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This is the first critical edition in transcription with facing English translation of a medieval Sanskrit text that is known in most parts of India, especially in Bengal. The Krsnakarnāmrta ("Nectar to the Ears of Krishna") is a devotional anthology of stanzas in praise of the youthful Krishna, "the dark blue boy," "Lord of Life," lover of the milkmaids in Indian legend, and an incarnation of the great God Vishnu. Of its importance there can be no doubt: for many devout Indians it is a Book of Common Prayer, whose short and ardent hymns to the Lord Krishna come frequently and familiarly to mind.
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Transport for London today took the dramatic step of closing Hammersmith Flyover due to what they describe as a "serious structural defect".
Last week we reported on the whistleblower who had contacted the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle, claiming that the flyover was in a perilous state of disrepair and that, in his view, it was more a case of "when, not if" the thing collapses. The decision to close it with immediate effect does somewhat vindicate his doom-laden prognosis.
TfL's statement makes reference to the internal cables which keep the spans in place. An inspection last night, part of a detailed monitoring plan, revealed "technical problems", leading to the immediate closure and further assessment of the structure. The official line right now is that it'll be closed until January whilst this assessment is undertaken, but the sudden decision doesn't auger well for its prompt re-opening.

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Sergio Salinas Rodríguez
Associate Professor of Water Supply Engineering
Dr. Sergio Salinas is a desalination and water treatment technology professional and university lecturer with experience in Latin America, Middle East, and Europe.
Sergio has a PhD in Desalination and Water Treatment from the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands), an MSc in Water Supply Engineering from UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Netherlands), a Master's in Irrigation and Drainage and a BSc in Civil Engineering from San Simon Major University (Bolivia). He also obtained the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ, or in Dutch: BKO), a qualification of pedagogical competences of university teachers.
He has 22 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, 5 book chapters in top publishing houses, and 24 conference proceedings in the areas of seawater and brackish water desalination, water treatment, water reuse, and natural organic matter characterization. He is a member of the SENSE Research School.
Sergio is involved in teaching and curriculum development of the MSc Programme in Urban Water and Sanitation (UWS) at IHE Delft. Furthermore he has worked in capacity building and in research and innovation projects, and has been project leader in several of them. He has mentored more than 35 MSc students, co-promoted 3 PhD students, and currently supervises 2 PhD students.
Sergio serves in the board of reviewers of the journals: Frontiers in Separation Processes and Membranes. Sergio is in charge of the desalination and membrane technology research line at IHE Delft (www.desalination-delft.nl).
See also:
Research Interests
- Membrane technology (microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis): control of particulate / colloidal fouling, fouling of RO due to cationic polymers, calcium carbonate scaling in BWRO and SWRO, removal of micropollutants, pre-treatment for SWRO systems, hydrodynamic conditions
- Desalination of seawater and brackish water
- Water reuse: reuse of domestic wastewater treated effluent into ultrapure water
- Biological stability of drinking water
- Smart dosing control: coagulants and antiscalants
- Natural organic matter characterization
- Development of early warning tools/indicators to assess fouling in RO systems (e.g., MFI-UF, ATP, AOC, growth potential)
- Sousi M., Salinas-Rodriguez S.G., Liu G., Schippers J.C., Kennedy M.D., and van der Meer W. (2020) Measuring bacterial growth potential of ultra-low nutrient drinking water produced by reverse osmosis: Effect of sample pre-treatment and bacterial inoculum. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:791. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00791 [IF = 4.235]
- Schurer R, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD, Cornelissen ER, Salinas-Rodriguez SG, Hijnen WA, van der Wal A (2019) Enhancing biological stability of disinfectant-free drinking water by reducing high molecular weight organic compounds with ultrafiltration posttreatment. Water Research (164), 114927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.114927 [IF = 9.13]
- Armendariz-Ontiveros MM, Fimbres Weihs GA, de los Santos Villalobos S, Salinas-Rodriguez SG (2019) Biofouling of FeNP-Coated SWRO Membranes with Bacteria Isolated after Pre-Treatment in the Sea of Cortez. Coatings, 9(7), 462; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings9070462 [IF = 2.436]
- Abushaban A, Salinas-Rodriguez SG, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) Assessing pretreatment and seawater reverse osmosis performance using an ATP-based bacterial growth potential method. Desalination 467: 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2019.06.001 [IF = 7.098]
- Salinas-Rodriguez SG, Sithole N, Dhakal N, Olive M, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) Monitoring particulate fouling of North Sea water with SDI and new ASTM MFI0.45 test. Desalination 454: 10-19 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2018.12.006 [IF = 7.098]
- Abushaban A, Salinas-Rodriguez SG, Mangal MN, Mondal S, Goueli SA, Knezev A, Vrouwenvelder JS, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) ATP measurement in seawater reverse osmosis systems: Eliminating seawater matrix effects using a filtration-based method. Desalination 453: 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2018.11.020 [IF = 7.098]
- Sousi, M., Liu, G., Salinas-Rodriguez, S. G., Blankert, B., Schippers, J. C., van der Meer, W. G. J., & Kennedy, M. D. (2018). Further developing the bacterial growth potential method for ultra-pure drinking water produced by remineralization of reverse osmosis permeate. Water Research, 145, 687-696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.09.002. [IF = 9.13]
- Arevalo, J., Sandin, R., Kennedy, M. D., Salinas-Rodriguez, S. G., Rogalla, F., & Monsalvo, V. M. (2018). Membrane-based pretreatment to mitigate variations in desalination plants. Water Science and Technology, 77(12), 2858–2866. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.279 [IF = 1.638]
- Dhakal, N., Salinas-Rodriguez, S. G., Ouda, A., Schippers, J.C., Kennedy, M. D. (2018). Fouling of ultrafiltration membranes by organic matter generated by marine algal species. Journal of Membrane Science 555: 418-428, doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2018.03.057. [IF = 7.183]
- Abushaban, A., Mangal, M. N., Salinas-Rodriguez, S. G., Nnebuo, C., Mondal, S., Goueli, S. A., . . . Kennedy, M. D. (2017). Direct measurement of ATP in seawater and application of ATP to monitor bacterial growth potential in SWRO pre-treatment systems. Desalination and Water Treatment, 99, 91-101. doi: 10.5004/dwt.2017.21783 [IF = 1.631]
- Salinas-Rodriguez, S.G., Prabowo, A., Abushaban, A., Battes, F., Schippers, J.C., & Kennedy, M.D. (2016). Pre-coating of outside-inside capillary UF membranes with iron hydroxide particles to limit non-backwashable fouling during seawater algal blooms. Desalination and Water Treatment, 57(55), 26730-26740. doi:10.1080/19443994.2016.1190111 [IF = 1.631]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Amy, G.L., Schippers, J.C., & Kennedy, M.D. (2015). The Modified Fouling Index Ultrafiltration Constant Flux for assessing particulate/colloidal fouling of RO systems. Desalination, 365, 79-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2015.02.018 [IF = 7.098]
- Dhakal, N., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Schippers, J.C., & Kennedy, M.D. (2015). Induction time measurements in two brackish water reverse osmosis plants for calcium carbonate precipitation. Desalination and Water Treatment, 53(2), 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443994.2014.903870 [IF = 1.631]
- Ekowati, Y., Msuya, M., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Veenendaal, G., Schippers, J.C., & Kennedy, M.D. (2014). Synthetic organic polymer fouling in municipal wastewater reuse reverse osmosis. Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 4(3), 125-136. doi:10.2166/wrd.2014.046 [IF = 2]
- Dhakal, N., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Schippers, J., & Kennedy, M. (2014). Perspectives and challenges for desalination in developing countries. IDA Journal of Desalination and Water Reuse, 6(1), 10-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2051645214Y.0000000015 [IF = 0.688]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Amy, G.L., & Schippers, J.C. (2012). Flux dependency of particulate/colloidal fouling in seawater reverse osmosis systems. Desalination and Water Treatment, 42, 155-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443994.2012.683104 [IF = 1.631]
