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BSI Financial Services has announced that Seaside National Bank has chosen its technology to enhance its loan servicing delivery. Seaside will use BSI Financial Services' loan servicing platform powered by BSI ASSET360, an advanced analytics and reporting technology that provides daily quality assurance reporting on 100 percent of the loans in Seaside's portfolio.
Seaside National is a nationally-chartered commercial bank headquartered in Orlando, Fla., with offices throughout the Sunshine State. The company provides an array of private banking and commercial products and services, as well as wealth management and insurance solutions.
"We're thrilled to be providing Seaside's customers reliable and responsive service enabled by our Asset360 loan servicing technology while also giving the bank daily, real-time visibility into loan status and performance," said Allen Price, BSI Financial's senior vice president for sales and business development. "We look forward to a long and successful relationship."
BSI ASSET360 reviews each loan using more than 600 business rules developed in collaboration with clients, investors and regulators. Loan exceptions are immediately reported to servicing teams for research and remediation. According to BSI, the technology has demonstrated cost savings and loan quality assurance improvements that have yielded significant reductions in error rates in loan boarding and in borrower and regulatory complaints.
"We needed a boutique sub-servicer that has a great reputation and is willing to grow with us," said David Robinson, Seaside National Bank's chief credit officer. "We found that in BSI Financial and its advanced reporting technology, which provides us with complete life-of-loan management as well as the ability to lower costs and stay compliant."
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Marano di Valpolicella ist eine nordostitalienische Gemeinde (comune) mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) in der Provinz Verona in Venetien am Parco naturale regionale della Lessinia. Die Gemeinde liegt etwa 14 Kilometer nordnordwestlich von Verona und ist Teil der Comunità montana della Lessinia.

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Marano di Valpolicella unterhält eine Partnerschaft mit der rheinland-pfälzischen Ortsgemeinde Appenheim (Deutschland).

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From mano-a-mano duels with Eddy Merckx himself to Tom Boonen's historic 2012 Spring Classics campaign, Vermarc is entrenched in the center of Belgium's cycling heritage. We're proud to be able to offer a wide range from this top European manufacturer at up to to 70% off RRP for a limited time while stocks last. But at these prices you'll have to be quick- get in quick whilst the popular sizes and colours are still in stock!
Perhaps best known for supplying team issue kit for some of the biggest names in cycling, such as Omega Pharma-Lotto and Quickstep, Vermarc are highly respected for the quality, durability and performance of their ranges. Designed by people who know and understand what it takes to be the best, Vermarc is pro league clothing from cycling's heartland. This is a true when it's gone it's gone closeout sale- never to be repeated and a once in a lifetime chance to buy Vermac clothing at these prices! Don't miss out!
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Brand new single from Ciara, this one's titled "Freak Me" featuring Tekno.
Ciara who recently released "Level Up" after being off the music scene for quite sometime isn't taking her foot of our necks anytime soon as she just rolled out a brand new afrobeat infused single titled "Freak Me" featuring Nigerian singer "Tekno".
It's always a cause for celebration whenever Ciara joins the New Music Friday lineup and the prospect of her exploring a new sound is fascinating. If nothing else, we know the video will be fire.
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Chloride assisted leaching of chalcocite by oxygenated sulphuric acid via Cu(II)–OH–Cl
Senanayake, G. (2007) Chloride assisted leaching of chalcocite by oxygenated sulphuric acid via Cu(II)–OH–Cl. Minerals Engineering, 20 (11). pp. 1075-1088.
Link to Published Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2007.04.002
The beneficial effect of the addition of sodium chloride upon the leaching kinetics of complex iron–nickel–copper sulphides at elevated temperatures and oxygen pressures has been widely reported since the late 1970s, but the role of chloride is still being investigated or debated. Previous researchers have considered chloride as: (i) a complexing agent for cuprous ions; (ii) a surfactant that disperses the molten sulphur and thus removes passivation of the mineral surface by elemental sulphur during pressure leaching; and (iii) a reagent which increases the surface area and the porosity of the insoluble product layer on the surface. A proper understanding of the role of chloride based on the leaching of individual sulphides of known composition in the absence of host minerals at low pulp densities would be useful for the development of chloride assisted sulphate leaching processes for complex sulphide ores, concentrates, and mattes. In the present study evidence for the formation of basic salts of Cu(II) and Fe(III) during leaching are presented. The published rate data are analysed for the leaching of copper from mono-sized chalcocite particles in oxygenated sulphuric acid solutions maintained at 85 °C, a temperature lower than the melting point of sulphur. The initial leaching follows a shrinking particle (sphere) model, and the apparent rate constants are first order with respect to the concentration of dissolved oxygen and chloride. The intrinsic rate constant for the surface reaction (0.2 m s−1) is two orders of magnitude larger than the calculated mass transfer coefficient of oxygen (3 × 10−3 m s−1). The proposed reaction mechanism considers the formation of an interim Cu(II)(OH)Cl0 species which facilitates the leaching process.

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A Life-Changing Spinal Cord Stimulator For Severe Pain
Sharon Unfiltered health and wellbeing January 26, 2022 February 5, 2022 2 Minutes
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In 1996 I suffered an arterio-venous malformation rupture (see HERE) and amongst the bewildering experience I had to undergo two femoral angiograms. Amazing procedure but vile to have! Unfortunately the second one carried out to check the surgery was a success ended up in a disaster: the angiography needle that the catheter was fed through punctured my femoral nerve. The pain was indescribable, an electric shock followed by akin to severe stomach cramps/menstrual pain but affecting my whole right leg from groin to foot. Off the scale.
To cut a years long story short, I was constantly in and out of Accident and Emergency and a stream of ward admissions to give me respite from the pain using high dose oxycodone, gabapentin, ketamine, fentanyl and epidurals to try and relieve some of the extreme agony. But nothing worked long-term except a general anaesthetic! My mental health took a serious battering too, along with various other things, how was I supposed to cope with the Leg From Hell?
Eventually in 2004 I was referred by a specialist in Essex who dealt with spinal cord stimulator implants which transforms people's lives who suffer from chronic pain that's non-responsive to medication. I was anxious about neurosurgery near the spinal cord but I was desperate for help. They trialed me for a week using an external system and the result was incredible!! The sickening neuralgia was overrode with a pleasant tingling sensation.
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The relief was such an emotional experience after all the failed medication trials. Dr Simon Thompson and I even did an interview for the Boston Scientific website several years ago and I felt so honoured to be a part of their testimonials. The people involved were really lovely and sent me a taxi to bring me there and back again safely.
A week ago I was upgraded to an MRI scan compatible model (THIS) which was much-needed! My neurologist, the musculoskeletal clinic and my cardiologist have each requested scans so hopefully some of will speed-up some diagnostic progress and help.
Anyone in unrelenting severe pain that is non-responsive to medication and alternative medicine should enquire with your pain team about this incredible little device. Initially my local health authority had to agree with the expensive funding but should you have a serious problem, plus the psychological impact, you should be granted the go-ahead. Back in 2004 the cost was £12,000 and apparently rechargeable spinal cord stimulation system costs £17,422 (from £13,726 to £22,418). And you're advised to add the charger and remote control to your insurance policy if you have one. I don't and tried to find a company who insures tech like this but they couldn't do it.
Dedicated to the NHS with humble thanks.
The perfect song for showing gratitude to someone who has helped or mentored you in life.
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Much appreciated, people suffer too much and probably haven't been offered more advanced support in their care. If applicable to injury, these devices are live changing


The list of malicious applications that belongs to the group of Android viruses is still expanding. Security experts say that one from 10 applications is infected with an Android parasite. Unfortunately, many of these applications can be downloaded from Google Play. However, Google is making a lot of efforts to protect users and prevent malicious applications. The biggest source of infected programs are third-party web pages. Although this is not the only way how an Android virus can infect a device.
Android virus is still distributed through third-party applications, which must be installed on the phone manually. However, the new methods used to spread this threat began to spread around today, you can get infected by clicking on the malicious link. In most cases, people upload this threat to their devices in conjunction with unlicensed or experimental applications that are actively promoted on Google Play and other similar places.
In February 2016, the Android version of the virus spread through text messages and illegal connections. The most dangerous versions of the threat are interested in obtaining personal information about the victim, and often this information includes credit cards, account information, logins and passwords. Other options lead to less damage, such as distributing a contact list of victims, recording conversations, delivering advertisements, initiating redirection to various sites, or infecting devices with other threats.
If your system is slowed by suspicious notifications, redirects and surprisingly high phone bills, you need to check the device for threats, because these symptoms are the main signs of your infection.
In addition, you should pay attention to signs such as constant hangs of your device. If your phone or other Android device started to hang and does not function when you browse the Internet, you must install the Android antivirus and check them.
Locate the power button and hold it for a few seconds until you see the menu. Select off.
If you see a window prompting you to restart your Android in Safe Mode, select OK.
If this does not work, just turn off your device and turn it on. When it turns on, try to press and hold down the menu button, decrease the volume or increase the volume together to enter safe mode.
Restart your device in safe mode using the steps above.
In safe mode, go to Settings. There, click on the application or application manager (depending on your device, it may be different).
Then find malicious applications and delete them all.


