I had the Sugiura procedure performed at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in 2007. A splenectomy was done at the same time. The surgery was done as I was not a candidate for a shunt and my esophageal varicies were dangerously large (4×4). I already had a serious bleed and was at high risk for another. I developed acities and other post operative issues, but did recover. For a year after the operation, I vomited or had diarrhea after nearly every meal. Eventually, this improved. I still have digestive problems, mainly with food dumping and pain. I get annual endoscopies, with banding if indicated. Portal hypertension resulted from pancreatitis and a thrombosis from a pseudo cyst. I am also diabetic. I'm wondering if others have post Sugiura digestive issues? Thanks for the web site.
Thanks for your post. I apologize for not replying sooner, but I had issues with my blog site where I was only able to approve comments and not reply. With the help of a friend and some updates I am finally able to respond!
I'm sorry to hear of you ongoing issues, although you have had some improvement from the Sugiura. I can't relate to actually having any kind of evasive procedure relating to PH, but have survived some close calls since my diagnosis along the way and am thankful to be alive. After some testing this past January I was also diagnosed with Diabetes.
For your digestive problems, have you tried any dietary measures? Although I have a knowledgeable gastroenterologist, and have asked her about a suggested diet, she is unable to answer this question. When I was diagnosed with diabetes, I took it upon myself to stop eating anything with wheat or grains, or milk products. After doing this my system is so much better, and I have way less pain now. Also, I would like to know if you are taking a beta blocker and any anti coagulants?
Hi. I understood that not only is this a procedure of last resort, it is rarely ever done anymore because of alternative less invasive procedures. This makes the procedure even more difficult because most surgeons are no longer familiar with or practiced on the procedure. In Canada most surgeons stopped doing them in the early 1990s. Furthermore if anything goes wrong it is unlikely that younger health care workers will be familiar with the procedure and the complications. This leads me to my question: have you come across anything about the potential longterm complications beyond 20 years after the procedure?


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At the turn of the century, a Canadian company named Nova Group sparked outrage across the Great Lakes region when it proposed to withdraw millions of gallons water from Lake Superior water and sell it in Asia. In the short term, this led Canada to crack down on freshwater exports. Over the long run, proposals like this and a long-brewing fear of outsiders coveting Great Lakes water helped to motivate the 2008 ratification of the Great Lakes Compact.
An agreement between eight U.S. states, the Great Lakes Compact regulates access to using the lakes' water resources, which contain about one-fifth of the surface freshwater on earth. Only communities within the Great Lakes Basin — the region in which water drains into the lakes ecosystem as opposed to other watersheds like the Mississippi River's — may use these resources on a standard basis. Water utilities completely outside the basin must receive multi-state approval via the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council.
As vast areas in North America and around the world grapple with water scarcity, elected officials and business boosters anticipate that resource insecurity will lead more companies to set up shop in the Great Lakes region. One very water-intensive business is electronics manufacturing. As Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn touts its plans to build an LCD factory in southeastern Wisconsin, one open question is what demand that operation will place on Lake Michigan.
David Hsieh, a Taipei-based analyst and displays expert with the financial intelligence firm IHS Markit, recently noted that such an operation could use as much as 60,000 cubic meters of water per day. That volume equals 15,850,200 gallons, which is nearly as much as the entire city of Racine uses in a day.
An LCD, or liquid-crystal display, consists of sandwiched layers of glass substrate, liquid crystals, and optical filters and reflectors. These layers, Hsieh said, are the key to why fabricating these screens requires so much water. Throughout the manufacturing process, the layers must be cleaned over and over again for the end product to function correctly.
"It needs the purity of the glass surface so that the semiconductor layer can be perfectly exposed onto the panel surface," Hsieh said in an email. He noted that some of the water used in these processes can be recycled.
Some of these steps in electronics manufacturing use a highly purified type of water called ultra-pure water. In the process of converting municipal water supplies into this form, some water cannot be returned to the ecosystem. That means that an LCD fabrication facility like the proposed Foxconn factory would not be able to return all the water it uses to Lake Michigan or other sources, even if it goes through proper wastewater treatment processes. Environmental regulators call this problem "consumptive use."
The Great Lakes Compact sets a variety of conditions on how entities not located within the watershed can access the lakes' water. How these rules applies to Foxconn will depend very specifically on where its factory complex is located. If plans of a site in Racine or Kenosha counties pan out, three distinct scenarios would trigger different rules under the compact: The facility will be entirely within the Great Lakes Basin, in a municipality that straddles the basin border, or in a county that straddles the border but not within a municipality that straddles it.
If a water user is located fully within the Great Lakes Basin, it can access the water with state approval. If the user is in a straddling municipality and creates a new or increased consumptive use of water over a 5 million gallon per day threshold, that would also require regional U.S. governors and Canadian provincial premiers to review the water use and issue non-binding guidance, said Pete Johnson, deputy director of the Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers. Johnson helped draft the Great Lakes Compact, and the conference is the organization in charge of administering its rules.
The third scenario is a bit more complex. If the Foxconn factory is built in a municipality fully outside the Great Lakes Basin but still in a county that straddles the basin line — say, somewhere in south-central Racine County — that's considered a "diversion" of water outside the basin, and would require the unanimous approval from the governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. (The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec have a role in non-binding reviews of water use plans in the Great Lakes, but are not technically parties to the Great Lakes Compact.) This last scenario is essentially the process the city of Waukesha went through in its long-fought and ultimately successful bid to tap Lake Michigan. Waukesha was the first city outside the basin but in a straddling county to seek and receive access to the water under the compact.
Once it's actually sourcing water from Lake Michigan in 2023, Waukesha plans to use about 8.2 million gallons per day. Foxconn is hoping to have its factory up and running by 2020. The company hasn't indicated anything about how much water it would use, but a large-scale factory will require millions of gallons of water a day, not just for employee needs, but more importantly for the water-intensive LCD manufacturing process.
Waukesha spent years just seeking permission to access Lake Michigan water, albeit with support from state officials, including Gov. Scott Walker. Foxconn wants its facility to be operational by 2020. Meanwhile, Walker and state legislators want to give the company a pass on broad swaths of state environmental regulations. This aspect of the state's incentives package for Foxconn wouldn't exempt the company from complying with federal regulations (some of which the state is tasked with enforcing through its agencies, including the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) or with the terms of the Great Lakes Compact.
Debate over the incentives bill Wisconsin legislators and Walker have put forward for Foxconn has muddied the waters over how the Great Lakes Compact would apply to the planned factory.
An Aug. 1, 2017 op-ed by state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, a possible 2018 gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, stated "[t]he bill changes the law related to diversion of water under the Great Lakes Compact." However, the compact is an agreement among eight U.S. states, which means that no single state can unilaterally change its terms. That said, states do have discretion as to how they go about complying with the compact in certain situations.
According to an analysis from Wisconsin's nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the incentives bill would loosen the state's permitting requirements for water access if the facility were located within a straddling community — again, a city, village or town that is partially in and partially out of the Great Lakes Basin.
Foxconn would be exempt from having to submit to the DNR a "water supply service area plan" that spells out how the facility would go about using water supplies and the projected economic and environmental impacts. This exemption would be a considerable change in how Wisconsin holds up its part of the bargain under the Great Lakes Compact, but does not alter the compact itself. The bill changes nothing about what would happen if the factory were in a straddling county without being in a straddling community — because it can't.
