreless innings and yielded just two hits. Mathis struck out six and walked three.
Senior Jeremy Barnes (Garland, Texas) went 1-for-4 with his team-leading 14th home run of the season – a two-run shot off Cardinals' starter Justin Marks. The Irish managed just four base hits in the game.
Junior David Mills (Battle Creek, Mich.) opened the fourth inning and quickly retired the Cardinals in order, but the Irish were not able to solve Mathis. The righty kept the Irish at bay over his first 3.0 innings of work, but Notre Dame did put together a threat in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Irish loaded the bases on a senior Evan Sharpley (Marshall, Mich.) walk, Louisville error and sophomore Golden Tate (Hendersonville, Tenn.) infield single, but Mathis escape without any damage as Barnes popped out to end the inning.
Mathias did walk senior Ryan Connolly (Binghamton, N.Y.) to open the bottom of the eighth inning, but then struck out junior Brayden Ashdown (Tucson, Ariz.) and sophomore David Casey (Whitefish Bay, Wisc.) before issuing another free pass to Sharpley. Mathias got out of the inning after sophomore Cameron McConnell (Bannockburn, Ill.) fouled out to the catcher to end the inning.
Mills added 3.0 solid innings of relief. The southpaw allowed an earned run on three hits. Mills did not register a strikeout or walk.
Freshman Steve Sabatino (Lockport, Ill.) also pitched pretty well. The lefty allowed just one earned run in 3.0 innings of work. He struck out three and walked two.
The Cardinals jumped on Richter in the top of the first inning. The southpaw had Josh Richmond down 0-2 to open the game, but issued a walk. Adam Duvall followed with a double and Andrew Clark made it 3-0 with a three-run home run. Richter then had Chris Dominguez down 0-2 before again issuing another walk. Phil Wunderlich then singled down the line and was dead at second base, but Ashdown's throw was bobbled by Barnes allowing Wunderlich to slide in safely and also allowed Dominguez to scamper home. After Ryan Wright flied out, Doyle booted Alec Lowery's ground ball, which should have ended the inning, but Jeff Arnold stepped to the plate and crushed a two-run home run to give the Cardinals a 7-0 lead. That would end the day for Richter.
Senior Sam Elam (Mesquite, Texas) replaced Richter and retired the final two Cardinals of the first inning. The southpaw then sent down Louisville 1-2-3 in the second.
Louisville scored two more runs in the top of the third inning off Elam without benefit of a hit to grab a 9-0 advantage. Elam walked three, hit another batter and balked. The Cardinals also swiped three bases.
The Irish did get to Marks in the bottom of the third. Pollock ripped a double just inside the third base bag and cruised home on Barnes' 14th home run of the season to bring Notre Dame within seven runs, 9-2.


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By Raisa Wickrematunge
Senior journalist J. S Tissainayagam remains incognito – hiding in a safe house, despite a Presidential pardon, according to close family members.
Tissainayagam's father Martin Jayaratnam Tissainayagam told The Sunday Leader that his son was not staying with them. "His lawyers don't want him speaking to anyone. He is under protection, though he has been pardoned," Tissainayagam Snr. said. He added "We ourselves haven't seen him for some time."
Tissainayagam's wife, Ronnate, is currently overseas – and could not be contacted for comment.
In parliament on Tuesday, several MPs commended the decision made by the President. Some said that the reason for the delay in issuing the pardon was due to Tissa lodging an appeal against his conviction.
Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years Rigorous Imprisonment on August 31, 2009. Convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the harsh Supreme Court decision had many media organisations calling for his release. Tissainayagam was convicted of inciting communal disharmony by printing, editing and circulating a magazine called North Eastern Monthly. Arrested and jailed since March 2008, he was released on bail in January this year.


