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Astromeritis is a village in the district of Nicosia. Its altitude is 160 meters in the plain of Mesaoria or plain of Morfou as it is also known. It is 30 km far from the capital of the island. Some of the vicinal villages are Peristerona, Potami and the occupied villages Zodia and Katokopia. The village appears in the Venetian maps as Astromoriti and it was a feud during the Franks occupation.
The inhabitants of the village are 4.500. It grew bigger after the Turkish invasion. The most of the inhabitants are farmers but many others work in the capital. The factory SEDIGEP (ΣΕΔΥΓΕΠ) is responsible for the packaging and the manufacture of agricultural products and has contributed to the agricultural development not only of the village but also of the entire area. There is also a factory that manufactures clothes. These factories have helped many inhabitants of the village who worked there. The main agricultural products are grain, potatoes, citrus fruits, melons and water melons (during summer). In the village you can find all kind of magazines: gas stations, shopes with clothes, supermarkets…
The elementary school of Astromeritis has 220 students and 18 teachers. There is also a pre-elementary class. For more information about the education in the community, please visit the link "Education" in our site.
In the center of the village and on a small hill you can see the church of saint Afxivios. For more information about the church and the life of saint Afxivios, please visit the "Church".
Every year there is a protest march of Morfou. This protest march aims to remind the Turks our opposition to this occupation and of course our will and demand to go back to our villages. From the village Astromeritis one can see the illegitimately occupied land of Cyprus which is waiting for so long its owners to come back.
The first settlement of Astromeritis is consisted of adobe made houses and stone made roads. Around the main entrance of the houses you can usually find sculpted frames. There are also some very interesting old houses with the "dichoro" (two roomed bedroom), traditional kitchen (which was independent from the other rooms), paved yard with beautiful flowers, barn stable, traditional mud oven and all of them with high walls around the houses.
Recently the village has started to expand to the new road of Troodos –Astromeritis. In this location of the village there are mainly new houses. On the west side of the village there are two settlements built for the refugees of 1974. there is a total of 76 houses.
The location of the village is very important. It connects Nicosia, Morfou, Tilliria, Solia, Marathasa, Troodos.
There are many different version concerning the name of the community. Below we will mention some of them.
The first version says that "Asinaioi" left their town "Asina" in Peloponisos and founded the small town "Asinou" in Cyprus. Near the town "Asina" there is another village "Astromeri" and the town "Astros". Some of the inhabitants of Astros came in Cyprus with the inhabitants of Asina and founded the village Astromeritis.
Another version says that Astromeritis got its name from the inhabitants of Pitsilia who begun from their village and reached Astromeritis when the first star (astro)appeared in the sky.
The third version says that the village was named Astromeritis because of a story that took place many years
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One of the best jokes for the inhabitants of the village is related to the story that we have just mentioned above:
The villagers went to the well and thought that they saw stars in it.
They then tried to take them out by throwing a hook in the well. Unfortunately the hook was caught on the bottom of the well, and all of the together started to pull it until they all fell down facing the sky! They saw the stars in the sky and thought that the stars which were in the well got away and went on the sky again! The next days, all the surrounding villages learned about this story and made fun of the villagers!
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With a herd of milkers to feed, bed and look after, plus a significant arable acreage, North Hinton Dairy's recent dispersal sale near Christchurch in Dorset had plenty of kit on offer.
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The younger model made £7,300 while the older version came in at £5,350.


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The Road Less Travelled: It's Not About Me.
As I've been thinking about my post over here and the comments it generated as well as the private emails and facebook messages I received I wanted to expand on my thought process a bit more.
I admit. I have an inner struggle with words like "rescue" or "save" in relation to my son and how he came into our family. Not because I don't see the spiritual connection. I do. Believe me. I really really do. What I struggle with is how these words make my son feel and how those two words then somehow cause people to connect those words with the following word "saint". I did not adopt because I'm some sort of saint. (ask my husband, a saint I am not) Nor is my husband. :) Maybe Silas doesn't care now but maybe so. He's a smart kid. As parents our hearts desire is to raise Silas in the grace of God to be a man of integrity, a man who loves Jesus above all else, and a man who loves others more then himself. That's what we want for both of our sons, and our daughters to grow up to be women of integrity full of love as well. I don't want him to feel like he was some sort of rescue mission for this white family. I don't want him to feel like he's a charity case. I don't want him to feel ANYTHING less then my son. An integral part of OUR family. We want him to know he belongs here. With us. God had a plan for his life from day one. He just allowed Silas to be loved by two families.
Silas is who God used to change our hearts, to allow us to fall in love with Ethiopia. He's our link, a constant reminder of the people we now consider our Ethiopian family. Above all of those things he's our son.
I'm not here to pretend like everything in his homeland is perfect. If it was there wouldn't be a need for adoption. Things in my homeland aren't perfect either. There's a need for adoption here too. The desperate needs in Africa are just different. They are life or death type of needs. They are in your face. You can't ignore them. It's that desperate need that draws so many of us to adopt in the first place. If there was no need why would we need adoption? So I understand the words rescue or save in respect to the reality of the need but I don't place that onto my child. What I absolutely know is that God has called our family to adopt, we have enough room in our hearts for another precious child, we love because we have been loved.
Bear with me as I ramble a bit.
Now don't get me wrong, I completely get the spiritual correlations with adoption and salvation. I do. I completely agree. BUT there is a break down when you get to the biological family and eternal torment. I have been working through this post since the last post was made. It took me that long to formulate anything reasonably decent to post. I wrestled through my thoughts with my husband and again with a friend.
Rescue the perishing; don't hesitate to step in and help. If you say, "Hey, that's none of my business," will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know— Someone not impressed with weak excuses.
I think the biggest thing I've come to is that when people make statements in regards to "rescue" or "ransom" they are referring to the situations and not the child specifically. I've used the term "ransom" and I view it as a sum of money that stands between me and my child nothing negative or derogatory towards my child or anything else in relation to the adoption process. It must be met before we can proceed further. In talking with both my husband and my friend they said the same thing. Its not about the child specifically but the sad unfortunate circumstances of a broken world that are generalized in relation to Africa and other countries. I know in some countries children are not treasured as they are in Ethiopia. They are a burden, a nuisance, etc. This is heart breaking. In some cases the adoption of a child is a literal rescue however, even in those cases that child should NEVER be treated as such.
Are we splitting hairs on this? Probably. Do I go around telling my son about how I rescued him? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Would he get it? Probably. Would he think I was crazy? Yes. As he should. I don't want my youngest son to grow up thinking I am his rescuer or his dad is his rescuer. We're not. Jesus is. Only Jesus. That is what we will teach our son. That is what we teach all of our children. We will continue to teach them to love Jesus above all else and to love others well.
Here's where it all flushes out for me personally. When I look into the faces of these children I don't see myself as a "rescuer", I don't see myself as someone to "save" these babies. I see Jesus in these precious little ones. I see how much HE loves them and has a plan for their lives whether it's in Africa or in the US. I see children that need families and for us we want to be a family for another little one. Adoption isn't about me. It's not about some great thing I've done or will do again. This is about seeing a need, wanting to love like my King loves me and the desire we have to be a family for a child that doesn't have one.
After traveling to Africa, seeing the VAST need for families our hearts broke. They broke in an even bigger way then they had been broken before. We could no longer ignore this reality. We'd seen it with our own eyes. We'd held dying babies, we'd kissed faces who had probably never been kissed before. We held diaper-less toddlers desperate for the touch of a mommy or daddy.
How can you ignore that? Our answer? You can't.
Something MUST be done. Is adoption the only answer? Not completely. The root issue is why are children abandoned in the first place and how can we help fix that. That's something that will take time to fix. In the meantime the need is so great and we MUST act.
I didn't get to read the last post that you are referring to..but this was beautifully written. Thanks for sharing Erica.
Your last post got me thinking, and I am so glad you followed up and continued your thoughts! I do not have an answer. My thoughts here are just my thoughts at the moment, as I am still trying to sort it all out.
Could it be both? That there is a need for rescue, but after that, it becomes doing life together? The impetus for the relationship is the immediate need; the growth of the relationship is the commitment of doing life together as a family?
Thanks for sharing the link to Kristen's post...well worth the wee journey over to read it ;-). Sorry I wasn't able to call yesterday...soon though, very soon. love you.
Thanks for your words. I was convicted of the same thing when reading some adult adoptee blogs. I blogged about it awhile back.
The adoptee whom I quoted actually found it and emailed me. And was complimentary, thank goodness.
You are so right, we use those words when are not connected to a specific person, a child we look at in the face every morning and have to deal with all there is behind it.
feel free to not allow my post to be shown, I just wanted to communicate with you.
You are right... Only God!!!