Robert Kluijver (b. 1968, Nicosia) lives and works in The Hague. Kluijver is a curator and analyst of international relations specialized in the Middle East. He studied International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and at the Paris School of International Affairs. He worked for many years in Central Asia and Afghanistan (for NGOs, the United Nations and the Open Society Institute among others) before turning to the arts. He works as the curator of the cultural centre Gemak and runs the Gulf Art Guide, a resource on cultural developments in the Arabian peninsula. For Gemak he curated, amongst other exhibitions, a series of exhibitions about new concepts of the border with work from Iraqi, Palestinian, Afghan, Israeli and Pakistani artists. He is the author of Borders: Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Discourse (2010). Since 2010 Robert Kluijver is a lecturer in International Relations at the Paris School of International Affairs.


Static convenience function to get a floating point number from the user. caption is the text which is displayed in the title bar of the dialog. label is the text which is shown to the user (it should say what should be entered). value is the default floating point number that the line edit will be set to. minValue and maxValue are the minimum and maximum values the user may choose, and decimals is the maximum number of decimal places the number may have.
If ok is not-null *ok will be set to TRUE if the user pressed OK and to FALSE if the user pressed Cancel. The dialog's parent is parent; the dialog is called name. The dialog will be modal.
Static convenience function to get an integer input from the user. caption is the text which is displayed in the title bar of the dialog. label is the text which is shown to the user (it should say what should be entered). value is the default integer which the spinbox will be set to. minValue and maxValue are the minimum and maximum values the user may choose, and step is the amount by which the values change as the user presses the arrow buttons to increment or decrement the value.
Static convenience function to let the user select an item from a string list. caption is the text which is displayed in the title bar of the dialog. label is the text which is shown to the user (it should say what should be entered). list is the string list which is inserted into the combobox, and current is the number of the item which should be the current item. If editable is TRUE the user can enter their own text; if editable is FALSE the user may only select one of the existing items.
Static convenience function to get a string from the user. caption is the text which is displayed in the title bar of the dialog. label is the text which is shown to the user (it should say what should be entered). text is the default text which is placed in the line edit. The mode is the echo mode the line edit will use. If ok is not-null *ok will be set to TRUE if the user pressed OK and to FALSE if the user pressed Cancel. The dialog's parent is parent; the dialog is called name. The dialog will be modal.


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Exclusive: Dichen Lachman talks about the Web Series Hollywood Hitmen and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Comedy webseries Hollywood Hitmen is coming to Melbourne WebFest this year. The series sees Enver Gjokaj and Maximilian Osinski play two insecure hitmen in L.A.'s bizarre community of contract killers. We caught up with cast member and co-Producer Dichen Lachman (The 100, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.EL.D., Shameless) to talk about the series.
How did you get involved in Hollywood Hitmen? What was production like?
I got involved from the very beginning. I loved the concept. Max and Enver have such a wonderful chemistry and they are both outstanding actors. I really wanted to see it come to life. The production was hard work. We had no money and very little time. If it wasn't for our generous cast and crew we never would have been able to do it.
What's the biggest difference between working on a web series and working on a bigger production?
Money and time 🙂 it's really hard making something independently. I admire people who do it constantly. Hollywood Hitmen is my second project where I was a producer, the first was Lust for Love, a feature film. Also done on a tiny budget.
Do you feel like web-series sometimes get dismissed unfairly?
Yes, but I believe that is changing fast. There is so much wonderful content out there and festivals like Melbourne WebFest really help bring them into the mainstream.
Awards shows like the Emmys have started to acknowledge web series, do you feel like this is an important step?
Yes, I think that's really positive, and hopefully will open up opportunities to people all over the world.
You've been working with Enver across a few different series now. What's the working relationship between you like?
We are like family. He is like a brother to me.
You've appeared in a lot of geeky / pop culture shows. Are those the kinds of shows and stories that you yourself watch?
Yes. I am very lucky. There are a few shows I watch that I haven't been in, I can just hope.
Your character on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a pretty important one. What was it like filling the role of Skye's mother and sharing a screen with Kyle McLachlan?
It was an amazing experience. Such incredible people, so talented and gracious. I was pregnant the whole time, so that was interesting because I had never played a mother before and I was simultaneously becoming a mother in life. It was really a special time and I enjoyed it very much.
Can you see JiaYing returning to Agents at some point?
That would be amazing. I loved playing her. She was complicated, warm and kind but dark. Emotional but fierce. I would do it in a second.
Neighbours is often held up as a stepping stone for Australian actors, do you feel like that's still the case or is the industry changing?
I think it still is, it's an amazing training ground for young actors and the veterans of the show are so nurturing and professional they really are incredible role models. I can't think of a better place to learn. I cherish my days on the show and am so lucky to have had that experience.
Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me.
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Show your enthusiasm for the Blackhawks hot new player, Nick Schmaltz, with this Chicago Blackhawks red player tee. The front of the shirt boasts the Chicago Blackhawks iconic Indian head logo screen-printed in full color across the chest. The back of the shirt is designed to look like the back of Schmaltz's jersey with his last name screen-printed in white block letters above his large block jersey number, 8, which is screen-printed in white with black piping. Cheer the Blackhawks and Nick Schmaltz to victory in this red Schmaltz player tee.


End unit in Bethany Pines. With spacious open living area, 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, nice back yard with enclosed outdoor shower. Deck area in the back and Master Suite comes with a Balcony as well.
Community pool and tennis courts, There is parking for 2 cars one in front of the property, the other is located on the side of the property. Community offers guest parking also.
All 3 rooms are on the 2nd floor - 1 King, 1 Queen, & 2 Sets of Bunk Beds (Twins).
Walk, bike, or catch the Trolley to downtown Bethany for restaurants, shops, and the beach!


