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Stanbic IBTC internet banking: see how to do all your bank transactions with Stanbic online banking
Stanbic IBTC Online Banking
Using all online banking platforms is usually simple. Every customer of Nigerian Stanbic IBTC Bank can also get their benefits online and perform different procedures and services while staying at home, at work or while traveling.
Here is how to use its advantages in Nigeria:
Step 1. Before anyone starts using anything, he or she must register. The same thing happens with Stanbic online banking. You should organize an account for yourself.
Step 2. This is a simple thing. However, you must first go to any local office in Nigeria. Select the one closest to your place of residence and visit it.
Step 3. Each Stanbic IBTC Online Banking customer must receive a special form. You will have to provide your name, various information about the actual account, and choose your personal passcode.
Step 4. Each completed form is reviewed and approval must be obtained.
Step 5. Sometimes you can receive the username (most people use their bank account number) and the passcode for your online banking account via email or phone (if you choose to receive a text message).
Step 6. After activating the account, you should get the Stanbic IBTC Mobile App and install it on your smartphone. Some users prefer to use the online platform instead of the mobile software. It’s up to you, which option you enjoy. You can either use online banking on your computer or work with the app on your phone, or you can do both.
You can also register your own account online using this link https://www.stanbicibtcbank.com/standimg/Nigeria/internetbanking/features.html#register.
Contains a short video guide with registration tips and explanation on how to use ‘Register in Banking Option’ Online without visiting the bank office. Each account activation is completed after making a phone call to the Customer Support Center.
Step 7. Log into your account using the Stanbic IBTC online banking tool at https://ibanking.stanbicibtcbank.com/roa/#/Login and enjoy the services on the go. This is fun and simple. It depends on the working days because you can make transactions and check the balance in your locker online and get all the benefits even when the bank offices are closed on public holidays or weekends.
Step 8. With Stanbic Online Banking, Nigerians can work with their business and individual accounts, keep track of all the transactions they make, keep track of all the financial changes that are taking place, etc.
It is best to take actions using your personal or work account from the same device.
This way you can be more protected. Users who need to check their balance or access the bank vault from someone else’s computer are advised to log out afterwards.
These are the main guidelines and tips for using Stanbic IBTC International Banking in Nigeria.
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Antique Malaysian / Sumatran / Peninsular
Serpent Keris / Kris, Sold
A late 19C / early 20C Peninsular Naga Nogo Serpent Bladed Keris,
in good condition, almost certainly Sumatran.
A lovely serpent forged blade, a Malay / Sumatran Naga Nogo Kris.
34cm blade in good condition, some rust but light and not much.
Hilt / grip with a little damage, easily repaired. Nice large cup
with glass / semi-precious stone inserts. Sheathes well into what
must be its original sheath, in the Indonesian more than Malaysian
style, so we are sure this is a Sumatran item. Total length is 48cm
when sheathed. A great collector's serpent keris for just for £?
(too late, now sold). Please quote item reference N10 (1283). Further
/ full sized pictures available upon request.


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• 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Wildlife Photojournalist
With a doctorate in biology and an eye for rich biodiversity, Tim Laman’s extraordinary wildlife photography is captivating and raises awareness about the complex ecosystems he shoots
Tim Laman: Light is usually lousy in the rain forest, where I often work, and expeditions are never long enough. But one thing that motivates me is the opportunity I have on these expeditions to share the stories of species and places with a wide audience. For example, I shot with a team of fellow photographers from the International League of Conservation Photographers for National Geographic in 2008. We went to Bioko Island, off the coast of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa. There are seven species of monkeys on the island, several of them found nowhere else on earth, and they’re all under serious threat of being hunted for bush meat.
Here, my job was to try to get shots of monkeys in the wild. It was extremely challenging trying to stalk skittish monkeys through the forest. We had to hike into one of the most remote parts of the island, an ancient caldera covered in forest, and try to find the remaining monkeys. After days and days of effort, it came down to a few brief encounters when the critical images were made.
What made it worthwhile is that the conservation groups working there were able to use our images and the National Geographic article that came out of the trip to help promote protection of the monkeys. It’s an ongoing struggle, but we know that our images are helping the cause. These kinds of expeditions allow me to tell stories about not only the places and wildlife, but also the researchers and conservationists involved in preserving them.
Tim Laman: My Walden Pond photography is a work in progress toward a personal book project. I spend four or five months of the year going off to places like Borneo, Papua New Guinea, the Amazon or West Africa. But like any professional making a living in photography, I also spend a lot of time behind a computer writing proposals, planning expeditions and working on pictures. I started shooting at Walden Pond because of its iconic status in the environmental movement, but mostly because it’s five miles from my house, and if I see some holes opening up in the clouds after a snowstorm, I can be over there in 15 minutes. It became a kind of personal-challenge project for me. It doesn’t have the exotic quality of Borneo or the flashy wildlife I often photograph. Could I still make compelling images at a simple pond in the woods in Massachusetts? My goal became to try to create a visual essay that evoked the spirit of Thoreau’s writing in Walden, where he expressed so well the importance of nature in our lives. It gives me a good excuse to get out from behind the computer and exercise my photographic vision in between major assignments.
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A charter airline based in Atlanta will start selling tickets for scheduled commercial service today, largely targeting travelers looking for cheap Florida vacations.
Vision Airlines will fly to 20 U.S. destinations, including Tampa Bay through St. Petersburg-Clearwater International by April 1.
The carrier will offer the area's only nonstop flights to Fort Walton Beach in the Florida Panhandle. It will also have the only direct flights to Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss., after AirTran Airways stops three-times-weekly flights from Tampa International in early March.
Vision is selling one-way fares as low as $49 for the first five days. Regular fares from St. Petersburg-Clearwater will start at $89 one way for Gulfport and $79 for Destin.
The airline's focus is Destin, long a popular beach spot near Fort Walton Beach for summer vacationers from Southeast states. Nearly all of the area's 8 million annual visitors drive. That's because major airlines make small-city travelers fly through big hubs on tiny jets at ridiculously high prices, says David Meers, Vision's chief operating officer.
"These markets are ignored by the large carriers," he said. "There's so little flying that people have had to endure a long drive."
Vision will fly full-sized Boeing 737 jets to connect 17 cities — from Miami to Niagara Falls and Little Rock to Savannah — with nonstop service to Destin.
The new routes also will bolster air travel within Florida, said Greg Donovan, director of Northwest Florida Regional Airport in Fort Walton Beach. The airport didn't have a single flight from another Florida city until Vision launched service to Miami in December. By April, the airline will fly to Tampa Bay, Orlando and Fort Myers as well.
Vision Airlines got started in 1994 flying sightseeing tours of the Grand Canyon. The privately owned company acquired larger planes and flew charters for celebrities and the federal government.
Vision attracted international attention last summer for its role in a spy swap. The airline flew 10 Russian spies from Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia to Vienna, where they were traded for four people convicted of spying for the West.
In November, a U.S. District Court jury in Nevada awarded the airline's former pilots and flight attendants more than $4.5 million in back hazard pay during night flights out of Afghanistan and Iraq for the government, Las Vegas newspapers reported.
Vision also is familiar with the friendlier skies at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International. The airline began flying to Gulfport-Biloxi a year ago, carrying customers who bought vacation packages from the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino.
Steve Huettel can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8128.

