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National and European Policymakers, Manufacturers, Local Businesses
An obvious way to reduce waste is to extend the useful life of products (e.g. razor blades, mobile phones, computers, cars, and buildings). If products were more durable or could be upgraded to last longer, we would have fewer disposals and less need for new products.
Products need to be made more durable. In order for a product to last, it needs to be both physically and stylistically durable. Not only does its parts and connections need to be physically robust to resist damage and wear, but also the product needs to stay relevant and desirable for users. It needs to wear well (have attractive finishes that last). It also needs to be repairable. Companies need to encourage maintenance and repair. Good maintenance and repair instructions should be available not only when the product is bought, but also online. Replacement parts should be easily available and affordable.
Products should also be upgradable so that they can be improved and so avoid the need for replacement. Many of us, for example, are familiar with hardware computer upgrades such as installing additional memory (RAM), adding larger hard disks, replacing microprocessor cards or graphics cards, and installing new versions of software.
Design for disassembly is the process of designing products so that they can easily, cost-effectively and rapidly be taken apart at the end of the product's life so that components can be reused and/or recycled. Designing for disassembly can make it easier for a product to be repaired or upgraded, thereby prolonging its useful life. It can also help ensure a product is recycled and enable whole components to be reused.
Durability of Products (European Commission study)
Active Disassembly using Smart Materials
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We all love slinging a hammock between trees but with these straps the trees love it too. DD Tree Huggers are designed to prevent damage to trees when using a lightweight suspension system.
Get £5 discount off any hammock ropes/straps when bought with any hammock, just use discount code Hang at the checkout
At 2m long they fit around most trees and if using with a smaller tree can be wrapped around more than once. They feature a 3" / 10cm loop sewn in at either end so no knots are required.
- Max recommended weight limit of 125kg
- Lightweight at just 54g for the pair
- Size: 2m x 2cm (extra long straps are 3m long).
- For use with DD Hammocks and for one person only.
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1) You don't know what success is The problem with success is that most people don't fully understand what it is. Success cannot be generalized because success is not the same thing for everyone. A successful life all depends on the individual's goals for themselves and their ability to achieve those goals. Goals change throughout a person's life so the idea of success will also change. If at the age of 5 a child wants to grow up to be a football player, then success is making it to the NFL. But by the age of 21 if he decides that investment banking is what he...Read More
If you are reading this, you are either going through a tough situation or, you are about to be. We've all been there. Financial difficulties, relationship troubles, or career struggles, there are many situations that we come across in life that try their best to break us. Although these situations are sometimes unavoidable, there are ways we can benefit from them. I know what you are thinking, "There is no way that there could be any benefit from this!". Trust me, I've said the same thing. When we are going through tough times, we sometimes want to do everything possible to get...Read More
I feel sorry for Monday. It gets a bad wrap. Even though it is technically the second day of the week, it is the first day in the school and work week. While everyone looks forward to the weekends and celebrates "Hump Day", Mondays are the butt of jokes and is made fun of on posters. Most people begin to dread Sunday nights because of Monday mornings. But, if your Sundays were more productive and enjoyable, perhaps your Mondays would be better. If you're reading this posted right after it was published, you have another week before before you can use some...Read More
Some of you might have been asking yourself "what ever happened to that guy that wakes up at 3am?" Well, I'm still around accomplishing as much as I can in life so I can bring the lessons back to Potential 2 Success. The bulk of the material that I write about on P2S come from my life experiences. Articles like 3am, Start Meaningful Conversations, and Develop Mental Toughness, for example. So for the past several months I have reached new financial, professional, relational, spiritual, as well as mental plateaus. I have also done several life experiments that have elevated the way I develop...Read More
He has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and now, Potential 2 Success. I was first exposed to the writing style of AJ Jacobs while reading The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. AJ wrote about an experiment he called "Outsourcing Life". In the experiment, Jacobs outsourced his entire life to a group of virtual assistants in India. The well written, witty piece influenced me to hire my own virtual assistant. Along with being Editor-at–Large at Esquire Magazine, Jacobs is known for taking on unusual life experiments. So when I saw the book The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble...Read More
Most people wonder endlessly about why their lives are the way they are. Being stuck in a job that they hate, staying in an unhealthy relationship, or never really achieving their purpose in life. These may be the results of living a life that lacks courage, individuality, and an unwillingness to aggressively pursue a better life. Instead of having the courage to face their adversities, question the direction their lives are headed in, and actively seek true success, they opt to wander the earth with no real ambition and a lack of purpose which leads them to be a victim...Read More
I'm sure you've been there. You have a goal in mind that you are excited about reaching. Maybe you finally decided to lose weight or you are inching towards the place you want to be in your career. But as the time goes, so does your motivation and drive. We all need motivation in order to complete our goals and insure our success. Motivation is the fuel that lights that fire in the heart and enables us to propel past obstacles and seize our goals. But in order for that to happen you must sustain your motivation. Here are three ways...Read More
Photo © lassedesignen - Fotolia.com What does the way you speak say about who you are? I have a better question: What would you like the way you speak to say about who you are? Do you want to be perceived as intelligent, confident, caring, funny? The way speak can help you send the message you want. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that the way a person spoke, told of how wise and intelligent that person was. Even though we have so many ways to communicate in our century, we can learn a lot about a person by the way they speak and what...Read More
This guest post give some quick tips for starting a home-based career. Some new entrepreneurs like the idea of starting out by leaving their job for a career where they can work from home. This isn't a bad idea since you will get the opportunity to see how you work independently without a boss looking over your shoulder. Enjoy! 5 Real-World Strategies for Launching a Home-Based Career We're all living in the age of technology, a time when telecommuting is a real possibility and starting one's own business requires no financial investment. Overnight, a person can become a writer, a consultant, a...Read More
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Alex Proyas to Direct 'Gods of Egypt'
Posted on Friday, May 18th, 2012 by Angie Han
Paradise Lost may have turned out to be a bust, but director Alex Proyas seems to have no shortage of new projects to move on to. Last month, he announced that he was getting the pieces together to shoot The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, an adaptation of the novella by Robert A. Heinlein, and now he's on the verge of adding Summit's fantasy epic Gods of Egypt to his slate as well. More details after the jump.
Variety, THR, and Deadline are reporting that Proyas has entered talks to direct, and possibly write the script with Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Sazama and Sharpless' other works include a number of upcoming projects, including a Flash Gordon movie, a futuristic take on Jungle Book, and Dracula: Year Zero — the last of which Proyas was once attached to direct way back when. I can't honestly say I'm excited about any of those, but there's been some good buzz about the Dracula: Year Zero script, at least. Set in "the legendary world of great pyramids and sphinxes," Gods of Egypt will follow a mortal thief, a god, and a goddess banding together against an evil force in an ancient Egypt.
Proyas' resume includes the goth action classic The Crow, the neo-noir Dark City, and the Asimov-inspired I, Robot. More recently, he directed the the Nicolas Cage thriller Knowing, also for Summit, which performed solidly at the box office despite lackluster reviews. It's unclear at this point exactly where in his schedule Gods of Egypt will fit in. As of last month, producers for The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag were said to be targeting a fall 2012 start, and we know that Proyas has been planning that for a few years now. However, if Summit decides to fast-track Gods of Egypt, I'd imagine that the Heinlein adaptation will get pushed back a bit further.