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Leonard's wife watched the person in question maneuver under a cape-like beach towel. Off came her bathing suit and totally naked, stepped into a pair of shorts. Next, she donned a loose-fitting shirt.


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Dayseeker - 'Dreaming Is Sinking, Waking Is Rising'
Will Cross 5 July 2017 at 15.05
There's something for everyone in here.
"It makes me sick", screams Dayseeker frontman Rory Rodriguez on 'Vultures' with palpable desperation, igniting the band's third album.
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'Cold, Dark Winter' shakes with confessions and 'Desolate' is stuffed with huge choruses. That said, they're hardly pushing the envelope and we've heard a lot of these tricks before in different guises, the savage side of the band frequently outshining the rest. But this is decent stuff for those seeking mosh and melody.

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I noticed lots of the children were knocking on our fairy door recently.
… and we found fairy dust all over the place!
I was kindly given these potion bottles from TTS and we absolutely love them!
Hi, where did you get the wooden mark making tray?
You have such beautiful invitations for your children. I would love to get the titles of some of the books that you use along with your invitations.
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Tucker Carlson So Excited By Kanye West's 'White Lives Matter' Shirt, He Got An Hour Interview
Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on October 07, 2022 · Flag
In Kanye West, Tucker Carlson has found an African American Black attacker to slobber over.
Let me preface this by saying that I despise every single member of the Kardashian/Jenner family and that includes anyone who would partner with any of them. So, I am not going to write about West's accusation that his nauseating ex-wife was secretly close to the Clintons. I hope he's wrong because I actually like the Clintons. I could not care less if West's attention-whore wife was keeping secrets from her attention-whore then-hubby.
I despise #TraitorTucker Carlson more. Unfortunately, his position as crown prince of the Murdoch Media Empire makes him impossible to ignore. So onward.
In Carlson's slobbering introduction, cable TV's most famous white supremacist said that it was "West's latest incarnation as a kind of Christian evangelist that brought us to his office in Los Angeles today for the interview you're about to see."
Actually, as Carlson next admitted, it was West sticking it to racial justice advocates, along with his African-American Black Attacker friend (and Carlson fave) Candace Owens, the Hitler admirer.
CARLSON: Days ago, during Fashion Week in Paris, West, accompanied by his friend Candace Owens, unveiled a t-shirt that read simply "White Lives Matter." The response from the fashion industry and international media was instantaneous and uniform -- shock, horror, rage.
"There is no excuse for this," thundered "The New York Times."
"West is legitimizing extremism," shrieked "Rolling Stone." Et cetera, et cetera.
What was strikingly missing from the coverage, however, was any explanation for why West did this. What was the t-shirt about? No one seemed to think to ask him, much less to listen to what he had to say.
Instead, the enemies of his ideas dismissed West as they have for years -- as mentally ill, too crazy to take seriously. "Look away. Ignore him. He's a mental patient. There's nothing to see here."
But is West crazy? You can judge for yourself as you watch what we're about to show you.
He has his own ideas, we can say that. Creative people tend to. That's why they're artists, not actuaries. His free-form social media post gives the impression of a man chanellng his rawest emotions right onto Instagram.
The effect can be jarring and it is often used as ammunition against him in the battle for influence over the minds of America's young people and that battle is intense.
But crazy? That was not our conclusion.
In fact, we've rarely heard a man speak so honestly and so movingly about what he believes, but again, you can judge for yourself.
When West appeared, he told viewers about his Paris Fashion Week lanyard with a photo of a "baby's" ultrasound. "It just represents life. I am pro-life," West said.
"Amen. I agree," Carlson replied. And maybe he loves fetuses. But he sure seems to savor endangering or causing death to people already living.
West claimed that more Black babies are being aborted than born in New York City, which appears to be true (though not statewide), but nobody said a word about increasing Black women's access to health care and contraception or addressing the fact that Black women have the highest rates of maternal mortality and pregnancy complications.
"Pro-life" Carlson responded by trying to gin up more hate for those who disagree and turning West into some kind of oppressed victim: "I'm starting to see why they want to make you be quiet," he said.
West didn't need any more prodding to play the MAGA victim – and a Biblical warrior.
WEST: I think I started to really feel this need to express myself on another level when Trump was running for office and I liked him, and every single person in Hollywood, from my ex-wife to my mother-in-law to my manager at that time to you know, my so-called friends/handlers around me, told me like if I said that I like Trump that my career will be over, that my life would be over.
They say stuff like people get killed for wearing a hat like that. They threatened my life. They put my life -- they basically said that I will be killed for wearing the hat.
I had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a "White Lives Matter" shirt is going to be greenlit and that means that they're going to beat him up if they wear it. I'm like, you know, "Okay, greenlight me then." You know.
You know, God builds warriors in a different way. I don't know if it's because of me being born in Atlanta and growing up on the Southside of Chicago that, you know, He made me for such a time like this.
It's like with David, you know, he tended to the sheep, but while he was out there, he had to fight all kinds of animals. So, when it was time for Goliath to come, he thought because he was a sheep herder that he didn't have the skill set to take down Goliath.
And the thing that I have, the position I have, my heart, that the number one thing is we have God on our side. And for the people -- even if you don't believe in God, God believes in you.
Later, West told Carlson that the reason he wrote "White Lives Matter" on a shirt is "because they do. It is the obvious thing."
Carlson asked why that would be considered controversial, to which West gave a long, rambling answer about his parents, being ridiculed in the media for moving next-door to his ex-wife and something about influencers.
If West wasn't doing Carlson's white supremacist bidding from a Black body, Carlson would have been mocking his incoherence. Instead, Carlson said that West "is at a center of a battle and people like him are at the center of a battle to get a message out." That's because, according to Carlson, saying that all lives matter, "obviously is a huge threat to a lot of people."
Really, that was all that I could stomach from these two. You can watch this opener below, from the October 6, 2022 Tucker Carlson Tonight. You can watch the full episode here.
scooter commented 2022-10-09 15:46:44 -0400 · Flag
Repeat after me: Kanye West is a fool. Stop giving him attention.
Joan Pasley commented 2022-10-08 23:21:11 -0400 · Flag
This so-called interview was just another attempt to demean the black community by Fox News.