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‘Oumuamua — a curious, cigar-shaped rock — was the first interstellar space rock ever discovered in our solar system, though scientists debate whether it should be classified as an asteroid or comet. Now, a new study suggests that the strange object could actually be an alien light sail, or solar-powered spacecraft.
Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) conducted the study, titled “Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?” The paper was posted on the preprint website, the arXiv. In it, the astronomers offer a unique, new explanation for some strange behavior ‘Oumuamua has displayed.
The asteroid was first detected by the Pan-STARRS-1 survey in 2017. Astronomers saw it traveling out of our solar system and noted that it was spinning rapidly and likely had a rocky and metallic composition. Further research showed that ‘Oumuamua was also surprisingly icy, despite it not being a comet.
An Alternative Explanation
Researchers were in for another surprise when an international team found that the asteroid’s velocity had increased, when they were expecting it to slow down.
That team concluded that, most likely, this was because of a process called outgassing, where material on the object’s surface is heated by the sun and vaporized. This process creates a comet’s tail, and the researchers thought that ‘Oumuamua it could be pushing the object and increasing its velocity.
A Star-Powered Space Rock
But Loeb and Bialy have a different, much stranger, explanation for these observations.
The pair has suggested that, alternatively, ‘Oumuamua could be a light sail — a spacecraft that uses radiation pressure to propel itself, a probe like what Breakthrough Starshot is working to create. These researchers suggest that this interstellar craft could have natural origins or, alternatively, that it could have been sent out from an extraterrestrial civilization.
“Its origin could be either natural (in the interstellar medium or proto-planetary disks) or artificial (as a probe sent for a reconnaissance mission into the inner region of the solar system),” Loeb said in a statement.
This artist’s illustration shows a light sail traveling toward the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima b. (Credit: PHL at UPR Arecibo)
Researchers have found no heat coming from ‘Oumuamua, and additionally found that the object is cold and reflects light. Light sail spacecraft, theoretically, are pushed forward as they reflect light. So, instead of being heated by the sun, the pair suggests that radiation from the sun pushed the object to accelerate.
For sunlight to explain the object’s acceleration, however, the team found that ‘Oumuamua must be a pancake-shaped object less than a millimeter thick and dozens of feet across. This shape was previously suggested as an explanation for the object’s tumbling and spinning. The pair of researchers also showed how an object of the same size and shape could survive traveling through the Milky Way unharmed by collisions.
In an email, Loeb said it’s possible “the object is a light-sail floating in interstellar space into which the Solar System ran, like a ship bumping into a buoy on the surface of the ocean.”
But, Coryn Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, who has researched the interstellar object, said that previous research already offers a natural explanation. He points to a study from last year, where astronomers suggested ‘Oumuamua is accelerated by non-gravitational forces. “That is not at all unusual for asteroids or comets in our solar system, and it is often attributed to out-gassing,” Bailer-Jones said.
“We don’t really know what the cause of the acceleration is, but the most likely candidate is probably some kind of comet-like activity,” Bailer-Jones continued, suggesting that an extraterrestrial solar sail is unlikely.
Loeb and Bialy’s new work doesn’t say that aliens must be behind the object, but they do suggest the possibility of extraterrestrial origins. However, Loeb, a well-known astronomer who occasionally studies some far out ideas, says their latest research isn’t some alien conspiracy.
“My approach to the puzzling properties of `Oumuamua is purely scientific and evidence-based. I follow the maxim of Sherlock Holmes: ‘… when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,’” Loeb said.
But Bailer-Jones is unconvinced.
“There are also some things which an alien spaceship hypothesis would have to address,” he said. “For example, ‘Oumuamua is tumbling (rotating, but not about any of its main axes). Why send a spacecraft which is doing this? If it were a spacecraft, this tumbling would make it impossible to keep any instruments pointed at the Earth.” He also noted that the behavior could only “theoretically” be explained by an extraterrestrial sail and adding that such a technical, “we can’t actually rule it out” explanation isn’t very useful.

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Breakfast and goodbyes
While we were saying our goodbyes, Debbie and Matt offered to buy us breakfast. We ate at La Choza again, though this time we got to order from the breakfast menu. Matt took us to the airport, and we found that our leisurely breakfast cost us our seat assignments. We did get on the plane, but we were seated far from each other. Luckily one of the other passengers heard that we were newlyweds and offered to trade seats with Christi so we could sit together. [awwww....]
The Flight Home
The flight home was a bit annoying, because we had to wait in a big line at Customs in Houston. Then we had to claim our luggage and get it checked again to our final destination in Atlanta. We barely had time to grab a bite to eat before the connecting flight. Luckily, Dave had called and arranged for our friend Chip to meet us at the airport at home.
As the day wore on and we got closer to home, Christi became more aggravated at the problems with the seat assignments, the line at Customs, retrieving and re-checking the bags, and the rude American travelers (the only thing that really pissed Dave off - why do people in airports feel the need to be so pushy and inconsiderate?). We have found that we are good touchstones for each other, and when one of us gets impatient the other is often able to calm them down. Christi was a little sad about having to come home, and she mentioned that it was such a shame the adventure had to end. I reminded her that we were about to begin the real adventure - the one that would last us the rest of our lives.
Besides, once we figure out how to make a living on Cozumel, we're going back - to stay.
Copyright © 1998-2002 Dave Newton. All Rights Reserved

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A Wrapping and Unwrapping
(for Christo: 1935-2020)
Greats and former greats beneath shrouds,
Roman walls, the Reichstag, the Pont Neuf,
returned to us in membrane, cauled, history
a wrapping and unwrapping of what we think
we know, geologic features we assumed
tamed, mapped and bridged, measured and sounded,
transformed as if by witchery, monuments
enchanted for weeks while we wandered
them dazed, stepping hesitantly out
on the artist’s pier, trying to steady ourselves
as we followed his vision, his fabric gates
whispering, our faces tipped upwards
like the leaves of his swaddled trees, peering
at the suddenly unfamiliar light, wondering
where and what we’ve come to.
Devon Balwit sets her hand to the plough in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems and reviews can be found here in The Ekphrastic Review as well as in The Worcester Review, The Cincinnati Review, Tampa Review, Rattle, Apt (long form issue), Tar River Poetry, Sugar House Review, Poetry South, saltfront, and Grist among others. Please visit her website at: https://pelapdx.wixsite.com/devonbalwitpoet
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- The Mafia, a.k.a. Scary Italian Dudes with Guns
- The Mafiya, a.k.a. Scary Russian Dudes with Guns
- Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, a 2002 video game
- A parlor game called "Mafia", also known as Werewolf.
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8. As a teenager I am on my phone constantly throughout the day, whether I am at school or if I’m home alone, I always have my phone on me or near me. Or I am on the internet using Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, or other social media websites to communicate with others around the world. I like to be connected to those around me and see what they are up to in their day-to-day lives, whether it’s them posting a tweet or a new Instagram picture. In the video “Growing Up Online” they talk about a guy named Greg and how he is online every day, all day. He uses the computer to go on social media websites, play games, and do other various activities while on the computer. Greg stays up in his room on his computer all day, only to come out for dinner. Greg recently joined the armed forces and will not be able to use the internet for two months while he is there. I think about disconnecting from social media and mobile communication all the time and really want to do it for a certain period of time to see if I am actually capable of doing so. Sometimes during the summer I would just leave my phone in my car or room just to get away from all of that and just enjoy time to myself and or with my friends. But the problem was when I did that; my friends would still have their phones and sit on them while we would be hanging out. When this would happen I would venture back to get my phone because I would be so bored or feel left out while they were just sitting texting or tweeting. I would enjoy disconnecting because I feel like you would embrace the time you have to yourself and with others instead of being on the internet the whole time.
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Yes. For example, individuals classified as white collar, salaried, exempt employees certain supervisors, administrative employees and professional employees are not subject to the rules on rest breaks and meal periods. Also, ORS 653.261, effective January 1, 2002, exempts nurses who provide acute care in hospital settings from these rules if provisions of a collective bargaining agreement entered into by the nurses prescribe rules concerning rest and meal period.
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Do I get all of my digitals?
The short answer is NO, just by hiring me, you are not provided digital images of any sort. If you opt to purchase the digital files, they will be released to you either via thumb drive or unlocked on your personal online viewing gallery for a one-time download per image. Under no circumstance are you merely gifted the images, which are above the time and talent of the session or event.
I’m the one in the photos; don’t I get the copyright?
No. Federal Copyright Law grants ownership of the copyright to the person(s) that created the work. Just as a painting of you doesn’t grant you copyright, a photograph is in fact a work of art and no copyright, expressed or implied, transfers to you just by virtue of your presence within said work of art.
Do you get a meal at our wedding?
Because most weddings have coverage of 6-8 hours, the contract does call for a meal. It does not have to be the full plated dish you may be serving your guest; a “vendor meal” is completely acceptable. And some water, a few bottles or access to a glass and water supply.
Can I have one of the photos to use as my social media profile photo?
Maybe. If the image you want to use is posted on one of my social media outlets AND has my copyright on it, then yes. If you have PURCHASED the limited release of that digital file, then yes. If you are snapping a quick screen shot of the image from the online viewing gallery provided to you, you are infringing on the copyright.
What does the session fee include?
The session fee includes our consult(s). It includes the time spent traveling to and fro your destination. It includes the time spent with you photographing you. It includes backing up your images to they aren’t lost to a computer crash. It includes sorting through your images to select from the vast number of them the very, very best images from our session. It includes editing, one by one, each of the “keepers”. It includes uploading your images to the online viewing gallery. It includes taking further calls or emails from you to assist through the order process.


