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My Hero Academia Season 5: Release date, plot, trailer and more
The official release date of My Hero Academia season 5 is out. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming season.
The fourth season of My Hero Academia consisting of 25 episodes aired from Oct 2019 to April 2020.
The makers announced the season 5 release date along with new information on the third movie of the franchise.
My Hero Academia is arguably one of the biggest franchises in the anime and manga community. With millions of fans across the globe, the anime series is winning hearts and is all set to return for its fifth season. The anime series is an adaptation of Japanese superhero manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi.
The first season aired in Japan in 2016, followed by three more seasons in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last episode of season 4 aired in Apr 2020 and since then, the fans are eagerly waiting for the series to return. Well, there is good news for all My Hero Academia fans out there. The official release date for MHA season 5 is out. There is also an update on the third movie of the anime franchise.
My Hero Academia season 5 renewal?
My Hero Academia season 5 renewal announcement was made in April 2020 in the 18th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump. The teaser released at the end of the season 4 finale confirmed the return.
My Hero Academia is a very popular anime series not only in Japan but in other countries as well. With a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.12 on MyAnimeList and 8.5/10 on IMDB, it was confirmed that we will see more of this thrilling anime series in the future.
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My Hero Academia Season 5 release date and episode count
Season 4 concluded in April 2020 and within a year fans will get new episodes of their favourite anime. My Hero Academia Season 5 release date is March 27, 2021. The series will make its debut in multiple global territories, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Brazil, and Mexico.
My Hero Academia's latest season will be available on Funimation, Crunchyroll, and in North America on Funimation's streaming partner Hulu.
At the time of writing, there is no information on episode count. While the last three seasons had 25 episodes each, there are reports that season 5 will be split-cour, which means it will be released in two halves. So, we can expect 12-13 episodes to release in the first half.
Watch the official trailer no.3 of My Hero Academia season 5:
My Hero Academia English Dub
Due to licensing of the English Dub, the anime is not available on Netflix in North America, Europe, and Australia. In India, all four seasons are available on Netflix. In the United State, fans can watch My Hero Academia on three different streaming services, both English Dub & Sub are available on Hulu, English Dub is on Funimation and English Sub on Crunchyroll.
Funimation has announced that My Hero Academia's Season 5 will SimulDub across multiple global territories, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Brazil, and Mexico.
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From The Times
HRT alert after more than 1,000 women die
New evidence shows hormone replacement therapy leads to a higher risk of ovarian cancer with 1,000 victims since 1991
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1674387.ece
Women were advised yesterday to think "very carefully" about taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after evidence was published showing that it has killed 1,000 women in Britain since 1991 by increasing their risk of ovarian cancer.
HRT increases the risk of the disease by 20 per cent, the biggest investigation of links between HRT and cancer has found. Although the absolute risk is low, millions of women took HRT in the 1990s and so the total impact is large: an extra 1,300 cases of the disease and 1,000 deaths between 1991 and 2005, according to the Million Women Study.
Previous results from the same study have linked HRT with an increased risk of breast and womb cancer. The latest findings suggest that HRT raises the combined risk of all three diseases by more than 60 per cent, the researchers say.
Despite a sharp decline in recent years in HRT use, there are believed to be about one million women in Britain still on it.
Valerie Beral, director of the Cancer Research UK epidemiology unit at the University of Oxford, said: "The results of this study show that not only does HRT increase the risk of getting ovarian cancer, it also increases a woman's risk of dying of ovarian cancer."
Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in Britain. Each year about 6,700 women develop the disease and 4,600 die from it.
The findings come from a study of 948,576 post-menopausal women, or a quarter of all women aged 50 to 64 in the country. It was largely funded by Cancer Research UK. About a third of those in the study were taking HRT, and another fifth had taken it in the past.
The women were followed for an average of more than five years for signs of ovarian cancer, and seven years for death. During the follow-up period a total of 2,273 women developed ovarian cancer and 1,591 died from it.
These results imply that the use of HRT — of whatever sort — increased the risk of developing and dying from ovarian cancer by 20 per cent, the team reports in the online version of The Lancet.
To put the findings in perspective, they mean that over a period of five years there is likely to be one extra case of ovarian cancer among every 2,500 women receiving HRT, and one additional death for every 3,300 women on the therapy.
HRT is used to combat unpleasant symptoms of the menopause, including hot flushes, vaginal dryness and night sweats. It was promoted strongly by doctors in the 1970s, and many women claimed that it had transformed their lives.
But in recent years numbers have plummeted after a series of health scares. According to the GP Research Database, the number of women in Britain on HRT fell from two million in 2002 to one million in 2005.
John Toy, the medical director of Cancer Research UK, said: "Considering this alongside the increases in risk for breast and endometrial cancer, women should think very carefully about taking HRT. Women who choose to take HRT should aim do so for clear medical need and for the shortest possible time."
The findings were challenged by John Stevenson, of the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and the chairman of the charity Women's Health Concern.
"The study grossly overestimates the breast cancer risk, and now we have findings from a five-year study that have to be extended to a 14-year time frame to make them more sensational," he said. "This is not science, and the findings themselves fly in the face of cancer biology."
Breast, ovarian and endo- metrial cancer, which affects the womb lining, account for almost 40 per cent of cancers in women in Britain, and a quarter of female cancer deaths.
HRT appears to raise the combined risk of all three diseases by 63 per cent, according to the Million Women Study.
"When ovarian, endometrial and breast cancer are taken together, use of HRT results in a material increase in these common cancers," the study authors wrote.

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Shared or private day trip that visits the spectacular Sacred Valley of the Incas and the stupendous archeological sites of Pisac and Ollantaytambo. We'll visit the impressive but little understood temple site of Pisac and its megalithic Inca terraces still used by local peasant farmers. The ruins are some of the finest and largest in the entire valley. Despite the excellent condition of many of the structures, little is conclusively known about the site's actual purpose. It appears to have been part city, part ceremonial center, and part military complex. It might have been a royal estate of the Inca emperor (Pachacútec). It was certainly a religious temple, and although it was reinforced with the ramparts of a massive citadel, the Incas never retreated here to defend their empire against the Spaniards (and Pisac was, possibly unlike Machu Picchu, known to Spanish forces). The Market: Pisac's famed artisans' and antiques market draws many hundreds of shoppers on Sunday morning in high season, when it is without a doubt one of the liveliest in Peru. (There are slightly less popular markets on Tuesday and Thursday as well.) Hundreds of stalls crowd the central square marked by a small church, San Pedro el Apóstolo, and massive pisonay trees and spill down side streets. Sellers come from many different villages, many of them remote populations high in the Andes, and wear the dress typical of their village. Dignitaries from the local villages usually lead processions after Mass (said in Quechua), dressed in their versions of Sunday finery. The market is much like Cusco: rather touristy, though endearing and an essential experience in Peru.
After lunch we continue to Ollantaytambo. Probably built by the great Inca ruler Pachacutec in the 1460s, it was the site of Hernando Pizzaro's defeat by Manco Inca in 1536. Constructed of finely cut polygonal stones and rhyolite blocks, the fortress and nearby town represent the best of Inca architecture and construction. Large worked blocks, some weighing as much as 100 tons were quarried from a site more than a thousand vertical feet above the valley floor using a technique of pecking with hammer stones, then skidded down and across the Urubamba river several kilometers to the temple site. Inclined ramps were built to raise the blocks several hundred feet up hill to the construction area. We have ample time to examine the complex and ponder its many mysteries. We return you to your hotel in Cusco in the late afternoon or drop you off at your Sacred Valley Hotel L
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From a semicircular terrace and fortified section at the top, called the Qorihuayrachina, the views south and west of the gorge and valley below and agricultural terraces creeping up the mountain slopes are stunning. Deeper into the nucleus, the delicately cut stones are some of the best found at any Inca site. The most important component of the complex, on a plateau on the upper section of the ruins, is the Temple of the Sun, one of the Incas' most impressive examples of masonry. The temple was an astronomical observatory. The Intihuatana, the so-called "hitching post of the sun," resembles a sundial but actually was an instrument that helped the Incas to determine the arrival of important growing seasons rather than to tell the time of day. In the hillside across the Quitamayo gorge, at the back side (north end) of the ruins, are hundreds of dug out holes where grave robbers have ransacked a cemetery that was among the largest known Inca burial sites.
