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Urea transporter 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC14A2 gene.

Function

In mammalian cells, urea is the chief end-product of nitrogen catabolism and plays an important role in the urinary concentration mechanism. Thus, the plasma membrane of erythrocytes and some renal epithelial cells exhibit an elevated urea permeability that is mediated by highly selective urea transporters. In mammals, two urea transporters have been identified: the renal tubular urea transporter, UT2 (UT-A), and the erythrocyte urea transporter, UT11 (also called UT-B, coded for by the SLC14A1 gene). SLC14A2 and SLC14A1 constitute solute carrier family 14.

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\section{\label{sec:introuduction}Introduction\protect}
\label{sect:introduction}
The breakup of matter into smaller pieces, i. e. the fragmentation process, is of great interest  to the industrial community \cite{fragComminution}.
For instance, grinding, which is one of the steps in the comminution process in mining, is of  great relevance as
it appreciably impacts on the final costs.
The academic interest stems both from the association of the process with critical phenomena \cite{ODDERSH,GLASSrod, fragJapanese, PLATESprl, HERRegg} as well as from
understanding the propagation of cracks into brittle materials \cite{PMMA1996,PMMA1996prl,PMMA2005,ChandarKnauss2}.
In one of the proposed scenarios \cite{PMMA1996,PMMA1996prl,PMMA2005}, the propagation of the cracks is associated with dynamical instabilities
related to frustrated microcracks initiated from the main fracture.
This picture is very different from that \cite{ChandarKnauss2} in which flaw points ahead of the tip of the propagating crack can be randomly excited due
to the local intense stress field of the perturbation.
One of the main difficulties in this study lies on the extremely short time scale for the development of cracks \cite{failureWaves1,failureWaves2,failureWaves3}.
The very small spatial extension associated with the crack tip \cite{failureWaves1} also brings additional difficulties to the study.
Therefore, conclusive experimental analysis must be extremely detailed both in time and space.
Despite many theoretical and experimental efforts \cite{PMMA1996,PMMA1996prl,PMMA2005,ChandarKnauss2,dynCrack2003,reviewFragmentation,dynCrackYoffe,dynCrack1,failureWaves1,failureWaves2,failureWaves3}, a clear scenario to the dynamics of
the cracks has yet to emerge.

Although of great interest from the theoretical point of view, the connection between the fragmentation process with critical phenomena has been criticized by some authors (see \cite{fragGeoSystems}, for instance) who emphasized the relevance of exploiting broad ranges of size scales as, in practical situations, lower and upper bounds to the size distribution must be present.
The existence of scale invariance clearly conflicts with this fact and requires a thorough analysis to avoid ambiguities.
Since this aspect has, to a large extent, been neglected in most analyses, further investigations are necessary in order to achieve definitive conclusions.

The theoretical model  we use in this work to interpret our fragmentation data lies on assumptions very close to those assumed in Ref.\ \cite{ChandarKnauss2}, where bifurcations occur at the tip of the propagating cracks.
We have successfully employed  it in the description of several experimental observables \cite{filipe2010} and, therefore, it is also adopted in the present work.

In Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, experimental results corresponding to the breakup of glass and alumina plates, due to lateral impact, were reported and discussed.
The main focus of that work was on the production of exclusive events, classified according to the impact velocity on one of the plate's laterals.
In this way, similar events were grouped according to the violence of the impact and the properties of the fragmentation process were studied.

In this work we use the same experimental setup of the former study but we now focus on the spatial location of the cracks.
With the present analysis, we aim at investigating the existence of preferred regions to the development of fractures and examine whether it is possibly related to standing waves caused by the impact.
We also found that the violence of the impact does not seem to be the best choice to single out events.
By collecting them according to the fragment multiplicity, we show that several properties of the glass and alumina plates are very similar, in contrast to what was obtained in the former work \cite{filipe2010} when the events were classified according to the impact velocity.

The remainder of the manuscript is organized as follows.
We briefly sketch our experimental apparatus in Sec.\ \ref{sec:setup}, whereas the main features of the model are recalled in Sec.\ \ref{sec:model}.
The results are discussed in Sec.\ \ref{sec:results} and the main findings are summarized in Sec.\ \ref{sec:conclusions}.

\section{\label{sec:setup}The experimental setup \protect}
The fragmentation of alumina (0.5 mm thickness) and glass (1.0 mm thickness) square plates of 100.0 mm side have been studied using the apparatus presented in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}.
We refer the reader to that work for detailed information and describe here only its main features.
The plates are laid down on a flat surface and are laterally hit by a steel piston, which is accelerated through the release of compressed air into a pneumatic cylinder.
The air pressure is controlled by a solenoid valve, so that the impact velocity is suitably tuned, as shown in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}.
A steel block, whose side is larger than the plate's lateral, is attached to the end of the piston in order to ensure that, when aligned, the plates are homogeneously impacted on their lateral.

The fragments produced in the process are then collected and subsequently digitalized.
Individual fragments are identified by labeling pixels whose colors differ from the background.
In this way, the area of a fragment is directly determined by counting its contiguous pixels.
Since the analysis is discussed in details in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, we do not provide further details  here.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig1.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:presMult} (Color online) Average multiplicity as a function of the average cylinder pressure. For details see the text.}
\end{figure}

In that work,  a high resolution scanner has been employed to digitalize the fragments.
All the alumina and most of the glass data discussed in this work have been processed in this way, as they were produced in the experiments
performed in the first part of this work \cite{filipe2010}.
Extra 73 glass plates have been fragmented at low impact velocity (corresponding to the cylinder pressure equal to 6.8 bar), which gives an average fragment multiplicity equal to $M=27.9 \pm 15.2$.
As shown in Fig.\ \ref{fig:presMult}, it is only at this pressure value that there is an overlap of the fragment multiplicities for the alumina and glass data in the pressure range we study.

The new glass data has been analyzed  by photographing the fragments with a digital camera.
The perpendicular distance to the surface on which the fragments are laid is kept fixed and is adjusted to give 8.6 pixels per mm.
Since the glass plates have 1.0 mm thickness, which corresponds to 8 pixels, this resolution is sufficient for our purposes.
Furthermore, fragments whose any of its lengths has less than 10 pixels are discarded from the analyses presented below since it may correspond to the plate thickness instead of one of the fragment's side.
By discarding such fragments we leave no room for ambiguity.

The surface of these glass plates has been divided into 9 squares, which have been colored with different colors.
This helps the reconstruction process when the plate is rebuilt by arranging  the fragments (by software) one by one at their original places, as  is illustrated
in Fig.\ \ref{fig:reconstruct}.
This procedure then allows us to discuss the properties of the spatial location of the cracks.

Since all the alumina data have been taken from the former experiment \cite{filipe2010}, those plates have been reconstructed without coloring them.
Although the method employed in the analysis of the glass plates make the reconstruction much easier, it is obviously possible to do the same without colors.
Then, 66 alumina plates, which have been fragmented into $M=30.0 \pm  12.0$ pieces, have been rebuilt and will be used in the subsequent analysis.

\begin{figure}[bt]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig2.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:reconstruct} (Color online) Reconstruction of the glass plate after the fragmentation process.
The arrow indicates the side on which the plate was hit. For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

\section{\label{sec:model}The plaque fragmentation model\protect}
The schematic model employed in this work was developed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}.
As mentioned above, it is based on a scenario very close to that proposed in Ref.\ \cite{ChandarKnauss2} where secondary cracks appear at the tip of the perturbation.
Since it is detailed discussed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, we summarize its main features below:

\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item At the first time step, $N_c$ cracks are randomly selected at one of the plates sides and the propagation angle $\theta$ is randomly chosen between
$\pi/6 \le |\theta|\le \pi/2$, with respect to the normal to the impacted surface.
\item All cracks propagate at the same velocity at straight lines and stop only if one of the borders is met or if its course is interrupted by another crack.
\item $N_f$ flaw points, sampled from a Poisson distribution with mean value $\langle N_f\rangle$, are uniformly placed over the plates.
They correspond to circular areas of radius $R$.
\item Secondary cracks appear with probability $P_c$ whenever the propagating crack enters the circular area of one of the flaw points.
Then its propagation direction $\theta'$ is sampled in the interval $\pi/6 \le |\theta'|\le \pi/2$ with respect to the primary crack.
\item Secondary cracks propagate following the same rules as the primary ones.
\end{enumerate}

\noindent
As discussed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, the number of initial cracks $N_c$ and the probability of producing secondary cracks must be related and are associated with the violence of the impact.
In this work we adopt the same ad hoc functional relationship employed previously:

\begin{equation}
N_c=-10\ln(1-P_c)\;.
\label{eq:ncpc}
\end{equation}

\noindent
The parameters $\langle N_f\rangle$ and $R$, which are related to the brittleness  of the material, have been fixed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010} and are $\langle N_f \rangle= 10000 $,  $R=0.0005$, and the plate's area $A_0$ is set to unity.
For simplicity, this parameter set is used for both alumina and glass plates.
Thus, the only free parameter of the model is $P_c$, which is selected according to the violence of the impact.