"Our understanding is that as long as it's not changing the basic terms of the compact, the basic principles, then the state has some leeway as to how it's implemented," said Paul Ferguson, program director for natural resources at the LFB. However, he added that the Foxconn facility would still have to return as much water as it uses to the Great Lakes Basin, or close to it. If it operates for a 90-day period in which it uses an average of 5 million gallons per day more than it returns, Ferguson said, that would trigger a review from the compact council.
Reached for clarification, a member of Vinehout's staff referred questions to Ferguson.
Pete Johnson of Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers would not comment specifically on the Foxconn deal, but drew a distinction between what an individual state can and cannot do under the Great Lakes Compact.
"The general rule of compacts is that they're a contract between states and you can't change the terms of the compact," he said. "However, when the terms of the compact were passed, each of the states adopted implementing legislation on how the terms of the compact would be implemented within each jurisdiction."
Speculating about where the proposed Foxconn factory complex might end up in relation to the Great Lakes Basin gets messy fast. The basin's border follows a jagged path through southeastern Wisconsin, not neatly aligned with political borders or important pieces of infrastructure like highways and railroads. One area Foxconn may be eyeing in Racine County would put the facility just barely in or out of the basin depending on which specific parcels of land the company buys and builds on.
Foxconn may try to source its water via the city of Racine's waterworks. This also parallels the experience of Waukesha, which plans to get its water via the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, rather than tapping directly into Lake Michigan itself.
State and federal environmental regulations would treat a private facility like the one Foxconn proposes as a separate water utility unto itself, not simply a customer of a city water utility. In eastern Wisconsin, it's fairly typical for smaller cities to purchase water from bigger ones that already have water intake and treatment infrastructure in place.
Foxconn could also try to draw on groundwater wells in the vicinity of its facility. However, that would be no less controversial, said John Dickert, who previously served as the mayor of Racine and recently became president of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, a nonprofit that brings together dozens of U.S. and Canadian communities to advocate for protecting the region's water resources. The GLSCI opposed Waukesha's bid for Lake Michigan water, as did Dickert in his capacity as Racine's mayor.
Dickert said he's been hearing the Foxconn facility would use about 10 million gallons of water per day, lower than the 15.8 million estimated by financial analyst David Hsieh, but still a significant volume and more than Waukesha plans to draw. Sourcing any amount like that from groundwater would likely put Foxconn at odds with nearby farmers and communities, and contribute to drawdown on nearby lakes, rivers, and streams.
"I don't think you'd have a lot of people in those areas that would be excited about them pulling 10 million gallons a day out of a high-capacity aquifer," Dickert said.
Dickert and other opponents of the Waukesha water diversion have said publicly that they believe the approval of that city's bid set a bad precedent for future applications of the Great Lake Compact. Both Dickert and Pete Johnson of the Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors declined to speculate on how that precedent might play out for Foxconn, because so few details have come out about the project.
What Dickert and his organization do believe, though, is that more companies will try to establish a foothold in the Midwest in order to take advantage of the Great Lakes' water resources.
"If you're pulling it out of the lake, you know you have a significant resource that is sustainable," he said.
Foxconn considered building facilities in Michigan before going with Wisconsin.
Hsieh also said that he anticipates electronics manufacturers will continue to be drawn to the Great Lakes region in the future.
If this industry clustering does indeed become a major trend, Dickert wants to see state and federal environmental regulations upheld, along with Great Lakes Compact provisions that govern access to water. He called it "incredibly irresponsible" to carve out special environmental exemptions for Foxconn.
In other words, an agreement initially designed to prevent shipping water out of the Great Lakes to places like like Asia might be tested by foreign companies.
"If you do this for Foxconn, the next company that's going to come in is going to ask for the same thing," Dickert said.
Editor's note: This article was updated to clarify the terms of the Great Lake Compact, and corrected to note that projected water use by an electronics manufacturing facility could reach 60,000 cubic meters per day.


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The traditional discount of bunker fuel at Novorossiisk, Russia, to Istanbul, Turkey, reached its widest point in five weeks Wednesday amid bullish market conditions at the Turkish port and increased supply at the Russian port, Hellenicshippingnews reported.
S&P Global Platts assessed 380 fuel oil at the Russian Black Sea port at $357/mt delivered Wednesday, $37/mt below the level at Istanbul. This was the largest the discount has been since September 21.
Supply at Novorossiisk has recovered following a spell of bad weather, which caused a backlog at the terminal, with deliveries by rail from refineries delayed by full tanks of product the port, which in turn caused further holdups.
Meanwhile, high demand in the Eastern Mediterranean came at the same time as a tight barge schedule at Piraeus, Greece. This re-directed vessels to Istanbul and supported prices there, sources said.
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Public International Law: Nature, Scope, Codification, Sanctions
What is Public International Law?
The term Public 'international law' was first used by Jeremy Bentham in 1780. Oppenheim defined it as, "the name for the body of customary and conventional rules which are considered legally binding by civilized states in their intercourse with each other." This definition of Oppenheim was criticized on various points due to which it needed reform. This reform was made by Sir Robert Jennings and Sir Arthur Watts. They defined "International law is the body of rules which are legally binding on states in their intercourse with each other. These rules are primarily those which govern the relations of states, but states are not the only subjects of international law. International organizations and to some extent, also individuals may be subject to rights conferred and duties imposed by international law."
The definition which is given by Robert and Arthur is wider than the earlier definition as it postulates that international organizations and individuals are also the subjects of international law. But this definition is silent about the 'General principle of law' recognized by a civilized nation.
Modern Definition of International Law
The traditional definitions given by various authors are suffering from basic defects as they are narrow in their scope. The most acceptable definition is given by Professor Starke. He has taken into account all the modern developments and changes in human thinking. According to him, "International law is that body of law which is composed for its greater part of the principles and rules of conduct which states feel themselves bound to observe, and therefore, do commonly observe in their relations with each other, and which includes also:
The rules of law relating to the functioning of international institutions/organizations, their relations with each other, and their relations with states and individuals; and
Certain rules of law relating to individuals and non state entities so far as the rights or duties of such individuals and non state entities are the concern of the international community."
Starke clearly widened the scope of the definition when he included not only the relations between states but also the rights and duties of international institutions as organizations, individuals and other non state entities.
Basis of International Law (Jurisprudential Theories)
The difference of opinion among the jurists led to the emergence of the following theories:
1. Naturalist Theory
In the view of Naturalist Jurists like Grotius, Pufendorf and Vattel "Law of nature" is the foundation of all law including international law. International law is binding on the states as it is a part of the law of nature. Grotius (1583-1645) secularized the concept of natural law. He lent legal basis to many areas of international relations and therefore, he is popularly known as the father of the law of nations. The theory of Fundamental rights is based on the naturalistic viewpoint.
2. Positivist Theory
Positivists define law as a command of the sovereign to its subjects and the sanction is its physical force. According to them, the rules of international laws and municipal laws are equally binding, since both are issued by the will of the state, which is the source of the validity of the law. It is the will of the state that commands obedience both in municipal law and international law.
