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Fire detection in the home
It can take as little as 3 minutes for irretrievable damage to be caused by smoke inhalation.
Smoke Alarms
Many fires happen at night while people are asleep. Smoke from a fire can put sleeping people into a deeper sleep, it may not waken them. By installing smoke alarms you will have early warning of a fire, which gives you time to act before you and your family are overcome by dangerous smoke and fumes.
- Four detectors should be installed in the average home.
- Make sure that all smoke/heat alarms are properly installed and maintained.
- Test the alarms every week and their batteries every year.
Smoke Alarms - Frequently Asked Questions
How many smoke alarms do I need?
In a standard two-storey house, four detectors should be installed – smoke detectors on each landing and in the living room and a heat detector in the kitchen.
Where do I fit them?
On the ceiling as close to the centre of the room as possible. Make sure that you can hear the smoke alarm at night with the doors closed.
What are the different types of Smoke Alarm?
There are two types of Smoke Alarm "Ionisation" and "Optical"
- Ionisation Smoke Alarm
This is the cheapest and most common type of smoke alarm. It is very sensitive to small particles of smoke from "flaming" fires like chip pans. It will detect this type of fire at the early stages and before the smoke gets too thick to escape.
- Optical Smoke Alarm
Slightly more expensive type but more effective at detecting larger particles from "slow burning" fires such as smouldering foam or PVC wiring.
10-year Ionisation or Optical smoke alarms are available and are fitted with a long life lithium battery or a sealed power pack that lasts for 10 years.
How often should I test the smoke alarms?
Smoke alarms require very little maintenance but to ensure it operates when needed:
- Once a week, test the smoke alarm by pushing and holding the test button until it activates.
- Every six months vacuum and brush the casing to get rid of dust.
- Every year change the battery (unless it is a 10 year battery)
- Every 10 years replace the smoke alarm.
Which smoke alarm is best suited for outside the kitchen?
Optical Smoke alarms are best suited for this position as they are not so sensitive to small particles of smoke like toast cooking or rashers burning but they are ideally suited for larger particles of smoke.
What is a heat detector?
A heat detector does exactly what it sounds like – it detects heat but not smoke or fumes. It is ideal for use in areas where there could be false activations due to steam, burning rashers, car fumes etc.
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Good son: Saturday evening
From Create Your Own Story
You are at home this saturday evening. Half of your family isn´t home. Only your parents and grandparents.
You decide to stay home this evening.
good son: watch tv with your dad and granddad
good son: watch tv with your mother and grandmother

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Gully Boy Song, Apna Time Aayega: It's 'Time' Ranveer Singh Becomes A Professional Rapper!
This Gully Boy is sure to win hearts with this one. Ranveer Singh's Apna Time Aayega from Zoya Akhtar's film is a catchy number, crooned like a pro by Singh
Here comes Apna Time Aayega from Gully Boy. The song, has been sung by Ranveer Singh and composed by Dub Sharma and Divine. It's a high octane number with peppy beats and interesting lyrics, which have been again penned by Divine. For those unaware, Gully Boy is based on the lives of street rappers Divine and Naezy.
The song, Apna Time Aayega, shows the struggle Ranveer's character goes through to achieve his dream of becoming a renowned rapper. Check the video of the song below:
A few days back, the makers released the trailer of the film. Ranveer brought the house down with his LIVE rapping performances. The cast had also celebrated Farhan Akhtar's birthday at the event too.
Ranveer, just like for all his films, is extremely excited about Gully Boy, especially because the actor has rapped in most of the songs of the film. Talking about the film, Ranveer Singh had told Times Now, "Gully Boy is very dear to me. I strongly feel for these characters, these people are marginalized disenfranchised people from the lowest strata of the society who have a very tough existence. It's a very difficult life. They find their expressions as artists. They have started a music scene that is so unique. It is in Mumbaiya bhasha (dialect). These kids are 17 or 19 and they are writing social commentary about what's fuck**d up in this system. They are making such strong observations, strong comments on the state of affairs. What I feel will bring a change is that now thousands of kids are listening to that. So I will do what I can do to give this musical talent a platform." Gully Boy is slated to hit theatres on February 14. And to talk about the latest song from the film, well, as we said earlier, Ranveer can surely consider rapping as a full time career option. What say?