\section{\label{sec:results}Results\protect}
Fragmentation events of alumina and glass plates whose fragment multiplicities respectively correspond to  $M=30.0 \pm  12.0$ and $M=27.9 \pm 15.2$ have been grouped for analysis.
The area distribution $F(A)$ defined as \cite{ODDERSH}

\begin{equation}
F(A)=\frac{1}{A}\int_{A}^{\infty}n(A^{\prime})dA^{\prime} \;,
\label{F(m)}
\end{equation}

\noindent
where $n(A)dA$ is the number of fragments with area between $A$ and $A+dA$, is displayed in Fig.\ \ref{fig:sizeDist}.
In order to investigate whether it varies along the surface of the plates, the frames in this figure show the size distribution of fragments whose centers of mass lie inside the hatched area.
The arrows indicate the direction of the piston motion.
One observes that, except for large areas $A/A_0 \gg 0.01$, the size distributions exhibit no dependence on the position with respect to the impact region and are fairly well described by a power law $F\propto (A/A_0)^{-1.1}$ at small areas.
The sensitivity observed at large areas is obviously related to geometrical constraints.
The differences between the fragmentation of the alumina and glass plates for $A/A_0 \gg 0.01$ are due to the poor statistics at large areas and stay within the error bars.
The same remarks hold for the comparison with the model simulation, also displayed in this figure, using the model presented in Sec.\ \ref{sec:model} with $P_c=0.365$.
The interpretation of the properties of the size distribution was discussed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010} and the present analysis brings no new information on this context.
Since this point is not the main focus of the present work, we refer the reader to that paper for a thorough discussion.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig3.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:sizeDist} (Color online) Size distribution for the fragmentation of alumina ($M=30.0 \pm  12.0$) and glass ($M=27.9 \pm 15.2$) plates. The hatched area, corresponding to $1/4$, $1/2$, $3/4$, and $4/4$ of the total surface, represents the region at which the centers of mass of the fragments are located. The arrows indicate the piston velocity. For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

On the other hand, it is important to emphasize the independence on the plate's material observed in Fig.\ \ref{fig:sizeDist}, in agreement with the results reported in Ref. \cite{ODDERSH}.
However, in a previous work \cite{filipe2010}, we found that, for a given impact velocity, the fragmentation of alumina and glass plates does lead to distinct size distributions.
This is readily confirmed by the results shown in Fig.\  \ref{fig:presMult},  from which one clearly sees that the fragment multiplicities differ appreciably at a given impact velocity (cylinder pressure) for different plate's material.
This is a mere consequence of the fact that a given impact produces more or less damage according to the material being hit.
We find that the alumina and glass size distributions are statistically equivalent only if the events have similar multiplicities, as those selected for the present analysis.
This suggests that distinct energy amounts are needed to produce a fracture inside different materials, as is intuitively expected on physical grounds.
Indeed, as is shown in Fig.\ \ref{fig:perimeter}, the sum of the perimeters of the fragments $P_{\rm sum}$ of a given event is strongly correlated with the corresponding total fragment multiplicity $M$.
These results seem to indicate that the total fragment  multiplicity (or the energy effectively used in creation of the fractures) is the key quantity to the fragmentation process, in the pressure range studied in this work.
One should also note that there seems to be a universal function relating $P_{\rm sum}$ and $M$ as the alumina and glass data follow the same curve in a broad pressure range.
The same is true for the model results, whose points associated with different values of $P_c$ follow this curve very closely.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig4.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:perimeter} (Color online) Sum of the perimeters of all fragments for a given event as a function of the corresponding fragment multiplicity.
The model calculations have been carried out using $P_c=0.365$, 0.425, and 0.670.
The alumina data have been multiplied by $10^2$ and the glass data by $10^1$, in order to separate the sets.
The lines represent the parameterization $P_{\rm sum}/\sqrt{A_0}=2.2M^{0.6}$, also multiplied by the factors above, where necessary.
For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig5.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:n} (Color online) Number of fragments whose centers of mass lie inside the bin of length $s/s_0=0.05$ and width $s_0$, as a function of the distance $x=d/s_0$ from the impacted lateral.
For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

As may be noted from Fig.\ \ref{fig:perimeter}, the $P_{\rm sum}$ versus $M$ curve can be fairly well approximated by $P_{\rm sum}=2.2 M^{0.6}\sqrt{A_0}$, which is represented by the lines.
In order to illustrate the extent to which this result can be explained by a simple picture, let us assume that $M-1$ fractures are created on the impacted side of a square plate of unity area and that the cracks propagate perpendicularly to this side.
In this particular model, all the fragments are rectangles of perimeter $2(1+w_i)$, where $w_i$ denotes the width of the i-th rectangle.
Since, for a  given event, the sum of $w_i$ over all fragments must add up to 1, one has $P_{\rm sum}=2(M+1)$.
Thus, considering large multiplicities, one obtains $P_{\rm sum}=2M$.
This expression differs from the empirical function found above mainly from the power law exponent.
Another simple result may be obtained by assuming that the unity area square plate is fragmented into $M$ squares.
In this case, one has $P_{\rm sum}=4M^{1/2}$, which gives an exponent much closer to the empircal value but the global factor is about two times larger than the experimental one.
The differences between these formulae and the empirical result are very likely due to the more complex geometrical shapes which are allowed in our model and experiment than in these simplified calculations.

Important insight on the underlying physics of the fragmentation properties may be gained by examining the behavior of the average number of fragments $\langle N\rangle$ whose centers of mass lie within the bins of length $s/s_0=0.05$ and width $s_0$, where $s_0=\sqrt{A_0}$.
In the top panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:n},  $\langle N\rangle$ is plotted versus  $x=d/s_0$, where $d$ is the distance from the impacted lateral.
The model predictions are compared with the experimental alumina and glass data.
As is intuitively expected, the experimental multiplicity diminishes as one departs from the impacted border.
The model, on the other hand, predicts that $\langle N\rangle$ first falls off quickly in the neighborhood of the impacted border, and then it reaches an almost constant value all the way to the other side of the plate.
This clearly conflicts with the behavior observed experimentally.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig6.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:aMean} (Color online) Average number of fragments whose centers of mass lie inside the bin of length $s/s_0=0.05$ and witdh $s_0$ as a function of the distance $x$ from the impacted lateral.
For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

A possible explanation to this shortcoming is that the model does not take into account the fact that the probability of creating new cracks must drop down as one goes away from the impacted lateral since more and more energy is expended during the propagation of the crack.
In order to verify this hypothesis, we have modified our model so that the probability of creating a new crack when a flaw point is met now reads $P'_c=P_cf(x)$, where $f(x)$ is a decreasing function of $x$.
Then, $f(x)$ accounts for the fact that energy is used to disrupt matter along the crack's path.
Furthermore, as also pointed out in Refs.\ \cite{PMMA1996,PMMA1996prl,PMMA2005}, energy flows through frustrated microcracks during the propagation of the main one.
These two effects reduce the energy available to the branching process.
They are phenomenologically taken into account in our model by $f(x)$.
We have used three different functions to check the sensitivity of the results to particular choices: $f(x)=1-x^{1/2}$, $1-x$, and $1-x^2$.
The corresponding results are displayed on the middle panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:n}.
It should be noted that, from this point on, the model calculations in which any of these three functions $f(x)$ is employed will be explicitly labeled on the figure captions.
We  keep the label ``model" to denote the results of the standard version, which corresponds to $f(x)=1$.
The results shown in the middle panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:n}  reveal that $N$ is not appreciably sensitive to the specific function used in the calculation, as long as it decreases monotonously as a function of $x$.
Furthermore, one also observes that the values of $N$ obtained with $P'_c$  exhibits the desired behavior since it drops as the distance from the impacted lateral increases.

The qualitative changes brought about by these modifications also turn out to improve the agreement with the data quantitatively, as is shown at the bottom panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:n}.
The very good agreement with the experimental results strongly suggests that the probability of creating new cracks should fall off as the perturbation front departs from the impacted region.

Despite the important information obtained above, the study of $\langle N\rangle$ does not seem to allow one to obtain precise information on $f(x)$ due to its  insensitivity to the details of the function employed in the calculation.
Therefore, we investigate the average value of the fragments' area whose centers of mass lie within a bin of length $s/s_0=0.05$ and width $s_0$.
The experimental results for both alumina and glass plates are shown at the top panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:aMean} as a function of the
distance from the impact region.
One notices that $\langle A\rangle$ is almost flat and exhibits low values for distances up to approximately half of the plate's side $s_0$.
A bump starts to rise at this region and falls off smoothly as one approaches the other side of the plate, due to the obvious geometrical constraints.
Although large values of $\langle A\rangle$ cannot appear at small values of $x$, the explanation for the existence of a fairly broad peak in the second half of the plate is not straightforward.
For instance, the standard version of the model, in which $f(x)=1$, predicts that $\langle A\rangle$ is fairly constant all over the plate's length, as is also shown at the top panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:aMean}.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=8.5cm,angle=0]{fig7.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:Dalitz} (Color online) Dalitz plots for alumina and glass data, as well as for the different versions of the model employed in this work.
For details, see the text.}
\end{figure}

To investigate whether this bump may be explained by the model if the probability of creating new cracks drops as the distance from the impacted lateral increases, we plot, in the middle panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:aMean},  $\langle A\rangle$ obtained in the model simulation using the same functions $f(x)$ employed above.
One notes that the bump becomes broader and higher as $f(x)$ falls faster as a function of $x$ since large fragments are more likely to be preserved if $f(x)$ drops down quickly.
The inset in this panel illustrates the differences between the distinct choices of $f(x)$ used in the calculations.
This version of the model possesses the qualitative features found in the experimental data and the comparison with the latter, shown at the bottom panel of Fig.\ \ref{fig:aMean}, reveals that $f(x)=1-x$ allows one to reproduce the experimental observations fairly well.
Due to the sensitivity of this observable shown in the middle panel of this figure, other choices for $f(x)$ could lead to a better agreement with the data.
However, the precise determination of this function is not the main aim of the present study.
 We intend to point out that important information on $f(x)$ may be obtained if one thoroughly studies $\langle A\rangle $ as a function of $x$.