- Gasia Bruch, E., Busch, M., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., & Kennedy, M.D. (2011). Improving Fouling Indices, Measurements and Modeling: Their Relevance. IDA Journal of Desalination and Water Reuse (Fourth quarter), 58-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/ida.2011.3.4.58 [IF = 0.688]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Schippers, J.C., & Amy, G.L. (2009). Organic foulants in estuarine and bay sources for seawater reverse osmosis – Comparing pre-treatment processes with respect to foulant reductions. Desalination and Water Treatment, 9(1-3), 155-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.5004/dwt.2009.766 [IF = 1.631]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Al-Rabaani, B., Kennedy, M.D., Schippers, J.C., & Amy, G.L. (2009). MFI-UF constant pressure at high ionic strength conditions. Desalination and Water Treatment, 10, 64-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5004/dwt.2009.727 [IF = 1.631]
- Baghoth, S.A., Maeng, S.K., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Ronteltap, M., Sharma, S., Kennedy, M.D., & Amy, G. (2008). An Urban Water Cycle Perspective of Natural Organic Matter (NOM): NOM in Drinking Water, Wastewater Effluent, Storm water, and Seawater. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 8(6), 701-707. doi:10.2166/ws.2008.146 [IF = 0.9]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Diepeveen, A., Prummel, H., & Schippers, J.C. (2008). Optimization of PACl dose to reduce RO cleaning in an IMS. Desalination, 220(1-3), 239-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.039 [IF = 7.098]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Prummel, H., Diepeveen, A., & Schippers, J.C. (2008). PACl: A simulation of the change in Al concentration and Al solubility in RO. Desalination, 220(1-3), 305-312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2007.02.042 [IF = 7.098]
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Amy, G.L., Kim, I.S., Schippers, J.C., Kennedy, M.D. (2020 expected) Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination: Assessment & Pre-treatment of Fouling and Scaling. IWA Publishing, London. ISBN: 9781780409856 (Hardback) https://www.iwapublishing.com/books/9781780409856/seawater-reverse-osmosis-desalination-assessment-pre-treatment-fouling-and
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G. (2011). Particulate and organic matter fouling of SWRO systems: Characterization, modelling and applications. Delft: CRC Press/Balkema. ISBN:9780415620925
Book chapters
- Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Schippers, J.C., & Kennedy, M.D. (2015). Chapter 1: The process of reverse osmosis. In S. Burn & S. Gray (Eds.), Efficient Desalination by Reverse Osmosis - A best practice guide to RO: IWA. ISBN:9781780405056.
- Lattemann, S., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Schippers, J.C., & Amy, G.L. (2012). Environmental and Performance Aspects of Pretreatment and Desalination Technologies. In N. Lior (Ed.), Advances in Water Desalination (pp. 79 - 195 ). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN:9780470054598. doi: 10.1002/9781118347737.ch2
- Sharma, S.K., Baghoth, S.A., Maeng, S.K., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., & Amy, G.L. (2011). Chapter 3. Natural organic matter: Characterization profiling as a basis for treatment process selection and performance monitoring. In A. van Niewenhuizen & J. van der Graaf (Eds.), Handbook on particle separation processes: IWA. ISBN:9781843392774
- Amy, G.L., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Kennedy, M.D., Schippers, J.C., Rapenne, S., Remize, P.-J., . . . Fane, A.G. (2011). Water quality assessment tools. In E. Drioli, A. Criscuoli & F. Macedonio (Eds.), Membrane-Based Desalination - An Integrated Approach (MEDINA) (pp. 192): IWA. ISBN:9781843393214
- Kennedy, M.D., Kamanyi, J., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Lee, N.H., Schippers, J.C., & Amy, G. (2008). Water Treatment by Microfiltration and Ultrafiltration Advanced Membrane Technology and Applications (pp. 131-170): John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN:9780471731672. doi: 10.1002/9780470276280.ch6
Standard method
- Schippers, J.C., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., & Kennedy, M.D. (2014). Proposal to the ASTM to include the "Modified Fouling Index (0.45) (MFI-0.45)" as method to assess particulate fouling potential of water. Approved in 2015: ASTM D8002 - 15, Standard Test Method for Modified Fouling Index (MFI-0.45) of Water. 2015, ASTM International: West Conshohocken, PA.
- Schippers, J.C., Salinas Rodriguez, S.G., Boerlage S.F.E., & Kennedy, M.D. (2014, May-June). Why MFI is edging SDI as a fouling index. Desalination & Water Reuse, 28-32.
Scientific reports
- Schneider, O., Weinrich, L., Giraldo, E., Kennedy, M.D., & Salinas Rodriguez, S.G. (2012). Investigation of Organic Matter Removal in Saline Waters by Pretreatment: Water Research Foundation. Foundation Project Number 4280.
Conference proceedings (selected)
- Yangali Quintanilla V, Mangal MN, Salinas Rodriguez SG, Dusseldorp J, Blankert B, Schippers JC, Meer Wvd, Kennedy MD (2019) Smart RO, field test validation of control and optimization of brackish water desalination. IDA World Desalination Congress, Dubai, UAE, 20-24 October 2019
- Abushaban A, Salinas Rodriguez SG, Pastorelli D, Saul B, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) Monitoring the pretreatment of MIRFA seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant. IDA World Desalination Congress, Dubai, UAE, 20-24 October 2019.
- Dhakal N, Salinas Rodriguez SG, Knops F, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) Algal blooms and fouling potential in membrane based desalination systems. IDA World Desalination Congress, Dubai, UAE, 20-24 October 2019.
- Salinas Rodriguez SG, Sithole N, Dhakal N, Olive M, Schippers JC, Kennedy MD (2019) Monitoring particulate fouling of north sea water with SDI, MFI0.45, and MFI-UF. IDA World Desalination Congress, Dubai, UAE, 20-24 October 2019.
- Dhakal, N., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Schippers, J. C., & Kennedy, M. D. (2018). Global water scarcity and desalination: Challenges and opportunities. International conference on Desalination (InDA-2018), Tiruchirappalli, India.
- Abushaban, A., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Mondal, S., Goueli, S. A., Schippers, J. C., & Kennedy, M. D. (2018). Monitoring Adenosine Triphosphate and bacterial regrowth potential in Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plants. XII Congreso Internacional de AEDYR, Toledo, Espana.
- Dhakal, N., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Knops, F., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2017). Ultrafiltration as a pretreatment for seawater reverse osmosis during algal bloom. IDA World Desalination Congress. Sao Paulo - Brazil: IDA.
- Dhakal, N., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2017). Seawater desalination to alleviate water scarcity in developing countries: What are the barriers? IDA World Desalination Congress. Sao Paulo - Brazil: IDA.
- Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Dhakal, N., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2017). Applying the new MFI0.45 method and comparison with SDI in seawater reverse osmosis systems. IDA World Desalination Congress. Sao Paulo - Brazil: IDA.
- Abushaban, A., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2017). A new method for assessing bacterial growth in seawater reverse osmosis systems: Method development and applications. IDA World Desalination Congress. Sao Paulo - Brazil: IDA.
- Arevalo, J., Kennedy, M. D., Salinas-Rodriguez, S. G., Sandin, R., Rogalla, F. & Monsalvo, V. M. (2017). Pretreatment systems in desalination plants to reduce extreme events impact in drinking water production. Pan-European Symposium Water and Sanitation Safety Planning and Extreme Weather Events. Bilthoven, Netherlands: IWC.
- Mondal, S., Abushaban, A., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Mangal, M. N., Goueli, S. A. & Kennedy, M. D. (2017). Development and application of new methods to measure bacterial activity and nutrients in seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) In: AMTA/AWWA (ed.) Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition. Long Beach, CA, USA.
- Dhakal, N., Chaveau, S., Knops, F., Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2015). Algal blooms and advanced pre-treatment in seawater reverse osmosis. IDA World congress - Desalination and water Reuse. San Diego, United States: IDA.
- Salinas Rodriguez, S. G., Amy, G. L., Schippers, J. C. & Kennedy, M. D. (2014) What can fouling indices tell us about pre-treatment efficiency and RO operation? In: IWA, ed. Specialist conference: Advances in particle science and separation, 15-18 June 2014 Sapporo, Japan. IWA.


