Anyone who has grown houseplants has probably dealt with fungus gnats, aphids, spider mites and other insects that can infest indoor plants. In addition to insect pests, dry air conditions and low light levels can be challenging for houseplants during the winter months. But keeping indoor plants healthy isn't difficult—it just requires a little tender loving care, plant fertilizer, and some natural pest control.
One of the most common insect pests to plague potted plants is the fungus gnat. Adult fungus gnats are tiny flying pests that can swarm like an annoying black cloud whenever an infested houseplant or outdoor potted plant is moved.
Fungus gnats (Bradysia species) are small, mosquito-like insects that commonly infest the growing medium in which houseplants and outdoor potted plants grow. Often, when outdoor plants are brought indoors for the colder months, fungus gnats (and other pests) harbored in the potting mix are also carried indoors, where they can quickly infest the soil of other houseplants.
Fungus gnats can be difficult to control. They thrive in moist potting soil, where they lay their eggs. After the eggs hatch, fungus gnat larvae live in the top two to three inches of the potting soil. In the larval stage, the fungus gnat maggots can cause plant damage by eating plant roots. After about two or three weeks, the fungus gnat maggots pupate in the potting soil to become the tiny black adult gnats that fly erratically when a potted plant is moved.
Letting the potting soil dry out between watering helps control fungus gnats. But sometimes more aggressive measures are needed to control the pests. Fortunately, there are now natural, non-chemical solutions that kill fungus gnat infestations.
Because fungus gnats are closely related to mosquitoes, fungus gnat larvae are effectively killed by BTI—the naturally occurring bacterium that is deadly to mosquito larvae. BTI, short for Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, is deadly to mosquito larvae and fungus gnat larvae but harmless to other living things. The bacterium is nature's way of keeping fungus gnat and mosquito populations down, but it does not harm animals, fish, birds, plants, pets or people.
There is also an environmentally friendly way to kill infestations of adult fungus gnats, aphids, spider mites, scale and other insects that can infest indoor plants. A lightweight horticultural oil, such as organic Summit Year-Round Spray Oil, is an effective way to kill insects on houseplants.
Unlike many other pesticides that kill insects with toxic chemicals, horticultural oil literally smothers insects to death. The oil spray blocks an insect's breathing holes (called spiracles), causing insects to die from asphyxiation. Just spray the horticultural oil on infected plants, and try to cover the insect pests with the oil.
Summit Year-Round Spray Oil (a 32-ounce spray bottle is available at from Summit for under $10) can be used any time during the year because it won't harm plant buds, shoots or leaves. This lightweight oil has no odor, and it will effectively control pests on even sensitive plants such as tropical houseplants, citrus trees and ferns. Horticultural oil kills fungus gnats plus a wide variety of insect pests including aphids, whiteflies, spider mites, mealybugs, scale, thrips, lace bugs and more. Unlike chemical pesticides which can become less effective after repeated use, there is no known build-up of insect resistance to horticultural oil sprays.
Many indoor plants are native to tropical climates, where there is ample rainfall and plenty of humidity. Because these plants are used to steady moisture, they are not always happy in the dry air inside many homes. To increase the humidity, mist the air around plants periodically. Also, keep the potting soil well watered—but not drenched. Most plants appreciate a thorough watering followed by a period of drying out.
Nearly all potted plants also benefit from a regular feeding of plant food. Many water soluble fertilizers are available at garden centers and hardware stores. Mix the fertilizer with water according to the package directions, and give plants a nice soaking. You'll notice that flowering houseplants respond particularly well to regular applications of fertilizer.
One more thing: make sure your houseplants get plenty of light during the winter months. Days are shorter, so they might need to be moved closer to a window so they get the daylight they need for optimum health.


SC Students Can Apply For Post-Matric Scholarship Renewal In Student Login for the year 2018-19.
(i) The scholarships are open to nationals of India.
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(iv) Students studying in Class XI of the Higher Secondary School courses of the XII Class of the Multipurpose High School will not be eligible for it being a continuous school course.
(v) All children of the same parents/guardians will be entitled to receive benefits of the scheme.
Just follow the below steps to apply for the SC Post-Matric Scholarship Renewal 2018-19.
Step 1 : Go to the official website of Karnataka Social Welfare Department through the URL provided above.
Step 3 : It will redirect to the Scholarship Management Information System. Here you have to enter your Registration No and Date of Birth for Student Login.
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If I failed in any subject then scholarship will be given?
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This Thursday, New Era present their latest 'Print Sessions' in association with Ground Release at their Soho area flagship store.
New Era have joined forces with Ground Release to showcase the originality and diversity of talented artists from around the world. 12 prints from different artists will be on sale at the store, with the most anticipated artworks coming from Roid, Pantone, Kem5 and Soten. In celebration of the new Print Sessions, New Era have released two limited edition T-shirts with artwork by graphic designer Ojey. Known for his detailed illustrations and and type-work, German artist Ojey is heavily influenced by the style of the US East Coast, particularly New York.
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Theater from the Inside Out: Interview with JP Dunphy, multitalented DOGFIGHT actor, singer, and dancer
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The son of the Temple basketball coach talks about life as an actor.
Aching for Love in South Camden: SCTC puts on David Schulner's AN INFINITE ACHE
Raymond Croce, artistic director of South Camden Theatre Company, decided "he wanted to stage a play that would speak to a younger audience from across the Delaware Valley. One that might reflect on how millennials feel about life." He chose David Schulner's An Infinite Ache, which plays at SCTC April 26 through May 18, 2019. more…