A close inspection on the alumina data displayed in Fig.\ \ref{fig:aMean} reveals the presence of a small peak centered at $x\approx 0.2$.
Since the error bars are small in this region, the appearance of this bump is not likely to be due to statistical fluctuations.
Thus, there might be a mechanism responsible for it, whose interpretation is beyond the scope of the present model.
One possible explanation could be the effects associated with standing waves \cite{SPAGHETTI}, but it is difficult to draw precise conclusions on this respect from the present analysis.
However, the detailed behavior of $\langle A\rangle$ seems to be sensitive to the material being fragmented, since the glass data does not exhibit this secondary peak, and further studies are necessary to achieve definitive conclusions.

It is important to mention that we have checked that the agreement with other relevant observables, presented above and in the previous work \cite{filipe2010},  remains unchanged if one uses $P'_c=P_cf(x)$, provided $P_c$ is conviniently modified.
For brevity, to illustrate this point, we show in Fig. \ref{fig:Dalitz} the Dalitz plots \cite{filipe2010} obtained experimentally, as well as those calculated with the different versions of the model.
As discussed in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, it easily reveals some qualitative features of the size distributions by focussing on the relative size of the three largest fragments within each event.
More specifically, the perpendicular distance from one of the triangles' side corresponds to the fragment's size divided by the sum of the sizes of the three largest fragments.
Thus, if the three largest fragments have almost the same size, the corresponding point is found nearly at the triangle's center.
If one of them has negligible size compared to the other two fragments, the point is located close to the middle point of one of the triangle's side.
Finally, if one fragment is much larger than the other two largest fragments, the corresponding point is found near one of the triangle's corner.
We refer the reader to Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010} where the construction of the Dalitz plot is carefully discussed and illustrated.
As is shown in Fig.\ \ref{fig:Dalitz}, the same qualitative features are found in both alumina and glass data, as well as in the different model simulations.
The qualitative agreement with the experimental results and the model simulations leads one to the conclusion that the model indeed possesses many relevant features of the fragmentation process necessary to describing the observables discussed in this work.
Indeed, except for the statistical differences, the plots furnish the same information on the fragmentation process.
They all agree on the fact tha there is an important contribution of events in which one of the three largest fragments is much larger the others.
Furthermore, one also notes that the results obtained with the different functions $f(x)$ are in very good agreement with those given by the standard version of the model.

It should also be mentioned that we found, in Ref. \cite{filipe2010}, that the largest three fragments are of approximately the same size in the fragmentation of the glass plates, in contrast with the results just reported.
Therefore, we found that there is a change of regime, where the three largest pieces of the glass plates tend to be of similar sizes at high impact velocities whereas the fragmentation process preferably produces one fragment which is much larger than the others at lower impact velocities.
The former behavior was not observed in fragmentation of the alumina plates and, if it ever takes place, it might occur at higher impact velocities.

\section{\label{sec:conclusions}Concluding Remarks\protect}
The spatial location of the cracks produced in the breakup of alumina and glass plates, due to impacts uniformly applied on one of their lateral sides is studied.
The analysis of the fragment size distributions shows that this observable is not sensitive to the distance with respect to the impact region.
Furthermore, the selection of events according to their total fragment multiplicity, rather than to the violence of the impact, shows that the fragment size distribution is the same whether alumina or glass plates are fragmented.
This is in agreement with previous findings \cite{ODDERSH} where a fairly independence on the material being fragmented has being reported for this observable but, as discussed above and also shown in Ref.\ \cite{filipe2010}, the fragmentation of alumina and glass plates impacted laterally does not exhibit such a feature, unless the analyzed events have similar multiplicities.

The average area $\langle A\rangle$ and the average number of fragments $\langle N\rangle$ as a function of the distance from the impact region have also been studied.
 Both observables are constructed considering only fragments whose centers of mass lie within a bin of length $0.05s_0$ and width $s_0$, where $s_0$ is the plate's side.
We found that, in order to reproduce the experimental findings, one needs to assume that the branching probability of cracks falls off continuously as one departs from the impact region.
The branching of cracks is a microscopic process
\cite{PMMA1996,PMMA1996prl,PMMA2005,ChandarKnauss2,dynCrack2003,reviewFragmentation,dynCrackYoffe,dynCrack1,failureWaves1,failureWaves2,failureWaves3}
 whose detailed treatment is beyond the scope of the phenomenological model used in this work.
However, the corresponding effects manifest themselves macroscopically, which allows one to examine this point.
The average fragment multiplicity $\langle N\rangle$ turned out to be fairly insensitive to the details of the function employed in the model calculation to take this fact into account in  contrast with $\langle A\rangle$, which exhibits a fairly large sensitivity to the exact functional dependence assumed.
We therefore suggest that this kind of study should be systematically carried out, for other materials and for different impact velocities/multiplicities, in order to achieve precise conclusions on this valuable piece of information regarding the propagation of cracks.

\begin{acknowledgments}
We would like to acknowledge CNPq,  FAPERJ BBP grant, CNPq-PROSUL, FAPERGS,  the joint PRONEX initiatives of CNPq/FAPERJ under
Contract No.\ 26-111.443/2010 and CNPq/FAPERGS , for partial financial support.
\end{acknowledgments}

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Having spent much of her life as a professional dancer with a collection of her own dancer's injuries, Jane sprang into action, as I laid there in stunned disbelief. Prone to responsible problem solving and somewhat stunned herself, she tried her hardest to get me to consent to an ambulance ride to the nearest hospital emergency room. There was no way I was going to see the inside of one of those buses, before my time was up! Absolutely not! I took ibuprofen and arnica and continued to try… unsuccessfully… to reach my partner, Judy, by phone as well as text message.
As an InterPlay leader of 20+ years, with a talent for cleverly overcoming roadblocks, she reassessed the situation and applied InterPlay's signature principal of incrementality to moving things along. She would suggest a move and I would try it. Little by little, I was miraculously on my side, then sitting up, then standing on one leg, and then leaning on the back of a chair. Using the chair as a walker, with Jane cheerleading, I hobbled to the elevator, out the door and into the car. Within 10 minutes, Judy arrived on the scene and drove me to an immediate care facility, where we learned that no bones had broken, but the pop had indeed been a tear, requiring weeks of rest, ice, pain medication, and a walker, along with patient acceptance of the situation (a challenge for me).
It wasn't until a follow-up orthopedic appointment 10 days later that I learned my pop had been an avulsion, i.e., a tearing of the Sartorius tendon where it attaches to the iliac spine area of the pelvis. (The Sartorius is the longest muscle in the body, resolving in a tendon attaching to the pelvis.) This accounted for both the bone and tendon pain I was experiencing. No bone chips, no fractures—just a painful separation between the tendon and its point of insertion. I was assured that it was a common athletic injury—particularly in football—one that occurs when the muscle is stretched beyond its capacity. Well, I clearly did that, without doubt…but football? That was worthy of a laugh out loud!
Laughing or crying, in 3 weeks I would begin a course of physical therapy that would help me regain 95% of my former function. My inquiring and restless mind finally had an understanding of what had happened and a course of action. Between the relief I felt with the diagnosis and prognosis—along with the homeopathic care I knew would hasten healing—I returned home ready to welcome this secluded time out as an unexpected gift.
When I heard the ophthalmologist express concern for my visual welfare because I was now near-sighted in the right eye and far-sighted in the left eye, I began to replay the scenario I'd heard at my first visit. Did I hear this lovely man tell me that the cataract in the left eye was not severe enough to be covered by Medicare…and that was why he was just going to do the right eye? I think I did, but he doesn't remember saying that. Okay, I can't push the point because the memory can be faulty in medical situations. He suggested that possibly one of the technicians said it. Knowing how important it is to keep the docs liking me, I assented to this having been the case. Just between you and me…it was not the case. The doc said it and I took it at face value, thinking one eye would be easier than two.
As it turns out, doing both at the same time would have been easier for me in the long run. From surgery to new glasses takes about five to six weeks. Being a forward minded person, I'd set aside this time thinking that the left eye was in pretty good shape and might never need correcting. Maybe it won't, but there is definitely a difference between the two eyes in terms of color and light…and of course now, in equilibrium as well. The good doctor says he would like to see me in six months to consider bringing the left eye up to speed. I will have to go through this whole monkey-business all over again. This means planning my projects and life so that I have nothing visually urgent during this time and nowhere to go, since weekly check-ups and an eye drop regimen are part of the program.
So this is where I am now: I will pay $700+ for the new glasses and hope my brain will compensate mightily for the split vision. If and when I can figure out when to have the other eye done, I'll have to get another new pair of glasses. Ca-ching, ca-ching. It's only money.
A week ago I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The left eye has not deteriorated enough to qualify for Medicare coverage so just the one eye had its fuzzy lens replaced with a manufactured model (an intraocular lens). I was nervous and apprehensive with memory recall of past medical encounters and uncertainty about the visual future. Despite all of this, and because I had covered all my bases of obligation, I displayed very good vital signs. That was a welcome surprise to me. No one panicking over heart rate and blood pressure. No need for IVs and consultations. The power of prayer and supplication!
*Tip from experience: you get better treatment in the medical system if your doctor/nurse likes you. But if you don't like them, get the heck out of there.
Being wheeled down the corridor to the operating room is a trip in itself, but I was lively and witty and amusing. (I should have been paid minimum wage for this performance.) Once in the OR, lying there like a cadaver waiting to be explored, my apprehension returned. Within moments I felt my sister at my side saying she would stay with me and hold my hand. Scoff if you must, but this is exactly what I experienced and it was comforting. Do I believe it actually happened? Yes. I believe it truly happened just as the disciples believed they saw Jesus on the Emmaus Road. It may or may not have been factual, but I believe it was true.
The doctor sealed something large and roundish over my right eye and draped the left. I found the whole procedure to be a very strange experience of color, light and sound. Once finished, sight is immediate, but uncomfortable because the dilated pupil lets the light flood in as it hadn't for several years. I returned home with dark glasses, a Valium hangover, and a number of medications to be dropped into the eye every two hours.
As the Valium worked its way through my system, I felt a bit lost between the thin place experiences and the real world. I lay in an abyss of suspended awareness…neither here nor there…until evening when a good friend came by to take over the eye drop regimen for a few hours. As I talked with him, an avowed, left-brain, linear thinker, I came across to reality-land as though stepping off a boat and onto the dry land we call reality.
The next few days were devoted to recovery and rest. The procedure is essentially painless, straightforward and without serious risks—a piece of cake, people say. The same people do not mention the follow-up weeks, which if cake, definitely are without frosting. Today, 8 days past the procedure, I am counting the remaining several weeks until new glasses sit on the bridge of my aging nose, hopefully loving their new home like crazy and relieving my eyestrain.
In my freezer is some left-over chocolate, chocolate cake with raspberries, walnuts and frosting. This is what cake looks like folks. I think I'll have a small piece right now.
Before my valentine salutation yesterday, I wrote about my search for an visual enhancement for our church lectern, appropriate to our Lenten theme. (See posting, on another note for February 10th) For those who wonder how it all worked out, I can happily say that, 1) I have relearned my laundry lesson and 2) my intuition about the burlap being appropriate did turn out to bear fruit.
After cleaning up all the mess in the dryer, I spread the burlap out on the ironing board and pressed it as flat as I could, then hung it up to dry overnight. The next day I looked in on the piece, which had acquired approximately 1 to 1-1/2 inches of fringe on both sides of its 48 inch length. It hung there in its ugliness for most of the day while I set about searching in fabric stores for a piece of cloth that would speak of homespun, and be a naturally neutral color. After hunting high and low, I came home with 1-1/2 yards of unassuming linen, but no sparks had flown from this selection. I left it alone on the table and read another chapter of Taylor's previous book, Leaving Church.
I could not get the burlap out of my mind, despite its menacingly ugly color and stains. By evening I wove a plan to color it with fabric spray, and began rolling through a number of color choices, settling on a variety of interlaced of tones. It is winter here and there is a ton of snow outside where I would have to do the spraying, so I went to bed with a plan to start the next day.
The next day was Saturday. Although the sun was out and the air beginning to warm up, I still couldn't open the back door. Resourcefully, I devised a plan that would allow me to suspend the 48 inches of ugly burlap outside in front of the garage door. It took only a second to realize that my plan for multi-coloring was off the mark, so I just started spraying with ivory, then quickly switched to flat white. Each swish of white spray brought me joy. I knew this was the way to go. It took a heap of spraying to bring this remnant to a visual semblance of human/humble. While it was drying I flew back to the fabric store for the piece of purple I saw in my mind, draping along the left side of the human, humble, now whitened, burlap. I flew back twice. The first time I chose two beautiful fabrics based on color and texture that turned out not to fit the bill at all. On my second tour I found a dark purple, plain-knit jersey that spoke to me: Take me home, I'm the one! I was skeptical and concerned about all the money I'd already spent, but determined to listen to the intuitive voice over the, let's just get it done, voice.
So I brought it home, set up the whole thing and there it was, like magic: the human/divine connection creating yet another altar in the world. I am pleased and relieved this is done. I am ready for my cataract surgery tomorrow. They say I will see instantly, but the following several weeks could be a bit of a trial. If I'm lucky and receive perfect vision, I won't need glasses anymore. If I am not, I will have to hobble along for the 3 weeks it takes before receiving a new prescription and the additional week or two before new glasses are sitting on the bridge of my nose.
The surgical center just called. My appointment time is 7:45 am. By 9:00 the doctor will be making a small incision in my right eye, removing the failing lens and slipping in a new model straight off the assembly line. I don't like to think about that. I prefer to think about the 5 mg of Valium I will get before, and the lovely nap I will have all afternoon long. After that…I throw myself on the mercy of all that's good and holy.