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At our breakfast buffet you can choose from different types of muesli and a seasonal selection of fruit, and from many delicious types of cheese and sausage from organic sources.* Of course we also offer a selection of sweet spreads alongside boiled free-range eggs, accompanied by fresh bread or wholemeal bread, rolls and croissants. Freshly brewed coffee and tea as well as orange juice are of course also part of the generous breakfast in Hotel Les Nations. We also serve speciality coffees such as Latte Macchiato or Espresso upon request. Please let us know if you have any special requirements – our breakfast service will gladly take care of these for you.
* As a member of Slow Food, we ensure that we offer you organically grown regional produce.


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The show is never going to be Peabody-bait, but any way you slice the numbers, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" has been a hit for Starz.
The gladiator drama wrapped its 13-episode frosh season run on Friday with an aud of 1.23 million viewers, according to Nielsen estimates. The show's aud doubled since its Jan. 22 bow, when 661,000 viewers turned out for the initial Friday 10 p.m. airing. The penultimate seg of "Spartacus" actually topped the finale, with anaverage of 1.28 million viewers.
The cume number for the show's premiere telecast plus a Friday and Sunday repeat has grown from 1.34 million viewers in its debut to 2.24 million for the April 9 seg.
The adults 18-49 growth story is also impressive, spiking from 370,000 in its debut to 725,000 for the April 9 episode. The 18-49 cume for the Friday/Sunday airings reached 1.23 million for the April 9 episode. That's a pretty good number for Starz' subscriber base of about 17 million homes.
For the season overall, "Spartacus" averaged 960,000 viewers and 534,000 in adults 18-49.
"Spartacus," exec produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert Joshua Donen and Steven S. DeKnight for Starz Media, was renewed for a soph season even before it premiered (Daily Variety, Dec. 22).


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Welcome to Year 1!
Hello and a very warm welcome to a brand new school year.
The children have settled well into Year 1 and we are extremely proud already at how grown up they have become.
Please visit our class page regularly as each half term we will keep you updated with what topics we are covering and what fun things we are learning about and doing in class.
If you ever have anything to ask please approach one of the members of the Year 1 team.
Thank you
Miss Hodgson Mrs Bolton Mrs Flaherty
Year 1 School Trip - Abbey House Museum:
We had a super time at Abbey House Museum. We saw lots of old toys and got to play with some toys we had never seen before. We had fun at lunch, dressing up as Kings Queens and Knights. We finished off the day by visiting the ruins of Kirkstal Abbey and played there before we came back to school.
A great day was had by both staff and students!
The Toy Box Ate My Brother
The race was on to get a toy
And Thomas was the winner
He beat me to the toy box
But he ended up as dinner
The toy box ate my brother
'cuz he made a tragic blunder
He entered with a head-first dive
And quickly got pulled under
He kicked his feet and called my name
While our toy box drooled and slurped
I knew dear Thomas was no more
When that toy box loudly burped
No toy box can be trusted
So I make this solemn promise
I'll rid the world of all of them
In memory of poor Thomas
I know you must be frightened
So I will help you, girls and boys
Just ship your toy box off to me
–along with all your toys!
By Jeff Mondak
Our topic this term is called 'Toy Story' and we are learning about different toys and in particular old toys that were played with by boys and girls along time ago. As part of our learning we played an old playground favourite hopscotch and wrote instructions together as a class on how to play the game. We had lots of fun creating our own designs.
On the first day of the new term Year 1 created a quality line! A quality line is facing forwards, arms by your side standing still and straight and lips closed. Everytime we line up we always try to create that same line from the very first day.
During our first week in Year 1 we enjoyed settling in and getting to know each other. We revisited our skills learnt in Reception in a fun way and enjoyed using our phonics to build words out of play dough and magnetic letters. We also practised our counting skills and ordered numbers to 20 and beyond.
During our first week in Year 1 we also had Independent Learning time!
Year one's News !
Miss Hodgson, Mrs Bolton and Mr Clark would like to say a big thank you to all the parents and children for the lovely gifts and best wishes we have received, this is greatly appreciated. We have enjoyed working with your children and we will miss them dearly and hope they enjoy Year 2 as much as they have Year 1!
Have a lovely Summer!
Thank you very much to those children who took part in our sunflower growing competition, you had all done a fabulous job of looking after them and helping them grow. Well done to Jessica our winner. Her sunflower stood 168cm tall !
Gruffalo Day
This Week KS1 and Foundation enjoyed a Gruffalo Day. We did lots of fun activities like baking buns, making our own Gruffalo's from play dough and taking part in a treasure hunt.
Abbey House Museum
Sports Day !
Beach Party !
Our new Adventure Equipment
There was great excitement this week when the new playground equipment was finished and we were able to test it all for the first time. Year one were really lucky on Thursday and had two goes at playing on the equipment. We all played really well and took turns.
Year one's Beach Hut
During our last term of the school year, we are learning about seaside holidays in the past and comparing them to holidays today. We have created a beach hut role play area within the classroom and would again appreciate any donations of costumes such as beach towels, sunglasses, flip flops, buckets and spades. Also we thought it would be nice to create a photographic display of seaside snaps of the children at the seaside. All of these items can hopefully be used by the children to help provide a fun learning experience for them and everything will be returned to you after the topic.
Thank you
We have sent the sunflowers home for the children to take care of, hopefully they will grow nice and tall for our competition at the end of the summer term.
Term - Summer 2
Year one's Punch and Judy show
We have finished our Punch and Judy puppets and have been performing our own Punch and Judy shows in the classroom !
In literacy we are continuing with the fantasy genre and are now enjoying a range of pirate stories. The children have described a pirate setting using WOW words and created their own pirate character in readiness for writing their own fantasy story next week.
Position of an object
In numeracy this week we have been learning about making 1/4, 1/2 and whole turns, describing the position of an object and directing and moving an object along a route. We really enjoyed directing pirate bee bot around Treasure Island, making sure we avoided palm trees and evil pirates to get to his ship and the treasure. This activity has helped the children with learning their left and right.
Punch and Judy
This week we learnt about the story of Punch and Judy and we have also watched a Punch and Judy show on the whiteboard. We found it very funny and we have begun to make our own Punch and Judy puppets using split pins. We are looking forward to creating our own Punch and Judy shows in our Punch and Judy theatre.
Year one's Ice-Cream Parlour - Numeracy
This week we have been learning about money. We have enjoyed buying ice-creams from our ice-cream parlour using the correct coins to pay for the items and working out how to give change back from 10p and 20p coins.
"Under the sea"
Last week we used different fabric and materials to create colourful collages of our favourite sea creatures. They have been added to our under the sea display. We hope you like them !
This term we are learning about fantasy stories in our literacy lessons and linking them to an underwater theme. In groups we used WOW words to describe underwater fantasy settings and underwater fantasy characters.
Term - Summer 1
Year one's Display Work - Term, Summer 1
Cress Sandwiches
On Thursday afternoon we tasted the cress we have been growing in tasty cress sandwiches.
Fruit Kebabs
On Thursday we enjoyed making the fruit kebabs we designed. We also tasted some exciting tropical fruits like Sharon fruit, passion fruit , lychee ,figs and physalis. We found the soft squishy fruits like strawberries and blueberries easy to put on our skewers but putting the apples on the skewer was more difficult. Our fruit kebabs were yummy !!!
Year One's Garden - Growing Sunflowers
For part of our topic we have planted our own sunflower seeds and we have learnt about the life cycle of a sunflower. We plan to send the sunflowers home at half term for the children to continue to care for them. Please keep us updated as to how they are growing.
We also thought it would be nice to have a sunflower competition where the children could bring back their grown sunflower and the tallest sunflower will win a prize.
'How does your Garden Grow?
This term our topic has been entitled 'How does your Garden Grow? We have been learning about plants and growth. We started our first day of term with an exciting trip to Harlow Carr. Whilst at Harlow Carr we planted some cauliflower seedlings, which we are attempting to grow in our Year 1 garden. We also learnt about the different kinds of seeds you can get from different plants.