Nature/Characteristics of International Law
Since the emergence of the positivists, there is a controversy which is waged over the nature of International law." One of the most debatable questions concerning this controversy is "Whether international law is true law." Positivists maintain that international law is no law; it comprises of only the rules of positive morality. They argued that there can be no international law since there is no international legislature to make it, no international executive to enforce it, and no effective international judiciary to develop it or to resolve disputes about it.
1. Austin: International law is not a true law
A number of jurists like Hobbes, Bentham and Pufendorf have a view that there is no positive law of nations properly invested with a true legal force. According to leading English Jurist, John Austin, International law is not a true law, but a code of rules of conduct of moral force only. Basis of Austin's view is that International law is having no command of the sovereign.
2. Holland: International law is the Vanishing point of Jurisprudence
He observed that the rules of international law "are voluntary, though habitually, observed by every state in its dealings with the rest." Such rules can only be called the law "only by courtesy". In international law both parties are judges of their own cause, there is no arbiter above the parties.
3. International law is real law (Oppenheim, Starke, Pollock, Brierly)
International law works in a decentralized system, while Municipal law works in a centralized system. Once we accept this fact it is obvious to understand that the comparison between the two systems is not proper. The comparison is not proper because municipal law and international law are different for they operate under a different set of circumstances. Modern jurists accept that international law is real law. The main arguments of modern jurists are:
a. Many states (USA, UK, France, and Germany) have incorporated international law as part of the law of the land in their constitution. The US constitution lies down that treaty are the supreme law of the land. In the Paquete Havana case (1900), Justice Gray of the USA Supreme Court observed that it is part of their laws.
b. Customary rules of international law are diminishing and are being replaced by lawmaking treaties and conventions.
c. While dealing with international law states rely on treaties, precedents and opinion of experts.
d. International conventions and conferences also treat international law as true law.
4. International Law is weak Law.
International law is not equivalent to municipal law. It is not only less explicit than state law, but it also lacks the coercive force of state law. There is no sanction for violation of international law. Some of the weaknesses of International law are as follows:
a. No central Legislature: It lacks effective legislative machinery. There is no world parliament.
b. No Universal Jurisdiction of courts: Though International Court of Justice has been established, still it does not exercise universal compulsory jurisdiction for setting legal disputes between States since the court acts with the consent of other states only.
c. No effective executive authority: It lacks an executive authority to enforce its rules. The UNO cannot take appropriate executive action in cases which call for an immediate solution.
d. No enforcement machinery: There is an absence of international police or military force. This creates a vacuum in so far as the executive role of the UNO is concerned.
Sanctions in International Law
The Sanctions in international law include measures and procedures for exerting pressures upon a state to comply with its international legal obligations. Sanctions under classical international law comprised of war and reprisals. In modern International law, war and reprisals in most of the cases have become unlawful in most of the cases.
1. Sanctions by States: A state may apply sanctions by means of self-help. Self-help is a right of a state which is available to the victim of a wrong. Under the present rules of the United Nations, there is a rule of restraint on a state to take action in self help The action taken in self-help is required to be in strict compliance with the provisions of the Charter and within due limits of the powers vested in each of them.
2. Collective sanctions: International organizations which are set up by the states are empowered to take collective sanctions against a state which violates the rule. The UN charter postulates economic, financial and military sanctions under Chapter 7. In addition to them, the UN may also apply political sanctions. The decisions of ICJ are binding upon the parties to the dispute. Article 94 of the United Nations also provides that if a party to the dispute does not follow the decision of the court, the other party may approach the Security Council which can take necessary measures to ensure the implementation of the decision.
Scope/Development of International Law
Ancient Period
The civilizations of India, Egypt, Greece and Rome did have advanced notions of what forms a major party of International law today. For example, the customs and usages concerning treaties, privileges and immunities of ambassadors, the conduct of war and conclusion of peace were very much in evidence in ancient India.
Middle period
During the middle period, the climate for international law was not favourable due to the supremacy of the church and the universality of the law throughout Europe prevented the development of International law.
Origin of International Law
The process of development of International law was spread over from the middle of the 9th Century to the end of the 15th Century. The fall of the church lead to the secularization of the political force and with the fall of the Roman Empire along with the rise of national sovereign states led to the emergence of nation-states on the Continent of Europe.
International Law in the 19th Century
It is in the 19th century that the law started looking beyond the Treaty and Customs. The law saw many international conferences taking place. The Congress of Vienna of 1815 marks the starting point of what may be called international legislation. This congress formulated various rules regarding the principle of legitimacy, diplomatic representations and navigation in international rivers. The Declaration of Paris (1856) on the regulation of maritime warfare, Geneva Convention (1864) of Red Cross aimed at the amelioration of the conditions of the sick and wounded in armies in land warfare and the Declaration of ST. Petersburg (1868) prohibiting the use of explosive bullets in the war were some of the important achievements towards the treaty-making in international law.
The League of Nations after the First World War was the first international organization designed to maintain international peace and promote cooperation among nations. Permanent Court of International justice in 1921 was succeeded by the present International Court of Justice in 1946. After the second world there were various developments in the field:
1. The establishment of the United Nations Organization (UNO) in 1945.
2. PCIJ was succeeded by the ICJ in 1946.
3. A large number of permanent International institutions like the ILO, WHO and International Civil Aviation organization etc.
4. International Law Commission (ILC) was created in 1947 which played a very significant role in the codification and progressive development of international law.
Modern International Law
International Jurisprudence has acquired the maturity to realize that effective international cooperation and guaranteeing the sovereign rights of states and peoples. The primary sources of International law comprise of Treaties, customs, general principles of law. The resolutions of the General assembly and Security Council have a tremendous contribution as a secondary source of International law. The codification of International law is been done by the International Law Commission, created in 1947. In 1982, the United Nations Conference on Law of seas (UNCLOS) was adopted after the hard work of 20 years. The protection of Human rights movement led to the formation of the Universal Declaration of Human rights (UDHR) of 1948. The most important measure for the implementation of Human rights is International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Its Optional Protocol and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
There are various regional organizations are created for reasons of Military security like NATO, others to promote regional and cultural identity like the African Union and the Organization of the American States and European Union (EU).
United Nations is created after Second World War
Codification of International Law
Codification means the systematic arrangement of the rules of law which are already in existence. It involves three basic processes: Firstly, the grouping together of all the rules in an orderly and logical manner; secondly, an attempt to correct defects in those rules, that is, the filling of omissions; and thirdly, the enactment of new set of rules into binding law by some agency having the power to do this act.
The UN General Assembly established the International Law Commission (ILC) in 1946 to promote codification of international law.
The major works of ILC can be listed as follows:
1. Its major contribution has been in the fields of law of treaties, the law of diplomatic and consular relations, and the law of the sea.
2. The commission helped in the adoption of multilateral conventions like The Geneva Convention on the Law of Sea, 1958, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, The Vienna Convention on Consular Immunities, 1963.
3. Apart from ILC, United Nations body has led to the adoption of Multilateral Convention like the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention was based on the work of the 3rd United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Third World and International Law
The disintegrations of the colonial empire led to the birth of new states, which is often termed as 'the third world'. The new nations have eagerly embraced the ideas of the sovereignty and equality of states and the principle of non-aggression. The contribution of the third world can be enumerated as follows:
1. They demand an increase in the permanent membership of the Security Council.
2. Article 9 of the ICJ points that the main forms of principal legal systems of the world must be represented by the court.
