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The question of why some everyday brawls take on the aspect of ethnic conflicts in Russia is much more vital. Thus, a conflict between people of the same nationality is an everyday brawl, but a clash between people of different nationalities is an ethnic conflict. Where does this conclusion come from? Violence and cruelty cannot be justified no matter their origin. We never encountered this problem before, not even during the Chechen wars. What has changed since then?
Many events that we describe as ethnic conflicts are not actually that at all. In fact, they are domestic conflicts or everyday brawls posing as ethnic conflicts, and there is no evidence of insoluble contradictions, clash of interests or irreconcilable antagonism in them. For example, combat sambo world champion Rasul Mirzaev killed a man not in an ethnic conflict but in an ordinary brawl, and the same goes for the incident at the Yevropeisky shopping center in central Moscow. I also believe that paratrooper Ruslan Marzhanov was murdered not in an ethnic conflict but in a criminal conflict in the town of Pugachyov.
There are reasons for seeing some ordinary brawls as ethnic conflicts. The common element of all of the above mentioned incidents is that they involved people from the Caucasus, or more specifically Chechens, and worse still, Chechens were the guilty party. There have been similar incidents with people from Dagestan, my home republic, and the number of such incidents has been growing so fast that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and his Dagestani counterpart Ramazan Abdulatipov recommended that their compatriots behave properly when traveling outside their republics. Public organizations in Chechnya and Dagestan have tried to revive the code of honor of the mountain people and have urged their landsmen to comply with it. Personally, I am skeptical about these attempts as I see them as a step back into the past when people lived according to custom rather than law.
Russian society has accumulated a critical mass of negative examples involving people from the Caucasus over the past two decades, and we are now seeing the evolution of a very complex and highly negative social trend. This trend is based on behavior stereotypes and also on stereotypical interpretations of such behavior, and on major differences in understanding the same values, the same priorities, what is and is not permissible, archetypes of behavior and mentality. But I maintain that these differences are not rooted in ethnic origins, as people tend to believe, but in the level of cultural adaptation, or rather the adaptation of mountain cultures from outlying regions of the Caucasus to the dominant Russian culture.
Peoples of Russia have been communicating with each other for centuries. This unique experience is our greatest asset and the foundation of our state. The North Caucasus joined Russia much later than many other regions. Its incorporation was only completed in the second half of the 19th century, after the Caucasus War. In other words, the Russian Caucasus is the latest ethnic addition to the family of Russian peoples. Therefore, I see the current negative incidents above all as elements of a painful process of cultural adaptation of the Caucasus people.
It is a pity that this adaptation is accompanied by conflicts, but this is probably the downside of objective sociopolitical processes underway at the current stage of ethnic interaction in the Russian Federation. We could try to constrain this process, but that would only make it last longer. We need to develop adequate legal and other measures and to act clearly and resolutely, rather than letting the events take their course. When people resort to mob law, it is evidence of government inaction. The only thing that is worse than a vacuum of power is its consequences – chaos and anarchy, which signify the death of a state.
The authorities must do their utmost in this sphere, although it is not as though they've been sitting on their hands. Education and proper upbringing are the foundation for the development of culture and for actions and measures that must be taken to smooth over real ethnic differences. Investment in these spheres (including through the system of education) is the safest path possible, and it is never late to take it.
There have been positive achievements in interfaith and intrafaith dialogue, but the situation is not entirely unequivocal. Islamic radicals are fighting ethnic antagonism but they use questionable methods. While eliminating ethnic differences among Muslims, Salafis are fanning ethnic and religious animosity towards non-Muslims. This will never stop if Russian Muslims continue to look up at the Middle East instead of at their coreligionists who live in secular European and North American countries. Who said that a Muslim is necessarily a bad citizen?
The sociopolitical reality has changed in Russia. In the past, its peoples interacted with each other, though mostly with their neighbors, along the boundaries of their settlement areas, but the format of ethnic communication changed dramatically after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ethnic communication broke out of the narrow geographic boundaries and even went beyond the limits of ethnic communities. Some experts describe the mass resettlement of people in the modern period of globalization as the Great Transmigration of Peoples. The newcomers mostly act as they will, disregarding the opinion of their elders. Moreover, they seem to think that they no longer have to respect their cultural constraints in the new conditions, and so sometimes act at their own risk. They think that they have nothing to lose.
Of course, it is typically only those who have not been fully ingrained with their own cultural and ethnic values who act in this manner. But their poor behavior and actions encourage society to believe that this is how all people from a given ethnic group behave. Moreover, these individuals’ compatriots become the hostage of their behavior, even though the principle of collective responsibility has long faded and is inapplicable in modern society. This is not North Korea, which has revived the principle of guilt by association to punish whole families.
As for creating a ministry for ethnic affairs, I’d like to point out that we tend to emulate Western legislation and Western political institutions. There are no ministries for ethnic affairs in the West. Moreover, people in Western countries are not divided into ethnic groups but are all equal citizens or nationals of their country. But Russia is not the West, and it cannot disregard ethnic differences, which have always existed and are unlikely to disappear any time soon. Most Western countries are monoethnic states with a long history of social evolution, whereas Russia has a different history and different realities.
We all know the recipes, but no single measure will resolve the problem. What we need is a complex of measures, because this is a complex problem. I will limit myself to the legal sphere, which I consider to be the most important. We must not request people to strictly comply with law, but instead ensure the fair administration of justice based on common sense for everyone. People must be equal before the law and no one should be able to evade responsibility, as now happens so often. Punishment must be inevitable but it must also be commensurate with the crime.
Prosecution alone will not resolve the problem either. We need to make many spheres, including law enforcement, more civilized. We must work to prevent crimes and offenses, conducting explanatory work in schools and universities, because respect for the law begins with details, and at an early stage. We must improve people’s legal culture because we will not build a state ruled by law otherwise. We must above all fight corruption in the institutions that embody law, that is, the law-enforcement and judicial system. The protest rallies in Manezhnaya Square and the events in Kondopoga and Pugachyov amount to public responses to unacceptable police action regarding serious crimes.
We also need to do many other things in the area of nation building. It is extremely important to show people that they have common tasks and goals and to consolidate society around nationwide ideas. After all, Russia is our only country and our only homeland, and everyone must serve it honestly, irrespective of their ethnicity and faith. This is our solemn duty, our highest honor and our greatest responsibility.


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I’ll head off to see it right away. Congratulations on being picked up for the article, too.
the question behind it? pretty important. when i had my first kid, my sister-in-law (half of a textbood ‘yuppie’ couple in the mid-1980’s) was pregnant with her first. she asked me “did having the baby change your relationship?” Seems she and her husband had made it a goal to keep their fundamental relationship unchanged… i was sleep deprived, in love with my family, and just couldn’t help laughing out loud! of course it changes the relationship!

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It is part of the industrial corridor of the Bajío region (Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato, Irapuato, Salamanca, and Celaya) and has great prospects worldwide in the automotive industry.
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@Sylvia welcome to sphynxlair. So very sorry for the loss of your boy Rocky. After being together for 16 years your heart must be broken to lose him.
Hope members from area will pm you. Fingers crossed a sphynx will find her/his way to you.
Hi and welcome to the lair.
I'm sorry to read about your loss.
It is good you took your time to give it a place in your heart. 16 years is an amazing age.
I'm not sure how it is where you live, but here they even often work with a wait list of unborn kittens where you get put on, if they have a litter they inform you if you're still interested as they work their way through the list to find every kitten a golden home.
So don't be shy to call or e-mail several breeders and inform yourself.
On one side it is as simple to open google and search 'Cattery's in Massachusetts' and do some research and a lot of reading.
I'm afraid I cannot link you due the forum rules so that's something you'll have to do yourself.
- What to expect from a responsible breeder.
- How to detect fraud.
I can only highly recommend to read those too as they can be a great help (golden tips, I swear!) to decide which Cattery you want your little one from and what to look out for.
There are a lot of awesome breeders around the world. Sadly enough there are also a few very rotten apples.
So make sure you go prepared if you visit an Cattery, you can write it on a notepad and grab a pen along to mark all the marks with good or bad so you can view after wards on what the plus and the minus points of that Cattery are.
It's also always handy to write down how you felt with the owners, how your overall impression was.
If you visit a few you can compare then and pick the one you feel the best with.
After all you want the little one you take home to be healthy!
I hope these tips and the lair articles can help you on your search.
I live in MA and when I got Bella I couldn’t find a breeder in MA. I got her out of state. That was 9 years ago, so maybe there are some out here now.
@Joanne Since I do not know much from breeders in your country I think it is a brilliant idea to search a little outside the state.
Also please let us know how far you are willing to drive or fly ?