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For thousands of years the Dragons have ruled the world of Erien, but their domain has become infested by other races - Elves, Dwarves, Fae, and worst of all, humankind. The dragons have done what they can to slow the process but the humans bred like rabbits and the other races weren't much better. It didn't take long for the inevitable conflict over resources to begin and the dragons soon realized that they didn't stand a chance against the combined strength of the new races. Those dragons that survived are now forced to fight amongst themselves for food, a home, breeding grounds and anything else they want.
They have taken to the skies to battle it out with others of their kind, knowing only the strongest amongst them will survive to become the lords of the skies. Players take on the role of Dragons as they battle against one another in the skies over Erien. Their old sense of pride and self-importance mean that they must have the best feeding grounds available even if it means fighting other dragons to get it. The game uses a system where at the start of each turn the players plot out their dragon's movement for the turn. Movement is truly 3D allowing the dragons to fly up, down, left, right or any combination of directions. Elevation is tracked with stacking tiles and turns are shown with angled tilt blocks. Then with a bit of luck as their plans unfold on the game map their plans will have put them in to a better position to strike either with breath weapon or claw.


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2017 Skoda Kodiaq SUV bookings start in India for Rs 3 lakh, deliveries in November
Aditya Chatterjee Published: October 04, 2017, 10:59 AM IST
We are just minutes away from the launch of the all-new Skoda Kodiaq in India. The Skoda Kodiaq targets the customers looking for a premium SUV in the range of Hyundai Tucson and the Volkswagen Tiguan. Skoda dealerships all across the country have already initiated the bookings for the Kodiaq SUV in India. The booking amount for the same is Rs 5 lakh in Mumbai, confirmed one of the dealerships to OVERDRIVE. While the Delhi dealership is taking a token amount of Rs 3 lakh. Both the dealerships stated that the deliveries of the 2017 Skoda Kodiaq should begin in November. However, we await an official confirmation of the same from Skoda India.
The new Skoda Kodiaq is based on the Vision S Concept that was showcased in 2016 at the Geneva Motor Show. The production model that'll go on sale, closely resembles the concept that was shown. The lines are sharp and the SUV does look quite handsome. The big grille, flanked by sleek headlamps gives it a lot of presence. The tail section also seems to take inspiration from the current crop of Skodas. The dazzling LED tail lamps, that are said to be inspired by traditional Czech crystal glass art, is one of standout features of the SUV.
Besides sharing the same platform, the Skoda Kodiaq and the Volkswagen Tiguan also share the same, 2-litre diesel engine. The Kodiaq's motor, however, is in a slightly different state of tune and makes a little more power. The Kodiaq's engine produces 150PS and 340Nm whereas, the Tiguan's motor produces 143PS and an identical 340 Nm of torque. Both engines are mated to a 7-speed DSG gearbox.
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The public demand for electric vehicles that soared during the Indian Blockade appears to have tapered off.
Just as awareness about building seismic-resistant homes lasted only a few months after last year's earthquakes, the public demand for electric vehicles that soared during the Indian Blockade appears to have tapered off.
Kathmandu's traffic jams are as bad as ever, the import of petroleum products for the ever-growing numbers of diesel buses, trucks, petrol-driven cars and motorcycles have soared.
"It seems the public has a very short term memory," says Cabinet Shrestha of Agni Incorporated, which sells the Mahindra e2O battery cars in Nepal (pictured). Sales doubled during the blockade, but interest has now waned.
High taxes on electric vehicles still put them out of the range of most potential buyers. And while Nepal has a long history of electric public transport with the first ropeway connecting Kathmandu to the plains installed 85 years ago, and upgraded in the 1970s. An electric trolley bus line connected Kathmandu to Bhaktapur. None of these are operational today.
"They were hugely successful until shut down, and they go to prove that electric transportation is feasible in Nepal," said Bhushan Tuladhar of UN-Habitat.
The Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport had drafted an Environment-friendly Vehicle and Transport Policy, but its guidelines have not been implemented. Some experts hint darkly at the powerful groups lobbying the government to prevent tax rebates and subsidies for electric vehicles in the coming budget.
What is proven is that except for a provision two years ago to cut excise tax on electric cars by half, and the waiver of road tax, successive government haven't shown the political will to make an aggressive push to cut petroleum demand by introducing electric transport.
"To raise demand, petroleum has to be less attractive," said Tuladhar. He said increasing petrol prices and ploughing the revenue into development of electric transportation market could be a win-win.
With recent innovation in lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles have now become the rage with most mainstream manufacturers like Nissan, Chevrolet, Toyota and Honda entering the market with affordable e-vehicles. But the lack of incentives in Nepal has kept sales stagnant.
"We will just have to wait until the big manufacturers start promoting electrical vehicles," said Bibek Chapagain, an e-car enthusiast. "They also need longer range to be more acceptible to the public."
With the new budget due next week, Bhusan Tuladhar feels the government should promote electric vehicles, especially for public transport, to reduce traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, and reduce the growing trade deficit with India caused by the rise in demand for petroleum products.
Bhutan has announced that 70 per cent of its private cars will be electric in the next decade, and this is the kind of political commitment that is missing in Nepal. Most experts don't expect a breakthrough in the new budget.
In an effort to reduce the import of petroleum by encouraging sales of electric vehicles, the government in its annual budget announced Saturday has cut the custom duty on private electric vehicles to 10%, and brought it down to 1% for public electric transportation.
In addition to custom duties, the government is going to continue with zero percent excise duty on electric vehicles. In addition, the duty on machinery for recycling lead batteries has also been slashed to 1%.
"This is going to open up the segment much more, making it attractive for other global players like Nissan to come into Nepal," said Cabinet Shrestha of Agni Incorporated, which represents Mahindra Reva electric cars in Nepal.
However, Ganga Bahadur Thapa of Nepal Economic Concern Society (NCES) feels that although the move will increase awareness among the public towards electric vehicles, it is not enough to bring down the demand for fossil fuel cars.
"Until the government reduces tax on battery and parts used for electric vehicles to boost the manufacturing of electric vehicles in the country, things are not going to change much," said Thapa adding that the delay on part of the government to approve route permits for electric vehicles is another factor dampening demand for electric public transport.


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1 President Statement
1.1 Board of Directors
2 Auditors
3 Legal Advisors
4 Founding Year
5 Aims as in Constitution
6.1 Accessing Development Education http://www.developmenteducation.info
6.2 CyberEthics GII: Island-wide combined Safer Internet Awareness Node, Hotline, Helpline http://alldifferentallequal.info/node/537
6.3 Youth Ambassadors for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) http://cy.youth4world.com
6.4 UCYVROK http://www.ucyvrok.wetpaint.com
6.5 Strengthening of youth civil society initiatives through EU and neighbouring countries' networking
6.6 Psycho-Social Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
6.7 Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture http://www.urvt.org
6.8 Building a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-National Cyprus to promote European Values and Regional and International Peace
6.9 SafenetCY -Island - wideSafer Internet Hotline in Cyprus http://212.31.98.230/cyethics2/page.php?pageID=15
6.10 Everybody's Song - Music as a tool for the promotion of diversity and intercultural understanding http://www.everybodyssong.net
6.11 New MediaLanscape Now http://www.cyprusmedia.wetpaint.com
6.12 SteLLLa Stimulation of eLearning for Life Long Learning for adults http://www.stellla.eu
6.13 Strengthening Asylum for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Cyprus
6.14 Civil Society Dialogue http://www.blogora.net/page/Cyprus+Civil+Society+Dialogue
6.15 EU Kids Online http://www.edukidsonline.net
6.16 Cost219ter http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter
6.17 Resource - Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics
6.18 Hibernation
6.19 Changing Attitudes of Adults (parents) on Internet - Related Risks for Young Adolescents (IChat) http://www.ichat.cti.gr/index.php/home
6.20 Dialogue Through Sports: Play for Peace
7.1 Full-time staff
7.2 Part-time staff and external associates
8 Equipment and Offices
President Statement
The expansion and internationalization of Future Worlds Center continued throughout 2008. However, this year was not only marked by growth and transformation, but also with an international recognition of our work1. On the 29th of May 2008 our Senior Scientist Dr. Yiannis Laouris was honored by an Award given yearly by the Hellenic Society for Systems Studies to internalionally distinguished scientists. The award was mainly recognizing the work of our team in using structured democratic dialogue in our peacebuilding initiatives in the context of the "Civil Society Dialogue" project. Less than a month later, Dr. Isabelle Ioannides received on behalf of our organization the award for the best CSO in the Social Inclusion category at the First Annual Civil Society Awards Ceremony held at Chateau Status Restaurant Saturday 7 June 2008. Future Worlds Center also ranked second in the "Youth Initiatives" category. Two major distinctions in the same year added a feeling of prideness and satisfaction to our Associates and friends.