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Guilt, Hubris, and the Meaning of Martin Luther King – A Conversation with Jesse Lava
by Matt B. on March 20, 2014
A few weeks ago, Jesse Lava sent me one of the most thoughtful and generous emails I've ever received. (It's below.) The ensuing conversation dealt with our contrasting notions about what we're doing when we engage in politics. In particular, we circled round and around the question: is it possible to debate our deepest values?
Jesse Lava: I've been reading your political stuff, particularly the Tim McCarthy conversation and your pieces on political psychology and the OCD/paranoid style in American politics. Something about your voice feels simultaneously heartening and frustrating — endearingly innocent and irretrievably cynical. I can't quite put my finger on why that is. To be clear, this isn't a bad thing. That combination is part of who I am, too. My brother Josh once said in a song that he and I have "the same touch of sappy and irony." Yet the way the duality plays out in you seems different, and I'm not entirely sure what feelings and assumptions are driving it.
Here's an example. In the paranoid piece, which laments how Americans always try to find something wrong in our politics, you close with this: "However passionately we seek to demonstrate the logical consistency of our ideas, something in us knows that we're fooling ourselves. And it's this something…that is the only thing really worth listening to." So it seems like you're making an impassioned plea for both less pessimism and more. We should have an optimistic, constructive politics but stay mired in a state of radical self-doubt that allows for no actual beliefs. I see where you're going with it; I'm not saying this is an outright contradiction. But there's something gnawing at me about this duality. It's almost like you're suggesting that we take the loathing we now aim at others and turn it inward. Almost.
Do you have any idea what i'm talking about?
Matt Bieber: I do! And I'm really glad you wrote this, because I haven't been able to put my finger on it either, and it's unsettling. I'm not sure I'm wrong, exactly, but there is something that I'm not seeing yet. So let's dive in.
My warnings about the weight we place on 'belief' aren't rooted in radical self-doubt or pessimism. Just the opposite, actually. We rely on belief as much as we do precisely because we don't trust ourselves. We want something to lean on, somewhere to ground ourselves, so we make up a bunch of conceptual claptrap and then allow ourselves to forget that we've done so.
But we don't need all that. There is a line from 'The Little Prince': "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." We might also say that what is essential is invisible to conceptual mind.
I'm not saying we can't say anything. Words can be useful. But we need far fewer of them than we actually use. Compassion and care and love, and maybe fairness – I wonder if we need any more than those.
Does this get at some of it?
JL: A bit. But why should we use fewer words? You, for instance, are a word man. You rely on them for expression far more than the ordinary person, as do I. So if you're saying Americans use words way too often, inventing "conceptual claptrap" as a way of feeling better about ourselves, what does that make you? Isn't that pretty self-loathing? I wonder if the same phenomenon is at play: you've got this endearing earnestness in promoting compassion, care, love, and fairness, but it's embedded in what feels like a mindset of hopelessness — like self-flagellation mixed with disgust at your country mixed with a loving exhortation to humankind.
MB: It doesn't feel like self-loathing to me. In fact, if there's any loathing involved, I'm not sure it's really even directed at people. Instead, I think it's mostly targeted at our tendency to self-deceive, to suppress our deepest and most heartfelt intuitions in the name of illusory conceptual clarity. Loving the sinners – myself included – but hating the sin.
More and more, it feels like this line of criticism is coming from a place of care. I don't like turning on the TV and seeing scared people shouting at each other. I don't like watching our politicians strutting around acting tough when it's very clear that they don't know what they're doing. I don't like the way that real human feelings and doubts are treated as deficits in our political culture. None of this is good for us.
When Martin Luther King leveled his critiques of American society, he did do so from a place of love. It pained him profoundly to see people hurting each other (and in the process, hurting themselves). He also knew that there were boundless reserves of love and compassion within us, and that revolutionizing our culture would mean helping each of us get more familiar with those parts of ourselves.
Yes, he absolutely used the language of rights and justice and fairness. But I get the sense that he did so not because he fetishized those concepts, but because he saw them as a kind of shorthand, signposts pointing the way toward truths that we already know deep down.
JL: So what do you think the gnawing duality is about? It feels like we're debating whether it exists, but it seemed at first that something about the idea resonated with you. I'm with you on what you say above. We shouldn't self-deceive. Posturing sucks. And when we critique, we should do it from a place of love. All good stuff. So now I'd like to clarify what we're aiming for as we converse. Is this me trying to convince you that there's something fundamentally negative (paired with something fundamentally positive) about your recent writings? Or are we trying to figure out together what this duality is?
MB: I hadn't clarified the mix of motivations that were going into my writing, even to myself. This conversation has helped me do that. Of course, I still feel anger and frustration at the cruelty, smug indifference, and self-deception that permeate our politics, and those feelings sometimes swamp my efforts at clarity. (Might this be the source of the negativity you feel?) Still, I stand by what I've said about the traps that arise when we're too invested in conceptual thinking and "identity" formation. Do you disagree with any of that?
JL: When it comes to conceptual thinking and identity formation, I think there's a balance to be struck. As long as we're invoking MLK, here's a nugget of his: "We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak." There's a tension between having humility about one's point of view and being confident enough to assert it. We're on a tightrope. Lean too far in one direction and you're Fox News; lean too far in the other and you're stuck in the paralysis of analysis. It's hard to pursue self-empowerment and the dignity of the individual when self-questioning becomes the goal. Indeed it becomes hard to have a voice at all. There's an old joke that says a liberal is someone who won't take his own side in an argument. And I think there's some truth to that. Just as we can fetishize our ideological markers, we can fetishize the questioning of those markers. Both fetishes are dangerous. So perhaps your writing is an attempt to walk that tightrope. You're clearly putting more stock in some values than others — indeed you seem to be holding them up as foundational to a decent politics — but you also reject the notion of certainty, and you reject it on principle. A crass way to put it might be that you long to speak but feel guilty about it. And perhaps that's the hint of self-loathing I'm detecting.
The way your writing comes out, though, I wonder if you're not actually walking the tightrope but straddling it, with your legs sticking way out. Please forgive that tortured metaphor; it's worthy of Tom Friedman. But my point is you may be engaging both sides of the tension. You love certain political principles and you also love self-questioning, so you express both loves with fervor. That imbues your writing with passion, intelligence, and authenticity, but there's a downside: you might end up with both of those dangerous fetishes instead of neither.
MB: Hm. I don't think self-questioning is the goal. I'm not really sure there is a 'goal,' so to speak. But if there is, it'd be something like "trying to see what's really going on inside of us."
This is the reason I don't feel like I'm walking the tightrope you describe. For me, compassion and care aren't a 'point of view;' they're elemental aspects of being human. The more we're in touch with them, the more confident we are, and the less we feel the tendency to analyze and conceptualize. We look around, we see the way that we're treating each other, and we know it's not good enough. That's the place MLK spoke from.
It works in reverse, though, too: the less we're in touch with our own basic impulses, the more we feel the need for some kind of external confirmation – so we stake out a position on the tightrope and defend it. And that's how we get cable news.