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I was wondering if PC Per is going to this event as they have in the past?
I wonder if they will show of software to help programmers.
If it worth programming for and easy to learn or not cause a million headaches then developers would be interested.
I hope that will be the case and that this is what will be shown. The ease of use and where that developed software can be used on.
It interesting direction and position AMD is in.
I wonder if they will get to see the reward of their effort or fall before getting there.
Makes me think Intel is also creating software like Ray Tracing.

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I have a Robotiq 85 2-finger gripper that I'm using with a UR5 running version 3.3.2.266, and would like to control remotely (presumably via URScript).
Perhaps I have missed something basic, but this does not seem to be working, and behaves in ways I would not expect.
When I run "gripper_tutorial.urp" from the pendant, that does work. But when I single-step through any of the rq_* commands (using the >| button on the bottom of the pendant display), I get a compile error, e.g., "Compile error: name 'rq_close' is not defined". Likewise, sending rq_* commands over a socket does not work; there does not seem to be any effect.
I can control the gripper remotely using raw socket commands from URScript, e.g., socket_set_var("POS", 255, "gripper_socket"). But that does not seem to work reliably, and does not seem like the right way to do things given the presence of the rq_* commands.
Any idea what might cause this behavior? Have I missed some initialization step? Shouldn't I be able to send "rq_close()" (e.g.) over a URScript socket?
@jonlong Not that I'm aware of as those are not "native" features of the robot language. The Robotiq script is loaded into the robot memory at run time when you press play. The way it works on the robot is when you press play the program is compiled and all new script functionality is loaded at that time.
If you try to single step through the program those scripts are not loaded as the program is not actually being executed and therefore you get the error. My understanding is when you press the single step button you are actually compiling a small program for that step and then sending that one step to the controller as a program. To emulate that behavior you'd have to send as your program to the controller the entire Robotiq script file along with the one command you want to execute so that it's loaded in the run environment.
Okay, thanks, I think that explains the behavior I'm seeing.
Sending the entire Robotiq script with each command does not sound very efficient; is there no efficient way to control the gripper over a socket while it's connected to the UR control box?
It sounds like I should just connect the serial port of the gripper externally to the UR control box; is that what you'd recommend?
Honestly, never tried controlling the gripper from off the robot. When we do things like that we don't generally have a Robotiq on them.
Okay, I'm leaving URScript and switching to external control.
I have the exact same issue as you are having. I would prefer to use the rq_* commands that I've seen shipped with the R85, but they are not available to me over a socket connection. Currently I have to send individual "socket_set_var" commands to get the behavior I want and use a python time.sleep(2) command to block.
I'm currently reaching out to Robotiq to see if an engineer has a better idea of how to handle this situation.
@cgilmer Since you are using an external library for robot control I am assuming you are also using an external computer, how about just hooking into the gripper directly from the PC? You could just open the socket on the gripper and not have to go through the robot at all. When we wrote the nodejs library similar to that one that was the plan we had for any external devices on the robot.
@matthewd92 - Interesting idea. Can you link me to your node library? Or is there a spec I can look at for socket communication to the gripper? It's somewhat nice to go through the UR but not necessary. If I could talk directly to the gripper I will probably have more control, which would be nice.
@cgilmer we never implemented the Robotiq interface as we would up using an end effector we could operate via digital I/O and so just didn't need it for the project we were building the library for. It's actually still quite incomplete and we haven't opened it up to anyone outside our organization at this time but if there are some specifics you are interested in I can take a look at letting out small bits of the code. At some point when we have some more time to dedicate we'd like to get back on the project and open it up for some folks to help us with it.
As as far as communicating to the gripper here's some documentation on how to do that via Modbus RTU over either the USB to RS485 converter or directly via RS485. We're doing something similar on another project but we write all of our code in nodejs. The biggest difference with that project is we are strictly reading data so no writing to the registers but it looks rather straightforward just briefly reading over the docs.
This is actually super helpful. It looks like the best way to manage the robotiq in this instance is to bypass the UR all together and just talk directly to it. If I find time to do it, and if my company lets me, I'll try to open source the python driver when I get it done.
So I had a little spare time today so I sat down and started working on a nodejs library for controlling the 2F-85 gripper. You can find the source code at https://github.com/mbush92/robotiq-node. Its very limited in scope currently as I just started knocking out some code this afternoon but you can activate the gripper and then open and close it. If you're familiar with node you can run a simple script that I wrote called gripper.js in the /lib folder and it will control the gripper through an close and open cycle. I will hopefully be doing some more work on this over the next few days.
Hopefully it will give you guys some ideas on how to control the gripper using other languages as well.
@matthewd92 - This library is great. It looks like you talk directly on a serial connection to the gripper. Have you figured out how to talk to the robotiq over an ethernet connection?
Something that would be nice to have confirmed is if they all have the same address when you plug them in. I was able to find it pretty quick by looking in the /dev folder on my mac. @Etienne_Samson would you or one of the others have the answer to that question about the device address.
@matthewd92 The addresses of the usb/serial converter are assigned by the OS. So we cannot tell in advance how they will be named. On linux for example, they are named /dev/ttyUSBX or /dev/ttyACMX where X is an integer.
@cgilmer For an external library to control Robotiq devices, have a look at the ros-industrial robotiq package. https://github.com/ros-industrial/robotiq. Use the gripper manual for the communication protocol description.
@cglimer I re-read your post and regarding that quote "I would prefer to use the rq_* commands that I've seen shipped with the R85, but they are not available to me over a socket connection." nothing prevents you from appending the gripper preamble to the urscript you are sending over tcp. This preamble declares the functions we use to control the gripper and you can find it in the .script file that is generated when you press the play button (those files are located next the .urp file in the programs directory).
That preamble is quite long but you can probably prune it and keep only the relevant functions for your case.
@PierreOlivier_Proulx - I had tried appending the preamble to my script but it did not appear to work when I did it. So for now I've left it out. Instead I control the gripper state via UR script using socket_set_var and then put a timeout in my own code to simulate how long I expect it to take.
A better solution would be for me to talk directly over a socket connection to the gripper via the UR's built-in Modbus (as opposed to buying a separate modbus controller and connecting the gripper to it separately). I haven't been able to do this yet or I haven't figured out how to set up the modbus on the polyscope correctly to allow it.
2. Get the gripper state in real-time so I can figure out what's going on.
I haven't figured out how to do #1 (blocking action) so instead I have the timeout. For #2, I think the variables I want get set globally and output on the primary monitor (the polyscope) but these same variables aren't sent out to the secondary monitor, which is what I'm using to monitor the robot and thus the gripper state. I think this is more a problem with UR than with Robotiq.
This brings me back to my initial wish - that I could control the robotiq directly over the UR modbus interface. Any idea how to do this?
You can't control the gripper over UR modbus interface because UR client is ModbusTCP while the gripper is ModbusRTU (i.e. over a serial line). To do so you would have to buy a ModbusTCP controller to control the gripper.
I still think that copying the whole preamble should work. URScript is very sensitive to indentation and it is not very verbose when problem occurs. Why not trying pasting the preamble but one function at a time to see the result incremantally.
@PierreOlivier_Proulx - You may have solved my problem. What is the indentation rule that must be followed? I bet my indentation was wrong and so it errored out.
The particularity is that function definitions cannot be on the same indentation level as the program definition. However, regular instruction can. This might look obvious but we had situations where we were having a functional script with built-in instructions on level 0 and then, after adding a function nothing worked. You also have to be careful with the : at the end of control instructions (if, while, function) and the end that close those control instructions block. As a general rule, when I have to write a script by hand, I usually do it very incrementally, testing every small modification in order to catch problems early.
@PierreOlivier_Proulx - I'm going to try this out. It's super helpful. Thanks for sharing this with me. I'll let you know if it works sometime in the next couple days when I get back to it.
@cgilmer I took a look at the repo you linked https://github.com/SintefRaufossManufacturing/python-urx/blob/master/urx/robotiq_two_finger_gripper.py. I think that you could directly add the gripper preamble in that file and use rq_* functions directly instead of socket_set_var.
@PierreOlivier_Proulx - I think you're right. one other question: do you know if the URScript is sensitive to tabs or spaces? I assume it requires tabs. But if you know it would help tremendously.
@cgilmer I always use spaces.
I've found that it doesn't matter either way, tabs though seem to be pretty indented.
@cgilmer take a look at this fork, I appended the preamble.
The link as step 1 of the setup for this project seems broken, is there any other source for the driver, as it seems like a great project?
Also @Pierre, as we are newbies with URX, is yours a fork of this https://github.com/SintefRaufossManufacturing/python-urx and which is the best for us to start with?
Yes it is a fork of this repository. The Step 1 refer to which project?