So you are thinking of hosting a Mothers Who Make meeting in your venue? Brilliant!
You are supporting a growing national initiative aimed at supporting mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate – writers, painters, actors, dancers, musicians, film-makers….every kind of maker is welcomed, and every kind of mother.
What are the benefits to a venue?
Widening the definition of your venue as a 'family friendly' locale.
Generating a community of mutual support and cultivating connections for local artists.
Being part of a high profile national initiative.
Strategically increasing your venue's profile via the Mother's Who Make hub scheme.
Your venues hub will be able to update the MWM website with news about your activity.
You will be able to build a database of mothers who are who are keen to take you up on offers and opportunities within your building. You can give the mothers the first hand notice of events in the building.
Supporting artists to keep practicing and creating through the challenges of motherhood: exhibitions, performances and publications have all come about thanks to MWM groups.
What's required from the venue?
Space available for 1.5-2hrs per month at a child-friendly hour (i.e. within school hours or at a weekend).
The space needs to be clean, accessible and appropriate for any mothers who bring their children.
The space should be allocated solely for the purpose of the MWM group – it is not shared with another activity, or in an open, social space.
The venue might also help provide a box of children's toys, books, paper/crayons, jugs of water, tea/coffee.
List MWM meetings on your venue website within your participatory programme, and include it within your social media plans.
MWM will support the marketing drive via our main website, social media and newsletters.
The hub coordinator/s will share facilitation.
Travel costs- 2nd class on public transport, or mileage @ £30 per mile when driving plus any parking charges.
1 night accommodation (if more than 2 hours from London) for the MWM Facilitator or providing suitable host accommodation including child/ren.
The Hub Coordinator is responsible for finding funding for this set up fee, but where possible we would expect the host venue to support in full in part as a partner.


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Q: $x$ as the shortest alternating sum of $1 \ldots n$ If I have an positive integer $x \in \mathbb{N}$ and I have $Z = \sum_{i = 0}^{n}{i}$ such that $Z \geq x$ and $Z - x \equiv 0 \bmod 2$ and $n$ is the smallest such integer it is possible to create and alternating sum from $1 \ldots n$ such that it equals $x$.
For example:
Say $x = 11$, then $Z = 15$ and $n = 5$ and the sum is $1 - 2 + 3 + 4 + 5$.
I see why the condition is necessary I don't see why it is sufficient.

A: Check that this is true for $n \le 2$ (which implies $x=0,1,3$)
Then, proceed by induction : first do the $+n$ jump. Then you are left with jumps of length $1 \ldots n-1$ and you are trying to move by $|x-n|$. Since $|x-n| \equiv x-n \equiv 1+2+ \ldots +n-n = 1+2+ \ldots + (n-1) \pmod 2$ and $|x-n| \le \max (n, x-n) \le \max (n, 1+2+\ldots+(n-1)) \le 1+2+\ldots+(n-1)$, you can apply the inductive hypothesis (or use recursion, programmatically)

A: Let $S(n)=\{x:x=\pm1 \pm2 \cdots \pm n\}$.  Let $T(n)=\{x:|x|\le \frac{n(n+1)}{2}\}\cap\{x:x\equiv \frac{n(n+1)}{2}\pmod{2}\}$.
Claim: $S(n)=T(n)$ for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$.
Proof: Induction on $n$.  $n=1,2$: clear
$S(n+1)\subseteq T(n+1)$: consider all $+$ or all $-$
$T(n+1)\subseteq S(n+1)$: $$[0,\frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}]\subseteq[-\frac{n(n+1)}{2}+n,\frac{n(n+1)}{2}+n]$$ and $$[-\frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2},0]\subseteq[-\frac{n(n+1)}{2}-n,\frac{n(n+1)}{2}-n]$$
Now, let $ x\in T(n+1)$ and $x\equiv \frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}\pmod{2}$.  By the above pair of inclusions, either $x+n$ or $x-n$ is in $T(n-1)$.  But also $\frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}- n =\frac{n^2+3n+2- 2n}{2}\equiv \frac{n^2+n+2}{2}\equiv \frac{n(n+1)}{2} \pmod{2}$. [and $n\equiv -n\pmod{2}$].  Hence we're done by the inductive hypothesis.