JL: Ah, there's a tasty irony here. You bemoan the brash sense of certainty that pervades our politics. But you hold your political values of care and compassion to be so self-evident that they're beyond the realm of argument. Your POV isn't a POV, you say; it's the starting point for any decent conversation. Doesn't that mean anyone who offers a contrary starting point is, by definition, poisoning the political discourse? Doesn't that mean you've won the argument before you've begun? If we're talking certainty, you're coming dangerously close to Fox News territory, my friend. Indeed, in one (limited) sense, you may have passed it. At least at Fox News they relentlessly argue for their foundational political values of freedom, masculinity, and purity. But you seem to be saying that your central values need not be argued for. I agree that self-questioning and self-awareness are great virtues, which is precisely why we shouldn't shield our most sacred values from analysis. It's too convenient.
I myself don't see self-awareness as the goal of political expression, by the way. I think the goal is to bring what's inside of us to the outside. It's to affirm our dignity, our mattering, by making ourselves part of a community of decision-makers and not the mere recipients of others' decisions. At the most basic of levels, political expression is about believing in our own beauty. Yet there's a counterbalance, too: we have to honor the beauty of others by recognizing the legitimacy of their values. I don't mean all values are equally good; we can persuade, cajole, agitate, and activate people in an effort to have our own values guide policymaking. But we can't just define other people's emotional starting points out of existence. We honor them by debating them.
I fear that if we doubt ourselves so radically that we make self-awareness the Holy Grail of political speech — and yet we reject opposing values so foundationally that we refuse to admit them as legitimate parts of the debate — that's when our humanity is diminished.
MB: You keep wanting to re-assimilate what I'm saying into the language of concepts, values, and points of view. But I'm saying that compassion, openness, and care sit below the level of concepts. They are experiences, not propositions – and that's why it's very difficult to 'debate' them. (How does one debate an experience? How would you defend the claim that human beings are "beautiful?")
Broadly speaking, it seems to me that we can think about human beings from one of three different perspectives. Either we are basically good, basically bad, or basically malleable/unformed. Now, it's true – there are things you can say that point toward one or the other view. But ultimately, where you land isn't going to be a matter of argument – it's going to depend on what you actually see in the world.
To be sure, there's a lot of horrible shit to see. Human beings are capable of treating each other with astonishing cruelty and indifference. But if you want to take those facts as evidence that human beings are basically bad, then you've somehow got to account for the goodness that cuts against the grain – the civil rights activist who walks into a hail of nightsticks, the concentration camp guard who risks his life to provide an inmate with a bit more food, and so on.
Of course, it would be easy to get lost in examples and counterexamples. For every Medgar Evers, there's a Bull Connor; for every Nelson Mandela, there's a Pol Pot. Heck, perhaps there are even more of the latter figures than the former. Inevitably, the question reasserts itself: which type of person is truer, fuller, and more profoundly human?
And here I want to say that the answer is clear. When we think about people who do hurtful things, we come up with reasons, explanations about where things went awry. What abuse lies hidden in the rapist's childhood? How did personal and political frustrations warp the heart of J. Edgar Hoover? How did Stalin become so blind to the humanity of his fellow citizens?
But we don't ask for explanations in the other direction. When our Kings and Gandhis endure beatings and jailings in the name of love, we may feel awe and wonder. But we don't imagine that anything has gone wrong. Rather, we understand that something has gone profoundly right – that they're capable of extraordinary things precisely because they are acting out of the deepest forms of human goodness, and because they see that goodness in others.
JL: Sweet: we have ourselves a clear disagreement! You say compassion and love are experiences, not values, and thus transcend debate. I say if we want them to drive public policy, they're in competition with all the other values people advance, so we better join the muck and debate them. After all, we could say that the conservative ideals of freedom, purity, and traditional manliness are things we "experience" as well. But when we get involved in politics, we are acting as citizens, not just individual experiencers. My concern is that you're privileging your political values as being beyond debate, which displays a rather deep sense of certainty that belies your reverence for self-questioning.
The stories you refer to about extraordinary human goodness and badness are indeed compelling. Those are the kinds of stories that animate my own involvement in politics. But when we're acting in the political sphere, all sides have their animating stories. Take the Boston Tea Party. As the story goes, those early Americans made an extraordinary protest — for the sake of freedom. Or take St. Paul. He transformed from a persecutor of Christians into an evangelist of the Gospel because of the power of Jesus. Those narratives point to Truth for an awful lot of people. What makes your animating stories trump these others? In the public sphere, I get to promote my central values and others can promote theirs. I usually hope the social justice storytellers win out in any given battle. Those tend to be my people, values-wise. But there's something disconcerting about the idea that we get to dismiss our adversaries as poisoning the debate just by having different emotional starting points. It's actually kind of depressing. It simultaneously honors the stuff I care about and invalidates the terrain on which I might promote it. And perhaps that's the dichotomy that's gnawed at me from the beginning.
MB: I've reread our discussion, and I'm a little confused: where do you get the sense that I'm dismissing anyone or accusing them of poisoning the debate? If I've conveyed any of that, that I'm not doing a very good job of communicating, because I certainly don't mean to! More than anything, I'm interested in relating to where people are coming from.
But seeing where people are coming from doesn't require us to agree with what they say about where they're coming from. And here, I want to disagree with you about Fox News. Typically, they don't argue for their values – they simply assert them. They offer no meaningful account of their own motivations – or of human psychology more generally – to explain their politics. They just profess their politics.
In other words, the anchors at Fox (and the rest of cable news) tend not to be particularly self-aware. They get riled up about infringements on their 'values,' but they seem to have very little sense about why they're so attached to those values.
And this, I think, is what distinguishes compassion from the other values you listed – it's more existentially basic. True compassion is an unmediated response to suffering. We see the toddler waddling too close to the well, and we don't think – we respond. We hear another person describe her pain, and our hearts open. We notice how aggressively we're treating ourselves, and something in us relaxes.
Masculinity, purity, and freedom – at least as they're deployed in politics – don't tend to work like this. They aren't experiences – they're ideas, concepts about how the world should be which mediate our feelings and activities. In other words, they can't serve as "emotional starting points," because they aren't emotions. They're not really feelings at all. Which means that there's something beneath them.
JL: You are making me reflect hard on my assertions and frankly I resent it. I was hoping to get into bomb-throwing mode! I want my MSNBC.
OK, let's back up. So you don't see opposing values as inherently "poisoning the debate." But there's still something curious here. Consider this combo: (1) You exalt self-questioning because certainty turns us into aggressive talking heads who avoid attentive, empathetic conversations. (2) You want our politics to have only a select few emotional starting points — "compassion and care and love, and maybe fairness." (3) When you're reminded that many people have different starting points, you basically reply, "But those starting points aren't really what being human's about." (4) You say there's so much fighting of the kind we see on cable news because too few people understand that your emotional starting points are the right ones.
See what I mean? There's a sense of deep ideological commitment paired with an opposition to ideological commitment. I know you're arguing that compassion and love are feelings whereas purity, freedom, and masculinity are abstract, so you're not embracing ideological values in the same way. But feelings undergird those opposing values, too. Pride. Self-respect. Resentment of freeloaders. A thirst for vengeance. Comfort with tradition. The dignity of autonomy. Those feelings are just as real to others as your feelings are to you. If you think your feelings are the better drivers of public policy, great; make the case. But then you'd have to admit to being in the fray instead of above it, declaring a pox on all houses.