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Anne Gregory works as counsel to the Manitoba Nurses Union (MNU) in Winnipeg. Prior to joining MNU, she was counsel at the Canadian Union of Public Employees for over a decade, and in-house with United Food & Commercial Workers Local 832. Before practicing law, Anne worked as a journalist with CBC Radio, as a staff representative at the National Radio Producers' Association, and at the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union. She has more than 30 years of experience working with unionized workplaces, and is currently the Recording Secretary of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.
Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Journalism, and a Bachelor of Laws. She was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1999 and the Bar of Ontario in 2008.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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It’s been quite a month for us all here at Phoenix Multimedia.
One minute, we have been planning for the Yorkshire Wedding Sale in Harrogate, the next our attentions have been turning towards web design and a big show in Bradford for Rachael Swann’s School of Dance at the end of the month.


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text: East Gosford Thai Massage is a massage shop based in East Gosford, Central Coast, NSW. We offer a range of Massage Services and are regarded as the best Thai Massage on the Central Coast, our services include; Traditional Thai Massage, Thai oil Massage, Relaxation Massage, Back Massage, Neck and Shoulder Massage, Foot Massage, Sports Massage and Remedial Massage. Our customers come from all over the Central Coast including West Gosford, East Gosford, Gosford, Erina, Kariong, Avoca Beach, Terrigal, North Gosford, Wyoming, Wamberal, Kincumber, Green Point, Woy Woy, Niagara Park, Ourimbah, Saratoga, Narara and Lisarow.


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What to do when the weather stinks just about everywhere. Embrace the rain. We did and we sure got soaked on the outing. Boulder River is near an annual hike for me. About this time of year. When the avy conditions up high mean a hike down low is in order. Gwen and Jim joined me on this trip.
We started out early, arriving at the TH parking area to find it empty. Hmmm...wonder why? We donned the Gore-Tex and packed the gear safely (pack covers or packs lined with garbage bags). Jim brought his 11th essential...an umbrella.
You know the trail...starts out on an old decaying road (interesting to see it change from year to year as is slowly falls into the gorge), then trail as it approaches the Wilderness boundary. The trail is pretty flat...some ups and downs along the way but nothing major.
We stopped at the ford looking the opposite side wondering how, and in what conditions the old timers crossed the river and headed up to Tupso Pass. Wow. There are a couple of campsites at the ford, nice I suppose in the summer but today...soaking wet. Fire rings that looked more like swimming pools. We took shelter under one of the larger trees but only long enough for a quick lunch and them a hasty hike back out.
We finally did see ~8 other hikers about 1/2 way out. None looked eager to push further in. Stats: about 9mi, 1200' gain round trip to the Boulder River ford.


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An outer mesh shade and oil-rubbed bronze finish infuse this metal table lamp with industrial charm.
From the Luis collection by Possini Euro Design, this metal table lamp offers modern industrial styling for your home. It sports an oil-rubbed finish over a metal frame for classic, handsome look. The most curious feature is the dual shade design, which features a decorative metal mesh drum shade with a curving clear glass shade inside. Recommended for use with decorative Edison-style bulbs.
Overall: 28" high x 18 1/4" wide. Shade is 16" wide X 5" high.
Uses one maximum 75 watt standard-medium base bulb (not included). In-line on-off switch. Includes 8-foot long brown cord.
Industrial table lamp from the Luis collection by Possini Euro Design®. Pictured here with an Edison-style bulb, which is not included.
Oil rubbed bronze finish. Metal construction. Conical post and round base design.
Inner clear glass shade. Outer metal mesh shade.
Unique design; not a run of a mill lamp.
what's an edison style bulb and where can I purchase them?
BEST ANSWER: This type of bulb is made to look like a classic 1910 Edison light bulb (filament showing). I have added some Edison bulb options below.
I purchased two of these lamps and they are well worth the price. I like different styles and this fit my taste. The size is not too big and use a Edison bulb and it is not too bright. I use them on my night tables and the on and off switch on the cord makes it easy to switch on and off. Well worth the price. If I could I would give them more than a five star rating.
I absolutely love this lamp. It is beautiful and provides just the right amount of light for my living room.


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According to local news sources, Cecil the Lion’s two cubs have not taken well to the unrelenting press coverage that their father’s death has attracted.
Another source confirmed that the worldwide coverage of their father’s death “has caused his sons further emotional destabilisation.” In the weeks following Cecil’s death, Marius frequently lashed out at cameramen who chose to ignore his plea “to give the family some space”.
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text: Between the steamy summers and freezing winters, Rago residents spend much of the year trying to control their energy bills. While no one wants to come home to an uncomfortably hot or cold house after work, many homeowners choose to do just that in order to avoid running up their energy bills trying to maintain a comfortable temperature for an unoccupied house. Thankfully, Vivint Smart Home has a better way. We offer the Element Thermostat and Nest Learning Thermostat, both of which are integrated into our smart home system. After a brief learning period and by using geo-locating technology, your smart thermostat will begin to recognize when you're at home, at work, across the country, or in bed and it will automatically adjust the temperature of your home accordingly. You get to see your energy bill drop without having to change a single habit. Wondering what else Vivint Smart Home provides?

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


text: How To Buy Accutane Now. Generic Accutane (Isotretinoin) is used primarily in the treatment and prevention of severe nodular (cystic) acne. Made with vitamin A, Isotretinoin acts to diminish the size and production of oil glands in the face, resulting in clearer, more beautiful skin. 95% of patients who have completed a full cycle of Accutane reported partial to full acne removal. Start living acne-free and experience clearer looking skin with Generic Accutane!