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In China Railway No 5 Engineering Group Co Ltd Singapore Branch v Zhao Yang Geotechnic Pte Ltd  SGHC 130, the HC dealt with one key issue of whether adjudication under the SOPA is the proper forum to canvass construction disputes that arise purely in relation to performance bond proceeds.
The plaintiff main contractor engaged the defendant sub-contractor to carry out certain construction works. An on-demand performance bond was "procured by the sub-contractor to serve as "a deposit or security for the due performance and observance by the Sub-Contractor of all stipulations, terms and conditions contained in the Sub-Contract"". On 20 December 2018, the plaintiff called on the performance bond for the sum of $281,441.95.
On 25 December 2018, the defendant served Payment Claim 36 ("PC 36") on the plaintiff for a sum that is the value of the performance bond which had been called, plus 7% GST. In its payment response, the plaintiff disputed the validity of PC 36 by arguing that it was a repeat claim with no claim for any new works, and that it was not even a claim for construction work under the SOPA. The matter was then referred to adjudication. During adjudication, the adjudicator found that he had the jurisdiction to adjudicate on PC 36 which "relatedly solely to the proceeds of the performance bond", and determined that the plaintiff was to pay the defendant the sum of $281,441.95, excluding GST (the "AD"). Dissatisfied with the AD, the plaintiff applied for it to be set aside.
In setting aside the AD in its entirety, the HC first found that s 10(1) SOPA, which prescribes the scope of a valid payment claim, is a mandatory provision. The HC then went on to consider whether PC 36, being a claim for performance bond proceeds only, is a valid payment claim within the scope of s 10(1) SOPA. In this regard, the HC held that:
"While the performance bond relates to the construction works, a call on the performance bond resulting in the main contractor receiving the bond proceeds cannot be considered as works done by the sub-contractor ... On the contrary, the performance bond is usually called as a result of some alleged breach of the contract ... It is therefore an allegation on the main contractor's part that construction works have not been done satisfactorily, or that goods or services have not been supplied in accordance with the contract. Allowing the subcontractor to issue a payment claim for such negative work thus verges on the nonsensical."
The HC further held that deeming PC 36 as valid would negate the efficacy of the performance bond, thereby defeating the bargain struck between the parties and contravening s 36(4) SOPA. This was in view of the fact that under the contract, it is clear that the performance bond was issued as a deposit or security, and "does not have to be used to offset any liquidated damages, back-charges or other sums owed by the sub-contractor to the main contractor".
This case clarifies that a payment claim cannot be made to recover under SOPA monies paid out under a performance bond.
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Users Receives Error 'Unable To Verify The Receipt Of Batch' When Sending Batches to Distributed Capture
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One group of domain users can successfully send batches to the WebCenter Distributed Capture (formerly Oracle Distributed Document Capture) Server, but the other domain group comes across the following error when sending batches:
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The inexperience and incompetence of judges and prosecutors are some of the major problems discussed in the judicial community. Eminent jurists have called for the election procedure of new prosecutors to change.
Former heads of legal institutions which select judges and prosecutors openly talked to BIRN – Justice Report about these issues, as well as judges, prosecutors and lawyers with extensive experience.
In order to be elected a prosecutor with the Bosnian state prosecution, the law stipulates that the candidates must have five years of experience as a judge, prosecutor, attorney, or other relevant legal experience. During the election, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) takes into account the expertise, knowledge, experience and work performance of the candidates, as well as other factors.
Based on these criteria, the HJPC has hired expert associates, investigators, magistrate judges and municipal judges from the municipal level to take on positions as state prosecutors and judges, who take on the most complex cases.
As a result, one of the war crimes prosecutors at the Bosnian state court is Vladimir Simovic, who was elected after five years of experience in the position of an expert associate.
Milanko Kajganic was elected with experience as a police investigator and prosecutorial investigator, and Ivan Matesic was a former magistrate judge and the Deputy Minister of Justice.
Olivera Djuric was appointed by the HJPC after working as a magistrate and municipal judge, as well as an associate and a secretary at judicial institutions.
After working as legal officers and with two to six years of work experience as municipal judges, Sedin Idrizovic, Marijana Cobovic, Lejla Konjic and Emir Neradin are working on these cases. They were appointed on these positions in 2013 and 2014.
Quick Advancements, Jumps Between Different Levels of Courts
BIRN-Justice Report has also revealed instances where candidates are elected to become Bosnian state court judges with no work experience. Out of 49 judges at the state level, 21 of them are from the municipal courts or have no experience in the courtroom whatsoever. Despite this, they were appointed to work on some of the most complex cases in the justice system.
People without judicial experience were appointed to the highest judicial institutions. Former expert associates were appointed to the Prosecutors Office and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. People with no experience working on war crimes were coming to the Department of War Crimes, notes state judge Branko Peric.
One state prosecution prosecutor said that in order to work in the highest level of the judiciary, a candidate must previously have had working experience in all areas of crime.
Such a policy on the part of the HJPC degrades all those people who have invested 30 years of work, because someone who never even wrote an indictment is appointed, the prosecutor told BIRN-Justice report.
Former judge Vlado Adamovic, who was also the chairman of the Committee for Selection and Appointment that existed before the HJPC, said that it didnt used to be so easily to skip ones through several levels of the court system.
If you are a judge at a municipal court, the next step is a cantonal court, and the next is the Supreme Court, and then eventually the state or the constitutional court. The biggest problem is that skipping steps is allowed. Theyre not necessarily bad and incompetent people, Im talking about the lack of experience. For example, people like this are permitted to carry trials in war crimes trials before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Adamovic explains.
According to Adamovic, inexperience is one of the reasons for frequent verdicts of acquittals or their abolition.
If in a municipal court you preside over what is known among lawyers as forest cases, as in someone cuts a tree and you assess that, but if you judge a murder, that is already a little more complicated, and j


The Future Oceans Lab (FOL) of the Marine Research Center (CIM) at the University of Vigo, in conjunction with the Arctic Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan has announced an opening for a joint PhD student position starting in fall 2019. This position will examine the intersection of climate change and social ecology with a focus on adaptation of coastal-dependent human communities to shifts in marine species distributions and resulting biodiversity changes. The successful candidate will engage in multidisciplinary applied research combining natural and social sciences, including ecological, social and economic components.
This position will be part of the doctorate program Do Mar from Campus do Mar and will be co-supervised by Drs Elena Ojea (University of Vigo) and Jorge García Molinos (University of Hokkaido).
Applicants should have a background in Marine ecosystem management, demonstrated research interests that align with the theme of this call, and excellent technical, language, communication and team work skills.
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Understanding the knowledge gaps to achieve a low-carbon transportation sector is essential to guide future research agendas. EfD researchers aim to provide a systematic review to identify these knowledge gaps.
The potential impacts of climate change have been well documented in recent times with anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions being cited as a major contributor to rising global temperatures. Transitioning to a low carbon economy has become increasingly important relying on social and technological changes to reduce carbon intensity economies. A significant amount of carbon emissions come from the transportation sector suggesting innovation in transport will play an important role in the low carbon transition process.
However, to understand the role transportation plays in the transition to a green economy, there is a need to have both a global and regional stock-taking of the current and potential research relating to the transportation sector and its low carbon transition. For example understanding what the future carbon footprint of transport will be when low carbon transition guidelines are put into place, investigating what is included in the transition process (timeframe, investment, equality, impact on livelihoods), and understanding how a shift in policy may impact financial investments within a country.
Providing a systematic review of the transportation sector
A project spearheaded by EfD researcher, Amin Karimu, EfD South Africa, in collaboration with Philip Adom, EfD Ghana, and Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, EfD Global Hub, aims to provide a systematic review identifying the knowledge gaps and set a research agenda on low carbon transport infrastructure, digital technologies and their welfare implications including a gender perspective in the Global South. This 18-month long project is part of a larger project titled “Inclusive Low-Carbon Transitions for Sustainable Development in the Global South” and started in October 2021.
“Within developing countries, as seen globally, there is an increasing need for personal transportation. How do you manage the carbon footprint of this sector while still aligning with low carbon transition goals? What is the future of transportation in the global south? What is the gender implication of a low carbon transportation system? This project aims to answer these questions and help guide future research agendas to ensure a low carbon economy that is also inclusive,” explains Amin Karimu.
The project further aims to incorporate questions around public-private partnerships in relation to low-carbon infrastructure provision, the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of a transition to low carbon transportation, and the female involvement in green infrastructure projects.
Collaboration with larger policy review
This systematic review falls within a larger collaborative regional policy review (RPR) for Africa with case studies of five East African countries (Kanya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda) and three other countries, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa.
“The inclusion of Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa within the regional review for Africa ensures that we include case studies in the west and south of the continent, these along with the five countries in East Africa ensures we can provide a holistic view of the potential gaps in research across the continent,” states Amin Karimu.
By: Dr. Michelle Blanckenberg