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New Sponsors For Basketball Club
Published at 7:53am 1st September 2014.
Weymouth Raiders basketball team has new sponsors. 'Massage Weymouth' will be giving financial and fitness support to Weymouth Raiders,now known as 'Massage Weymouth Raiders'
Weymouth Raiders basketball team has new sponsors.
'Massage Weymouth' has stepped into the fold and as well as giving their financial support, they are teaming up with the club in an effort to specifically support the treatment of injuries and therapies.
Weymouth 1st Team Player/Coach Alex Fuhrmann has been out of action for nearly a year with shoulder surgery soon to come.
Fuhrmann, "I've personally been taking advantage of the treatments Massage Weymouth has to offer for over a year and they have drastically decreased my lower back pain. Specifically with their links within formation clinic they have helped me go through the process with my current shoulder injury and allowed me to get generous movement despite the need for surgery."
Alongside their agreement the club has renamed the team 'Massage Weymouth Raiders' in respect to their new partners.
Massage Weymouth, Gordon Sharp "We're really happy to be supporting the basketball club. I've been aware of their setup for several years and as a business that deals with many sports injuries it seems a great opportunity to cross promote. We'll be keeping in contact with club officials so we can assist in any injury treatment and help rehabilitate players".
Fuhrmann, "I'm not just pleased that we have been able to strike up another partnership involved with sport, but it's of added benefit is that our registered players will now be able to follow a direct line between sports related injury and getting back on court."
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About Spacehog
Spacehog used to be a Madchester band called Hollow Men. After leaning heavily on the wah-wah pedal and big flares, they tightened up their act, dove headfirst into a vat of yesterday's glitter and became Spacehog. Mining roots from the Glam-ily tree, Spacehog fused the Bowie-esque inflections of singer Royston Langdon with his brother Ant's Mick Ronson/Marc Bolan style of guitarrorism. Drummer Johnny Cragg uses his bionic arms to pound out otherworldly rhythms last heard from Keith Moon. Although Cragg has yet to adopt the double bass set up, his rhythmic ingenuity and skilled dedication to hitting things with sticks is a sheer joy to hear or watch live, especially when the guitar player rocks the blue-glitter motorcycle helmet on stage.
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The first comprehensive world rankings system for women has been released. As you would expect, Annika Sorenstam tops the list. Her place atop the list was a foregone conclusion, but the placement of some other gal golfers has many scratching their heads in confusion.
Most notably, rookie Michelle Wie occupies the third spot on the list with a 9.24 points Average, sandwiched between Paula Creamer (second place with 9.56) and Cristie Kerr (6.94).
Creamer and Kerr combine for eight career LPGA victories while Wie has a big goose egg in professional golf. Kerr voiced her opinion on this matter, saying "Michelle is a sweet girl, she really is, but she hasn't done anything worthy of being ranked so high." While this may seem true, the Women's World Golf Ranking doesn't rank players the same way the men's system works.
The major difference are that all women (both amateur and professional) can be ranked after playing only 15 events on the LPGA, LET, JLPGA, KLPGA, ALPG, or LGU (as opposed to 40 events for the men's ranking system). The system still uses a two-year rolling period, and Wie's placement in some of the LPGA majors in which she's played have served her well.
The 15-event rule has also allowed infrequent players eligibility into the rankings, including Wie. Additionally, the most recent 13 weeks of tournament play are weighed more heavily than previous tournaments, which goes a little towards explaining why Creamer placed ahead of Kerr despite having significantly fewer career victories.
Other notables on the list include:
Rank Player Points Average Events 1 Sorenstam, Annika 18.47 41 2 Creamer, Paula 9.65 35 3 Wie, Michelle 9.24 15 5 Kerr, Cristie 6.94 48 6 Miyazato, Ai 6.58 55 10 Inkster, Juli 4.11 42 18 Gulbis, Natalie 3.38 57 28 Kim, Christina 2.86 62 (Complete rankings available here.)
Rankings systems are always hotly contested, debated, argued, and dismissed. It remains to be seen whether this ranking system, like its counterpart for men, will at least be considered mildly accurate. Placing a career non-winner in the third spot gets it off to a dubious start.


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Friday, 16 June 2017
War crimes: We stand by our report – Amnesty International
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
Amnesty International (AI) has said it is still standing by its report indicting top Nigeria military officers over war crime in the North Eastern part of the country.
AI media manager in Nigeria, Isa Sanusi was responding to summary of the report by the Nigerian military panel investigating the allegations.
Sanusi said, "We stand by the findings of our research and our call for an investigation that is independent, impartial and thorough; criteria that this panel clearly does not meet."
He added that, "We maintain that the nine senior commanders named in our report should be the subject of an effective and independent investigation."
The press statement said, "To this end we welcome the panel's recommendation that there should be a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into these allegations of horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in north east Nigeria.
"President Muhammadu Buhari promised an independent investigation into our allegations of human rights violations and crimes under international law two years ago. This is a vital step and must be implemented as a matter of urgency by the government."
"Amnesty International's priority is justice, human rights and the dignity of human life in Nigeria.
"We maintain that those suspected of committing human rights violations and crimes under international law on all sides of the conflict must be brought to justice in fair trials before civilian courts without recourse to the death penalty. We also urge the military to make the whole of this report public," AI stated.
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Qaeda urges Muslims to avenge Koran burning
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri wants Muslims to avenge the Koran burning incident.
DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has urged Muslims to avenge the burning of copies of the Koran on a U.S. base in Afghanistan earlier this year, dismissing apologies for the incident as a "ridiculous farce".
Zawahri, who took up the reins of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan just over a year ago, said Muslims should kill those responsible for desecrating their holy book and Afghan lands.
"Once again, the crusaders burned the holy Koran, in Kabul," said Zawahri in the short audio message posted on Islamist Internet forums.
"After each of their numerous crimes they pretend to be sorry and claim they will investigate what happened. That is the ridiculous farce Obama and his defence minister repeated this time as well."
The authenticity of the recording, which did not have an exact date, could not immediately be verified, but the speaker sounded like Zawahri in previous messages.
"Kill those aggressors who occupied your country, stole your wealth, violated your honour and attacked your Koran and your prophet, peace be upon him," Zawahri added.
President Barack Obama apologised for the burning of the Koran in February, which sparked violent protests and frayed already tense U.S.-Afghan ties.
U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta also expressed regret for the "inappropriate treatment" of Islam's holy book.
In February, a tape of Zawahri was released in which he said U.S. decisions to cut its defence budget and engage with the Afghan Taliban were signals of a decline in Washington's power.


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I woke up and felt like a total cliche. I stubbed my toe going to the bathroom. The cream in my coffee curdled. I made a second cup and burned my tongue when I drank it. (I'm used to the cream cooling it off!) When I did get to drink it, it just tasted gross. Beasley wouldn't leave me alone. C-man didn't want to wake up. Somehow, I have to get through my day with back-to-back meetings and get home by 3:30 to get C-man off the bus and Beasley to the park and then homework done and then C-man to practice so I can get to rehearsal trusting the babysitter will pick C-man up from practice and make him shower and get ready for bed. Because, oh yeah, Beerman is gone again.
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Enjoying those warmer temperatures, are you? Well enjoy them real good because it looks like another arctic blast is on the way just two weeks after the last one. Some forecasters are calling it the influences of the "Polar Vortex" again. But the latest prediction isn't supposed to be as bad as extreme as the last time. In a way that's like saying one of your childbirth experiences wasn't as bad as the other. They still both hurt a lot!
Temperatures will likely hover around the zero mark in many places, but won't reach the record-breaking lows we experienced the first week in January. In other words, it's still going to be cold so get the scrapers and the earmuffs ready.
Here's when the deepest of the deep freeze is predicted to hit and where. It will start to feel a lot colder than it is right now in these areas a few days before the extreme teeth-shattering temperatures hit:
Monday: Waves of progressively colder air will move south across Canada starting Monday in the first push of cold air.
Wednesday: The cold will hit the southern Canada Prairies and the northern plains states.
Thursday: The Midwest will feel the big freeze.
Friday: North Central States including the Ohio Valley and Appalachias gets their turn.
Saturday: Bundle up, East Coast!
Of course, there's always a chance a storm could spin up in the process, making things even more interesting! It is only the 23rd day of winter, after all, people.
Are you a winter person? Or a summer, spring or fall person?
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pan-fried veal with soft polenta and blue cheese
- 4 x 200g veal cutlets
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- ¼ cup chopped oregano leaves
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- 1 ½ cup chicken stock
- 1 ½ cup milk
- 40g unsalted butter
- 1 cup polenta
- 150g blue cheese
- Place the veal, garlic, oregano, oil, salt and pepper in a large bowl and toss to coat. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add the veal and cook for 5–6 minutes each side. Set aside and keep warm.
- Place the stock, milk and butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to the boil and gradually add the polenta, whisking to combine. Cook for 1 minute, whisking continuously, until thickened. Top the polenta with the veal and blue cheese to serve. Serves 4.
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Hollywood Power Feuds: Don't Seat These A-Listers Near Each Other
From Ted Sarandos and Ryan Kavanaugh to Harvey Weinstein and his many enemies, Hollywood party planners give THR some tips on how to arrange a sit-down dinner without starting a food fight.
Ted Sarandos and Ryan Kavanaugh
In January, Kavanaugh accused Netflix's Sarandos — a former friend — of sabotaging his plans to salvage his bankrupt Relativity Media, saying the Netflix chief even went so far as to take actor Kevin Spacey to dinner in an attempt to convince him to not accept an offered position at Relativity. "Seriously sleazy, even for you," Kavanaugh wrote to Sarandos in an email that went public (and viral). Meanwhile, Netflix filed a legal objection to Relativity's reorganization, questioning Relativity's ability to create content for the streamer.
Nicole Winhoffer and Tracy Anderson and Madonna
"There's no way in hell you could get Nicole and Tracy in the same room, no matter how good the party is," says a source close to both fitness gurus. Winhoffer once worked for Anderson, but things went south when Madonna replaced Anderson with Winhoffer. Winhoffer didn't keep the job for long. "She f—ed my boyfriend," Madonna said at a 2014 concert. "I fired her." Winhoffer's clients include Rachel Weisz and Spike Jones; Anderson has worked with Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian.
Ron Perelman and Larry Gagosian
"They still can't stand to be in a room together," says a source close to Gagosian, the mega art dealer who once owned an East Hampton restaurant, The Blue Parrot, with Perelman. Their feud dates to 2012, when Perelman filed legal complaints against Gagosian over the purchase of an unfinished Jeff Koons sculpture. The case was dismissed in 2014 after a judge suggested that the parties "get themselves together at a cocktail party in the Hamptons" and work things out. So far, they haven't taken that advice.
Harvey Weinstein and His Many Enemies
You could fill the dining room at Bouchon with the hordes of people who refuse to eat with Weinstein. He's still fuming at Megan Ellison (right) for poaching TWC's Erik Lomis. And although Alec Baldwin's (center) publicist claims the actor has made up with Weinstein since their 2012 altercation at a Calvin Klein party — when Baldwin announced to the crowd that Weinstein was a "douchebag" for opting out of a Cannes documentary Baldwin was shooting at the time — sources close to Weinstein say the mogul "still can't stand" Baldwin.