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Sikkim strength-lifters excel at National c'ship
Gangtok, 03 Oct:
Strength-lifters from Sikkim have once again impressed with an outstanding performance in the 27th Senior National Men & Women Strength Lifting Championship 2018 held from 25-28 Sept at Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh. The Sikkim Strength Lifting Association [SSLA] team has returned with a rich haul of 17 medals from the championship.
The team bagged seven gold medals, five silver and five bronze medals.
International strength-lifter, Pema Dorjee Bhutia, won the title of the Best Coach and Ranju Sundas was adjudged the Best Woman Referee in the championship and Edu Tshering Bhutia was also awarded for lifting the highest weight of 72.5 kgs in inclined bench press in women's category in the championship.
In the championship, Edu Tshering Bhutia won two gold medals, Pema Dorjee Bhutia won one gold and one silver medal, Chandra Kumar Chettri bagged one gold and one bronze medal, Ranju Sundas won one gold and one silver medal, Srijana Subba bagged a gold and a silver medal and Thinlay Wangdi Bhutia won a gold medal.
Other silver medallists are Manju Pradhan and Wangdup Tamang and bronze medals were bagged by Kalpana Chettri, Leomit Lepcha, Bhim Subba and Homnath Siwakoti.
A 32-member team of SSLA accompanied by Kado Bhutia as team manager and Pempa Tamang as team coach had represented the State in the championship. It is informed that the championship had the participation of 750 athletes from 27 States.
The SSLA felicitated the medal winners and other team members here at the White Hall Gym today. The felicitation had Secretary, Sports & Youth Affairs Department, SD Dhakal, as chief guest accompanied by Additional Director, Kamal Chettri, and executive members of SSLA.
Mr Dhakal stated that SYA Department has been supporting and encouraging strength lifting in the State and further assured to provide all possible assistance and support to SSLA. He mentioned that sports is a priority engagement of the State Government and that the government has been working for the welfare of sportspersons by providing all required infrastructures, facilities and support.
In his report, SSLA chief coach, Pema Dorjee Bhutia, informed that the State team members gave an outstanding performance and that the performance by women lifters was highly appreciated at the championship.
He added that competition was very tough but every team member gave their best. He assured to bring out more talented lifters from different corners of the State.
Mr Bhutia mentioned that this senior national championship was also a selection trial for team India for the upcoming 7th International Strength Lifting Championship scheduled to be held in Jan next year at Nagpur. On the same, he added that around 10 lifters from Sikkim are likely to make their place in team India.
SSLA general secretary, Sonam Tshering, in turn, stated that it was a proud moment for the SSLA. He also expressed gratitude towards the SYA Department for supporting strength lifting.


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Most challenging year ever delivers marginal revenue increase
MTN Group has reported a marginal 0.4% revenue increase during what it describes as 'the most challenging year in the company's 22-year history'.
MTN's financial results for the year ended 31 December 2016 show that group subscribers increased by 3,3% to 240,4 million and revenue increased marginally by 0,4% to R146 894 million. Data revenue increased by 16,7% to R39 546 million, voice traffic decreased by 1,7% and data traffic increased by 143% and a final dividend of 450 cents per share was recorded.
MTN Group noted the challenges in 2016 had been 'precipitated by a number of material regulatory, macro-economic and political challenges experienced across our regions'. However, despite these difficulties, the business began to show encouraging first signs of a turnaround, it said.
Following the conclusion of the settlement agreement relating to the Nigerian regulatory fine in June 2016, the infusion of new senior management and the appointment of a new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) commencing on 13 March 2017, the MTN board of directors (Board) undertook a deep and fundamental strategic review of the business and its processes to ensure MTN is operating far more optimally in a complex and difficult operating environment. The outcome of this review illuminated areas of the business which required urgent attention and as a result, the company embarked on a transformation initiative, IGNITE, designed to optimise its operations and position the Group most favourably to participate in a rapidly evolving sector.
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Twin blasts in Afghan province of Bamiyan killed 14 people, injured 45 more - officials
24 November 2020, 10:06 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Twin blasts in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, provincial officials said on Tuesday as the international community pledged assistance for Afghanistan in Geneva.
The explosives were hidden at the side of a road in a main bazaar in Bamiyan city that killed 12 civilians and two traffic policemen and wounded 45 other people, said Zabardast Safai, the police chief of the province.
(Reporting by Kabul Bureau, Writing by Hamid Shalizi, Editing by Catherine Evans)


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A couple of weeks ago during school holidays, we took my mother and the boys to Wave Rock. It's the first time for my mother and the boys to go to Wave Rock, and second time for my husband and me. Wave Rock is about 4 hours drive from Perth. There are also public bus service and regular tourist coaches twice a week to Wave Rock. Wave rock is actually a natural rock that is shaped like an ocean wave. It is about 14m high and 110m long. Don't get your hopes too high because when you get there and see the real thing, you might be a tad disappointed. It's great for a photo though!
We decided to camp a night at the Wave Rock Caravan Park which is located very very close to Wave Rock itself, just 5 minutes walk. The caravan park has also cabins, so for those who don't fancy staying in the tent you can book yourself into a cabin. The facilities are pretty good. It has a camp kitchen, clean showers and toilets and also a swimming pool. There are one or two restaurants and a pub near by. We were happy that night to cook and had our meal alfresco and slept under the stars 🙂 In fact, the boys and my mother slept in the tent while my husband and I slept at the back of our ute in the swag…cozy!