3. The adoption of the resolution on 'New International Economic order'.
Third World Supported International laws
The framework of International law is retained. While this new internationalization of international law that occurred in the last 70 years has destroyed its European based homogeneity, it has emphasized its universality scope. Now the emphasis is more on cooperation rather than on reciprocity and co-existence to fulfill their aspirations in the new international legal order.
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Q: Magento 2.1.8 - Menu not showing on CMS pages I created a new Magento store 2.1.8 without sample data. When I added a category under the root category - it will not show on the home page. When I log in as a customer, on customer_account_index, I can see the menu.
When I go to the home page, I do not see any grey navigation area like on customer_account_index
It seems like on none of the CMS pages, I can see the catalog menu. The settings in
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Some extra information, it's the Bitnami configuration.

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The perceivable regularity of some Roman villas can be understood in the context of a grid-based design. In this paper we try to clarify the requirements under which we may consider that a villa has an outline based on a grid and we quantify the accuracy of the correspondence between a villa's plan and a given grid. We follow this approach with some Roman villas in Portugal and use the grids as a tool for the analysis and the reconstruction of their plans.


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'Bachelor in Paradise' Alum Krystal Nielson Gushes Over 1st Anniversary of Meeting Fiance Chris Randone
By Dan Clarendon
One year after meeting and falling in love with fiancé Chris Randone during Bachelor in Paradise season 5, Krystal Nielson says the duo are in premarital bliss.
Krystal Nielson and Chris Randone Look More in Love Than Ever at Lavish Engagement Party
At Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon's bridal shower — presented on Wednesday, June 5, by Crate & Barrel The Wedding Registry and the "Almost Famous" podcast — Neilson, 31 exclusively told Us Weekly she was approaching a milestone with her beau.
"Tomorrow is actually the one year anniversary of when we first met," she said. "We just realized that today! So it's been a whirlwind of so much love and bliss and happiness, and sometimes it doesn't feel real, but at the same time, it's what I always knew I wanted and deserved, and I just found my person. So life's blissful."
Chris Randone and Krystal Nielson attend the Silent Pool Gin Launch Party at Tom Tom on September 18, 2018 in West Hollywood, California. Getty Images
'Bachelor in Paradise' Couples That Are Still Together
The fitness trainer told Us that she and Randone, also 31, are practically attached at the hip, even during their workouts. "Ultimately, when you just have an important goal in your life, to look and feel your best, you've got to include your person with you, and Chris and I are really — as cheesy as it sounds — best friends," she said. "And we do everything together!"
And though Nielson kept mum on the details of her upcoming wedding to the sales trainer — "I can't say anything!" she said — she did offer advice for Bachelor in Paradise contestants hoping to find love on the show as they did.
Tanya Rad, Kendall Long, Nick Viall, Jared Haibon, Ashley Iaconetti, Ben Higgins, Krystal Nielson, Chris Randone, Carly Waddell and Evan Bass. Paul A. Hebert fort iHeartRadio
'Bachelor' and 'Bachelorette' Engagement Rings Through the Years
"I think that Paradise is the perfect opportunity for second chances. You learn things about yourself a lot, a lot of self-discovery, [during] your first go-around on The Bachelor and Bachelorette," she mused. "And Paradise is just an opportunity to take what you learned about yourself — how you learned how you react in certain situations, and maybe there was a facade or maybe you were trying to present a more defined picture of who you could be — and just be yourself going into Paradise. Be yourself and have fun."
Bachelor in Paradise season 6 premieres on ABC Monday, July 29, at 8 p.m. ET.
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Q: 24V optocoupler with 12V? I recently picked up a "24V Voltage Level Current Converter Module 80KHz 1-Channel Optocoupler Photoelectric Optoisolator 12V PNP NPN Signal Converter PC817 Optocoupler"
Can I supply this with 12V instead of 24V? If not, is it as simple as changing resistors or do I need a different board?
I'm trying to achieve this:

A: I checked the amazon link that you shared. Below is the product image:

R1 seems to be Brown Green Red Gold resistor which is a 1.5K resistor.
PC817 should work just fine as it is without any change to the circuit. If you face any challenge, try using a lower resistor value for R1. 680 Ohms should do the job.
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OP confirmed that resistor is Brown Black Red Gold. It gives a value of 1K. Answer remains same. It should work well.


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A Diva's Christmas Carol: 2000: A TV movie that premiered on VH1, now on Lifetime, portraying Vanessa Williams in the Scrooge role as "Ebony" Scrooge, one third of a late-'80's pop trio called "Desire" and now an egotistical, arrogant, grouchy solo diva. If you've ever wanted to see Christine Baranski reveal her up-to-the-minute tech skills by revealing that she "just bought a book on Amazon dot com," then you're in luck. Will these rivals save their stores and Christmas and fight The Man and find love? Baxter, who loses both her job and her fiancé at the office Christmas party. Share. Every single career woman who discovers the real meaning of Christmas, ever. If the unlikely story of love in the ever-tightening media landscape doesn't lure you in, your mom will be impressed that both Patrick Duffy and OG Charlie's Angel Jaclyn Smith guest star. 32. She has no choice (none!) The next day, Santa delivers Andrew, who just might be her Christmas wish come true or, you know, not. A tradition every year, and the movie that made Macauley Culkin the most beloved child star since the days of Shirley Temple. Lifetime regular Tia Mowry owns a vintage store and sees unusual old items every single day, but that doesn't stop her from finding magic in mementos. In what can only be considered an argument for improved farm subsidies, a young dairy farmer struggles to keep her family farm afloat. Imagine Romy & Michele's High School Reunion with a Christmas backdrop and you'll have a good feel for Holiday High School Reunion. Emmanuelle Vaugier plays the ersatz nanny who, instead of being annoyed at the mistake, simply decides to go along with the job switcheroo. Best '90s Christmas Movies '90s Movies That Will Bring Back the Magic of Your Childhood Holidays. Country star Laney Blu rocketed to fame on a reality show, which took her away from her beloved Smoky Mountain home. Classics like Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever are making way for more young women to find the "true meaning of Christmas" while trying to save their bakery or town or inn from closing, and more busy executives to give up their careers after hooking up with their high-school crush under the mistletoe. Before the height of online shopping and sharing gift ideas on social media, holiday shopping in the 90s was getting to the store hours before it opened to secure whatever the most popular present was that year. And Rachel! Adult Christmas Movies. However, everyone in her hometown is treating her like it was a bad choice, because she broke the heart of her high school sweetheart (Scandal's Cornelius Smith Jr.) when she left him behind. Best '90s Christmas Movies '90s Movies That Will Bring Back the Magic of Your Childhood Holidays. ... Movie List. Former Bond girl and Wild Thing Denise Richards stars as Amy, a Madison Avenue executive who returns to her hometown at Christmas in the wake of her aunt's death. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl's Michelle Trachtenberg plays a reporter seeking the boy who sent her a memorable Secret Santa gift when they were kids. As they conspire to make the best Christmas Eve wedding party ever, a well-timed snow storm helps them find true Christmas magic. She's happy to return to her hometown and see her dad (played by the late Alan Thicke), but her job gets complicated when she discovers her high school sweetheart runs the company. It is also pretty relatable in some scenes as well. 1. The twist comes in the form of a con man (played by 7th Heaven's Barry Watson) with a heart of gold who discovers the true meaning of Christmas after getting a job as a department store Santa. Coming along for the ride are Gladys Knight and Method Man, who plays the resident Grinch—an untrustworthy record executive. How dare he sell his own business? If you've ever dreamed of a Family Matters–Big Bang Theory mash-up, this is for you. She brings him to her hospital, where he sets about filling the patients with Christmas spirit, infuriating the Scrooge-like hospital administrator, and, of course, winning Kate's heart. Terrible parents are not normally where a Christmas movie starts, but here we are. Not your typical Christmas movie at all, but it does take place at that wonderful time of the year. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Probably! December 21, 2019 by Shyla Watson. Although there are plenty of holiday movies made before 1990 and after the millennium, these are the can't-be-missed, must-watch '90s Christmas flicks you … This film has pretty much the same plot as A Snow Globe Christmas (which ranked higher). Then, series like My So-Called Life and films like Reality Bites went on to challenge the myth of the perfect nuclear family, the perfect professional path, and the belief that anyone has anything figured out. Tatyana Ali plays the adorably clumsy Jennifer, who moves back home to care for her aging father and starts getting anonymous letters from a secret admirer, Jack (New Girl's Lamorne Morris). Turns out her marriage to Santa (played by MadTV's Will Sasso) has hit a bumpy patch, so when she gets a Christmas letter from a lonely little girl, she heads to Las Vegas for a few reindeer games. But in the 1990s, Christmas movies stared that reality in its cold, dead eyes — and it was spectacular. When an advice columnist finds an unsigned love letter, she's determined to find the sender—who, naturally lives in her hometown. Home Alone is a favorite among generations, The Santa Clause made Santa a real person with real problems, and the classics of yesteryear became cable mainstays for the first time. If you're wondering what a Christmas movie made entirely out of clichés would look like, try 12 Wishes of Christmas (alternative title: 12 Christmas Wishes for My Dog). Cheri (Lindy Booth) plays a librarian desperate to save her local branch from an evil yet handsome real-estate developer, Tony (Robin Dunne). Aunt Zelda), playing her mom. In these worlds, Christmas was a hallowed and exciting time, but it was still peppered with the type of grief that was becoming more and more mainstream in our actual lives. (Same.) Busy working mom Abby (Vanessa Lachey) and single dad lawyer Ryan (Brendon Zub) hate each other pretty much on sight, which is the surest recipe for love in the Lifetime Christmas kitchen. 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Provide comfort for the family of Elizabeth McGinnis with a meaningful gesture of sympathy.
Elizabeth, 75, of Midway, died Monday, February 25, 2019, in her residence.
She was born February 23, 1944, in Montgomery, Alabama, a daughter of the late Melvin and Julia (Sullivan) Parker and Wade and Ann Norton.
Mrs. McGinnis was a member of Midway Methodist Church and was formerly employed as a bus driver with Monarch Bus Line for West Allegheny School District and was a waitress at the Oakdale Diner. She enjoyed bowling, camping and spending time with her grandchildren.
Surviving are her husband of 29 years, William "Beezer" McGinnis; daughter, Patti (Chris) Reed of McDonald; grandchildren, Chris Reed, Anna Reed and Deanna McGinnis. She is also survived by her sisters and brother, Cindy Johns, Billy Norton and Ruth (Jeff) Swanson and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Jim Pyle; a son, William F. McGinnis and a brother, Melvin Parker.
Friends will be received Saturday, March 2, 2019, 10 a.m. – 12 noon, the time of service in The Thomas-Little Funeral Service, Inc., 106 St. John Street, Midway (724-796-3301). Interment will follow in Center Cemetery, Midway.
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Weekend Reading 6/17/16
The Oregon story, welcome to Blockadia, the sustainable consumption toolkit, and more.
Oregon Coast by Maciek Lulko used under CC BY-NC 2.0
Author: Keiko Budech
(@keikoanya) on June 17, 2016 at 7:30 am
This article is part of the series Weekend Reading
Among the Northwest's living treasures is surely Floyd McKay. I've had the great pleasure of talking with him on a number of occasions over the last several years as he covered the coal exports and oil train controversies that have wracked the region. And I'm delighted to note that he's published a new book, Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State, that is part autobiography and part argument that Oregon began the modern environmental movement in the Northwest. As he explained to me in an email:
The major elements of The Oregon Story began in 1965, only three years after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring opened new fronts on the environmental field nationally. In two short decades, Oregon amassed a series of groundbreaking accomplishments that put it at the forefront of the emerging movement.
Included on that list would be preserving beaches for public access and preventing any roads on them; cleanup of the Willamette River and preservation of scenic rivers and streams; the strongest land-use laws in the nation; the foundation for the Portland renaissance that transformed a rather conventional small city into a major national magnet for talented and freethinking people; the "Bottle Bill" that pioneered recycling; preservation of the Columbia Gorge as a national scenic area; and others.
It was an era of transformative political figures, none more so than Gov. Tom McCall, a former broadcaster who championed the changes and backed the nation's first and only state-sponsored rock festival to divert youth from potentially violent protests in 1970. It was the time of Sen. Wayne Morse and his courageous opposition to the Vietnam War, and Sen. Mark Hatfield, an equally forceful war opponent and co-sponsor of the McGovern-Hatfield bill to end the war.
The era was also the high point of local television in the region, led by King Broadcasting in Seattle and Portland. I was in the midst of that, moving from print to television in 1970, and I saw it all as reporter and commentator. KGW-TV, the King station in Portland, was the leader; McCall was a former commentator at KGW and I followed in that role.
Here's an interview with Floyd about the genesis of his book.
I'm not exactly a huge fan of coal baron Robert Murray, but you've got to admit that the guy is highly quotable. This week, in an interview with an industry publication he perfectly summed up the economic merits of the Northwest coal export proposals: "The folks that were wanting to build ports to export PRB coal on the West Coast — that was smoking opium."
Finally, I thought this was a trenchant analysis: "Enough Is Enough. It's Time For Our Politicians To Ask The NRA For Permission To Enact Modest Gun Control Measures."
In her latest book, This Changes Everything, award-winning author Naomi Klein devotes a full chapter to "Blockadia" to describe the opposition across the world of organized citizens to new fossil fuel projects because those projects can worsen climate change and have negative impacts on communities nearby. As she explained in a 2014 interview, citizens organized to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline first coined the term to describe their own camps in Texas, but she also reports how the Pacific Northwest figures prominently in this phenomenon in what Sightline has begun to call "the thin green line." In Idaho, for example, tribes and environmental organizations protested and temporarily halted highway movement of a "megaload" of heavy equipment on its way to extract the tar sands.
Klein notes that the rapacity of fossil fuel companies has led them to search for ever-more dirty and difficult-to-extract energy sources, and to sell them before governments wake up to citizens who want to fight climate change and "keep it in the ground." As result of its expanded efforts, the industry is beginning to threaten locations previously removed from "sacrifice zones" resulting from extraction. Direct impacts now threaten communities such as those whose water might be contaminated by fracking, those whose land and properties might be damaged by proposed pipelines to refineries for export, and those near the routes of coal trains or oil "bomb" trains.
