Protein accounts for 20% of your body weight. This nutrient is essential for the proper functioning of the human body. In fitness and bodybuilding, protein supplements help build muscle, boost your immune system, and increase your strength. They also provide your body with amino acids and other essential compounds that support muscle growth and recovery.
Protein powders and bars can successfully replace a meal. These products keep you full longer and reduce hunger. When combined with intense workouts, they help build and preserve muscle, aid in weight loss, and increase your energy.
How much protein you need depends on your goals. If you want to become stronger and gain muscle, you should have 1.2 to 1.7 grams of protein per day for each kilogram of body weight. Supplement manufacturers recommend a daily protein intake of up to 2 g/kg/day for physically active individuals. However, it's safer to keep your protein intake under 1.7 grams/kg/day.
The current recommended level of protein intake (RDA) is 0.8 g/kg/day. Athletes, bodybuilders, and active individuals need higher amounts of protein to cope with strenuous exercise and speed up recovery time between workouts.
How Often You Should Eat Protein to Build Muscle?
It's recommended to have protein before and after working out as well as before bedtime. When you wake up, your body is in a catabolic state. A protein shake will boost your energy and prevent muscle loss.
It's extremely important to have protein post workout (within 30 minutes) to help your muscles grow and recover. Casein protein is ideal before bed because it's slowly released into the body. You can have as much protein as you wish as long as it fits into your macros.
Should I Drink Protein Before Or After Workout?
For optimal results, you should split your dose of protein, eating half 30 minutes before exercise and the other half 30 minutes after. If you're on a tight budget or want to keep your protein intake to a minimum, drink protein after your workout. Weight training breaks down muscle, which is why you need protein and amino acids to recover after exercise.
Certain proteins are absorbed fast, while others take a long time to digest. Protein metabolism differs from one person to the next. Some people only need 20 grams of protein to stimulate muscle growth, while others have higher requirements.
The best thing you can do is to calculate your macros and split your daily protein intake into multiple servings throughout the day. Consume more protein before and after training.
What Kind of Protein Do You Need?
• Whey isolate is one of the fastest absorbing proteins. It's ideal for low carb diets as well as for people who want to lose fat. Whey isolate can be consumed when cutting before a competition.
• Whey concentrate it's less expensive than whey isolate. It may cause bloating and digestive problems. Whey concentrate protein makes a great snack and can be used before and after training. This type of protein is not recommended at bedtime.
• Casein is slowly absorbed into the body and takes up to 7 hours to digest. For optimal results, have casein protein before bed. This will help you stay anabolic throughout the night.
• Hydrolyzed protein has the highest absorption rate and doesn't cause digestive problems. It's the best type of protein but comes with a high price tag. It can be used pre and post workout.
• Soy protein is perfect for vegetarians and vegans. It contains significant amounts of arginine, glutamine, BCAAs, and isoflavones. Athletes can have soy protein shakes before and after exercise. This type of protein is not as effective as whey protein and may cause acne. It also increases estrogen levels, which can interfere with muscle growth.
• Egg albumin is rich in amino acids and can be used anytime throughout the day. This type of protein is rarely available in powder form.
• Milk protein isolate contains both whey and casein. It's an excellent source of amino acids. This type of protein can be used pre and post workout.
Most bodybuilders and athletes prefer whey protein for building muscle. Whey protein is suitable for those who want to lose fat too. Whey/casein blends support muscle growth and recovery as well.
How Much Protein Should a Diabetic Eat?
High-protein diets are beneficial for diabetics since the daily carbohydrate intake is reduced. People with diabetes can eat just as much protein as anyone else as long as their kidneys are healthy.
Should You Have Protein after Cardio?
Whether you want to lose weight or build muscle, you should have protein after cardio. Protein will help your muscles recover and prevent catabolism.
Both protein shakes and protein bars provide your body with essential nutrients. Protein bars usually contain more calories and carbs than protein powder. They also provide more protein per serving. It's a matter of personal choice. Most athletes prefer protein shakes because they are easier to digest, have a higher absorption rate, and provide fewer calories.
Can You Eat Protein Bars without Working Out?
You can eat protein bars without working out as long as they fit into your daily macros. Protein bars are high in calories. Just like any other food, they can lead to weight gain when consumed in excess.
Can You Eat Protein Bars while Pregnant?
Protein bars are safe for pregnant women.
Can You Eat Protein Bars before a Workout?
It depends on your goals. Protein bars will give you the energy needed for intense workouts.
However, if you exercise in the morning and want to lose fat, you should either choose a protein bar with little or no carbs, or have a high-protein snack. If you have a protein bar that contains lots of carbs and then you do cardio, you'll basically burn the calories ingested instead of emptying your glycogen stores and burning fat.
Can You Eat Protein and Carbs Together?
There is no scientific proof that eating protein and carbs separately aids in digestion or weight loss. As long as they fit into your macros, you can have both at the same meal.
Let's take weight gainers as an example – these supplements contain both protein and carbs. They are ideal for muscle growth and development. Actually, it's recommended to have protein and carbs post workout.
Should You Eat Protein at Night?
If you want to build muscle and prevent catabolism, you should definitely eat protein at night. This will help your muscles recover faster and provide your body with essential nutrients.
Can You Eat Dry Protein Powder?
Not many people have this habit, that's for sure. You can eat dry protein powder, but it may not be as efficiently absorbed into the body as a regular protein shake. It could also cause bloating and digestive problems.
Should You Eat Protein Every Day?
Whether you exercise regularly or have a sedentary lifestyle, your body needs protein every single day.
Should You Eat Protein for Breakfast?
Having a protein-rich breakfast is the best thing you can do for muscle growth and fat loss. Start your day with a protein shake or have a meal rich in protein.
Should You Eat Protein When Cutting?
Protein supplements promote fat loss and help build muscle. If you're cutting, choose high-quality protein powders and drinks with little or no carbs.
Eating too much protein may cause kidney problems, digestive issues, heart disease, and weight gain. It can also cause dehydration if you don't drink at least a half gallon of water per 100 grams of protein. Excess protein is converted into glucose and stored as glycogen, which leads to weight gain.
What Happens If You Eat Too Little Protein?
If you eat too little protein, you may experience muscle loss, lack of energy, fatigue, hair loss, and skin problems. In general, most people consume too much protein.
Should You Eat Protein for Weight Loss?
Low carb, high protein diets support weight loss, reduce water retention, and help preserve muscle. If you want to lose fat, increase your daily protein intake and limit your carbs.
In addition to protein supplements, the best protein sources are eggs, chicken, salmon, fish, beef, dairy products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.
Should You Eat More Protein Than Carbs?
It depends on your goals. If you want to build muscle, you need both protein and complex carbs. To lose fat, reduce your daily carb intake and have more protein.
What about Whey Protein and Lactose Intolerance?
Most whey protein powders contain digestive enzymes that break down lactose, which makes them for individuals with lactose intolerance. Some brands contain little or lactose at all. Whey protein isolate has less than 0.1 gram of lactose per tablespoon, so it's safe for most people.