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The first Hispanic woman to serve as a bishop in the Episcopal Church is retiring from the Seattle-based Diocese of Olympia, talking of how she has "loved" being here but hinting at difficulties with the man who beat her in an election for diocesan bishop.
The Rt. Rev. Nedi Rivera, the suffragen (assisting) bishop, said that she and Diocesan Bishop Greg Rickel share the same goals, but are going down "different roads." In recent months, Rivera has spent one-third of her time doing double duty as interim Bishop of Eastern Oregon.
"I feel for the first time in my life that I am behind the times, slow on the uptake and out of synch with the future: I think I am part of the old order here," Rivera said in a letter released on the diocesan website.
Rivera was elected in May of 2004, and assumed Diocese of Olympia duties four months later. In 2007 she was one of five candidates for diocesan bishop, placing third as Rickel was elected. Rickel had served as rector of a large congregation in Austin, Texas.
The retirement of Rivera comes less than a month after the 2009 General Convention of the Episcopal Church. The convention ended an informal moratorium on election of gay or lesbian bishops in the church.
Already, in the past two weeks, a lesbian priest in a longstanding relationship has been picked as one of three finalists for Bishop of Minnesota.
As well, a gay priest and a lesbian priest are among six candidates to fill two jobs as assisting bishops in the Diocese of Los Angeles.
"I affirm each and every one of these candidates and I am pleased with the wide diversity they offer this diocese," the Rt. Rev. Jon Bruno. Bishop of Los Angeles, said in a statement quoted by the New York Times.
The Diocese of Olympia has been outspokenly in support of full inclusion of gays and lesbians in all church rule.
Earlier this year, Rickel welcomed a visit by the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire and the first open, non-celibate gay to serve as a bishop in the church. Until his resignation last year, a gay man, the Rev. Robert Taylor, was dean of St. Mark's Cathedral.
Rickel came back from General Convention facing a six-figure deficit in the Diocese of Olympia budget. He is faced with possibly cutting staff at the diocesan headquarters atop Capitol Hill.
"I have delighted in working with Bishop Rickel," Rivera said in her departure letter. She is likely to leave her post at the end of January.
Rivera did not say what her future role will be in the resource-strained Diocese of Eastern Oregon.
"It's time for me to spend time with a delight in my children and grandchildren, to read my books, to get some exercise, to cook healthy food and to focus on discerning the future with and for the people of the Diocese of Eastern Oregon," she wrote.
Rivera's job, in coming north from a San Francisco parish, was to encourage a more diverse ministry in the Diocese of Olympia. The diocese has stagnated – even slightly declined – in membership during a time of great growth in Western Washington.
"I have come to believe in my heart that I have done what I was called to the Diocese of Olympia to do," she wrote.


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After a weekend bust that ended with eight partiers at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's legendary pool party Rehab behind bars, state regulators have turned their attention from the embattled and temporarily operating Prive Nightclub to the hard-rocking property on Paradise Road. The undercover operation targeted illicit activities at resort pools and arrested seven people for alleged narcotics-related offenses and the eighth for soliciting prostitution.
The Hard Rock certainly isn't the only Strip property under close scrutiny as part of a widening effort to crack down on illicit activities at nightclub venues and resort pools, but after the bust, the Nevada State Gaming Control Board announced it would examine more aspects of the Rehab pool operation, including its policies and procedures, to determine if this was an isolated incident or occurs frequently, according to chief enforcement officer Jerry Markling.
After the incident, the Hard Rock released a statement noting the resort has "a zero-tolerance policy regarding these alleged activities. Hard Rock has worked with Metro in the past to develop security procedures for our pool party and will continue to fully cooperate with Metro going forward." They also noted that the poolside bacchanalia hosted almost 6,000 guests that day and that the eight people arrested represent a microscopic minority.
This all follows the busy summer of Prive-gate, which served as a warning from the Gaming Control Board, which said as many as nine other clubs or pool venues were also being investigated. After effectively closing the topless Sapphire Pool at The Rio, a venture co-branded with the property and Sapphire, the world's largest gentlemen's club, and Metro's weekend bust at Rehab, we can assume those two pool venues were among the nine referred to by Gaming Control. However, Markling was quick to point out that not being on their list doesn't mean much: "We're reactionary as much as we are proactive. If we get complaints, we respond to those, and we try to alleviate receiving complaints by being proactive," he told local reporter Arnold Knightly.