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Author: Angelika Mitterer
Learning to appreciate what we have – there is a lot of truth in this sentence. Often we do not know how well off we are, because we spend our lives striving for things we don't have. As long as everything is "normal" most of us find it difficult to appreciate all the precious things in our lives. But now we are in the middle of a great global change and many people are beginning to reflect on their lives and make a decision for the future. The general question now, is where this upheaval should take us and which path should we as a society takes in the future.
Major deficits in our world have become all too visible to everyone, especially in the last few months; as if with a magnifying glass, the social problems that had been blazing everywhere for a long time were magnified and thus made clearly recognisable. Especially in the western world, people's everyday lives are nowadays affected by stress and anxiety and this has left its mark. Gratitude and appreciation for the little things in life are hardly present anymore, but more appreciation for everyday realities of life would be absolutely desirable and necessary again!
Appreciation – for yourself and your environment
Appreciation is an attitude of people towards their environment. It relates not only to other people, but also to nature, society and to each individual. We show our appreciation through respect, benevolence, empathy, kindness and attentiveness. The fact that appreciative encounters convey security and contribute to improve the people's performance – people learn better and achieve more together – all this is well known. We act differently out of inner peace, we give space to needs because we feel them, we go through fears because we give them space, we decide consciously instead of always in the same patterns. A real change in the way we deal with each other must be based on our own appreciation and this is true for all sections of the population. We need to know and love our strengths and potentials, needs and desires, values and motives, weaknesses and fear, limitations and horizons etc. They are part of us and shape our view of the world. The appreciation of our homeland and the strengths and qualities of a country are also part of this. All these assessments are like filters through which we view and experience our own personal world and we can influence these filters with our consciousness and thus shape our own world.
Review – one year in The Gambia
My family and I have been here in The Gambia for a year now and we have also changed our appreciation of many things. We live more consciously and appreciate completely new qualities in our lives, such as freedom of movement, independent work and flexibility in the face of government restrictions, the importance of which we hardly thought about before. As Austrians, security, democracy, freedom of expression and generally a free way of life have always been a normal given for us, but the last few months have shown that we can lose these realities very quickly without proper appreciation. The reflection on our lives led my family and I to The Gambia a year ago. Because we clearly redefined our values, our priorities in life for ourselves through the experiences of the last few months led us to decide to stay here in The Gambia, to appreciate the qualities and rich potentials of the country and also to become entrepreneurially active in the country.
IN∙US – a network full of appreciation
With our IN∙US network founded here, my husband, I and our company partner Michaela, also want to offer other people the opportunity to gain new perspectives, potentials and experiences and to find more appreciation for themselves and their environment. Thus, not only do experiences in The Gambia open up a new world with new values and economic perspectives for our clients, but The Gambia and its inhabitants also benefit enormously through the exchange of experience and knowledge, through the building of networks and social and economic connections. What is normal and given for the Gambian population, are valuable qualities that must be held high for a positive future for visitors from other continents, for those who are marked by the experiences of the last months, by the Corona crisis and now most recently by the war in Ukraine.
A new form of luxury
IN∙US is therefore a network of freedom-loving, open-minded people who feel called to work together as international entrepreneurs, to break new ground in a changing society and to create the luxury of a new quality of life - freedom, peace, contentment and financial security - in the long term and to protect it through appropriate appreciation. The goal is to use the upheaval in the global world as an opportunity, especially for The Gambia, to finally use its diverse potential as a country and thereby also become more independent from other countries. It is important for the future to be proud to live in the peaceful, sunny country of The Gambia and to be able to see one's children grow up freely. It would also be an unbelievable step forward for tourism if the people here could proudly present their country with all its qualities and not convey the feeling that they would rather live somewhere else. Of course, it is easy to see only the positive sides of other countries without also noticing the problems there. But every country and every people have their great qualities and at the same time its dark sides. It is important to recognise what you value in life and then also set your focus on it. The focus and the perspective have an immense influence on our personal world, and each one of us must first become aware of this. The people have it in their own hands to have their visions and to realise them, and thus the people here can also manage to make the somewhat sleepy-looking country of the Gambia the number one. If one discovers appreciation for oneself and for the country, and all together pursue the goal of success for the community, then each individual can help shape and realise his or her personal success, whether as an investor or with his or her ideas and productive work, because together in the network, every effort is multiplied and contributes to the realisation of our common goal.
My insider tip of the month for The Gambia!
The Ninki Nanka Trail is a journey across The Gambia, experiencing rich cultures, diverse landscapes and varied impressions of the country and its colourful population. Sometimes it even seems as if you are travelling through time, because in some places it is as if time has stood still and you can still experience the original, simple Africa. The trail is a special contrast to the normal "sun, sand and sea" package tourism that builds on the untapped potential of The Gambia River. Adventurers experience a life-changing time through the combination of river and overland excursions. The diversity of The Gambia's natural and cultural heritage is to be discovered and more is to be learnt about the important oral legend of the mythical Ninki Nanka dragon that is said to live in the streams of The Gambia River. So, on the trail, you experience and follow the history of The Gambia and its people all the way to its source, and learn to bring more appreciation back into your own life in an exciting way!
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If you shine a light into a suspension of fine particles, the particles will scatter the light. This is easy enough to show with a little bit of flour stirred into a glass of water, or with a dilute solution of milk in water, in which case the particles are small globules of fat. You can see a beam of light passing through such a medium because of the scattering, which is known as the Tyndall effect.
We can model the interaction of light with the scattering particles using Mie scattering theory, named after German physicist Gustav Mie. This is essentially a set of solutions of Maxwell's equations for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation (in this case, light) in the presence of the scattering objects. If you solve these equations for diffuse particles a bit bigger than the wavelength of light, you can derive the angular distribution of the scattered light. The scattering is far from uniform in all directions. Rather, it has two distinct lobes. Most of the light is scattered by very small angles, emerging close to the direction of the original incoming beam of light. As the scattering angle increases, less and less light is scattered in those directions. Until you reach a point somewhere around 90°, where the scattering is a minimum, and then the intensity of scattered light starts climbing up again as the angle continues to increase. It reaches its second maximum at 180°, where light is reflected directly back towards the source.
This bright spot of reflected light back towards the source is called backscatter. It can be seen when shining light into smoke or fog. It's the reason why some cars have special fog lights, angled down to illuminate the road, rather than shine straight into the fog and reflect back into the driver's eyes. Backscatter is also the reason for the bright spot you might have noticed on clouds around the shadow of a plane that you're flying in (at the centre of the related optical phenomenon of glories).
Another place where there is a collection of smoke-sized particles is in interplanetary space. In the plane of the planets' orbits around the sun, there is a considerable amount of left over material of sizes around 10 to 100 micrometres, constantly being replenished by asteroid collisions and outgassing from comets. This material is called the interplanetary dust cloud, or the zodiacal dust cloud, because it is densest in the ecliptic—the plane of the planets—which runs through the zodiac constellations. This dust has been sampled directly by several deep space probes: Pioneers 10 and 11, Ulysses, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons.
Scattering intensity versus scattering angle for interplanetary dust. Figure reproduced from .
The different curves correspond to different choices of a power law to model the size distribution of the dust particles. In each case you can see that most of the scattering occurs at small angles, there is a minimum of scattering intensity around 90°, and the scattering increases again to a second maximum at 180°, the backscattering angle.
As an aside, this backscattering also occurs in interstellar dust, and here's a figure from a paper by B. T. Draine showing scattering intensity versus angle for the measured dust distributions of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way galaxy, plotted for several wavelengths of light . The wavelengths are shown in Angstroms, and in these units visible light occurs between 4000 and 7000 Å (lower being ultraviolet and higher infrared). In these cases the models show minima in scattering around 130°, with the backscattering again being maximal at 180°.
Scattering intensity versus scattering angle for interstellar dust. Figure reproduced from .
We're not concerned with interstellar dust here, but it shows the general principle that there is a peak in scattered light directly back towards the light source, from fog, smoke, and space dust.
We are concerned with backscatter from the interplanetary dust cloud. Given that this phenomenon occurs, it implies that if we could look into space in the direction exactly opposite the direction of the sun, then we should see backscatter from the interplanetary dust.
If the Earth is spherical, then night time corresponds to the sun being behind the planet. You should see, in the night sky, the point exactly opposite the direction of the sun. You should be able to see, in that direction, the backscattered light of the sun from the interplanetary dust cloud.
Now let's imagine the Earth is flat. The sun shines on some part of the Earth at all times, so therefore it must be above the plane of the Earth at all times. (How some parts of that plane are in the dark of night is a question for another time. Some Flat Earth models propose a sort of cosmic lampshade for the sun, which makes it more like a spotlight.) At any rate, it should never be possible to look into the sky in the exact opposite direction to the sun. So there should be no point in the night sky with a peak of backscattered sunlight.
Now that we've made the predictions from our models, what do we actually see? It turns out that the backscattered sunlight is a visible phenomenon, and it can be seen exactly where predicted by the spherical Earth model. It's a faint glow in the night sky, centred on the point in the exact opposite direction to the sun. The earliest recorded description of it comes from 1730, by the French astronomer Esprit Pézenas. The German explorer Alexander von Humboldt wrote about it around 1800 on a trip to South America, and gave it the name Gegenschein (German for "counter-shine").
This is a fisheye image, with the band of the Milky Way and the horizon wrapped around the edge of the circle. Here the gegenschein is the broad glow centred around a third of the way from the centre, at the 1 o'clock angle.
The visibility of the gegenschein shows that, in places where it is night time, the sun is actually behind the Earth. On a flat Earth, the sun can never be behind the Earth, so the gegenschein would never be visible. And so the optical effect of backscatter provides evidence that the Earth is a globe.
This sequence of proofs is becoming cooler and cooler.
Obviously the gegenschein is caused by the counter-sun, which is on the far side of the flat Earth and moves in a symmetrical manner to the our-side main sun.
I think this would be more convincing if you first proved that there is always a part of the earth in sunlight at all times rather than taking it as a given. Otherwise the argument is that the gegenschein is what happens when the sun goes on the underside of the earth. You allude to this being one of your 100 proofs ("a question for another time"), so I guess my suggestion is that it covering it before gegenschein is better than after.
I don't think I've ever heard of flat-earther's disputing that one though, because it's so easy to prove, you just call up your buddy who lives a few timezones away. Or travel across timezones, and don't reset your watch. You'll see that the sun rises and sets at a different time than where you started, and the effect reverses when you return. So therefore there are some places where the sun is set at the same time that it is not at others. I think this is why they came up with the whole "spotlight sun" idea. Because a flat earth that the sun went around would normally experience almost universal sunset with no timezones.
Not only that, but the sun would rise and set in different directions in such a flat earth model. It would be impossible for the sun to consistently rise in the east and set in the west.