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As I stated in the previous article, I am still waiting for a pullback before adding to, or initiating any new positions. With that said, here are a few stocks that I am eyeing closely. Should the right moment present itself, I will most likely load up on:
Emerson Electric is a dividend aristocrat, having increased its dividend every year for the last 55 years. Talk about consistency! The last increase was over 15% and the current yield is 3.25%. Today, shares dropped $3.36, down 6.40% after earnings missed and forecasts were lowered. This is the type of stock, that if owned, would allow me to sleep comfortably at night. Although the stock is somewhat more volatile with a beta of 1.22, I could tolerate the periodic highs and lows, knowing my money was invested in an industry leader. I am looking at an entry point somewhere below $49.
Like Emerson, Procter and Gamble is also a dividend aristocrat, having increased its dividend every year over the last 56 years. Here is another blue-chip behemoth that dominates its respected industry. PG closed today, trading at $63.57. It is down 5.01% since last Thursday. I am looking at a re-entry point below $63.
BP is a company that needs no introduction. The Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 caused BP's shares to plummet in value, which may now only be starting to recover. BP reinstated its dividend in 2011, and now yields an impressive 4.50%. With a low P/E of only 5.29, and a Forward P/E of 6.15, BP appears to be undervalued. It was down today, closing at $42.70. I would be interested in initiating a position below $42.
Two of the stocks that I am eyeing can be viewed as somewhat 'defensive' plays. EMR and PG, in particular, are not exactly the type of stocks you would expect to appreciate significantly in value over a short period of time. Instead, they are solid, stable, reliable dividend paying stocks that will serve you well in the long run. As such, these 'safe' stocks are usually priced at a premium, evident by their historically high P/E. Even at their discounted rates, the P/E is still high (EMR, 15.74 and PG, 19.80). Still, opportunities to buy solid blue-chip companies at bargain-bin prices don't appear too often. This may be an opportune time to load up!
BP, on the other hand, has more potential to appreciate in share price, but its high 4.50% yield also makes it an attractive dividend stock. BP inherently carries with it more risk, but the upside is great, especially if you see oil prices increasing in the future. All in all, I believe these three stocks are approaching attractive valuation levels, and will be looking to add them to my portfolio.


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- Day 2: God Himself is Making Me Whole
- Day 3: Recharge with a Short Rest for the Soul
- Day 4: The Soul Strength of Delighting in God
- Day 5: Soul Notes: God's Smile is for You
- Day 6: Soul Search: Why are You so Hard on Yourself?
- Day 7: Soul Struggle: What's the Big Deal About the Flesh?
Day 1: Soul Strength? What is it and why is it important?
All posts for this series are listed and linked at the bottom.
We experience and interpret our world through the soul, which is made up of our mind, will, and emotions. Our thoughts, choices, and feelings reside in the borders of our soul, making the soul a key ingredient to life.
We long to stand strong. On the hard days, we look for strength to meet challenges head on. We crave success and equate it with strength and value.
Challenges of the Soul
If you've ever walked through a challenge of the soul, you know what it is to long for soul strength. We often rely on ourselves–our own strength and abilities independent of Christ, and we work hard to keep some semblance of control.
So we work and strive, we control and fix, trying to force life into the mold of what it means to be OK.
My natural tendency is to depend on my own strength as I handle pressures, make plans, work towards success, and cope with problems. I have spent a long time reacting to life based on my desire know love, acceptance, value, security, and adequacy, core needs of the soul.
And though I love and trust God, I'm still learning how deep the old habits of the flesh go. I understand many of the truths of God, but in practice, I'm still learning to take off the old ways and grow into God's way of living.
How about you?
Does this sound familiar?
Though this self striving may work for a season, God loves us too much to let us go a lifetime of depending on our own strength. Self strength is deceptive, inconsistent, and limited.
Depending on our own abilities robs us of the gift of fully experiencing the power of God at work deep within. God has so much more for us than a life of trying to make it on our own.
Soul strength.
Here is what God desires for us, and this is the heart of soul strength:
… to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man…
Yes, yes, and yes!
God's answer for all the fears and failures that we try to overcome is to trust and experience the filling power of God's love and strength.
When we are full of Christ, we are strong, and when we are weak, He is strong.
Join me this month as I take up the 31 DayWriting Challenge. I'll be posting throughout October with a variety of photos, verses, quotes and reflections to strengthen our souls. Will this be a stretch for this gal? You bet!