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The dramatic takeover of government started with the election of Georgian Dream’s Bidzina Ivanishvili as Prime Minister in October 2012. A year later, Ivanishvili’s former Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili replaced Saakashvili in the largely ceremonial role of President. Soon after, Ivanishvili fulfilled his election promise to voluntarily step aside, naming his long-time Georgia Dream associate Irakli Garibashvili as the new Prime Minister of Georgia.
Challenging economic conditions encountered by Javakhk Armenians over the course of a number of years led many to attain Armenian citizenship and travel to Russia to seek employment. As Georgia’s legislation restricts dual citizenship, these Javakhk Armenians were not permitted to retain their Georgian citizenship.
Now, due to new Georgian government visa laws, these natives of Javakhk must attain a visa to return home for stays over 90 days. The visa process is cumbersome and the need to “verify possessing of sufficient funds” as outlined in the visa requirements has proven to be difficult for many. For fathers and brothers who have been forced to leave for work, the visa requirements are posing a serious impediment to reuniting with their families in Javakhk.
In October 2014 an Armenian parliamentary delegation led by National Assembly Speaker Galust Sahakyan made representations to the Georgian government on behalf of the Armenians of Javakhk concerning these travel impediments. Upon its return, the delegation noted that promises had been made by the Georgian government to address the issue. Despite these promises, a timely resolution has not been forthcoming, and Javakhk Armenians are still being kept away from their families.
Promises made by President Margvelashvili while serving as Education Minister to improve education conditions for Javakhk Armenians are also still pending. Despite numerous requests from teachers and students to educate in and learn their native language, the government remains determined to make Georgian the principal language of instruction in schools. Acceptance of Armenian as an official regional language would ultimately resolve the issue of learning rights and allow for more effective interaction between Javakhk Armenians and regional government institutions. But there seems to be little hope that Armenian will be elevated to an official language of Javakhk in the near future.
Ivanishvili’s pledge to fund a historical commission to resolve disputes of church ownership between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Georgian Orthodox Church has also not materialised. During his first visit to the Republic of Armenia, the former Prime Minister and leader of the GDP had committed to funding the research, but the investigation has yet not commenced. As a result, a number of these churches still remain in the possession of Georgian Orthodox Church authorities.
In the absence of good governance for the Armenians of Javakhk, a number of NGOs have been filling the void. These NGOs have been doing their best to serve the cultural, educational, and at times, economic needs of Javakhk Armenians.
Earlier this year the Support to Javakhk Fund was founded by seven prominent Javakhk Armenians with the aim of implementing projects devoted to the socioeconomic development of the Armenian populated regions of Javakhk and Tsalka.
The Fund supports families with multiple children, providing one off grants of 1,000 Georgian lari (approx. $550) for the birth of a third child, 1,500 lari (approx. $830) for a fourth and 2,000 lari (approx. $1,100) for a fifth. The program coordinators advise that more than $40,000 has already been disbursed to Javakhk families under this program.
Another program implemented by the Fund includes gifting a cow to Javakhk villagers with the expectation that the cow bare a calf that is later returned to the Fund and accepted as payment for the cow. The program has been effective in improving the conditions of many villagers in Javakhk.
The Support to Javakhk Fund website www.jah.am details the social, health-related, cultural and community programs currently run by the Fund.
The Armenian Relief Society (ARS) is also undertaking important work in Javakhk. The organization recently celebrated the seventh anniversary of the establishment of its youth center in Akhalkalak. Some 400 young Armenian youths participate in programs run by the Akhalkalak youth center.
The ARS has established a number of such youth centers throughout Javakhk. The most recently established center was officially opened in the border town of Ninotzminda in September 2014. The ARS centers serve to strengthen and enrich the knowledge of the youth of Javakhk. They provide locals with the opportunity to learn Armenian history and immerse in Armenian culture.
Just as every new government, the GDP government of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili is entitled to a period of grace. A time to settle into government, prioritize objectives and implement policies to deliver for the people. For the GDP government, that grace period is nearing its end.
Where the needs of the people of Javakhk sit on the GDP’s list of political priorities is uncertain. But many remain hopeful that the GDP’s open and honest communication and promises will deliver better conditions for the people of Javakhk.
While NGOs and their supporters work tirelessly to deliver their programs, the people of Javakhk wait patiently with the expectation that in the New Year the Georgian government will finally give them their piece of the ‘Georgian Dream’.
Varant Meguerditchian is the former Executive Director and President of the Armenian National Committee of Australia. He currently works as a government relations professional in Sydney. He holds a Master of Management from MGSM and a Master of International Relations from Griffith University.
Let’s see Mother Russia’s love for her little ‘Orthodox’ brother. Let’s see them pressure something that will actually benefit the Armenians. But everything wrapped around self indulging interests, dreams will only remain dreams.
Yes, because indeed “mother Europe” was doing a great job when your pal Sakashvilli was in power right? Wasn’t he the US and EU’s favorite doll in Georgia? Whey didn’t your EU pals “pressure” for better conditions for minorities including Armenians back when their boy Sakashvilli was calling the shots?
Georgia under Russian sphere of influence has already yielded more tangible results in the past year than all the years of Sakashvilli’s reign combined. Oh wait, there was that BRILLIANT move by Sakashvilli in 2008 to declare war on behalf of his people against one of the world’s most potent militaries, leaving his country in shambles. Of course that didn’t stop Neo-Con artist POW dropout McCain in the US to declare “we are all Georgians today, we will help you” right as Georgia was being pummeled back into the 1970s by Russian heavy weapons.
Yes you are right, a EU and US backed banana republic was MUCH better for the common Georgian VS a Russian backed banana republic.
Norin, don’t forget that Mother Europe spent a fortune in capital and in political pressure on a program to import Meshketian Turks from Central Asia back into Georgia with stated intent to have the Meshketian’s colonize Armenian Javakhk. Unsurprisingly it was the trash from the British government which led and continues to lead this effort to Turkify and Islamize Armenian lands. Europe as we once imagined it is dead: it has degenerated into a Turkic/Islamic caliphate where in most countries the #1 name for babies is Muhammad and where natives and Christians will be a minority within 20-30 years.
As for Georgia, Russia has been investing in reintegrating Georgia into its sphere of influence since even before August 2008; Russia does not invest large sums unless it has guaranteed returns on its investment.
Yes indeed, having Mother Russia use heavy weaponry to pummel Georgia back into the 1970s is something to aspire to. In fact, let’s all hope that this type of behavior, such as the land grab of the Crimea, inspires other nations to resolve their issues by pummeling their neighbors back to the 1970s.
Regardless of our Armenian bias on Georgian affairs, the fact remains that Georgia’s aim was to escape the bear’s hug. Unlike us, they actually had the courage to try to do something about it. Mother Russia’s only plan for the region is total and absolute hegemony and reliance. They couldn’t careless if Meshketian Turks or Mosquito Indians inhabit the area. They will blatantly and violently destroy any resistance with their paper tiger heavy weapons.
During the 2008 Misha’s war of aggression against South Ossetia, Georgian authorities sent ethnic Armenian reservists to fight for the Great Georgian (micro) Empire.
That was smart especially when many young Georgian men found refuge in “Javakhketi” dodging the draft.

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Mr. Huxster is a partner in the firm and handles a wide variety of cases.
Peter was a partner in the firm and handled a wide variety of cases prior to his recent retirement. Admitted to practice in the state of California in 1979 and the United States District Court, Central District of California in 1982, Peter was also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Peter later relocated to Southern California where he received UCLA School of Law, graduating in 1978 as a member of the law review.
Peter experience was diverse, having served as a Judicial Clerk to California Court of Appeal Associate Justice Lynn D. Compton and serving as Judge Pro Tempore for the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Peter also served his country as a Specialist 4 in the United States Army Rangers from 1969-1971 in Vietnam.