She profiles the Lummi Nation, fighting a coal export terminal, whose members carried a "healing" totem pole to sites in the West. This action expressed solidarity with the Northern Cheyenne and ranchers fighting the proposed Otter Creek mine in Montana, which would have exported coal via a Northwest port. The Lummis have also carried the totem pole to locations in Canada to oppose tar sands extraction. As a Canadian with relatives in British Columbia, Klein is especially concerned about her government's decision to allow oil companies to exploit the Alberta tar sands and send fuel west to the Pacific via proposed pipelines.
A documentary movie of the same name depicts some of the efforts worldwide to fight the fossil fuel industry. This preview includes images of tar sands extraction, and Northwest "kayaktavists," along with other organized citizens who have become part of Blockadia worldwide.
Bill Rees, co-founder of the ecological footprint and Vancouver resident, gave an impassioned speech titled "Getting Serious About Urban Sustainability" at the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative conference I participated in this week. He demonstrated the need to rethink our assumptions about urban sustainability based on empirical resource trends and constraints. He calls for solutions for an urban form, based on regional economies that, by necessity, will look very different than what we see today.
Also at the conference, Vanessa Timmer, executive director of Vancouver's OneEarth, and Babe O'Sullivan, former sustainability liaison for the City of Eugene, presented a new Sustainable Consumption Toolkit built for the Urban Sustainability Director's Network. The toolkit identifies solutions for absolute reductions in the material goods and energy by helping cities think about and act on consuming differently.
John Abbotts is a former Sightline research consultant and Deric Gruen is a Sightline Fellow; both occasionally submit material to Weekend Reading.
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The Best Android Games in 2021
Every year, it seems, Android users are in for a real treat, with a wide array of new games becoming available for their use. thankfully, 2021 is no exception. Regardless of the genre of game you play, you are bound to find what you are looking for on the Android. As such, here is a look at 2021's best games for Android devices.
Roblox is an old classic, and it is still a blast. While the game is largely geared towards younger users, its adult users can help to create excellent mini-games and keep the process exhilarating, fresh, and fun. Furthermore, its wide-ranging worlds provide for ample interactive experiences with new players, ensuring that people who play Roblox will not only never get bored, but meet new friends as they play the games' various offerings.
If you are interested in the FPS or Battle Royale genre, you really don't have a choice: You have to download this entry into the franchise. Call of Duty, of course, is one of the most popular of the various FPS games available right now, and this entry is no exception. Call of Duty: Mobile takes the various aspects of the popular franchise and distills them into an easily viewable form, ensuring that users can play this games, easily control their characters, and enjoy its excellent graphics. Furthermore, it comes with ways to play, including player vs. player and 100 person Battle Royale.
There is a reason this old classic has been on so many lists like this over the years: It remains an exceptionally popular game. While it may have not seen the major upgrades as other games on this list, that's simply because the concept is so perfect and solid that there is no need to change anything. Minecraft remains an exceptional game to play, and regardless of if you are into crafting or the survival mode, you can absolutely find something to love when playing Minecraft. Furthermore, the game's popularity gives users a plethora of social options, thus ensuring that they will never get bored while playing.
Inked is a gorgeous puzzle game. Each level looks as if it was hand-drawn by a pen, and throughout the game, the artists will frequently redraw levels. Of course, as the player, you must redraw levels as well, and that's your main job: Draw the levels to solve each puzzle and move on to the next screen. Redrawing isn't your only way through this game, of course, as you also have to use a variety of on-screen elements in order to progress. The creative use of puzzles and gorgeous, hand-drawn elements make this game a must-download for anyone who is looking to twist their brain and download a unique and exciting challenge.
Gris is a unique game available for a variety of platforms, but developers recently put it on the Android for mobile playability. It is tough to argue that this is anything other than an exceptional adaptation, and this game has many extremely enviable features, including excellent mechanics, sharp graphics, and a compelling plot. It is a puzzle-platforming game that does something extremely difficult: It makes the leap to smaller screen mobile devices.
Tabletop Racing: World Tour
Tabletop Racing: World Tour is an interesting take on the popular racing platform. You play as little cars and race around a variety of tracks. However, whereas most racing games go for hyper-realistic tracks or fantasy worlds, Tabletop Racing: World Tour makes it clear that you are racing small cars on small tracks that exist in someone's dining room. Its a unique setup, and a highly addictive one. At the same time, the game lets you upgrade your car and unlock more tracks as you play, creating some fantastic incentives to keep you racing.
Nier: Reincarnation
Nier, the brainchild of RPG legends Square Enix, is a mobile-based entry to this popular franchise. It utilizes elements of the popular Nier series and mixes RPG and Gacha mechanics, adding a healthy degree of luck to the text-based RPG. The game is free to play but does lean on microtransactions to make it easier to progress and unlock additional story elements. However, the rich story keeps players hooked, and if you like the Nier series, this one is a must download.
Among us took 2021 by storm. Despite the fact that it was originally released in 2018, the game became hugely popular after it was covered by a variety of streamers and more or less took off from there. 2021 also saw the game get its first huge upgrade, and it was a good one: A massive new map, the airship. The game is still hugely popular, and its variety of maps and formats ensure that users can play this one without being bored.
Slashy Camp: Endless Runner
Slashy Camp: Endless Runner is hilarious. You play as the killer of every standard teen horror movie. Your job? Kill the campers. The more campers you kill, the higher your score. This runner game is highly addictive, and it is a welcome role reversal: You are the bad guy, and your job is to kill everything and everyone in sight! There's no advanced plot, no deep story mechanics, just blood, gore, and as many dead teenagers as you can manage to make. The more you play, the more weapons you unlock, giving you a variety of new and exciting ways to kill campers in the game.


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The Sims 3 expansion packs incorporate a unique touch of their own and add more features and game-play mechanics in the whole game.
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There are 11 EPs (expansion packs) to mix and match with the SPs (stuff packs) to create new combinations. Install them in the release sequence whenever you re-download the game, especially when you buy a new EP to avoid encountering issues later. The list below mentions all the Sims 3 dlc to help you choose the packs you want.
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Listed below are the features incorporated in the Sims 3 games list.
As the name suggests, it favors traveling and adventurous sports around the world. The sims can choose any three of the vacation spots provided, Egypt, France, and China, to visit and explore the area. They can go on quests, discover treasures, or acquire new martial arts, and photography skills. You can even talk to mummies.
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This addition emphasizes on learning new skills and career opportunities. It comes up with five latest career paths, firefighter, investigator, stylist, ghost hunter, and architectural designer. Unlike the base game professions, this offers you control over your sim's pursuits, making it more fun altogether.
Three new skills also added are sculpting, tattooing, and inventing. Sims 3 add-ons include Twinbrook town and an update to the Real Estate system in this pack. It is worth installing.
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It showcases the metropolis 'Bridgeport,' which is an expensive area and is one of the most realistic towns. All the activities and ventures are related to the urban vibe, ranging from music, films, and a lively nightlife. The film is one of the new additions whereas music and sports professions are updated.
Along with this, four new skills include piano, bass, mixology, and drums. The first three come under the music category, but mixology allows you to work as a bartender and combine various drinks. Other exciting perks give you a chance to become a celebrity or a vampire and unlock benefits concerning them. If your sim is a bachelor, this should be on your priority list.