Some days I'll simply post a picture with a verse or quick thought. A couple of days a week, there will be a longer post. I'm looking forward to what God has to show us and together we will explore…
Soul Strength. His Strength.
Last Saturday I was at a conference. At the end of the day, the leader asked God show us one word to take away. As I prayed, God pressed the word Stand in my thoughts, showing me that my soul has been bowed down for too long.
And now it is time for my soul to stand.
The final worship song began to play and God met me in that moment. I want to share this song with you as our theme song for this series. If you don't have time to listen to the song, take a quick peek at the lyrics by clicking this link.
Here is the entire series. I will add the links as we go. Each day will also post on the blog.
Day 2: God Himself is Making Me Whole
Day 3: Recharge with a Short Rest for the Soul
Day 4: The Soul Strength of Delighting in God
Day 5: Soul Notes: God's Smile is for You
Day 6: Soul Search: Why are You so Hard on Yourself?
Day 7: Soul Struggle: What's the Big Deal About the Flesh?
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Historical Essay
by Steven M. Gelber
Coit Tower Mural -- City Life by Victor Arnautoff
Three of the men who studied with Diego Rivera shared his politics as well as his style. They worked together on San Francisco's Coit Tower, the first major achievement of the initial PWAP art project in California. As a result of this project, artists Victor Arnautoff, Bernard Zakheim, and Clifford Wight, along with John Langley Howard, who had not studied with Rivera, managed at the outset of the New Deal to impart a lasting radical flavor to federally supported art. Although some twenty-five artists painted murals in the cylindrical tower on Telegraph Hill, it was the four artists' criticisms of American society that attracted the public's attention.
Arnautoff, a well- known radical who eventually left the United States to return to his native Soviet Union, included two left-wing periodicals--The Masses(26) and The Daily Worker--in the news kiosk featured in his mural entitled "Metropolitan Life."(27) Although the mural depicted a prosperous scene, its benign mood was disturbed by an automobile accident and by a well-dressed businessman being relieved of his wallet at gun point.(28)
In his "California Industrial Scenes," John Langley Howard included a group of striking miners, one of whom holds a copy of the radical paper, The Western Worker.(29) In another part of his mural, Howard made an even stronger statement which juxtaposed a new hydroelectric plant with an angry-faced unemployed couple forced to wash their clothes and pan for gold in the river below the dam. So that no one missed the point, Howard added a group of chauffeur-driven rich folk who gape in amusement near the poor people's tent. Finally, Bernard Zakheim's library scene showed a man pulling a copy of Karl Marx's Capital off a book shelf, while others read newspapers featuring headlines critical of the Hoover administration and fascism in Europe.(30)
The political statements made in the murals by Arnautoff, Howard, and Zakheim aroused considerable public opposition but were allowed to survive. Clifford Wight's hammer and sickle, the communist symbol which appeared in a series of medallions illustrating the range of political philosophies existing in America, did not. The San Francisco Parks Commission, the agency which administered the tower, concluded that American philosophies did not range that far left on the political spectrum and summarily locked the tower until the offending symbol was chipped from the wall.(31)
--excerpted from "Working to Prosperity: California's New Deal Murals" by Steven M. Gelber in California History magazine, Summer 1979, Vol. LVIII, No. 2
John Langley Howard, Coit Tower muralist, also painted canvases. This 1935 depiction of Embarcadero and Clay Streets with the Southern Pacific Building on Market and Steuart (now known as 1 Market Plaza) looming behind, hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco.


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This is the transcript of episode 2.5 of my podcast series on, and leading up to, Thomas Dallam, the Elizabethan organ builder who sailed to Constantinople with a gift for the Sultan. You can listen to the episode here or through the usual podcast services.
Welcome to the first Human Circus Mini-episode. The idea here is to cover events, themes, ideas, or people that don't quite fit into the main series for one reason or another, and to do it in shorter, more focused episodes than I do with the full lengths, so that'll probably usually look like 15-20 minutes, but we'll see how it goes here. If you have any comment, questions, or suggestions you would like to send my way, you can do so at firstname.lastname@example.com, or on twitter @circus_human. The website is human_circus.blubrry.com. Finally, if you are enjoying the show, if it brings you at least as much joy as a single mediocre coffee in a month, then you can let me know, and help keep the podcast sustainable, by donating to my coffee page at ko-fi.com/A7071B1K, and you can find that link on the website. Now, let's get to late 16th century Portugal.