Two major projects implemented by the New Media Lab, SafenetCY and Cyberethics were reviewed by the Commission, the first in January and the second in November of 2008. Some months later our new grant application to operate a Safer Internet Awareness Center, incorporating the Hotline (SafenetCY), the Awareness Node (Cyberethics) and a newly established Helpline was accepted, thus signaling the succesful outcome of both reviews. Towards the end of the year we received notice for the successful outcome of our application submitted to the Research Promotion Foundation aiming to study parents' perceptions and attitutes towards internet dangers using SecondLife as testing bed. Our poposal's score ranked it as first in its category, once more reflecting the high quality of our work.
The Humanitarian Affairs Unit continued to provide free legal and humanitarian services to asylum seekers and refugees and to operate the Unit for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. An application submitted to the Research Promotion foundation for relevant research in collboration with the Technical University & Cyprus.
The Development Education Unit has launched two majorEuropean projects promoting Development Education and the Millennium Development Goals.Both projects place Future Worlds Center in a key position Europe-wide. We had established close ties with a number of schools and teachers across the island, supporting the teachers in exploring and implementing the concept of Global Education. Our work in the context of project 'Building A Multi-Ethnic and Multi-National Cyprus to Promote European Values and Regional and International Peace' resulted in the production of some professional Booklets which have been distributed widely. Our aspiration to see Cyprus looking beyond its horizon and pioneering in international development programs is beginning to become a reality.
Our European Youth project 'UCYVROK' managed to bring together youth NGOs from eleven European countries in several Structured Dialogue co-laboratories, exploring reasons why European youth does not participate in European projects and initiatives, and suggesting solutions promoting a greater inclusion of all youth to shape the future of Europe. The results have been forwarded to the European parliament which requested this information in the first place.
I invite you to examine our 2008 Annual Report and come back to us with suggestions and ideas. This introduction could of course not cover all our projects and successes, which are described in more detail in the following pages. We are proud to have you as a friend as an affiliate and as a supporter, and we look forward to strengthening our relations, communication and collaboration within our network and with our many and new partners.
Dr Yiannis Laouris President & Senior Scientist Dr Harry Anastasiou Board Member & Senior Scientist Dr Aleco Christakis Board Member & Senior Scientist Mrs. Romina Laouri Board Member Miss Elia Petridou Board Member Mr George Tziapouras Board Member Miss Kerstin Wittig Secretary
Nearchos Tsangaris CAT, Authorised Accountant Active Management Thermopylon 73 Emmar - Andria Court 2007 Acropolis, Nicosia Tel 22427327 Fax 22515125 Email activm@cytanet.com.cy
Legal Advisors
Kikis Makrides, Legal Advisor K. Maklaw Management Secretarial Services Ltd. P.O. Box 22463 1522 Nicosia Tel 22 313680 Fax 22 313903
Founding Year
C.N.T.I. was founded through the initiatives of Dr. Yiannis Laouris and a team of repatriated Cypriot scientists with the support of ex-Minister of Education and Culture Dr. Chrysostomos Sophianos, ex-School Inspector Dr. Christodoulos Laouris, the Bishop of Paphos Chrysostomos and three prominent foreign academics Prof. Dr. Sc. Med. Peter Scwhartze (Germany), Prof. Dr. Med. Habil. Uwe Windhorst (Germany/Canada), and Regents Prof. Biol. Douglas Stuart (USA). It was registered on the 6th of November 1991 and launched its activities in 1993. Between 1994-1999 it expanded its aims beyond research and Cyprus by hosting a number of peace and international development projects. It was re-structured in year 2000 modifying its original Constitution to embrace those projects aiming in the development of an active civil society in Cyprus, as well as projects with international scope, especially those that involve the application of technology towards bridging the literacy, economic and digital divides (Development and IT Education). Towards the end of 2005 it evolved into a larger organization with a pure international orientation integrating all its activities under one umbrella.
Aims as in Constitution
a) Designing and execution of studies and research programs with future orientation in areas related to the human brain and learning, technology and social change, global society, conflict transformation and global peace."
b) Development of new models of education based on recent advances in cognitive science and computing.
c) World-wide operations focused on international development, cooperation, humanitarian support, justice, transparency and advocacy of human rights, especially the right of education and the enhancement of inter-ethnic and international peace.
d) Organization of scientific, technical and cultural events or programs in issues relevant to the aims of the organization.
e) Organize, conduct and supervise seminars, congresses, conferences, workshops; deliver courses; offer educational and/or information services in the above sectors with the aim of sensitization, enlightenment or training of the modern active citizens.
f) Collaboration with universities, other institutions, organizations, and individual active citizens in Cyprus and abroad to promote the aims of the organization.
g) Serve as provider of information and consultant in academic, commercial, scientific and technical subjects.
h) Discovery, research, study, encouragement, support and promotion of new innovative ideas and methods, techniques, scientific technological, electronic systems and generally intellectual property.
i) Promotion of research in Cyprus and abroad in collaboration with other organizations, public or private, local or international for the achievement of our aims.
j) Promote Cyprus as a supporter of Development & IT education, scientific research and peace in the three continents around her, thus contributing towards consolidation of peace and prosperity in the wider geopolitical region.
k) Publication of material in subjects relevant with the aims of Institute
Accessing Development Education http://www.developmenteducation.info
This project aims at promoting Development Education within the educational sector across Europe, focusing specifically on Lithuania, Cyprus, Scotland and Ireland. This project acknowledges the fact that highly valuable Development Education material has been developed, however it recognizes the difficulties of teachers and educators to access the existent material, as well as to apply these resources to their local or national educational context. More specifically, the project addresses the lack of access to, as well as the need for, Development Education material by teachers, educators, youth trainers and other actors across Europe, and especially in those countries that have joined the EU only recently. The project aims to: • Raise awareness in Cyprus, Lithuania, Scotland, Ireland and Bulgaria about development issues and about the interdependence of EU countries and countries of the developing world; • Engage educators and youth to take action in support of the developing countries; • Build capacity among educators to integrate Development Education in their lesson plans. Specifically, the project aims to engage educators and schools in Development Education activities and equip them with relevant training and materials, thus making them promoters and multipliers of national campaigns that aim to create awareness about Development and about global interdependencies. Expected Project Results: • Development Education material adapted to local needs, in accordance with educational curricula in Cyprus, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Scotland and Ireland • A European collection of case studies, best practice and general Development Education materials reviewed, modified and adapted by an international educational advisory committee and made accessible through the web • A trans-national network of schools and educators jointly working to integrate Development Education into schools • Schools and teachers trained to use Development Education material in their lesson plans, thereby serving as multipliers.