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More than N80 billion investment has been attracted to the agricultural sector from the private sector, President Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday.
He made this remark in Abuja while speaking at a two-day summit by the Rockefeller Foundation.
The summit, titled: 'Realising the Potential of African Agriculture,' is part of the drawn-up programmes for the centennial (100 years) celebration of the foundation.
Jonathan stressed that the transformation of agriculture in Nigeria is a centerpiece of the entire transformation agenda of his administration, adding that his programmes are tailored toward making agriculture attractive to the private sector as a viable business.
He said: "To drive our agriculture, we have ended the approach of agriculture as a development programme, we now take agriculture as a business. Private sector investments are expanding rapidly from sales by fertilizer companies, agriculture processors."
"In the last one year alone over N80 billion of private sector commitments have been made to the agricultural sector. We developed staple crops processing zones to attract the private sector to invest in rural areas to process and add value to all of our crops."
"This will reduce post-harvest losses and create jobs for our people." He noted
According to him, over 1.5 million farmers have benefited from the Electronic-Wallet System developed by the administration.
The e-wallet system allows farmers to receive electronic voucher to redeem subsidized fertilizers, improved seeds and other farm inputs directly from private sector seeds and fertilizer companies.
Jonathan said: "I am pleased to note that Nigeria is the first country to develop such scheme in Africa. Farmers now receive their seeds and fertilizer via mobile phones in the first one year of this experiment and we ended four decades of corruption in our fertilizer sector."
As the world largest producer of cassava, he said that the desire of his government is to make Nigeria the world largest processor of cassava.
Towards cutting down import of wheat, he said that the administration embarked on a major innovation to use high quality cassava flour to replace some of the imported wheat flour.
"Today, cassava bread made out of composite flower from 20 per cent cassava and wheat flour have hit our markets. This alone has saved Nigeria, N254 billion (about 1.5 billion dollars) in import bills on wheat." he stated
On the need for the country to move away from the monolithic oil economy, he said: "Nigeria is known for oil, but today, many countries around the world have found oil."
"The recent discovery of crude oil and gas in the US and other parts of the world means that we must look elsewhere if we must continue to feed our people."
"With abundant land and water resources and abundant labour force, Nigeria has all it takes to use agriculture as its new frontier for growth. There is no reason why Nigeria should be a net food importing country. It should be a net food exporting country."


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Peter Day Award
The Peter Day Award is for outstanding contributions to, and advancement of, the field of Materials Chemistry.
2019 Winner
2019 Peter Day Award Winner
Professor Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield
General information
- Run annually
- The winner receives Ł2000, a medal and a certificate
- The winner will complete a UK lecture tour
- The winner will be chosen by the Materials Chemistry Division Awards Committee
Guidelines for Nominators
- Only RSC Members can nominate for this award
- Nominees may NOT nominate themselves
- The award is open to nominees based in the UK and Republic of Ireland only
- Nominees working in any area of materials chemistry are eligible for this award
- Nominees should be an established career scientist, typically with no more than 30 years of full-time equivalent professional experience.
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- Milo Shaffer, Imperial College London (Chair)
- Ian Hamley, University of Reading
- Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield
- Peter Skabara, University of Glasgow
- Charlotte Williams, University of Oxford
- Emma Kendrick, University of Birmingham
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Peter Day Award Previous Winners
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Peter also served on many Royal Society and UK Research Council committees, the British Council Science Advisory Committee and the European Science Foundation.
He passed away in May 2020 at the age of 81.
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Quo vadis iBeatmaker?November 14th, 2008
After a nice summer away from Beatmaker, I decided to dive back in. Well the main reason was really that now I have a little more time to make music, so I also have more time to work on ibeatmaker.com.
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On 5 August 2011, Keystone Bank Limited (Keystone Bank or the bank) assumed the deposit liabilities, certain other liabilities and assets of Bank PHB Plc following the revocation of the erstwhile bank's operating License by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Keystone is an insured, full service commercial bank wholly owned by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and has met and exceeded all capital and capital adequacy requirements of the CBN.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank, Mr. Jacob Moyo Ajekigbe, had a successful banking career, crowning the final six of his 32 years experience as the MD/CEO of First Bank of Nigeria Plc. On October 12, 2012, The Board of Directors appointed Dr. Shehu K. Muhammad, Acting Managing Director/CEO to lead the Executive Management Team. Dr. Muhammad, an astute and experienced banker, holds a Ph.D in Development Economics from Universite de Granoble II, France (1989) an MBA and a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration both from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1983 and 1979 respectively). Other members of the Executive Management include Mrs. Sally Mbanefo (ED, Commercial Bank); Mrs. Yvonne Isichei (ED, Retail Bank); Mr. Ademola Adewale (ED, Operations and Technology); and Mr. Shehu Abubakar (ED, Public Sector). The Executive Directors are tested professionals with outstanding records in their previous engagements. A technology and service-driven bank with subsidiaries in the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Uganda, and a vibrant and professional workforce, Keystone Bank operates with best practices and offers leading solutions and services to its clients and associates. We are poised to partner with you as you seek to realize your business objectives.
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We're thrilled at Passle HQ to be finalists in the Oxfordshire Business Awards in The Ridgeway Digital Innovation Award category. This is an award that rewards a business which can demonstrate a digital innovation which has delivered genuine, measurable benefits in the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014.
The other two finalists in this category are Hunts, a printing and digital marketing company with a gorgeously designed website, and Twin Town Challenge, a car driving challenge that raises money for SpecialEffect. We're proud to be in such company and look forward to meeting them at the event!
Knowing that there's been a record number of entries this year, it's great to have got to this stage, and we'd like to thank the lovely folk at Ridgeway for this!
Results will be announced at a special dinner on 19th June.