Girolamo Conestaggio once wrote of King Sebastian of Portugal, that he, "young and unskilled, guided by some sinister star, or by that divine permission which would punish this people, went into Africa, to a dangerous (although glorious) enterprise, leaving the realm emptied of money, naked of nobility, without heirs, and in the hands of ill-affected governors."
Sebastian was bound for the Battle of the Three Kings. We talked briefly about the outcome last episode, how Elizabeth took a certain amount of blame for it, how it would result in al-Mansur on the Moroccan throne and Philip of Spain on the Portuguese one, but I want to take the opportunity here to cover the event in more detail. We're joining the story as King Sebastian prepared to invade Morocco.
In 1578, Sebastian made ready for the glorious task ahead. Already, he had been building an army for the purpose. He had been appealing to his uncle, Philip of Spain, for his support. He had been sending 4 colonels about his own domains to raise an army. He had sent a Nuno Alvarez to the Low Countries to acquire the services of 4,000 German Landsknechts, and a substantial order of armaments and supplies: 25,000 quintals of gunpowder, 12 cannon, 2,000 cannon balls, 3,000 muskets, 4,000 arquebuses, 12,000 quick matches, 6,000 barrels of flour, 3,000 quintals of cheese, 4,500 quintals of salted meat. Of course, activities such as this, particularly the raising and arming of a mercenary army in the Low Countries, were sure to draw attention, and Elizabeth, when she received reports of a Portuguese representative making purchases in Antwerp, was highly suspicious that the gathering army would in fact be intended for England.
Sebastian's representative in the Low Countries should have had plenty of options available. He arrived at a time of comparative peace, the kind of time when men of war might be sitting idly about looking for things to do, and when their leaders, and the local populace, would be extremely happy to see them off and doing those things elsewhere. But that buying and recruitment expedition wasn't going incredibly well. A Duke of Holstein offered 12k omen, but Sebastian would be unable to pay the 6 months advance he demanded, even for the desired 4,000. Getting supplies was going better, but it required borrowing against future shipments of pepper, which was fine in itself; however, Sebastian then tried to use those same future pepper shipments to secure a loan in Florence, where he hoped to find the men the Low Countries had not yet provided him. The Florentine Grand Duke, with contacts in the Low Countries who informed him that these particular pepper shipments were getting a little over-promised, demanded pepper in advance if any men or money should be forthcoming, and so Sebastian received neither.
Meanwhile, all these delays were sabotaging his arrangements with Philip. The agreement had been for the attack to be carried out in 1577, and for Sebastian to have 10,000 men who would be joined by Philip's 5,000 veteran Tercios and 50 galleys. And Philip had been pretty hesitant about that. He didn't think much of the Portuguese as fighters, and was rather worried about throwing his own well-trained men into any kind of dubious venture commanded by the unproven Sebastian. The delays could easily have given Philip the excuse to withdraw support, but as it happened there were other, quite real, reasons to withdraw: reports from the Basque regions indicated troops would soon be needed closer to home, and on top of that, there had been a fresh outbreak in the ever-troubled Low Countries. Philip was out, and he really wanted Sebastian to be too. Or rather, he maybe wanted Sebastian to be out too. He was deeply concerned that Sebastian's failure, the result he rather expected at this point, would precipitate an attack coming back the other way and splashing into his domains, but, on the other hand, he is going to be able to take Portugal for himself after all of this, and that wasn't a completely unpredictable outcome.
Sebastian was not, in any case, going to be dissuaded. He'd had his heart set on the thing for some time now, and he'd recently received Abdallah Muhammed's plea for help and the accompanying promise that a surge of support for the recently deposed Sultan would surely make matters quite easy for Sebastian. As we know from history, we should never believe ex-rulers who tell us that their people are just eagerly waiting to rise up and put them back on the throne, but Sebastian didn't know.
In the Low Countries, his representative struggled to find men in a now-unfavourable climate of turmoil. Sebastian had wanted 4,000 Landsknechts, the renowned German mercenary pikemen. What he got instead was 3,000 soldiers, shopped to him as Landsknechts but apparently a ragged collection of "Holsteiners, Hollanders, and Walloons," of notably poor discipline and since described as "incurably predatory." He was, in other words, getting just the kind of men who would not be missed where they had been; these were not the pick of the litter, though they would serve him well.