CyberEthics GII: Island-wide combined Safer Internet Awareness Node, Hotline, Helpline http://alldifferentallequal.info/node/537
CyberEthics concerns the safe use of Internet in Cyprus, and serves the needs of all people that live on the island (i.e., also Turkish Cypriots and other minorities) addressing not only issues of pornography, but also racism (currently on the rise in Cyprus), gender discrimination and inappropriate use of peoples' images. It operates as a combined Awareness Node and a Hotline. The project also aims to engage actors from the government and the civil society, thus contributing towards the eradication of cyber crime through informed actions of European citizens and public institutions that aim to change behaviours, mentality and attitudes, giving special emphasis to rural and less developed areas of the country. Objectives: - Act as node of awareness network in Cyprus. - Devise a cohesive, hard-hitting and targeted awareness campaign using the most appropriate media, taking into account best practice and experience in other countries. - Establish and maintain a partnership (formal or informal) with key players (government agencies, press and media groups, ISP associations, users organisations, education stakeholders) and actions in their country relating to safer use of Internet and new media. - Promote dialogue and exchange of information notably between stakeholders from the education and technological fields. - Where appropriate, cooperate with work in areas related to the Safer Internet plus programme such as in the wider field of media and information literacy or consumer protection. - Inform users about European filtering software and services and about hotlines and self-regulation schemes. - Actively cooperate with other national nodes in the European network by exchanging information about best practices, participating in meetings and designing and implementing a European approach, adapted as necessary for national linguistic and cultural preferences. - Provide a pool of expertise and technical assistance to start-up awareness nodes (new nodes could be 'adopted' by a more experienced node). - Take an active part in European-level events and in the organisation of national, regional and local events for the Safer Internet Day. - Cooperate with the hotline present in the country, if any, and Europe Direct.
Youth Ambassadors for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) http://cy.youth4world.com
Youth Ambassadors for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign aims to raise awareness about the MDGs, first, among young people and on a second level among general public in the target countries namely Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Cyprus. Taking into consideration that the EU new member states have recently started the implementation of their development policy and therefore still face significant weaknesses, there is a great need for educational and promotional activities which aim at building public support for MDGs (according to Eurobarometers). As these countries become responsible actors in international development field, their societies also should be informed about the needs of developing countries and mobilize support for effective development cooperation as agreed in the last few years by the donor countries. This project will mainly focus on youth ensuring that young people (future leaders) will take part in this educational and awareness raising process. The project is planned for 2 years. During that time all the activities such as: trainings of MDGs Ambassadors, festivals, events, competitions, debates, happenings as well as internet radio and platform, will take place simultaneously in all the project's countries ( the activities will be adapted to the needs in each country). All the activities are planned in this way to ensure that maximum amount of young people will be involved in each stage of the project. Another important aspect is, that all the activities that will be implement in the project, will have a multiplayer effect. The lead agency is the association "SMVS Youth for the World" from Poland. The main aim of the project is to raise public awareness on development issues and MDGs through active participation, discussion and different events which will involve youth from project's countries. All the project's activities will respond to the result that are planned to achieve.
UCYVROK http://www.ucyvrok.wetpaint.com
Objectives of the project Uniting for Citizenship and Participation: Youth promoting Vulnerable Groups' Rights, Opportunities and Knowledge (UCYVROK): 1. Create a platform for the exchange of expertise, materials and best practices of youth organisations working with the concepts of cultural diversity, human rights, empowerment, social inclusion and active citizenship 2. Actively engage youth organisations in developing a.) a Joint Vision of a European youth environment based on those concepts b.) a Joint Action Plan towards an increased participation of less privileged youth in European youth projects and activities Target groups 1. Youth organisations in 12 EU countries 2. Young people involved in youth projects 3. Youth workers and trainers 4. Youth policy makers Expected results 1. Web-based portal and website; 2. Joint Action Plans and Vision Maps for the empowerment and inclusion of less privileged youth; 3. Joint Declaration on Citizenship and Participation, submitted to local, regional, national and EU authorities; 4. CD-ROM and Booklet with best practices, resources and material gathered by all partners.
Strengthening of youth civil society initiatives through EU and neighbouring countries' networking
The project action is an answer to the identified needs of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan youth which are based on the founding that there is a need for youth in the said countries to be strengthened and supported to take participation in the social and political life of the said regions in order to support democratization process imposing EU democratic values and principles. The project overall action aims to strengthen youth civil society initiatives through EU and neighbouring countries' networking. More specifically, the project action aims to provide equal opportunities for young people in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to build their leadership knowledge skills and attitudes for participation in community life and decision making as well as make EU democratic principles and values closer to the Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan youth through various capacity building, share of experience and partnership building and networking activities with Greek and Cyprus youth. Project action will target youth at the age of 14 – 24 years from Sokuluk and Alamudyun regions (Kyrgyzstan)., Almaty, Medeu region (Kazakhstan), Greece and Cyprus We expect that at the end of the project we will manage: a) To establish and ensure sustainability of 3 Youth Committees in KG and KZ that will serve as youth focal points for exchange of ideas and support youth participation in the social and political life of the said regions in order to support democratization process in their countries; b) To develop new skills and qualities of young volunteers, leaders and young staff members of Youth Committees in KG and KZ; c) To build strong connections and networking between youth NGOs of KG, KZ, Cyprus and Greece for the purpose of sharing of experiences and getting collaboration for common purposes and widening field of actions; d) To share the project practices with wider public through project web site.
Psycho-Social Support for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
The project aims to provide social welfare services and psychosocial support to asylum seekers in Cyprus at a national level. It will attempt to inform them for their rights such as employment, housing, material standards for reception, medical care and public assistance. In addition it will provide support to any psychological dysfunctions or/and other social problems they may face. Another general point is the knowledge we are going to earn from this joined collaborative initiative, in particular you as both students and young professionals. Our aim is to establish "inter-professional bridges" where different professions will work together for the benefits of asylum seekers.
Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture http://www.urvt.org
The Unit for Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture is a project funded by the European Refugee Fund and the Republic of Cyprus, through the Asylum Service - Ministry of the Interior. The project has been initiated in 2006 and has since been funded consecutively. The unit supports and promotes the empowerment and rehabilitation of torture victims with a focus on refugees and asylum seekers. URVT's mission is to assist victims of torture by providing multidisciplinary treatment and rehabilitation services and also to raise public awareness of issues concerning torture and rehabilitation. URVT's integrated treatment approach encompasses a full range of services including medical treatment, psychological support, legal counseling, and other social services. The Unit works closely with a network of volunteer service providers, medical professionals, and language and cultural translators to help victims of torture and their families rebuild their lives. The Unit is the only of its kind in Cyprus and its personnel has been trained accordingly in Greece by MRCT. It consists of a social worker, a medical doctor, a psychologist, a secretary, and a coordinator. Results of the action: The Project being now in the second year of its operation has rehabilitated more than 30 individuals, some of whom are still being supported and some have received asylum on the grounds of humanitarian principles. The Unit has also made substantial work in the field of raising public awareness within the society.
Building a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-National Cyprus to promote European Values and Regional and International Peace
The main objective of the project is to promote awareness and increase the sensitivity of the Cypriot society on how a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Cyprus serves European values and promotes regional and international peace. To meet the main objective, the project will engage students, teachers and parents in workshops and activities to create a vision map for a multicultural and multiethnic Cyprus, as well as visualize and implement specific activities, which contribute towards materializing the vision for a multicultural society.
SafenetCY -Island - wideSafer Internet Hotline in Cyprus http://212.31.98.230/cyethics2/page.php?pageID=15
SafenetCY is the hotline that promotes the safe use of Internet in Cyprus. It serves the needs of all people that live on the island (i.e. also Turkish Cypriots and other minorities) and addresses not only issues of pornography, but also racism (currently on the rise in Cyprus), gender discrimination and inappropriate use of people's images. It operates as a combined Awareness Node and a Hotline under the CyberEthics project. The project engages actors from the government and the civil society, thus contributing towards the eradication of cyber crime through informed actions of European citizens and public institutions that aim to change behaviors, mentality and attitudes, giving special emphasis to rural and less developed areas of the country. The Hotline handles reports made through its corresponding website. In line with Cyprus legislation on the anonymity of the reporter, the Hotline operator takes all necessary actions in order to deal with the reported issue independently of who has filed the complaint. Every report is recorded on SafeNetCY's Database. From that point every procedure has to be completed in less than 24 hours from the time the report was made.