The advent of the new Camaro will be a challenge to its oldest and main rival, the iconic Mustang.
The sixth generation Camaro sales will begin in late 2015 and will be offered in LT and SS models built on the GM Alpha platform at Lansing Grand River Assembly in Michigan. The A platform is currently used by the Cadillac ATS. The 2016 Camaro will weigh 200 lb (91 kg) less than its predecessor. Over 70% of the sixth generation's architectural components are unique to the car and are not shared with any other current GM product.


Remember the glorious Minitaur, created by engineers from Robotics Ghost? that rides nice, climbs the fence and behaves as a small but nimble Dachshund? While we didn't see him, the developers have taught him new tricks. The Americans have really improved their a little robot. Now his limbs with a direct drive, not even driving around on ice and grass. The results of your work guys published on YouTube channel.
They managed to get footage of their ward at an angle of 30 degree climbs the slope, overgrown with grass, shows how the robot behaves when meeting with a high curb and the way he holds the balance on slippery surfaces covered by ice.
Recall that Minitaur already shown to the public last year. Since then the robot has not changed. He weighs six pounds, runs at a speed of two meters per second, and its battery lasts about 20 minutes.
For the pleasure of the developers asking only $ 1,500.
the American Governor of Virginia signed a decree according to which robotic couriers will be able to walk on the sidewalks and crosswalks shared use.
to learn how to play table tennis and improve reaction speed, players of this wonderful sport for exercise alone used a simple and effective trick: put the table at an angle of 90 degrees to the opposite and work out a shot.


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Scientists discover world that spins so fast, a day is over in 8 hours
If you think 24 hours isn’t enough time to get everything done, here’s a little perspective: You could be living on a world with an eight-hour day.
For the first time, scientists have directly observed the spin of a planet outside our solar system, and determined it is spinning at the rate of 62,000 miles per hour.
That’s about twice as fast as Jupiter, and more than 50 times as fast as Earth.
(A day is still only 8 hours long because the planet is much bigger than Earth.)
The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The fast-spinning planet is known as Beta Pictoris b. It is young -- just 20 million years old. (The Earth by comparison is 4.5 billion years old). It is also hot, shining 10,000 times brighter than Jupiter.
It was a good candidate for this study because it is just 65 light years from Earth, and because it orbits its host star at about two times the distance between our sun and Jupiter, light from the star does not completely drown out the measurable light from the planet.
To determine how quickly the planet was spinning, a team of Dutch astronomers from Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research looked for blue and red shift caused by the Doppler effect in near-infrared spectroscopic observations made using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
“Using this technique we find that different parts of the planet’s surface are moving towards or away from us at different speeds, which can only mean that the planet is rotating around its axis,” explained lead author Ignas Snellen in a statement.
In a News and Views article that accompanied the study, Travis Barman of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, said it was not so shocking that this large planet would spin so fast.
“Generally speaking, the Solar System planets show a trend with spin increasing with increasing mass,” he wrote.
He added that one day, this fast-spinning planet may spin even faster.
”...Beta Pictoris b is still contracting as it cools and will eventually shrink to a radius comparable to that of Jupiter, leading to an even faster spin when it reaches the age of the Sun,” he wrote.
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Vestibular Rehab & Oculomotor Therapy
Vestibular therapy is a type of rehabilitation that is used to treat vestibular disorders, which are conditions that affect the inner ear and the vestibular system. The vestibular system is responsible for helping us maintain balance and coordinate movement, and vestibular disorders can cause symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, and difficulty with balance and coordination.
Vestibular therapy typically involves a series of exercises that are designed to help the brain adapt to the changes in the vestibular system and improve balance and coordination. These exercises may include:
Gaze stabilization exercises: These exercises help to improve the brain's ability to fixate on objects while the head is moving.
Balance exercises: These exercises help to improve the brain's ability to sense and maintain balance.
Gait and mobility exercises: These exercises help to improve the brain's ability to coordinate movement and maintain balance while walking or moving around.
Habituation exercises: These exercises help the brain to become accustomed to the sensations of dizziness and vertigo.
Vestibular therapy may be performed in a therapist's office or at home, and it is often combined with other types of therapy to help improve overall function and mobility. Vestibular therapy and oculomotor therapy are generally considered to be a safe and effective treatment option for people with vestibular disorders, and it can help to improve symptoms and quality of life
Oculomotor therapy and vestibular rehab are used in conjunction in most situations as the vestibular (balance), eye movement and sensory systems within the body cannot be separated.
Visual or oculomotor impairments and balance issues are common after traumatic brain injury (TBI). They are also pervasive and common in other neurologic conditions. The oculomotor system is represented in all brain lobes, making eye movements easily impaired as a result of TBI, often when eye movements are dysfunctional, dizziness can be affected. Eye movements include pursuits, saccades, vestibular ocular reflex, convergence, and fixations. Oculomotor impairments can negatively affect activities of daily living such as reading, computing, and community participation.
Oculomotor therapy typically involves specific exercises that are designed to improve eye movements and coordination. These exercises may include tracking an object with the eyes, following a moving object, or moving the eyes in different directions. The therapy may also involve the use of eye patches, prisms, and other visual aids to help improve visual function. We often use this conjunction with vestibular therapy.
Oculomotor therapy can be an effective treatment for many individuals with conditions that affect eye movements. It can help improve visual acuity, eye alignment, and the ability to fixate on objects, which can improve overall vision and quality of life.

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You know him by the antics of frat boys in “Animal House,” the soulful merriment of “The Blues Brothers” and the charming prince on a mission for love in “Coming to America.”
And let’s not forget the epic music video that turned MTV on its head — Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
All are part of the provocative, ever-changing filmscapes of director John Landis.
In honor of four decades of filmmaking that has continually awed and amused the masses, the Sarasota Film Festival will applaud Landis Saturday during the festival’s 2010 Filmmaker Tribute.
“I’m delighted,” Landis, 59, said during a phone interview from London, where he was taking a break from editing his latest film project, “Burke and Hare.”
“I usually turn these things down because they make me feel like I’ve passed away. But (I accepted) because I’ve just finished shooting and I’ve never been to Sarasota. I’ve always wanted to go.”
Ringling’s Circus Museum.
His wife, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman, will be making the trip to Sarasota with him to see circus treasures and attend the tribute.
Landis has been in the business of making films since the early 1970s, when he made his first feature — the sci-fi horror comedy “Schlock.”
But his attraction to film directing began much earlier at age 8. That was when he saw Ray Harryhausen’s 1958 film, “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad,” which forever sealed his fate.
Ask Landis what he loves about the medium, and that youthful aura immediately fills his voice, followed by a giddy laugh.
“I’m a film geek myself,” said Landis. “I love movies. I really enjoy watching movies and I’ve had wonderful experiences in the movies. Over the years, I’ve been able to meet and know many of the world’s great film makers. And as a filmmaker, I really enjoy the process.”
Landis joked that he’s not a good example of the path one takes to become a film director these days, which usually involves a film school or program. The ambitious Landis dropped out of high school and in 1967 was lucky enough to get a job in the mail room at 20th Century Fox. Then he went to Europe, where he was able to work as a production assistant on a film called “Kelly’s Heros.” That was one of more than 70 films he worked on during his stay in Europe.
When he returned to the United States, with $30,000 saved up plus donations from relatives, friends and others, Landis made “Schlock.” He was 21.
But the successful stint that now defines his career didn’t begin there. After “Schlock,” Landis wrote for television, did stunt work and “parked a lot of cars,” he said.
His next filmmaking adventures weren’t until the late 1970s with “The Kentucky Fried Movie” and “Animal House,” which has brought him steady work ever since.
Landis’ love of film has taken him all over the world: 40 cities, 20 states and roughly 15 countries, he said. He’s shot comedies, love stories and thrillers.
But, Landis never tires of film.
“Filmmaking is very new; it’s not even 120 years old,” said Landis, who wrote and directed “An American Werewolf in London.” “It’s still growing and expanding, and in many ways, it hasn’t changed in a hundred years: You tell a narrative by the juxtaposition of images.”
Though the world has gone gaga over the recent revival of 3D films, Landis isn’t as excited. He said the format itself is nothing new. He recalled the craze of 3D in the 1950s with films like “House of Wax,” “Creature From the Black Lagoon” and “Kiss Me Kate.”
“If you see them projected correctly, their 3D is just as good as contemporary 3D,” he said. “It’s spectacular, in fact. What has changed is with the addition of computers, you have a digital projection, which means the image never falters.”
And that means the film doesn’t get damaged during projection, which was what killed the first 3D wave, he said.
A true film buff and avid reader on all levels, Landis can sleep, eat and breath film all day.
“Movies have a powerful life that’s completely independent of you,” Landis said. “I’ve been very lucky that I’ve made movies that are still playing. So I’m really happy about that.”
And that high school diploma he never got?
“I’ve never needed it,” he said.
January Holmes, features writer, can be reached at 745-7057.