By now most modelers that are active on the various modeling forums are well aware that Mig is back with a new company, Ammo by Mig Jimenez. His new enterprise has quickly reprised many of the products that he was previously involved with. Some of the first are several of the paint and weathering sets that he was so famous for.
The two sets that Jim sent my way to try out were the Soviet Camouflages set #7107 and the U.S. Green Tanks Starter set #7413. Both have a familiar look to them and most modelers should not have any trouble working with these new products. Let's take a closer look at what you get in each set in turn.
First, let's focus on the US green tank starter set. I am guessing if this is a 'starter' set that there is more to come in the near future that may add modulation colors, light streaking grime, dust, and other good stuff. The set comes packaged in a plastic clamshell type blister pack with two bottles of enamel product and one dropper style container of paint. The paint is Mig 926 Olive Drab base acrylic in a 17ml bottle with an attractive orange top. I like the orange screw top because it stands out on the modeling bench. I know it must be an age thing but I can't count the number of times I shake a bottle prepping it carefully, put it down to pick out the perfect brush, tear off a piece of paper towel for blotting, put a few drops of water in a palette, and find I have misplaced the bottle of paint from one short minute ago! With the new orange tops they stand out much better on the bench, so one less frustration which is always a bonus.
You also get a pair of enamels in the set; Mig 1005 Dark Brown wash and Mig 1206 Dark Streaking Grime in 35ml bottles. These bottles have the addition of a sticker on top that lays out the content, a great idea if you store your weathering and finish bottles in any kind of a container where all you see is the top of the lid, no more checking ten bottles to find the one you are looking for, again a great addition.
I pulled out a Tamiya M4A3 upper hull to give these products their day in court. Impressive all around; the Olive drab sprayed out of my airbrush in a nice even coat without the need to thin at all. I have included a photo of the upper hull after the initial coat of paint. I know that different light setups can mess with color shift but I can attest that the color 'looks' very olive drab to me. After giving it a 24 hour period to dry I gave the enamels a chance to shine.
The first one I tried was the wash. I thought it was a bit heavy right out of the bottle and I will thin the paint a bit with some Turpenoid or white spirits the next time I use it (and I will use it). After I say how thick it was I used some white spirits to try to back it off a bit which worked reasonably well. The only thing to be careful of is how easy it is to dig under the layer of OD and see some primer peeking through. Next time I will give the paint a coat of satin varnish before the wash which is normal practice but I got a bit ahead of myself on this one.
The Streaking Grime worked about like I thought it would, a bit heavier than the wash but pretty easy to stump out. I only waited about thirty minutes before I started to work it, I would really recommend giving it a bit more time and definitely add a varnish layer in between paint and enamel products. Even with the limited time it performed adequately and left some nice effects which I hope the photos show to good effect.
The Soviet set comes packaged in an attractive end opening box that can also hang. Inside is a blister sleeve that holds the six 17ml dropper style bottles (also with the attractive orange top!)of acrylic paint. The colors are for Soviet vehicles from 1935 to 1945 and include the basic 4BO green, 3B AU a much darker green used generally from 1935 to 1939, 6K brown used as camouflage with 4BO, 7K sand also used as a camouflage complement to 4BO green. Also, a color called Protective Green, a light green primer/camouflage used before 1941 and washable white for winter whitewashed vehicles. The colors are listed as having scale effect reduction which should be very helpful with color modulation effects.
I took a KV-1 turret shell in order to give each of the colors a try as well as a bit of extra-curricular work with the washable white color. I sprayed every color, the three greens, the brown (which seemed a bit dark), the sand, and the white camouflage color. Just as I found with the US Green set I had no problems whatsoever. The paint all sprayed beautifully without the need for thinning. It seems a little thicker than products that are designed purely for the airbrush, and a bit thinner than typical brush painting products but I don't have any real hard data to back this up, just how it feels and looks coming out of the bottle.
The one that is a bit different is the white, but only because it is designed to be removed and scruffied up. I did not use any chipping fluid with this, only a bit of water after allowing it to dry for about thirty minutes or so. I used a brush on one side to remove paint and on the other used a cotton bud. Both quickly and easily started to work on the white paint removing it in nice even layers. If you want a better, less uniform look I would use a bit of hairspray or chipping fluid.
Well, there you have it. Two new sets now available that should be quite popular as Mig reconfigures products for modelers under the auspices of the new company, Ammo by Mig Jimenez. I really like the way they spray out of the airbrush and the orange caps and lid stickers make them just that much better.
Highs: Sprays very nice and even. Well thinned and easy clean-up. Nice orange tops and stickers for the lids enabling easy identification.
Verdict: Recommended. The revolution of finishing products that has become available over the past several years continues to dazzle.
Nice review Darren. That's interesting about the white. Must be a different formulation?


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Agropur underscores cutting-edge packaging in Natrel brand repositioning
Longueuil, April 23, 2014
After an extensive strategic reflection that took more than a year and cost millions of dollars, Agropur Cooperative is repositioning its Natrel milk brand with a focus on cutting-edge packaging and a multiplatform strategy. British Columbia and Atlantic Provinces consumers are now discovering a new premium brand image that is, more than ever, innovative, diverse and inspired by nature, expressing the qualities we can taste in everything Natrel does.
"Natrel's new image conveys a solid business vision based on innovation and the latest trends in product design," said Caroline Losson, Vice President of Marketing at Agropur's Division Natrel. "We are very satisfied with the result: distinctive packaging that is tougher than ever and highly functional for the consumer. Today, the Natrel brand fully reflects the quality of its products that are enjoying a strongly positive consumer response."
Along with Natrel's new brand image, a new packaging system that will serve as an industry model for milk conservation and taste preservation is also being introduced:
The sturdy new packaging has an ultrathin nylon lining that keeps it hermetically sealed and protects the edges, keeping the milk tasting fresh longer.
Milk sold in bags is packaged in a new, more air-tight plastic film that preserves the milk's quality and full flavour.
Brand image projects naturalness
The new brand image clearly reflects Natrel's roots in the word "natural": strikingly original graphic design and lifelike photos with a black background that suggests a Holstein cow's markings. The packaging makes the type of milk easier to identify, the fat content more visible and the Natrel brand more recognizable.
"We believe that this comprehensive rebranding, backed by sustained point-of-sale promotional support, will help differentiate Natrel from the competition and build on its strong leadership position in the Canadian dairy industry," said Losson.
natrel.ca: intuitive, rich, packed with ideas
The introduction of Natrel's new image provides an opportunity to reinvent the brand's relationship with consumers by creating a multifunctional technological platform featuring rich, targeted content to help publicize the brand's unique, engaging, modern and authentic character. The natrel.ca site, the centrepiece of Division Natrel's online strategy, is intuitive and easy to navigate. Visitors can easily grab content and share it on social media. The site, which offers tips, recipes, contests, photos and videos, sets a new standard for brand content and digital innovation in the Canadian dairy industry.
The new brand image is the result of the reflection and creative work of the Natrel marketing team, in collaboration with Cohésion, lg2, lg2 boutique, CloudRaker and DentsuBos.
Founded in 1938, Agropur is an important player in the North American dairy industry. With sales of more than $3.8 billion, the Cooperative is a source of pride for its 3,348 dairy producer owners and 6,300 employees. Agropur processes more than 3.3 billion litres of milk per year in its 31 plants across North America and boasts an impressive line of products that includes such prestigious brands as Natrel, Québon, OKA, iögo and Olympic (joint venture – Ultima Foods), Farmers, Agropur Signature, Central Dairies, Agropur Grand Cheddar, Sealtest and Island Farms.
Director, Public Relations and Communications
Agropur Cooperative
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Esquimalt police panel costs won't be covered by province
Township expects to appeal decision to leave Esquimalt on the hook
Sep. 18, 2012 5:00 a.m.
Esquimalt's mayor hopes to appeal a decision by the B.C. government not to reimburse the township for costs incurred by its police advisory panel.
The panel developed a report on Esquimalt's policing options and ultimately recommended that the municipality switch to the RCMP from VicPD for its police services, as a cost-saving measure.
The province rejected those recommendations in June, but left the township to foot the bill.
In a letter received by council on Monday, assistant deputy minister Clayton Pecknold said the current fiscal environment does not allow the province to provide further funding to the township.
"We're going to be sending a letter back expressing our disappointment and concern, and letting police services and Mr. Pecknold know we will be looking into an appeal process, perhaps going to the ombudsman's office regarding these decisions," Mayor Barb Desjardins said.
Council also took issue with the province's refusal to cover Esquimalt's costs, going forward, with implementing the 43 recommendations of a provincially appointed mediator.
"We feel very strongly that the province needs to step up in terms of reimbursement in some way," Desjardins said.
Esquimalt and Victoria pay more per resident for police services than any other municipality in the Capital Regional District.
dpalmer@vicnews.com
Saanich woman beaten, mugged while walking home
City of Victoria's green targets need community support
Public warned of night firing exercises in Saanich after evidence of trespassing
Routine shooting practice to take place at Heals Range from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday


It's clear that employees and members need to understand the tax implications around accessing their retirement savings. For example, do they know that typically only the first 25 percent of a defined contribution pension is tax free and that the remaining 75 percent is taxed as earned income?
It is clear that governments across Europe are looking to address concerns over the lack of retirement readiness of the working population. The concern is well founded with projections showing an ageing population where the ratio of the working age population (those aged 15-64) to the retired population (those aged over 65) is expected to drop from 4:1 to 2:1 by 2060. Contributor Mark Sullivan, Head of International Benefits Consulting.
The background to this really is that there's been a lot of growing concern, I think since freedom and choice came in, that perhaps people are making choices that are not the best choices possible. And some of the background to that is there's a lot of evidence that people are cashing in their pension pots completely.
The Amendment Act of August 25 2016 introduced into Turkish law the automatic enrolment of employees in private pension plans. As a result, employees under the age of 45 must be enrolled in a private pension plan as part of a pension agreement between their employer and a pension company. Contributor Beri̇l Yayla Sapan - Gün + Partners (Turkey).
Our recent survey amongst employers investigated what workplace support is available to help employees understand how to make the most of their finances throughout their career in order to optimise income at-retirement. It found that employees are at immense risk of retirement income shortfall.
How can pension freedoms benefit everyone?
Whilst it is reassuring that the highest rates of regulated advice use are from those that go into drawdown – 69 percent according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), it is weighted towards those with larger pot sizes. Overall, accessing pension pots early has become the norm. The FCA found that 72 percent of pots that have been accessed are by consumers under 65 - most choosing to take lump sums rather than a regular income.
Employers selecting DC default investment funds for their workforce pensions assume they're making a wise investment choice. However, a new report, 'Who's performing well?' Article by Steve Butler, Chief Executive, Punter Southall Aspire.
In 2016, employers contributed £42 billion[i] to UK workplace pension schemes. A sum which is not inconsiderable and one that is only likely to increase as greater number of employees become automatically enrolled. But apart from fulfilling your regulatory requirements, what is your company actually getting for your significant investment in the UK pensions industry? Article by Matthew Doyle, Managing Director of the Pensions Quality Mark (PQM).
This feature will take a look at the face of constant change involved in pension schemes and how HRDs can win buy-in from employees. It will look at the different types of change occurring as well as the key communication methods and procedures HRDs have to meet to make sure the transition is met smoothly. Article by Karen Partridge at AHC. She is Head of Client Services - UK & Australia.