Everybody's Song - Music as a tool for the promotion of diversity and intercultural understanding http://www.everybodyssong.net
The general aim of the project is to reflect on the role of music in intercultural understanding and to identify ways on how to utilise it in youth work. The main objectives of the project are: • to raise awareness about cultural diversity • to train youth organisations and musicians in cultural diversity and project development • to establish partnerships between youth NGOs and musicians • to attract new target groups to youth work and the arts • to facilitate cross border cooperation between five different countries • to promote and increase the visibility of the Youth in Action programme in South East Europe Expected results: • A set of elaborated tools and well documented good practice examples using music as a tool in intercultural understanding and youth work for the promotion of diversity, tolerance and non-violent conflict transformation; this set is mainly aimed at youth workers, NGOs, music and arts teachers and musicians working with young people. It will be accessible in 3 ways: 1. on an interactive website (partly available in seven different languages) including a download section 2. on a Multimedia DVD including audio- and video-files 3. in a booklet summarising the project results • Raised awareness about shared cultural heritage in South East Europe • Improved cooperation between youth organisations and artists (musicians) • Increased visibility of the participating youth organisations and the Youth in Action Programme
New MediaLanscape Now http://www.cyprusmedia.wetpaint.com
The "New Media Landscape Now!" project aims to bring together journalists from both sides of divided Cyprus to produce a strong vision for an ideal media landscape which will hopefully serve as a magnet to mobilize transformation. The FWC organized a workshop with Cypriot journalists that will focus on the development of a road map towards an ideal media landscape in Cyprus. The FWC organized two follow-up, closed-door conferences with a total of 24 journalists - 12 from each side of the island. They worked together to finalize a vision of a future media landscape in Cyprus and to develop an action plan with steps towards a feasible transformation of the existing media landscape. They put together a set of guidelines sharing good practices and potential steps towards a new media world, to be disseminated among the main stakeholders related to media on both sides.
SteLLLa Stimulation of eLearning for Life Long Learning for adults http://www.stellla.eu
It is the ambitious aim of steLLLa to develop a generic method for autonomous learning for adults that can be implemented in the training courses of various professions. First of all, we will share information and experiences. The expertise of each partner combined with the well balanced constitution of the group guarantees a synergetic cooperation and a cultural enrichment. Starting from concrete eLearning tasks; trainers, learners and the partner institutions will create new good practice examples for several domains. Adult learners will be involved in the test settings. We will promote these new eLearning techniques to enhance the Life Long Learning opportunities for adults. Also, we want to stimulate trainers and learners to use an eLearning environment as communication tool and for didactical purposes; to use modern ICT methods not only to communicate but also to acquire and exchange knowledge.
Strengthening Asylum for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Cyprus
As implementing partner to the UNHCR representation in Cyprus, the Future Worlds Center is responsible for monitoring the access of asylum seekers to the asylum procedure of the Republic of Cyprus as well as the access to rights by asylum seekers and refugees, provide individual advice, support and counseling. The purpose of the particular action is to reduce the difficulties of asylum seekers to get access to general information on the refugee concept, rights and obligations under the national asylum procedure, the provision of legal advice and counseling as well as the necessary well targeted interventions with the relevant staff in the ministries to address shortcomings in policy and practice. In practical terms the legal advisors of the project also provide assistance to asylum seekers with deserving cases to prepare their appeals for the Reviewing Authority. The current project is also responsible for facilitating the local integration of recognized refugees and raising awareness over the plight of refugees within the local community. Results of the action: Strengthening Asylum in Cyprus is an ongoing process of awareness raising, and legal support services. Nevertheless the expected impact concentrates on the protection of the beneficiary population, with particular sensitivity towards women refugees and children, including adolescents. In addition, associates, volunteers and friends working with the action have carried a clothes and gifts drive for asylum seekers, refugees and their families while solid outcomes of the action also include a booklet with information for Asylum Seekers and Refugees on applying for Asylum in Cyprus.
Civil Society Dialogue http://www.blogora.net/page/Cyprus+Civil+Society+Dialogue
The Civil Society Dialogue project will bring together civil society organizations from both sides of the island to share experiences and work to create a Citizen's Platform where ideas are discussed and an Action Plan is devised to build the new reunited Cyprus. Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriots having years of bi-communal experience will come together with others who are not very experienced in that field but are young, well educated and motivated individuals to share experiences and ideas and generate their vision of the island.
EU Kids Online http://www.edukidsonline.net
The EU Kids Online project examines research carried out in 21 member states into how children and young people use the internet and new media. This three-year collaboration aims to identify comparable research findings across Europe to evaluate the social, cultural and regulatory influences affecting both risks and children's and parents' responses to them. It charts available data, notes indicative gaps and identifies factors that shape the research capability of European research institutions. Finally, it examines methodological issues relating to cross-cultural analyses and the study of children's online experience in order to develop a best practice guide to research
Cost219ter http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter
The FWC serves as the National Contact Point in the European network COST Action 219ter: Accessibility for All to Services and Terminals for Nex Generation Networks. The Action merges the new mobile technologies with a humanitarian angle, aspiring to the day in which new mobile technologies will be accessible and beneficial to all. Driving principle of the action is that the latest mobile systems will provide the opportunity for building a more inclusive telecommunications arena. The applicant has recently organized a European conference in Cyprus (http://cnti.org.cy/cost219) and is co-authoring a book chapter in a Cost219ter book publication. This project funds the participation of our experts in Cost219ter meetings 2-3 times a year. It also funds the participation of younger associates in summer schools.
Resource - Adaptive Design of Visualizations for Supporting the Comprehension of Complex Dynamics
The purpose of the project is 1. Interdisciplinary optimization of resources in learning from dynamic visualizations. 2. Development of instructional materials that meet high standards with regard to the scientific content domain, the computer technology, and the constraints of the cognitive system. 3. Development of innovative learning scenarios with dynamic visualizations (e.g., situated mobile learning). 4. Development of shared materials for experimentation. 5. Assembling a final product for complex and situated learning. This project funds the participation of our experts in their meetings once a year. It also funds the participation of our associates in conferences and in European Commission Task Groups.
The Hibernation Project is a research project focusing on new technology for learning. It investigates how animations can be used to support learning. More specifically, the project investigates if animations are more effective for specific types of learners than for others, e.g., students with reading difficulties, students who prefer the auditory vs. visual channel for learning. The project consists of three phases: Phase 1: Specification of the learning domain, the foundation of theoretical background, the design of the empirical study; Phase 2: Design of animations with respect to design principles and empirical findings; and Phase 3: Data collection, data analysis, and interpretation.
Changing Attitudes of Adults (parents) on Internet - Related Risks for Young Adolescents (IChat) http://www.ichat.cti.gr/index.php/home
The project will address Internet safety issues with the aim to achieve an in-depth understanding regarding safety breaches and protective measures and actions, primarily within the family environment. For this purpose, a limited section of the Online Virtual Environment, Second Life, will be customized to host study teams who will be playing on the Internet and will be "exposed" to real risks in a controlled way. Project participants are expected to develop skills in recognising safety pitfalls and dealing with them as well as appreciate Internet Risks in their true dimension. The very difference between real Internet-related risks and Internet-related risks as perceived by adults (parents) could constitute a new type of risk in itself. There is a similar difference between the means to deal with these risks and the means to deal with these risks as perceived by adults (parents). The conception adults (parents) have on what (their) children do when they "play" (spend time) on the Internet is largely based on ignorance; certainly experiential ignorance in that they have not "played" (spent time) on such activities themselves and often 'literate ignorance' in that they have not studied the matter. Media and church hype add insult to injury. Furthermore, there is a difference between the real attitude of adults (parents) towards their children (in general, and with respect to their children's activities on the Internet) and their self-perceived attitude. There is a further difference between their real attitudes and the results of their behavior. The project will study the attitude of such adults towards the fact that their children immerse themselves into video games (Second Life in particular). Specifically, the project team will study the change in attitudes of the adults regarding the activities of their children and the risks related before and after they had an opportunity to "play" along with their children for several months. Target groups addressed will be parents (of 12-15 year old girls and 13-16 year old boys) who are teachers (preferably at high schools where they have pupils of the same age as their children) who will fall into specific, predefined clusters, along with their children. Each study team will consist of one or two parentsteachers with their one or more children / nephew and / or their friends. Project outputs, products and results will include, among others, i) a customized area in the Virtual, Online Environment "Second Life", ii) a portal supporting project work, dissemination activities and project participants, iii) recorded research on internet safety risks as perceived by adults and teenagers of the study teams and most importantly the possible change in attitudes before and after game playing. This research aims at concluding to a suggested methodology on an original approach in developing an Internet Safety Culture which could be used as a bases for learning material at various levels and in particular for teacher training.