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QUESTIONS FOR THE SOCIAL WORKER. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. With Plainville Senior Center Outreach Coordinator Stephanie Soucy. Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Part D, Medicare Saving Program, Housing Optins, Alzheimer's Help, Caregiving, Homecare, etc. Program open to residents of Plainville, 60 years of age or older or their caregivers. (860) 747-5728.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CLUB. Held by the Plainville Senior Center. Crescent Lake, Southington. Plainville center members only. Reserve. (860) 747-5728.
ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH TRAVELERS. Wednesday, Aug. 12, "Remember the Good Times" with Bobby Rydell at the Aqua Turf, Mulberry Street, Plantsville. Enjoy lunch and music. $82. Drive on your own. Wednesday, Sept. 16, The Docks of Point Judith, Galilee, Rhode Island, "A Fisherman's Story." Seafood lunch then take a stroll by the harbor, check out the shops. $83 per person. Reservations. (860) 589-5597.
DENTAL CLINIC. Provided by Community Health Center, Inc. By appointment. Registered dental hygienist will provide a complete exam, dental cleaning, scalants, and X-rays when appropriate. Help in paying for the clinic in form of scholarships provided by a grant through the Older Americans Act through the North Central Area on Aging are available to members of the Plainville Senior Center. Plainville Senior Center, 200 East St., Plainville. Appointments. (860) 983-2990. For information on scholarships, call (860) 747-5728.
EIGHTH ANNUAL CONNECTICUT SENIOR JURIED ART SHOW. All seniors 70-plus are invited to participate at show at Pomperaug Woods, Southbury in September. Entries accepted for painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. First, second, third, and honorable mention awards will be given in each category. Winning art in each category will be on exhibit at Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury Oct. 4 to Nov. 15. Entry forms, rules, and information is available at the Plainville Senior Center, 200 East St., Plainville or PomperaugWoods.com
CHOLESTEROL SCREENING. 10 minute appointment, few drops of blood from a fingertip, and you can learn your numbers for total cholesterol, and the good and bad cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose. Doesn't require fasting. Plainville Senior Center, 200 East St., Plainville. $10. Pay at the appointment. Appointments. (860) 747-5728. Plainville Senior Center members only.
SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE. Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon. Bristol Senior Center is host to a remote Social Security office. No need to reserve time. First-come, first-serve. Bristol Senior Center, 240 Stafford Ave., Bristol.
WHEELER SENIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH COORDINATOR JUSTINE MICALIZZI. Mondays, 10 a.m to noon. Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Receive information about mental health, substance use disorders, treatment recovery resources, early childhood, and local programs and services. Southington Library and Museum, 255 Main St., Southington.


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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, today met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Muhriddin.
High Representative Borrell and Minister Muhriddin discussed ways to upgrade EU-Tajikistan bilateral relations, building on the EU's new Central Asia Strategy, which was adopted in June 2019. They also reviewed the progress of economic reforms in Tajikistan, as well as human rights issues and the rule of law. High Representative/Vice-President Borrell stressed the need for progress in these areas, not least in the context of Tajikistan's ambition to benefit from the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) – the EU's unilateral special incentive trade arrangement. This is also particularly relevant in the context of the approaching parliamentary and presidential elections due to take place in Tajikistan in 2020.
In addition to bilateral matters, they discussed a number of regional issues, including the promotion of Euro-Asia connectivity, regional water management, as well as fight against terrorism and border security. The High Representative welcomed Tajikistan's active role in promoting regional cooperation in Central Asia, including in relation to Afghanistan.


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NEA President Van Roekel on House passage of American economic recovery package
Action acknowledges that road to economic recovery runs through nation's classrooms
WASHINGTON - February 13, 2009 -
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a conference report on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a package aimed at helping states, public schools and families around the country cope with the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. The legislation will save and create jobs, get the economy moving again, and transform it for long-term growth and stability. Moreover, the landmark legislation includes the largest investment of federal funds in public education in history.
The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"Today, we are a step closer to an economic recovery package as bold as the challenges facing Americans. This is a solid recognition by Congress that the road to economic recovery runs through our classrooms.
"House action on the recovery and reinvestment package is both timely and critically important for America's children. The injection of federal funds will help children learn, modernize schools and labs, keep schools and libraries open, help educators keep their jobs and provide students with 21st century environments.
"While this is a step forward, we still have a long way to go before more Americans are back at work, states are back from the brink of financial collapse, schools are modernized and we ensure great public schools for all students.
"We urge the Senate to move quickly to pass this important piece of legislation to strengthen our economy now and invest in America's future."
For additional information, please visit http://www.nea.org/
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Waiting for a train in Hudson, NY. I looked up from my book to see the sky fully lit and glowing. And it reminded me of a painting I had finished weeks earlier – of steel gray clouds passing in front of an horizon orange with the sun setting. Art, meet life.
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Hello everyone! Happy summer to you all! It's Aliza here today. I have a quick little tip for you today. I often find that after a nice busy day, when lots happened, and many photos were taken, I have way more stories than I can comfortably fit on a page. Or even a two-page spread (and I am way out of practice on those, anyway.) So, I have given myself permission to create several pages, each one with its own little moment to capture.
Mother's day was one of those days this year.
First, I just loved this photo of me and my boys. I let myself make a layout with no story at all. Just a big photo, and the date:
Then there was how story of how the day came together, what we did, what see saw, and how we felt while we were there:
And then I had another little detail of the day. It's about turtles, of all things. I wanted to include many of those photos too. So that little detail got its own page, as well:
Here's to a summer filled with big stories and little stories, and may we have time and energy to tell them.


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Now that the V3 is out there are quite a few R1V2s hitting the second hand market at prices that are acceptable to the average punter. I thought I would post a few tips I have found on keeping used R1V2s as good as possible. These are great kites, so easy to use, amazing range and speed. They have performance I will likely never be good enough to fully appreciate. But I like freerace style, and cheating god in light winds. Buying one second hand is a great option.
I have a 15m that is third hand. It was used by 2 previous owners with better skills than me and I'm guessing had done a couple of hundred hours by the time I got it. It had a few small pinholes that I patched. It rode well for a while but despite tuning it then developed instability issues and as I'm not so skilled it went in the water a few times and would get wet very fast. Despite all its use the canopy looks in great shape when inflated. Provided there are no blown cells I don't think it is canopy deterioration that is a problem with well used foil kites. At the advice of Ozone I purchased a new bridle. It took a few hours to replace but what a difference that made. I know there are some who wax on about restretching bridle lines but thats too complex and repetitive for me.The investment in a new bridle was worth it. Then I sprayed the canopy with a product called CRC Aqua Armour. The 15m took about 3 cans so cost about $75 to do the whole kite. It is not a total sealant but is a hydrophobic waterproofing spray. I found the kite inflated harder, and takes about 3 times as long to deflate, so I assume it is sealed better in general. If I put the tip in the water the water literally falls off and the kite does not get wet. I have had the kite in the water for 20mins at one stage and still managed to water relaunch it. After 6 months of use I think I need to respray the tips, but most of the canopy is still good. I do think it added 100-200 grams to the weight of the kite so probably extreme low end is not so good. But for someone like me who has a habit of sticking his foil kite in the water it has been a good thing to do. Only downside is that if you do put the kite in the drink and water gets inside the canopy tends to retain droplets inside itself so you need to fly the kite for a while to dry out the inside properly.
I also have an 11m with less hours but I managed to blow out about 5 cells. I think it happened by trying to lift the kite when full of water, rather than a hard kite crash. A friend told me how to do "open heart surgery" on the kite to repair the internal struts and it seems to have worked perfectly. You need to accept that the kite is basically stuffed as a race kite as it is so cutting it open is only a step forward. Basically you blow up the kite with a garden blower, identify the blown cells...it will be the internal struts between the two bulging cells. Cut a slit in one of the cells about 15-20 cm in the middle of a cell along its length, reach in and identify the torn material and stick it back together with lightweight spinnaker repair tape. Then patch the cut on the cell. Blow it up and bingo... You'll probably never on-sell it but once you have blown cells its game over on that front anyway. At least it flies properly again and you can use it till its dead.
Much as I would like a shiny new kite I find it hard to justify the cost of a new racefoil, so for the weekend freeracer like me this is a great option to get a cheaper high performance kite second hand and nurse a couple more seasons out of it.