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CD-39: Which Republican Will Run for Ed Royce's Seat?
Posted by Chris Nguyen on January 9, 2018
Cross-posted to OC Daily…
Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton)
A political earthquake shook Orange County yesterday afternoon when Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) unexpectedly announced that he would not be running for re-election this year. First elected to the California State Senate in 1982 and to the United States House of Representatives in 1992, Royce is the longest currently-serving elected official in partisan office in Orange County (and the third-longest currently-serving elected official in the County as a whole*).
There is a running joke in political circles that there must be Royce is secretly twins or triplets because of his ability to be in two or three places at once in his district. Royce always kept a jam-packed calendar whenever he was returned to the district from Washington, DC. His hard work in the district managed to allow him to win by double-digit margins in this swing district. He developed his work ethic from his first election when he won a swing seat in the State Senate. In every campaign for re-election to Congress, Royce would set up one of the largest campaign apparatuses in Orange County. Royce also currently has the largest campaign warchest in Orange County, standing at $3.5 million.
So significant is Royce's strength in the district that when he announced his retirement yesterday, the Cook Political Report moved CD-39 from "Leans Republican" to "Leans Democrat" skipping the "Toss Up" label entirely.
With the unexpected retirement of Royce, an Orange County political institution for over a quarter of a century, North Orange County and Southern Los Angeles County politicians (and perhaps some Chino Hills politicians) from both parties are scrambling to determine if they can run a viable campaign for this seat and if they're willing to give up their existing seats in 2018. While six Democrats were challenging Royce for CD-39, none have ever held elected office, so Democrats in elected office in CD-39 are now likely examining the chance to go for an unexpectedly open CD-39. No Republican elected official was looking at CD-39 since Royce was expected to run for re-election. Today, let's look at the Republicans:
Supervisor Shawn Nelson, Supervisor Michelle Steel, Former Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, Assemblyman Phillip Chen, Former Assemblywoman Ling-Ling Chang, Former Assemblywoman Young Kim
Supervisor Shawn Nelson represents 45% of the voters of the 39th Congressional District. Of the 367,000 registered voters in CD-39, Nelson represents 166,000 of them, who reside in the 4th Supervisorial District's overlap with CD-39. Nelson has deep roots in the district, having grown up in Fullerton, graduated from high school there, and even graduating from law school there. He's also a member of countless civic organizations in CD-39. Nelson won three elections to the Fullerton City Council and two to the Orange County Board of Supervisors (and raised the necessary money to wage those campaigns). As it happens, he is termed out from the Board in 2018.(The Supervisor who represents the second largest chunk of CD-39 behind Nelson is LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, representing 82,000 CD-39 voters, or 22% of the district. Considering that Hahn just left a safe Democratic Congressional district in 2016 to run for Supervisor, there is zero chance she runs for this seat. Todd Spitzer, Curt Hagman, Hilda Solis, and Michelle Park Steel split the remainder, and no one expects Spitzer, Hagman, or Solis to run for this seat.)
Supervisor Michelle Park Steel is well-known in the large Korean-American community in CD-39 as well as in the district's large Asian-American community. She represented the Orange County and San Bernardino County portions of CD-39 when she won two elections to the State Board of Equalization. Additionally, she is one of Orange County's most prolific fundraisers and would have little trouble raising the significant sums of money needed to wage a campaign in one of the nation's top swing seats. (Of course, millions of dollars will pour into this seat on both sides, from IEs/SuperPACs, DCCC, NRCC, DNC, RNC, but it always helps when the candidate can raise significant sums.) To run for CD-39, Steel would have to abandon her bid for re-election to the 2nd Supervisorial District, setting off a scramble for that seat.
Former State Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff represented 71% of CD-39 voters, with 262,000 of the 367,000 CD-39 voters residing in SD-29, which Huff termed out of in 2016. Huff won three elections to the Diamond Bar City Council, two to the State Assembly, and two to the State Senate. Diamond Bar is the largest LA County city in CD-39. Though he lost his bid for the LA County Board of Supervisors, there are less than 200 voters who are in the overlap between CD-39 and that supervisorial district. As a former Senate Republican Leader, he's certainly capable of raising funds for this seat.
Assemblyman Phillip Chen represents 61% of CD-39 voters, with 225,000 of the 367,000 CD-39 voters also residing in AD-55. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Chen won two elections to Diamond Bar's Walnut Valley School Board. Chen raised several hundred thousand dollars in his unsuccessful 2014 bid for AD-55 and his successful 2016 bid for AD-55. However, Chen would be giving up a safe Assembly seat for a swing seat in Congress. Chen is an Assemblyman because his predecessor gave up this safe Assembly seat for a swing seat in the State Senate. Chen switching to CD-39 would also set off a scramble for AD-55.
Speaking of Chen's predecessor, former Assemblywoman Ling-Ling Chang represented the same 61% of CD-39 that Chen does. 71% of CD-39 voters may recall Chang's bid for SD-29 in 2016, when she narrowly lost to now-Senator Josh Newman. Before her 2014 election to the Assembly, Chang won one election to the Walnut Valley Water Board and two elections to the Diamond Bar City Council. She raised several hundred thousand dollars in her successful 2014 bid for AD-55 and a whopping $3 million in her unsuccessful 2016 bid for SD-29. Chang grew up in Diamond Bar and is a graduate of Diamond Bar High School. Chang is currently in the midst of her bid to be the replacement if Newman is recalled on June 5. If Chang switched to the Congressional race, it would leave Fullerton Councilman Bruce Whitaker the leading Republican replacement candidate for Newman. While legally possible to run in both the recall and the Congressional race, it is politically impossible to do so.
Former Assemblywoman Young Kim represented 35% of CD-39 voters, with 95,000 of the 367,000 CD-39 voters residing in AD-65. However, Kim also holds the unique distinction of having worked for Royce for nearly 20 years before her election to the Assembly. She had been his Director of Community Relations and Asian Affairs. In 2014, Kim defeated Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva's re-election bid, but in 2016, Quirk-Silva avenged herself by defeating Kim's re-election bid. Kim is certainly familiar with what a swing seat campaign entails, with her sheer number of volunteers and staff. She raised $2 million in each of her two Assembly campaigns. Kim is currently in the midst of her bid to replace the termed out Nelson to represent the Fourth District on the Board of Supervisors. If Kim switched to the Congressional race, it would leave La Habra Mayor Tim Shaw the sole Republican candidate facing off against Democrat Joe Kerr, a former long-time firefighters' union president, for Supervisor (other Democrats running for the seat would presumably be eliminated by the voters in the June primary).
*The longest-serving elected official currently in office in Orange County is Orange County Water District Director Phil Anthony was elected to the Westminster City Council in 1962, Mayor in 1972, County Supervisor in 1976, and water board in 1981, where he's been ever since. In second place is Westminster Councilwoman Margie Rice, who was elected to the School Board in 1977, City Council in 1994, Mayor in 2000, and back to the City Council in 2012.
A notable mention is Coast Community College District Trustee Jerry Patterson was elected to the Santa Ana City Council in 1968, Mayor in 1972, and Congress in 1974, but he had a hiatus from elected office from 1984 (when he lost his Congressional seat to Bob Dornan) to 2000 (when he won his current college board seat). Patterson was elected before Rice and Royce, but his long hiatus places him behind them for years in office.
Posted in 39th Congressional District | Tagged: Bob Huff, Bruce Whitaker, Curt Hagman, Ed Royce, Hilda Solis, Janice Hahn, Jerry Patterson, Joe Kerr, Josh Newman, Ling-Ling Chang, Margie Rice, Michelle Steel, Philip L. Anthony, Phillip Chen, Shawn Nelson, Tim Shaw, Todd Spitzer, Young Kim | 3 Comments »
OC GOP Should Intervene In Anaheim Union High School District Vacancy
Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on April 19, 2012
Chris Nguyen posted about the vacancy on the Anaheim Union High School District Board earlier this week. He gave a great analysis of those who have thrown their hat into the ring for the appointment.
This is a difficult post to write, because I am very torn on the issue of making non-partisan seats partisan. In the case of the Anaheim Union High School District I am forced to take a stance on political intervention because it is a matter of protecting future partisan offices.
In cases where vacancies exist on local elected bodies such as City Council or School District it is most common to see an appointment process to fill the vacancy as opposed to special election. The Anaheim Union High School District has had a history of members running for and sometimes winning higher office:
Tom Daly- This former member of the Anaheim Union High School District went on to become Anaheim Mayor and then became Orange County Clerk Recorder. He is currently running for the 69th Assembly District.
Alexandria Coronado- This former School Board Trustee ended up winning a seat on the Orange County Board of Education and then later on ran against Loretta Sanchez for Congress unsuccessfully. Se got knocked off the County Board of Education this last June by David Boyd.
Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin- He ended up running for the City Council this past November and ended up losing and in the process lost his School Board seat as well.
Jordan Brandman- The next candidate in the cycle is Jordan Brandman who is currently running for the Anaheim City Council in what is sure to be a very interesting election.
With the history of candidates moving on to higher office it is imperative that the OC GOP intervene and make sure that a Republican be appointed to this seat. That may not sit well with a lot of people but from a Republican standpoint it makes sense.
In fact when the OC GOP has their endorsing convention one of the questions that pops up is whether or not the applicant for endorsement has endorsed any Democrats. I argue that voting to appoint a Democrat is far worse than endorsing one because an endorsement still requires the voters to approve of the candidate. An appointment requires between 3-5 votes to effectively elect somebody to the body.
Look at the story told by former CRA President Mike Spence:
He warned people to take on a candidate for Rio Hondo Community College District because she was a big threat to the Republican Party. Nobody really felt that threatened by this candidate during that election to a small College District. The candidate was Hilda Solis who went on to serve in the legislature, Congress, and then was appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor by President Obama.
Some solid Republicans applied for this seat and I hope that the 3 Republicans on the School Board will take this into consideration when filling the vacancy.
Posted in Anaheim Union High School District | Tagged: Alexandria Coronado, Hilda Solis, Jordan Brandman, Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin, Tom Daly | 1 Comment »