I concede that a nagging issue for me during this conversation has been that my career is about political change. I have to figure out how to respond strategically to the world as it is so we can inch closer to the world as it should be. As Tim McCarthy wrote to you in January, there's never been a utopian political discourse. Harsh debate is part of the deal, as is jostling over interests. You responded to Tim by approvingly quoting someone who said, "You'll never successfully build a politics of unity out of disunity." Then you wrote:
"That's not to aspire to the utopian vision that you reject. But it is to say that if we aspire to a politics in which respect, care, compassion, and even love are the basic currencies, we're never going to get there no matter how far we extend health care or how much humane legislation passes through Congress. As long as all of that comes about in an intensely aggressive way, then we're going to continue to solidify aggression on both sides."
Yet making progress, little by little, given human frailties, is what change agents do. Why brush aside monumental policy changes like healthcare reform (which is improving millions of lives) just because "the discourse" was harsh? Maybe I just want there to be a positive place for people like me in your worldview. What do you think of activists who pragmatically pursue progress within real-world constraints? Do you think we're largely doing something toxic or honorable? Or both equally? I know you hold up King, Mandela, Evers, and Gandhi as exemplars, but I think you overlook that they were strategic, aggressive, tension-creating actors in the very thick of acrimonious battles. So were the countless anonymous fighters who were essential to those movements but didn't have the luxury of preaching about love all day for the cameras. They focused on winning. Because they did, you get to admire their movements' figureheads today. So why so much emphasis on lamenting the absence of a utopian public discourse? Though you occasionally concede that utopian expectations are folly, you seem more comfortable idealizing the pristine dream than navigating the messy reality. I'm reminded of Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's bit on the phrase "Having said that…": you pretty clearly mean one thing, then you distance yourself from it just enough to avoid fully accounting for it.
On that note, I'll let you have the last word. I've found this conversation challenging because it's a critique of your work even though I love both you and your work! But it has helped me figure out what's driving my reactions, and hopefully it's helped you unpack what you tend to focus on and why.
MB: I feel the same way! Your initial email was extraordinarily thoughtful and caring, and it's led to a great conversation. Your questions are great ones to end on, too – in part because I'm not going to be able to answer them fully! But let me try.
I see real value in some of the values you listed – pride, self-respect, the dignity of autonomy, and (maybe) the comfort of tradition – but only if they're rooted in an accurate view of how we work as individuals, and how the world works more generally. Very often, though, they're not. Instead, they're grounded in an effort to build ourselves up by dominating or dismissing others.
I use the word 'accurate' very deliberately here. When we see ourselves as self-creating, as fundamentally separate from and in competition with others, we aren't just operating with an unhealthy mindset. We're actually incorrect. I'm happy to get into the fray about why, though better-qualified writers have been discussing it for a long time!
As for change agents: there's a huge place in my vision for people who do the kind of work you do – so long as it's conducted in the spirit of King and Gandhi. And while I totally agree with you that nothing gets done without a movement full of dedicated change agents, I do want to point out that these men were leaders precisely because they not only set a tone, but because they reined folks in when they strayed too far from that tone. In other words, if King and Gandhi had only preached about love to the cameras – and not insisted on it from their followers – neither movement would have met with much success.
As for their other traits: I don't there's anything wrong with being strategic or creating tension – both men relied on creating tension in the hearts of their opponents! I would question the extent to which either of these men was truly aggressive, though perhaps that's a conversation for another day. (Mandela's views on violence would complicate things even further!)
I also didn't mean to dismiss health care reform – only to suggest that we won't ever legislate our way to love and compassion. Hearts have to change too. Fundamentally, that's what troubles me about our discourse – in the name of short-term victories, we trade away the possibility of fundamentally changing the way we see ourselves and others. Which is why we need a new political vocabulary.
You're right – I do sometimes get disappointed, and I end up lamenting the state of our discourse. And you might say there's something inaccurate about that – that in order to be disappointed, I must have unrealistic expectations. Perhaps! I don't feel particularly utopian, though. Like you, I'd like to see us make progress, even if it's only little by little. I don't think we're capable of anything else.
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Marlo March 21, 2014 at 10:31 am
Very interesting discussion. I'm glad more of these are sprouting up. My comment is this book, which speaks directly to the points you are both making, in better ways than I have the time to articulate at this moment. If you haven't read it, do yourselves a good one and check it out:
http://charleseisenstein.net/project/the-more-beautiful-world-our-hearts-know-is-possible/
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Syria calls on Security Council to stop attacks of US-backed SDF militias
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Damascus, Syria called on the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities by working to stop the attacks and treasonous actions of the SDF militias, which are backed by the US and some Western states.
In letters addressed to the UN Secretary-General and the head of the Security Council on Monday, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the recent massacres committed in the countryside of Deir Ezzor by the militias which label themselves as the Syrian Democratic Forces or SDF in collusion with the US-led coalition, seek to subjugate Syrian citizens who are demanding their rights and demanding that the Syrian state resume carrying out its duties in that area.
The Ministry said that the SDF militias responded with violence to Syrian citizens' demands for improving the educational sister and providing food in water in that impoverished area, killing locals and destroying infrastructure.
The letters noted that protests by Syrian citizens against the SDF broke out in several areas in Deir Ezzor province as well as south of Hasaka city.
The Ministry said the actions of the SDF and their shameful alliance with Syria's enemies prove without a doubt their criminal and terrorism nature, and that they do not express the Syrian people, stressing that the massacred committed by the SDF will only bring them disgrace and the contempt of the Syrian people.
The letters said Syria calls on the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities by working to stop the attacks and treasonous actions of the SDF militias which are backed by the US and some Western states, who should be compelled to respect Security Council resolutions that assert Syria's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
The Ministry concluded the letters by saying that Syria reasserts its legal right to defend its citizens across the country, citing paragraph 8 of Security Council resolution no. 2254 which gives Syria the right to confront actions carried out by terrorist groups and establishments and entities that seek to undermine Syria's unity.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency
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This field is concerned with the assessment of the energy demands of a building. Students will become familiar with methods of energy assessment of buildings and the legal requirements, with the methods of energy audits and the evaluation of energy demands of all service systems in buildings, such as heating, ventilation, or warm service water. They learn to design energy-saving buildings, for example low-energy or energy neutral buildings. For the calculations of these values, students will use the same computer software as is used in practice.
This includes all installations in a building, such as drinking and warm water, waste water, heating and ventilation, installing and making safe gas supply to all gas appliances, electricity supply, lighting, traditional and alternative sources of heating and cooling, and the combined production of heat and power, and regulation and measuring. Also included is safeguarding against lightning, gas explosions, and unauthorised entry. Students also learn about certification of goods, the ways and means of reducing emissions, and the assessment of emission load.
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The 20th Finswimming World Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia at the Sports Center Milan Gale Muškatirović and at Ada Ciganlija Lake from 16 to 20 July 2018.