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Heterologous prime/boost regimens have the potential for raising high levels of immune responses. Here we report that DNA priming followed by a recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (rMVA) booster controlled a highly pathogenic immunodeficiency virus challenge in a rhesus macaque model. Both the DNA and rMVA components of the vaccine expressed multiple immunodeficiency virus proteins. Two DNA inoculations at 0 and 8 weeks and a single rMVA booster at 24 weeks effectively controlled an intrarectal challenge administered 7 months after the booster. These findings provide hope that a relatively simple multiprotein DNA/MVA vaccine can help to control the acquired immune deficiency syndrome epidemic.
Cellular immunity plays an important role in the control of immunodeficiency virus infections (1). Recently, a DNA vaccine designed to enhance cellular immunity by cytokine augmentation successfully contained a highly virulent immunodeficiency virus challenge (2). Another promising approach to raising cellular immunity is DNA priming followed by recombinant poxvirus boosters (3). This heterologous prime/boost regimen induces 10- to 100-fold higher frequencies of T cells than priming and boosting with DNA or recombinant poxvirus vaccines alone. Previously, we showed that boosting a DNA-primed response with a poxvirus was superior to boosting with DNA or protein for the control of a nonpathogenic immunodeficiency virus (4). Here we test DNA priming and poxvirus boosting for the ability to protect against a highly pathogenic mucosal challenge. The 89.6 chimera of simian and human immunodeficiency viruses (SHIV-89.6) was used for the construction of immunogens and its highly pathogenic derivative, SHIV-89.6P, for challenge (5). SHIV-89.6 and SHIV-89.6P do not generate cross-neutralizing antibody (6) and allowed us to address the ability of vaccine-raised T cells and nonneutralizing antibodies to control an immunodeficiency virus challenge. Modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) was used for the construction of the recombinant poxvirus. MVA has been highly effective at boosting DNA-primed CD8 T cells and enjoys the safety feature of not replicating in human or monkey cells (3).
To ensure a broad immune response, both the DNA and recombinant MVA (rMVA) components of the vaccine expressed multiple immunodeficiency virus proteins. The DNA prime (DNA/89.6) expressed simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) Gag, Pol, Vif, Vpx, and Vpr and human immunodeficiency virus–1 (HIV-1) Env, Tat, and Rev from a single transcript (7–9). The rMVA booster (MVA/89.6) expressed SIV Gag, Pol, and HIV-1 Env under the control of vaccinia virus early/late promoters (10). Vaccination was accomplished by priming with DNA at 0 and 8 weeks and boosting with rMVA at 24 weeks (Fig. 1A) (11).Four groups of six rhesus macaques each were primed with either 2.5 mg (high-dose) or 250 μg (low-dose) of DNA by intradermal (i.d.) or intramuscular (i.m.) routes with a needleless jet injection device (Bioject, Portland, Oregon) (12, 13). Gene gun deliveries of DNA were not used because these had primed nonprotective immune responses in our 1996–98 trial (4). The MVA/89.6 booster immunization [2 × 108 plaque-forming units (pfu)] was injected with a needle both i.d. and i.m. A control group included two mock immunized animals and two naïve animals. The challenge was given at 7 months after the rMVA booster to test for the generation of long-term immunity. Because most HIV-1 infections are transmitted across mucosal surfaces, an intrarectal challenge was administered.
DNA priming followed by rMVA boosting generated high frequencies of virus-specific T cells that peaked at 1 week after the rMVA booster (Fig. 1). The frequencies of T cells recognizing the Gag-CM9 epitope were assessed by means of Mamu-A*01 tetramers (14), and the frequencies of T cells recognizing epitopes throughout Gag were assessed with pools of overlapping peptides and an enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assay (15, 16). Gag-CM9 tetramer analyses were restricted to macaques that expressed theMamu-A*01 histocompatibility type, whereas ELISPOT responses did not depend on a specific histocompatibility type. As expected, the DNA immunizations raised low levels of memory cells that expanded to high frequencies within 1 week of the rMVA booster (Fig. 1) (17). In Mamu-A*01 macaques, CD8 cells specific to the Gag-CM9 epitope expanded to frequencies as high as 19% of total CD8 T cells (17). This peak of specific cells underwent a 10- to 100-fold contraction into the DNA/MVA memory pool (Fig. 1A) (17). ELISPOTs for three pools of Gag peptides also underwent a major expansion [frequencies up to 4000 spots for 1 × 106 peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC)] before contracting from 5- to 20-fold into the DNA/MVA memory response (Fig. 1B). The frequencies of ELISPOTs were the same in macaques with and without the A*01 histocompatibility type (P > 0.2) (18). At both peak and memory phases of the vaccine response, the rank order for the height of the ELISPOTs in the vaccine groups was 2.5 mg i.d. > 2.5 mg i.m. > 250 μg i.d. > 250 μg i.m. (Fig. 1B). The interferon-γ (IFN-γ) ELISPOTs included both CD4 and CD8 cells (19). Gag-CM9–specific CD8 cells had good lytic activity after restimulation with peptide (19).
The highly pathogenic SHIV-89.6P challenge was administered intrarectally at 7 months after the rMVA booster (20), when vaccine-raised T cells were in memory (Fig. 1). The challenge infected all of the vaccinated and control animals (Fig. 2). However, by 2 weeks after challenge, titers of plasma viral RNA were at least 10-fold lower in the vaccine groups (geometric means of 1 × 107 to 5 × 107) than in the control animals (geometric mean of 4 × 108) (Fig. 2A) (21–23). By 8 weeks after challenge, both high-dose DNA-primed groups and the low-dose i.d. DNA-primed group had reduced their geometric mean loads to about 1000 copies of viral RNA per milliliter. At this time, the low-dose i.m. DNA-primed group had a geometric mean of 6 × 103 copies of viral RNA and the nonvaccinated controls had a geometric mean of 2 × 106. By 20 weeks after challenge, even the low-dose i.m. group had reduced its geometric mean copies of viral RNA to 1000. Among the 24 vaccinated animals, only one animal, animal number 22 in the low-dose i.m. group, had intermittent viral loads above 1 × 104 copies per milliliter (Fig. 2D).