On the home front, the colonels had dredged up and conscripted roughly 5,000 of what were later claimed to be those too poor and broken to bribe them. These conscripts provoked much amusement in visitors to Lisbon who witnessed their training, or at least to the Spanish ambassador, who wrote that they had but one instructor and he was sufficiently ill-versed to leave the men worse than when they started. Another observer wrote that, "It was strange to see the Portuguese furnish themselves for war; for being an exercise that requireth order and measure, all things were there disordered and confused: The faults which were committed in taking musters, giving of pay, superfluity in many things, and defect in other, were infinite."
But at least the mercenaries were finally arriving. There'd been another little hiccup before departure when Nuno Alvarez was arrested under suspicion of planning to invade England with the men, but, finally, they were in Lisbon, and this was starting to look like a real army.
Also arriving, was help unlooked for in the form of some 600 men from the Papal States, led by the noted English conman and ruffian Thomas Stukeley – who really deserves his own story. Stukeley had actually been heading for Ireland to take part in fighting there on the part of Pope Gregory XIII, but he was convinced by Sebastian to instead join the expedition to Morocco.
And so the force was gathered: there were around 10,000 Portuguese made up of the conscripts, 2,000 cavalry, and 2,500 adventurers paying their own way; there were the 3,000 Calvinist mercenaries from the Low Countries, Stukely's Papal States troops, and 2000 Castilians – Philip having eventually thrown in some support, while still urging Sebastian to at least stay at home himself even if he insisted on sending the expedition. It was quite a mix, and it was going to need to be enough to take on Al-Malik and potentially the Ottoman supporters that Philip had feared would be forthcoming.
Meanwhile, the Portuguese nobility made ready for a great party rather than for a difficult North African Campaign. One representative of a wealthy banking family in the city remarked his amusement at the number of coaches it seemed the nobles were planning on riding into battle. Another spectator noted that "they were charged with sugar and conserves rather than water and biscuit; The vessels of silver, and the tents lined with silk and satin were without number, every gentleman went furnished like a king, and the poor soldiers died for hunger." And there is more of this, but it all paints a picture of incompetence and of a terrible lack of awareness of what to expect. And there was no reason for this. Morocco was not an unknown land, and even with Abdallah Muhammed's excessively optimistic assurances that the people would rise up and support him, Sebastian's appalling unpreparedness was basically inexcusable.
By early summer, Sebastian's army, such as it was, was ready. Summer isn't really the best time of year for an army to invade Morocco, but all the pieces were in place, and Sebastian would not be put off from beginning immediately. After the summer, would have come the fall with its dangerous coastal storms, and weather aside, his mercenaries were proving troublesome, dangerous even, to keep around, particularly with the Catholic troops from the Papal States and the Protestants from the low countries in such close proximity to one another. Putting the expedition off until the next spring would be unbearable; the army would fall apart, unpaid mercenaries looking for other opportunities or possibly turning to local warfare and pillage, and conscripts and Castilians leaving for their respective homes. On June 26th, hundreds of ships ranging from war-galleys to smaller barques departed from Lisbon.
The ships carried not only fighting men and those required to support them but also a vast traveling court to provide comfort for the King, the nobility, and even their families, children included. There were pages, musicians, slaves, servants, and entertainers of all kinds. There were multiple bishops and, I have read in one source, a company of 1000 priests. There were pavilions and vestments, food and drink, and silver and gold plates, all bundled up with the hundreds of wagons needed to move them. And this was quite aside from the logistics of transporting cavalry, cannon and shot, as well as food for the army itself.
The fleet's departure was not without incident. An accidental cannon shot from the shore killed a sailor on the royal galley, which would not seem like a good omen, and the king's ship later became entangled with another vessel and broke its rudder. Still, they managed to reach land at Asilah, on the Atlantic coast, not their intended final destination, but they could have sailed along from there to Larache. However, there was confusion in bringing water aboard the ships and the men, once disembarked, were not at all cooperative in getting back aboard. So instead, Sebastian faced a march overland, and this was no dainty jaunt in the spring meadows. This was a grueling hike under the Moroccan, mid-summer sun, with a well-prepared enemy at the end of it.