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The ‘Child Centred Approaches to Ending Family Violence’ conference brings together leading case-studies, practices and recommendations to improve child-centred, family-focused approaches to ending family violence.
This conference will focus on:
- Strengthening family-informed services for mothers
- Increasing accountability of perpetrators who are fathers
- New strategies for direct, therapeutic work with children
- Culturally appropriate services for Aboriginal families
- Working alongside adolescents who use violence in the home
- Boosting interagency collaboration & workforce capability

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EA and BioWare’s Anthem comes out next month, and it’s no secret fans of Mass Effect and Dragon Age are concerned about the developer’s shift to focusing on multiplayer. Although the community has largely accepted the Destiny clone will most likely be a boring grind, gamers are incredibly worried about the multiplayer-focused model being forced onto BioWare’s single-player franchises. Unfortunately, the nightmare may become a reality as Dragon Age 4 seems destined to feature multiplayer.
Reported by Gearnuke, BioWare are seeking a franchise technical director who has “experience developing multiplayer games”. This isn’t too surprising considering both Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Dragon Age: Inquisition all contained a multiplayer mode. However, while a co-op or mindless horde mode are attachments that can be ignored, fans might need to brace themselves for online bleeding into the traditionally single-player narratives.
As noted by TweakTown, at PAX East 2018, BioWare execs Mark Darrah and Mike Gamble mentioned how Anthem’s online-based storytelling could become a key part of established franchises like Dragon Age. The Anthem model would allow the developers to implement a live and consistently updated ‘hub’, as proposed by Darrah:
"One of the things we've really done in Anthem is focus a lot of attention on Fort Tarsis [the in-game hub world]. [With agents and their interactions] it's the primary place of reactive storytelling. As a result we've pushed Tarsis further than we've ever pushed any of our hubs before.
"It's a more reactive space, a space that feels more living and alive, and I think going forward in future Dragon Age games or other games that you're going to see that reactivity, that depth, in our hubs that we've really been able to bring out in Anthem."
Dragon Age 4 is still years away, but the last thing the series’ fanbase wants is for it to be an online game with a live and always updating ‘hub’ world. Mass Effect and Dragon Age are popular single-player RPGs because they allow players to escape reality and bond with well-written, fictional companions. Fans don’t want to be playing in an online ‘hub’ swarmed with annoying gamers.
BioWare’s newest instalment in the Dragon Age franchise was prematurely announced at Geoff Keighley’s 2018 Game Awards. While you have every right to be worried about it potentially adapting Anthem’s online model, you might also need to be concerned about it repeating Mass Effect: Andromeda’s biggest mistake. As for Anthem, BioWare and EA are struggling to convince us it’s anything more than a grind with gameplay that resembles Mass Effect online and Destiny.
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This week marks the final passenger-carrying commercial flight of the last of the Douglas widebody aircraft. When KLM flight 672 from Montreal touches down in Amsterdam at 635a on Sunday, the era of the trijet in airline service will officially end. I’ll miss the MD-11, but today I’m going to focus on the negative. The MD-11 was a symbol of failure for McDonnell Douglas, and there are lessons to be learned.
It’s no secret that I love Douglas airplanes. After all, the Douglas Aircraft Company built nearly every jet it produced here in Long Beach, not far from where I live. (Sure, I moved here after the last commercial jet came off the line, but that doesn’t matter.) It’s safe to say that the Douglas Aircraft Company was one of the more innovative companies building airplanes. The DC-3 was revolutionary in its versatility. Not only was it a great war transport during World War II, but it made for an excellent passenger transport as well. Airlines had long struggled to profit by flying passengers, but the DC-3 was the first airplane to carry a large enough load to make it possible.
From that point on, Douglas built some of the great piston-driven aircraft of all time. The DC-4, DC-6, and DC-7 were all important airplanes, but they were immediately rendered irrelevant when the jet age arrived. When that happened, Douglas dove right in. First was the DC-8 and then the venerable DC-9 for short haul operations. The company’s first entry into widebody flying was the mighty DC-10. That trijet was meant to provide a mid to long range option with less capacity than a 747. Fresh off its 1967 merger with McDonnell, the newly-minted McDonnell Douglas officially launched the DC-10 in 1968. It was all downhill from there.
Despite building airplanes for 30 years beyond the merger, McDonnell Douglas never created and produced a new commercial design. The DC-8 was stretched a few times until it faded into history. The DC-9 was the most successful jet the company produced. It was stretched from the original DC-9-10 into the -30, the -40, and the -50 before it was renamed as the MD-80 after another stretch. (Yes, that’s really just a DC-9-80.) It eventually was shrunk into the MD-87, stretched again into the MD-90, and finally shrunk one more time into the MD-95, an airplane you know as the Boeing 717. It was renamed after Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas. Both the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320 families easily surpassed the DC-9 family. The last 717 rolled off the line in Long Beach in 2006, and with that, the end of the Douglas commercial aircraft lineage had arrived.
As for the DC-10, it had a few different variants and, despite some high profile crashes, was a moderately successful airplane. It proved to be quite the reliable workhorse later in life with the last one not being retired until earlier this year by Biman Bangladesh. But when the time came for McDonnell Douglas to innovate, the company failed completely.
Sure, McDonnell Douglas had its chances. In the early 1970s, the company began floating the idea of a DC-10 Twin with, obviously, only 2 engines. Boeing’s 767 wouldn’t fly for another decade. And though Airbus was about to fly the A300 for the first time, it would be years before anyone would take that manufacturer seriously. McDonnell Douglas punted, and the idea never went anywhere.
Instead, the company lumbered along by tweaking its existing products. By 1986, the writing was on the wall for the DC-10. Airbus officially named its updated version of the A300 the A330. It had been developing that for a decade. Meanwhile, Boeing’s 767 was picking up steam and the company was working on ways to expand its size and reach while still retaining only two engines. A couple years later, those efforts would become the 777. What did McDonnell Douglas do? Just before the end of the year, it opted to just stretch the DC-10 into the MD-11.
The MD-11 was a bit more than just a stretch. Sure it had room for more people, but it also had a redesigned wing, new engines, and a two-person cockpit with modern avionics. But it still had 3 engines, and in a world where efficiency matters, that was a huge problem.
The only hope for the MD-11 to really succeed was by providing great range. The A330 and 767 could fly many routes but they lacked the reach that twin engine aircraft can provide today. The 747 was still the king of the skies on long haul, but it had 4 engines and a ton of seats. The MD-11 could have found a niche. It didn’t. The airplane didn’t meet its range promises. Singapore Airlines canceled its orders. Others were not pleased.
But even if the MD-11 had lived up to its promises, it would have been rendered obsolete fairly quickly with the advent of the 777. McDonnell Douglas just never bothered to see the importance of innovation.
Every so often, there was a glimmer of hope. In the early 1990s, McDonnell Douglas put out the idea of an MD-12. Basically, it was an A380 before the A380 existed. That went nowhere, and the company went back to proposing further tweaks to the aging MD-11.
There was also an attempt to leapfrog the competition in the narrowbody market by playing with a new engine technology. The unducted fan or ultra high bypass looked like the confused offspring of a jet and a prop. But it was quiet and extremely fuel efficient. Oil prices started declining, however, so McDonnell Douglas abandoned that plan and instead outfitted the MD-90 with the same engines that Airbus already had on its A320.
With so many missed opportunities to do something — anything — different, McDonnell Douglas became an also-ran in serious financial trouble. After flirting with Airbus, the end came in 1996 when it agreed to be bought by Boeing. You can still see the company’s influence in Boeing today, however. When Boeing decided to forgo building an all-new narrowbody and instead just beef up the 737 into the 737MAX? That has the hallmark of a short-sighted McDonnell Douglas-style decision. It may save money and time now, but it doesn’t bode well for the future.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed flying the MD-11. I was lucky enough to fly it once from LA to Portland on Delta as part of Delta’s failed Transpacific hub operation up there. Then I did it again as a roundtrip from New York to Helsinki on Finnair. The airplane has served KLM well for a long time, and it still has a future in the cargo world for awhile. But when I see the MD-11, all I can think about is what should have been if McDonnell Douglas had continued on the path of innovation that the Douglas Aircraft Company began so many years ago.