Medal overview

Men's events

 Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

 Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed events

 Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Medal table

References

External links
Official website
Results
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International sports competitions in Belgrade
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Mention sourdough, and most people think of San Francisco. But once upon on a time, all bread was made this way. Not just a specific type of bread, sourdough is a process for leavening bread using "wild" yeast from the natural environment. Until commercial yeast became available in the 19th century, sourdough was the only way to go.
The science of bread making relies on two relatively simple phenomena: The tendency of certain proteins found in wheat, when mixed with water, to form a web of rubbery filaments called gluten that have the capacity to expand as they trap gas in tiny pockets; and the tendency of yeast, if given a moist lump of flour to chew on, to digest starch and burp out carbon dioxide gas. Since yeast is to the botanical world what dust is to closets -- found practically everywhere, even the air -- these two phenomena were bound to collide sooner or later.
Put simply, if you mix flour and water in a bowl and leave it out on your kitchen counter, as surely as cheese grows moldy, it will become infected with yeast. Over time, if fed regular daily additions of flour and water, the mix will develop into a culture called a starter that can be used to leaven bread. You can try this at home (see below).
To bake, mix a portion of the starter with flour to form dough and leave it out to ferment. As it ferments, the yeast digests the starch and produces gas. The gluten traps the gas, causing the dough to rise as if inflated by tiny balloons. Baking with commercial yeast works the same way, except that with sourdough, everything happens more slowly, and at the lower temperatures to which natural yeast is attuned.
Once considered rustic or primitive, sourdough is the perfect antidote to a fast-paced, commercialized society--following its own rhythm, sourdough can be coerced, but not forced. Every sourdough loaf is a unique product of the local environment, as distinct as the bakeshop or kitchen counter on which the starter grows. You can't make San Francisco sourdough in Chicago, because the climate and yeast are different. But there are a growing number of places where you can go to try out the local version, made the traditional way. In Chicago, try Red Hen Bakery at 1623 N. Milwaukee, or the Swedish Bakery at 5348 N. Clark Street.
1. To begin, put a few cups of white flour into a bowl and add enough water to match the consitency of pancake batter. Cover the bowl with cheesecloth or plastic wrap and leave it out on your counter.
2. After a day or two, natural yeast from the air infects the starter. The yeast digests the starch in the flour, giving off carbon dioxide and alcohol. For now, the gas just dissipates, and the alcohol can be poured off or mixed back in. The real goal at this point is to infect the starter with yeast.
3. Continue to add flour and water daily so the yeast has plenty of food. I've read books that claim you can generate an active starter in three days, but in my experience a week is more realistic. The starter improves over time, and the more you feed it, the happier it is.
4. Along with the yeast, certain bacteria called lactobacilli also infect the starter. These bacteria also feed on the flour, producing lactic and acetic acids, which give the starter its characteristic sour flavor.
5. When you're ready to bake, take a portion of the starter, add flour and water according to your recipe, and mix to form dough.
6. Each time you bake, reserve a portion of the starter for next time, and continue to feed it once per day if kept at room temperature, or weekly if kept in the refrigerator. Starters have been kept alive in this manner indefinitely, for decades if not centuries.
When you're ready to bake, try sourdough focaccia. If you're like me and your starter isn't all that active because you don't feed it often enough, you can supplement with a small amount of commercial yeast.
A common question is why the starter doesn't go bad. The idea of storing the same smelly bowl of dough year after year is counterintuitive if not downright gross. How can you be sure it won't infect your whole kitchen?
The answer is that, like prospectors staking their claims, microbes play rough when it comes to defending their turf. Different types of microorganisms thrive in different environments. The yeast strains commonly found in sourdough coexist particularly well with the acid-producing lactobacilli bacteria that give the bread its flavor, because the yeast can't metabolize a certain sugar that the bacteria need (maltose). The acid in turn makes the starter resistant to contamination from other bacteria, most of which need a more neutral pH to survive. In a beautiful example of microbial teamwork, the yeast and lactobacilli work together to shut out other organisms.
When baking with sourdough, trust your instincts. Concentrate on the essential steps, and use your senses. Professional bakers talk about the importance of scaling ingredients, but they don't hesitate to add more flour if the dough feels too moist. This is true of any bread, but more so with sourdough, where each loaf is a unique product of the local environment.
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About mangos...my sister in law is from guayana and had a mango tree in her backyard. You want the mango to be the same "ripe firmness" as a plum. It should have a decent amount of red or dark orange on the peel, and the end should smell sappy. The pit is flat, and the mango follows this shape. You need to cut it from the stem end to the pointy tip; do this on each side, and you should have cut out the pit. Kids LOVE chewing on mango pits (or save it for yourself). Now lay the peel side down, and score the mango into cubes; don't cut through the peel. Push the peel up and the cubes seperate and make it easy to eat!
I came to your site looking for a bread recipe without yeast and I loved your detailed instructions on creating the starter. However, I am at a loss on how much started should I add. Is there a recipe that you can provide for making bread with this starter.


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NORTHERN CHARACTER: GREEN SCREEN 2020
Igor Ter-Karapetov
(Moscow, Russia)
A famous Russian filmmaker. He graduated from VGIK, faculty of scriptwriting in 2002, diploma with honors. His scripts are in many popular tv-shows of national tv-channels like Hunting the Gauleiter, Smersh – the stroke, the Black Sea, Mata Hari, Say something nice, the Fortuneteller. The Barents Sea film shot this summer on the Kola peninsula by Star Media film studio, is also based on his script.
Tamara Sushko
(Sweden, Lulea)
Tamara has been working with documentaries since 1980 as a director, scriptwriter, author and photographer.
Born in Siberia, has been living in the North Sweden since 2000.
Studied film and photography at the Kemerovo Arts University. (Kemerovo State University of arts and culture)
And documentary film production at LTU, Sweden in 2013.
Tamara has completed several film projects in the Barents region.
Her main field is coordination of various international projects in the field of culture such as Northern Character Film Festival in Murmansk, Arctic Open in Arhangelsk.
She runs own media company WebbOn, working with documentary film production and cross-border projects in the North.
Her films have participated in a number of international film festivals and were awarded various diplomas and awards.
John Arvid Berger
(Norway, Tromso)
Berger has more than 30 years of broad experience as filmmaker, mostly as producer of creative documentaies and international co.productions, but also in many different roles and formats within film during the years. Now mostly directing and producing. Runs company Polarfox AS in Tromsø Norway.
Irina Chapman (Zhuravleva)
(Russia, France)
Director, producer, founder of nature documentary film studio LESFILM, director and producer of the Bears of Kamchatka. Beginning of life (2018), the Forest (in production), My Bears. the Himalaynians (in production). Has been involved in cultural initiatives on responsible attitude towards the nature.
Nikita Chisnikov
Producer, director, head of Mainstream production studio.
Creator of tv-shows, documentary film, shows for national tv-channels. Actively involved in internet projects.
Nikita is an active participant and winner of Russian and International film festivals. Permanent participant of forums and presentations on creating professional content.
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Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem as anti-Trump protest flares in Beirut
Lebanese security forces fire tear gas to disperse protestors during a demonstration outside the US embassy in Awkar, on the outskirts of Beirut, on Dec 10, 2017. PHOTO: AFP
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JERUSALEM (REUTERS, AFP) - A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem's main bus station on Sunday (Dec 10), police said, and violence flared near the US Embassy in Beirut over US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Four days of street protests in the Palestinian territories over Trump's announcement on Wednesday have largely died down, but his overturning of long-standing US policy on Jerusalem - a city holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians - drew more Arab warnings of potential damage to prospects for Middle East peace.
"Our hope is that everything is calming down and that we are returning to a path of normal life without riots and without violence," Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Army Radio.
But in Jerusalem, a security guard was in critical condition after a 24-year-old Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank stabbed him after approaching a metal detector at an entrance to the city's central bus station, police said. The alleged assailant was taken into custody after a passer-by tackled him.
In Beirut, meanwhile, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canons at protesters, some of them waving Palestinian flags, near the US Embassy.
Demonstrators set fires in the street, torched US and Israeli flags and threw projectiles towards security forces that had barricaded the main road to the complex.
In public remarks on Sunday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a frequent critic of Israel, called it an "invader state" and a "terror state".
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday as the protests continued to spread.
Waving Palestinian flags, a sea of demonstrators marched from Rabat's Bab el-Had square to Morocco's parliament building, down Mohammed VI Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI earlier expressed his "deep concern" over Trump's move, acting as head of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Al-Quds Committee, which lobbies on issues related to Jerusalem.
Arab foreign ministers who met in Cairo on Saturday urged the US to abandon its decision on Jerusalem and said the move would spur violence throughout the region.
Echoing that view, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the de facto leader of the United Arab Emirates, said the US move "could throw a lifebuoy to terrorist and armed groups, which have begun to lose ground" in the Middle East.
Pope Francis on Sunday renewed a call for "wisdom and prudence" over Trump's decision. "The Holy Father renews his appeal for the wisdom and prudence of everyone, and raises fervent prayers so that the leaders of nations, in this time of special gravity, commit themselves to avert a new spiral of violence," a statement from the Vatican said.
Most countries consider East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in a 1967 war, to be occupied territory and say the status of the city should be decided at future Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Israel says that all of Jerusalem is its capital, while Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.
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Along Israel's tense frontier with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military on Sunday destroyed what it described as a"significant" cross-border attack tunnel dug by the enclave's dominant Islamist group, Hamas.
There was no immediate comment on the demolition, which came as Palestinian factions tried to meet Sunday's deadline for an Egyptian-mediated handover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas after a decade's schism.
Pre-dawn Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed two Palestinian gunmen after militants fired rockets from the area into Israel on Friday.
In the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday, thousands protested outside the US embassy, many waving banners saying"Palestine is in our hearts".
Leaders in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, have joined a global chorus of condemnation of Trump's announcement, including from Western allies.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, said that an approaching meeting of the OIC would complicate Trump's plans.
"With the roadmap we will create during the OIC meeting, we will show that the decision will not be easy to implement," he said on Sunday, adding that Turkey considers Trump's Jerusalem announcement as void.
Erdogan on Sunday also described Israel as a "terrorist state" and vowed to use "all means to fight" against the US move on Jerusalem. "Palestine is an innocent victim... As for Israel, it is a terrorist state, yes, terrorist!" Erdogan said in a speech in the central city of Sivas. "We will not abandon Jerusalem to the mercy of a state that kills children."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to critics in a statement before talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Sunday, to be followed by a meeting with European foreign ministers in Brussels.
"I hear (from Europe) voices of condemnation over President Trump's historic announcement, but I have not heard any condemnation for the rocket firing against Israel that has come (after the announcement) and the awful incitement against us," Netanyahu said.
The Trump administration has said it is still committed to reviving Palestinian-Israeli talks that collapsed in 2014, but jettisoning old policies is necessary to break the deadlock.
Washington says it has not taken a position on Jerusalem's final status or borders, but it is sensible to recognise that any future peace deal will have Israel's capital in the city.
The United States was "as committed to the peace process as we've ever been", US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday.
Trump "didn't talk about boundaries, he didn't talk about borders... Because the final status of Jerusalem is between the Palestinians and the Israelis. It's not for the Americans to decide."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet US Vice President Mike Pence during his visit to the region, Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said on Saturday.
The White House said on Sunday that decision was unfortunate and Pence looked forward to seeing Netanyahu and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
"It's unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region," said Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Pence.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has said the Palestinians will be looking for a new peace talks broker instead of the US and would seek a United Nations Security Council resolution over Trump's decision.