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Parts of this spectacular red sandstone coastline can only be visited by boat. It's a journey that will take you along the majestic King George River with its towering 80-metre twin falls, to the mysterious Bradshaw (Gwion) Paintings of Bigge Island. You'll explore the Mitchell Plateau and cruise the Kimberley's 'big' rivers before experiencing the beautiful King Cascades, remarkable Montgomery Reef and the amazing natural phenomenon of Horizontal Falls.
This is a land steeped in ancient Aboriginal culture and the legends of Australia's pioneering past. With two landings most days, you can fully immerse yourself in the magic of the Kimberley in the company of knowledgeable guides, who will explain local aboriginal legends and the ways of the unique wildlife.
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Initially I went to the wrong service department for a simple 5000 mile checkup. I was very courteously directed to the correct location of express service. And indeed it was express service with me being able to watch every move made!
Yeah, had a really bad/violent shake in my Nissan Titan. Local tire store diagnostic came back as abs breaks. They passed me off to dealer. A gentleman by the name of Robert in service dept. worked with me over the course of a day and a half and determined that is was a bearing on driveshaft, they changed it out and to my surprise fixed it,also took care of a recall for me also. Robert was very professional, kept me informed all the way and went above and beyond for me. Thanks Robert I will be sure and ask for you on my next trip to your shop.
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Language and culture of the Netherlands – Short Dutch language history
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Language and culture of the Netherlands – Short Dutch language history. The Netherlands has been both blessed and cursed by being situated near the sea. The earliest inhabitants have been found to create their mounds along the coast of Friesland. Currently, work projects, such as the Delta Project, have been made to prevent floods in Zeeland. The country has flourished in their position, though. A majority of their farmlands can be found on reclaimed seabed.
The Netherlands was frequently ruled by many overlords in the past. Evidence of Roman dominance can be found at Fort Nijmegen and Maastricht, which were formed at the onset of the Christian era. Afterward, the Franks took over followed by the Roman Empire. Independence emerged during the Middle Ages due to the leadership of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Conflict arrived in the 16th century when Spain tried to suppress the rise of Protestantism in the northern regions. Holland allied with Catholic provinces to finally defeat Spain. Prosperity and culture flowered started in the 17th century which is now called the golden age of Holland. Holland became a colonial power in large areas like Asia and South America. The settlement of New Amsterdam established a beachhead in North America as well. However, wars with England disrupted Holland's rise to power. Holland was soon annexed by France in 1795. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Prince William I became king and reunited the northern and southern provinces. They were divided again in 1830 when Belgium rose to independence.
Industrialization began to sink on the 19th century. The country successfully dodged involvement in World War I, but were involved in the Nazis onslaught. This resulted in the deaths of many Jews of Holland. After World War 2, Netherlands created an effective social welfare program in response to labor shortages. This allowed mass migration from countries like Turkey, Surinam, and Antilles.
Dutch language history
Over 23 million people of the world speak Dutch. The Dutch language history can be traced back to the 5th Century and is now the official language of the Netherlands. Furthermore, it is one of the two major languages in Belgium and Surinam. Its influence spans even to countries like the Caribbean, Antilles, Aruba, Curacao, and more. A parent language in Africa, Dutch is included in South Africa's 150 official languages.
Dutch is German in origin and particularly belongs to the West German languages. It is close to German and Scandinavian languages, but not so much to English. The Dutch language became united in use during the rise of Holland. It can be heard until now in its birthplaces like the Netherlands and Flanders.
The Dutch language history spans over time and now Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands, Surinam, and one of the official ones in Belgium and Aruba. It can be heard in most former colonies all over the world. Being the parent language of Afrikaans, it is one of the official languages in South Africa.
Varieties of Dutch include Brabant, Flemish, Low Saxon, and Limburgish. Though mistakenly called a separate language, Flemish is a variety of Dutch spoken mostly in Northern Belgium. Afrikaans was a Dutch variety before it became separate in the 1960s.
The significant event launching one of the most important languages in Europe happened in mid-5th century. During that period, the 2nd consonant of German split Old Frankish into Frisian, English and Low Saxon. However, Dutch didn't go through the phonetic change. It was part of the Old Dutch, where a few base the difference of Dutch and English until today. This was followed by the period of Middle Dutch between 1150 to 1500. The language united dialects of the area and became known as Dutch. It was not yet made official though.
Modern Dutch and its standardization became effective in the Middle Ages. It went towards unification, which based first on dialects of Brabant and Flanders, then on Antwerp and Holland language. A significant event during the Dutch language history was the translation of the Bible to Dutch, which was something the United provinces could all understand.
The United Provinces today still use standard Dutch, which is regulated by the Dutch Language Institute. These provinces are Belgium, Surinam, and the Netherlands.
Obviously, the Dutch language history is not something to be put down on paper in a short article, but those are the main events which lead to the Dutch language that is being spoken today.
A modern study of world languages has described the Dutch language as one of the simplest languages in the world for native English speakers to learn and study, because of the uncomplicated grammar structure of the language. When it is spoken slowly or written down, a lot of the words are recognizable by English speakers. Taking a look at the Dutch language history can help learners to understand more about Dutch.
In the new world, Dutch has three main divisions: Flanders Dutch, Netherlands Dutch, and Brussels Dutch. Additionally, you have outliers like Pennsylvania Dutch, Polders Dutch (which differs mainly in the pronunciation of diphthongs), and Afrikaans. More than 28 million people in the world speak some version of Dutch, and while someone from the year 450 wouldn't understand any of it – it's all linked, and that, in my opinion, is amazing. The different geographic appearance that Dutch has had throughout history is still apparent today.
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80,000 sqm for the widespreading of Italian food and wines culture through the reconstruction of its main production pipelines: food courts, teaching and research, food sales and galleries paths, demo products, integrated functions and supporting structures and an outside covered areas.
The project wants to show the world the culinary excellence and the beauty of the Italian agri-food sector, where its wonders will be presented and described from the birth in the mother land until the arrival in the plate and in the glass, enclosing in one place the local traditions, the culture of high quality food and skills of people who have always worked in the food sector.
It will be a place of food and environmental education, which will provide children and young people the opportunity to learn about the immense wealth of Italy, becoming young people the opportunity to learn about the immense wealth of Italy, becoming ambassador of the history and culture of Italian agri-food sector.
A place of study and experience, where they can touch every single stage of the production chain.
In the first quarter of 2014, Prelios SGR launched the real estate fund reserved to qualified investors "PAI" following to the tender procedure called for by the CAAB (Agriculture and Food Centre of Bologna).