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Submitted by Nicola V. Hawkinson, DNP, RN, RNFA. Last updated on August 17th, 2018.
Question: Last month, I was diagnosed with spondylosis (spinal arthritis). I'm 46 years old and I weigh 350 pounds. My doctor says I need to lose weight in order for any types of treatments, including spine surgery, to be effective. I've recently started a weight loss program and have already lost 10 pounds. My goal is to lose 60 more pounds by the end of the year. I would like to know: What can I do in the meantime to treat my back pain?
Answer: Congratulations, and good for you for making progress on your weight loss journey! Losing weight when you're overweight is extremely important, especially when it comes to treating spinal arthritis (also called spondylosis and spinal osteoarthritis).
You should be proud of yourself for taking the initiative to lose weight: Not only can losing weight help relieve your back pain, but it also gives you options for other spinal arthritis treatments.
Spinal arthritis—arthritis that affects the spine—can develop at any age, and being overweight or obese puts you at greater risk of developing it. That's because when you carry around extra weight, that weight puts extra pressure on your entire spine. This can lead to numerous spine conditions including spinal arthritis.
As you mentioned, if you're overweight, sometimes you need to lose weight in order for your doctor to even consider certain treatments, such as spine surgery.
But I have 6 suggestions for things you can do now to help address your back pain. What's great about most of these things is that they pack a one-two punch: They can help you ease back pain and lose weight.
Gentle stretching is a important part of building your flexibility staying physically active.
#1. Integrate exercise into your lifestyle.
If you're not exercising regularly, you're missing out. A consistent exercise routine makes muscles stronger and helps you lose weight.But don't rush into exercise; start off slow. For example, go for a walk around the block after dinner or take the stairs instead of the elevator.
As your body becomes used to physical activity, try switching up your routine: Incorporate aerobic, strengthening, and flexibility exercises. No matter what exercises you decide to do, talk to your doctor about beginning an exercise program.
Yoga offers a variety of benefits. The poses you do in yoga can help lengthen and strengthen your muscles. And breathing and meditation techniques can help calm the body and mind. Work with a yoga instructor who has experience teaching students with spinal arthritis. He or she can teach you specific poses that—with practice—can help relieve your back pain.
As with exercise, physical therapy can help build muscle (important because so many people with spinal arthritis have weak muscles, so physical therapy helps address this). Your physical therapist will show you exercises to do to help alleviate your back pain and other spinal arthritis symptoms.
#4. Pay attention to your posture.
Poor posture can put unnecessary pressure on your spine, which can aggravate your spinal arthritis symptoms. Remember to check in with yourself every so often to see if your posture needs some fine-tuning. Make sure your shoulders are drawn back, your head is in line with your shoulders, and the crown of your head is pointing toward the sky.
#5. Take medication according to your doctor's instructions.
Whether your doctor recommends taking an over-the-counter medication, prescription medication, or both, make sure you follow his or her suggestions carefully. Medications can make the pain more manageable, but you have to be sure you're taking the correct dosage.
#6. Get some shut eye.
Getting at least 8 hours of sleep every night is essential. Your body—especially your spine—needs to recover from all the demands of the day.
Of course, before you try any of my suggestions above, it's important to talk to your doctor. He or she may recommend a combination of these treatments to address your back pain caused by spinal arthritis. Also, remember to stay focused on your weight loss goal: Every pound counts, and losing weight now may help you become a candidate for other spinal arthritis treatments.
Continue reading ... Weight Loss Center, Lose weight to reduce back pain.


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Duc joined White Star Capital as an Analyst in Paris.
Previously, Duc worked in e-commerce in Egypt with first African unicorn Jumia where he helped to steer the commercial performance of five countries in Africa. Prior to this, he was within the Innovation Department at Societe Generale in Paris where he focused on fintech companies. He also worked at accounting firm PwC.
Duc graduated from ESSEC Business School with a MSc in Management. Born and raised in France, Duc speaks French, English and Spanish.
White Star Capital's unique international footprint matches founders with global ambitions. I'm excited to help them build the world-class leaders of tomorrow.

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Elegant tribal style hoop earrings cast in brass using the lost wax process.
Modeled from a coral skeleton with a unique signature style hoop. All the jewelry in my store is made from re-purposed scrap brass.
Treated with an oxide to give it an antiqued look, over time these will oxidize even more with your skin. If you prefer the brass to be shiny simply wipe it with brasso and a dry cloth.
These are very light weight - only 7 grams per earring.
The thickness of the wire is 1 mm.
The dimensions of the earring is 5 cm wide by 6,5 cm long.


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/**
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public class HomeView {
    public void show() {
        System.out.println("Displaying Home Page.");
    }
}

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Carlos Araujo Ilustrador | Illustrator: Schizzibooks 2: Tomato Ice Cream!
Um novo Schizzibook ilustrado por mim está disponível! O produto dessa vez é um bloco para desenho (150mm x 120mm, 60 folhas, miolo em papel pólen bold, 90 gm. Com microserrilha) que vem formar uma dupla com o Schizzibook anterior, com a capa "People Movers".
A new Schizzibook with cover illustrated by me is now available! This time we have this awesome drawing block (paper) that goes well along with the previous product (The "People Movers" sketch book).
A nova capa se chama "Tomato Ice Cream" ("Soverte de Tomate") e continua o tema dos "urban walkers" que apareceram anteriormente em meus trabalhos "People Movers" e "Hey Taxi!". "Tomato Ice Cream" tem uma paleta de cores mais quente se comparado à "People Movers"... Eu busquei apresentar uma cena tirada de um dia de verão onde mãe e filha voltam para casa depois de um dia no parque de diversões... E no caminho encontram tempo para um sorvetinho.
Abaixo, detalhes da capa e contracapa.
This new cover is titled "Tomato Ice Cream" and continues the theme of "urban walkers" previously seen in my "People Movers" and "Hey Taxi!" illustrations. "Tomato Ice Cream" features a warmer colour palette when compared with "People Movers"... I was looking for a kind of summer day felling to the scene where a girl and her mother are going home after a day at the park and also find time to have a nice ice cream.
Bellow you can see a closer look at the cover and back cover .
e também "People Movers" Schizzibook...! Garanta seu material de desenho para 2013!
Para comprar "Tomato Ice Cream", visite o site Schizzibooks.
So... We are a few days from Xmas... Grab your "Tomato Ice Cream" Schizzibook (and its companion piece "People Movers" Schizzibooks) and get ready to sketch on 2013!


A spokesman for the Department of Health (DH) today (April 3) said that the DH anticipates that the measles outbreak at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) will last for a period of time, hence the control measures at the airport including vaccination and blood test services will remain available. The arrangements for these services will be adjusted taking into consideration the latest situation.
From this Friday to next Friday (April 5 to 12), the vaccination quota for the measles vaccination station at the airport remains at 500 doses daily. After reviewing the latest situation, the DH will operate the vaccination station at Level 5, Terminal 2 of the HKIA only, starting this Friday.
As for the blood test service, the DH will continue with the provision of a measles serology test service for airport staff to identify those who need the measles vaccination. From next Monday to Friday (April 8 to 12), the DH will provide blood test service daily to around 100 airport staff who were born in or after 1967, with priority to be given to staff belonging to target group (1). The blood test service will be suspended from this Friday to Sunday (April 5 to 7). The DH will notify the participants individually of the serology results.


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National Implementation of IHL
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National Implementation Database
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v Southern African Litigation Centre, Supreme Court of Appeal, 15 March 2016
The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v The Southern African Litigation Centre (867/15) [2016] ZASCA 17 (15 March 2016)
Date of decision : 15.03.2016
Judicial organ : Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) of South Africa
Source : http://www.justice.gov.za/sca/judgments/sca_2016/sca2016-017.pdf (last accessed on 04.04.2016)
On 15 March 2016, just 10 months after the judgement of the Gauteng High Court was handed down in the Al Bashir arrest warrant case, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) delivered its judgement in the case The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v The Southern African Litigation Centre (867/15) [2016] ZASCA 17. Legal proceedings were instituted by the Southern African Litigation Center (SALC) following the attendance of President of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, to the African Union Summit of Heads of State that took place in Johannesburg from 15-16 June 2015, on the basis of the duty of South Africa to arrest and surrender him to the ICC.
Despite the fact that Al Bashir managed to leave South Africa before the judgement of the High Court was handed down, the Court nonetheless held that the conduct of the government was inconsistent with the Constitution to the extent that they had failed to take steps to arrest and detain Al Bashir (see The Southern African Litigation Centre v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Others 2015 (5) SA 1 (GP).
The government attempted to appeal the decision however the application was dismissed on the basis that as Al Bashir had left the country, the decision would have no practical effect or result. The SCA judgement follows the Minister's request for leave to appeal the order of the High Court.
The SCA granted the appeal and varied the High Court's order to read that the failure to take steps to arrest Al Bashir after his arrival in South Africa on 13 June 2015 was inconsistent with South Africa's obligations under the Rome Statue and the Implementation Act of the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court Act 2002, and that such a failure was unlawful.
In order to successfully convince the Court to grant the leave to appeal it was necessary for the government to adopt a new track of argument, providing a new basis to oppose the claim of the respondent and providing compelling reasons as to why the appeal should be heard. Departing from its previous lines of argument based on the provisions of the host agreement with the AU, the government therefore contended that the general immunity that a head of state enjoys under customary international law and section 4 of the Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act 2001 qualified the obligation of SA that would otherwise exist as a state party to Rome statute to arrest and surrender a head of state. The SCA agreed that head of state immunity existed under both customary international law and domestic law, however noted that the Implementation Act, which domesticates the provisions of the Rome Statute, excluded this immunity in relation to international crimes and South Africa's obligations to the ICC.
Judge Malcom Wallis commented that this was a departure from current state practice on the matter i.e. that there is no exception to the immunity of heads of states even when a charge for the commission of international crimes is concerned.
Related case law: Southern African Litigation Centre v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others, Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa, 24 June 2015
https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl-nat.nsf/caseLaw.xsp?documentId=481F300878BA3075C1257F1E00386F19&action=openDocument&xp_countrySelected=ZA&xp_topicSelected=GVAL-992BU6&from=state
application/pdf 494 KB South Africa - Minister of Justice v SALC -15.03.2016 [Eng].pdf
Treaty database and States Party
National implementation of IHL: fact sheets and information kits
Table of National Committees and other national bodies on international humanitarian law
States party to the main treaties
The domestic implementation of International Humanitarian Law: a manual
Weapons and international humanitarian law
International Review of the Red Cross


Faisal Lodhi | TPL Trakker Ltd.
Faisal Ishaque Lodhi is an experienced professional who has served at Attock Chemicals a subsidiary of Pakistan Oil Fields, Finnroad Oy ( ADBP funded project ) and IP Terminal. Prior to joining TPL Trakker Ltd in the year 2005 he was running his own business. At present, he is serving as Regional Head (North) & Head Of Regulatory Affairs.