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Navy Yard shootings: September 16 as it happened
No evidence of second gunman
Aaron Alexis 'had history of violence'
The two conflicting personalities of Aaron Alexis emerged as friends described a loner who seemed placid and helpful on the surface, but was angry at perceived injustices.
Alexis, 34, believed he had been financially "screwed" by an employer, racially discriminated against in life, and claimed to be haunted by witnessing the second of the twin towers fall on September 11, 2001.
He was said to be constantly trying to find a Thai girlfriend — learning to speak the language fluently and visiting Thailand on a quest to find one.
He carried his gun at all times because he was convinced people were trying to steal from him. The only place he didn't take his weapon, because it was forbidden, was the Wat Busayadhammavanaram meditaion centre in Fort Worth, Texas where he meditated regularly amid over the past five years.
Each Sunday he would walk past a sign reading "Refrain from killing or destroying other living creatures". At one point he moved into a house next door to the centre for several months. At the temple chief monk Kasem Pundisto, 51, said he had seen no signs that his student would become a mass murderer.
Speaking through a translator, Mr Pundisto told The Daily Telegraph he last saw Alexis about six months ago. "He was upset in his life. I think he had something on his mind and was trying to keep it in his mind," the monk said. Unknown to his fellow Buddhists, Alexis had a long history of violent incidents at odds with the religion.
He was born in 1979 in Queens in New York City but as an adult headed west to Seattle. In May 2004 he was arrested there for allegedly shooting the back tyres of a construction vehicle outside his home. He told officers he felt workers had mocked him and that he acted in an anger-fueled blackout. He was not charged and three years later was able to become a full time reservist in the US Navy, ending up at the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron in Fort Worth in 2008. He specialised in maintaining electrical systems on planes, reaching the rank of Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class.
Alexis settled in a sparse suburb called White Settlement. Somsak Srisan, 57, his landlord when he lived next to the temple, told The Daily Telegraph: "The first time I met him he told me he was going to be a monk but first he had to study. He had no girlfriends but he tried to look for a Thai lady, any lady."
In 2010 Alexis moved in with Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, 31, who he had met at the temple, In September 2010 he let off his .45 handgun at Mr Suthamtewakul's home and was arrested for a second time. A neighbour upstairs told police Alexis had fired through the ceiling at her intentionally because she was being noisy, and that she was terrified of him. Alexis claimed he was cleaning the gun and it went off accidentally. He was not charged.
Four months later the Navy gave him an honourable discharge after a string of misconduct problems including being absent from work. Those who knew him said he was missing work because he was busy playing "shooter" video games.
Alexis then began working as as a delivery driver at Mr Suthamtewakul's Happy Bowl Thai restaurant next to a row of used furniture shops and a dollar store a mile from the temple.
Mr Suthamtewakul said Alexis would carry a gun tucked in his trousers without a holster "which scared my customers."
In April last year he spent an entire month visiting Mr Suthamtewakul's family in Thailand but he reportedly spent more time in massage parlours than Buddhist temples. He was said to have met a woman who he developed a crush on. But she refused to go back to the US with him and Alexis was said to have complained that it was because she "didn't like black people."
Alexis was supposed to be Mr Suthamtewakul's best man at his wedding last December, but instead spent the end of the year carrying out a work contract in Japan. Mr Suthamtewakul said: "After he came back from Japan he was telling me he didn't get paid the right amount. He got screwed."
He started spending long period in his room playing games like Call of Duty, Resident Evil, and other "zombie" games, sometimes from when he got up at 12.30pm until 4.30am. Searching for something that could have led to the attack, Mr Suthamtewakul said: "He could be in the game all day and all night. I think games might be what pushed him that way."
His wife Kristi, 35, said Alexis had seemed "chilled" and she spent last Christmas singing a karaoke duet of Evis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" with him.
But she added: "I remember him talking about 9/11. he was there and when he came outside one of the buildings was gone already. All of a sudden the second building came down. He was an angry American, angry with the terrorists. I think maybe there was PTSD."
She said Alexis became "frustrated" earlier this year after her cats got fleas, and there was a suspicion that he put sugar in the fuel tank of her car.
The following month he began being treated by the Veterans Administration for serious mental issues, including paranoia, a sleep disorder and hearing voices in his head, according to officials.
But, having enrolled in an online aeronautics course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2012, he was able to secure a position as an IT worker for The Experts, a subcontractor to Hewlett-Packard, which was carrying out work on computer systems at the Washington Navy Yard.


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Night Angles – Aerodynamour – 12″ – Aerodynamour – Force Majeure (2011)
D'Marc Cantu – 10x As Strong – 12″ – V/A: The Definition Of Jak The Definition Of Hope – Lux Rec (2011)
Bruce Gilbert – Net In The Feather – CD – The Shivering Man – Editions Mego (2011)
Tiyiselani Vomaseve – Papa Vata Vuya Rini – 12″ – S/T – Honest Jon's Records (2011)
Nuove Proposte Sonore – Insiemi – LP – Nuove Proposte Sonore 1965-1972 – Die Schachtel (2011)
Art Department Feat. Soul Clap & Osunlade – We Call Love (DJ Harvey Remix) – 12″ – We Call Love – Crosstown Rebels (2011)
Neville Watson – One Four Green – 12″ – Split with Apiento – World Unknown (2011)
Pursuit Grooves – Clueless – 12″ – Frantically Hopeful Sampler – Tectonic (2011)
Gustaph – A Chicken Lips Malfunction! – 12″ – Same Thing – Regalia Recordings (2011)
R/S (AKA Marcus Schmickler & Peter Rehberg) – Chicago I – LP – USA – Pan (2011)
Christophe – The Force (Julio Bashmore Remix) – 12″ – The Force EP – Futureboogie Recordings (2011)
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Track of the day #12
Here at Helter Skelter, we haven't shied away our love for Julio Bashmore. In fact we even invited him over to play in Paris for his first time in early April. Since then, he's become the major up and coming 2011 producer. That comes of course with many new opportchoonities (Hi Sylvia!), out of which he sometimes failed to deliver. This remix for fellow Bristolian producer/artist Christophe isn't one of those. Keep the faith high, Julio, as high as the hands can go in the air to this shear beauty of a piano-house choon!
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RIP Trish Keenan
The unbelievable and sad news just came to us that Trish Keenan of Broadcast has died of pneumonia friday jan. 14 at age 42.
We did not expect to start this blog with such a sad news. Broadcast was and still is one of the bands we like the most, some of us following them since the first years. We were always eager to hear any new work and air it. We will miss bitterly Trish and Broadcast.
Still, we'll continue to highlight and "promote" the fringe music we like in the same fashion we've been crusading for the past 15 years or so, and you can be sure it's not the last you heard of Broadcast alonside the likes of Bernard Parmegiani, This Heat, Bruno Menny, Larry Heard, Monoton, Kid Creole, Conny Plank, Chep Nunez, Tod Dockstader, LFO, Eliott Sharp, Latin Rascals, Don Cherry, Konrad Becker, Arthur Russell, Robert Gordon, Henri Chopin, Mantronix, the Galactic Mothership, Pietro Grossi, Jean Schwarz, B.W.H., Prince, Rodney Bakerr, Nino Nardini, Sabu Martinez, Roland Kayn, Manix, Ralph Lundsten, Konk, Autechre, Eberhard Schoener, John Bender, Mike Dunn, Pierro Umiliani, Jean Cohen-Solal, Derrick May, Patrick Cowley, Todd Terry, Cluster, Transmat, Soundforce, Spoils Of War, Mark Imperial, Seefeel, Ron Hardy, Annette Peacock, Walter Gibons, Stockhausen, Crass, Maurice Joshua, Steve Lacy, NWW, Ennio Morricone, Phoenecia, Cliff Martinez, Falty DL, Dream Frequency, Pram, Frankie Knuckles, Traxx, Michel Portal, Anthony Manning, Roger Sanchez, MK, Mr Lee, Chrome, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Larry Levan, Sheila Jordan, Kenny Dope, Ubangi, Mark E, Patrick Cowley, Hosono, Terry Housemaster Baldwin, Coil, Bo Didley, James Asher, TinMan, Robbie Basho, Lidell Townsell, Julio Bashmore