By 5 weeks after challenge, all of the nonvaccinated controls had undergone a profound depletion of CD4 cells (Fig. 2B). All of the vaccinated animals maintained their CD4 cells, with the exception of animal 22 in the low-dose i.m. group (see above), which underwent a slow CD4 decline (Fig. 2E). By 23 weeks after challenge, three of the four control animals had succumbed to AIDS (Fig. 2C). These animals had variable degrees of enterocolitis with diarrhea, cryptosporidiosis, colicystitis, enteric campylobacter infection, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and SIV-associated giant cell pneumonia. In contrast, all 24 vaccinated animals maintained their health.
Containment of the viral challenge was associated with a burst of antiviral T cells (Figs. 1 and 3A). At 1 week after challenge, the frequency of tetramer+ cells in the peripheral blood had decreased, potentially reflecting the recruitment of specific T cells to the site of infection (Fig. 3A). However, by 2 weeks after challenge, tetramer+ cells in the peripheral blood had expanded to frequencies as high as, or higher than, after the rMVA booster (Figs. 1 and 3A). The majority of the tetramer+ cells produced IFN-γ in response to a 6-hour peptide stimulation (Fig. 3B) (24, 25) and did not have the "stunned" IFN-γ negative phenotype sometimes observed in viral infections (26). The postchallenge burst of T cells contracted concomitant with the decline of the viral load. By 12 weeks after challenge, virus-specific T cells were present at about one-tenth of their peak height (Figs. 1A and 3A) (19). In contrast to the vigorous secondary response in the vaccinated animals, the naïve animals mounted a modest primary response (Figs. 1B and 3A). Tetramer+ cells peaked at less than 1% of total CD8 cells (Fig. 3A), and IFN-γ–producing ELISPOTs were present at a mean frequency of about 300 as opposed to the much higher frequencies of 1000 to 6000 in the vaccine groups (Fig. 1B) (P < 0.05) (18). The tetramer+ cells in the control group, like those in the vaccine group, produced IFN-γ after peptide stimulation (Fig. 3B). By 12 weeks after challenge, three of the four controls had undetectable levels of IFN-γ–producing ELISPOTs (19). This rapid loss of antiviral T cells in the presence of high viral loads may reflect the lack of CD4 help.
T cell proliferative responses demonstrated that virus-specific CD4 cells had survived the challenge and were available to support the antiviral immune response (Fig. 3C) (27). At 12 weeks after challenge, mean stimulation indices for Gag-Pol-Env or Gag-Pol proteins ranged from 35 to 14 in the vaccine groups but were undetectable in the control group. Consistent with the proliferation assays, intracellular cytokine assays demonstrated the presence of virus-specific CD4 cells in vaccinated but not control animals (19). The overall rank order of the vaccine groups for the magnitude of the proliferative response was 2.5 mg i.d. > 2.5 mg i.m. > 250 μg i.d. > 250 μg i.m.
At 12 weeks after challenge, lymph nodes from the vaccinated animals were morphologically intact and responding to the infection, whereas those from the infected controls had been functionally destroyed (Fig. 4). Nodes from vaccinated animals contained large numbers of reactive secondary follicles with expanded germinal centers and discrete dark and light zones (Fig. 4A). By contrast, lymph nodes from the nonvaccinated control animals showed follicular and paracortical depletion (Fig. 4B), whereas those from unvaccinated and unchallenged animals displayed normal numbers of minimally reactive germinal centers (Fig. 4C). Germinal centers occupied <0.05% of total lymph node area in the infected controls, 2% of the lymph node area in the uninfected controls, and up to 18% of the lymph node area in the vaccinated groups (Fig. 4D). More vigorous immune reactivity in the low-dose than the high-dose DNA-primed animals was suggested by more extensive germinal centers in the low-dose group (Fig. 4D). At 12 weeks after challenge, in situ hybridization for viral RNA revealed rare virus-expressing cells in lymph nodes from 3 of the 24 vaccinated macaques, whereas virus-expressing cells were readily detected in lymph nodes from each of the infected control animals (19). In the controls, which had undergone a profound depletion in CD4 T cells, the cytomorphology of infected lymph node cells was consistent with a macrophage phenotype (19).
The prime/boost strategy raised low levels of antibody to Gag and undetectable levels of antibody to Env (Fig. 5). Postchallenge, antibodies to both Env and Gag underwent anamnestic responses with total Gag antibody reaching heights approaching 1 mg/ml and total Env antibody reaching heights of up to 100 μg/ml (28). By 2 weeks after challenge, neutralizing antibodies for the 89.6 immunogen, but not the SHIV-89.6P challenge, were present in the high-dose DNA-primed groups (geometric mean titers of 352 in the i.d. and 303 in the i.m. groups) (Fig. 5C) (29). By 5 weeks after challenge, neutralizing antibody to 89.6P had been generated (geometric mean titers of 200 in the high-dose i.d. and 126 in the high-dose i.m. group) (Fig. 5D) and neutralizing antibody to 89.6 had started to decline. By 16 to 20 weeks after challenge, antibodies to Gag and Env had fallen in most animals.
Discussion. Our results demonstrate that a multiprotein DNA/MVA vaccine can raise a memory immune response capable of controlling a highly virulent mucosal immunodeficiency virus challenge. Our levels of viral control were more favorable than have been achieved with only DNA (30) or rMVA vaccines (31) and were comparable to those obtained for DNA immunizations adjuvanted with interleukin-2 (2). All of these previous studies have used more than three vaccine inoculations, none have used mucosal challenges, and most have challenged at peak effector responses and not allowed a prolonged postvaccination period to test for "long-term" efficacy.
The dose of DNA had statistically significant effects on both cellular and humoral responses (P < 0.05), whereas the route of DNA administration affected only humoral responses (18). Intradermal DNA delivery was about 10 times more effective than i.m. inoculations for generating antibody to Gag (P = 0.02) (18). Neither route nor dose of DNA appeared to have a significant effect on protection. At 20 weeks after challenge, the high-dose DNA-primed animals had slightly lower geometric mean levels of viral RNA (7 × 102 and 5 × 102) than the low-dose DNA-primed animals (9 × 102 and 1 × 103).
The DNA/MVA vaccine controlled the infection, rapidly reducing viral loads to near or below 1000 copies of viral RNA per milliliter of blood. Containment, rather than prevention of infection, affords the opportunity to establish a chronic infection (4). By rapidly reducing viral loads, a multiprotein DNA/MVA vaccine will extend the prospect for long-term nonprogression and limit HIV transmission (32, 33).