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package main.flowstoneenergy.items.tools.electrum;

import main.flowstoneenergy.FlowstoneEnergy;
import main.flowstoneenergy.core.libs.ModInfo;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemAxe;

public class ItemAxeElectrum extends ItemAxe {
    public ItemAxeElectrum(ToolMaterial material) {
        super(material);
        this.setCreativeTab(FlowstoneEnergy.tab);
        this.setUnlocalizedName(ModInfo.MODID + ".electrum.axe");
        //this.setTextureName(ModInfo.MODID + ":tools/electrumAxe");
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}


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Community Health Survey
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40 Developmental Assets
MGH Locations
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National Agencies
City of Marion
Cities of Grant County
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Converse works hard at maintaining the values of the past while planning and progressing into the future.
Converse "sets the pace" with determination and innovation and continues in the tradition of community growth and quality of life. Converse has strong roots in agriculture and has kept that hard-work ethic and maintained values of personal home-town service where everyone knows your name. And Converse keeps abreast of the newest technology available.
Converse has always been a family-oriented community and has done its homework to raise the educational level with a students to teacher-ratio of 16 to 1.
Fairmount is a town in Fairmount Township, Grant County in the east central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,992 at the 2000 census. It is ninety kilometers (fifty-five miles) northeast of Indianapolis. Largely a bedroom community to its three thousand citizens, Fairmount is best known as the boyhood home of actor James Dean, who is buried there.
Fowlerton
In 1904, a complete woolly mammoth skeleton was discovered near Lake Galatia. The mammoth bones ended up at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The farmer who owned the land sued his tenant, who found the remains. A jury sided with the farmer, declaring that the mammoth was real estate and not an instance of finders keepers, losers weepers.
Gas City, formerly known as Harrisburg, began as a "boom town" when an abundance of natural gas was found in this vicinity in 1887. The original settlement of Harrisburg was platted May 25, 1867. Noah Harris, the founder, was born June 22, 1823 and died in August 1913. Mr. Harris was a fur trader in his early years, later becoming interested in real estate and the nursery business.
The first log cabin in Jonesboro, purchased by Obadiah Jones in 1834. Obadiah Jones founded the town of Jonesboro and lived on Main Street in this cabin. On display in the Jonesboro Park, restored and maintained today by the Jonesboro Historical Society. Site of the annual Old Settlers' Day Festival.
The City of Marion is the home of Indiana Wesleyan University. IWU has been Indiana's fastest-growing University for the past two years. The University's total enrollment, which now exceeds 15,000 students, makes IWU the largest private university in Indiana
The Marion Philharmonic Orchestra and the Marion Civic Theatre provide musical and dramatic entertainment. The six-time state basketball champions, Marion Giants, play in the 7,500 seat Bill Green Athletic Arena. Marion General Hospital has been nationally accredited for over a half-century.
Today, Matthews is the home to over 50 businesses and many other town organizations. The Matthews Town Board runs the community and recently a new town organization called the Matthews Area Chamber has been formed to help in the development of the area
Swayzee
By the turn of the century Swayzee had reached its peak in size, population, and number of businesses. The natural gas had run out and a series of catastrophic events would almost bring the town to its knees. In 1901, the glass factory exploded, in 1906 the lumberyard burned down, along with both churches in 1918 and the flourmill in 1926. Instead of rebuilding, most of the businesses moved out of town to Marion, Gas City or Muncie, leaving Swayzee to be a peaceful little rural community.
Sweetser
Sweetser is home to the annual Pumpkin Walk, a community-wide parade down Main Street held near Halloween, which features costume judging contests and pumpkin carving contests.
Today, Upland is the home of The Pierce Company , the famous ice cream of Ivanhoes, the beautiful Memorial Park, and the highly rated Taylor University just to name a few.
Upland benefited from the gas boom in central Indiana which started in 1886 and carried on until around 1900 when the gas supply began to decline. Gas was first discovered in Upland in 1888, and this new resource allowed the town to flourish and grow. By the 1890s, the town had a population of over 1000, street lights, water and gas lines, and a glass manufacturing plant
Popcorn Festival
The tradition that began in 1973 continues each year in August. People from Indiana and other states make summer plans scheduled around the Popcorn Festival. School class reunions are planned around the festival dates. On Saturday evening at the festival, the crowds enjoy one more night of music and entertainment, one more favorite food, and one more chance to meet a friend they have not seen for a long time. The festival planners, feel "we did it again, " it is almost over" and "all the work was worth it". The committee meets again in October to evaluate the festival just passed.
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Get your sports shoe ready!!This is the highlight event of Dogathon in which both the dog and its owner must go on a marathon run of about 2.5 km. The marathon track is filled with challenging obstacles.
Can your dog find you wherever you are? If it does come and join Master Hunt. The owner will be hidden out of the dog's sight within a maze-like area. The dog will be given 2 minutes to detect its owner. At the same time, the dog will be tempted with food and has to overcome several obstacles while on its 'Master Hunting' journey.
The very first Dogathon agility game. The dog will be given 2 minutes to complete the agility course that includes the hurdles, dog-walk, tunnel and A-board. Points will be given for each successful completion of obstacle. Dog that completes the agility course in the shortest time and with the highest score will be the winner.
Enjoy and learn some tricks from MKA obedience training and agility demonstration.
First 200 participants will receive Mystery Gift from Pedigree & Petalog Trading. So what are you waiting for? Don't be late and grab your chance to get it!


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Театральний фестиваль «Кіт Ґаватовича» — щорічний фестиваль театрального мистецтва, який із 2016 року проводиться на початку вересня у Львові під відкритим небом.

Походження назви
На перетині XVI-XVII століть на Заході України жив драматург Якуб Ґаватович. Він не просто писав тексти, а і втілював їх у вільному просторі - на вулиці. Одним із героїв його творів був Кіт у мішку. Засновники фестивалю хотіли такою назвою донести, що театр, насправді, є чимось більшим, аніж просто красивим залом; що він є "саме тим котом, якого точно варто дістати з мішка"

Маніфест фестивалю
Організатори визначають як маніфест фестивалю наступне: "Кіт Ґаватовича – це новий театр, який ти не назвеш театром, але точно запам'ятаєш і захочеш вернутись. Головне, аби були місця. Проект "Склад 2'0" виступає за створення нової платформи для обміну та творення театру між Східною та Західною Європою, який буде враховувати соціальну відповідальність, не нестиме політичної заангажованості та працюватиме із глядачами, чуючи його і бачачи".

Історія фестивалю
2014 рік

Ідея створення фестивалю належить незалежному театру зі Львова "Склад 2'0". Засновники зазначають, що спершу незалежний театр виступав у межах не одного музичного фестивалю (зокрема на Atlas Weekend, Файному місті, Тустані). Згодом команда зрозуміла, що театр викликає не менше зацікавленості та захоплення у відвідувачів, глядачів, ніж музика. Так і з'явився Він, себто, сам фестиваль театрального мистецтва "Кіт Ґаватовича".

2016 рік

Тема  - Початок Кота Ґаватовича.

Команда зазначає, що за ідею першого Фестивалю було взято не лише образ Кота, але й саму форму театру під відкритим небом.Місце проведення - парк Культури міста Львова. У межах фестивалю було організовано сніданок з Ірмою Вітовською-Ванцою та Олегом Стефаном. До участі в подіях фестивалю долучилися також: Львівський театр Курбаса, театр «Прекрасні квіти» (Харків), молоді театри. Протягом дня можна було відвідати лекції та тренінги, а ввечері переглянути короткометражки від мистецької формації «Wiz-Art».

2017 рік

Тема - Форма сценічності.

На другий рік команда вирішила дещо посприяти потраплянню молодих театрів на сцени різноманітних фестивалів. Організатори оголосили про проведення відкритого Конкурсу, в межах якого молоді, ще маловідомі театри представляли власні проекти у Стрийському парку. Таким чином реалізовувалася не лише ідея засновників фестивалю про "театр без бар'єрів", а і було звернено увага до, на той момент, не надто популярного Стрийського парку. Знову провели сніданок із театральними зірками: Риммою Зюбіною та Міськом Барбарою, розмова з якими стосувалася зокрема сценічного перформансу та ефектності театру. Удень відбувалися відповідні тренінги, уперше організаторами було створено повноцінний самостійний дитячий простір. Увечері виступав театр Арабески з Харкова, київський Молодий театр у виконанні Олексія Вертинського.

2018 рік

Тема  - Зіграй мені етично Гамлета.Локації фестивалю - Стрийський парк міста Львова (біля кінотеатру "Львів") та LEM Station (колишнє трамвайне ДЕПО). У Стрийському парку зокрема проводили вже традиційні сніданки, гостями яких цьогоріч стали Ахтем Сейтаблаєв та Наталка Ворожбит. Парк був місцем, де проходили лекції, тренінги, дитячі активності. Наприклад, під час першого фестивального дня тут пройшла дискусія "Сценічність у часи війни:спекуляція". Під модерацією театрознавчині Любові Ільницької учасники обговорювали досвід роботи з темою війни в театрі. Опісля фестивальна програма у Стрийському парку продовжилася тренінг-грою "Імпровізуй, дитино, імпровізуй", організатором якої виступив Ростилав Лоза, куратор імпро-групи "Пан Коцик". Граючи у гру, учасники вивчили 5 основних правил імпровізації: 1) розім'яти тіло; 2) розім'яти розум; 3) слухати партнера; 4) нічого не планувати; 5) завжди казати "так!".