City of Becker/Becker Township Recycle Day Event to be held May 15, 2021 from 9am-1pm
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS FOR CITY OF BECKER RESIDENTS AND BECKER TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS ONLY!
Please view the below link that illustrates the customer pricing sheet. This invoicing sheet will be utilized during the recycle day event to keep track of what customer's are bringing and the total cost that will need to be paid. Please note that we will only be accepting what is illustrated on the below pricing sheet!
It is noteworthy that this year there is a change in the location of the event: the 2021 Recycle Day Event will be held at Northern Metal this year!
Please click on the link below to view the route map for the upcoming Recycle Day Event.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this matter, please contact the Public Works Department at 763-200-4275.
Options for Bulk Garbage Disposal
For a fee, you can take your miscellaneous garbage to Waste Management. Please call 320-253-6491 for any questions! Please note they are located at: 650 NE Highway 10, St. Cloud, MN 56304. M-F 8am-4pm
Please call the office at 763-427-3110 and they will be able to assist you with any questions regarding the pick up of MSW.
Please call the office at 763-972-3335 and they will be able to assist you with any questions regarding the pick up of MSW.


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Our primary concern at Lakewood is to provide a quiet environment in a natural setting in which guests may come away from the busyness and pressure of modern life and experience Jesus Christ and Christian fellowship in a fresh way. But, this does not mean that Lakewood has no plans for
new and exciting attractions.
We know that our guests want to see not only a well-kept facility, but they will also want to enjoy new and different activities from time to time. This is part of our God-given creative nature; to see things grow and improve.
Lakewood approaches this challenge from two perspectives:
First, by updating and maintaining our current facility to provide a clean and comfortable environment
Second, by planning and adding new features that will enhance excitement and effectiveness to the retreat experience
Future plans to Lakewood range from both small to large projects and short to long term. The photos to the left help depict our vision for some of our future plans Some of these plans include:
A multipurpose auditorium for activities, seminars, concerts, and banquets
Zip lines, small and large
Upgrading the pool area to have more of a quiet oasis feel
A splash pad and a small water slide
A courtyard garden in front of the dining hall
Adding new challenge course games
Improving trails for biking and skating
A climbing wall
Additional motel rooms
...and much more!
How will these things be accomplished? Most of our operating funds come from the rental of our facility. The more guests use Lakewood, the better Lakewood will be maintained and will be able to tackle small projects while keeping prices affordable. Large projects, however, have been and will continue to be funded through the donations of time, material, and the finances of generous individuals and businesses who desire to bless God’s people in this unique hospitality ministry. It is the involvement of committed people like this who have transformed Lakewood from a swampy thicket to the facility we enjoy today. Perhaps God is leading you to take a role in the future plans of Lakewood. We welcome your involvement.
WHAT'S ON THE HORIZON?
Can you imagine: More and larger meeting space? Doubling motel rooms? A water recreation area? An auditorium? We can. Would you join us in prayer for God's direction?
Lakewood always has a list of scheduled projects for funding. Click the link below to see a portion of that list. Please pray along with us for God's provision through His people.
If you have a passion for the power of Christian camping and would like to help Lakewood grow through your gift of finance or time and skills, we would like see how we could work together. Many hands make light work.
"Let's grow Lakewood together."

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The Dell Streak is an Android tablet. [Collin Meyer] wanted to use an original SNES controller to play emulated games on the device. What he came up with is a controller that is a dock for he handheld.
Several things have to come together to make this happen. The Streak uses a standard PDMI dock that connects to a computer via a USB connection. [Collin] repurposed a sync cable by connecting a couple of pins on the dock connector which forces the device to use USB host mode. From there he used a Teensy microcontroller to convert the SNES controller into a USB device (very similar to this hack). The Teensy and shortened sync cable find a new home inside the SNES controller body and, in the video after the break, it looks like he used something like sugru to add a bit of support for the Streak.


Performance and scalability of model transformations are becoming prominent topics in Model-Driven Engineering. In previous work, we introduced LinTra, a platform for executing out-place model transformations in parallel. LinTra is based on the Linda coordination language for archiving concurrency and distribution and is intended to be used as a middleware where high-level model transformation languages (such as ATL and QVT) are compiled. To define modularly the compilation, this paper presents a minimal, yet sufficient, collection of primitive operators that can be composed to (re-)construct any out place, unidirectional model transformation language (MTL). These primitives enable any MTL to be executed in parallel in a transparent way, without altering the original transformation.


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- A bold and flavorful dressing
- 50% less fat and 33% fewer calories than regular dressing
- Low in fat and calories
- A bold and flavorful dressing; ideal for romaine lettuce and spinach salads
- Processed and packaged in the USA
all right by me !!!
This is probably even better for your health than Amazon’s nutrition facts would indicate. I don’t think that Amazon got it quite right when they quoted the caloric content in the nutrition facts table above. On all of the bottles I have of this product (and yes, I matched it up with the picture–it’s exactly the same product), the nutrition facts label on the bottles I have indicate that there are only 25 calories total per serving; and a serving consists of 2 tablespoonfuls. In addition, the nutrition facts label on the bottles I have indicate that the amount of calories that come from fat total only 10 calories per serving and not 25 calories as Amazon notes above. I would like to think that the Kraft nutrition label is correct; perhaps Amazon accidentally made a misprint or two above. Unfortunately, the amount of sodium indicated above on this webpage is accurate.
Overall, this is great dressing. It tastes great; and it adds a punch to any salad. I simply can’t find any salad dressing with fewer calories than this although you might have to watch it on the sodium if that’s an issue for you. If you are on a salt-free diet check with a nutritionist or doctor first to make sure that this dressing is something you can enjoy on your salads. I use it on salads that have a mixture of romaine and iceberg lettuce with some carrots thrown in; and I’m sure it would go with a spinach salad as well.
Best Easy Marinade Ever
It’s an awesome marinade on steaks, fish and chicken alike. I especially like it on chicken. So easy! On those days when I just want to stick something in the oven and settle in front of the TV until it’s done, this dressing makes fixing the night’s entree so very, very easy. Thanks Kraft!