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Walker, aides to tour drought-stricken farms
Walker will view damage from the ground and in the air
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker and three of his cabinet secretaries plan to tour a couple drought-stricken farms in southern Wisconsin on Friday.
Walker will be joined by Ben Brancel, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection; Cathy Stepp, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources; and Ted Nickel, secretary of the Department of Insurance.
Walker plans to view drought damage from the air and also take ground tours of farms in Burlington and Dodgeville.
The tour comes after Walker on Wednesday expanded a drought emergency declaration statewide. The U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday also upgraded the drought from severe to extreme across southern Wisconsin.


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Denomination : AR Antoninianus. Mint : Cologne.
Date : Joint reign with Valerian I, AD 257 to 258.
Size : 21.7 x 22.8 mm. Weight : 3.98 grams.
Reference : Sear-10379 variety (head right). This exact variety does not appear to be listed in RIC but it is the same as RIC V,1, #49 except for bust right instead of bust left.
Grade : VF
Obverse : Head of Gallienus right, with GALLIENVS P F AVG around.
Reverse : Victory standing right on globe between two captives, with VICT GERMANICA around. This is one of Gallienus, early issues actually struck in silver (probably fairly base silver, but they look like good silver).
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July 18, 2011 7:50am
Ivanka Trump has a new little costar, though the baby girl likely won't appear on "The Celebrity Apprentice" any time soon.
Trump, with husband Jared Kushner, gave birth to a girl Sunday morning in New York and apparently had such an easy go of it, she was up for a tweet.
"This morning @jaredkushner and I welcomed a beautiful and healthy little baby girl into the world," she wrote.
"We feel incredibly grateful & blessed. Thank you all for your support and well wishes!"
Just two days before delivery, the daughter of Donald Trump hit the red carpet looking bump-alicious in white with Kushner in tow for a screening of the film "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan."
This is the first child for the couple, who wed in October 2009.
from: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/07/ivanka-trump-baby-girl-jared-kushner.html
Arabella Rose Kushner was born on Sunday July 17th, 2011
July 17th, 2011
7 + 17 +2+0+1+1 = 28 = her life lesson = what she is here to learn = Bold. Daring. Heroic. Survivor. Possibilities. Overcoming obstacles. Personal power. Willpower. Powerful.
Each letter of the first name rules 9 years of life. Ages 0 to 9 are ruled by the sum of the first letter of the name and the month of birth.
Arabella Rose Kushner July 17th, 2011
1 (A is the 1st letter of the alphabet) + 7 (July) = 8
So from ages zero to nine she has the number 8 going on.
8 = Discipline. Grounded. Practical. Pragmatic. Strength. Power. Control. Business. Status. Recognition. Prestige. Prominence. Business sense. Foundation. Structure. Solid. Sturdy. Concrete. Tangible. Regimented.
Ages 0 to 27 are ruled by the sum of the first three letters of the name and the month of birth.
Arabella Rose Kushner July 17th, 2011
1 (A is the 1st letter of the alphabet) + 18 (r is the 18th letter of the alphabet) + 1 (a is the 1st letter of the alphabet) + 7 (July) = 27
So from ahes zero to twenty-seven she has the number 27 going on.
27 = Original. The first. Innovation. Trailblazer. Pioneer. Inventor. Start. Begin. Usher in. Initiate. Debut. Groundbreaking. Taking the initiative. Taking the first step. Getting started. No harm in trying. Do what you will, but be the first. Brand new.
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Republic Property Group has developed real estate projects with a value in excess of $7 billion across eight states. RPG has a proven track record in all facets of the development process, from site selection and financial analysis to planning, development and management.
Prior to meeting CrateBind, Republic Property Group had previously spent many months and several thousands of dollars on developing their Builder Portal. We teamed up with RPG in the fall of 2017 to help them not only finish out their project but also speed up, enhance and build out a number of new features.
RPG's main needs were two-fold: making the Builder Portal (1) faster and more user-friendly for builders and their staff, as well as (2) building an intuitive and robust dashboard for reporting needs.
We started the design process by collecting requirements from different builders, salespersons and RPG staff who use this product. The low-fidelity wireframes allowed us to be on the right track with users. In the prototype, we introduced a navigation by sorting various data tables from the home screen to certain tab bars, only highlighting the most necessary graph charts that managers needed to access. The rest of the detailed information is arranged in an accordion-style layout.
We used Invision to communicate with the Republic Property Group managers to get more accurate feedback while developing the front end for the dashboard. Once we felt the staging process was ready, we used heapanalytics.com to put it in front of people and continue to improve our designs.
By using React, we were able to build RPG's site with reusable components to construct the UI. This allows for the project to continue to scale more quickly and be easily maintained in the future. The biggest advantage of using React is to speed up rendering dynamic data, especially when implementing RPG's Anti-monotony filter. We have the ability to seamlessly apply real-time filters for selecting homes on the portal's map view.
"When we inherited RPG's project, we immediately saw a need to improve the site's performance. Because of the data-heavy app, we decided using a javascript library, such as React, was the best solution. This drastically improved performance, user-experience and user feedback for all the various levels of users in the app." - Austin, CrateBind Frontend Developer
After deploying the sleeker React code and updating Dashboard, RPG immediately saw positive user feedback and were able to easily compile more builder data for future use. While RPG is still in the infancy stage of taking their product to market they have found success internally using their Builder Portal in two of their own developments.
"CrateBind has been a lifesaver for us. Their creativity and effective structure has allowed us to build fantastic software without breaking the bank. Our project manager is on top of his deadlines and they are thoughtful of our budget. We have already brought them more projects to help us within our short relationship." - Todd Schoenfeld, Republic Property Group


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The Speedy's Friends challenge #10 this week is to use die cuts. Bless those Nesties and CB! How did we ever do without them!
It's also for the IC239 at SCS today. You can check out my gallery to see the deets.
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Mark's Finest Papers Blog where you can win a free stamp set......and they are ALL fabulous, as you know.
Have a fun weekend with friends and family. Ours arrive in less than two hours, so...gotta run!


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3's New Tariffs
On June 9th '3' launched 2 new tariffs aggressively targeting the core of the GSM contract base. In this report we look at the potential impact of these on both H3G and the UK GSM operators.
Recent reports
Sky Q2 2020 results: Emerging from the worst?11 August 2020
The COVID-19 crisis and suspension of sport has hit Sky hard, with Q2 revenue falling 12.9% year-on-year, and EBITDA (while flat for now) expected to fall 60% in H2 as the rights costs from a condensed schedule hit the bottom line
Underlying trends are hard to discern amidst massive disruption, but the UK remains strong, and increasingly less dependent on sport, with continental Europe a work in progress to repeat this model
Longer-term initiatives continue, with new branded channel launches in the UK, broadband launched in Italy, and scope for further moves in Germany provided by significant sports rights cost savings following recent auctions
ITV H1 2020 results: Clawing out of the ravine?11 August 2020
ITV's ad revenues were down 43% in Q2 (and H1 down 21%), with the broadcaster noting that July was 'only' down 23% YoY, with August "markedly better" again
With most production stalled because of lockdown, Studios was down 23% in Q2 (17% in H1). Production is returning to scale (although hopes for quality scripted should be tentative) but there will be a payment and delivery lag that continues to hit future quarters for both sides of the business
Overhanging this improvement, however, are the structural viewing shifts that have been instigated by the pandemic—streaming services have experienced much greater uplifts and we foresee them grabbing a greater proportion of the viewing pie. Locally, modest BritBox is unlikely to help
Art of the deal - Microsoft swoops for TikTok11 August 2020
Microsoft hopes to buy TikTok from Chinese owner ByteDance before President Trump's Executive Order halts transactions with the company in mid-September. Twitter is now in the game, but is unlikely to prevail
Worth tens of billions, TikTok would be the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history. This hot new digital platform has hundreds of millions of users and an ad business that could overtake Snapchat's. Extracting the technology from ByteDance may take years
Selling TikTok to shake off anti-Chinese scrutiny would signal ByteDance's abrupt exit from the digital world stage with a fabulous return on its investment, while letting TikTok users continue to enjoy the service. However, losing TikTok sinks the global growth story that ByteDance was lining up for its anticipated IPO


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Be heard. A Mobile App dedicated exclusively to your own podcast helps establish your brand and keeps your listeners coming back to you, and only you.
With a Mobile App dedicated to your show, your brand comes through loud and clear. Thanks to its minimalistic layout, you can customize the app according to your own personal specifications. Pull a polished look together by adding your own images and choose from a wide array of accent colors.
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Welcome 24 December 2017
Christ, by highest heaven adored:
Christ the everlasting Lord;
Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see,
Hail, the incarnate Deity –
Pleased as Man with man to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel!
(penned by Charles Wesley and set to music by Messianic Jew Felix Mendelssohn, from a cantata celebrating Gutenberg's invention of the printing press)
Too often when I sing, my mind is wandering – but when I sing these inspired words, they grip me, and I choke up. The Majesty of Heaven stooping to save me from the mire of sin, drinking my bitter filth to set me free to be with Him – words fail me, but my heart cries out Lord! Oh thank you Lord!
So with the universal church, from time past to life eternal, let us at this season give joyous praise to the triune God who is bearing us through until He comes a second time, in Power and great Glory.