Вистави та перформанси відбувалися на території LEM Station. Зокрема команда фестивалю спеціально запросила двох нью-йоркських режисерів - Max Sir та Natalia Miranda Guzman. Вони, провівши кастинг, відібрали найкращих українських акторів, з якими протягом місяця працювали над виставою "Hamlet by Max Sir" для фестивалю "Кота Ґаватовича". Прем'єра відбулася наприкінці першого фестивального дня. На території колишнього трамвайного ДЕПО також показували: монолог "Купатись чи не купатись?", автором якого є Лесь Подерев'янський, виконаний акторками Оленою Рєпіною та Оленою Хижною; роботу перформерки Лариси Венедиктової (темою був Гамлет); авангардну НЕвиставу від школярів із Попасної, театру "На лінії вогню" та Антона Романова; психологічну драму "Безталанна, або Безглуздя", зіграну львівським молодіжним театром "Мельпомена"; імпровізації "Пана Коцика".

2019 рік

Тема  - Я не бачу берегу.Місця проведення - Парк культури та відпочинку імені Богдана Хмельницького (м. Львів); показ вистав і перформансів відбувався в антитеатральній локації, колишньому трамвайному ДЕПО - LEM Station. Натхненням для обрання саме такої теми фестивалю послужило усвідомлення організаторами, що "театр таки не має кордонів". Офіційне відкриття фестивалю відбулося 6 вересня: актори театру імені Лесі Українки влаштували перформативне читання п'єси Лукаса Голлігера "Монстри руйнують висотки". Опісля виступив український музичний гурт "Оу sound sysytem".  Гостями цьогорічних традиційних сніданків стали Яніна Соколова та Ярослав Федорчук. Також було проведено дискусію щодо ризиків у театрі. Як результат 3-річних переговорів на сцені "Кота..." виступив японський перформер, виконавець танцю Буто - Taketeru Kudo. До речі, саме позитивні відгуки останнього про львівський фестиваль посприяли виникненню в команди ідеї в команди створити Першу театральну резиденцію в Берліні для українців під назвою "Catch a Cat": протягом 5-ти днів учасники пізнавали німецький театр сьогодення та готували проект, який було заплановано показати у 2020 році мешканцям Жовкви. Цьогоріч у рамках "Кота Гаватовича" також узяли участь: Молодий театр, зокрема Ірма Вітовська та Римма Зюбіна, з ексцентричною комедією "Різня"; харківський театр абсурду «Воробушек», який представив спектакль "Пил Шарами"; театр із Сум "Нянькіки" з виставою-вірусом "Галюци-нація"; театр із Маріуполя "Театроманія" (вистава "Прощавай, зброє!").

5-денна резиденція в Берліні під назвою "Упіймати кота"

10 - 14 вересня в Берліні була організована 5-денна резиденція "Упіймати кота" для залучених в український театральний процес митців. Усі витрати учасників покривала команда організаторів. Програма здебільшого складалася з лекцій; зустрічей українських акторів та режисерів із німецькими представниками театральної спільноти; відвідання театрів німецької столиці; роботи в мистецькому центрі Le Salon. Окремим пунктом було створення спільного сценічного проекту, використовуючи досвід німецьких театрів Schaubühne та Maxim Gorki Theater. Прем'єра відбулася наприкінці резиденції. Було запланово також виступи учасників у Жовкві та під час наступного "Кота Гаватовича" у Львові. Зокрема в Жовкві запланували показати перформанс біля місцевої Синагоги, пам'ятки XVII століття, таким чином привернувши увагу населення до її збереження. У процесі створення цього дійства учасників консультував німецький режисер Олівер Калла. Метою резиденції було показати, як молоді представники українського театрального процесу актуалізовують культурну спадщину методами сучасної сцени. «Мені завжди хотілось не говорити, а показати такий залюблений вільний Берлін. Насправді він вже далеко не такий, який ми знаємо за легендами про нічні рейви, божевільні ідеї й так далі. Через перенасиченість він фактично втік від себе і зараз намагається все почати спочатку. Він шукає щось нове, когось нового. Мені здається, це чудовий шанс для українських акторів, режисерів, сценографів, композиторів – просто всіх, хто працює у театральній сфері. Ми говоримо не про стирання кордонів, а будування мостів між різними ідентичностями. Саме це є фішка Берліну, як мені здається, і саме це ми хочемо зробити особливістю нашої резиденції», – коментар однією з організаторок резиденції та за сумісництвом програмної директорки й Co-founder'ки львівського театрального фестивалю «Кіт Ґаватовича» Єви Якубовської. 2020 рік

Тема - Тоталітарні особистості.Основна локація - простір колишнього трамвайного ДЕПО LEM Station. Цього разу було вирішено порушити тему тоталітаризму, його впливу на наше звикле життя. Команда визначила тоталітаризм як "фізичне та психологічне насильство, нетерпимість до інакомислячих, загроза свободі думки та тиск радянської спадщини, що досі деформує і шкодить нашому суспільству". Водночас організатори зазначили, що театральне мистецтво здатне виконувати терапевтичну функцію, таким чином допомагаючи людям виходити із травматичного досвіду, позбуватися "шкідливих патернів".  2 вересня відбулося офіційне відкриття. Традиційного сніданку із зірками театру не проводили, проте на 4-тий день фестивалю відбувся бранч із Тетяною Микитенко. Також в різні дні до фестивалю долучилися: Павло Гудімов (із бесідою "Роль сучасного мистецтва в переосмисленні минулого"); Володимир Бєглов (провів лекцію-відкриття "Особистості тоталітаризми"); ЦСМ "Дах" (4 вересня з метою вшанування пам'яті Василя Стуса виступили з камерною оперою "Стус:Перехожий"). У зв'язку з поширенням коронавірусної інфекції та карантинними обмеженнями певні лекції та дискусії "були перенесені" в онлайн, охочі мали доступ до трансляції й деяких оффлайн-подій. Також було організовано трансляцію опери "Леді Макбет Мценського повіту" Території Терору та трансляцію вистави "Рейк'явік'74" від Belarus Free Theatre. У перший день на весь час фестивалю в LEM Station відкрилася виставка Олександра Грехова "Лесь Курбас". Особливістю цьогоріч стали екскурсії до районів Львова - Підзамчого та Замарстиніва. Окремої уваги заслуговує вистава "Декалог", поставлена підлітками. Юні актори вирішили перенестися до ХХ століття, аби розповісти про події минулого, коли підлітки бунтували проти тоталітарного режиму, коли люди загалом не мали вибору, плюралізму.

"Це документальна історія про жорстокість механізму допиту і завуальовування проблем Білорусі у проблеми Ісландії, яка така ж патріархальна і консервативна, як Білорусь. Але Білоруси не можуть про себе прямо сказати - це небезпечно, тому взялися за п'єсу про Ісландію, написану на основі реальних подій: загубились люди і були підозрювані. Підозрюваних так катували, що зрештою під час жорстоких допитів усі вони зізнались у вбивстві людей, яких ніколи навіть не бачили", - коментар програмної директорки та Co-founder'ки фестивалю Єви Якубовської щодо вистави "Рейк'явік'74" від Belarus Free Theatre. Команда фестивалю:
 Єва Якубовська - програмна директорка та Co-founder'ка фестивалю;
 Софія Розпутня - Co-founder фестивалю;
 Олена Булат-Лоїк - Chief Operating Officer;

Відгуки про фестиваль
Ірма Вітовська-Ванца:"Дуже дякую за ідею та втілення. Хай надалі все вдається".

Микола Береза:"Я гадаю,що Львову дуже пасують подібні проекти. Хочу подякувати усій котячій)) команді за неймовірний театрально-парковий вікенд. З хорошим початком і в добру путь".

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Посилання
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Фестивалі в Україні
Щорічні заходи в Україні
Засновані в Україні 2016

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Intel investing up to $8 billion in 22nm chips, creating US jobs
Intel has announced plans to invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on its next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across several existing US factories in Arizona (Fab 12 and Fab 32) and Oregon (D1C and D1D), along with construction of a new development fabrication plant in Oregon (D1X, to open in 2013). The projects will support 6,000 to 8,000 construction jobs and result in 800 to 1,000 new permanent tech jobs.
"Today's announcement reflects the next tranche of the continued advancement of Moore's Law and a further commitment to invest in the future of Intel and America," Intel president and chief executive officer Paul Otellini said in a statement. "The most immediate impact of our multi-billion-dollar investment will be the thousands of jobs associated with building a new fab and upgrading four others, and the high-wage, high-tech manufacturing jobs that follow." While Intel generates approximately three quarters of its revenues overseas, it maintains three quarters of its microprocessor manufacturing in the US.
Intel's first 22nm microprocessors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, will hit production in late 2011. The company hopes they will further boost performance levels and power efficiency, enable sleeker device designs, and result in longer battery life, all at a lower cost.
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Yes, I'm still raving about Workflow. As a testimony to its flexibility, I was able to use it fix some missing functionality in Stache, another app I've recently discovered.
The problem is that Stache is meant to provide a share sheet extension to store the current web page. For some reason, this works in Safari, and even in some other apps. However, in Chrome the button doesn't show. This is annoying if you use Chrome as your main browser, as you then have to manually open the app and paste in the URL (or use LaunchCenter Pro to automate this).
However, thanks to Workflow I was able to create my own share sheet extension to do this in Chrome. You can grab it here.
It says something amazing about an app when you can use it to fix the limitations of another app, whilst still remaining sandboxed in Apple's walled garden.
Update: Yes, I know I misspelt "Stache" as "Stash" in the workflow name 😦 Sadly, there's no way to edit a workflow one it's been submitted to the gallery. I'll chalk this one up to experience.