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Blueprint for Anderson County's future to be discussed tonight
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Blueprint for Anderson County's future to be discussed tonight Anderson County's comprehensive plan offers a glimpse at transportation options, housing demands, existing land uses, resources and more. Check out this story on independentmail.com: https://www.independentmail.com/story/news/local/2016/07/26/blueprint-for-anderson-countys-future-to-be-discussed-tonight/88808316/
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A blueprint for Anderson County's next 10 years will be presented tonight at the Civic Center of Anderson.
Planners will discuss the in-progress comprehensive plan, which provides a snapshot of the county's existing resources and also lays out needs and priorities for the next decade.
The meeting runs 6-9 p.m. in a Civic Center ballroom.
The meeting will be hosted by Anderson County Council Chairman Tommy Dunn, but he said he plans to let county planning staff lead the conversation.
The last time Anderson County made a comprehensive plan was 2007. South Carolina law requires that counties update those plans every 10 years, county planning manager Michael Forman said.
The plan includes a look at the county's population, economy, natural and cultural resources, transportation options and community facilities. The plan also includes a study of existing land uses and housing availability.
'Our No. 1 need right now is probably housing,' Forman said. 'We have had some population growth and some economic development that leaves people looking for places to live. I would say our need for housing is critical.'
A public hearing on the proposed comprehensive plan is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 16.
The County Council has to vote on the comprehensive plan several times before it becomes final. The final vote could come in late August or early September.
'This plan sort of helps us determine our goals for the next 10 years and gives us a path forward,' Forman said.
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The emergence of Xander Bogaerts was the top takeaway from the Red Sox dismal 2015 season. The 23-year-old shortstop had a legitimate breakout season, batting.320 — trailing only four-time league batting champion Miguel Cabrera — and appears to be on the verge of stardom.
In 156 games, Bogaerts compiled a .776 OPS, tops among American League shortstops. His 45 extra base hits 81 RBI — not to mention significantly improved defense — made Bogaerts the best all-around shortstop to wear a Red Sox uniform since Nomar Garciaparra's prime years of 1998 – 2000.
A work in progress, Bogaerts sacrificed power for batting average last season. After hitting 13 home runs in his first 582 major league at bats, Bogaerts hit just 7 homers last season. Spraying the ball to all fields, while also finding the gaps, Bogaerts exploited defensive shifts by hitting to the open areas. The result was a higher batting average and increased production — more hits with runners on base while batting third in the batting order for much of the season.
Recently, Bogaerts has been working with hitting coach Chili Davis on harnessing his natural power. Davis is encouraging Bogaerts to still use the entire field, but to also take advantage of the game's circumstances — turning on pitches on favorable counts and pulling the ball in the right situations.
Manager John Farrell has experimented with batting Bogaerts clean up, hoping to maximize the rising star's production. Hitting behind Mookie Betts, Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz will give Bogaerts more RBI opportunities, possibly enhanced with additional power. With his baseball IQ on par with his on-the-field proficiency, Bogaerts could be the anchor of the Red Sox lineup for many years to come.
Bogaerts is already entering his seventh season with the Red Sox. Impressed by his athletic ability and live bat, the Red Sox signed Bogaerts at the age of 17 out of his native Aruba for $410,000. As a teenager, Bogaerts impressed off the field at the World Baseball Classic, displaying people skills and speaking fluently to reporters in four different languages (English, Spanish, Dutch and Papiamento). One of his most limited baseball cards is the 2013 Topps Tribute World Baseball Classic Game Worn Jersey, which is limited to a production run of 67.
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Showing the error that occurs when I create a new fragment.

A: So I downloaded a new theme and I had to restart android studio and in doing so the error went away. I guess I just had to restart android studio.

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Q: How to load only base type in Entity Framework Consider following case:
I have base class inherited by another two.
For instance we will have:
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class DerivedB : Base
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When I request base entity with code like
context.Base.Where(q => q.Id == id).First();
Entity Framework generate a full set of joins to every derived entity which results in below acceptable perfomance of query.
What I want is to load only base entity without joining it to derived ones.
The only solution I found described here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/archive/2009/09/17/tip-35-how-to-write-oftypeonly-tentity.aspx.
But that did not work for me. EF still generates huge query.
Writing queries like:
context.Base.Where(q => !(q is DerivedA) && !(q is DerivedB)).First();

doesn't suits me either due to constantly increasing amount of derived types.
Are there any possible solutions apart from those I mentioned?

A: You are using Table-per-type => EF must generate those joins because it doesn't know what type your entity really is. If your record from Base has a related record in DerivedA table IT MUST NOT create instance of Base entity for that record - IT MUST create instance of DerivedA and it needs to make joins to get this knowledge.
It is for a long discussion why this is not allowed but simply entity is from object world - it is atomic data structure which can be saved to multiple tables but that is invisible to object world. If you persist a Base you will load back a Base but if you persist DerivedA you will always load back DerivedA and never just Base because it would break the atomicity of the entity.
I didn't try it but I assume that ESQL OFTYPE ONLY operator should do joins as well to make sure that it really loads real instances of the base entity instead of corrupted instances of derived entities.
Table-per-type produces slow queries. .NET 4.5 should improve it but I think improvements will not target these cases - I think they will target OfType for derived types and projections.
If you want only data from Base table your best options are:

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*Hand written SQL - projections in .NET 4.0 still do some unnecessary joins or unions

*.NET 4.5 and projection in Linq

A: You could introduce an abstract intermediary class with no further meaning/function from which all derived types have to derive:
class Base
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abstract class DerivedBase : Base
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class DerivedA : DerivedBase
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Then you can do a simple query no mather how many derived classes exist:
context.Bases
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Most Influential Philosophers Selection Methodology
It's no surprise that a listing of the most influential philosophers would receive methodology questions. So, here's some insight into how we conducted our research and formulated our list.
There are numerous tools available to try to determine a person or group's influence. In our quest to find the most influential living philosophers, we ran citation analysis as described in the University of Illinois at Chicago's "Measuring Your Impact: Impact Factor, Citation Analysis, and other Metrics: Citation Analysis." We also used tools like SEMrush.com and AHREFS.com determine traffic to faculty pages, and other pages about specific philosophers. We used these and similar tools to also tally youtube videos views and social media accounts by and/or about the people of interest to get a sense of what kind of fanbase each person might have. Additionally, we tested a research tool developed by AcademicInfluence.com. Their tool is many months away from being the tool they want to make public, but if manually "aimed" and analyzed, it was able to provide additional insight. (It's an exciting research tool to say the least.)
Return to The 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers.
But, at the end of the day, tools like these have their limits, relying too heavily on a few objective measures. Even combining and performing meta-rankings of the outputs of the tools referenced, and those not, we don't believe these tools can paint an accurate picture of the landscape that pays attention to significant nuances. There is a need for expert analysis.
Therefore, in addition to consulting tools that can scan and scrap data, we consulted with numerous philosophers to deal with influence in a less objective, but more delicate way. This is where creating an article like this gets very tricky. We believe that objective measures are great to a certain extent, but the tools we have available don't do enough to show how an influential person might heavily impact a branch of philosophy, but still not be popular enough to compete with other scholars who more well-known in general, but are secondary or tertiary influences in their larger fields. In other words, to give appropriate attention to the diversity of niches in philosophy, we wanted to find the big fish in ponds of various sizes, thus ultimately creating a stratified list.
We hope that philosophers will appreciate our attempt to find the right balance between the art and science of this kind of ranking, especially on something like influence. It's our backgrounds in philosophy that have made us not rely solely on objective measures. But with numerous Philosophy Ph.D.s weighing in, we think we made a pretty fair list. We'll admit that we leaned toward analytic philosophy, but within that broad category, we were sensitive to several specializations.
The Real Point of the Influential Philosophers Artilce
Since our publication was promoted we've received questions about why some people are missing, and why others are included. Hopefully the statements above help answer such questions. But we really don't want the bigger picture to be missed. We spent nearly a year working to create this article because we believe that the humanities are unjustly under attack in (especially) American culture and American higher education.