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If you just need to check your email, click 'Email Access' on the menu.
First time users, please follow the instructions in the section below.
To connect, enter your school username in the box below and then click Connect.
Students - your password expires every 31 days. If it expires over the holidays, you will need to ask one of your parents to reset it through Parent Gateway. The option to do so is on the left hand menu when they are logged in.
Staff - if your password expires, you will have to visit school in order to change it.
To change your (not expired) password: login using remote access and press CTRL+ALT+END on the keyboard. Then click 'change a password'.
Here at STRS, we use a Remote Learning Environment (RLE). The RLE allows pupils and staff to use the school system as if they were present within the school walls. This means that their home computer simply acts as a screen and keyboard for the session.
The main benefit to this type of setup for users is that there is no extra software (Microsoft Word, Powerpoint etc) to purchase or install. In addition, because users are effectively using a machine in school, they are subject to the same high-security regulations as they would be in the building - this includes internet filtering and enterprise-level anti-virus scanning. It also means the end of emailing large projects back and forth!
Our internal Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is based heavily around Microsoft SharePoint. This contains information for students - such as handouts, announcements, calendars and much more.
Please note: if you are looking for access to SharePoint as a parent, you need a Parent Gateway account.
If you encounter an error, or need technical support, please email matthopton@strs.org.uk.
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Hi everyone. Since Matt is sick this week, this is probably an appropriate time to jump in and fill some space here on Comic Tools.
I recently completed a comic book with an obscene amount of dry-brushing and by the end, I had pretty much killed all my favorite Princeton watercolor brushes. Needing to replace them, I decided to take Matt's advice and order some (actually, twelve) from Rosemary & Co. and he asked me to do a review. I just finished inking the t-shirt design below where I used a few of the more standard brushes that most comic illustrators prefer so that gave me a chance to get acquainted with them enough to write this. I apologize in advance for the blotchiness of these iPhone photos.
This was the first bit of work I did using Rosemary & Co. kolinsky sable brushes. Size 0 round for smaller animals, 2 round for text and larger animals and a 2 rigger for everything else. Medium: Speedball India ink and Bombay red India ink on 11"x14" Bristol vellum.
First off, I LOVE these rounds. I bought several from Series 22, 33 and 323. They not only hold a ton of ink without dumping it out the second you touch it to the paper but they also make effortless buttery-smooth lines. I was particularly impressed by how well the rounds kept their point, even when gunked up. For those of you who love that chunky Craig Thompson skidding dry-brush effect, just try using one of these with some old goopy ink; I promise, you will be very pleased with the result.
Note about the size 0: I typically use a 2 or 3 round for most comic work because they are great for making both thin and fat lines but 0 rounds are very often too small. However, out of curiosity, I bought the Series 22 Round 0 and after working with it for several hours found that, contrary to my expectations, it actually suited my needs quite well. In some cases, it was able to accomplish the same effect as the size 2 and 3 brushes I had been using before but was far better for getting into tight spaces.
Riggers were originally intended for painting the rigging on ships (thus the name) and therefore are fantastic for long straight lines or smooth curves. All you have to do is tip it slightly to the side and apply a bit of pressure. This lays the ends of the hairs down against the paper and allows the tip to maintain contact even if your hand isn't doing a very good job of making the line. My hand isn't always the steadiest at 2:00AM (when most artists do their best work), so I use riggers about half of the time.
This particular rigger (Series 44, Size 2), although wonderful to paint with, was quite different from what I expected. You have to be careful about not overloading this brush with too much ink. I've grown accustomed to riggers of the same size producing a moderate to thin line but this brush produced a medium to very thick line, especially when initially set down on paper with so much available ink. If I wanted a thin line, I had to be very careful in order to get it right, starting by scraping it against the side of the ink jar about three or four times to get most of the ink out of the belly.
In addition, it had a bit of a unruly point that was difficult to control at anything below an 80 degree angle to the paper when it was not in motion. I myself, like many other brush inkers who came from the drawing world, paint with my hand rested on the paper, so the brush is usually tipped somewhere between 30 and 80 degrees but very rarely above that, unless I'm choking up on the ferrule to do detail work. Therefore, the point tended to get away from me quite a bit on this particular rigger when I was working on short lines or spots.
I was SO excited when I found this brush (Series 46, Size 12); it was the first one I tried out of the twelve brushes I bought. As I mentioned before, I use riggers quite a bit. The downside of most riggers is that they don't hold much ink, especially if they are a synthetic. You are always having to pick it up from the line, get more ink and then carefully find the line again and try to keep the stroke going like nothing ever happened. So what you have a brush that's made for making long lines which can't actually hold enough ink to finish those lines.
Rosemary's newly-conceived 12 Extended Point brush combines the great ink-holding capability of a size 12 round and the stability of a rigger (I would estimate about a size 2).
The one drawback to this brush is that it has trouble with thicker inks. I use Speedball India Ink and it tends to get more dense over time from being open during inking. This wouldn't typically pose a problem with a normal round or rigger, but with the Extended Point, the thicker ink gets stuck up in the belly and the rigger dries up and begins to deflect to the side where the round hairs end. That said, this brush may require some practice, even with thinner ink.
Overall, I was very pleased with Rosemary's kolinsky brushes. Having spent only a few days working with them, I can already tell that they are finely crafted, very long-wearing and have a much better ink reservoir than the other high-quality brushes I have been using. Their only "fault", stemming mainly from my artistic preferences combined with my own probable in-expertise, is that they aren't quite as good at making super-fine lines. But there are other brushes in the world to fill that requirement, so I am satisfied.
Despite her location in the UK, Rosemary's prices are significantly below what you would spend in an art store for a brush of half the quality. She takes PayPal, shipping was super quick (within a week of payment) and the brushes were received, well-packed in pristine condition along with a nice catalogue containing actual-size pictures of all the other brushes she makes.
If you are looking for some great brushes, I absolutely recommend giving Rosemary & Co. your business.
Comic Tools reader and storyboard artist Mark Kennedy sent me a link to his terrific blog where he analyzes comics pages, illustrations, paintings, photographs and film stills to show what makes them work, with special attention paid to composition, drama, and the posing of figures. I'm already learning from it, and I'll probably start linking to individual posts of his pretty commonly. Everyone should subscribe to his wonderful blog.
Mark also linked me to this, a blog which posts a lesson from the Famous Artist's Cartoon Course every month. (I've linked directly to the Famous...Course tag rather than the blog's main page, for your convenience. But you should also putter around.) At the bottom of each post, there is a link where the entire lesson can be downloaded in PDF format. When I was young I paid (by which I mean my mother paid) hundreds of dollars for a poor-man's version of such a course, and here it is free. Totally insane.
Sarah and Mark are hereby awarded Comic Tools Reader gold-stars, which smell like grapes when you scratch them and say "Grape Job" on them. Holy cow, you guys, thank you so, SO much.
Next week on Comic Tools: How to get the Perfect White Out Consistency.
P.S.: Sorry about the weird formatting in this post, I've spent half an hour trying to fix it and I can't make it work. It doesn't help that the preview field is totally inaccurate to what I see on screen.
Another great post. The Cartooning Course PDF's are well worth a download. Thanks!
Hi I was avidly reading your topic on Rosemary & Co, I am foremost a professional watercolour artist in Portugal, and have used all brushes referred to on topic, I use the Escoda reserva 7, 10 & 12, as well as series 7 W&N size 6 and 10, and a variety of Rosemary's brushes 9, 7 and 5 series 33, all very good brushes. It's sad to see a retraction of endorsement of a company that singularly has revived the craftsman approach in the UK to give quality tools for the artist. Her standalone no nonsense brush replacement ( which is very fast) relating to any brush that is defective.It's worth mentioning at this point I had two brushes which were not up to standard and were replaced with apologies as she takes her QC very seriously as in fact do Escoda.
My point being although we would expect 100% quality assurance sometimes it fails but if a replacement policy is in effect, no harm done.
The second point was in reference to the W&N vs Escoda and Rosemary and Co. If you were comparing the escoda reserva and W&N serie 7, then in all fairness you should not have compared the series 33 but rather the series 22 kolinsky designer brush, which is on the same platform of the two previously mentioned, it would have been a more serious test.
All the best, good blogging.