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The 4th sims 3 expansion pack revolves around young sims and offers many new activities such as field trips, school projects, prom, etc. Daycare and Chemistry are the only two professions and skills provided by this attribute.
An exciting addition is the brand new memory system wherein you can store particular events in a virtual scrapbook.
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This expansion deals with the furry friends of your sims. They can own dogs, cats, and horse breeds and also enjoy the activities associated with them, such as a new riding skill. Apart from these, you can even own 'small pets' like lizards, birds, rodents, snakes, and turtles introduced with this pack.
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In the sixth sims 3 expansion pack, the celebrity theme is depicted, introduced in Late Night. Starlight Shores, a new neighborhood, and three new career paths, magician, acrobat, and singer, were also launched in this. DJ skill is also one of the latest traits.
The main focus of this is to spotlight the sims and turn them into famous entertainers. If you're interested in these careers, try it out.
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A variety of new supernatural creatures apart from mummies and vampires that already exist would be introduced through this attribute. These include fairies, werewolves, witches, and zombies. It also proposes a town 'Moonlight Falls' and Fortune teller, and Alchemist professions along with a skill 'Alchemy.'
The creatures have their unique characteristics and provide perks that aren't available with normal sims. You'd enjoy this if you have a knack for spooky things.
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In this eighth sims 3 expansion pack, a plethora of new seasons are offered instead of the same spring and summer season. They change every seven in-game days by default but with every change, various activities are present regarding the particular season, including holidays, and festivals. Two skills launched in this game are Snowboarding and Soccer.
Aliens are also a part of this trait. It gives a more realistic touch to the game, so do check it out.
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As the name suggests, it is a college-themed pack that allows your sims to enroll in universities and live in new sub-neighborhood. The six majors initiated are – Business, Communications, Science and Medicine, Fine Arts, Physical Education, and Technology. They can either live in dormitories, rented apartments, or join a sorority/fraternity while pursuing them. They need to join one of the three social groups, Nerds, Jocks, or Rebels, to unlock benefits.
New skills like Street Art, Science, and Social Networking are a part of this. It also changes their phones to smartphones with added features.
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The focus of this vacation-themed attribute is Island Paradise. It introduces new vicinity 'Isla Paradiso' along with recreations based on the tropical lair. Boats are available for transportation and scuba diving to search for treasures and collectibles. Sims can even be the owner of a resort or become a lifeguard.
It is a replica of World Adventures but with limited perks. But if you love beach vibes, it might be worth it.
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You'd witness many time travel frolics as its key feature is to travel into the future. The sims can meet their descendants in the new sub-vicinity of Oasis Landing. There is no lack of futuristic tech, and you can learn new skills like Advanced Technology, Bot Building, which deals with Plumbots (a new type of sim). A new instrument provided here is Laser Rhythm a-con.
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These are the mini versions of expansion packs that add various items to the game but with no significant features. There are 9 stuff packs available which are –
High-end loft – It adds sleek and innovative furnishings, tech, and clothes to your household.
Fast lane – The addition of cars and accessories related to it would be provided along with garage furnishings.
Outdoor living – Hot tubs, lawn equipment, and grills are a part of it.
Town life – It includes public spaces like gyms, playgrounds, and libraries.
Master suite – It adds lush, flamboyant furniture and clothes to this pack.
Katy Perry's sweet treats – All the decor related to Katy Perry and candies are included.
Diesel – It adds diesel clothes and furnishings.
70s, 80s and 90s – Items based on the 70s, 80s, and 90s era are offered in this.
Movie – It incorporatesmovie-themed items such as props, clothes, etc.
These are all the EPs and SPs you need to know about in Sims 3 expansion packs to make a wise decision. All of them bring in a charm of their own, making the game more delightful. These expansion packs are also available in Sims 4.
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Food distribution at Casa de Peregrinos surpasses 2 million pounds
Steve Ramirez
LAS CRUCES - Too often, there were times years ago when the shelves inside a small, cramped food pantry at a former location of Casa de Peregrinos were almost barren.
Only a handful of canned goods were on the shelves. Leaders and volunteers at Casa de Peregrinos would plead to the public for food to distribute to the poor and less fortunate.
Fortunately, that has changed for the better in recent years. From a few cans, a few loaves of bread and a few bags of pinto beans, Casa de Peregrinos, which has a partnership with Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico, is now distributing large amounts of food to the poor, elderly, homeless, and residents down on their luck.
"We distributed more than 2 million pounds of food in 2015," said Lorenzo Alba, executive director of Casa de Peregrinos. "...To put that into perspective, in 2014 we were able to distribute 1.7 million pounds and 1.45 million in 2013. In 2012, it was 1 million pounds.
"Our job is to pass food onto people. To me, that increase is pretty unprecedented. It's been an eye opener for me."
Just as eye-opening are the numbers of people who come to Casa de Peregrinos, 999 W. Amador Ave., on the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope campus, or to the 13 mobile food pantries across Doña Ana County. Out of nowhere, people showed up at Casa de Peregrinos with shopping carts in search of food. Outside Casa de Peregrinos, those who did not own a vehicle sat with plastic bags scattered at their feet.
"Without this, my family and I don't survive," said Larry Morton, an unemployed civil engineer. "It's hard, very humbling because I have a college degree and used to have a pretty good job. But, my kids, my family has to eat. We take whatever is available to us. It could be a lot worse, because the food they're offering is pretty good stuff. It's not just those things like peanut butter, bags of pinto beans and macaroni and cans of green beans.
"We get fresh fruits and vegetables, potatoes, things like that, too. I'm taking home some milk; things my kids need to get strong and stay healthy."
Roadrunner Food Bank officials said partnerships with 440 service agencies, and organizations like Casa de Peregrinos, are now providing food to as many as 70,000 hungry children, senior citizens, single parents, women and men every week. In 2015, the 2,033,665 pounds of food Casa de Peregrinos distributed was the largest amount of any agency or organization in Doña Ana County.
Alba said that food helped 22,231 people in 7,272 households. Most of those people went to Casa de Peregrinos several times during the year, and some every month.
Casa de Peregrinos was able to rescue 435,700 pounds of food from Las Cruces retailers who probably would have otherwise discarded the food. Alba said Casa de Peregrinos has forged strong partnerships with retailers such as Walmart, Target, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, CVS, Adams Produce, Morrow Farms, the White Sands Missile Range commissary and Mountain View Market. Together, those businesses donated 435,773 pounds of food or produce last year.
Another 139,169 pounds were donated last year by Las Cruces and southern New Mexico churches, small businesses, individuals and organizations through food drives and donations.
Roadrunner Food Bank provided more than 1.36 million pounds of food to help Casa de Peregrinos. Through Roadrunner Food Bank's Food Rescue Program, 26.9 million pounds of food was kept out of New Mexico landfills.
The food rescue program involves collecting food and produce that can no longer be sold, but is still edible.
"Each of our partners is doing wonderful things to serve our community," said Brandi Rukovena, community program manager at Roadrunner Food Bank's Las Cruces location, in a press release. "Seeing this milestone year means we are doing more to reach our neighbors in need. The sense of community brings it all together to ensure our hungry neighbors are fed."