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Messi on World Cup woes - I would not change anything in my career
Argentina has not managed to win a World Cup on any of the four occasions Lionel Messi has represented it on football's biggest stage.
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The lack of a major international honour remains the glaring absence in Lionel Messi's trophy haul. - Getty Images
Lionel Messi insists he would not change anything about his decorated career in order to win a FIFA World Cup.
The lack of a major international honour remains the glaring absence in the Barcelona superstar's trophy haul. He was named player of the tournament at the 2014 World Cup, where Argentina lost the final 1-0 against Germany in extra-time.
Last time around in Russia, a chaotic campaign ended in a 4-3 loss to eventual winner France in the last 16.
Messi will be 35 by the time Qatar 2022 comes around and, in an interview with TyC Sports, he appeared to accept the time for him to claim that elusive piece of history might have passed,
"I would have loved to be world champion," he said. "But I think I would not change anything I had in my career to be one. This is what touched me, what God gave me."
Messi captained Argentina to the semifinals of the Copa America earlier this year, where it lost to host and subsequent victor Brazil. In the previous two editions of the continental tournament, La Albiceleste lost consecutive finals to Chile on penalties.
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Introducing Planning Center Projector
Aaron StewartCo-Founder / Product Manager
Planning Center ProjectorProduct Updates
One of the questions we've heard many times over the years is "Does Planning Center have a presentation app?" For a long time, we weren't interested in making a presentation application, mostly because there are already so many great ones available. In fact, we recently published a list of all the great applications that integrate with us, including ProPresenter, Proclaim & MediaShout. Then after the success and experience of our MusicStand iPad app, we started brainstorming where else we could use this new knowledge, and the often-requested presentation app sprung to mind. As far as we knew, there were no mobile church presentation apps, and since we're a company who loves to innovate, we saw that as a perfect opportunity.
So today we're extremely excited to announce a brand new app we've been working on for months. It's called Planning Center Projector! Projector is an iPad app that seamlessly integrates with your Planning Center account to display images, videos, lyrics & Powerpoints during your services. It's beautiful, simple and extremely portable. Not only can you run your entire presentation using intuitive touch-based gestures, it can even broadcast wirelessly in full 1080p HD to an AppleTV!
Planning Center has always been known for combining a simple & attractive interface with powerful features, and we've never been more proud of that balance than in Projector. We've been meticulous in planning out every pixel of this app to make it really easy and even fun to use. Setting up your presentations is a snap and can now be done from anywhere. Since it's all synced to Planning Center, you'll hardly have anything to setup. We also know that running lyrics & videos is often a job given to volunteers, and being able to just touch & swipe to navigate & edit makes their job easier.
Like MusicStand, Projector is an add-on to your account that costs an additional $2 for lite accounts, $5 for basic accounts, and $10 for plus accounts and higher, but we're making it free for all accounts until June 1 to give everyone a chance to try it out. The Projector app, available now on the App Store, is free, so after your Primary Account Administrator enables Projector on your account, anyone with access to your plans can connect and project!
We've also partnered with CreationSwap.com and WorshipHouseMedia.com so that when you enable Projector, you have the option to import 25 free motion backgrounds to help you get started. WorshipHouseMedia specializes in media for presentations, and CreationSwap specializes in print media created by some of the top church graphic designers, so make sure you check them out!
We didn't want to prohibit anyone from using Projector because they didn't have enough space for media in their accounts, so last week, in anticipation of this launch, we silently increased the allowed file space of our two lower accounts. Lite accounts have been upgraded from 250MB of storage to 1GB, and Basic accounts have been upgraded from 1GB to 2GB. In addition, we've made enabling extra file storage cheaper for ALL accounts. If you wanted to use more file space than your account allowed in the past, it was $5 per GB. We've now reduced that to only $2 per GB!
The best way to learn about Projector is either by visiting PlanningCenterProjector.com to learn all about its features, or by just downloading it directly from the app store now! You can also view a list of Frequently Asked Questions here. Oh, and one more thing. Since Projector is an iPad app and iPhones are built on the same foundation, we're already mostly done with an update that will allow Projector to run on iPhones, too!
We think you're going to love using Projector and are excited to get your feedback. If you have any questions, feel free to use the help box at the top right of Planning Center to send us an email, or follow @planningcenter on Twitter or Facebook.
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Pearls add an element of sophistication and can go with any outfit, whether it's a bride's wedding dress, a woman's formal night dress, a formal shirt or a traditional dress. Their round shape and white color compliment any wardrobe.
But how we can compare the pearl jewelry being offered by different retailers and ensure that you are getting what you are paying for. You can get pearl bracelets archives at Misha Lam Jewelry.
When shopping for pearl jewelry including pearl necklaces or treasure bracelets, it is important that you realize what you usually are buying, and how suppliers grade their pearls. This will help you to fairly compare pieces, without being distracted by deceptive marketing lingo.
You should first recognize that virtually all pearls available on the market today are cultured freshwater pearls. Many stores only will advertise "pearl" or "freshwater pearl" or perhaps "cultured pearl", but suffice to state, they are all cultured freshwater pearls. Natural pearls are extremely rare and are rated accordingly. Those looking for information on natural pearls can look for. Unless you discover how to tell the difference, you really should assume all pearls usually are cultured freshwater pearls and buy accordingly.
Low quality pearls look dull, with a matte end. High luster pearls look brilliant, with excellent pearls having a nearly glassy, mirror-like surface.
Pearls are created from layers of a substance called Nacre. Pearls are attributable to irritants inside the shells of numerous mollusks. High quality pearls possess a small irritant (such like a grain of sand) and they are virtually all nacre.


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Queiroz wants FIFA to ban Messi, He is too good
By GirishPosted on March 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 0
Carlos Queiroz has claimed Lionel Messi must be banned by FIFI Word Cup in Russia. He said, " this is proven the Barcelona superstar is actually human!"
Carlos Manuel Brito Leal Queiroz, ComIH, is a Portuguese football manager, who is currently manager of the Iran national team.
Carlos Queiroz says Messi should not be allowed to play by FIFA until it's proven that he is actually human.'
Queiroz has discussed the brilliance of Messi and the impact he made in that match. He said Messi is one of the top players in the world. Messi broke Iranian hearts at the 2014 World Cup.
Leon Messi is the Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team.
The Argentinian maestro scuppered Iran's hopes with the 90th-minute winner in the group stages in Brazil. The 2014 World Cup Iran beaten by Argentina 1-0 in the group stages.
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School for Assassins opponent held at border

Detained for speaking out

October 26, 2001 | Page 2

ON NOVEMBER 16-18, tens of thousands of activists will gather for the annual protest against the U.S. Army's training camp for terrorists.

The School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., has a long and grim record of training Latin America's dictators and military thugs in the latest techniques of torture and repression.

But U.S. officials don't want anyone speaking out against these terrorists. And they're using the crackdown that followed the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., to silence their critics.

On October 10, Hendrik Voss and Eric LeCompte of School of the Americas (SOA) Watch were stopped by Canadian border guards on their way to meetings to organize for the November demonstrations.

After their car and belongings were searched and their FBI records checked, the two were denied entry into Canada. Coming back into the U.S., Voss, a German citizen, was arrested by immigration officials and told he would be deported. All for the crime of speaking out against the Pentagon's terrorism.

Voss was only released after hundreds of people began organizing solidarity vigils and a campaign to pressure the German consulate.

After his release, HENDRIK VOSS spoke to Socialist Worker's NICOLE COLSON.

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WHEN WE drove back through to the U.S. border, I got singled out and brought to a back room. The border patrol officers were asking me mostly questions with a political background--where did I learn about the School of the Americas, and did I come to the United States to protest. From the beginning, it was very obvious that they were only looking for political stuff.

Then at one point, I heard them talking about solidarity work that was underway from the outside. Because on the outside there were people who were contacting Congress members and religious leaders to make some pressure for me.

It was very clear that this pressure showed results. People from as far away as Germany called the German consulate in San Francisco to see what they would do to secure my release. Later, they said that sometimes they couldn't make out calls because there were too many coming in about me!

It was awesome to see the solidarity--and to know that it actually works.

I think it's more important than ever to continue to protest because of the "homeland security" and this "war against terrorism" that the Bush administration is pursuing right now. They're attacking civil liberties in the United States, just as civil liberties have been attacked by graduates of the School of the Americas in Latin America over the last 60 years.

It's the people who speak out politically in Latin America who are met by the forces trained by the United States Army at the SOA in Fort Benning.

We have to close this school of terrorism in the United States' own backyard.

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Listen to "Tango Stories, Musical and Otherwise" on Spreaker.
Owner & Director of the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School, Meredith Klein first discovered Argentine tango in 1997, while completing her B.A. in Music Theory. From that moment, tango began to take over her life. In 2005, she moved to Buenos Aires, where she lived for three years, deepening her study of the dance, culture and music of tango. Immediately upon arriving in Buenos Aires, she met her dance partner, Andres Amarilla, a porteño (life-long resident of the city of Buenos Aires) and they launched a career that led them to teach and perform in 40 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as Australia, Poland, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Brazil, and Argentina, before founding the school in Philadelphia.
Meredith has witnessed the power of tango to build connections between individuals and communities the world over. She is excited to bring the voices and stories of Argentine tango dancers (professional and amateur), musicians, and performers to USALA, and to share the varied and gorgeous music of Argentine tango with her audience.