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NPR: Herman Wouk, 'The Jackie Robinson Of Jewish-American Fiction,' Dies At 103
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk has died. Wouk was famous for his sprawling World War II novels, including The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, and for his portrayal of Jewish Americans in the novel Marjorie Morningstar. He died in his sleep Friday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 103.
Many people might remember Wouk for a certain incident involving strawberries in The Caine Mutiny, which became a film in 1954. After having a breakdown at sea, the tyrannical Captain Queeg accuses his crew of stealing a quart of strawberries and becomes obsessed with finding the culprit.
Humphrey Bogart played Queeg in the film, but he wasn't exactly what Wouk had in mind when he wrote the character. In the book, Wouk described the captain as "a small man" with "strands of sandy hair across an almost bald head." In 2004, the author told NPR, "Now Captain Queeg is Humphrey Bogart. There's nothing you can do about it, and I'm perfectly content with [it.] That was one of the great performances, I think, of his career."
The Caine Mutiny was Wouk's most celebrated book, but he had a substantial career both before and after it. He got his start in writing years earlier, in comedy. For five years starting in 1936, Wouk wrote jokes and sketches for the popular radio host Fred Allen. But after Pearl Harbor, the 26-year-old enlisted in the Navy and served in the Pacific. In his off hours, Wouk began to write Aurora Dawn, a novel that got mixed reviews. His second book, City Boy, did worse. But The Caine Mutiny put him on the map. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it was a bestseller and it became a play and a movie.
Wouk told NPR, "When I finished The Caine Mutiny, I wrote in my work journal … 'Unless I'm mistaken, this is a good book. But it's not yet the war novel I mean to write.' "
In fact, it was the first in a run of ambitious books that included The Winds of Warand War and Remembrance, each about a thousand pages long. And war wasn't Wouk's only subject. He wrote about the publishing world, a fictional Caribbean island and the founding of Israel. And in Marjorie Morningstar, he tapped into his own heritage as a New York-born child of Jewish immigrants to tell the story of a young girl trying to break into show business.
He really was the Jackie Robinson of Jewish-American fiction.
– Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster
"He really was the Jackie Robinson of Jewish American fiction," says Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster and editor of Wouk's last book, Sailor and Fiddler. "He was on the cover of Time magazine for Marjorie Morningstar, and he popularized a lot of themes that other writers — like [Saul] Bellow and [Philip] Roth and [Bernard] Malamud — would deal with in their novels."
Karp says that one of the reasons Wouk appealed to readers for so many years was the variety in his novels. "He really did not want to write the same novel twice. The writers he admired were the greats — they were the Victorian novelists, they were writers like [Thomas] Hardy. He wanted to write big novels about complicated lives and the cultures in which they took place."
Despite his popularity with readers, Wouk didn't always get a good critical response. The New York Times called The Winds of War long and "mildly interesting" with an "indifference to quality" and a "reliance on clichés."
According to Karp, many of the critics missed the point. "One of the reasons why he didn't get the kind of stellar reviews that writers like Saul Bellow got was because he was accessible." And Wouk did express serious ideas in his fiction. In one section of War and Remembrance, he reflects on the Holocaust:
"The accounts I have heard of what the Germans are doing in camps like [Auschwitz] exceed all human experience. Words break down as a means of describing them. … The Thucydides who will tell this story so that the world can picture, believe, and remember may not be born for centuries. Or if he lives now, I am not he."
But Karp says Wouk was the writer to tell these stories. "I think he aimed high and had large ambitions for reaching a lot of readers — and he entertained millions of them." And with all of his major works still in print, chances are that in the years to come, Herman Wouk will entertain millions more.
Source: NPR
Herman Wouk, 'The Jackie Robinson Of Jewish-American Fiction,' Dies At 103
Wouk was famous for his sprawling World War II novels, including The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, and for his portrayal of Jewish Americans in the novel Marjorie Morningstar.
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Scarborough Spots' Jesse shares his personal connection to SHN
If you told the creator of the online community Scarborough Spots a year ago that he would have a pop-up shop at Scarborough Town Centre, he wouldn't have believed it.
Jesse, Scarborough-native and the creator of Scarborough Spots – an online account that's "the real guide to the Eastside" – started the Instagram account at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"In the summer of 2020, I found myself with some spare time working from home. I saw that our local Scarborough businesses and restaurants were struggling during the lockdown and wanted to help give them some promotion online," says Jesse. "I never really saw anyone else promoting Scarborough businesses – or the community really – so I thought I could make a bit of a difference in my community."
After launching the account, Jesse saw his follower count grow each day. Posting funny content that others familiar with Scarborough can relate to, Scarborough Spots became the go-to account for local community members to share, bond and appreciate the diverse neighbourhood. It was also a way for Jesse to change the narrative about Scarborough, which, in his opinion, has never been portrayed in the most positive way in the media.
"Scarborough is such a special place, and I remember growing up how diverse my classroom was – but that was just the norm," Jesse remembers. "I'm so grateful my parents chose Scarborough as our home when they came here from the Philippines – I wouldn't have wanted to grow up anywhere else.
Growing up in Scarborough, Jesse was familiar with SHN's General hospital.
"I was into sports when I was younger and did anything remotely athletic. In grade 5 or 6, I started passing out all the time, but of course, being young, I thought I was just pushing myself too hard. Then, during a cross country race, I passed out and was taken to the General hospital in an ambulance."
The staff at SHN's General hospital discovered Jesse had a hole in his heart and decided to send him to a specialty hospital for heart surgery to repair the hole. Jesse recalls the excellent care at SHN when his heart condition was diagnosed and is grateful they found it when they did.
"When I saw the Love, Scarborough marketing campaign back in January, I remembered the great care I received at SHN and thought about our entire community who rely on our hospitals."
After the Love, Scarborough campaign launch, Toronto Maple Leafs' players and Scarborough natives Wayne Simmonds and Michael Bunting posted a photo to Twitter wearing Love, Scarborough t-shirts – shirts initially only produced to spread awareness of the cause. Little did anyone know they started a movement – everyone wanted a custom Love, Scarborough branded tee.
"I had been following along the campaign through SHN Foundation's social media channels and sharing everything I could, and by the end of January it was just taking over. They reached out to me as a local business owner and someone who sells clothing to ask if I'd be interested in partnering with them to produce Love, Scarborough merchandise. I didn't even have to think twice – it was a perfect fit."
Scarborough Spots and SHN Foundation launched the Love, Scarborough merchandise line on February 4, 2022, and so far has received more than 600 orders. Jesse generously offered to donate 100% of the net proceeds to SHN Foundation.
"I wanted to donate all of the net proceeds back to the hospitals because what they do is so important," says Jesse. "If you live in Scarborough, chances are you're going to need the hospitals at some point, and we need to make sure the healthcare workers there have everything they need to care for us."
For Jesse, collaborating with SHN Foundation not only means he can give back to Scarborough's hospitals, but it has also helped him achieve a goal he had for Scarborough Spots from the beginning – to have a store in Scarborough Town Centre.
"Scarborough Town Centre is where everyone went when I was a kid. Going to STC on a Friday or Saturday, you would see everyone you knew," says Jesse. "In a community with so many new Canadians and immigrants, many of our parents worked hard to build a brand-new life, and that often meant working night shifts or overtime, so STC was the place to be and to gather for a lot of us. To have a pop-up shop there featuring my items and supporting SHN Foundation is just surreal."
When asked what letter Jesse would represent in the Scarborough Sans alphabet, he said the letter C for Community Builder.
"I've always been the organizer – since I was a kid. I would organize the games we'd play at recess and go to other schools to plan cross-school tournaments. I started a basketball league in 2009 that's grown to 1,500 members and have always tried to build a strong sense of community through promotion and collaboration. A community builder."
You can visit the Love, Scarborough Pop-Up in collaboration with Scarborough Spots and STC from March 31 – April 10, daily from 3pm – 6pm. 100% of the Love, Scarborough merchandise net proceeds will support SHN Foundation and our Scarborough hospitals.
Visit ScarboroughSpots.com to get your custom Scarborough merch, or follow him on Instagram at @ScarboroughSpots for your guide to the Eastside.
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The BG Black Nickel Low Profile 1 Gang Blanking Plate is designed to replace an unused single switch wall plate and leave a stylish finish.
Included in the BG Low Profile 1 Gang Blanking Plate is an integral gasket to keep out moisture. Suitable for commercial or domestic installations, this stylish plate will complement many styles of décor with its tidy appearance.
A manufacturer's guarantee of 25 years is supplied with this product. Co-ordinating items from the same BG range are available from Lyco.