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If you would like to order School Meals for your child you can click here for the link to WISEPAY. If you pay for school dinners and your child is off sick for more than four days you will not be charged for the meal your child has not taken. If your child has a special diet due to medical or religious reasons please let us know. It is vital that the school is aware of any food allergies your child may have.
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Nationalist parties prevail in Bosnia parliamentary vote
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Nationalists will stay firmly in power after Bosnia's general election, deepening the ethnic divide in the country that went through a brutal war in 1992-95, according to updated preliminary results on Monday.
Nationalist parties will dominate the Bosnian state parliament and those in the Serb mini-state and the Muslim-Croat region, showed the results of Sunday's balloting released by election authorities.
The tally of more than 80 percent of ballots counted also confirmed the pro-Russia Serb leader will win the Serb seat in the three-person Bosnian presidency, defeating a relative moderate.
But opponents of Milorad Dodik said Monday they will seek a recount of Sunday's vote over alleged "numerous discrepancies."
Mladen Ivanic, the opposition candidate for the post, said drastic differences seen in results in various areas of the Serb mini-state were "impossible."
The election outcome deals a blow to hopes of bridging Bosnia's ethnic divide after the war that killed 100,000 people.
The victory of Dodik for the presidency also means a stronger Russian influence in Bosnia as the West seeks to push the country toward EU and NATO integration.
Dodik, who advocates eventual separation of Serbs from the rest of Bosnia, said Monday that he will introduce the flag of the Serb mini-state in the Bosnian presidency.
Post-election crisis also is looming in the Muslim-Croat federation after a moderate politician Zeljko Komsic won the Croat seat in the presidency while nationalists will prevail in parliament.
Croat nationalists dispute Komsic's legitimacy as a Croat representative, arguing that he was backed overwhelmingly by Muslims. The dispute had stalled approval of key laws in the past.
The Muslim presidency seat went to the ruling party candidate Sefik Dzaferovic.


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We are continuing our series of Business Rockstars Minute videos that are excellently presented by Ken Rutkowski. They cover a range of small business topics, especially for entrepreneurs, and give you a real quick start on the topic and are a great point for jumping off. We are going to run these regularly and we will try to provide a few options for more in depth exploration on your own afterward. We also recommend that you check out their daily live shows over at Business Rockstars as well. But most importantly, please let us know what you think in the comments. We want your feedback on how you like these and on future topics.
One of the greatest assets any entrepreneur or small business owner can have is self belief. You have to believe in yourself because at the end of the day you are the one responsible for your success or failure and you are the one that is going to make your business succeed. Ken Rutkowski takes a look at this concept and how to think about it in entrepreneurial terms in this Business Rockstars Minute.
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Chevrolet Volt Won't Lose Top Safety Ratings During Battery Fire Investigations
Even though the car is being investigated for a risk of battery fires, Chevrolet wants customers to know that the Volt electric car is still safe to drive. The car's outstanding safety ratings won't be changed as a result of the fire inquiry, and Chevrolet will continue to offer free loaner cars to any customer who is uncomfortable driving their own Volt.
Contrary to many reports, Chevrolet continues to note that it is not launching a widespread campaign to repurchase the Volt from concerned customers, instead offering other General Motors vehicles as loaner cars during the length of the fire investigation. However, The Detroit News reports that a "couple dozen" owners have specifically contacted Chevrolet to ask for their cars to be repurchased.
In those cases, the company says it will work to satisfy all Volt customers -- even if that means a limited number of vehicle buybacks. Primarily, however, GM wants to provide loaner cars in order to appease worried customers. "For those few who have requested repurchase, we're going to move fast," spokesman Greg Martin told the News.
At the same time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has said the Chevrolet Volt will not lose its Top Safety Pick rating. Officials from the IIHS told Reuters that the group's crash tests did not reveal any potential damage to the Volt's lithium-ion battery packs. The IIHS also won't be conducting its own investigation into the risk of post-accident fires. In IIHS testing, the Volt received "Good" ratings in front, side, rollover, and rear crash tests, which lead to the car scoring the agency's coveted Top Safety Pick designation.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also doesn't plan to change its safety rating for the Volt. The NHTSA evaluation gave the Volt a five-star crash-test rating, the agency's highest accolade. However, NHTSA is working with GM to determine whether the Volt's battery pack is likely to catch fire after a serious accident.
NHTSA and Chevrolet began investigating whether Volt battery packs posed a post-crash fire risk when a Volt caught fire after being subjected to a serious crash test. The Volt was used for a side-impact and rollover crash evaluation, and caught fire three weeks after the test. Later, Volt battery packs subjected to simulated crash tests in laboratories caught fire or emitted sparks a few days after impacts.
Chevrolet says the Volt is safe and has not yet issued a recall for the car. There also has not been a stop-sale notice in the U.S., although the battery investigation will delay the launch of the Volt's European derivative, the Opel/ Vauxhall Ampera. The company may consider redesigning the lithium-ion battery pack in the Chevrolet Volt to help prevent damage during a collision.
Sources: Chevrolet, Reuters, The Detroit News


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The year 9 students visited the Museum of Liverpool on11/11/14 to take part in a World War One Event. The students took part in anumber of different educational and engaging activities including a dramaperformance, handling artefacts and questioning sources sessions and a WorldWar One tour. It was particularly poignant that this event took place on thisday due to the date being Armistice Day. The trip provided the students withthe foundation knowledge in preparation for the initial teaching of the WorldWar One key stage three topic.