— Words of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, quoted by Selassie in an address during the Indian President's state visit to Ethiopia (13 October 1965), quoted in Foreign Affairs Record Vol. 11-12 (1965-1966) by India Ministry of External Affairs, p. 266; Radhakrishnan is also quoted as having made these remarks in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vol. 5 (1939-1940).


A key endorsement picked up by attorney general candidate former Rep. Jeff Landry will help, but does not establish him as the favorite in the runoff election with fellow Republican incumbent Buddy Caldwell.
Caldwell, whose chumminess with trial lawyers, related to his habit of reeling out contingency contracts for state business, and his poor choices in what cases to pursue and how made conservatives suspicious enough of the former Democrat to have the state GOP endorse Landry. The general election saw Caldwell pull only 35 percent of the vote, narrowly leading Landry's 33 percent.
In third place came Gerri Broussard-Baloney, the officially-endorsed Democrat who drew 18 percent. Recently, she surprisingly endorsed Landry despite her long-time affiliation with the left wing of state Democrats, citing his reform agenda for the office.
While for him unexpected good news, this by itself will not push Landry's candidacy over the goal line. Broussard-Baloney and the other black Democrat in the general election, Ike Jackson, between them garnered 29 percent, with the overwhelming proportion of that likely from black Democrats. It overreacts to believe that more than even a relatively small portion of her vote will head Landry's way as a result of her nod to him, and probably even less of Jackson's.
Black Democrats at the polls later this month will not have, to them, by far the most important cue in making a voting decision – partisanship, since both candidates run as Republicans. If the Landry camp can exploit her affirmation by such things as advertisements and direct mail targeted to the black community, that can generate some votes. But Caldwell and state Democrats, who surely prefer him, also can disseminate pieces favoring Caldwell, if not indirectly reminding that he once was a Democrat, in a targeted fashion.
More importantly, black politicians and other leaders can get the word out through their own organizations and networks that Caldwell is the guy. In absence of a party cue, black Democrats will give this information priority if it gets to them. If these functionaries make the effort, even if Jackson subsequently were to endorse Landry, the GOP challenger will do well to capture a quarter of the black Democrat vote.
Voting by white Democrats and some Republicans remains Landry's biggest impediment. He'll likely receive last-place Republican Marty Maley's voters, but combining them and a quarter of the black vote only brings him to 44 percent under the same turnout model. Only a large surge by registered Republicans can boost him further past this mark.
And that could happen. Compared to the 2014 general elections featuring the Senate contest, the percentage of GOP registrants voting at under 46 percent was down 16 points, while black turnout at 35 percent was down 12 points and white Democrats' at 49 percent dropped just 9 points. Keep in mind as well that historically statewide runoff elections tend to see boosts in turnout while those for Senate tend to decline, which magnifies for the former the impact of higher-turnout groups. Were the GOP totals for a runoff to reach 2014's level of 54 percent and top the white Democrat totals by the 2014 margin of around 5 percent (that is, stays the same from the general election) and of blacks by 15 percent (that is, increases only 4 percent), Landry has a path to victory.
But it's not as simple as thinking a good portion of Broussard-Baloney's vote automatically migrates to Landry, as the usually incisive The Hayride seems to believe. Even with this endorsement, only a much better turnout among Republicans, and relative to other groups, will allow Landry to knock off Caldwell.


What is the maximum fine for a second DUI conviction?
What is the maximum fine for a second DUI conviction in the state of Idaho?
If a driver is charged with DUI and has a prior conviction within the last 10 years, that driver will be charged with a second DUI. It is up to the judge to determine a defendant's sentence.
The second DUI conviction requires at least two days in jail, but can be up to one year. Fines can be up to $2,000. It is still considered a misdemeanor.
What About Two Excessive DUI Convictions?
If the driver faces an excessive DUI charge and has a previous conviction of excessive DUI within 5 years it becomes a felony violation. The driver will face a mandatory 30 days in county jail, or up to five years in the state penitentiary. Fines increase to $5,000, and driver's license suspension lasts for 5 years with one year mandatory no driving privileges upon release and the installation of an ignition interlock device.


830-X-8-.01 Form And Content Of Notifications.
In addition to the information prescribed by Code of Ala. 1975, § 8-6-115, issuers of industrial revenue bonds shall provide the additional information contained in, and shall file as its notification of intention to issue such bonds, Form IRB-1 as adopted concurrently with this rule or as subsequently amended by the Commission. Copies of said form may be obtained from the Securities Commission, Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1201.
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 8-6-11, 8-6-113, 8-6-115.
History: Filed September 30, 1982. Amended: Filed August 17, 1983. Readopted: Filed November 9, 1983. Amended: Filed September 28, 1990.
2. If the sales and use tax exemptions are not waived and an agreement in writing to make payments equal to and in lieu otherwise applicable ad valorem taxes will not be entered into, includes with the application a statement by the secretary or chairman of the issuing authority that the issuing authority specifically has considered and approved (at a public hearing held after publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the issuer is located, once each week for two consecutive weeks, the first of which was not less than fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing of the meeting to consider the issue of the bonds of which approval by the Commission or the Director is requested) the exercise of the exemptions from taxes by the lessee.
Statutory Authority: Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 8-6-113, 8-6-116.