Alba said Casa de Peregrinos' mission is clear: To serve as as a safety link for those unable to purchase nutritious food due to an emergency or unforeseen personal crisis.
"Is two million pounds of food enough? Honestly, I'd have to say no," Alba said. "There is so much need.
"We are very proud of our efforts and the support of this community and our food bank. Nothing we do is without the continued support of our partners, donors, volunteers and staff. It's an accomplishment, but also the reality of the need for food in our community."
Alba said eligibility requirements are minimal to participate in the food distribution program.
"We need some form of identification, if they have it," he said. "They do have to provide proof of address, and, only for forms that have to be submitted to the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) they have to declare some kind of income.
"Here, we don't say no."
Steve Ramirez can be reached at 575-541-5452, sramirez@lcsun-news.com, or @SteveRamirez6 on Twitter.


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Aarya Season 2 Release Date, Cast, and Details Announced? Check Updates Here
Aarya Season 2 Release Date: What a stellar comeback from Sushmita Sen in the era of series. The thriller series gained a lot of applause from the audience and the critics, not only because of the acting but also because of the storyline and direction.
The return of Sushmita Sen in the series has marked a promise for the audience to receive even better performances and groundbreaking stories.
With the first season garnering severe accolades from the fans, we'll talk about the next season! But before, let's have a look at the first plot.
Aarya Season 2 Story
Aarya falls into a pit of lies by her own family, and she witnesses the dark side of her family pharmacy business. The series is an adaptation of a Spanish series "penoza" and a story where the women take care of the family business and fall into its turmoil. Eventually, she understands everything going around her when people turn their backs at her to put her down. She faces a lot of difficulties, and after falling into the drug, pit goes her family.
The story is set I the heart of Rajasthan and every essence if the series is showed perfectly with the settings. How Aarya overcomes the odd and handling her three children and the horrors of the business is something that the show builds. The stellar and breathtaking performance of the actors is a delight to watch!
Will there be a season 2 for Aarya?
Although there has been no official announcement for the second season, seeing the immense popularity for the first, second season will be a Yes!
There are speculations that the next season may come out in May 2021, which is a huge deal! Nevertheless, the wait will be worth it for the fans. Although we hope the series gets released sooner because fans are eagerly waiting for the next season to drop.
Aarya Cast
-Sushmita Sen
-Chandrachur Singh
-Vikas Kumar
-Ankur Bhatia
-Sikander Kher
-Namit Das
-Manish Chaudhary
-Jayant Kriplani
-Sohaila Kapur
-Maya Sarao
-Priyasha Bharadwaj
-Sungandha Garg
-Alex O'Neil
With a stunning cast and an even better crime thriller story, the bar of expectations from the next season is tremendously high! Fans are waiting for the official announcement, and so are we because we don't want to miss out on watching yet another fantastic performance by Sushmita Sen and, of course, not miss a thrilling story either. So for more updates, stay tuned!
And head over to Disney+Hotstar to watch the season 1 of the crime thriller Aarya.
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LETI Hosts St. Petersburg Architecture and Design Opinion-Makers
On April 20, the LETI Vice-Rector and organizing committee of the Contest "LETI: Future Academic Spaces" hosted a group of educators, architects, and designers, representing international bureaus and four top universities of St. Petersburg.
The visit started with the insightful LETI campus tour guided by Vladimir Pavlovskikh, Head of the Property Development Office. The tour was followed by his presentation of LETI development plans, which foresee a new 9-storied mixed-use building and Gazprom training center on the campus, a hostel outside it, and suburban property development. International jury members of the joined the group by Zoom.
A lively discussion was triggered by the presentation of Anastasia Minina, Vice-Rector for International Affairs. She suggested interdisciplinary projects, which would integrate LETI's innovative engineering into architecture & design projects. For this, ETU "LETI" can offer its technologies and solutions in electronics, heritage science, bionics, animal-centered computing, and other disciplines. Such projects would add cutting-edge technologies into the creative industry projects.
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Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now!
Future Starts Slow
By Jacob Clifton | Season 1	| Episode 3	| Aired on 07.29.2012
Not too timid, not a bitch. Not too hard, not too soft. And we won't need a word for "bitch" at all, because nobody will need to apologize for existing in the first place and we can breathe.
BUT THE FUTURE STARTS SLOW
And it starts like this:
Doug: "Why didn't you tell me about the Rachel Silverton interview? You did all of it on purpose! You let the country blame you, you let me blame you, Jubal said you..."
Bud: "Well, Jubal doesn't know shit, except when it comes to polling. And if he says I can't be on your mother's campaign that means you're going to quarterback. Now, the first thing you got to do..."
Doug, a boy again: "-- We need to put together a war chest, on the sly, all right? We need donors we can trust..."
Bud: "...That's right, and you be sure to get in touch with Hal Linderson in Colorado. Now, you tell him you want a sit-down, but you don't say why... Max out contributions to Bertoldo's campaign in the fifth in Virginia, discreetly. Use our own Italian wunderkind to upset Garcetti's hold on the Catholics..."
A reconciliation, a campaign, a country: Bud Hammond doesn't really care what shape it takes. He just loves the sound it makes, when he's got it working again.
GEORGIA IS, PREDICTABLY ENOUGH
Weeping when Susan spots her. There's a war within the woman and Susan loses. So she wins.
Susan: "First rule of being a female journalist..."
Georgia: "Don't sleep with your boss? Look, I get it..."
Susan: "No. If you shit where you eat, don't cry about it."
Georgia: "Like I can help it!"
Susan: "Learn to."
Be brave. Be rigorous.
"You want to be taken seriously? Take yourself seriously. Your bus story, it's good. Go fight for it, get it back and then write the hell out of it. Don't let anyone take away your story. Especially if you're blowing him."
Georgia: "Thank you. After everything I've done to you... I can't believe you're still so nice to me..."
Susan: "I'm not so nice, Georgia."
Nobody ever is; there are a million different definitions for war. Elaine calls then, and Russ comes to tell her that she's waiting downstairs. He babbles, at length; he's still young enough that it's cute.
ELAINE BOUGHT LEMONADE ON THE WAY
And hands it to Susan like a cocktail, standing on the sidewalk outside.
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Dubai's latest skyscraper emerges from its ruler's fingerprint
By Sarang Sheth 02/12/2019
Referred to as the 'new icon in Dubai's skyline', the Burj Jumeira stands at 550m tall and in many ways, is representative of the essence of Dubai. Designed by SOM, Burj Jumeira's unusual design is inspired by the desert's shifting, organic sand dunes and oases, and will even feature a digital display on its front facade for cultural events and celebrations, much like the Burj Khalifa.
The building's alluring, iconic design begins at its oval-shaped base, which features a lake in the shape of the fingerprint of Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The mirrored lake will be surrounded by shops, and will be complete with water fountains and a terraced outdoor amphitheater. Housed inside the building will be multiple observation decks that will provide a 360° panoramic view of Dubai, and right on top of the building will be its "Crown", a luxurious event space that shall also be connected to a sky-lounge and restaurant. "Burj Jumeira is bold, elegant, and dynamic," said SOM design partner Mustafa Abadan. "It will tower over Jumeirah as the centerpiece of the neighborhood, and will feature a synthesized architectural and structural design."
Designers: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
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