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The Thai word translated as "transvestite" or "shemale" is khatoey, also spelled katoey, kathoey and several other ways.
After being glitterbombed for the second time in a month, sex columnist and gay rights advocate Dan Savage has fired back against reports alleging he used transphobic language while speaking prior to the stunt. he provoked the attack by using the terms "shemale" and "freaky tranny porn" while appearing at the University of California Irvine during a taping of his MTV series "Savage U.," Savage took to his blog in response.
RealDoll my be old hat, but does the new "shemale" option for the really messed up guy not count as weird enough?
Call any TS woman in the US a "shemale" and she'll be deeply insulted 98% of the time.
And, it even finds out that there is a 'shemale' among them.
By entering this site you declare, that you are at least 18 years old, and are not offended by sexually explicit material such as shemale masturbation, asian ladyboys, transsexual porn, tranny fucking and are legally able to download such items according to the laws by which you are governed.
Touted as a "shemale", Suzana says on a website: "I am a sexy and very convincing 'TV girl' escort.
I don't care if it's him blasting "load after sticky load" from his "throbbing manhood" or her "twizzling goop" from her shemale "protuberance;" hot sex scenes need a beginning, a middle, and a goddamn happy ending.
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If you can overlook some truly repulsive shemale ads, AVN Magazine provides some interesting and funny reading material.
Any word yet on if the movie is actually going to be 127 hours or not? shemale no1 he xould use one cinematographer for POV and one for the rest the lighting might not need to match if the POV has to feel different.
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Farmington, Maine, March 6, 2041
Now that the world has settled into a new equilibrium of sorts, it's time to reflect on how things fell apart so completely. While we may never again see a world of mass consumption, convenience and material excess like that which existed when the century began, nobody expected it to unravel so quickly.
It started on January 16, 2018. 1-16. The day that, up until a few years ago, was considered the greatest terror attack in US history. President Donald Trump was set to give his second state of the union address. After a rocky first year, he was hoping to convince Americans that he could be trusted. This speech would be a big one. In the Capital they gathered – all the Senators, Congresspeople, Supreme Court Justices, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Vice President. Only 71 year old Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was absent, watching the speech in the White House with Steve Bannon.
As President Trump began his speech there were some noises. People looked around, Trump seemed irritated. Then with the whole nation watching on television, there was a bolt of fire and then nothing – the feed stopped. In the capital a series of bombs exploded, utterly destroying the building and its occupants. The President, Vice President, Supreme Court and Congress, all branches of the US government were destroyed. ISIS took responsibility.
Steve Bannon had invited Sonny Perdue to the White House to watch the speech. He offered Perdue a drink, and the two joked. Within minutes Perdue had the symptoms of a heart attack, and was dead before Trump had even started. With no one left in the Presidential line of succession, and the Supreme Court gone, the US entered a constitutional crisis. Bannon was ready.
In Trump's first year Bannon had identified military officers who would create potential problems for him on this night. He convinced the President they were disloyal and Trump fired them. Bannon maneuvered people he could manipulate to high ranking positions. Senator McCain had accused Trump of "promoting dimwits and dilettantes." But McCain was now gone.
Steve Bannon called an emergency press conference. As the one remaining member of the National Security Council Principles group, he said that until a new set of elections could be arranged, he would be acting President. He was ready for the next part. He used all his skill as a movie maker and PR maven to orchestrate a move towards authoritarianism, with him in charge.
Bannon had plotted the attacks well, using foreign intelligence officers to do the dirty work, minimizing a chance someone would leak. Cities across the country suffered apparent attacks, FOX News became Bannon's propaganda channel, and media controls were put in place "to assure public safety during this chaotic period." With no Supreme Court, Bannon became a dictator. Everything was following his script.
He announced that to "rebuild the economy" he was defaulting on all debt, so America could start clean and 'rebuild at home.' Alas, the global economy doesn't follow a script. The global financial system buckled, credit became impossible to get, and soon US unemployment hit 30%, and even China found itself in depression. Needing a distraction Bannon blamed ISIS and the US launched a war to "claim our oil in the Mideast."
By the end of 2018 Americans started to realize that Bannon was out of control, with no checks or balances. Opposition coalesced around former President Obama, who called on Americans to reclaim their government. But with war and depression sowing fear, and media controls tight, Bannon's propaganda machine kept many loyal to him. Obama was declared guilty of treason and had to lead the movement in hiding, uploading speeches and directives, staying one step ahead of the secret police.
With the economy in collapse and global governments deserting the US – China, Russia and the EU put together a non-aggression treaty and worked to undermine the US war in the Mideast — by 2020 it was clear Bannon was failing. Desperate, he turned to the use of nuclear weapons in the Mideast. That was the last straw. Resistance at home grew bolder, and on October 2, 2021 an internal coup removed Bannon. Later President Obama convened a "constitutional Congress" to plan a return to democracy.
The 20 years since then have been tough. The global economy has never recovered, and the war caused a long term energy crisis as the nuclear weapons rendered the oil fields unusable. Some say we've entered a new dark age, and for awhile it felt that way. But we've rediscovered the importance of community and nature, and lately the emergence of sustainable energy sources suggests we're now on the right track.
Professor Thomas Percy argues that Bannon may have inadvertently saved humanity. The economic collapse and drastic decline in fossil fuel usage has led to CO2 levels in the atmosphere to stabilize, and are likely to soon decline. "On the path we were going, by now we'd be feeling a different kind of global crisis, and one that could have destroyed civilization. Now we have a chance." That's a plot twist that even Bannon couldn't have scripted.


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Carrot Zucchini Apple Bread|1 mug saltless butter, thawed 2 mugs granulatd sugar 3 eggs, area temperature level 1/4 mug fresh orange juice 1 Tbls vanilla remove 3 1/4 all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 1/2 tsp cooking powder 3/4 tsp cooking soft drink 1 Tbls cinnmamon pinch of ground cloves squeeze of ground nutmeg 2 mugs shredded carrots 1 mug shredded zucchini (unpeeled) 1 mug diced, peeled off apple 1/2 mug pecans, cut (optional) Frosting:
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Afghans coming to Germany in pursuit of better economic circumstances will be sent back to Afghanistan.
Speaking to reporters at a joint news conference with visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Berlin, Merkel said Germany would meet its humanitarian obligations for Afghans who are in "acute" danger because they worked for foreign forces, such as the German military.
Merkel said that there is not sufficient reason to grant asylum or residency status to refugees who are seeking a better life in Germany, adding that in such cases people would be deported.
"But where refugees come hoping for a better life - and I know that this hope is big for many - that is no reason to get asylum status or residency status here," she said. "And that one needs to think about the 35 million Afghans at home and the land has to develop with this. That is why we will, in such cases, have to send people back to Afghanistan."
Germany is trying to reduce the number of asylum-seekers from Afghanistan. Merkel and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani discussed ways in which Germany could help Afghanistan and stem the flow of Afghan migrants to Germany.
Ghani said that many Afghans have misperceptions about fleeing to Germany and often they "can lose everything along the way."
Merkel said that Germany wants to support the creation of "safe areas" for Afghans in their own country, but there is also a need to empower the Afghan security forces "with regard to refugee movements and illegal migration."
About 800,000 people have arrived in Europe this year, fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, causing the most severe migrant crisis in the continent since World War Two.


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However, sometimes the text might be entered in the G-Range as "TEXT abc", where "abc" is any possible text afterwards. It can be put into any box in the column with anything written after "TEXT". All I can control is that the text that's being searched for is spelled the same way every time and always comes in front of the variable text.
So how do I get my code to trigger no matter what else is written in the cell besides "TEXT"? Is there a way to search for if the string "TEXT" is present in any position and non-case sensitive?
Also, is the "SUMIF" command better in this case or is it essentially the same?
Also if you're wondering I do have other code checking for if it's anything other than "TEXT" but it's being used in a different formula.


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Hugs for Heroes: Monfort students honor veterans
November 15, 2012
Last year, Tyra Springer invited her grandpa, a Navy veteran, to have breakfast with her before school at Monfort Elementary School. It was the school's way to say thank you for his service to the country.
This year is was Tyra's stepdad's turn. Todd Bruce spent eight years in the Army as a medic during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
"They fought for us to keep our country safe," said the 9-year-old, who added she is proud of both men in her life.
It's the second year Monfort has hosted the "Heroes Breakfast" to celebrate Veterans Day, which is Sunday. The school invited military veterans, police, fire and ambulance workers.
"It's a good thing that we're honoring them," said Tyra, a fourth-grader. "If they are still in the Army, and if they were in a long time ago, they get to be honored."
The event was part of a monthlong project this year called Hugs for Heroes, Monfort Principal Sue Ann Highland said. It kicked off last week with an awards ceremony that honored 179 students for academic, behavior and citizenship efforts. During the ceremony, Highland, who jokingly calls herself an Air Force brat, invited several active-duty military personnel to speak to the school about the life of a solider and the things they miss while stationed overseas. The purpose was to prepare the students for collecting items for care packages.
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"We want to send them a little hug from home," Highland said.
The students couldn't believe all they really wanted were things such as baby wipes and WISPS to brush their teeth while on deployment, Highland said. The soldiers also talked about how the children in Afghanistan don't have much, so they like to give them coloring books and crayons.
"They only get to wear their good shoes when they go to school," Highland said. "Most don't have two pair of shoes, so the soldiers also like to give them the cheap little flip-flops so they have shoes when they are not in school."
The school will collect items such as food and snacks, entertainment and sports and toiletries to send to troops in Afghanistan.
To save on shipping costs, the school teamed up with a squadron in Cheyenne, Wyo., to take the items with them when they leave on deployment later this month.
For the moment on Friday, though, the students were just excited to be hanging out with their own heroes — moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, aunts, uncles and anyone else in their lives.
"He was on a ship. I know that much," said a proud Johnny Alvarado, 9, of his grandpa Daniel Kester, who retired from the Navy after 21 years. "Sometimes he cleans the deck."
"He was a recruiter, too," added Johnny's sister Summer Alvarado, 6, who got a bit of help from her brother to remember what it was their grandpa did.