Rim-Fire Revival – Countryman's Diary Magazine.
Right let's get one thing straight before I go any further with this article, I do not write technical articles, it's not the fact that I cannot write them, it's quite simply it bores the living backside off of me, for some that's what they love to write and for some of you the readers that's what you love to read, but that's just not for me, so if you want a technical article stop reading now and bugger off and read some other muckers well written piece on the subject.
Now that said rant over let's get you out to the hunting field with me and see if we can find ourselves tucked under an old oak tree with the soft summer wind on our faces and the ever so slowly setting sun at our backs whilst we wait for a rabbit or two to come hopping from the safety of their warrens out to feed on the lush meadow laid out before us.
Nothing makes me think of how my journey into rifle shooting started more than 30 years ago than the mighty little .22 rim-fire rifle, over the years I have hunted or shot targets all over the world with some if not all the calibre's there are right up to 50 cal, but nothing makes me smile more and gives me more pleasure to shoot than the mighty little .22 rim-fire, for it was with this little rifle I shot my first rabbit on my rifle shooting journey some 35 years ago now, that distinct thumb when the little bullet made contact on target as the rabbit jumped in the air then lay stone dead on the floor 40 yards away as my Pappy/Dad and uncle Dave looked on.
I still smile with pride now at just that memory with my mentors looking on at me as I took the rabbit open sighted with Uncle Dave's rifle with the Martini Action on his own farm, the farm was where they all taught me how to shoot everything from air rifle and air pistol to shot gun and back in those days live shot pistols too, this was where my Uncle Dave taught me how to shoot open sighted with everything from .22 rim-fire right up to the 303 Lee Enfield, Uncle Dave's farm was a paradise for a country boy like me to grow up on, with mentors that many can only dream of.
So my love and passion for this mighty little calibre that punches way above and beyond its weight goes back to well my childhood, it's also the calibre that pretty much everyone starts off with and although they may move up to bigger calibers the .22 rim-fire is the one caliber that pretty much every one keeps across the sands of time, it's what I consider the farmers gun the land rover gun the choice of the countryman no matter where you are from, it matters not if you are in the back woods of the United States hunting squirrel the high planes of Australia smacking feral cats or in a majestic lush green meadow in my Beloved Somerset here in England.
I wrote an article called Sweet 17 all about the 17hmr another nice caliber but most certainly not my favorite caliber nor does it hold such a fond memory or do I have the same passion for it as I have for the .22 rim-fire, others may disagree and although I shoot very well with the 17hmr for me it's still a very expensive and obtrusive crack from the muzzle report of that caliber, I will say though as part of my professional pest control business both rifles get used an awful lot as I consider them both to have the quality needed for each individual job I ask to do, or as my Pappy would say use the right size hammer to hit the nail in the whole, I will tell you of this a little further on in this article.
I get called out to some pretty sensitive VIP jobs at some very high profile venues, in fact I now shoot well over 21.000 acres on my books ranging from Cornwall right up to Scotland from West Wales right over to East Anglia and everywhere in between, you see my clients call upon me after being highly recommended, I really have no need to advertise my services for pest control/deer management/habitat management etc, you see I work very hard as my good reputation goes before me, its taken the best part of 25 years to build my highly recommended reputation and those that truly know me know I have earned every part of this fine reputation for a job well done.
My Pappy always said you are only as good as your last job and he was right to the wise old goat that he was god rest his soul, so I treat every job and client with the same high standards no matter weather a lord or a small holding and that is why some of the huge clients I do I have had on the books for over 20 years.
I was taught by the masters my mentors and they taught me to use the best tools you can afford for the job in hand, this is something I pride myself in buy once cry once, I have used all sorts of .22 rim-fire ammo over the last 25 years but finally settled for the Winchester 40grn sub Sonic's, that was until they changed them and my rifles hated the new ones so a search was made for a replacement, I have now settled for the Fiocchi subs I get from www.reallywildadventures.co.uk they are deadly accurate pack an almighty punch and do what they say on the tin, normal service has been resumed.
I do a lot of high profile sports grounds as part of my work, I have found that on the driving ranges of golf courses the .22 rim-fire is a fantastic tool, it's almost silent and bowls rabbits over lovely out to a 100 yards, now I know some of us can shoot further but I don't like too, my rule is inside a 100 yards that's the .22 rim-fire territory and no other caliber is allowed in this hallowed ground, not only that the rounds are a fraction of the cost of other calibers and its quite no obtrusive muzzle reports, 100 yards to 200 yards that's the 17hmr territory so like I said both guns have their place in my armoury, after 200 yards learn your field craft and get closer or use another method of control, I am talking rabbit control here by the way, I also love to use the awesome NiteSite Wolf with both these rifles on my rabbit control etc.
I will take you along for a hunt with me, I am called out by a frantic golf course owner, a friend of another client of mine, the poor fellow sounded like he was at his whit's end he really did not know what to do with himself, I went along in daylight to view the problem site and to hear his tale of woe.
I like to view every job in daylight not only to see the damage but track and build up a picture of what's safe to shoot and what's not etc, I also use infa red glow sticks with the night vision to mark off safety zones or no shoot zones, I could see what the poor fellow was talking about as I drove up the beautiful drive up to the club house, rabbits were all over the place I could of shot a dozen on my way up, but until my contract is signed and all the paper work done, I will never take a gun from its slip, what's the point in having the insurance etc if you don't cross the Ts and dot the I,s, also this covers your back side if the police are called etc in the early hours or late at night whilst you are there on vermin control duty, you will be surprised how often the police do get called after some old lady takes one look at you as you take a gun from the truck as they are walking their dog or something.
The place was like water ship down on speed, there were rabbits everywhere they also had another problem the place was swarming with rooks and other corvids, the rabbits ate everything and dug holes everywhere the corvids(crow family) destroyed the greens in search of worms and grubs etc, literally thousands of pounds worth of damage daily was being caused so you can see why the poor fellow was at his whit's end, I explained this is not going to be an overnight solution and will be an on-going job, you know I have been on that site the best part of ten years now and I tell you it looks a much different place because of my presence.
All the paper work signed I met the green keeping team and advised them of what they could do to help etc, I also got asked to deal with the ever growing mole problem too but we will get to that in another article.
I remember starting off on the driving range this particular evening, I set up the .22 rim-fire on the NiteSite Viper and put the NiteSite Wolf on my 17hmr this was because some of the rabbits would be further than 100 yards, how did I know this? because the kindly golf course owner had range markers clearly displaying the ranges with windage flags attached to each one.
I thought to myself how kind of him to set me up a functioning rifle range, I still say to this day a golf course is a wilful miss use of a perfectly good rifle range, so with the flags and markers I can tell exactly how far these rabbits are and tell the windage etc, this was like the Rolls Royce of rabbit control for this rough ole country boy.
Just picture this I am sat there under the nice roof cover of the driving range, all set up both rifle with a NiteSite system on them on a sturdy table with sand bags on and my ole Dad armed with the NiteSite spotter calling the targets for me as they enter the arena for the games to begin, this really was a palace for a rabbit shooter like me, that and with a fresh supply of hot tea or coffee too, Boys I telle it just don't get any better than this.
Dad spots the first rabbit coming in from the hedgerow to the right he stopped between the 50 and 60 yard marker, I estimated about 56 yards cranked up the .22 rim-fir and NiteSite Viper and well the rest was as easy as pie as I let him have it, the rabbit jumped in the air and dropped stone dead to the perfect head shot, I made the gun safe and went back to drinking my tea sat on my comfy chair inside stand number 1 of the driving range building, I thought blimey I could get used to this if the shooting went on like that, for an hour or so the rabbits started to come out at 100 yards+ so the 17hmr came out to play and did very well too, I switched between each gun as the rabbits came out at their respective ranges for the next hour or so, by the time we had finished we had a pile of empty bullet cases on the floor and a large pile of very dead rabbits to pick up.
Although the 17 hmr played a part here it was the .22 that filled the bag cost a lot less in ammo and I enjoyed the most, I know some of you reading this will say I am not going back to a .22 and then there are those who love nothing more than their .22 like me.
I even love .22 in my air rifles as below bagging bunnies on the golf course with the awesome NiteSite System.
My final thoughts as I order another 500 rounds of Fiocchi .22 rim-fire rounds from www.theoutpostshop.co.uk is never under estimate the mighty little .22 rim-fire she is as feisty as Jack Russell and as smooth as Cadbury's Caramel, there will always be a place for the .22 rim-fire in my gun room and will always be my first choice when it comes to my vermin control.
I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I have enjoyed writing it, please keep your letters and emails coming in and we will do our very best to get back to you, but some do get through the net just like a rabbit slipping out of a purse net, until my next article come find me on face book on The Old Hedge Creepers page or on The Countryman's Diary.


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THE CONSISTORY: The List
Seconds ago, in the setting of the General Audience on this feast of the chair of Peter, Benedict XVI announced that he would hold his first Consistory to create new cardinals on Friday, 24 March. The announcement was met with applause. The Pope called it opportune" to make the announcement on the Feast of Cathedra Petri, "becacuse the cardinals have the charge of sustaining and helping the successor of Peter," and their unique service of the whole church alongside the Pope.
The pontiff announced that he will hold to the fixed limit of 120 cardinals under the age of 80, and therefore able to elect a Pope. That figure was set by Paul VI in 1975, and ignored by John Paul II toward the end of the latter's pontificate.
In order of their placement on the biglietto, the cardinals-designate are:
Archbishop William Levada, Archbishop-emeritus of San Francisco, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Archbishop Franc Rode, C.M., Archbishop-emeritus of Ljubljana, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
Archbishop Agostino Vallini, Bishop-emeritus of Albano, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino of Caracas
Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales of Manila
Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux
Archbishop Antonio Canizares Llovera of Toledo
Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk of Seoul
Archbishop Sean O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap. of Boston
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow
Archbishop Carlo Caffara of Bologna
Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B of Hong Kong
The Pope announced his intent to elevate three additional clerics who are above voting age to the College of Cardinals, in recognition of their service to the life of the church
Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza de Montezemolo, Archpriest of St. Paul's Outside the Walls
Archbishop-emeritus Peter Proeku Dery of Tamale, Ghana
Father Albert Vanhoye, S.J., former secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission
And now, if you'll excuse me, it's time to open the champagne. In a month's time, I'm going back to Disney World.
CARDINAL O'MALLEY
"In Latinum!"
And, For Those Curious....
IT'S A GO
The M Monologue
For those just dropping in, word arrived overnight...
Don Gius -- A Year On
Nicora to.... Assisi?
Death in the Village


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Vakuum pumpa za penis ili penis pumpa je cilindar sa pumpom (sa ili bez merača pritiska), koji se stavlja preko penisa (polnog uda) kako bi se njenom upotrebom povećao penis i/ili zadržala erekcija. Njena funkcija se zasniva na izvlačenju vazduha i stvaranju vakuuma nakon pumpanja, koji ima za cilj da negativnim pritiskom povuče krv iz tela i uveća njegovu količinu u kavernoznom telu penisa.