Dialogue Through Sports: Play for Peace
This project, funded by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures 1001 Actions for Dialogue initiative, aims at increasing dialogue among Cypriots island-wide through sports, arts and compassionate communication. The goals are to emphasize team spirit through basketball games, to empower youth through artistically visualizing a future Cyprus and to enhance communication skills through Non-Violent Communication workshops. Objectives: − Increase Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot coaches' and PeacePlayers International (PPI) team members' skills through Non- Violent Communication (NVC); − Increase dialogue among Cypriot youth during mono- and bi-communal activities through sports; − Emphasize team spirit and relationship building through interaction; − Empower PPI teams to visualize a strong team/community and sportsmanship in Cyprus with Structured Dialogic Design Process (SDDP). Target Groups: − Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot PPI team coaches (10-14 in total); Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot PPI team members aged 10-15 both from urban and rural settings (approximately 300 youngsters will be reached; the project aims to encourage girls' participation); Cypriot Civil Society; Educators Media. Activities: Celebrating the EU's Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the Action will have: − Train the trainer: 2 sustainable workshops of NVC involving facilitation and envisioning for PPI team coaches & educators island-wide; − Train the youth: PPI team coaches return to their communities and apply the NVC skills with the youth in their teams. Cypriot youth will paint their future team, community or sportsmanship in Cyprus on a canvass; youth's paintings will be presented and displayed in the Buffer Zone; − Dialogue Night: a bi-communal basketball tournament will take place in the Buffer Zone. − A video will be produced by the bi-communal television show "Biz/Emeis" highlighting the project for their show on the "Dialogue Night". − An interview featuring the representatives from the partner organizations on the bi-communal radio show "Talk of the Island" will be organized. The video and a 'pod cast' of the interview will be disseminated to the project members' and Anna Lindh Foundation's websites.
C.N.T.I. is operational since 1993. It has a Board of eight members that includes personalities known to the Cypriot public and an International Advisory Board of five distinguished scientists (Germany, USA). C.N.T.I. has been successful in securing funds for its research as well as peace and social intervention operations since its foundation in 1992.
Full-time staff
Dr. Yiannis Laouris President Elena Aristodemou coordinating scientific projects of the New Media Lab Aysu Arsoymember of the New Media Lab research team. Paul Drousiotis Administrator of URVT project. Anna-Maria Drousiotou Project coordinator for CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Awareness Node. Corina Drousiotou Legal Advisor Olivia Marangou Legal Advisor Larry Fergeson coordinating the projects : Uniting for Citizenship and participation: Youth promoting Vulnerable groups Rights, Opportunities and Knowledge (UCYVROK), New Media Landscape Now!, Youth Ambassadors for Millennium Development Goals. Isabelle Ioannides Head of the Unit Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture Nikolas Kasparis Technical Director and Hotline Coordinator. Marcos Markides Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture project, Manos Mathioudakis social advisor for the project "Strengthening Asylum in Cyprus". Andria Neocleous social advisor: Unit for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture Georgina Siitta Achilleos Assistant Coordinator: Safer Internet Awareness Node Kerstin Wittig Assistant Coordinator: Media Project. Tatjana Taraszow coordinator of the Civil Society Dialogue Project and a research team member of the Cypriot Safer Internet awareness node CyberEthics, the "EU Kids Online Project" "Hibernation" and "MAPS" Maria Avraamidou Legal Advisor Reinhard Eckert Project Coordinator Tonia Loizidou Administrator Elia Petridou Project Coordinator: HasNa Project Mary Ioannoupart of the SDDP facilitation team and Assistant: Youth Ambassadors for the Millennium Development Goals and New Media Lab work. Yiola Papadopoulou Research Assistant. Elias Papadopoulos Medical Director of Unit for the Rehabilitation forVictims of Torture
Part-time staff and external associates
Serge Gwabene Buhendwa volunteer Lucia Fetzer volunteer Brooke Galloway volunteer Christina Montaniosvolunteer Prof. Gary Gumpert Visiting Professor of Communications Prof. Peter Gerjets Visiting Research Professor Prof Douglas Stuart Prof Uwe Windhorst
Equipment and Offices
CNTI is housed in a two-floor office located very conveniently at the business center of Nicosia at Promitheos 5 Street, behind the Hotel Cleopatra, just off Stasicratous Street and 50 m from Makarios Avenue. Its premises are fully furnished with extra office spaces for visiting associates and part-time personnel. The office areas include two conference rooms, one study room with a small library and a small kitchenette and a restroom area. Besides the relevant experience and the physical resources, C.N.T.I. created since its inception an excellent network of partners and channels of communication both in Cyprus and abroad. For example in Cyprus, it has collaborated and received co-funding for many of its projects with the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Development Bank, the Youth Board, the Cyprus Telecommunica-tion Authority, the Bank of Cyprus, the Research Promotion Foundation and many others. Probably the most important resource that CNTI has is the extensive network of committed, enthusiastic and well-educated peace builders and scientists from the two communities of Cyprus and overseas.
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Well, we're almost to July, and teams that need pitching help have decided not to wait any longer. According to reports, two small trades for pitching help are being completed this afternoon.
Sources: #Dodgers getting Bud Norris from #Braves.
Neither Fernando Rodney nor Bud Norris are the kinds of guys that are going to single handedly carry you to the playoffs, but both also have their value in providing useful depth, and both are having excellent starts to the 2016 season. Rodney's strikeout rate has spiked back up this year, allowing him to be an effective pitcher even with his command problems, and will likely slide into the Marlins bullpen, allowing them to ride A.J. Ramos, David Phelps, and Kyle Barraclough a bit less in the second half. Though, if Keith Law is correct that the Marlins gave up a "good prospect" to get a half season of Rodney's inconsistency, that seems like a steep price to pay. But we'll have to wait and see what price they paid.
For the Dodgers, this was very likely a reaction to the news that Clayton Kershaw is heading to the DL, weakening the team's rotation even further. Norris has been pretty good of late, and as Jeff Sullivan recently noted, that's coincided with him getting rid of his garbage change-up and replacing it with an effective cutter. If that swap continues to pay dividends, he could be a nice back-end starter for the team in the second half.
That said, Norris also has a pretty long history of underperforming his peripheral numbers, with +11 WAR in his career if you go by the FIP-based WAR, but only +6 WAR if you go by RA9. With over 1,000 big league innings, it's pretty likely that a good chunk of that difference is due to Norris' own weaknesses and not just bad luck, so we shouldn't expect him to be as good as his FIP suggests. But even with some BABIP issues, a guy with average walk and strikeout rates and some groundballs can be useful, and Norris is good enough against RHPs that he could be an effective situational reliever in the playoffs, if the Dodgers manage to get there.
Like with the Rodney deal, we don't know what the acquisition cost was, but the Dodgers certainly needed to add an arm with Kershaw going down for at least a few weeks. Norris isn't an ace, but he can help the team survive for a little while, and if this new cutter proves effective, maybe even do more than that.
We hoped you liked reading Dodgers and Marlins Kick Off Trading Season by Dave Cameron!
The timing of this trade and Jeff's article makes me suspect that Andrew Friedman and company regularly scour these pages.


Network marketing Money – When?