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Beyond her exceptional acting career, Emma Watson has captivated the world with her intelligence, grace, and dedication to various endeavours. Born on 15 April 1990, the English actress has received numerous accolades for her acting performances as well as for her women's rights work. In addition to her skills in acting, Harry Potter's cast member has an intriguing story to tell us.
The actress was born in France, but she is of British and Turkish descent. Watson lived in Maisons-Laffitte, near Paris, until the age of five, and then moved to England with her mother in Oxfordshire after her parents' divorce
Her dream of becoming an actress came true during her childhood. Fortunately, she had the opportunity to receive part-time training at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts
Her teachers persuaded her to try out for the role, but it took a total of seven auditions before she finally secured the part of Hermione. Yet, J.K. Rowling was behind her since the beginning and knew she was the perfect fit for the role.
While filming Harry Potter, Emma and her fellow young actors dedicated up to five hours daily to their studies, and she consistently achieved straight A's during her tutoring sessions.
At the age of 15, Emma Watson achieved the remarkable feat of gracing the cover of Teen Vogue, becoming the youngest person to do so at that time.
Emma Watson enrolled at Brown University in 2009. She opted for an American university over a British one, citing that American universities offer students greater academic freedom to pursue their areas of interest.
During her time at this prestigious Ivy League institution, she earned a Bachelor's degree in English literature in 2014.
Apart from holding a degree, Emma Watson has been a certified yoga instructor since 2013, as she was figuring out her next move in life.
Journaling happens to be one of her most cherished activities. The outspoken feminist maintains more than 30 journals covering a wide range of topics, including yoga, dreams, her experiences in acting, and encounters with people.
Despite her fame for portraying the brown-haired Hermione Granger, Emma's original hair colour is blonde.
At the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars event, the British skipped the after-show party as she unintentionally drifted off to sleep in her hotel suite.
Her movies have generated a staggering $5.4 billion in global earnings, making her name in the Guinness Book of World Records the highest-paid of the Decade.
Thanks to her role in the Harry Potter series, Watson has accumulated more than $12 million, to the point where she openly acknowledges that she no longer needs to work for financial gain.
She dedicated her 2014 Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year to her pet hamster, Millie, who died while she was filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
The actress’s favourite film is Notting Hill, while her preferred TV show is Friends.
Filming for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was so demanding that it led Emma to leave her role. The schedule on the set was so strict that she was afraid it would have an impact on her studies.
On the set of Harry Potter, Emma Watson admitted having a huge crush on Tom Felton, as she saw him as a bad boy.
In the event that you come across the actress in a bar, you may see her savouring her preferred drink: a gin and tonic.
It is reported that Kylie Jenner's net worth is $20 million, which is notably lower than Emma Watson’s net worth, standing at $70 million.


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The Benefits of Tuscan Leather Dog Collars for You and Your Pup
September 8, 2020
Approximately 63.4 million U.S. households own a dog and spend a total of $99 billion annually on their furry friends.
Because we consider our pets a part of our family, the purchase of each pet product or service is a crucial decision, and many owners refuse to spare any expense.
The purchase of a dog collar for our pet is one of the most important purchases you can make because of what gets attached to it: the leash, ID tags, and license are all critical to keeping your pet safe.
Despite their necessity, not all types of collars are created equal. They come in a wide range of styles and made with a variety of different types of materials. Choosing between them can feel overwhelming. Arming yourself with useful information will help you make a decision that is right for you, your pup, and your unique situation.
Why Tuscan Italian Leather for a dog collar? Tuscan Italian leather dog collars are a luxury option that has grown in popularity due to their comfort, durability, beauty, wide range of colors, and easy care, not to mention their anti-microbial properties.
Benefits of Tuscan Leather Dog Collars
Whether for fun and fashion or safety and security, a dog collar is a necessary expense for anyone who cares about the safety and security of a pet.
There are a number of different ways to identify your pet. Some owners prefer tags while others would rather add nameplates to collars. While this decision is largely an individual one, the type of collar may dictate the type of tag.
For example, the shape of a rolled leather collar does not allow for a nameplate. Conversely, most flat collars, whether fabric, nylon, or leather, will accept either a nameplate that is riveted to the collar, a slider that is slid over the collar or tags that are fastened to the same dee-ring that the leash is fastened to. Whatever method you choose, wearing a nametag helps ensure that your dog is one of only 10% that return home on their own after wandering off or getting lost.
Dog collars come in an assortment of styles, from those with a center ring in the back, those with a side release buckle in either plastic or metal, or those with a standard buckle, usually in either nickel or brass, martingale style dog collars that are used for training and slip over a dog’s head and those that are used in combination with a walking harness.
Rolled collars are the preferred choice for dogs with long fur. But, any collar with smooth finished edges will glide through a dog’s fur, maximizing comfort and helping protect the coat from damage.
Tuscan Italian leather dog collars are beautifully designed using top quality leathers that are anti-microbial and are naturally soft and comfortable. The edges are finished for comfort and style. Each collar uses a standard buckle that is both secure and stylish. Its flat design makes it a natural for adding a nameplate or charms to show off its features with distinction.
The types of materials used are the basis for proper design and function of a dog collar.
Nylon is an inexpensive option that many choose for its availability.
Ribbon or fabric collars come in many fun and colorful options to reflect your unique personality.
Bridle leather is prized by professionals and trainers for its timeless beauty, durability, and resistance to odors.
Tuscan Italian Leathers are similar to bridle leathers, but start soft, like a pair of jeans that are already comfortable with that broken-in feel. But, not only are they comfortable, they have the added benefit of being available in a wide range of exciting colors.
Choosing the proper material will not only be comfortable for your pet, it will also ensure comfort for you when you choose a matching leash. Since leather is a time-tested material that tends to become more comfortable as it ages – and since Tuscan Italian leather begins soft – you are sure to be pleased.
Dog collars are made of a wide range of materials that differ in strength and lifespan.
You’ll want to choose a strong material that is appropriate for your dog’s lifestyle and personality.
Leather is a long-lasting material that can withstand daily usage, challenging weather conditions, and more.
Because of leather’s durability, purchasing a leather dog collar will save you money in the long run because you won’t have to pay to replace it as often.
Quality leather, as with Tuscan Italian leather, is resistant to bacteria, making it the preferred choice compared to nylon and fabric.
Other things to consider when purchasing a dog collar
Puppies grow fast. Make sure to check the collar’s fit regularly so that you aren’t surprised that your pup has outgrown his collar.
You may likely have to purchase an adult size dog collar, if you bought the collar when your dog was a puppy. This is a great time to reassess your dog’s needs and personality as well as your preferences and the way you use the collar.
Because leather is a natural material, you may find that it has stretched over time. It is important to check the fit and condition of your leather collar for signs of wear.
Where Can I Get Tuscan Leather Dog Collars?
Choosing the proper dog collar for your pet significantly improves their quality of life and keeps them safe. A pet professional can help you find the proper collar for your unique situation.
It is important to know and trust those with whom you do business. Because not all leather products meet the same quality standards, it is important to purchase from a trusted retailer. Check out our selection of dog collars and contact us today for more information.


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Dr. Grant Goble
Dr. Grant Goble grew up in a small town in south central Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for his undergraduate degree. It was there where he discovered his fascination with the eyes and visual system while studying Neuroscience. Dr. Goble then took that fascination further and attended the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago.
During his 4 years at ICO Dr. Goble studied many areas of optometry and ophthalmology but he took special interest in working with patients who present challenging contact lens scenarios. Being free of spectacles is very important for many people and Dr. Goble will work with you to find the very best solutions to your vision needs.
Dr. Goble also has an special interest in pediatric care. Eye exams for children are critical to ensure their eyes provide the foundation for which proper growth and development of the young mind is built upon.
In his free time Dr. Goble loves to play any kind of sport but is most likely to be found on the golf course, in the summer months anyway!