Fiziologija penisa
Penis je polni organ koji je sastavljen od tri cilindrična tela erektilnog tkiva (sunđerastog tkiva koje je puno sitnih krvnih sudova) po celoj dužini polnog organa. Erekcija nastupa kada se organizam počne slati veće količine krvi u penis preko prethodno raširenih arterija, a ta krv napuni cilindrična, sunđerasta područja. Kada se cilindrična tela napune krvlju, ona stvaraju kontrapritisak na krvne sudove koji odvode krv iz penisa, što dovodi do toga da u penis dolazi više krvi nego što iz njega izlazi, zato on postaje, i ostaje izvesno vreme uvećan i tvrd.

Pomoću posebnih tehnika moguće je uticati i na povećan protok krvi u penis, kako bi se time još viśe uticalo na njegovu veličinu.

Istorija
Prvi spomen takvog uređaja datira iz 1844. godine, u knjizi francuskog doktora Vincenta Marie Mondata, koji se bavio izučavanjem steriliteta kod muškaraca i žena i načinima kako on može da se leči. On je u svojim istraživanjima prvi opisao instrument koji je nazvao "kongestor" () za koji je smatrao da pomaže u lečenju erektilne disfunkcije, kao jednog od uzroka muškog steriliteta.

Opšte informacije
Upotrebu vakuum pumpa za penis u svrhu povećanja njegove veličine i/ili erektilnosti, treba smatrati:
 svesnim životnim izborom,
 zdravstvenim rizikom i mogućim neuspehom,
 redovnom obavezom, koja se npr. ne može primeniti jednom nedeljno kako bi se trajno dobila idealna veličina ili erekcija penisa, već redovno prema propisanim protokolima.

Pored funkcije za uvečanje polnog uda ili dobijanje što "tvrđe" erekcije penisa (ako se pumpa za penis koristi kao medicinsko pomoćno sredstvo), pumpa se takođe koristi i za druge namene. Pa se tako vakuum pumpa za penis koristi za masturbaciju ili erotske igre, npr. igre mučenja muških genitalija, i druge stimulativne radnje tokom seksualnog zadovoljavanja.

Vrste pumpi i princip rada
Vrste
U prodaji se nalazi više vrsta pumpi za penis, koje se u principu zasnivaju na primeni vode ili vazduha.

Princip rada
Princip rada vakuumske pumpe za penis je jednostavan. Penis se najlakše postavlja u pumpu, kada je u erekciji i obilno namazan kremom za penis ili lubrikantom, kako bi prodiranje u pumpu bilo što lakše, takođe potrebno je namazati i gumice pumpe kremom ili lubrikantom, da bi penis lakše prošao kroz njih.

Ukoliko penis ne može da dostigne erekciju, potrebno je ugurati ga lagano u pumpu i onda cilindar pumpe, pribiti što više uz telo ili sam koren penisa i započeti vakuumiranje.

Pumpanjem se iz cilindra izbacujese  vazduh (snižavanjem pritiska unutar cilindra pumpe) i tako stvara vakuum, što rezultuje povlačenjem količine krvi u penis koja širi tkivo kako bi se kompenzovala razlika u novonastalom (sniženom) pritisku. Nakon priliva veće količine krvi u njegovo telo, penis natekne – često van svojih standardnih proporcija, zavisno od pritiska, i priliva krvi.

Iako je nakon završenog pumpanja penis prepun krvi, i uvećan, efekt je privremen.

Osnovna pretpostavka na osnovu koje se i tumači povećanja penisa zasnovana je na tome, da se češćom upotrebom pumpe stvaraju mikro oštećenja na ćelijskom nivou u tkivu penisa, koja nakon reparacije (odmora) rezultuju većim promerom penisa.

Preporuke
Preporuka je da se prvih 7-10 dana penis pumpa, ne koristi više od 2 minuta u toku dana, kako ne bi došlo do preteranog pucanja kapilara penisa. Takođe tokom prvih 7-10 dana korišćenja pumpe, ne sme se dozvoliti izjednačavanje pritisak u cilindru pumpe i pumpici za pumpanje, jer bi u tim uslovima pumpa dostigla maksimalnu vrednos vakuuma, pa bi samim time penis bio pod ogromnim vakuumom i opterećenjem, koje može dovesti do težih oštećenja tkiva i krvnih sudova.

Nakon dve nedelje redovnog vežbanja, intervali ne bi trebalo da budu duži od 3-5 minuta u toku dana i da se kasnije, svakodnevno po malo povećavaju, da bi nakon tri meseca, došlo do toga da ukupno vreme vežbanja sa pumpom bude oko 10 minuta, 2-3 puta dnevno, uz prethodnu masažu i zagrevanje penisa, kako bi se postigla njegova maksimalna prokrvljenost.

Preporuka je i da se uz penis pumpu koristi i neka od gumica za održavanje erekcije kako bi penis i duže bio u jakoj erekciji, nakon skidanja pumpe sa njega. Gumice za održavanje erekcije funkcionišu na principu zadržavanja krvi u samom penisu i ne dozvoljavaju da se ona vrati u telo, pa samim time čini erekciju jačom i penis dosta čvršćim.

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Eloquent defender of diversity and métissage, the great Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant died on February 3 in Paris, at the age of 82. Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, thinker, [and exponent of the concept of] creolization, he was born in Sainte-Marie (Martinique) on September 21, 1928 and conducted studies in Philosophy and Ethnology in Paris.
His success upon winning the Prix Renaudot in 1958 for his novel La Lézarde made the general public aware of this intellectual, who never separated his literary creation from a militant reflection. Influenced by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, he construed the history and geography of the Caribbean politically, demonstrating his revolt against racisms of any type and evoking the indelible mark of slavery on the relationship between France and Africa and all overseas territories.
Opposing any imposed systems and any rejection of the other, Edouard Glissant has been champion of métissage and exchange, formulating in his essays gathered in the "Poétique" series his theses on Philosophie de la relation [philosophy of relation] and Poétique du divers the [poetics of the diverse]. He refused to be constrained by single genre, moving constantly between the novel, essay, and poetry, even within a single work.
Edouard Glissant, who shared at once a respectful and conflicting relationship with Aimé Césaire, the other great personality of the Caribbean world, also expressed his concern for literary parentage, through writers and "disciples" [I would rather translate this as supporting scholars] such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, or Ernest Pépin.
His novels, from Quatrième siècle (Seuil 1965) to Ormerod (Gallimard 2003), are geared towards a mythical and imaginary world, far from any naturalism, but also imbued with picturesque elements specific to certain Caribbean novelists.
Thank you for publishing this notice. He will be missed. He opened the path to many other great Caribbean thinkers, and he showed so many of us to embrace our own spiral. Forever errant…forever walking the burning beach.
This is truly sad news, Glissant was (and will continue to be) an incredibly important writer, poet, critic, theoretician an, and individual!!!!! A profound loss to the Caribbean and the world! I am in mourning. "Thanks" for posting this profoundly sad news.
He was and will always be my most revered role model.


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3. ENERHAT For building owners. To know the current status of the building (EPC, BTI) and the economic cost of the refurbishment ENERPAT For city planners. To evaluate the current status of the building of a municipality, and to apply large- scale renovation programmes in an urban area.
38. References Madrazo, L., Sicilia Á., Massetti, M., Plazas, F.L., and Ortet E. (2108). Enhancing Energy Performance Certificates with Energy Related Data to Support Decision Making for Building Retrofitting. Thermal Science, 22:S957-S969. doi:10.2298/TSCI171005028M. Ministerio de Fomento (2014). Estrategia a largo plazo para la rehabilitación energética en el sector de la edificación en España en desarrollo del artículo 4 de la Directiva 2012/27/UE. Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento. Simulador de mesures de rehabilitació energètica d'edificis. Available online: http://simuladoredificis.icaen.gencat.cat (accessed on 14 June 2017). Cuaderno práctico "Rehabilitación energética de edificios" (http://icaen.gencat.cat/web/.content/10_ICAEN/17_publicacions_informes/04_ coleccio_QuadernPractic/quadern_practic/arxius/10_rehabilitacio_edificis.pdf).