The Fund PAI (Parchi Agroalimentari Italiani) managed by Prelios SGR, is the operating tool for the development and promotion of the Eataly World Park. The fund is dedicated to the investment in land and real estate assets to be used for projects aimed at the promotion of Italian wine and food excellences. Particularly, the FICO project involves farms and wineries, centres of production and processing of food products, research centres, sale and service.
The uniqueness of the project FICO lies in the integration between "core" functions of the agricultural sector and different target areas, to encourage visitors quicker understanding of the aims and themes supported by the project.
The provision of innovative multimedia areas, thanks to installations, allows the customers to virtually live new experiences, interactive explorations and multimedia tables, will let the aspects of set design and spectacular nature to amaze and fascinate the visitors, communicating in an immediate way the theme of each cluster while ensuring consistent communication and image uniformity, to create a more realistic contact to the themes represented.
The FICO project, which extends over 50,000 sqm assigned to "core" functions and 30,000 sqm to support structures, will show Italian food and wine from origin to fruition, in a sequence of highly suggestive settings, including: stables, aquariums, fields, gardens, production workshops, laboratories, served benches, grocers' shops, restaurants.
A real three-dimensional atlas, a taste and production path to appreciate Italian food in its incomparable excellence.
FICO is a project promoted by local authorities, Italian and international players: CAAB, Municipality of Bologna, EATALY and Prelios SGR.
FICO is a place to excercise sensory education to food and biodiversity. Its goal is to make young people proud to belong to a country rich in biodiversity. FICO will contribute to the formation of the new generation, who wiell exploit the potential of Italian wine and Italian food to increase exports in the world.
The project aims to reconnect new generations and adults all around the world to food, to the agricultural world and its differences, through their real and complete experience and recovering the direct, physical contact with what we eat and the natural environment in which we live.
Education in FICO means fun, game, earth, animals, study, actions. It means knowing Italy from its deepest roots, starting with a trip of knowledge in the Italian agro-food chains.
What is the wheat? How the bread is made? When and how to seed? Why are there white and darl bread loaves?
It means educating to choose, to consume, to the worth of food and its nutritional values, the attention to the environmental issues.
The cultural heritage of traditional craft shops regain strength in the 10,000 square meters that FICO devotes it through the organic food market. An area where you can taste the products made in the workshop, buy and participate to the manufacturer's tale.
In terms of positive effects on the real economy it is expected that there will be the involvement of more than 2,000 firms, particularly in the agri-food sector, and supply of activities and 700 inside the park.
The excellent companies present in FICO are available to host and train specialized workers, in a shared and innovative way. The School of Trades will be created to allow the rediscovery of traditional trades and good practices.
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Birth registration delays continue and Toy Show catch-up.
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Here's all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
Birth registration delays
1. In our main story this morning, Órla Ryan reports that parents are paying private companies more than twice the going rate to get birth certificates for their children due to huge delays in registering their births in Dublin and nearby counties.
As previously reported by The Journal, the Eastern Registration Area of the Civil Registration Service – which serves Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow – lost all access to all of its operating systems from mid-May to the end of July as a result of the cyber attack on the HSE.
The ongoing effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on services is also having an impact. As a result, some parents are forced to wait two to three months before they can register the birth of their child.
Late Late Toy Show
2. The 2021 Toy Show was on last night and, in case you missed it or want to relive it, here's a rundown of the top 11 moments.
From child DJs to an appearance from Ed Sheeran, this year's show had something for everyone.
3. The World Health Organization has officially designated a Covid-19 strain with some concerning mutations as a "variant of concern".
It will be known as the Omicron variant.
The first known confirmed Omicron infection was from a specimen collected on November 9. In recent weeks, infections in South Africa have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection.
Broadway composer
4. Legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim has died at the age of 91.
Sondheim – a US lyricist and composer best known for works including West Side Story and Sweeney Todd – died suddenly in his home yesterday.
Musical celebrities have paid tribute to Sondheim, who was described as having "fundamentally shifted an entire art form".
Storm Arwen
5. A man died after his car was hit by a falling tree in Northern Ireland, amid weather warnings issued in Ireland and the UK.
The incident happened on the Dublin Road in Co Antrim. Warnings have been issued for strong winds as Storm Arwen arrived yesterday.
Europe cases
6. Countries in Europe are scrambling to regain control over rising Covid-19 cases through the escalation of booster programmes and the reintroduction of restrictions.
Berlin, Paris and Lisbon were among capitals weighing tighter Covid restrictions and broader vaccination campaigns as Europe's Covid-19 death toll passed 1.5 million this week.
Here's a rundown of the current situation for a number of European countries.
7. Taking a closer look at the Netherlands, the country will be "effectively closed" in the evenings from tomorrow with bars, restaurants and many shops shutting early to curb a spike in Covid cases.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said yesterday that from tomorrow "the whole of the Netherlands is effectively closed between 5pm and 5am".
"We have to be realistic, the daily figures are still too high," Rutte added, referring to Covid-19 cases surpassing 20,000 a day. Around 85% of adults are vaccinated in the Netherlands.
Appeal dismissed
8. Former school principal Patrick Harte failed in a bid to have his convictions for sexually abusing schoolboys in classrooms over 50 years ago overturned on appeal.
In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal rejected what was described as an "extraordinary" submission by Harte that he was prejudiced after it emerged during the trial that he had not sought the blessing of a priest before entering a teacher training course.
Garda seizure
9. Gardaí have seized cash, designer bags, and documents after 24 searches across counties Meath and Dublin.
Among the items seized was €35,000 in cash, a 162 Hyundai Tucson, three high-value watches (Rolex and Chopard), designer handbags, electronic storage devices, and documentation in relation to financial and property transactions.
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From September 18 to October 31, 2017, CN is seeking feedback on proposed mitigation measures for some of the key topics that we have heard about and assessed to date for the Milton Logistics Hub, as well as on potential community benefits that the Project could provide.
The Milton Logistics Hub is needed to serve a growing demand for household goods in the GTHA, and to help local businesses get their goods to and from domestic and international markets.
To register for a small group meeting, please email milton@cn.ca or call 1-800-216-9466.
The proposed Project is currently undergoing a comprehensive environmental assessment by an independent joint review panel, under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012. For more information, including a summary of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and fact sheets regarding key studies, visit cnmilton.ca. View the full EIS at ceaa.gc.ca, Ref. Number 80100.
CN will consider feedback received during consultation to refine proposed Project mitigation measures and potential community benefits. A consultation summary report, summarizing the input received, will be made available online at cnmilton.ca. CN will respond to feedback received in an input consideration memo, which will also be posted online.