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Social avoidance — child is hypersensitive and seeks to avoid social situations Social indifference — child does not actively seek out social interaction Social awkwardness — child is typically higher functioning, but has difficulty with reciprocal interaction in conversation or interests.
Summary— A social story helps children with Aspergers and HFA acquire, generalize, and maintain social skills that make them more successful at home, school, and the community.
As a stand alone treatment, it typically is not effective to produce behavior change. Help the child continue to generalize new behaviors e. What tools and props can you use to facilitate openness to learning this skill?
Click here to access. Descriptive, Perspective, Directive May be supplemented with additional, optional types of sentences: What I love most about this app is the fact that you can email and print your creations, making it a HUGE time-saver for busy parents, teachers, and therapists!
Ideally, you should use real-life photos of people, events, and places to make the Social Story as real as possible. To make sure that the social story is effective, parents and the child need to have an identical understanding of what behavior is being targeted. If modifications are needed, change only one aspect of the social story at a time e.
It makes my teachers happy when I walk quietly in the hallway.
When I eat, I will touch my own food. Carol Gray Social Stories website A Social Story is a tool often used to help teach a child about a desired behavior, or a specific event that will occur. When it is lunchtime, most students eat lunch.
The Lunch Room My school has many rooms.
Just sit with your child at the computer and watch them together. At school, most people go to the cafeteria for lunch. What are Perspective sentences? If you do a quick search on YouTube, you find a ton of social stories about common topics.
If possible, write the story with the child. Formula for Developing a Social Story— The three types of sentences in a social story are: While it has been said that no two individuals with autism are the same, social challenges are one of the hallmark symptoms of autism.
I also recently realized that I can edit them slightly to fit my particular needs.Social Story Templates. While customized Social Stories are more effective and children enjoy using their tablets for learning, time is a luxury most of us don’t have.
Thankfully, there are heaps of generous parents and therapists out there who offer Social Story templates and activities for download. A Social Story is a tool often used to help teach a child about a desired behavior, or a specific event that will occur. It's a short, simple story focused on a specific concept.
The story is typically individualized to the child, tailored to their interests, with a specific goal (or goals) that you are trying to reinforce, or generalize. 3. To develop an effective social story, (a) gather information about the child’s interests, abilities, impairments, and motivating factors, (b) observe situations that often present problem behaviors, (c) ask the child for his perspective of the specific target behavior, and (d) determine the topics for the social story.
Autism social stories are a tool or strategy used to establish replacement social skills for both children and adults with autism.
Though they do not necessarily fix the problem. An autism social story gives a person information about. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
Social stories topped my to-do list yesterday. I needed one for arguing, another social story for bathroom etiquette, and a final social story for hallway behavior. Although social stories are a huge part of some of our students’ daily school life, I’ve never had an “official” training on writing social stories and neither have any of my colleges.Download


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In an era dominated by digital advancements, the process of obtaining a visa for international travel has undergone significant transformation. Cambodia, with its rich cultural heritage and diverse attractions, has embraced this change by introducing online visa applications, offering convenience and efficiency to travelers worldwide. CAMBODIAN VISA ONLINE In this article, we explore the benefits and procedures of applying for a Cambodian visa online, revolutionizing the way visitors experience this captivating destination.
The Convenience of Online Visa Applications:
Gone are the days of queuing at embassies or consulates to submit visa applications. With the introduction of online visa services, travelers can now apply for a Cambodian visa from the comfort of their homes or offices, saving time and eliminating the need for in-person visits. This streamlined process is particularly beneficial for busy professionals, frequent travelers, and those residing in remote areas, offering unparalleled convenience and accessibility.
Types of Visas Available Online:
Cambodia offers various visa options through its online application platform, catering to different travel purposes and durations of stay. The most common types include tourist visas, business visas, and e-visas. Tourist visas are ideal for leisure travelers planning to explore Cambodia’s cultural and natural wonders, while business visas cater to professionals engaging in commercial activities. E-visas, on the other hand, provide a convenient option for travelers seeking short-term stays for tourism or business purposes.
Applying for a Cambodian Visa Online:
The process of applying for a Cambodian visa online is straightforward and user-friendly. Travelers can visit the official website of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to access the online visa application portal. From there, they will be guided through a series of steps to complete the application, including providing personal information, passport details, travel itinerary, and supporting documents.
Required Documents for Online Visa Applications:
To complete the online visa application process successfully, travelers must ensure they have the necessary documents on hand. Typical requirements include a valid passport with at least six months’ validity remaining, recent passport-sized photographs, a completed visa application form, proof of travel arrangements (such as flight bookings), and payment of the visa fee. Depending on the type of visa requested, additional documents may be required, such as a business letter or invitation for business visas.
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Interestingly, the aggregate numbers don’t tell the entire story. For example, students who just used the Magoosh platform averaged an increase of 93.2 points. When they added a class to the platform, they didn’t do better. In fact, they did worse.
As noted above, overall, we saw a 16.9 point spread between those taking a class and those not doing so. (93.7 for taking a class versus 76.8 for using a platform only.) But like the classes, we wanted to see what the differences were between the popular platforms. For test-takers that were using just a platform, those using Magoosh saw the highest average score increase and it wasn’t close. Those using Magoosh reported an average score increase of 93.2 points — an average increase of 15.5 points more than the company with users reporting the second-highest increase. That platform was EGMAT where users reported an average score increase of 77.7. Across all companies, Magoosh was the only one where users reported an average score increase above the overall average across all test-takers that used a platform only. The company where test-takers saw the lowest score increase was Official GMAT with an average score increase of 62.3. – and saw an that Magoosh was far and away the winner, with a 93.2 score increase –far ahead of all students who used just platforms, and well ahead of the 83.3 score increase for all students reporting.
Of course, studying style fit within the platforms is also important to consider. For example, the Magoosh platform offers a different kind of interaction than the normal question-and-answer interfaces the other providers offer, sort of like a tutorial, but not a class, on a crowdsourced platform.
But say you are the kind of candidate who prefers to not do-it-yourself and is willing to pay for more structure. In that case, a class or a tutor usually does help. If you look at the case of the Official GMAT platform, which does not have an official school attached, choosing your own class but using the Official GMAT material results in the highest score increase of this group.
Inversely, compared to platform-only test-takers, Magoosh candidates had the lowest increase when they took a class, even lower than the platform only group. We forgive you if you find some of the results confusing — in fact, so do we. But there are some interesting inverse relationships.
As noted in the chart above, test-takers who used the Official GMAT site with a class had the highest score increase — partly because they had their choice of classes to pick from. So what’s the message? Using Magoosh? Don’t dilute. But that’s just an average — as they say, your mileage may vary. We did see several cases of 100+ score increases from those using Magoosh and a class, using providers like Sherpa, Target Test Prep, and Manhattan Prep.

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Do you want to report "In your opinion, who has the best beef patties?"
I don't eat meat, so I've never had a reason to eat Tastee..from what I've heard, their beef patties are the best. In your opinion, who has the best beef patties? **Edit: omgggg..who on earth actually downvotes stuff like these**
whispers Devon House Bakery. They are quite a bit more expensive but for a one off treat they are worth it. They have beef, chicken, fish, shrimp, lobster, curry goat, callaloo and ackee & saltfish
The Tastee vs Juicy argument debate has been settled enuh. If you’re in Kingston or Mobay, Tastee is supreme. If you in St Catherine or Country then it’s Juicy. For whatever reason Juicy change their formula when they’re in town.
I will proclaim that tastee is the best. However, I can remember the days when patty filling couldn’t even stay in the crush. It was hot, juicy, favourful… worse if there was cheese, ugh. The only thing about that was the Holy Trinity 😂
Juicy beef better.
Just trust me. Tastee patty is cause the line too long a juicy beef.
Juicy beef more flakey, better crust, and more spice. Me only like eat tasstee if them hot or me can microwave them.
Tastee has a okay fish sandwich still
In Connecticut we have a number of great Jamaican restaurants, high population of Jamaicans in the Greater Hartford area. I love Scott’s and Golden Crust. Some of the small local non-Jamaican restaurants will advertise that they have patties and they are so terrible … I don’t touch them


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Designed and prototyped a collection of jewelry
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1 Peter 4 talks about suffering. There is a good suffering and a bad suffering according to Peter.
Bad suffering occurs when we do sin. If we “suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters,” then we’ve got bad suffering. We’re just getting our come-upins. We’re reaping what the flesh has sown. There is no virtue in suffering for being an idiot.
Good suffering is suffering brought on by doing good, especially in doing good for Christ. When we get this kind, we are taking part in the sufferings of Christ and seriously, how cool is that?!
So, there are two kinds of suffering:
1) Suffering brought on by not doing God’s will, which brings sinful results
2) Suffering brought on by doing God’s will, which inflames the world against you
Either way, whether by doing God’s will or resisting it, you’re going to suffer! This is the beauty of life on earth–aint no one exempt from the suffering. Rich guys, poor guys, powerful, weak, slave, free, men, women it just doesn’t matter, you will suffer.
So, God does not give you a suffer or don’t suffer option. There is no such thing as “Oh, just have more faith and all suffering will disappear.” Not a biblical concept. The Bible says no matter what, you will suffer.
Therefore, you might as well suffer for good. “Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.”
God is good and He will set things right, if not now, then in the world to come. Bind yourself to Him, do His will, do well for He is a faithful Creator. He’s watching. He will take care of you, but through suffering is how we enter the glory later.
Don’t look for shortcuts around suffering, they don’t exist. Instead, resign yourself to suffering and choose to get the suffering that results from listening to God. You will win in the end!

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