IBM Data Studio is an Eclipse-based application that provides developers and database administrators with basic capabilities for DB2 database management and development. StarSQL for Java can be used to provide database connectivity to DB2 systems when working in Data Studio. In addition, Data Studio can be used to develop Java applications that use StarSQL for Java.
This document describes how to configure IBM Data Studio connections that use StarSQL for Java.
Select the Windows menu item and choose Preferences-->Data Management-->Connectivity-->Driver Definitions.
In the New Driver Definition dialog, select Generic JDBC Driver and change the Driver name to StarSQL for Java.
On the Jar List panel, Select Add JAR/Zip, browse to the location of StarSQL for Java and select StarSQL_JDBC.jar.
On the Properties panel, add a sample Connection URL (e.g. jdbc:StarSQL_JDBC://host:446/RDB), Driver class: com.starsql.jdbc.SQDriver, and, If desired, a sample Database name and typical UserID.
Click OK. StarSQL for Java now appears in the list of Driver Definitions.
In the Connections Parameters dialog, select Generic JDBC under "Select a database manager:" and select StarSQL for Java from the drop-down menu for JDBC driver.
Under properties, enter the appropriate values to connect to your DB2 system (host, port, database name, user password; additional properties may be entered on the Optional pane) and use the Test Connection button to verify connection. The "Database" field is informational and is used by the Data Studio application to identify the connection.
The new connection will now appear under Database Connections and is ready to use.
The connection can now be used to browse and administer the database and perform development tasks such as exporting and running Java or SQL stored procedures.
Note that the XML entry in driverStorage.xml contains a path to the StarSQL_JDBC.jar file, so StarSQL for Java should be installed in the same location on both machines.
This method of configuration is unsupported and may change in future versions of Data Studio; we recommend that you create backup copies of any files that you manually modify in this way.


Not a bad week's reading, considering it was a really busy week for various reasons. But the Still Reading list is starting to look a little out of control, so I'm going to try and tackle that this week. We'll see how that goes!
Bonus picture: Misty London on Monday morning. NB: for Maisie Dobbs fans, the square I'm about to walk into is Fitzroy Square where Maisie has her office!


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Texas RB Bijan Robinson Wins 2022 Doak Walker Award
By Bryan Clinton
Texas running back Bijan Robinson was named the winner of the 2022 Doak Walker Award during ESPN's "Home Depot College Football Awards Show" on Thursday night.
The Doak Walker Award is presented annually to the nation's top running back, with Robinson beating out Michigan's Blake Corum and Illinois' Chase Brown for the honor.
Over the course of the 2022 season, Robinson rushed 258 times for 1,580 yards and 18 touchdowns and also turned 19 receptions into 314 yards and two scores.
Your 2022 Doak Walker Award Winner
🏆 Bijan Robinson 🏆@Bijan5Robinson x @DoakWalkerAward pic.twitter.com/14ib5VAVKZ
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) December 9, 2022
Robinson is the fourth Texas running back to win the award, joining Ricky Williams (1997,1998), Cedric Benson (2004), and D'Onta Foreman (2016). Texas' five Doak Walker awards is tied with Wisconsin for the most in FBS history.
"Longhorn Nation, I appreciate all of you that have been with me since day one," Robinson said. "God's put us through a journey and now we're here winning the Doak Walker Award. It's awesome to be a part of the great guys that have won this award before me – Ricky Williams, Cedric Benson, D'Onta Foreman. I appreciate you guys and I'm always going to be a product of y'all. Thank you to my teammates, the Doak Walker family, Coach Sark, Coach Choice, all the coaches, Derek (Ochoa) and all the guys behind the camera, just everybody. I appreciate all the fans and everybody that has shown love this whole time. Thank you so much and Hook 'Em."
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Most of us started out breathing fine, but somewhere along the way, something changed our natural breathing pattern.
Sounds a bit like we're talking about the black sheep of the family. But in all seriousness, when we alter our breathing pattern away from how we were meant to breathe, our health deteriorates. An upper chest breathing pattern, coupled with an increased breath rate leads to overworked, tense neck and chest muscles, contributing to neck and chronic pain. This pattern also alters our breathing chemistry, changing our blood pH (acid-base balance), disrupting electrolyte balance and decreasing oxygen supply to our vital organs and tissues. Essentially it puts our body on high alert. This simply isn't sustainable and our health suffers.
The good news is that this is all reversible. Armed with knowledge, awareness and tips to restore a natural breathing pattern you can combat bad breathing and its ill effects. Visit the treatment page for more information.


Qualified Professionals hired by the Town of Gibsons say "the George" poses risks to Gibsons aquifer.
Klaus Fuerniss's "George Hotel" development application originally included a report by Horizon Engineering that said excavations for the project would not harm Gibsons' aquifer, and GABC was very troubled by this claim. We commissioned a peer review of the report in January 2014 that determined excavations would in fact penetrate Gibsons' aquifer. After a year of study and further peer review by consultants hired by the Town of Gibsons, it turns out that all our concerns and predictions have been proven correct.
Yet Klaus Fuerniss keeps on telling the public that the aquifer is not at risk and Gibsons Mayor Wayne Rowe, does not seem to be concerned.
A company that owns six lots next to the proposed George Hotel development says it intends to take the Town of Gibsons, the provincial government and the former owners of the Gibsons Marina to court unless its rights to deep water access are recognized.
The George Hotel, Condos, and Marina proposal has reared its ugly head.
On Tuesday, May 12th, at 7 p.m. at Gibsons Legion, the new council will be considering the geotechnical (aquifer) study for Klaus Fuerniss's George hotel along with peer reviews of the study. They will also consider giving first reading to a zoning bylaw enabling the development.
You will recall that Fuerniss's development application originally included a report by Horizon Engineering that said excavations for the project would not harm Gibsons' aquifer, and that GABC was very troubled by this claim. We commissioned a peer review of the report in January 2014 that determined excavations would in fact penetrate Gibsons' aquifer. After a year of study and further peer review, it turns out that all our concerns and predictions have been proven correct.
For fuller details of the many things that are just plain wrong with this plan, please read below "the fold". The bottom line is that this project is far too risky, would be a huge loss of public assets, and would leave us with serious environmental and tax liabilities.
Please come out to the council meeting on Tuesday at the Legion, 7 p.m., and help protect our waterfront from over-development, preserve our seaside village character, and ensure the integrity of our aquifer.
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For those of you who are organisers or members of golf societies we are able to accommodate you and your fellow golfers any day of the week or weekend (subject to availability of tee times).
If you have enquires regarding booking or the packages offered please telephone the clubhouse on 01665 602632.
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import android.os.Bundle;
import com.dream.android.sample.MainApplication;
import com.dream.android.sample.di.component.ActivityComponent;
import com.dream.android.sample.di.component.ApplicationComponent;
import com.dream.android.sample.di.component.DaggerActivityComponent;
import com.dream.android.sample.di.module.ActivityModule;
import com.dream.android.sample.lib.base.BaseListActivity;
import com.dream.android.sample.lib.base.HasComponent;
import com.dream.android.sample.lib.widget.pullrefresh.recyclerview.PtrRecyclerViewAdapter;