Much interest has emerged recently regarding the importance of K-12 Computer Science education, as noted by the national awareness and attention given to the efforts of Code.org and the "Hour of Code." Additionally, support from several National Science Foundation (NSF) programs (e.g., CE21 and STEM-C) has helped to create a pipeline of computing awareness that has culminated in a deep surge in momentum over the past year. A key to the future of K-12 CS Education is the new CS Principles course, which represents a joint effort by the College Board and NSF to revitalize the national importance of K-12 CS. Several universities and colleges are creating a similar course for non-majors – the benefits of introducing CS Principles at your own department will be summarized. As compared to the existing Advanced Placement (AP) CS exam, the CS Principles course focuses less on the very specific details of a particular programming language and, instead, concentrates on what many consider to be the fundamental principles of computing – the so-called "Big Ideas" of the CS Principles curriculum. Interest in the CS Principles curriculum is growing, with many high schools and universities beginning to offer an initial pilot course in order to prepare for the expected first exam in 2016-2017. In addition to CS Principles, there are several other curricula at the high school level (e.g., Exploring Computer Science), as well as middle school and K5, that have generated much interest. Specifically, new initiatives by Code.org to create a national network of teacher training workshops are addressing pipeline needs in K-5 and middle school. This talk will survey some of these efforts, share lessons learned from activities in Alabama, and suggest ways that you can become involved in your community with this new effort to raise awareness about computing!


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Basically moss stitch alternates between knit and purl stitches. This is going to be a bit confusing, but there are two ways of looking at it.
The first way is factually correct in that if you knit a particular stitch on one row, you also knit it in the next row and all purl stitches on the first row are purl stitches on the next row. But it can be a little bit difficult to get your head around because each stitch looks different when switching from one side of your knitting to looking at the same stitch on the other side.
The other way to visualise moss stitch is that if the stitch below the next one you work looks like a knit stitch, you purl the next stitch and if it looks like a purl stitch, you should knit the next stitch.
To use moss stitch you will need to know how to cast on, cast off and how to form knit stitches and purl stitches. You could get someone else to do the casting on and off for you if you are just starting out, but believe me, eventually you will want to learn how to do these two steps yourself if you are going to keep knitting.
1st row: *K1, p1; rep from * to end of row.
2nd row: As for 1st row.
2nd row: *P1, k1; rep from * to end of row.Repeat these two rows.