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Dutch auctions have 2 or more of the same item for sale. Higher bidders are given precendence over lower bidders. In case of a tie precedence is given to the earliest bidder. The price is determined by the lowest winning bid.
Example 1: An auction has 10 items available, starts at $1, and has an increment of $1. If 5 people bid $2 and 10 people bid $1, the 5 $2 bidders plus the earliest 5 of the other $1 bidders win the auction each for $1. The next minimum bid amount goes to $2 since the supply has been exceeded.
Example 2: An auction has 10 items available, starts at $5, and has an increment of $1. Katie bids $15 for 5 items and Doug bids $5 for 10 items. Katie gets 5 items and Doug gets the remaining 5 items, each for $5 (the lowest winning bid). If Susan joins the bidding at $10 for 5 items then Katie gets 5 and Susan gets the remaining 5 items each for $10, and Doug loses out. The next minimum bid amount then goes to $10.


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Anca-Elena Ursu was a research fellow with Clingendael’s Conflict Research Unit until March 2019. A legal professional by training, she worked at the intersection of traditional justice and local governance in the Sahel.
Elena’s work strives to be disciplined by theory, informed by cutting-edge empirical efforts, and connected in a practical way to contemporary policy endeavours. She is passionate about building bridges between formal and informal structures of political and legal governance while offering constructive analysis that can help unlock the full potential of the regions she studies.


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Therapeutic drugs in cancer and resistance.
We investigated the mechanism of toxicity and resistance development of small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor lapatinib in HCT 116 colon cancer cells. Lapatinib mediated cell death in HCT 116 cells was caspase independent and involved cytosolic release of apoptosis inducing factor. Treatment of HCT 116 cells with 10µM Lapatinib lead to the outgrowth of lapatinib resistant HCT 116 cells. Our studies show that alterations in the expression and activation of Bcl-2 family proteins allow lapatinib resistant HCT 116 cells to resist cytotoxic effects of lapatinib as well as of other commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. In hepatoma and pancreatic cancer cells, the effects of combining multi-kinase inhibitor sorafenib with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) namely, vorinostat and sodium valproate were investigated. It was found that sorafenib synergizes with HDACIs resulting in enhanced cell death compared to death induced by the drugs individually. The mechanism of action of sorafenib and vorinostat combination treatment as well as sorafenib and sodium valproate combined treatment was shown to involve activation of the CD95 death receptor pathway. Alterations in the CD95 pathway can render cancer cells resistant to chemotherapeutic agents. Hence, we combined sorafenib+sodium valproate with a BH-3 domain mimetic named obatoclax (GX-15-070) which resulted in enhanced toxicity to cancer cells. More importantly, knock-down of CD95 (to mimic non-functional CD95 pathway) reduced cell death induced by sorafenib+sodium valproate combined but failed to protect cells from cell death induced by sorafenib+sodium valproate+obatoclax combined. This suggests that combining sorafenib+HDACI with obatoclax may not only enhance toxicity to cancer cells but may also reduce chances of resistance development via alterations in the CD95 pathway. These studies enhance our knowledge of existing treatment strategies for cancer as well as throw light on how current approaches can be improved in order to better diagnose and treat cancer. Understanding mechanisms of drug action as well as resistance development will allow us to combine existing therapies effectively in order best target cancer cells as well as provide us with information that can help us design new cancer treatment strategies.


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EUROPA-MEISTER has committed itself to the protection and dissemination of the QUALITY STANDARDS which are the basis of the Meister (level 6 in the European Qualifications Framework). EUROPA-MEISTER wants to bring new life to the Meister at European level. In addition to the creativity in the painter’s trade, the focus is also on the protection of assets and the preservation of property. Here, if the quality requirements are reduced, results are enormous consequential costs due to deficiencies and structural damage due to lack of knowledge. In addition, training places are no longer available, because there is no longer any qualification for training in the painting enterprises without Meisters.
The expression of this vision is the concrete objective of the project to create the EUROPEAN MEISTERBRIEF in the painter’s trade, which is awarded as a quality label by the European umbrella organization UNIEP, and is intended to act as a model for other craft sectors.
This consists of a basic matrix of common units of learning outcomes and country-specific supplements. The learning outcomes are described in the form of knowledge, skills and competences. All country-specific technical standards, notices and legal frameworks are observed.
The competency matrix created in stage 1 is entered as a second step in accordance with ECVET and EQR criteria in Skillsbank. Skillsbank works multilingually. Therefore, the second step is used to simultaneously create versions of the competency matrix in all country languages of the project partners involved.
After the creation of the basics (competency description) in the first two stages it is described how the competencies described can be acquired by participants (Meister apprentices) in order to receive the EUROPEAN MEISTERBRIEF. There is a network of complementary European master schools to be established. Procedures and guidelines must be defined for their cooperation. These include, inter alia, definitions regarding the implementation of e-learning and mobility abroad within the framework of the Meister training . Participating Meister schools demonstrate how far they can implement the required content. Missing content is supplemented in cooperation with suitable partners in the network.
The last stage and the project objective is the EUROPEAN MEISTERBRIEF. For this purpose, an examination or control commission is created, which consists of members of different European countries who are appointed by UNIEP. Uniform results control and uniform regulations are carried out. UNIEP will establish and apply the EUROPEAN MEISTER / MEISTERBRIEF as a quality label. The EUROPA-MEISTER will serve as a model for other craft trades.
EUROPA-MEISTER responds to a European problem with a European solution.
The products of the project will contribute to providing the companies of the painter’s craft with better trained managers, who in turn can train painters themselves. Thus, the project addresses the objectives of the European Training Alliance. The composition of the consortium creates the partnership between actors of the education system and the working world required by the Alliance.