/**
 * Description:base dependency injection manager class
 *
 * Copyright: Copyright (c) 2016, All rights reserved.
 *
 * @author Dream
 * @date 16/5/27
 */
public abstract class DIListActivity<D, RV extends PtrRecyclerViewAdapter<D>> extends BaseListActivity<D, RV> implements HasComponent<ActivityComponent> {

    protected ActivityComponent activityComponent;

    protected abstract void injectComponent(ActivityComponent activityComponent);
    @Override
    protected void onCreateView(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        injectComponent(getComponent());
        super.onCreateView(savedInstanceState);
    }

    @Override
    public ActivityComponent getComponent() {
        if(activityComponent == null) {
            activityComponent = DaggerActivityComponent.builder().applicationComponent(getApplicationComponent()).activityModule(getActivityModule()).build();
        }
        return activityComponent;
    }

    /**
     * Get the Main Application component for dependency injection.
     */
    protected ApplicationComponent getApplicationComponent() {
        return ((MainApplication) getApplication()).getApplicationComponent();
    }

    /**
     * Get an Activity module for dependency injection.
     */
    protected ActivityModule getActivityModule() {
        return new ActivityModule(this);
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Todd Cray Wins Eternity Race @Richmond!
Richmond Race Winner - Todd Cray!
Join us next week as we head to Talladega!
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MarkAndersen : bummer Daniel. Maybe delete the program and re install?
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The Microsoft Blog
Anticipated Steve Jobs biography is No. 1 on Amazon
By Gerry Spratt on October 6, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Walter Isaacson's highly anticipated biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs jumped to No. 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list Thursday, even though the book won't be released until Oct. 24.
The biography, entitled simply "Steve Jobs," is based on more than 40 interviews between Isaacson and Jobs conducted over the past two years, The New York Times reported. Isaacson also interview Jobs' family and colleagues.
Isaacson has also written biographies of Ben Franklin and Henry Kissinger.
According to Time.com, Jobs asked Isaacson in 2004 to write the biography because "I wanted my kids to know me. I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."
Simon & Schuster, the publisher of the book, said Jobs speaks "candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against," The New York Times reported.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Jobs spoke with Isaacson in the past month because he knew he was close to death. The Journal said the meeting will be recounted at the end of the book.
The book was originally planned for a 2012 release with the title "iSteve: The Book of Jobs." The title was simplified and the release date was moved up to November. With Jobs' death Wednesday, the release date was moved up again.
Visit the Microsoft Blog index for more Microsoft news and technology news, and seattlepi.com for more Seattle news.
Gerry Spratt


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Schiavone Funeral Home
| 1842 Belmont Ave.
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| joseph.schiavone1@gmail.com
Care, Compassion, and Quality
Marie F. (Trimmacco) Vitullo
October 22, 1932 ~ June 15, 2019 (age 86)
There will be a private memorial mass at a later date said for Marie F. Vitullo, 86 who died on Sat. June 15, 2019 at her residence. Marie was born Oct. 22, 1932 in Campbell and was the daughter of Gennaro and Adelina Leobruno Trimmacco. She was a 1949 graduate of Campbell Memorial High School and did bookkeeping before her marriage. She continued her Italian heritage as an exceptional cook and was a co-owner of the Park Inn with her husband for seven years. Marie enjoyed going to casinos, and following her Cleveland teams: The Browns, Cavs, and Indians. She always had a loving, giving, beautiful heart and always put others before herself. Even during her illness, she always had a positive outlook. She was a pleasure and joy to be around and will be greatly missed by all who loved her. Marie is survived by her husband, Nicholas A. Vitullo whom she married Sept. 8, 1956; a son, Nicholas A. (Rhonda) Vitullo; two daughters, Debbie Patton and Lisa (Anthony) Direnzo; two grandsons, Michael Patton and Steven Heipel; and a brother, Gene (Pauline) Trimmacco. She was preceded in death by her parents and two grandsons, Matthew Bowser and Anthony Direnzo. As per request, there are no visitation or funeral services.
© 2019 Schiavone Funeral Home. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS


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One of the "lost or destroyed" murals of the Section of Fine Arts was Sir Walter Raleigh and First Landing on the North Carolina Shore, painted by Dean Cornwell in 1938 in the Morganton, North Carolina post office. It is for this reason that we show a rare USPS photograph of it in black and white. Dean Cornwell, who became known as the "Dean of Illustrators," was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1892. In 1915, he attended the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Harvey Dunn and renowned English muralist Frank Brangwyn. He quickly gained attention for his magazine illustrations, and his work was published in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, and Redbook. By the mid-1930s, Cornwell had achieved such a notable reputation that the Section felt obliged to hire him, despite reluctance to give a commission to an artist too committed to "Art in the grand old manner." In 1937, William Randolph Hearst commissioned Cornwell to paint murals in The Raleigh Room in the restaurant of his Warwick New York apartment hotel. Cornwell designed murals very similar to what he would paint in the Morganton post office a year later, and depicted Sir Walter Raleigh receiving his charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1584 and his landing on the shore of Roanoke Island. Cornwell received $100,000 for his work, but a subsequent dispute caused him to paint several objectionable images into the mural, including a man urinating on Queen Elizabeth I and a naked Indian with his back to the viewer. The dispute was resolved, and Cornwell removed some, but not all, of these images, and portions of the mural remained covered for over 40 years, until a renovation project in the Warwick gave the murals greater focus and prominence. Cornwell completed his mural in Morganton a year after those in New York. They are very similar, including flamboyant costumes, exaggerated postures, matching images of Raleigh himself, and a great sense of the grandiose. Cornwell continued to have a successful career, illustrating for work by writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Douglas Lloyd, and Pearl S. Buck, and creating advertisements for companies such as Coca-Cola, General Motors, Seagram's Whiskey, and Palmolive Soaps. Cornwell also designed and executed the mural in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina post office, Laying the Cornerstone of Old East. Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York City and at art societies and museums throughout the country.Paintings by Cornwell have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute and the National Academy of Design. Dean Cornwell died in 1960.
Five miles north of Morganton, archaeologists from Warren Wilson College are excavating the site of an American Indian town called Joara and the earliest European settlement in the interior of what is now the United States, Fort San Juan. The town of Joara, home to the Catawba people, was visited by Spanish explorations led by Hernando de Soto in 1540 and Juan Pardo in 1566. The governor charged Juan Pardo with finding sources of gold and silver as well as a route to the central Mexican silver mines. In order to be successful, he also had to secure the interior of the terrain. Pardo thus established Fort San Juan near the Catawba town of Joara. Fort San Juan only stood for 18 months. Catawba resistance to Spanish incursions into their territory led them to burn down the Fort, leaving only one survivor. In the 16th Century, Europeans established trade relations with the Catawba, and in the 18th Century, settlers began moving onto their territory known as the Piedmont. The town of Morganton was established in 1784, and is now the county seat of Burke County. The Berry field site is one of the most important attractions near Morganton today, as archaeologists and scholars continue to investigate more about the town of Joara and the short-lived Fort San Juan. Since 2001, Warren Wilson College and Western Piedmont Community College have operated an annual summer field school at the site.
Fort San Juan may have been the earliest European settlement in the interior of the present-day United States, but the Catawba people claim to have occupied their ancestral lands along the Catawba river at least 6,000 years ago. The Catawba people were a part of the Siouan language family, and lived in large planned towns where they hunted and practiced agriculture. By 1759, smallpox had broken out in the Catawba villages for the fourth time in a Century, and the population had shrunk to approximately 1,000 people. They received title to 144,000 acres from the King of England in 1763, but this land proved difficult to defend from the steady incursion of settlers, and the Catawbas began renting land to colonists. In the Treaty of Nations Ford, also known as the Treaty of 1840, the Catawbas ceded their 144,000 acres for other lands and monetary compensation. Their numbers had become so few, however, that the government anticipated their imminent extinction. Despite this, the Catawba people survived and, in 1929, then-chief Samuel Taylor Blue began the process of gaining federal recognition for the Catawba. They were recognized by the Federal Government in 1941 and, in 1944 established a constitution to strengthen their self-government. The United States terminated the government of the Catawba in 1959 and the tribe filed a petition for recognition in 1973. Finally, in 1993, the Catawba land claims suits were settled, and the Catawbas agreed to give up claims on land taken from them by the state of South Carolina. In return, the Catawba Indian Nation received federal recognition and financial support for economic development, education, social services, and land purchases. Today, the Catawba Indian Nation is located in York County, South Carolina, and is the only federally recognized tribe in that state. Enrollment presently stand at over 2,800.
The Indians in Dean Cornwell's mural, however likely represented the Roanoke and Croatan peoples, several of the now unrepresented Algonquian tribes of the Carolinas. Cornwell seems unconcerned with connecting his mural to the specific location in which it was painted. Morganton is over 400 miles from the North Carolina shore, and it is likely that he simply drew on existing material he had developed for the murals in the Warwick hotel in 1937. In 1939, Edward Rowan at the Section of Fine Arts received a field report claiming that Cornwell's mural was "cold and lacking in appeal when compared with murals in which the artist tries to give a personal interpretation of life or history as related to the community." Despite these objection, the same field report noted that the people of Morganton appeared to greatly admire Cornwell's work. The same could be said of Morganton's postmaster at the time. When Cornwell apologized for being late in completing the murals, the postmaster told him not to hurry, as he did not want the mural in the first place. Once the work was completed, however, the postmaster described the mural as a delight and wrote to Edward Rowan to express how pleased he was with the mural and the public's reception of it. Despite Cornwell's reputation and appeal, the Section was reluctant to commission him as a muralist, as noted earlier. When they did offer him a commission, it was in "the wilds of Morganton, North Carolina…[where] whatever bombastic indiscretion he might see fit to commit...could either be forgotten or chalked up to defective Southern taste buds." The mural is indeed a grand and exaggerated work, depicting Sir Walter Raleigh along with the ships and explorers he would send to the New World, as well as the American Indians they encountered there. The mural retains two titles, though it appears to have stood as one contiguous work. It is clear that Cornwell took some degree of artistic license with history, as Sir Walter Raleigh never set foot on the North Carolina shore merely financed and commissioned the expeditions that attempted to colonize Roanoke Island. Cornwell employed the theatrical and exaggerated. Like many American Indians in post office murals, his subjects are depicted wearing very little clothing, and several are sitting or lying on the ground. Unfortunately, viewers are unable to examine Cornwell's mural for themselves through the critical eyes of the 21st Century; in 1963, while the post office building was under renovation, the mural was destroyed.
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Mackinac Island Treasure Hunt: Nature Card Games is two fun games to play with friends and family that give you a table-top visit to Michigan's fascinating and historic State Park (and the United States' second national park)!
Match Me If You Can is a game similar to Author's Cards: There are 54 cards with 16 different categories. You ask other players, or pick up the discard pile, to collect cards of similar categories. When someone plays their entire hand in completed category groups, the game is over, but the winner is the player that played the most cards in completed categories! Memory and strategy are needed to win this game. Watch the video!
Follow Me If You Can is a quick game of strategy and some luck. Players score by observing Natural Treasures and Locations that match a Habitat played by themselves or another player. By playing a new Location, a player can score big. Exchange cards with other players to refresh your hand. You have lots of options to mix things up! The game ends when a player plays all of the cards in their hand, but watch out: Rarer Natural Treasures score more points, so make sure to end the game when you are quite sure you will win!
Each card in the game features a photo and description representing a Natural Treasure or Location on Mackinac Island. The variety of cards help players learn a bit more about the diverse natural history and long human history of this amazing place!
Note: This game is a subset of Mackinac Island Card and Board Games (MITH). It includes some of the cards, the card game and one brand new game not included in MITH.


Throughout history there have been instances of wanton cruelty, and a blatant violation of the rights and privileges of mankind. Whether that was based on the color of one's skin, their nationality, religion, or merely being unfortunate enough to be living under the regime of another country, people have regularly been treated like animals, or worse.
Human Rights Month is here to remind us of that day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly codified the basic human rights of every individual on the planet.
During World War II there were four basic goals stated by the Allies, that ever man and woman should know and experience four freedoms. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from fear, and Freedom from want. These ideas were set in place and upheld, but as was made clear by the atrocities committed by Hitler, they were woefully insufficient to guarantee and enforce the freedoms they represented.
So it came to pass in December of 1948 that the United nations General Assembly put forth 30 articles that cover everything from rights to education, freedom, health, and more. Since this event these articles have served to help protect civilians in time of war or dictatorship, to help bring POW's home, and to ensure that people everywhere are allowed to live in liberty and safety.
The best way to celebrate Human Rights month is to take time to understand what exactly this codified set of freedoms does for you. Studying and researching it is a way to honor the work and lives that went into making sure this document came to exist for the good of all mankind. It's also a great opportunity to spend some time volunteering for organizations like Amnesty International, a charity organization that works tirelessly to support and spread human rights.
Working with organizations like these will help millions of people around the world, and the ways to contribute are endless. It can start as simple as a donation drive, or grow to a continuous and concerted effort to help prisoners and the needy all throughout the world. We all benefit from the work done by these august organizations, International Human Rights Month is your opportunity to give a little back for the protections you enjoy as a citizen of the world.


Grind well the grated coconut. Dissolve jaggery in ¼ cup of boiled water. Fry coconut bits in ghee. Roast sesame seeds. In a bowl, mix rice powder, maida, sugar, salt, soda powder, grated coconut, fried coconut bits, jaggery syrup (jaggery cooked in water), sesame seeds, cardamom powder, banana paste (banana ground to make a paste in mixer). It should be of idli batter consistency. If needed add water or milk. Let the batter set for 2-3 hours. Take the unniyappam pan with molds in it. Keep it on the flame. On each mold add oil and let it boil. Now scoop a spoon of batter and fill up to half of the mold. When it looks cooked, with the help of a stick turn the unniyappam to make sure its cooked in all sides. Fry it until it is completely cooked. The unniyappam pan is also called as "Appakkara" vessel which would give unniyappam proper shape. If the batter seems to be less sweet, add more sugar. After frying garnish it with powdered sugar on top.