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The James Webb Space Telescope isn't actually complete yet, but its mirror is now together. As has been stressed repeatedly in places like Twitter, this sight isn't an unfamiliar one, but this time it's not a model or a computer animation… it's the real thing. And that means the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is actually happening!
To understand the community's surprise at what would appear to have been inevitable, you have to realize that space projects – large space projects, particularly – move incredibly slowly. We're talking on the level of Boston's Big Dig, which took 25 years. The Hubble Space Telescope was being planned (as "Space Telescope") since 1972, was ready to launch in 1986, and finally launched in 1990. Various forms of a Pluto probe were proposed, starting in the mid-1980s before the New Horizons project was successful up to launch. A successor to Hubble was proposed in 1989, before Hubble even flew; the first concept was eventually replaced with what is now called James Webb. (And the successor to JWST is already being planned)
The telescope itself is going to be a marvel. It will be the largest telescope to ever fly in space, with a 6.5 meter aperture: larger than most telescopes on Earth, and much larger than the 2.4 meter Hubble Space Telescope. As a result of that decision, JWST will only fit into a rocket if it's folded up, which means large mechanical subsystems will have to work exactly right to unfold it and very precisely align it once it reaches its intended orbit around the Sun. Needless to say, that mechanism is incredibly important – no astronaut is going to be able to fix it like they fixed Hubble.
As a result of many technological challenges, the James Webb Space Telescope has been a very, very expensive one. According to JWST's chronology over at the Space Telescope Science Institute, it was originally expected to be 8 meters in diameter, cost $500 million dollars (where the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto has cost $700 million), and launch in 2008. Suffice it to say, those were wildly underestimated once actual engineering tests and instrument development began. Schedules slipped until they finally ended up at a 2018 launch, the telescope shrank to 6.5 meter mirrors so that it would be easier to launch, and the budget expanded to $8.7 billion dollars… Astronomers began to worry about JWST muscling other programs out of their budgets (which was the subject of my first two posts on this blog, actually*). Remember, NASA's budget is tiny. It only has 0.5% of the national budget, or 17 billion dollars a year, to keep flying the Hubble, Spitzer, and Kepler Space Telescopes, both Voyager probes, New Horizons, Cassini, Dawn, the Juno Jupiter probe, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN (another Mars orbiter), two Mars Rovers, a couple of solar observatories, the International Space Station, an enormous number of weather satellites you rarely hear about, AND develop new rocket technology AND build JWST** (and more that I didn't list, and don't know of). Eventually, NASA was given an extra line item in their budget simply for JWST.
But now here we are: It's been a few years since budgetary estimates and time estimates stopped creeping upwards, and now the first visible signs that it's really going to launch in only two years are here. There are symposia and workshops dedicated to helping people use the data processing software. Instruments are being shipped to Goddard Spaceflight Center.
And there's a physical telescope assembly, ready to go. It's a real thing now. And once it's up in space, it will be able to do amazing things well beyond anything we can do with Hubble. Remember, Hubble's mirror would be considered fairly small if it was on earth, but it's been so great because:
- The on-board instrumentation is absolutely amazing.
- It doesn't have to worry about the blurring and distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere – stars don't twinkle in space.
- It can see wavelengths of light (like ultraviolet and infrared) that the Earth's atmosphere blocks.
- It can stare at objects for DAYS at a time (46 minutes on/46 minutes off as it orbits the Earth) without worrying about weather.
Practically everything Hubble can do (except study ultraviolet phenomena), James Webb will do better. It will see farther and clearer. Infrared light is great at looking through dust, so it will be able to see deep into the hearts of star clusters and through the plane of the Galaxy. It will be able to see finer details and fainter objects than we've ever been able to see before. JWST will be revolutionary, and it's actually coming soon.
*I'll note that I was wrong about two big thing in my second blog post:
One, JWST was never intended to be an optical mission to succeed Hubble. The confusion probably arose because it's often billed as a successor to Hubble, but that's often meant more in the sense of the science it's going to do – probe the edge of the Universe, chart galaxies, study exoplanets – rather than the light it was supposed to be looking at. On the other hand, its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) and near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) will be able to see light as blue as 600 nm, which is visible to the unaided eye as red light. And 600 nm to 1000 nm light is still commonly considered "visible" by astronomers, because it can be picked up with the same detector technology used to capture visible light – your cell phone camera, for example, can pick up infrared TV remotes (unless it's got a filter to prevent exactly that).
Two, JWST does NOT need cryogenic cooling; it maintains an extremely low temperature with its sunshield. This is unlike Spitzer and WISE, whose cryogen ran out and left them unable to use their farthest-infrared detectors, or Herschel, whose mid-infrared mission was entirely over once its cryogen ran out. (In all cases, the spacecraft itself became warm enough that it started seriously glowing at those wavelengths) The limited lifetime of JWST is governed by the maneuvering propellant. Hopefully there will be ways to stretch that.
** NASA isn't solely fitting the bill for most of those things, but the point still stands.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee voted to advance the bipartisan Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act of 2017 (ACE Kids Act, H.R. 3325), co-sponsored by Reps. Barton, R-Texas, and Castor, D-Fla., to the Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration. This legislative progress represents an important step for children, and children's hospitals — on behalf of the patients and families we serve — thank Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, and Ranking Member Gene Green, D-Texas, for their leadership on this critical issue.
The ACE Kids Act would support better coordination of care for children with the most medically complex conditions who rely on Medicaid as their insurance or to supplement their employer-sponsored plan. It would also reduce spending by supporting care closest to the child's home and community, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations, and providing more seamless access to needed care across state lines. More than 20 national health organizations added their support to the Children's Hospital Association's advocacy for this important legislation.
On behalf of our nation's children's hospitals, we look forward to working with the Energy and Commerce Committee to move this legislation — and children's health care in our country — forward.
The Children's Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 220 children's hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care.
Champions for Children's Health
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With a chill in the air and a rumble in my stomach, I decided to take advantage of my shortened work day by swinging by Golden Road Brewing on the way home. It had been a while since I had stopped by, so I was hoping that they would have some new beers on tap for me to try. I was not disappointed.
GOLDEN ROAD BERLINER WEISSE is a Berliner Weissbier (hence the name) with a super sippable 2.8% ABV.


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Ripostes – a poetic conversation between poets Alice Pero and Dan Potter, and musicians Aymeric Dupré de la Tour and Lena Zamolodchikova – was a wonderful event, full of wit and grace! It was well attended by a swirl of listeners, young and old.
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July 29, 2020


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This excursion starts from the hotel after having breakfast around 9:00 am. The entrance to the park is by Rio Serrano area where it is possible to have a panoramic view of the Cordillera del Paine. There is a two hours walk to Peninsula Lago Grey, where it is possible to observe a great number of icebergs and the glacier at the back. After that there is a visit to the information center where the ecosystems of the park will be explained. The lunch box will be served at Cascada Paine, where it is possible to see and admire the three towers. The final stop will be at Salto Grande (it depends on weather conditions) ending the excursion around 5:00 pm at the hotel. The travelers will have a complete vision of the Torres del Paine National Park.
This excursion to the Torres Del Paine Base is the most popular of all the activities performed in the National Park. A challenge for thousands of visitors who eagerly expect that changing weather conditions in the Patagonia will be favorable, so an unforgettable and unique spectacle may be displayed before their eyes. The huge and splendid granite towers sculptured by the colossal strength of nature forces show their overwhelming beauty. It is a trail with steep incline and decline, so it is necessary to be in good physical condition. Lunch Box, transportation and bilingual guide are included.
Horseback rides can be done in the morning or in the afternoon. Riders will enjoy landscapes of the Paine Mountain range, Donoso Hills, Balmaceda and the union of the Grey and Serrano Rivers, among many other wonderful sights. Admire the singular colors of rivers and catch glimpses of numerous wildlife species. As an outdoor activity, riders will feel the wind of Patagonia, the elegance and the force of the horses bringing the sensation of freedom and the benefit of being in touch with nature. Baqueano guide, protective helmet and the riding leggings are included. All departures are from the hotel stables.
Depart from the hotel and embark on a journey which starts from Balseo Tyndall by the Serrano River in zodiac boats. While crossing it is possible to see Campo de Hielos Sur with its Glaciers Balmaceda, Serrano, Geikie and Tyndall. After about 2 hours of navigation disembark to trek one hour to reach Serrano Glacier. Enjoy a delicious lunch and then the navigate your return back to the park, arriving back at the lodge at approximately 4:30 pm. Or, following the trek continue on a ferry to Estancia Perales where a typical magallanic lunch will be served. Return back to the hotel at approximately 5:30pm.
This moderate hike starts from the hotel near a low hill. In the way observe typical flora and fauna from this area. After about 45 minutes of hiking stop to appreciate the Cordillera Paine, Campo de Hielos Sur and a typical patagonian landscape. Continue on but before reaching the top of the hill see a forest plenty of Lengas and Coigues. Upon summitting find the lagoon and enjoy a snack while relaxing and admiring nature. After a while begin your return trip to the hotel.
Due to the diversity of fishing resources such as Brown Trout, Rainbow and Shinook Salmons, Coho and Atlantic, Cabanas del Paine provides experienced guides and specialized equipment. From the hotel fisherman will have a unique experience to enjoy exclusive daily programs which range in duration from one to five days in length, with options for visiting different fishing resources. Previous experience is not needed.