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Human growth hormone does more for the body than promote growth in early years. It has widespread effects on body composition, mental functions, heart health, and appearance. For these reasons alone, many people automatically equate its effects with anti-aging.
The fact that a person will look years younger because his skin has renewed collagen to firm and tighten its appearance supports the anti-aging beliefs. A woman who now has enough energy to overcome those feelings of fatigue and can keep going well into the late night hours without getting tired understands how HGH makes a person feel young again.
A 1990 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that, in addition to many of the benefits already stated, blood pressure, mood, and internal organs have all been shown to reap positive benefits from HGH therapy.
It is all of these effects that, when coupled with weight loss, muscle regrowth, and increased bone density that can make it seem as though the clock has been turned back, when in essence, the body is merely functioning at high performance.
HGH does not stop the actual aging process – it replenishes the body’s supply of GH so that all vital functions associated with this essential chemical messenger can perform as they should. Ongoing studies continue to examine the effects that human growth hormone therapy has on adults over the age of thirty. It is crucial to remember that only those studies that deal with individuals with valid GH decline as shown by blood test results are of any validity. Testing HGH injections on adults who do not need this treatment will undoubtedly bring about undesirable side effects.
That leads us to the question of the day – is there a valid connection between HGH and anti-aging?
Putting aside the fact that we cannot stop time, and a person will not become years younger simply by taking anti-aging hormone therapy, there are some positive benefits that can be related to this treatment that can be confused with turning back the clock or stopping time. Remember – the actual aging process will not slow down, but the way in which the body appears will change.
The first two items on the list above will help a person visually appear younger. That is what will occur when skin becomes tighter, and hair becomes thicker. The last two benefits improve the overall physique of the individual.
As a result of these changes, a person may believe that there are anti-aging growth hormone benefits occurring, but what is actually happening is that the body, now being provided with what it needs to function properly, is responding as it should – and would have – had the GH deficiency never occurred in the first place.
In addition to the physical transformations already covered, there is another significant area that will see a marked improvement, as well. Mental decline is often a fear as people age. Dementia can rob an individual of his or her independence and quality of life. A reduction in growth hormone production can have a dramatic effect on a person’s cognitive function. Although this is not anti-aging, HGH therapy will improve mental abilities and focus in individuals with this deficiency.
Engaging in research for human growth hormone for anti-aging is an ongoing process. Long-term studies have yet to be concluded. Many shorter-term studies have already published reports on this subject. The results are mixed. In nearly all reports, adults have increased lean muscle mass and decreased fat accumulation. It is after these facts that questions arise among the scientific communities engaged in this research.
Treatment must be supervised to ensure that benefits are achieved without the development of adverse side effects. That is where contacting an HRT professional comes into the picture. These specialists are best able to ascertain the correct HGH anti-aging dosage for each person in order to bring about the best possible results without raising the prospect of developing side effects.
Hormone replacement therapy specialists also conduct their own research with their clientele – using this knowledge to provide further safe and effective treatment.
The use of growth hormone for anti-aging will probably always have a bit of controversy surrounding it, but when prescribed in a controlled and safe manner, it can bring incredible results to adults dealing with HGH deficiency.
The choice of an anti-aging clinic for HGH therapy is an important one to make. Since growth hormone deficiency in adults is a serious medical condition, the best option is a clinic that specializes in hormone replacement therapy.
Why not choose a clinic that advertises itself to be “anti-aging” specialists?
These types of HGH anti-aging clinics will often try to get people to participate in some of these other therapies at the same time as they are administering their HGH injections. Considering the fact that human growth hormone therapy will most likely take care of these other issues on its own, spending excess money for something that is not needed is never recommended.
Opting for an actual HRT medical center is the best choice. If one is not available at the local level, or if the desire for increased confidentiality, simplified testing, and superior service at an affordable cost is preferred, choose a national clinic such as National HRT®.
Contact us for a complimentary consultation about growth hormone anti-aging treatments and how you can benefit from HGH therapy.

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Reload is the ultimate target shooting game. Participate in shooting drills that are used by elite military, law enforcement, or competition shooters. Shoot weapons ranging from popular sports shooting guns all the way up to heavy military weapons. Your targets are made of paper, wood, clay, and metal, and are never living things.
Experience guns like never before. Sniper training, hostage rescue training, pistol drills, grenade launcher training and much, much more.

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Active Directory Recycle Bin is a new feature on Windows Server 2008 R2, it can help administrator to recover the Active Directory deleted item.
As a before, when administrator delete an item on Active Directory, the administrator need to restore the system state backup. It will make a downtime for restore.
Remark: By default, Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2 is disabled. To enable it, you must first raise the forest functional level of your AD DS or AD LDS environment to Windows Server 2008 R2. which in turn requires all forest domain controllers or all servers that host instances of AD LDS configuration sets to be running Windows Server 2008 R2. After setting the forest functional level of your environment to Windows Server 2008 R2, you can use the instructions in this guide to enable Active Directory Recycle Bin.
2. Click "Start", enter "dsac".
3. Select "<Domain> (local), next to "Tasks", click "Raise the forest functional level".
4. Click "OK" three times.
5. Click "Start > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell".
Remark: After enabling Active Directory Recycle Bin, you can't disable it.
7. Back to "Active Directory Administrative Center", create an OU and name it as Engineer (uncheck protect from acidential deletion).
8. Create a user account and name it as Susan in Engineer OU (uncheck protect from acidential deletion).
1. Still in "Active Directory Administrative Center", delete the Susan's user account.
This cmdlet is used to showing the deleted user information and status.
Remark: You can input * at (msDs-lastKnownRDN=*), it shows all deleted users.
3. Enter the following cmdlet to restore Susan's account.
4. Back to "Active Directory Administrative Center", refresh "Engineer" OU.
1. Still in "Active Directory Administrative Center", delete the "Engineer" OU.
4. Back to "Active Directory Administrative Center", refresh "<Domain>".
As a result, the Engineer OU was recovered, but the users account doesn't restore. You have to restore the users account by above cmdlet.


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Definitely a cooler walk this morning now that the weather has changed. I am once again firmly ensconced in my warm T shirts and favourite flannel shirts for the upcoming Season so I'm good to go for another winter in the sometimes cool southwest.
A fellow showed up from Lorne's RV Service today and was able to get that broken plastic plug out of our rig's hot water tank. He inserted an ordinary file until it's sides wedged the plastic plug. He then clamped a pliers on the other end of the file for leverage and slowly unscrewed the broken plug. Like I often say, "nothing to it when you know how." Filled the hot water tank and turned it on. No leaks and 20 minutes later we had hot water coming out of the taps again. Always a great feeling when anything broken is fixed again.
With the hot water tank problem taken care of and the cooler morning temperatures energizing me I was spurred on to begin loading some more things into the Motor Home. Shoes, shirts, T-shirts, socks, etc. Windshield and outside mirrors cleaned and a check of the roof told me things were in good shape up there. Added some more water to the fresh water tank and put the tow bar on the Jeep. Nice to have a purpose for getting organized again.
TEXAS YELLOW ROSE is in a rather precarious position down there in that Texas place at the moment. Literally caught between 'fire and rain' they are getting the the fiver ready to roll in case they have to move to higher ground.
JANNA had to tune me in again with a little geography lesson which I think may have been the second time this year. Janna and Mike live in Montana, not Wyoming as I had mistakenly put in my blog Sunday night. Of course I knew that but for some reason had Wyoming on my mind. A year ago I placed the Kofa Mountains in California and Janna had to quickly remind me they were in fact, in Arizona. My oh my how those mountains can move around when your not watching them. By the way, these Montana folks are up wandering about in two of Canada’s western Provinces at the moment. Check out their Alberta and British Columbia journey in their Motor Home and Bumble Bee Jeep. Meanwhile, over on Canada’s other coast, KEVIN AND RUTH got the big wheels rolling this morning for their winter trip south. Not sure where they are headed but I’m guessing Mexico.
Welcome to that Barrie fella who I noticed this morning has joined us on our Blog Follower's list. Always encouraging to see a new face and we thank you for your interest. And, just before hitting the ‘Publish’ button tonight I noticed another new Blog Follower has come in. The Bayfield Bunch welcomes Shoeless Joe from TRAVLIN' WITH JOHN. Nice of you to drop by.
how exciting to be loading up and getting organized..glad the 'plug removal' was an easy fix!!..some times you just need the right tools and the right know how!!
Now there are some maintenance crews with a sense of humor!
The tension mounts! OK, well maybe just the anticipation of getting on the road and taking your house along.
The leaves fall, and the snow birds get the flock out of here.
Can't remember how many times I saw the notation " Co-pilots Walneto Indicator inoperative".on a gripe sheet. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna..
Nice to start loading the MH..much more fun than UN loading, eh??
Golly we can feel your excitement here. Or maybe it's our own excitement! It's time to be on the road again -- I think our tires are beginning to send roots into the Carson City soil! We're babysitting our daughter who had back surgery last week, and we don't want to abandon her too soon, but we also have obligations back home in Arizona!
I recently found your blog and look forward to following your southern adventures. I live in New Brunswick and pull a 13' (10' inside) Trillium fiberglass travel trailer 'egg'. I'm retired and enjoy my southern jaunts; I'm not full timing. I tend to hang around GA & FL and the Gulf coast as far as TX.
I especially enjoy your 'Groaner's Corner'! While I'm waiting to make my break for warmer weather your blog helps to keep me anxious.