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The Nelson Smith Building offers multiple services such as Human Resources, Mail Services, Environmental Health and Safety, the University Police, and University Marketing and Communication's Printing Services.
The Nelson Smith Building was named after Illinois State photographer, Nelson Smith. This building was formerly called the General Services Building and opened in 1970.


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July 2014
It is rare that Wong Kah Fai's motley crew of pets – a couple of parrots and a Persian cat – visits Orchard Road, so the animal-lover makes sure to pounce on the chance to take them there whenever he can.
On 20 April 2014, Wong was among more than 80 pet lovers and their 60 furry friends who met and mingled at ION Orchard 's Pets' Day Out, a pets' gathering with a fashion slant.
"Pets' Day Out is a great idea because there are very few of such pets' gatherings in the city," said Wong. It was the third annual Pets' Day Out organised by ION Orchard and he has attended all three events. .
Organised by ION Orchard in partnership with Star World, Pets' Day Out was part of the mall's annual Garden Season festivities, where flora and fauna were featured to beckon the season of spring.
For this very special day, ION Orchard's outdoor event space was transformed into a garden and featured stalls selling pet food and accessories. But the highlight was the Pets Fashion Show that gave pet owners an opportunity to show off their pet-grooming and styling skills.
Where Cute Meets Chic
The red-carpeted catwalk had been rolled out, the lights were set, the cameras were ready.
Everyone was waiting for the action: nine shortlisted competing fashionista pets would strut their stuff in the Pets Fashion Show highlight.
The seven dogs of various breeds and sizes and two rabbits in the running were selected from a photo competition held between 5 - 14 April 2014 by ION Orchard.
One of the rabbits, Jolie, is owned by the youngest participants in the competition, sisters Camille and Cecile Chong, aged 11 and 9 respectively.
Jolie is of the Holland Lop rabbit breed. Besides donning a country-floral neck cloth, Jolie also had a wicker basket decorated with ribbons as her costume".
Tracy Wee, a designer who enjoys making her own clothes, decided that she would tailor an outfit for her four-year-old Bedlington terrier, specially for the competition.
"I was rummaging my wardrobe and came across a leather dress I bought some time back from overseas. As I don't wear it anymore, I decided to turn it into a jacket for Quincy," said Wee.
Quincy channelled biker-punk energy from the jacket. The jacket was studded with metallic star and diamond pins and featured an eagle decal. Wee was dressed in a similar style with Quincy and came in a black and white punk-inspired dress.
Quincy's personality is "lovable and caring,"said Wee. "He is able to live with small animals and not see them as food. This is important because I also own rabbits and guinea pigs."
During the petwalk segment, owners introduced their pets by age, breed and quirks.
Ollie, a Standard poodle dressed in military-inspired wear, demonstrated his willpower by staying absolutely still while his owner Lille Tien placed his favourite biscuits on his nose bridge.
After the nine pets made their rounds, it was time for the judges – Mr Lim Shien Yau, Assistant Vice President, Marketing Communications, Orchard Turn Developments and Ms Linda Tay, Manager, Advertising Sales & Partnerships, FOX International Channels – to deliberate on the top three furry friends with the highest style factor.
The Grand Prize
The grand prize went to Royce, a nine-year-old Standard poodle who was dressed in a gentleman's vest accented with a red bow. His ears and the bottom of his legs at just above the paws had been dyed a sun-bright orange.
He is one of two Standard poodles owned by Charmaine Chong. Her other dog, Tommy, who was also present, sported a purple mohawk.
After the prize-giving, the limelight shifted to Royce as he patiently posed for photos while his beaming owner watched on.
Charmaine said this was her first time joining a pets' competition and that the prize will encourage her in her journey of looking after and grooming dogs.
More than just fashion, Pets' Day Out revealed the animal-lovers' pride for their furry friends, and, in turn, the pets' love for their owners.


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But I can't seem to summon the enthusiasm to actually MAKE anything! And my Dad's side of the family is getting together in FOUR days for turkey and our annual gift exchange. YIKES!!!!
So Darling Santa, if you are taking a break from toy-making to read blogs on the World Wide Web, could you bring me a major dose of Holiday Spirit as an early Christmas gift???? So my loved ones aren't disappointed that their presents are still unmade, unshopped for, and unwrapped??? Thanks so much my dear Kringle. I thank you; my family thanks you; and my Peeps think you're pretty cool too.
Hugs and Kisses!!!