And al-Malik knew very well that they were coming. The preparations had been quite public; there was no hiding the build-up to this kind of expedition, and the destination, though there were conflicting rumours that it was really England, was widely known. Beyond that, al-Malik had informants in the Iberian ports and at least one spy, a Portuguese merchant, on the ships. By the time Sebastian had landed, al-Malik had already gathered his men and, delayed only by illness, quite a bad case of dysentery apparently, had moved to meet him. The sultan made an effort to avoid war, even at this late date, writing to Sebastian and offering quite generous terms. But Sebastian was committed. He had come too far, and had spent too much, not to follow through. He dispatched a small force to raise rebellion ahead of him and settled into Asilah behind earthwork positions, while al-Malik moved north, gathering men, cavalry, and artillery as he went, but also getting sicker, his doctor warning that it could even prove fatal.
If al-Malik had a weakness, beyond his health, it was that he himself had seized the throne by force and was now moving to face an invasion supported by the man he'd unseated. Too little time had passed since he'd taken power for him to be certain of the loyalty of his troops. Those he trusted least, he actually sent ahead to harass Sebastian's army, thinking that any who were going to betray him would certainly take such an easy chance to desert, but few did. Sebastian, on the other hand, seems to have reacted rather badly to these incursions, at one point setting out with 600 horse to engage a party of 2,000, and when the enemy drew back from battle, he, for reasons unknown, is said to have actually pursued with only one man following him, almost throwing the whole venture away before it could properly begin.
Al-Malik made no further efforts to engage. His men were encamped inland near El-Ksar el-Kebir, and they had no pressing reason to advance. Why not force Sebastian's army to make that journey, to wear themselves down and to move from the coast and away from that easy avenue of supplies. Aside from directing troops to deal with those Sebastian had sent to incite rebellion, he waited, and he sickened. And Sebastian, ignoring the entreaties of those around him to move by sea or at least move along the coast so that they might be supported by the fleet, began the hard march inland, hopelessly encumbered by all the unnecessary extravagances, and people, from children to clergy to court entertainers, that he'd brought with him. They were difficult circumstances for any army, but Sebastian's, substantially untrained, apparently managed only 3 miles on that first day. He was surely warned by the many experienced leaders he had with him, that disaster awaited if they continued as they were, but he ignored them. The next day, they continued, observed from hilltops by scouting horsemen.
Now, as the Portuguese and their allies advanced over the coming days, their conditions worsened. Many of the Portuguese were sick or were already without rations, and the strain of traveling in body armour under the Moroccan sun would be beginning to tell.
On August 3rd they spent the day passing through a narrow ford, and their goal, the ford at the river Lixus was close, but al-Malik was in the way, waiting, an open plain before him on which his cavalry could freely ride. His concerns were more with his own army than with Sebastian's. It was believed that he had been poisoned by Turks, and he had reason to fear that were he to die before he could bring Sebastian to battle, then his army would fall apart. Numbers are, as ever, difficult to establish, but that army may have numbered 50k, a standing army of mounted lancers, mounted arquebusiers, and some arquebusiers on foot, along with more than 30 cannons, augmented by levees including Andalusian arquebusiers, of families driven from Iberia, and mounted tribesmen drawn to the promise of pillage, of which Sebastian had guaranteed there would be quite a bit to go round. These tribesmen were among those al-Malik particularly distrusted, along with the men he still feared would go over to the side of their former Sultan. In the lead-up to the battle, he took the intriguing step of shuffling his commanders about, placing them with men not directly loyal to them, or familiar even. It was not the best policy for the efficient execution of a battle, but then he feared battle much less than he feared betrayal.
On August 3rd, the two sides camped near each other, and the next morning Sebastian considered his best course of action. Some, with the now obviously unappealing odds before them may have urged retreat, but the army would have been slaughtered as it attempted to re-ford the river that had taken them a day to cross under ideal conditions. And Sebastian had not come so far to flee from battle. Abdallah Muhammad suggested that they should at least wait until the day cooled, to let the Europeans' disadvantage be less and so they might be able to slip away in the dark if defeated. But this too was rejected. More to Sebastian's liking was the thought that they ought to attack early, to not let their larger foe settle too comfortably into its desired positions.