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Hello everyone,
The details don't matter because they are between specific people (outside our congregation) and me, but I am, I realise, feeling frustratingly marginalised. One area is a wider church issue, the other is an academic issue.
Any majority group – that is any group which has power and influence – can quickly forget there are other people in the world different from them. Maybe if women had all the power and all the influence they too would forget there were other people in the world. Certainly there is that distressing experiment where first of all blue eyed people were discriminated against, then the discrimination swopped to brown eyed people. To the researchers' horror, the blue-eyed people were more aggressive persecutors than the brown eyed people had been. The blue eyed's anger at having been discriminated against took its release in retaliation, not in treating the Other the way they wish they had been treated. So there is no guarantee that if we simply change the leadership or the membership of the group that we will get a different result. How depressing!
It is not surprising then that Jesus felt it really important to urge his hearers to treat others as they would like to be treated themselves. This saying is known as the Golden Rule and is common to all the major religions, just expressed slightly differently each time. If I want to be included, then I need to include others, if I want to be heard, I need to listen to others, if I want to be loved, I need to love.
However, when I want to be heard, I also need to speak and when I am not heard at first, need to speak again and again and again if necessary. I need to get that frustration to work!
Please observe in the notices below the invitation for submissions on the expungement bill. If anyone wants to be in on preparation of a submission from us here at St A., do get in touch.
Notice too the concert on July 28. Invite your friends. Bring money for food and drink and be ready to enjoy a great night. Notice also the 'fair income for all NZers' night on August 15. Tell others how good the last one was. If you're on Facebook, it's been posted there as an event so send it round your networks. We think Facebook is how we got such a good audience for the housing event.
Presbytery Central is holding a Gathering in August (18-20) at St John's in the City. This event is biennial but only comes to Wellington about once every 3-4 years. It is organised with everyone in mind and very few or no business sessions. There is a full day of speakers and workshops on the Saturday August 19th following a day for ministers on the Friday. We will send out a link to the information pack early next week. The keynote speaker is Prof. Gillian Clark who is an historical expert on Augustine. Other workshop leaders include: Jill Kayser, (Kids Friendly) Paul Somerville,(Empower Asia), Ross Scott (Chaplaincy), Derek Woodard Lehman,(CTPI), Murray Sheard (Tear fund), Stephanie McIntyre,(DCM) Malcolm Gordon, (PCANZ music), Gordon Fitch (PCANZ Youth). You might want to plan to be there.
Hope you can keep warm and dry this weekend. On Sunday we will consider the possibility or not of imaging God in art and how we have attempted this over time. Also after church the Exploring Faith study group meets to continue our investigation into how violence crept into the Bible. See you all then!
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The 60 letters from the Grand Duchess Olga to her mother and sister reveal her desperation to discover the truth about the disappearance of Nicholas II a first cousin of George V, his wife, and their five children.
The correspondence, which is a fascinating insight into the bloody upheaval of the Bolshevik uprising, recounts her last meeting with her brother before his execution.
The letters were discovered after the death of Olga in 1960 above a Toronto coffee shop. They are being sold next week by the Mayfair philatelist Argyll Etkin at the Olympia International Art Fair. A reserve price of $150,000 has been put on the collection.
Olga, who was nursing in Kiev at the time of the revolution and who eventually fled to Denmark, described one of her last meetings with her brother in Kiev in a letter dated May 10 1916. "Nicky was here and joy was huge to see him, Alix [his wife], and all the dear children for just quarter of an hour at the station. He just said, as we kissed goodbye: "I'll write a letter to you soon – it's all right"."
On October 29, 1916 she counts what was to be her last meeting with her brother and his son Alexei who was aged 12. "I had the pleasure of seeing Nicky and Alexei yesterday. He is very tall and quite grown up in his ways. Speaks like a big person and feels quite a companion to his father."
The Tsar abdicated the following February and on July 17, 1918, he was executed along with his wife, children, and some staff including the family doctor in the basement of the house in the Urals where they were being secretly held captive. While an announcement was made about the death of the Tsar the fate of his wife and children was not known.
On February 12, 1919, Olga wrote to her sister: "Oh! Do you think it is true that all the poor relations who were imprisoned in Petersburg have been shot. We read it in the papers here. It seems so probably and yet so awfully impossible to believe and grasp.
"It was said that four Grand Dukes [the Tsar's sons] were shot, among others Nikolai was named, who was so exhausted from starvation they had to carry him on a stretcher and shot him like that. Oh what fiends." Months earlier the family had been pout on soldiers' rations.
Two days later, after reports that the Bolsheviks had been involved in massacres, Olga wrote again. "I try to squash the idea. If really those devils could, in cold blood kill all those innocent people – perhaps they have done the same with the beloved family. Oh no! No! It can't be. But still this awful idea persists in returning to me too. Why haven't we heard anything for so long about them?"
In July 1919 the newspapers had again reported that the Imperial Family had been slaughtered. "For the last month and a half I have been getting in despair and felt they were gone and we should never see them again and pictured in my imagination all sorts of horrors about them. Again it was in the papers here they were all killed,. who is one to believe?"
On May 13, 1919, she recounts the relative hardship they had to endure after growing up in the splendour of the Imperial Palace. "Yes, my stones are all lost with the rest of the things. It seems strange I shall never see them again. I am sorry for my pearls because Papa gave them to me."


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Combine your love of robotics and programming with Robobloq Q-Scout, an introductory programmable robot; its adorable smiling design will appeal to everyone!
Robobloq Q-Scout is simple to build and play with (it only takes 30 minutes!), making it the perfect way to introduce important STEAM topics. It features a modular design and is transformable. With the addition of smart device technology, you will be able to program your robot with drag and drop programming. This kit is perfect for the home and classroom, and suits one child using it at a time.
You will need to download an app from Google Play or the App Store. The Robobloq Q-Scout Robot is programmable on Windows 7+, Mac 10.9+, iOS 8+, Android 4.4+.
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The Clarets' under-23s will again visit neighbours Colne as part of their pre-season preparations this summer.
Michael Duff's side will face the Reds – who just missed out on a place in the Evo-Stik North play-offs this season – at their Utility Renewals Stadium on Saturday, 14 July (KO 3pm).
The Clarets won 2-0 at Colne last summer as they built towards their first season in the U23 Professional Development League.
Burnley finished second from bottom of the league's northern division but finished the campaign strongly with four wins in their final six games.
And with a number of new players set to sign at the start of July, Duff is optimistic about the prospects for next season.
The Under-23s' boss (above) said: "I think we will be stronger next year.
"The players we have will be a year older and the ones coming in will add to the quality.
"We will still be a young group, but a year older and a year better.
"In the last six weeks of the season we saw a real upturn in performances, which led to an upturn in results.
"We're not overly bothered about results, but normally the two marry together.
"I'm already looking forward to next season, with the group we've pretty much got together and one or two more to possibly come in."
Tinashe Chakwana scored eight times last season
Forward Tinashe Chakwana and midfielder Mark Howarth have both confirmed their place in the under-23s' squad for next season after signing professional deals at Turf Moor.
The pair – both 19 – have penned 12-month contracts with the option of a further year.
Chakwana, 19, finished as top scorer for the Duff's side last season, while Howarth will return to action next season after missing much of the campaign just ended with a back injury.
Details of further pre-season games will be released in due course.


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How to Make It
Half-fill a mason jar with olives. Fill the jar with oil. Store in a cool, dark place for at least 1 week. Pour the oil into a clean bottle, leaving enough oil behind to cover the olives. To serve or use the olives, remove them from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
One-Quarter Cup of Olives Calories 158 kcal, Protein .3gm, Carbohydrate 2 gm, Cholesterol 0, Total Fat 17.1 gm, Saturated Fat 2.3 gm.