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Depending on what you get, roofing can be very expensive. If you get the asphalt roof, you are looking $800 to $1,000. If you can get anything else such as shingles, you are looking at $1,500 to $8,000. Which is the best to go with? Some would say shingles because it would be about 50 years before anything would need to replace on a shingled roof. With maintenance, they can be used a lot longer. You will definitely see that this was really an investment in the long run. As for the asphalt roofing, you will be back at it in almost 10, 20, and 30 years of not sooner trying to get another one all because of bad weather or wear and tear. You really want to get a roof that will last longer than 30 years.
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A traditional dish from Bihar cuisine "Pittha (Bagia)"; which is almost mandatory for each and every house to cook in the Hindi month of poush ( month of December and January); especially in the new born baby house rather new born child's first winter. Legend is that if baby's heel is warmed with steamed pittha; the heel of the baby will never get crack throughout their life.
Traditionally the recipe is cooked and paired with kheer to show the respect to God. This is not only popular in Bihar, but the recipe is prepared in west Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura and most part of the India with few variations.
The cuisine is also cooked in neighboring country Nepal and Bangladesh.
It is also associated with harvest festival; the recipe is made from new harvested rice. Cooking authentic recipe of pittha is tiresome job: start with soaking rice about 6-8 hours, sieve it to get rid of extra water further allow it to dry for 15-20 minutes; till wetness disappear, then milling (grinding) it to prepare the flour. Traditionally with stone grinder but now a day's rice flour is readily available in the market, however the taste of the flour grounded at home is far better than readymade flour.
The pittha is then steamed on the hay put in the earthen pot of boiling water. The yummy-yummy piping hot steamed pittha in winter is so delicious. I will never forget that childhood taste, which my grand-mother cooked and treated the family in chilly winter nights.
Now, the recipe made with readymade flour, which is easily available in the store. There are many variety of pittha depending upon the region; but roughly it is of two varieties; plane and stuffed. The stuff can be sweet or savory.
Chana dal pittha is a traditional variety of north India: in this recipe the outer layer is made from rice flour and stuffing is chana dal with spices.
In sweet variety the stuffing can be fresh/dried coconut, sesame, dry fruits, flax seed, khus-khus (poppy seed), jeggery/ sugar etc.
In royal variety the stuffing can be dry fruits, khoa; which is boiled and cooked into milk, also served as a sweet dish 'the delicacy in mithilanchal region'.
In savory variety too the stuffing can be pulses, vegetables, sesame, flax seed, khus-khus etc.
Now I come to the point, how to prepare it, traditionally it is prepared from rice flour, but you can prepare with wheat flour too. It can be made any time of the year and served in many ways: eating during breakfast or as a snack with tea or meal. You can slice them then fry it and serve.


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Paul Merton
Trading mainly UK TV comedy, film - old and new, plus some music (massive Queen list).
Don't worry you can make a small donation and get anything from the lists.
Paul Merton - The Series
List below also includes other Paul Merton-related shows.
The full series of Paul Merton - The Series aren't available on DVD (or VHS) - only selected highlights.
Want them? Email me to trade or donate.
Caroline Quentin
Would You Credit it
Half Dolphn
This show seems like a deliberate throwback to the madcap sketch shows of the '60's, such as 'At Last The 1948 Show' and 'Marty'. Merton takes a situation, such as a father telling his daughter she's adopted, turned it inside out (he tells her she isn't actually adopted), and by piling absurdity on absurdity, creates an explosion of inspired comic lunacy. The sketches were linked by surreal monologues such as 'there's a time tunnel at the back of my fridge'; delivered of course from a railway station tobacconist's. My copies of these 2 seiries are from TV and NOT commercial releases (which I don't think exist).
Paul Merton- The Series
Julie Sawhala
20 number 10
Goodbye Again
Notice how the guests on his show ( Caroline Quentin and Julia Sawhala ) both went on to be Alan Davis' sidekick in Jonathan Creek. 1993 6 x 30
London Palladium
Live show at the London Palladium.
Paul Merton's comedy stage show which had a two week run at the London Palladium in March / April 1994.
Picture quality of this recording is not great - 5 / 10. Fans only. 1994 80
In China - Series 1
2 Henan Province
Paul takes a six-week tour of China, exploring many areas and aspects of the country's culture. 2007 4 x 50
In India - Series 1
1 Dehi, Rajasthan, Gujarat
2 Punjab, Dehli, Rajasthan, Gujarat
3 Shilong, Kolkata, Kerla
4 Hyderbad, Banaglore, Chennai
5 Chennai, Mumbai
Paul takes an 8 week tour of India, exploring many areas and aspects of the country's culture.
"India is such a vibrant and spiritual place, and somewhere I've always wanted to get to the heart of. As with China, we've got a number of interesting places on the itinerary in India, but once I get there, I hope to throw in a few surprises too." 2008 5 x 50
In Europe - Series 1
1 Berlin
2 Hamburg
The celebrity travelogue takes many forms, from the wheedling nosiness of Alan Whicker to the eager scoutmaster approach of Michael Palin.
Paul Merton's preferred method is to tumble blindly into unfamiliar situations and then deadpan his way to safety. He's at it again with a new six-part series for Five, Paul Merton in Europe, following on from his expeditions to China and India.
Oxford Union Q and A.
As the titles says, this a Question and Answer session at Oxford University Student Union.
As it's only 50 minutes in length, you can add another show [of approx 70 mins] so you end up with 120 mins [2 hours] of material on a single DVD. It can be anything from this site, not just Mr Merton related. 07.11.2017 52
Paul Merton also does the character voices in the animation series Rex The Runt and Crapston Villas


A house built in the 1960's is remade for added light and space.
Details: Re-designed by Naturhumaine, the Closse Residence, located in suburban Montreal, now has large glazed doors that let abundant light into a newly opened space with an imposing focal point, a sculptural stair built of hot rolled steel, maple veneer, and frosted glass.
"This suburban home on Montreal's south shore was built by the father of our client in the 1960's. After over 50 years without having much work done, it was in need of some rejuvenation. The original house lacked natural light and had a series of closed rooms surrounding a central stair.
The first move was to open the south facade with large glazed patio doors. Removing the original partitions lets the light penetrate deeply into the house. A new sculptural stair built of hot rolled steel, maple veneer, and frosted glass becomes the focal point of the house. The counter of the central island in the kitchen cantilevers 2.4 meters out from the cabinets becoming the dining table, uniting the preparation and eating spaces. Two pivoting glass doors close off the entry creating a winter vestibule. The immense stone fireplace was conserved and restored. It's textured materiality contrasts with the purity of the new elements.


At MOMSEN BIKES we understand the importance of warranty and back-up service of all our products.
Working with only the best frame and component manufacturers and suppliers, we are confident that our products can perform at the highest possible level for their intended use.
For Momsen Bikes to be able to validate a warranty claim for your bike, we need to have a record of it. Right after purchasing your bike, you need to register it here on our website so that when or if you need to make use of your warranty, we already have all of the relevant details. In the event that something on your bike goes awry through no fault of your own, you can submit a Warranty Claim Request and we will work with you on the best solution. We need to have a record of your bike so be sure to register now if you haven't already!
Need to submit a claim request?
Please note that in order for us to assess a warranty claim there are certain criteria and/or information that we require to make an objective decision.
We have created an ONLINE claim form which you can use to submit your potential claim, the link to this page can be found here.
Please note we cannot process any warranty claim without the above information.
The turnaround time on a warranty reply is 5 working days ( excluding public holidays and weekend ) – starting from when we receive the requested information from the Dealer.
Original parts as specified by MOMSEN BIKES – All original parts on the bicycle are warranted for a period of one year from the date of purchase.
Original Drivetrain parts as specified by MOMSEN BIKES – In the case of wear and tear parts, only three months warranty applies, unless otherwise specified by original manufacturer.
All claims can only be processed via an authorized MOMSEN BIKES dealer/stockist.
Our carbon frames are tested to the highest standards. However, should you have a fall or crash that results in an impact to the carbon material – the frame can become damaged. Should you have an accident with your frame, we recommend that you to take it to your nearest authorized MOMSEN BIKES dealer and have them inspect and check the frame for any structural damage. Should you find any cracks of signs of damage you should stop riding the bicycle immediately.