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I had to be at work early so I swam at lunch time. And clearly my lunch break is for 2 hours. Today's focus was on freestyle sprints. And I'm working on my kick.
The first 50 was hard, barely able to get something back on the second 50. These sprints were killing me. They're good.
My legs were cramping bad.


Is there any type of fashion dependency establishes without incitement? Although it has no treatment, clearing addicts of their physical dependencies enables them to establish far better way of lives in addition to decision-making mindsets. If you, or somebody you know, could be experiencing an addiction, get in touch with your neighboring medicine addiction therapy center. As a result, treating the addiction isn't really adequate. Alcohol addiction has considerable results which incorporate all elements of the addict's existence. It affects the whole family who could experience consequences such as neglect to domestic physical violence against spouse as well as youngsters.
In some cases an individual could be affected by a co-occurring mental problem as well. If you are unable to find a suitable detoxification treatment early on, the possibilities are that the dependency will certainly wear away requiring much more complex therapy procedures in the future. Addiction is rarely something you can conquer all by yourself. Medicine dependency is quite hazardous to humankind. It is an around the world severe issue that afflicts a growing number of individuals. The preliminary action in the direction of combating medicine dependency is to produce the abuser attentive to the damage it leads to the body.
If you're seeking chemical abuse treatment, you could really feel overwhelmed due to the fact that there are a great deal of alternatives. Chemical abuse therapy is among the important benefit classifications. Finally, you need to find whether you can manage the addiction treatment that you're thinking about.
Somebody with an addiction to the compound will certainly realize that cleansing is just the first action in their fight. It is rather upsetting treatment of an individual with an addiction, however it's not impossible. It's very hard for a specific to leave the catch of medication dependency.
Prescription medicines are unbelievably habit forming. It allows stopping narcotics without any pain. When you begin taking buprenorphine, you will probably begin with a few days of induction. Suboxone (a partial type of medication) does not result in any substantial decline in saliva and also isn't related to dental caries.
Unique people require the different type of therapy and rehabilitation largely is contingent on the seriousness of the problem and also the reason for the problem. The client with numerous addictions is come to be extra commonplace each one of the minute. It is needed that people understand that some therapy or rehabilitation is constantly an excellent idea. Drug abuse rehab isn't really simple, yet it works. Early treatment of alcohol addiction and medicine dependency is the most effective approach to eliminate them rapidly.
careThe drug abuser people need lots of attention as well as care throughout the treatment procedure. Consequently, even for drug abusers, it is necessary to stop drugs in the past, throughout as well as complying with pregnancy. For an addict, getting and also utilizing the drug has actually become one of the most crucial thing of living. Drugs reduce the procedure of the mind, which triggers inadequate concentration and also not as much activeness. It can likewise indicate utilizing the medicine once you do not require it. It is critical that every person that's hooked on prescription medications gets therapy.
Inpatient treatment clinics can be particularly pricey, however they are once in a while covered by clinical insurance plan. They are the best alternative for people with extreme addiction problems. You must consider the suitable medication rehab center that created all the offered medicine therapy processes and also skill to give you with a thorough medication rehabilitation.
Firstly, rehab facilities tend to focus on treating particular type of dependencies. Outpatient prescription medication dependency centers are a fantastic alternative for different males and females. For functional aid for addiction, it might be needed for dependency centers to find up with private programs for people that acknowledge the multiple aspects of the problem.


Pantone's 2019 Color of the Year is Living Coral. If you're looking to be on-trend but the thought of coral pink walls seems too intense, we've identified several subtle ways to incorporate the color into your home.
For most homes, coral pink works best as an accent color. It works well with neutrals, gold, and silver-grays. It can be muted or vibrant, depending on the context. The more vibrant the hue, the more sparingly you may want to use it.
A custom chair with coral upholstery feels warm and inviting, and offsets the coolness of the sconce above it.
A custom matching coverlet and headboard using a coral fabric. The white floral pattern helps coral work in a more traditional space.
Custom accent pillows in a modern pattern deliver an appropriately scaled pop of color.
Feathered branches in a muted coral balance well against the neutral color scheme and provide visual interest without disrupting the feeling of serenity and calm.
A single coral flower stands out against a completely white kitchen.
If you're looking for ways to subtly incorporate more color into your home, we can help. Contact us to talk about design and color options.


ECBA filed suit in federal court on behalf of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Police Benevolent Association and a former police officer against the Port Authority alleging unconstitutional searches. The suit alleges that the Port Authority unlawfully seized and searched Port Authority police officers' private cell phones during an investigation into possible criminal conduct. The searches came just months after the Supreme Court ruled in Riley v. California that searches of private cell phones implicate the Fourth Amendment, at least when those searches occur incident to arrest. The plaintiffs are represented by ECBA's Richard D. Emery, O. Andrew F. Wilson, and Ted Oxholm.
To read the New York Times' coverage of the filing, click here.


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Will We One Day Have a Super Bowl for Video Games?
PBS documents the rise of competitive gaming.
One of the most common complaints about video games is that they are (take your pick) isolating/anesthetizing/antisocial, and thus that they encourage (take your pick) reclusive/apathetic/antisocial behavior among their players. But while many games, sure, encourage solitary striving -- the player, locked in battle with the interface -- games are not implicitly hermit-making. In fact, they can be quite social.
The latest of PBS's "Off Book" series documents the rise of social gaming: a video game as an event. A video games as, in particular, a kind of sporting event. E-sports take the logic, and often the platforms, of video games and convert them into something that closely resembles physical sporting extravaganzas: cheerleaders, huge audiences, the ability for competitors to make money from their skills. One of the questions tournaments ask, says MIT's TL Taylor, is: "What does it mean to turn something that we mostly think of as an object of leisure into something you're professionally passionate about -- and are dedicating lots of time, hard work, and energy to?"
Another question: Are video games really as antisocial as so many people believe? The Internet's connective power, the short documentary points out, has allowed people to compete against each other -- and play games with each other -- in a way they weren't able to before. And the IRL tournaments -- the bread and butter of e-sports -- have increased that ability. The games became a path to social interaction, rather than an impediment to it.
And that's in part, the video notes, because of another phenomenon that connects gaming to sporting: "As long as there are people playing video games, there are people ready to watch video games."
Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers culture.