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The capital citiy offers a diverse and international community that provides a chance to study alongside students from around the world. It is also one of the most affordable cities for students in Europe.
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Madrid offers great opportunities for students to establish professional contacts and gain relevant experience. At ESCP we strive to keep pace with the changing demands and trends of the economy, embracing new technologies and innovation to meet the needs of both students and future employers.
ESCP - Madrid
Madrid is one of the most visited cities in Europe, with an exceptional lifestyle, an incredible gastronomy and thousands of places to visit, including some of the best museums in the world.
ESCP's Madrid Campus, located 10 minutes away from the city centre, welcomes 500 students every year, and is at the forefront of the School's digital programmes, including MSc in Marketing & Digital Media, Msc in Digital Project Management & Consulting, Executive Master in International Business (EMIB, 100% online) or Custom blended Executive education programmes. In addition, there are Federal programmes such as Bachelor, MIM, MBA in International Management or MSCs in Hospitality or Real Estate.
Talking about Madrid Campus is synonymous of Vanguardia. Masters with digital orientation and digital developments for leading companies, where we care about people so that they can study what they like most at the best environment possible.
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Isabelle Perrigne
Professor of Economics
Isabelle Perrigne is a Full Professor of Economics. Before joining the Economics faculty at Rice University, Professor Perrigne held previous appointments at University of Southern California and Pennsylvania State University. Her area of expertise is empirical industrial organization. In particular, she contributes to the development of the structural analysis of auction data. Her current interests are in nonlinear pricing and insurance. Her research closely combines models of incomplete information, data and microeconometrics. She is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and has published in the leading economic journals including Econometrica and Review of Economic Studies. She has served as a panelist at the National Science Foundation.
Ph.D., Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Université de Toulouse,
France, 1991
M.S., Econometrics, Université de Toulouse, France, 1985
B.S., Economics, Université de Toulouse, France, 1984
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Selected Publications
Nonparametric Identification of a Contract Model With Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard (with Quang Vuong)
This paper studies the nonparametric identification of a contract model with adverse selection...more
Semiparametric Estimation of First-Price Auctions with Risk-Averse Bidders (with Sandra Campo, Emmanuel Guerre, and Quang Vuong)
In view of the non-identification of the first-price auction model with risk-averse bidders,...more
Nonparametric Identification of Risk Aversion in First-Price Auctions Under Exclusion Restrictions (with Emmanuel Guerre and Quang Vuong)
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Dr. Liporace was born and raised in the New York City area. He attended the State University of New York at Binghamton for his undergraduate degree and then continued on to New York Medical College for his medical degree. After this, he completed the Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program at The Hospital for Joint Diseases / New York University in New York, NY. He then completed an orthopedic traumatology fellowship at Tampa General Hospital under the tutelage of Dr. Roy Sanders and the Florida Orthopedic Institute's Orthopedic Trauma and Reconstructive Service. His interests include interests include Pelvic and Acetabular Surgery, Complex Orthopaedic Trauma Reconstruction, Hip and Knee Reconstruction, and treating complications associated with Orthopaedic Trauma. For the last decade he has been clinically active and teaching residents and students. He has won numerous teaching awards within his institution and nationally.
He is currently Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma & Reconstruction at Jersey City Medical Center. He is also Director of the Orthopaedic Institute at Jersey Medical Center. Additionally, he is the Director of Orthopaedic Trauma Research at New York University / Hospital for Joint Diseases.
Dr. Liporace has made multiple scientific presentations nationally and internationally and has over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 10 chapters in Orthopaedic textbooks. He has done over 300 invited lectures pertaining to Orthopaedic Trauma and Joint Reconstruction worldwide. He is currently a reviewer for the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma as well as Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.He is also the editor for the Lower Extremity section of Orthopaedic Knowledge Update 11 which is used around the world as one of the standards for information for Orthopaedic Surgeons. As well, Dr. Liporace has served on Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement related committees to ensure the optimal care of patients.
Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon, Trauma Reconstructive Surgery, Pelvic Fractures, Bone Reconstruction, Arthritis, Nonunions/Malunions, Anterior hip replacement, Foot/Ankle Surgery, Hip Revisions, Minimally Invasive Joint Replacement, Trauma, Achilles Tendon Tears, Hip Problems/Surgery, Fracture Surgery, Knee Revisions, Osteomyelitis, Bone Healing, Knee Replacement, Elbow Surgery, Limb Lengthening, Clavicle Fracture
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14 December 2017
A five year strategy to minimise homelessness in Sheffield was agreed by Sheffield City Council's cabinet on Wednesday, 13 December.
Between 2010 and 2016, Sheffield has seen a 60% reduction in the number of people that are homeless and have the greatest need of rehousing by the council, compared to a national increase of more than 30%. This is due, in part, to significant work undertaken by Sheffield City Council, working with partners, to help prevent people becoming homeless in the first place.
Homelessness is now increasing however, and the latest data shows a four per cent increase in the number of households who were accepted as homeless in Sheffield in the last year.
The new strategy focusses on preventing homelessness by providing more help to people at risk earlier on, working more closely with the most vulnerable groups and increasing the housing options available. There are real links between homelessness and health, and access to employment, and these will be addressed too.
Councillor Jayne Dunn, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and Community Safety, said: "Becoming homeless can be hugely traumatic and can significantly affect people's mental and physical health. It means losing your home, your stability and security – all of which are fundamental to someone's wellbeing and happiness.
"Most people associate homelessness with people sleeping on the street but, while this is at the most visible and sharpest edge of the problem, there are hundreds more people affected by it every year.
"We want to build on the good work already undertaken in Sheffield and, through the new plan, prevent more people from becoming homeless. I'd like to thank all the services and charities that work so closely with the council to help make this happen."
In Sheffield, in the last year, 910 single people, couples and families who approached the Council for help were found to be homeless. This includes those who are staying with friends and family temporarily or living in unsafe, unsuitable and over-crowded accommodation. 438 of these households were accepted as being in 'priority need' because they had children or were vulnerable, for example, because of their mental or physical health.
New legislation which comes into effect in April 2018 (under the Homelessness Reduction Act) places greater duties on councils in tackling homelessness. These include:
- A duty to help people secure accommodation 56 days before they are at risk of losing their current home – this has been extended from 28 days.
- A duty to carry out a needs assessment for all applicants and agree personal plans to help them secure accommodation.
- A duty to provide tailored advice to groups who are at greater risk of homelessness.
The new duties are expected to lead to an increase in homelessness applications and the council is preparing for this by improving its advice to people at risk, creating a prevention toolkit to share amongst different departments and with other organisations, and recruiting extra staff.
Tackling rough sleeping has also been identified as a priority in the council's strategy and the authority is working with Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Councils to make sure there is a common approach. It will be improving the collaboration between services, focussing more on prevention as well as help in a crisis, and looking at how we can improve access to emergency accommodation and advice in the evenings and at weekends.
The Council recently commissioned a new Housing First service, which uses a different approach of providing accommodation for those who have found it very difficult to maintain housing, with wrap-around support to help people tackle issues around addiction and mental health.
The council is also part of the city's Help Us Help campaign which provides information about the help available for people on the streets in Sheffield. Visit www.helpushelp.uk to find out more.
Visit www.sheffield.gov.uk to read the strategy.
Help with homelessness in Sheffield
Call the council's Housing and Options line on 0114 273 6306 from Monday – Friday, 8.30am to 5pm for help with homelessness in Sheffield.
In emergencies, during evenings and weekends, please phone: 0800 7311 689.
Everyone contacting the council for help and advice will receive support. This might include:
- Help to prevent someone from becoming homeless
- An assessment to determine if the council has a duty to find someone somewhere to stay
- Referring someone to a service which offers support to look at things a person might find challenging and which could lead them to leave to return to being homeless such as help to budget, or to contact landlords for repairs
- A referral to a supported accommodation provider where support is on hand and there are regular and frequent visits from the accommodation provider's staff team
- Sign posting to services in the city who may be able to help
- Support to register on the council housing register
- Help to find private rented accommodation
The system is designed to help people away from homelessness and street life. Extra help is available in freezing weather.