We do understand that the cost of replacing a non-warranty damaged frame can be a financial burden and therefore offer any customer who has purchased their frame within the 2 year period ( from date of purchase ) the option to purchase a replacement frame at a reduced price. Please consult with your nearest MOMSEN BIKES dealer for further details.


Long overdue in giving a shout out to Stephen Hiscott, who joined NGP's US-based Digital Health team earlier in the year as an Entrepreneur in Residence.
Stephen has been active in the health and healthcare analytics technology space for more than 15 years. In 2002, he was part of the team leading The Advisory Board Company's launch of the analytics division that became greater than 50 percent of the firm's business, spanning Business Intelligence, provider work flow and Enterprise Analytics. It became one of the largest health care technology organizations, establishing a presence in most major health systems nationwide and enabling continued substantial growth in market capitalization. We met when I asked him to meet a company with me at the JPMorgan HealthCare Conference in January and I was super impressed with his perspective on the market and in particular his sense of what types of technologies Providers were really adopting — and why — vs proof of concept work. Market adoption and timing are critical (and often underappreciated) factors to success in the venture investing business, and technology adoption cycles in Healthcare can be particularly opaque.
Recently, Stephen shared his thoughts with me on the digital health space (from a Provider perspective) and the opportunities he sees at NGP.
"I'm excited about the investment approach and commitment at NGP. As an entrepreneur in residence at a VC like NGP, it's really compelling to adopt their market perspective. I've been driven by healthcare transformation since first joining the Advisory Board as an analyst in the mid-90s. Across the past decade this potential has become increasingly digital.
Having focused predominantly in the Provider space, I've been thinking more recently about the notion of "Enabling Transformation where it (still) matters most in a Post-EMR world — between Patient and Provider." Put differently, driving transformational innovation with health care providers will undoubtedly always link back to interactions between patient and provider.
"The past decade has ushered in critical foundational building blocks for massive innovation in health care — Federal mandates (and funding) for Electronic Medical Records, major advances in genomic sequencing and 'implantable technology', public and private payer moves to shift from 'volume' to 'value', rapid adoption of 'Wearables', and increases in the patient financial obligation for care (beginning to reverse the current perverse economics of payment for care in our current system). And the list goes on.
While virtually every stakeholder has felt these changes in some way, the largest and most impactful innovation will be driven largely through the most important connection point, the interaction between patient and provider. As we strive for the Triple Aim of accessible, high quality, cost effective care, the holy grail remains out of reach. Of course, improvements have been felt in nearly every corner of our health care environment; however, patients continue to find themselves unaware of critical diagnostic and treatment information, at the same time providers are awash in seemingly infinite data points and potential tests. If you strip away all of the technology, the rules and the regulations, health care is still about Patients receiving Optimal Care from Providers.
Stephen has been invaluable in our Team NGP inquiries into Accountable Care and Value Based Service; diabetes management; next generation data extraction in healthcare, and precision medicine, among others. Stephen is also an accomplished triathlete who embraces cutting edge tracking technologies in his training regimens — we are rooting him on to a personal best in his next Olympic distance event! Go @shiscott!


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    author          = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name="added_posts")
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    body            = models.TextField(_('body'))
    tease           = models.TextField(_('tease'), blank=True)
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Jeff Carstensen has been a key volunteer and member of the Administrative Team of Heat Wave since February 2017. Mr. Carstensen began his drum corps career a member of the Dubuque Colts Drum & Bugle Corps and studied euphonium under Robert Yeats at the University of Iowa...
JEFF CARSTENSEN
Tom Peashey was born into a drum corps family and began his career in the activity at a very young age. His performance career has spanned over 4 decades while his overall career now spans over 6 decades. He was a founding member of the Fulton Gauchos and Co-Founder of The Oswego Black Knights...
TOM PEASHEY
Krystal is currently the Director of Finance & Administration for Time Customer Service in Tampa, Florida. She has been with TCS since 1988 and held a number of leadership positions in both Finance and Technology. She is currently responsible for all TCS Financial reporting and systems as well as ensuring Postal...
Board Treasurer
KRYSTAL CORWIN
Taylor is a percussionist, freelance composer and arranger, and pilot based in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Taylor took an interest in music from a young age, and his passion was ignited as soon as he joined band in middle school...
TAYLOR FOX
John Corcoran is a Director for Ripley Entertainment and focuses on new business models including touring products. John has more than 35 years' experience in the leisure industry and is an IAAPA Certified Attractions Executive.
JOHN CORCORAN
Ed, a native of Rochester, NY, is a retired Spanish teacher and school administrator.
Before moving to Florida in 2007, Ed was a member of the Rochester Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps from 1963-1982. While with the Crusaders, he played baritone and...
ED WACKERLE
Kim Montalto has been in training and development for 15 years and is currently a Senior Operations Instructor for a financial institution. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Florida Atlantic University. Prior to her current occupation, Kim was an Assistant Branch Manager and Staffing Coordinator, and was also a 6th grade...
KIM MONTALTO
Madelyn Corcoran got her drum corps start by marching at Heat Wave in 2015 and serving as horn sergeant in 2016, when she received the Esprit de Corps award. She then spent the next two years at The Cadets, playing trumpet in 2017 and conducting in 2018. Madelyn spent the 2019 season with Carolina Crown as...
MADELYN CORCORAN
Mike began his drum corps career in 1997 at Heat Wave of Orlando Sr Drum and Bugle Corps. He performed with the two time DCA "Class A" champions through 2003.
After 2003 Mike took a break from the activity to focus on his family and career. In 2011, he...
MIKE ABENDSCHEIN
Benny Pisani founded Heat Wave of Florida in the fall of 2014 after the folding of Teal Sound, which was the last DCI drum and bugle corps in Florida at the time.
His approach to restoring Drum and Bugle Corps in Florida was to make it available to...
Director Emeritus & Founder
BENNY PISANI
© 2019 by Heat Wave of Florida, Inc.


Player Commitment Form (2018-2019) - Completed by the parent when the player is commited to the club and is retained by the Club.
IYSA Medical Release & Liability Waiver - Completed by the parent when the player is commited to the club and is retained by the Club.
Organization Statement - Must be completed by the club and uploaded to the club page each year, September 1st (Fall/Spring teams) and March 1st (Spring only teams).
Insurance Certificate Request Form - If the facility is requiring an insurance for this is the one.


You're well aware of the dangers that smoking has on your teeth, as well as your overall oral health. It stains your teeth, causes bad breath, increases your risk of developing gum disease and other serious oral health issues such as oral cancer.
It also severely affects your ability to heal. And these are just the effects on your oral health. But what about a product that you don't inhale, chewing tobacco?
As its name implies, chewing tobacco is a tobacco product that you chew, rather than inhale. The product sits in your mouth, between your cheek and your gums. But, if you're not inhaling it, it can't be all that bad, right?
• Bone loss (as a result of gum disease).
• Stains on your teeth.
It's not just the smoke from the cigarettes that cause bad breath. Chemicals contained in both cigarettes and chewing tobacco, tar and nicotine, are huge contributing factors. Every time you put a piece of chewing tobacco in your mouth, you allow the chemicals to cling to every surface of your mouth. You can brush and floss some of it away, but you won't be able to get rid of all of it, and every new bit just adds to the problem.
Smoking is not the habit responsible for oral cancer. Chewing tobacco is just as guilty. These products contain the same cancer-causing chemicals as cigarettes. They also contain higher levels of nicotine than regular cigarettes. In fact, those who use chewing tobacco are actually up to 50 times more likely to develop oral cancer, especially in the areas where the product is held in the mouth.
Just because you don't inhale anything doesn't make chewing tobacco any safer than smoking. Chewing tobacco is just as dangerous for your oral, and overall, health as smoking is. Quitting tobacco products altogether will give you the best chance for a healthy mouth and a healthier body.
Please contact our office if you have any questions about chewing tobacco's effects on your smile.