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In conversation with Felipe Massa
18/10/2019 Drivers, Feature, Formula E, Interviews, News, Teams, Testing
In an exclusive interview with Felipe Massa at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, the Brazilian Venturi driver talked about the new car, the challenges for the upcoming season and his first impressions on pre-season testing.
Massa will enter into his sophomore season of Formula E off the back of an up-and-down rookie campaign that yielded one podium finish on the streets of Monaco.
With many testing laps under his belt this weekend at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, e-racing.net sat down with the Brazilian to discuss the upcoming season and what he learned from season five.
ERN: What would you highlight as the main lesson learned from your rookie season that will be of good use to season six?
FM: "I believe that a lot, in Formula E everything is a learning process. The tracks, the car, the way of driving the car, the way of understanding the car, the battery, everything is a new experience. A driver who competes in Formula E undoubtedly needs a little time to understand, to learn, to gain experience, to know everything about the car, the competition, and the tracks.
"All the tracks I raced in [last season] were new to me, now I have more experience and in different areas, both with the car, with the team, overall with the way of driving, but with the tracks as well, so no doubt it can be a lot easier, not easy because each season is a new challenge but it is certainly a bit more relaxed because I already know what to expect, the gained experience certainly helps."
ERN: On Wednesday during testing, 21 of a total of 24 cars were separated by less than a second, indicating another highly competitive season, what are your thoughts about that?
FM: "Yes, indeed, that's Formula E. Last year, the cars were very close to each other. This season, having 24 cars fighting within a one-second gap is incredible. If you take a look at all championships there are, you'll see it is extremely hard to find a championship as competitive as Formula E is and with so many exceptional teams, manufacturers and high-level drivers.
"Formula E has nothing to envy with any other motorsport championship."
ERN: Do you think that your presence in the championship may influence young Brazilian drivers to see Formula E as an ultimate goal in their careers and not only Formula 1?
FM: "Without a question, arriving into Formula 1 continues to be a driver's dream, to perhaps one day make it to F1, but I believe that the chances to get to that goal are less with each season. Nowadays, there are 20 seats in Formula 1 and to get one of those seats we know it is extremely complicated, as a consequence, the opportunities to make it into another championship are more likely.
"In my opinion, Formula E is an ever-growing championship where both, young and experienced drivers are interested in taking part and compete in it, if not now, in the future. Drivers racing in Formula 1 are certainly considering racing in Formula E as I did, and now I'm part of this championship.
"It is an example to drivers, the younger ones who dream to be here today, as well as to experienced drivers, who perhaps when ending their careers in Formula 1 can come to Formula E, the electric series is without a doubt the path to most drivers today."
ERN: How do you see the base categories in Brazil, and which driver would you bet on that is more likely to grow in this increasingly competitive world of motorsport?
FM: "As I see it, the bottom-up categories in Brazil are yet a bit complicated. We don't have a base category for the riders to go-karting and then race in a Formula series so that they can get that experience before going to Europe or another country. We do have the kart, and I'm helping by taking the kart world championship to Brazil in 2020. This is a very important step for motorsport, for young people too, but there is yet a need for a bottom-up category for drivers to being able to grow, learn and get more experience to arrive in Europe better prepared.
"We have some drivers who are showing results like the Fittipaldi brothers, both Pietro and Enzo. We have, in my opinion, a driver who has a great talent, which is Caio Collet. He is in Formula Renault, next year I don't know in which category he will race, but he is a driver who has been showing a lot of talent. Other young drivers are battling as well to get a chance in Formula 1, but if I'd have to point to one, it would be Caio Collet."
ERN: What happened in the chicane on Wednesday?
FM: "I ended up hitting the wall, I wasn't the only one, I guess like ten cars crashed there too (laughs), ending my day. I run five laps in the afternoon but then and we had a technical problem and that's when the day came to an end. It wasn't a very productive day for me, but our other car [Edoardo Mortara] was able to develop some important things, it got better, having a more productive day.
"I experienced a problem that can happen, but the team has been evolving and I that is the most important. Hopefully, we will continue to evolve on Friday to be as prepared as we can for the first race. Everything is new, the powertrain is from Mercedes-Benz, time does also goes by really fast, and we know that there's work to be done so everything is perfect to the first race, it is not easy, but we will try to get as prepared as possible."
ERN: During your rookie season you achieved a podium with a third-place at the team's home race in Monaco. What are your expectations and goals for the upcoming season?
FM: "One always wants to improve, to get better results, perhaps to conquer more podiums, fight for victories. The expectations are always higher, you want to do better than last season. We have a bigger potential as a team, stronger technical equipment from a manufacturer which is used to compete at the highest level, there is a lot of work ahead but the odds for us to develop faster than last season are greater."
ERN: What's your opinion on the yet to be build race track in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro?
FM: "I am 100% positive in building new circuits, what I´m not supportive about is to try to build a race track to take Formula 1 from Sao Paulo and bring it to Rio de Janeiro. Public money should not be used to build racetracks, the traditional way for this to happen would be with private investments.
"Brazil has already too many problems to worry about whether or not public money is going to be used to build a racing circuit, I hope that is not the case, that the financing comes from the private sector. Perhaps it would be better to have a Formula E race in Rio, on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, showing the beautiful city sightings instead of building a circuit in a place that won't show either the beauty of the city and is far from ideal."
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I don't mean to pull a public shaming on you, but a large corporation such as HSN could surely pull together more than $2500 – AND you're begging for your customers to donate their meager virtual tickets? Thousands and thousands of flood victims need help. I think you can do better….
My thoughts EXACTLY! $2500 is pitiful from a company as large as HSN and who, I am sure, got a lot of their profits from customers in Texas. And the fact that you want tickets donated in order for HSN to donate is even more pitiful. Should be more like $250,000.
Ladies you are all correct. Hsn does donate to charities when in fact they don't have to do this. As far as Yardley24 goes I applaud your efforts to suggest a larger donation. I say it doesn't hurt to ask, you never know. Unless people in the community attack you for your efforts. So the shame is on you also. If we all ask maybe they might raise the donation. Let's focus on the people who are suffering and need all the help they can get. Give all you are able to give even a dollar. If everyone in the country gave ONE DOLLAR that would be millions.
HSN isn't making anyone give tickets for a donation.This is an extra donation so people on the forums with tickets can contribute and HSN will make a donation for them.A lot of us like to donate the tickets as a way of giving back.Quiet a few people ask for this to be set up and I think its great that they did it this way.Every time I give tickets I feel good knowing HSN will donate funds and it doesn't cost us anything.So its an extra donation perk on top of HSNs other support.Pretty sure they give way more than $2500 to charity. Not really nice to be shaming regarding an amount that is given.A lot of places give and never make it public too.
Yardley24 Of COURSE you meant to do a public shaming on HSN; that's why you started your post the way you did. There's also the fact that you posted ANYTHING AT ALL about the topic so… yeah, you meant to shame them.
Yardleyd24 HSN Cares does a great deal more than this donation. Because we in the community asked a long time ago to be able to donate tickets toward charities, they crafted this mechanixm to do it a few times a year. You can read about all the causes HSN Cares supports here You can also make cash donations through them if you want.