Perhaps surprisingly given how poorly things had been managed thus far, Sebastian's deployment made sense for an army facing overwhelming numbers of cavalry. Maybe, at this late date, he was heeding the counsel of those around him. His army formed up in a hollow square with the pick of the Portuguese nobility to the front, flanked by the Castilians, the men from the Papal States, and the Low Country mercenaries; on the sides were the weakest troops, the conscripts, but they formed up behind lines of wagons manned by arquebusiers, which it was hoped would blunt the inevitable cavalry charges; at the rear were Portuguese adventurers among others presumably hoped to be less likely to break than the conscripts. In the centre were the supplies, the wagons, the animals, and the vast body of doubtless terrified non-combatants. On the wings were the cavalry, hopelessly outnumbered by their counterparts in al-Malik's horse-dominated force. Front and center were the cannon.
All of this seems well thought out, but there were factors other than their opponents' numbers set against them. The sun, quite aside from cooking them in their armour, was glaring blindingly into the eyes of the front facing side, and they had nowhere to go. An uncrossable river was to their right, and at their rear the slow, difficult, ford that could only be crossed at low tide. Retreat would not be a feasible option.
Facing them was al-Malik's half-moon, infantry in the center and some cavalry advanced to the sides so that as they move forwards they would naturally wrap round and envelope their enemy. The great bulk of his men, all cavalry, amassed behind the infantry, ready to sweep round to either flank as desired. Between them and the infantry, the sultan himself sat strapped to his horse, dying, either from illness or poison, but having addressed his army and determined to see the battle through. The cannon were set out front, as was the case across the field.
There, Sebastian was giving his own speech. He rode in highly decorative armour with the sword of Alfonso Henriques, brought from Coimbra. Slightly spoiling the effect was his needing to have cooling water poured beneath his armour. If you think of touching the hood of a car on an August day, you get some sense of what these guys were wearing next to their skin. After Sebastian's speech, there was time for a blessing led by the Bishop of Coimbra, and then, around noon, things began in earnest.
Almost before they began, al-Malik's cavalry seems to have moved quickly about to surround Sebastian's army which really had no way to stop them at that point. On both sides, artillery was fired, but they were slow to reload, and as was customary, the infantry centers advanced past them. There, the Andalusian arquebusiers were initially successful but shortly found themselves driven back by the opposing pikemen. More infantry, and then cavalry, engaged with the Portuguese vanguard, pushing it in turn back past its own line of cannon. At the Portuguese rear, wave after of wave of cavalry charges were having their effect, forcing back that edge of the square, and on the sides they were also making it through the lines of wagons and into the conscripts. The conscripts began to break, some surrendering, some fleeing in panic back into the great mass of the unarmed, increasingly packed together as the square shrank in around them. Still, the vanguard held.
On the Portuguese right-wing the Duke d'Aveiro and his men, along with Abdallah Mohammed and his, made a cavalry charge of their own, rushing forward to relieve the vanguard, which Aviero saw could not hold indefinitely. They were perhaps too successful for their own good, driving off a large body of al-Malik's horse, but then, fatally, giving chase, the Duke allowing his men to fall into pursuit. He thought to swing back around but instead, his men were caught out of formation. Those who were not surrounded sought to flee back to the square but were driven against and into the vanguard, only adding to its difficulties. And Sebastian was in that vanguard now, despite having begun the battle with the cavalry on the left wing. He'd had a horse killed beneath him and was wounded, but he'd remounted and fought on. That cavalry left wing meanwhile had an experience mirroring that of the right: initial success followed by succumbing to a counter attack and then being driven back into the sturdy but suffering vanguard.
By this point, one of the 3 kings was dead, but few knew of it. When D'Aveiro had made his charge, al-Malik had seen his own men fleeing the field and made to rally them by putting himself in harm's way. Those around him sought to hold him back, to seize his reins or his horse, but he fought them off. However, the effort was too much for his weakened body. He collapsed in his saddle and only briefly came to before dying. Either under his previously given orders, or just out of good sense for the possible consequences, those around him kept quiet as they moved him into a litter where his doctor pretended to converse with him.
On the Portuguese side, the square must have become something tighter and much more desperate by this point, its sides caving in while the van and rear moved back towards each other, the noncombatants at the center now I'm sure in full death-is-near panic as the wounded staggered back amongst them and as fleeing fighters crashed into their midst, trying to tear their way through to safety, somewhere.
At the vanguard, Al-Malik's mounted arquebusiers were riding in waves, one rank firing and then peeling off, for the next to fire, and so on, and so on, a maneuver their fathers or grandfathers had used against the Wattasid sultan's men in 1545. Against ranks of infantry with pike and dagger, it would have been highly effective.