True outdoor education! Our School is situated on 2.4 hectares of beautiful bushland gardens at Hazelbrook bordering the heritage listed Blue Mountains National Park.
Our site contains environmentally sensitive buildings, designed to nestle in to the environment and harmonise with the bushland setting. Our natural playgrounds encircle 'the Knoll' a sandstone hill which provides shade and shelter for the classrooms below.
Like what you see? We can organise a personal tour of the school.
It is upon the ancestral lands of the Dharug people that the Blue Mountains Steiner School is built.
Our school has regular Indigenous Culture days where representatives from the local indigenous community are invited to attend and collaborate with the community to present performances and workshops. Lessons relating to indigenous culture are taught across all stages and we host regular workshops and conduct bushwalks where we explore aspects of indigenous culture in the local area.
Our program begins in Kindergarten with each year building from previous learning experiences. When the child reaches Stage 3 the program becomes more challenging, with longer trips connected to the curriculum content, and developing resilience, problem solving and leadership skills. The Stage 3 outdoor education experiences prepare the students for the transition to high school. The benefits of the program for the children include; improved self- awareness, better understanding of others, increased insight, expansion of life experience, independence and developing the ability to problem solve and innovate.
Our program emphasises the importance of our connection with nature, as the children experience hands on, experiential learning and accrue practical knowledge. Our ultimate goal is to become custodians of the Earth/ relating to the earth as a place of healing.
Our World Heritage backyard is the ideal environment to teach our sequentially designed and developmentally aligned Outdoor Education program.
The outdoor education program at BMSS is interdisciplinary and aims to assist students experience the many interrelationships in the natural world. Our program examines ecological, sociological and cultural concepts to assist the children to make informed choices relating to experiencing and caring for the natural world. Outdoor Education is 'about', 'for' and 'in' the out-of-doors and is a continual holistic educational experience.
BMSS outdoor experiences include getting to know the Blue Mountains World Heritage National Park through canyoning, canoeing, bushwalking, adventure caving and camping. We also explore coastal environments through beach camping, snorkelling, coastal geological walks and surfing. These experiences contribute significantly to our peer relations and are fundamental to the BMSS educational experience. Leadership skills are integrated into our outdoor education program with a particular focus on self-management and team support strategies.
Through outdoor education, students grow into their own capabilities and gain a sense of themselves in relation to their community. They are able to experience and reflect on their personal strengths, build resilience and experience improved emotional health and wellbeing.


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Hard, but necessary: upholding four principles of strategic stability
Lewis Dunn
Four principles of strategic stability
It is possible, at least conceptually, to sketch out a set of broad principles for U.S-Russian strategic stability – those principles are rooted in Cold War legacies but need to be adapted, revisited, and broadened in light of changing strategic capabilities a...
Updating the concept of strategic stability
Alexei Arbatov
Origins of the notion
It should be underlined that the concept of "strategic stability" was born in the late 1980s in the context of START-I negotiations to serve as a foundation of deep strategic arms reductions. In this role, it was designed to replace an amorphous and subjective notion of "equal...
'Failure is not an option': 2018 NPT PrepCom Chair on the current review cycle
Adam Bugajski
In the aftermath of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), its Chair Ambassador Adam Bugajski of the Republic of Poland gave an exclusive interview to the Yaderny Kontrol bulletin ...
Plans to develop nuclear energy sector in the Middle East are:
Reflecting economic necessity and should be encouraged 25 (28.74%)
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Islamist Terrorism Today: Global and Regional Levels
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In the past two years, the level of global terrorist activity has been unprecedented. In addition to quantitative indicators, terrorism has also reached a new qualitative level, as seen in the terrorist incidents of July 2005 in London and the confluence of terrorist methods and insurgent war in Iraq and Lebanon. The article examines the various levels of radical Islamist terrorist activity in detail as well as measures to counter them.
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Can you believe there is less than 1g of sugar in each of these cookies?! And nothing artificial! No need to miss out on traditional baking fun with our Protein Sugar Cookie Mix and Sugar-Free Frosting Mix. Get out your cookie cutters and piping bags!
Prepare cookie dough as directed on package. If the cookie dough is too sticky to roll and use cutters, refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
Roll the cookie dough, use cookie cutters to shape, and place cookies on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
While the cookies cool, make the icing by mixing the milk, icing mix, and food coloring. Mix well.
Put icing into piping bag.
Cut a small hole in the bag and ice away!
To make the black dots for the Peeps cookies, mix a teaspoon of activated charcoal with a little water, and use a toothpick or spear dipping tool to drop a dot of black for eyes and nose.
Let cookies sit to dry the icing.


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Aunt shoots 'pleasant, adorable' infant niece in the face on Christmas Eve, killing her [Police]
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An Alabama woman is facing murder charges after police say she shot and killed her infant niece.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office reports that authorities responded to a car shooting in the Peterman community, off of 860 County Road 42, on December 24. When first responders arrived at the scene, they found an infant with a gunshot wound to the face. They rushed the baby to the Monroe County emergency room.
The infant was later transferred to the University Hospital in Mobile, where she subsequently passed away.
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Authorities alleged that Tamika Stallworth opened fire into an occupied vehicle. One of the bullets hit her 10-month-old niece, Jamaya Austin. Stallworth is now facing murder charges.
Sheriff Tom Boatwright reports that on Christmas Eve his department responded to 860 County Road 42 in the Peterman…
Posted by Monroe County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, December 26, 2019
Family members were shocked to hear the accusations against Stallworth. The suspect's uncle, Charlie Stallworth, told News 5 he hadn't know Stallworth to be a violent person.
"I've never known Tamika to have a single violent bone in her body. She is always kind and compassionate, which makes the ordeal hard to grasp…I stand with my family… [We are] trying to keep everyone in prayer during this tragic and unfortunate time."
Stallworth was likely aiming for the driver of the car, according to family members. Charlie Stallworth told FOX 10 that his tight-knight family is sticking together while trying to understand what happened.
"A pleasant, adorable… as you can tell from the picture, just an adorable baby… it's just so unfortunate. Difficult to understand and to put our minds around."
Stallworth remains behind bars on a $750,000 bond. Check back for updates.
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Well along on the bellcranks.
It was back to working on airplane parts today after a few days off. I will also be building tomorrow.
I had cut the angles on two of the bellcrank angle parts. Here are the other two cut along with the two pieces of phenolic cut to size.
I also had the eight clip blanks cut but they needed final trimming and pilot hole drilling. Here they are just before marking up for drilling.


In very good condition, a rare Victorian British Royal Engineer Hampshire Submarine Miner officer's sword.
Submarine Miners were a branch of the British Royal Engineers and their sword are scarce to say the least, especially in this condition.
The 32 inch levee weight blade is well etched and in good condition, and firm in the hilt. The hilt is also very good, a little spot one edge but otherwise incredible for something well over a 100 years old. Equally the grip and associated twisted grip wire bindings are good. The plated steel scabbard in very good condition, The sword sheathes and draws very well. We doubt that you will find a better example anywhere.
A bargain. Please quote item reference J56 (1139). Further / full sized images available upon request.


Starbucks CEO on China Tensions: "We're Not Immune" but "We're Playing the Long Game"
Add Dunkin Brands as the latest company challenging Starbucks on serving up a premium cup of joe. Dunkin, which recently dropped "Donuts" from its name, is changing its menu to include new recipes for its espressos, lattes and cappuccinos.
In China, upstart Luckin Coffee is winning over tea-drinking Chinese consumers, by undercutting Starbucks (SBUX) with lower prices.
Johnson is counting on that Starbucks experience to pay off big in China. He says the coffee chain will open a new Starbucks store every 15 hours over the next four years in China. The hope is that will give a caffeine jolt to anemic sales growth in the U.S., Starbucks' largest market. With revenues of more than $22 billion, Starbucks is ranked number 132 on the Fortune 500 list of the biggest companies in America.
Watch the video above for more from our interview with Johnson.