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Feel The Burn: Mázi Piri Piri Hot Sauce
This piri-piri sauce delivers serious heat.
By Ganda Suthivarakom
I am a hot sauce fanatic, but I've never been lured by condiments that treat capsaicin-loading as a competitive sport. A dose should impart flavor that blooms on the palate as it smolders; it shouldn't just explode in your mouth. That's why I love Mazi's piri-piri sauce, named for an extremely hot pepper with a citrusy kick. This Portuguese-style, oil-based chile sauce has a balance of brine and heat, more unctuous than the vinegar-based Tabasco, yet less pulpy than sriracha. I use it as a marinade for chicken, dab it on fried eggs, and splash some on rice and beans. It adds a slow, bright burn without elbowing other flavors out of the way. I'd sip it by the spoonful if I could handle the sting.
This piquant elixir comes from an unlikely source. Peter Mantas, a former manager for Jon Bon Jovi, cofounder of the Asbury Music Awards, and longtime fixture of the New Jersey music and nightlife scene, and his life partner, Leslie Feingold, have been crafting batches of piri-piri sauce for the past 11 years. The condiment originated in the Portuguese colonies of Africa; Mantas first fell in love with it in Portugal, where he worked as a cook in the '90s. "It's like ketchup is in the States," he says. "You're going to find it everywhere, and every one is a little bit different." Mantas surveyed Portuguese cooks on how to make the sauce: Oil, garlic, and piri-piri pepper were all constant ingredients, but then the recipes diverged—some called for vinegar, lemon juice, or whiskey, the latter of which Mantas found he preferred for its smoky effect. Mantas makes his own using local hardneck garlic and piri-piris he grows himself and sun-dries. What makes this piri-piri stand out is the unconventional use of tomato sauce as a base, which adds a lush thickness and a fruity tang. He purees the elements and stirs each batch constantly to emulsify the oil, which gives the mixture a luxurious, creamy mouth-feel. Once the sauce has cooled, Mantas ages it in whiskey barrels for one week to intensify the oaky flavor.
New Jerseyites first sampled the sauce in 2001, when Mantas and Feingold opened a restaurant in Bradley Beach called Mazi. Mantas put frango com piri-piri, or Portuguese grilled chicken with piri-piri sauce, on the menu and placed a bottle of the condiment on every table. Soon, customers were asking to take the sauce home. Though the restaurant has since closed, Mazi's piri-piri sauce lives on in the kitchen of Asbury Park's Langosta Lounge. There, Mantas works as an entertainment director and maitre d', Feingold as a baker, and the two continue to churn out the sauce. While piri-piri is beloved in Africa and Portugal, it's less known in the U.S. And that's okay with Mantas. "Until Heinz calls and says they want to give me their chili sauce—making equipment, we're staying little, artisanal, and handmade, producing plenty of sauce." A bottle of Mazi's piri-piri sauce costs $9.99 at sicklesmarket.com.


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Waste Not, Want Not: A Phosphorus Tale
Posted on March 20, 2014 By Lynn Broaddus
As usual, Ben Franklin had it largely right with his sage advice: "Waste not, want not." Take phosphorus, for instance. It's a ubiquitous and much-needed mineral. Along with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, it's one of the fundamental building blocks of life. Phosphorus atoms are essential to every molecule of DNA, RNA and ATP — all fundamental cellular components of every living organism on the planet. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are ubiquitous and readily available in a form that most plants and animals can use, so they tend to not be limiting components. Nitrogen is also abundant, though its gaseous form is not readily available to most plants and animals; that's another story for another day. Phosphorus, though, is in a category unto itself.
Unlike C, H, O and N, phosphorus is generally found in the soil in relatively dilute quantities. From there, plants absorb it, convert it into the life-supporting molecules mentioned above, and grow. You know the story: Plant grows, animal eats plant, another animal eats that animal, and so on. With each sequential phase the phosphorus is taken up by the next consumer and either absorbed into its own cellular components or excreted as, well … let's just say it's excreted. This is a long way of saying that excreta (especially urine and guano) have a lot of phosphorus.
Where it starts to get a little tricky is that in order for plants to grow bigger and bear more fruit or grains, which is what farmers generally want, more phosphorus is needed. Manure can be used to boost growth, but these days the most common way for commercial growers to boost yield is to use fertilizers made from rock phosphate, a concentrated form of phosphorus that is mined from one of a few specific places on the planet. In the U.S., most of that phosphorus comes from one mine in Florida. There are differing perspectives on how long the global phosphorus mines will last, but it's definitely not forever. What this means is that we need to start developing alternative supplies of phosphorus fertilizer, and stretch our existing supply if we want to continue to grow as much food as we currently do.
Meanwhile, it turns out that while phosphorus in the soil helps plants grow, when that phosphorus gets into lakes and rivers it helps algae grow, and pretty much no one likes that. One of the major sources of phosphorus pollution (notice I wrote one, not the only) is effluent from sewage treatment and large-scale farming operations. Generally this is a source of friction between water advocates and waterfront property owners, and sewage treatment agencies. For a variety of historical reasons, most sewage effluent still has considerable amounts of phosphorus. The same is true for large-scale livestock operations, which, from a waste perspective, are basically small cities that produce a lot of manure. So, one naturally thinks, how do we realign this situation so that the phosphorus that is currently being dumped into our rivers and lakes can instead be used by farmers to grow the food we need while extending the life of our nation's phosphate mines?
There are multiple answers to this question, but one that is creating quite the buzz these days is a process that can harvest a form of phosphorus known as "struvite." A blog I wrote on innovation last fall included a paragraph on Ostara, one of the companies that is leading this revolution, that is relevant here:
This is a win-win opportunity because it not only results in cleaner water, but it also eliminates struvite from building up inside of pipes, a costly maintenance problem. Ostara goes beyond the basic technology with its interesting business model. Rather than leaving the utility to have to sell the resulting fertilizer, Ostara purchases it from the utility, and then does the branding, marketing and re-selling itself, allowing it to develop economies of scale that would be impossible for an individual utility. Its signature operation is in Portland, Ore., but the big news this year at WEFTEC was the announcement that Ostara has signed an agreement with Chicago's MWRD, which will make Chicago the world's largest nutrient recovery operation. Interestingly, Chicago has no legal obligation to lower its phosphorus limits. From what David St. Pierre, its general manager, told me, he's taking this step because he and his board want to be out front on this.
The magic of their process, or so I've been told, has to do with pH manipulation. At low pH, the phosphorus stays in solution and does not build up in the pipes. But as soon as the pH starts to rise (which naturally happens in sewage pipes), struvite begins to precipitate out. Ostara has developed a process that captures and harvests the struvite rather than allow it to build up in the pipes where it causes problems. One can think of this like the scale build-up some people experience in their toilets. The scale is essentially struvite. Adding a small amount of vinegar, which is acidic, fairly quickly loosens up the struvite so that it can be quickly scrubbed off of the ceramic toilet bowl.
We can and need to do a better job of getting phosphorus and other nutrients out of our wastewater and out of our waterways. With opportunities like struvite recovery, I like to think this will happen because it's good for everyone: good for people, good for utilities, good for farmers and good for business. To learn more about what leaders in this field are thinking, I hope you'll take a look at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread's recently released convening report, "The Road Toward Smarter Nutrient Management in Municipal Water Treatment." I'd love to know what you think.
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Proving yet again that Star Trek was scarily prescient, NASA has announced that its NEXT ion drive — NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster — has operated continually for over 43,000 hours (five years). This is an important development, as ion thrusters are pegged as one of the best ways to power long-term deep-space missions to other planets and solar systems. With a proven life time of at least five years, NEXT engines just made a very big step towards powering NASA's next-gen spacecraft.
Ion thrusters work, as the name suggests, by firing ions (charged atoms or molecules) out of a nozzle at high speed (pictured above). In the case of NEXT, operation is fairly simple. Xenon (a noble gas) is squirted into a chamber. An electron gun (think cathode ray tube TV) fires electrons at the xenon atoms, creating a plasma of negative and positive ions. The positive ions diffuse to the back of the chamber, where high-charged accelerator grids grabs the ions and propel them out of the engine, creating thrust. The energy to power the electron gun can either come from solar panels, or from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (i.e. a nuclear battery, just like Curiosity).
The downside of ion thrusters, though, is that the amount of thrust produced is minuscule: State-of-the-art ion thrusters can deliver a grand total of 0.5 newtons of thrust (equivalent to the force of a few coins pushing down on your hand), while chemical thrusters (which power just about every spacecraft ever launched) on a satellite or probe deliver hundreds or thousands of newtons. The flip side of this, though — and the reason ion thrusters are so interesting — is that they have a fuel efficiency that's 10 to 12 times greater than chemical thrusters. Obviously, for long trips through space, fuel efficiency is very important.
With such puny thrust, a NEXT-based ion drive would need to run for 10,000 hours — just over a year — to reach a suitable speed for space travel. Dawn, a NASA probe that's powered by previous-generation NSTAR ion thrusters, accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in four days. As a corollary, ion thrusters only work at all because of the near-vacuum of space; if there was any friction at all, like here on Earth, an ion drive would be useless. The good news, though, is that the (eventual) max speed of a spacecraft propelled by an ion drive is in the region of 200,000 miles per hour (321,000 kph).
Moving forward, it now remains to be seen if NASA will use the NEXT on an actual spacecraft. In 2011, NASA put out a request-for-proposals for a test mission that will likely use a NEXT engine, and presumably, following this successful engine test, we might soon hear more news about that. Other space agencies, including the ESA, are also working on spacecraft propelled by ion thrusters.


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