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Sharks prove once again they are the top team in Hernando County
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CLEARWATER- Whether it's a year removed from losing one of their top players with a slew of seniors exiting due to graduation, the Nature Coast Sharks have proven once more they can overcome just about anything.
On a team that's sophomore laden with eight starters being 10th graders, the Sharks were able to qualify back into the playoffs in Class 5A and have also laid the foundation for the next couple of seasons. Reason being some of the team's top players are sophomores and will return with plenty of experience under their belts as juniors.
Take a look at Nature Coast's backfield, dubbed 'RBU' in Running Back University for all the talented tailbacks to come from the school, the Sharks are already grooming another great in Christian Cromer. The 245-pound bowling ball was able to solidify himself as Hernando County's top running back and helping the Sharks win a playoff game hinged a lot on his two legs churning.
Cromer rushed for a county-high 1,939 yards and scored 21 touchdowns on the ground. Heck, he even threw for a touchdown in the 40-14 region semifinal loss to Clearwater. Nonetheless, Cromer isn't the only building block that brings encouragement to the program moving forward. Cromer follows in the footsteps of guys like Rian Williams, Tevin Drake, Deshawn Smith, Matt Breida and Mike Weston.
Throw in talented sophomore Carlos Rodriguez, who can play wide receiver or running back. Rodriguez scored twice against the Tornadoes in the playoffs and proved he will be a talent to watch for in the next two seasons. Having a couple dynamic players like Cromer and Rodriguez will pay dividends in 2022 and 2023 when they are even more experienced and battle tested.
Though Hernando did beat Nature Coast, that might be a good thing for the Sharks as it reignited a rivalry that needed some ammunition to it. The Sharks now will have their sights set on the next time they play the Leopards and vice versa. For all the excitement and new stories that 2021 brought us for high school football, one thing remained certain and that's the Nature Coast Sharks' football program will remain pretty good for years to come.
Hernando Board of County Commissioners elects new officers
Nature Coast falls in region semifinals to Clearwater
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Our contact numbers are 04 3832 8570 and 04 3832 8611.
Welcome to the VUFO-NGO Resource Centre Newsletter for 1 – 15 April 2019.
INGO Partnerships for Sustainable Development, the 2018 annual report from working groups hosted by the NGO Resource Centre, is now available. Click to download the report in English and in Vietnamese.
INGO Partnerships for Sustainable Development, the 2017 annual report from working groups hosted by the NGO Resource Centre, is now available. Click to download the report in English and in Vietnamese.
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Devon Larratt Net Worth 2022: Income, Endorsements, Cars, Wages, Property, Affairs, Family
In 2016, he won the world arm wrestling league left arm heavyweight title, and in 2015, he won the world arm wrestling league right arm heavyweight title.
Posted by By Vibhor Sharma January 10, 2022 Player Bio
Devon Larratt Net Worth
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Full Name Devon Larratt
Country Of Origin Victoria, Canada
Profession Arm Wrestler and YouTuber
If you're a fan of arm wrestling and have not been living underneath gravel, you've most likely heard of Devon Larratt.
Devon Larratt is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces, a renowned arm wrestler from Canada, and a big YouTuber. Devon Larratt is largely viewed as one of the greatest arm wrestlers of all time, and he is obviously the #1 in North America
In 2008, he defeated John Brzenk, a superstar in the sport of hand-to-hand combat, and from then, he made a name for himself in the world of arm wrestling.
Devon Larratt's net worth is estimated to be worth $300,000 in 2022. Devon Larratt has amassed a sizable fortune fighting in Arm Wrestling events all around the world. He also has a YouTube channel where he earns a good amount of money.
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Devon Larratt is a well-known Canadian arm wrestler and marketing figure. Companies frequently seek him to become their endorser. He earns a lot of money from sponsorships and brand endorsements. He worked with the following brands:
Devon made his first appearance in the media in 2008 when he defeated John Brzenk; since then, he has established himself as one of Canada's most influential arm wrestlers. Devon sustained a horrible injury in 2013 that necessitated surgery on his right elbow, limiting him to only competing as a left-handed wrestler.
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Devon's earnings were primarily derived from match fees because he is a professional arm wrestler. He'd beaten a slew of celebrities and won a slew of titles. He is best known for competing at WAL, where he had TV partnerships with ESPN that increased his net worth significantly.
As of January 2022, his YouTube channel has around 400k subscribers and over 90 million total views. As per SocialBlade, he has over 3 million views and has earned over $10,000 in the last 30 days. On average, his channel earns between $8,000 and $10,000 every month.
Here given below is a list of championships won by Devon Larratt:
2017 – WAL Championships: Heavyweight – Right Hand – 1st Place
2017 – WAL Championships: Heavyweight – Left Hand 1st Place
2016 – WAL Northern Regionals: Heavyweight – Right Hand 1st Place
2016 – WAL Northern Regionals: Heavyweight – Left Hand 1st Place
2015 – WAL Southern Regionals: Heavyweight – Left Hand 1st Place
Devon was born on April 24, 1975, and, like most сеlеbrtеs, he has kept his personal life away from the spotlight. He even used to serve in the military. However, after he gained control of the armed forces, he developed an interest in arm wrestling, and as a result, he gained a lot of professional experience.
Date Of Birth 24 April 1975
Birth Place Victoria, Canada
Hair Color Brown
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Wife/Spouse Jodi Larratt
Kids/Children Auden, Habree, Milo
College N/A
Religion Christianity
Siblings N/A
Profession Arm Wrestler
Devon is a prolific social media user. He keeps his admirers up to date on a regular basis. He has around a million Instagram and YouTube followers across all platforms. He also makes a lot of money by using Instagram and YouTube to promote businesses.
Instagram 249k Followers Click Here
YouTube 400k Subscribers Click Here
Almost nothing is revealed regarding his private life as he likes to keep details about his family out of the public. Becoming an ex-army man, it's natural why he will not really share details about his relatives. But it is reported that he married a girl named Jodi Lаrrаtt, who is a performer, and that they have three lovely kids named Audеn Lаrrаtt, Hаbrее Lаrrаtt, and Milо Lаrrаtt.
His accolades and accomplishments cannot be hidden from view because he is well and has received numerous prizes.
He's also a five-time winner of the Canadian government's national champion award.
Q. When was Devon Larratt born?
A. Devon Larratt was born on April 24, 1975
Q. Where is Devon Larratt from?
A. He is from Victoria
Q. What is Devon's net worth?
A. His net worth is $300,000.
Q. Is Devon married?
A. Devon married Jodi Larratt in 2003
Q. Does Devon have any kids?
A. They have 3 children named Auden Larratt, Habree Larratt, and Milo Larratt.
Q. Does Devon have a YouTube channel?
A. Yes, Devon has a YouTube channel named Devon Larratt.
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Russian intelligence was spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were poisoned in a nerve agent attack, Britain's National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO on Friday.
Sedwill also said that Russia has tested means of delivering chemical agents "including by application to door handles", pointing out that the highest concentration of the chemical found after the attack was on Skripal's front door handle.
"We have information indicating Russian intelligence service interest in the Skripals, dating back at least as far as 2013, when email accounts belonging to Yulia Skripal were targeted by GRU cyber specialists," Sedwill wrote in the letter, referring to Russia's foreign military intelligence agency.
The Skripals were found slumped on a bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4. Britain has blamed Russia for the attack -- a charge that Moscow has strongly denied.
After testing samples from Salisbury, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Thursday confirmed Britain's findings about the nerve agent used in the attack.
Sedwill's letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg alleged that Russia had "the technical means, operational experience and motive for the attack on the Skripals and that it is highly likely that the Russian state was responsible".
Sedwill said "credible open-source reporting and intelligence" showed that in the 1980s the Soviet Union developed a family of nerve agents known as Novichoks at a base in Shikhany near Volgograd.
"The codeword for the offensive chemical weapons programme (of which Novichoks were one part) was FOLIANT," he said.
"It is highly likely that Novichoks were developed to prevent detection by the West and to circumvent international chemical weapons controls," he said.
By 1993, when Russia signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, Sedwill said it was "likely" that some Novichoks had passed testing to allow their use by the Russian military.
In the 2000s, Sedwill said Russia had trained military personnel in using these weapons, including on door handles.
"Within the last decade, Russia has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichoks under the same programme," he said.


On April 20th, 2018, a Class 2 Geomagnetic Storm hit the Earth, resulting in bright blue aurora borealis. Normally, this is visible only in higher latitudes, but these dancing purple aurora spikes showed up as far south as central California! The green tinted sky is either more aurora or airglow, a similar phenomenon, and the golden glow is probably light pollution captured from nearby cities. Originally, I believed the purple towers to also be airglow, but then learned of the geomagnetic storm and saw similar photos of the same phenomena from northern California which proved to me that it is indeed, aurora!