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An archaeologist makes a series of incredible finds and becomes involved, professionally and personally, with the Cabinet minister who made funding available for the dig. In a repressive political climate, Kate and Dan become increasingly concerned by the ramifications of the relationship, and the unsettling interest shown by the ambitious minister in the Heroic Age.
Ragnarok is a terrifying apocalyptic novel inspired by the invasive politics and surveillance culture of contemporary Britain.
One theme of this novel is the abuse of power by government ministers - and the ambitious staff of the agencies which they create and exercise some, but perhaps not sufficient, control over. As with Frankenstein’s monster, these creatures, synthesized in the great UK laboratory-of-the-police-state, may yet embarrass their political masters.
The United Kingdom as a totalitarian state, ruled by an invasive, omniscient, executive power, was best exemplified by George Orwell in the novel 1984. Many of his ‘Big Brother’ predictions are now coming to fruition thro’ the proliferation of cameras, databases, profiling, and information-driven policing by a myriad of competing agencies, in what is aptly described as a surveillance society.
Despite massive immigration in recent years, Britain retains a largely homogeneous Anglo-Saxon population, with the Teutonic tendency to march in-step and repress radical expression. The largest media organization, the BBC, on whose practices Orwell modelled his Ministry of Truth, and which inspired the term ‘newspeak’, is more beholden than ever, in a fractured market, to its political paymasters. There is no written constitution, and despite notional developments in human rights law, savagely criticized by the media oligarchs and the demagoguery, recent trends in UK government policy are geared towards policing without the expense and inconvenience of the courts.
The other theme of this novel is fantastical. Utilization of a supernatural myth which, unlike Orwell’s inspiration for his keenly sketched description of dystopic government ministries, is not sourced from contemporary reality.
These disparate themes are linked by a common quest-ion. What dark force drives the controlling instinct, for some it is a compulsion, in that most dangerous of entities in the digital age - the politician?
The Icelandic Old-Norse word Ragnarok roughly translates into ‘doom of the gods’; and in the context of the novel, it refers to apocalyptic supernatural events which strike London, the modern media-centric equivalent of Asgard in the UK, causing sufficient dislocation of government to permit a coup to be staged by extremists in the British establishment. To this end, an elite surveillance-security unit would be needed with a similar ethos to the German SS which destroyed the rival SA. The ‘anti-terror’ police, perhaps. The media currently parodies some aspects of anti-terror policing in subtle ways by reporting their involvement in minor cases which have nothing to do with terrorism. This situation has arisen from the misuse of Draconian powers which Parliament granted the police and security lobby without regard for civil-liberties.
Readers of the Levin Plays will note that all the recurring characters from past plays feature in this single tome and face a literary Ragnarok of their own. Jane, the wealthy financier; Kate, the archaeologist; Julia, the investigative journalist. Even Irene de Beauvoir, the actress whom Julia discovered has not aged since 1940, makes a brief cameo appearance.
This will not, of course, mark the end of the anthology, or even inhibit the drafting of future Levin Plays; but these new stories will have to take the form of prequels, occurring in the months or years before the totalitarian Apocalypse strikes.

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Selfeeder Drilling and Tapping Units - Sugino Corp.
A half century since their release, the "Selfeeder" drilling units and "Synchro Tapper" tapping units are now global standards. These units, which are an accumulation of technology and know-how over many years, are installed at sites around the world. Known for their longevity, precision, and versatility our creative customers also use them to perform burnishing, boring, reaming, and deburring operations.
We've got a full line of drill and tap units to handle a wide range of production needs. For information and guidance on selecting the right solution, please contact us.
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On 25 September 2015, the best design concepts and prototypes were honoured in Singapore. On a specially created runway in the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore, the winners received their deserved awards by Professor Dr Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot, and Ken Koo, President of Red Dot Asia.
In 2015, a total of 344 winning concepts emerged from 31 categories with 4,680 entries from 61 countries. 228 concepts were distinguished by the international expert jury with the sought-after seal of quality, “Red Dot”. 40 concepts were honoured with the top prize in the competition for ground-breaking design, the Red Dot: Best of the Best. 69 concepts were credited with an Honourable Mention for their excellent detail solutions.
The jury has nominated unprecedented five concepts out of the 40 Red Dot: Best of the Best laureates for the Red Dot: Luminary - the highest distinction of the competition. The five nominees were “Boostrac” by Hankooktire Co Ltd; “FORTIS Human Powered Exoskeleton” by ROBRADY design; “OXYGENE” by Dalian Nationalities University; “Save3” by Aditi Singh & Parag Anand; and “Here - lamp desk” by serge Atallah.
This year’s Red Dot: Luminary was awarded to a concept which adapts to the effects of global warming: desertification. “Boostrac”, a tire which provides optimal dry performance in general and desert driving conditions, emerged as the top design of the year. “This tire is a conceptual project that, with a certain level of technical expertise, demonstrates new possibilities that design could achieve”, acknowledged Red Dot juror Patrick Chia.
The Red Dot: Luminary trophy was presented to Hankooktire Co Ltd. by Professor Dr Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot. Ken Koo concluded the ceremony with the presentation of “Exhibition: Future” at the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore, as well as the Red Dot Design Yearbook 2015. All winning concepts are also featured in the online presentation.
Representatives from the official design software partner, Autodesk, were present to congratulate the winning designers. On occasion of the ceremony, Pico Art International, the official event partner, transformed the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore into a red carpeted runway.
Founder and CEO of Red Dot, Prof Dr Peter Zec opening the awarding ceremony.
Hungarian design studio Flying Objects walking down the runway.
This year’s Red Dot: Luminary went to Boostrac by Hankook Tire Co Ltd.
KT's Phonebrella prototype brought on stage for the first time for everyone’s viewing.


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The Quebec government must pay $75,000 in moral and punitive damages to the province's former delegate-general to New York, Bruno Fortier, who was fired amid controversy in 2008, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The Quebec government must pay $75,000 in moral and punitive damages to the province’s former delegate-general to New York, Bruno Fortier, who was fired amid controversy in 2008, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
A personal friend of former premier Jean Charest, Fortier, who was requesting $1.3 million, will receive $75,000 in damages, Judge Jean-Francçois Émond wrote in a 34-page ruling made public Friday. In 2008, Quebec’s Minister of International Relations justified his decision to let Fortier go on ground of insubordination. Fortier was the object of a harassment complaint by one of his employees and had tried to have her fired. In February 2013, the Superior Court rejected Fortier’s arguments his firing was illegal, but awarded him $10,000. Fortier appealed.
In his decision, Judge Émond recognized the international relations minister had the right to fire Fortier, but added the Superior Court “minimized the abuse” of which Fortier was victim, in that the ministry banned Fortier from returning to his official residence. In so doing, the ministry forced the former delegate-general “to take refuge at friends’ to satisfy his immediate needs.” The court of appeal ordered the government of Quebec to pay Fortier $50,000 in moral damages and $25,000 in punitive damages.


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GREAT NEWS!! Both of these kiddos have been sponsored!
Our time in this beautiful country is passing quickly, much too quickly. But on the other hand another very exciting day approaches. Tomorrow we are to meet two of our Compassion Sponsored Children, Johana and Kenia. It is with a lot of joyful anticipation of this event that I am writing this post.
You see, even if we did not have the opportunity to travel to this country, I knew that the work that Compassion International does is effective and is changing the world, one life at a time. But now I’ve seen it. I’m in El Salvador, meeting people, hearing stories, sharing the Gospel of Jesus, and seeing compassion in action. The work of Compassion International, always done in Jesus name through the local church, is working. Life in El Salvador is improving and changing as these kids grow up, take the baton of faith and pursue their full potential.
Hopefully I’ll be writing several posts in the near future about our time in El Salvador and the people we meet along the way.

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