Ahh, my brother memorized that poem in high school! :D Finally warm!
::sends you magical heating clothes:: That's what we'd need in Northrend! Magical longjohns!
That's probably what we have in Northrend, tbh. It just doesn't add that +10 warms to the stats because everything you get up there has it.
It's an enchant you get as you enter the zone, which explains how the toons in bikini plate survive.
I will send warm thoughts from NYC when it gets down to a mere +7F this Monday.


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Big Brother 2017: Ellie in tears after drama with Sam and Chanelle
Posted July 16, 2017 20:59 by Staff Reporter
Ellie Young is left in tears in tonight's Big Brother 2017 highlights.
It follows more drama between her and Sam Chaloner, including an awkward home truth from Chanelle McCleary.
Things get off to a bad start for Ellie in the morning when she again feels as though Sam is flirting with Isabelle Warburton.
After Ellie insists Sam fancies Isabelle, Sam tells Ellie: "No I don't! I don't find her attractive."
Later on, in a drinking game, Chanelle says Ellie is the 'biggest follower'.
"Ellie, following in someone else's shadow... Sam. She's always with Sam now, she doesn't need to always be with someone," Chanelle says.
The comment reduces Ellie to tears with Chanelle later comforting her: "I don't mean it in a bad way."
Ellie replies: "I know you don't mean it in a bad way but it's s**t like."
Elsewhere in tonight's show, Hannah and Andrew come to blows as do Hannah and Charlotte.
It follows Hannah saying Charlotte was the housemate she liked the least because she was too loud.
Hannah says: "I like you but I feel when you was less quieter, not in a bad way, you were someone I was getting to know you, but obviously, now I feel like 'cause the pressure of everyone saying that you're too quiet you're too quiet...
"I feel in in certain things I think you're over vocal without reason or if it has nothing to do with you."
Meanwhile, Big Brother calls Chanelle to the Diary Room and sets her a mission to become the house's biggest drama queen.
Big Brother 2017 airs tonight at 9PM on Channel 5.
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So I thought I would do a rundown of all the products I use and have come to rely on daily. Some are more expensive while others are bargains, I do believe that you can pay more for certain things and see the difference but at the same time, many hardworking beauty products are great value too.
Below is my Emma Hardie Amazing Face Age Support Instant Radiance Mask, which came in a gift set with the 1-year Grazia magazine subscription I received for Christmas (best present ever!). I absolutely adore it, mainly because it smells of my favourite chocolate bar in the world - Turkish delight. Man was I ecstatic when I realised my face smelled of said bar! It retails at £36 for 75ml when bought on the high street, which I probably wouldn't pay but it does leave my skin feeling nice and clean.
Also in the Emma Hardie set was this Amazing Face Moringa Cleansing Balm, which I use nightly. It again retails at £36 but for 100ml, and I would be more inclined to pay that with this one as I have become used to its luxurious feel which leaves my skin feeling incredibly clean and soothed. It feels lovely and thick on application by hand yet it soaks right into your skin and gives a really dewy feeling.
I don't scrimp on intensive conditioners as they're a lifesaver for my poor hair, which is messed and mauled with regularly given my inclination for changing the colour almost as much as my bedding. So when I read about Tigi's S Factor 'Serious' Conditioner on the fantastic Victoria McGrath's In The Frow blog (huge fan), I considered it successfully recommended. Victoria also colours her hair regularly and has a lovely lilac shade which I recently attempted, so I asked for this product for my birthday. It's £28.75 for 750ml so great to put on your bday wishlist but for the size of it, I would definitely replace it come payday once it ran out given how long it lasts. It's still only half gone and I've been using it weekly or twice-weekly for 3 months now. It smells incredible (big selling point for me you'll notice), sort of minty and bubblegummy with an appealing custardy texture in a bright pink colour which really makes it stands out from other typically white products. My hair has remained in good condition (or my extensions have) even through bleaching it twice since December; I can always tell how nourished it is straight away by the softness and shine, even after blow drying and straightening. Apologies for the residue, it's a little hard to wipe off the exterior but I thought it would give a good indicator of the colour too!
I first bought the GlamGlow mud mask on the plane home from Spain last year. After hearing much about it for yonks I thought I'd treat myself as I left sunnier shores behind me for good. It was around £20 for a small tub which didn't last long to be honest, but I was told by the air hostess that you didn't have to use a lot so maybe I was using more than necessary. I'm used to mud masks feeling quite thick so the thin application threw me, however your skin starts tingling and warming straight away and your skin does seen brighter and exfoliated afterwards. I wasn't going to purchase it again though as I've been more impressed with cheaper mud masks in the past, however my friend Beth gave me her unused large tub recently because she was unfortunately allergic. So who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth!
I ran out of hair serum recently and had to buy some more in a rush on my lunch break when I wasn't feeling too flush, but had an evening out planned. So while picking up some shopping in Aldi I noticed their own brand Moroccan Oil for only £2.99 and thought I'd try it out. I'm really pleased with it as it does the job well, giving my hair a real shine and I can apply more as needed without it weighing the hair down at all - my hair can be on the dry side though so probably soaks it up. I'm usually faithful to use Loreal's Extraordinary Oil which is around £10 a bottle (and was even cheaper from Mercadona in Spain), and I would still go back to that as I love it so much, but when funds are limited this is a great alternative.
I started hearing about coconut oil as the new argan oil a couple of years ago, so I went on the hunt for some proper cooking coconut oil when I was in various supermarkets but didn't end up finding any and instead purchased 2 tubs of Superdrug's version on offer (2 for £2.99). It starts out quite hard so I scrape it or and rub it between my hands to turn it from solid to liquid, then apply it liberally to dry hair before plaiting it and leaving in overnight. When I wash it out and style hair as normal my hair feels great afterwards, and I do notice the difference if I don't carry out this wash-prepping ritual.
Now this was a purchase I made last spring before I had my extensions put in, and had become really frustrated with attempts to grow my hair. It barely grew an inch since I moved to Spain, so I was looking forward to seeing how this helped. It usually costs £7.49 for 200ml, which is more than I'd usually pay however I bought it in a 3 for 2 deal with the conditioner and deep conditioning treatment (both of which I used a while ago). This product definitely smells high-end, with its luxurious perfume that you wouldn't get with any old shampoo. However I unfortunately didn't see any difference in the growth rate of my hair in the few months I was using it with the other products - maybe I'd have to give it longer and my hair was probably just too damaged but then really, it isn't doing what it says on the tin. I do love a bit of hot pink packaging on my bathroom shelf though.
Last but not least, I purchased these Clearasil Daily Clear Superfruits Refreshing Pads for a bargainous £1.99 from Home Bargains last week (love that place). I'm always conscious of making sure I wash my face regularly and properly (I apply and rinse twice per wash to be sure), so these are a great follow-up before applying cleanser, toner and moisturiser. They feel unbelievably moist and the berry smell is just lovely, the pads also have little exfoliating ridges so your skin feels properly cleared of all dirt or grime before you go subjecting it to more products again. Strangely it doesn't tell you how many pads are in this tub but when I've looked online, they retail at around £10 for 90. I don't think mine have less than around 40-50 so it was definitely a good buy. I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't nip into Home Bargains at least once or twice a week so I'm pretty sure I've received the usual outstanding value I've come to expect from said store!
So they were the majority of hair and face products I use, hope you enjoyed! Do you use any of these yourself? Will you be buying any on my recommendation?