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The daughters of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha set out on a journey transcending time! In Feudal Japan, Half-Demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi's brother, Souta, and his family. Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a Demon Slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa's shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her older sister. Joined by Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome, the three young women travel between the two eras on an adventure to regain their missing past.
Genre: Animation, Action & Adventure
Stars: Sara Matsumoto, Mikako Komatsu, Azusa Tadokoro, Ryohei Kimura, Takehiro Urao, Fairouz Ai, Jun Fukuyama, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Maaya Sakamoto, Saki Fujita
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Papillomaviruses may be able to be spread by blood
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Papillomavirus has traditionally been considered strictly a sexually transmitted disease, but a recent study found that rabbit and mouse papillomaviruses could be transferred by blood to their respective hosts.
Penn State researchers on the study said this raises the possibility that human papillomavirus (HPV) may also be transferable by blood in humans.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in humans, with an estimated 79 million individuals infected in the United States alone. While HPV is often harmless and goes away on its own, it can sometimes result in genital warts or progress to cervical or oral cancer.
Jiafen Hu, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Penn State College of Medicine, said the team's results suggest more research is needed to determine whether HPV can be spread through blood in humans, specifically through blood transfusions.
"People who are receiving blood transfusions typically have immune systems that aren't working optimally, so their systems are more vulnerable," Hu said. "We might want to think about adding HPV to the list of viruses for which blood donations are screened, as well as researching whether the typical viral load of HPV in human blood would be sufficient to cause infection."
The results were recently published in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections.
The study came about after an observation made in 2005 prompted one of the study authors to question how HPV is transmitted.
"Some years ago, researchers were looking at blood samples from a group of HIV-positive children, and as they were testing those samples, they found that some of them were also positive for HPV," Hu said. "Because these children were so young, it prompted the question of whether the virus could have come from blood transfusions, which some of the children had undergone."
While HPV is specific to humans and cannot be tested directly in animal models, the researchers said there are several different strains of papillomavirus that do exist in animals and can be a good approximation of how HPV may work in humans.
The researchers used two of these animal models for several experiments, including the Cottontail Rabbit Papillomavirus model, which the researchers said is considered to be the "gold standard" for studying HPV-related infections and diseases.
First, the researchers injected virus into the bloodstream of the rabbit. They monitored the rabbits, and after four weeks, noticed tumors on the animals, which Hu said demonstrated that the virus had traveled through the bloodstream and caused an infection.
Because their first experiment used a fairly large amount of the virus — larger than would be present in a normal infection — the researchers repeated the experiment with a five-fold reduction of the virus. The tumors once again appeared, this time on 18 out of 32 sites on the animals.
"We were able to show that the virus in the blood caused tumors, but what about blood transfusions?" Hu said. "People receiving a transfusion may only get a very small amount of the virus. To simulate this, we injected the virus into one animal, took 10 milliliters of blood and transfused it into a second animal. We still saw tumors."
While the rabbit model showed that the virus could travel through the bloodstream to cause infections in the skin, Hu said the question remained as to whether it could cause infections in mucous membranes, like the cervix.
The researchers repeated the experiments in a mouse model and found that not only did they detect the virus in mucous membranes like the tongue and genitals, but they also found it in the stomach. Hu noted that this was a significant finding because people with cancer are sometimes found to have papillomavirus sequences in their stomach and other internal organs.
Hu said that while HPV does not cause health problems for every person who becomes infected with the virus, it is still important to know whether or not it can be spread by blood.
"We know that HPV is common and that not everyone who gets it is going to get cancer," Hu said. "The tricky part is that a lot of people who are carrying HPV and are asymptomatic still have the potential to spread the virus. If a person is getting a blood transfusion because of one health issue, you don't want to accidentally add another on top of that."
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HOSTING / My favorite party of the year! I've hosted a hot chocolate party every year of college and the past two years I've paired up with a friend to host what we call the gingerbread making extravaganza hot chocolate spectacular. It has everything, hot chocolate, whipped cream, mulled wine, a charcuterie board, gingerbread houses, white elephant… i could go on. It really is something I look forward to every december as a way to spend time with my friends before finals consumes our lives. If you'd like a post about all the logistics and whatnots if you want to recreate it for yourself, let me know!
VOLUNTEERING / I've been spending a bit of time helping out with Choose Love, a pop-up shop in nyc and london where you can buy products for refugees. My friend Jess has been working closely with their team to help create this store and it has been so awesome to be apart of it. I helped them get the physical space ready by cleaning and painting and have also helped shoot photos for press. Definitely check out their site to learn more about this awesome concept!
READING / I finished two books in one weekend! Finally wrapped up An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage which was enlightening but not as engaging as A History of the World in Six Glasses in my opinion. I've had Based on a True Story sitting on my shelf for almost a year and finally finshed it up a few mornings ago. I bought it at the duty free in heathrow in may of 2017 (!!!) read it for a few months before getting bored and putting it away. I don't know if I stopped right before it got good, or if I was just really craving fiction (?) after reading so many food books, but I finished the rest in one sitting and am still confused and perplexed about the ending in the best way possible. If anyone has read it, please please please share your thoughts!!!
WATCHING / Nothing, but once I get home you bet i'm gonna be parked in front of our obnoxious fancy schmancy curved tv. I'm already planning on watching the new season of Chef's Table, Daredevil, finishing up Salt Fat Acid Heat, and getting caught up on Good Eats: Reloaded.
FEELING / Weird? Fall semester is quickly coming to an end which means that the planning for post-grad life is really real. I'm starting the job hunt which makes me incredibly anxious and nervous and i've been thinking a lot about my college experience. Obviously there's things I wish I had done differently or knew sooner but I am where I am and we just have to move forward.
It's clear that I'm not the most amazing blogger, or content creator in general but there's something about January that makes me wanna kick things into overdrive and create like mad. As I learn to trust my creative abilities more, I've been looking up to a few creators who make content that's real, engaging, and of quality as inspiration. I've found myself reading less blogs and unfollowing more people on Instagram, but these are the few that really stand out from the rest. Give them a follow and let me know who some of your favorite content creators are!
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I wish I could talk to her tonight.
I wish I could tell her how much I love her.
For all the mean things I've ever said to her.
If I could I would change places with him.
If I could I would bring him home right now.
If I could I would be there with him.
If I could I would no matter how.
When I think of her I think of our life.
I think of her eyes so bright.
I think of her and the wondrous nights.
I think of her and wish she would write!!
I pressed every clothing item he left.
Even his garage, many times.
I thought I saw her face today.
It was a soldier who was turning away.
She looks like her in so many ways.
I wish I could see her face tonight.
I wrote a letter to her today.
I sent it but now think I should not have.
Too many descriptive things in it.
Too many.. I should have kept to myself.
I got a letter today.
He writes almost every day.
God, that picture she sent.
I love that gal so much.
She is heaven sent. I got a visit today.
Thoughts of you. First his then hers.
young love is always a welcomed and very satisfying event in someone's life. It is a sign of a new beginning, a fresh start or simply a refreshing change that's been long awaited...may this feeling last forvever...and ever...and ever!
I started to read and the tears flooded my eyes. So many memories of those times when he was away. Most of the time I don't mind being "married" to the air force, but there are times when I just despise it. I know you understand. Being less than a year from retirement, I am both anxious and afraid.
I think this is one of the best pieces you have written here on AP Chuck...This is really very special and I'm pleased you have chosen to write another entry for my contest. Good luck!
Of course you can. Print as you like. I wrote this for you. I'm proud you liked it.
I usually don't like sappy love poems, but this is touching and tender. A beautiful tribute Catressa. I hope you do well in the contest, but I know the greater goal is to offer comfort and support to your friend, which you've surely succeeded in.
Hey man this is AWESOME! this is definitely going on one of my favorites too!
WEll, as everyone else said, i loved your creativity and how you wrote it from both points of view.. even though it didn't rhyme it was just PERFECT!
If this isn't a cup of comfort for Catressa I don't know what is. This is going to be a hard one to beat. Whoever wants to do better will really have to apply themselves.
Beautiful poem! You did an excellent job on this!
I really like this, I love the way this is written. I am going to mark it as one of my favorites.
OK, I was going to enter this contest now I am SCARED! This was a wonderful poem! Truly awesome idea to have one then the other (it was so well done I knew thats what you were doing before I got to your comment). You did a great job!
this poem is very unique. i had to read it twice (not the sharpest tool in the shed)...but once i got it, or at least i felt like i got it, it made so much sense and was written beautifully. this poem shows so much imagination...and a real power of love, even in it's simplicity. great write! keep up the good work!
How incredibily original, to write a poem from both points of view. And how touching to boot. This one is probably my favorite in the contest by far, simply because of it's creativity. It was extremely touching.
whoa!!! i love this...it reminds me of one i wrote awhile back...i really love when you get two point of views in poems... this was a really good storey too!!! o man i lvoe this!!! truely awsome and oh man i love it!!!!