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Whether you are hiking in the woods or walking on the Moon, you need to establish a course in order to get to your destination. Prior to modern era GPS systems, explorers used a map and a compass. When it came time to explore the Moon for the first time, NASA relied on what had guided earthbound explorers for centuries, the map and the compass.
Fig 1) David Scott took this 360 degree panorama of the Hadley landing site from a top the LM.
Fig 2) The "Overlay Map" used to identify landmarks during the SEVA
Fig 3) A view of the flown Apollo 15 Sun Compass
After landing on the lunar surface at Hadley, the Apollo 15 Commander, David Scott, preformed the first ,and only, lunar "Stand Up EVA" (SEVA) during which CDR Scott stood up in the docking hatch of the LM Ascent stage and performed a visual survey of the surrounding area from a 18 foot high view point atop the spacecraft.
So what do you need to determine where you are anywhere in the Solar System? Well, you get out a map and a compass. Dave Scott did just that during the SEVA. As a portion of the NASA mission transcript of the SEVA reveals in the following conversation between Dave and Jim Irwin, his Lunar Module Pilot (LMP),
106:50:48 Irwin: Want the map?
106:50:50 Scott: Just the Sun compass first. Let's get a pick on our position.
You can ask Dave Scott1 about the Sun Compass or, better yet, read what Dave had to say during an interview and email exchange with Eric Jones2 of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ) in the following journal excerpt;
[Jones - "Did the Sun compass have a little gnomon/shadow device so that you could get it properly aligned?"]
[Scott - "It was a card on which a circle was drawn with the highlights of the topographic features, the mountains around and the angles and a little flap that you would raise and align with the Sun so that the shadow fell within the marks on the map. And that would orient the card to where it should be and then you could look out at the mountains to see if they lined up. It was a backup navigation system for the Rover. If your Nav system didn't work and you couldn't see the LM, you could align this Sun compass with the mountains and you could point your way home. Great little device. Cheap. A piece of paper. Clever. I don't know who came up with it and, in fact, I often wonder did the other guys carry the same thing on the subsequent flights. (They did not.) It was a great get-me-home device."]
[Dave Scott commented in a December 2004 e-mail, "Not only was the sun compass a backup to an unproven -for A-15 - single-string nav system on the Rover (i.e. if the nav system failed, or in our case, since the first use, if it were not accurate), the sun compass could have been essential in the event of a time-critical return to the LM. Perhaps the following rough example will illustrate our thinking before the mission - and why a very clever chap came up with the sun compass. A simple piece of paper - the stiff back of a checklist - reduced the overall risk of the surface expedition. Why not? The only additional weight was the bubble level and the ink!"]
Fig 4) The photographs shown above portray the front and back of the flown Sun Compass
The Sun Compass was a stroke of genius that utilized an ancient navigation technique that was revived during the 20th Century race to the North Pole and later used to guide men on the Moon. While a Sundial uses the Sun's shadow to determine the time, a Sun Compass uses time and the angle of the Sun's shadow to determine direction. Through the use of time and Sun shadow angles, Dave Scott was able to determine the bearing (direction back to the LM) of various landmarks adjacent to the landing site.
The front of the Sun Compass, as shown in Figure 4, shows the topographical features that Dave Scott referred to, in the interview, illustrated on the compass card which provided the initial bearings for each of the major landmarks on the exploration site at Hadley. On the reverse side of the compass is a chart that presents key times of each EVA listed in Central Daylight Time (CDT) and the Sun shadow angles (Shadow <) for those times.
As the instructions on the Sun Compass say, "1.) Line the Pointer on the Target," "2.) Level the Compass (with the Bubble Level attached to the card)," "3.) Set the Shadow Angle (based on the chart on the reverse of the card)" and "4.) Read the Bearing." The instructions add that three bearings should be taken in order to triangulate the LM's position on the Moon.
106:51:25 Scott: Okay, hand me the big overlay map, Jim.
Fig 5) Overlay Map with Course Heading and Distance Grid overlaying the entire landing area
The Overlay Map was designed by the U.S. Army Cartography Division based on Lunar Orbiter photographs of the Moon's surface.
While the Sun Compass gave the bearing (reciprocal heading) back to the LM, the Overlay Map gave the heading or course to a landmark or lunar rover destination. The map covered the entire landing site. Included on the map were physical features and landmarks at the Hadley site. The term "overlay" comes from the circular grid that is superimposed over the map. The grid provided course heading and distance data for the explorers while on the lunar surface.
106:51:49 Scott: Okay. Good, Joe… Okay, Joe, our bearing to Icarus is 338.
During the SEVA, Dave Scott used the Sun Compass to take bearings on various landmarks. The reason behind making that task necessary was due to the trajectory changes caused by a mistake by Mission Control in Houston. It was essentially a double correction on a single navigation error that caused the ground controller to over-correct the trajectory by 1000 meters (3000 feet) to the North of the touchdown site. During pitch over, as Dave Scott would later describe, "The problem was, when we pitched over and began to look out the window , there was nothing there!" Dave was forced to redesignate his landing point via the Rotational Hand Controller (RHC) and the Landing Point Designator (LPD) eighteen times to bring the lunar module close to the correct point on the lunar surface.3 The actual landing point was just north of Last Crater within 300 meters (900 feet) north of Apollo 15's planned landing target.
Fig 6) A view of the Sun Compass showing the Sun Shadow Device on the dial
106:52:53 Scott: Okay… Another quick one. Bennett Peak is 255.
106:53:04 Allen: Roger.
The bearings that Dave Scott was taking during the SEVA would help Mission Control triangulate the actual position of the LM at the Hadley landing site. Since Apollo 15 was carrying a lunar rover, it was determined that any landing with 700 meters (2100 feet) of the planned site would not require any change in the planned EVAs.
"[In Houston, the Flight Director tells Joe that Dave should get one or two more bearings. "It won't take long to get 'em."]"
106:53:15 Allen: Rog, Dave; maybe one more bearing.
106:53:20 Scott: Okay, coming up… Make Hadley Delta at about 182.
106:53:27 Allen: Roger.
"[Because all of the features mentioned are fairly large, Dave must be sighting on some predetermined points.]"
Eric Jones' comments shown above are, in all probability, correct. As can be seen in the photographs in figure 6, the compass card shows Bennett Hill and Hadley Delta. Icarus Crater is next to Chain Crater (also listed on the card at the 330 degree position) in the North Complex. One observation notes that the bearings listed on the compass card for Bennett Hill and Hadley Delta are a few degrees off the bearings taken by Dave Scott which probably relates to difference between the planned landing point and the actual landing point.
Dave Scott mentions the use of the Sun Compass in the Apollo 15 Debrief. "I guess the first thing we used was the Sun compass to try to get a relative bearing on three sites . We used Benefield 305 and Mount Hadley to get bearings... At this time, I wasn't sure where we were located. Although I could see prominent features, I was relying on the Sun compass to give us the data for triangulation to spot our point because there was nothing in the immediate vicinity which was recognizable."4
106:53:29 Scott: Here you go, Jim. (Handing down the compass)
Fig 7) The range indicator on reverse of flown Sun Compass
Another simple device was printed on the reverse of this lunar surface flown Sun Compass is a range finder that used the known height of the LM to determine the distance to the LM. By sighting pass the card at the LM and placing the LM within the various marks, the moonwalkers could gauge the distance back to the LM from up to one kilometer away. It is a simple and ingenious solution to the problem of estimating distances on the Moon due to lack of atmosphere and familiar reference points.
121:11:38 Scott: And, I'll put the Sun compass and the overlay map in my seat pan.
"[This is the same Sun Compass that Dave used during the SEVA at about 106:50:50.The TV image jiggles as Dave raises his seat.]"
Fig 8.) A video segment of Dave holding the Sun Compass on the lunar surface
Also nicknamed the "Walk Back Map" by later lunar explorers, when the Overlay Map was used in combination with the Sun Compass, the crew would be able to chart a course back to the LM in the event that the rover or it's navigation system failed.
Studies by Bellcomm determined that the lunar rover could travel "…700 meters in about 5 minutes. Walking (700 meters), some ten to fifteen minutes would be required to complete the same distance."5 It could take the crew 20 minutes or more to travel one kilometer. If the lunar rover broke down at the furthest point of an EVA traverse, it might require as much as two hours for the astronauts to walk back to the safety of the lunar module.
By placing the Sun Compass and the Overlay Map in the CDR's seat on the lunar rover, Dave Scott was acting prudently in having a redundant portable navigation system at hand if he and Jim Irwin were forced to trek back to the LM on foot. It is a case where two simple, old fashion instruments worked hand in hand to provide a route home for explorers on another world.
1.) Thanks to Dave Scott for his assistance in understanding the use of the Sun Compass and the Overlay Map.
2.) Thanks to Eric Jones, Editor of the "Apollo Lunar Surface Journal" (ALSJ). View the site here at https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/
3.) Thanks to David Mindell, Author of "Digital Apollo" (MIT Press)
4.) "Apollo 15 Technical Crew Debriefing" NASA , Aug. 14, 1971, Prepared by Training Office Crew Training and Simulation Division
5.) "The Navigation System of the Lunar Rover Vehicle", Bellcomm Technical Memorandum, Dec, 1970, W.G. Heffron & F. LaPiana