Throughout all of this, King Sebastian apparently prevailed. Three horses are said to have died beneath him; his standard-bearer was dead and standard lost; and his personal bodyguard down to less than 10 men. Still, he's rushing from one trouble spot to another; he's trying to rally the rear and then he's back at the vanguard leading a counterattack. There seems to have been little left there at this point. The Castilians and Italians are said to have broken, leaving the Portuguese and Low Country mercenaries. Meanwhile, Aveiro still has a small body of horse he's held together and leads it in again here and there, trying to make the strikes count. And at some point, Sebastian disappears. He was last seen with a few followers and a solitary defector and was presumably killed in the fighting, there being nothing to suggest he'd made any attempt to escape. So that's two kings.
The third, Abdallah Mohammed, had been with the Portuguese cavalry on the right wing and then tried to make it to safety when parts of that cavalry broke and fled, but the river was high and uncrossable where he found it, and de fell from his horse and drowned in the river.
The end for D'Aviero's men and the mercenaries seems to have been brought on by the tribesmen al-Malik trusted so little, the ones concerned only with loot. Apparently, they saw the battle coming to a close, and with it their chance to earn a share of the spoils; fresh, and unbloodied they surged forward against their exhausted enemy. Any remaining resistance was broken. D'Aviero died in the final moments of fighting, Stukely was dead, the Bishop of Coimbra, Abdallah Muhammed, and Sebastian, basically everyone I've mentioned by name.
The Portuguese, their allies, and those who'd been in the center of the square were either killed or captured. Few escaped the trap of the rivers. Apparently, only around 100 men successfully made it to the coast, which would be hard to believe, except there was that water in the way, and if you were on the run it was after a grueling August battle and pursued by horsemen, so maybe 100 is quite high really. Some 3 – 8 thousand on the Portuguese side had died in the battle, but many, many more were taken captive.
The rush to seize the most valuable prisoners from within what had been the Portuguese square was violent and chaotic. There was fighting over particularly promising captives, whether they be children, women, or particularly well-dressed clergy or noblemen; baggage caught fire and powder kegs exploded, killing indiscriminately. Everywhere, the rich coaches and ridiculous excesses of the expedition were torn eagerly into.
And this might have been the largest consequence of the battle for the Moroccan side. They had lost a Sultan, into whose shoes his brother al-Mansur immediately stepped, and they had lost some 3,000 men in the fighting, but perhaps more than anything else, Sebastian's invasion represented an enormous injection of money. There were the spoils of the battle, which were substantial, certainly, but the ransom business generated by the pick of Portugal's surviving nobility would have been greater still.
For Portugal, of course, the battle was devastating. Their king was dead and much of the nobility either killed or necessitating expensive ransom payments, a further drain following the vast expense of the expedition. And of course, for the thousands who could not be ransomed at great cost, slavery was the result. By 1581, Philip was on the throne, beginning 60 years of Spanish Habsburg rule over Portugal.
A body, stripped of armour, was identified as being that of King Sebastian, but many did not accept that it was truly him. He had led thousands to their doom in a poorly conceived crusade, marked by disorganized preparations and, in marching inland, a dangerous departure from the original plan that he had discussed with Philip. He had left his people without a king. But he seems to have been remembered fondly, though there was plenty of blame laid spread around. As E.W. Bovill wrote, characterizing Portuguese attitudes towards the stunning defeat: "The Germans had lost the day by deserting their comrades; the pikemen had failed to stand up to the enemy's 'shot'; the colonels who had recruited the army had enrolled only starving wretches who could not afford to bribe them; the courtiers should have restrained the King; the admiral, had he wanted, could have helped the army and rescued more survivors, and so on."
In death, or in disappearance, Sebastian had attained a kind of purity, becoming a messianic figure, a national redeemer.
And I think that's where we'll end things. This has not ended up being quite as mini a mini-episode as I'd planned. It's all an ongoing experiment, and I'll try to keep things shorter next time. When you hear from me again we'll be back to the main thread of Elizabethan trade and diplomacy leading up to Thomas Dallam. Next full-length episode: Anglo-Ottoman relations. Talk to you then.
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War. War Never Changes.
The teaser trailer for Fallout: New Vegas is out. See for yourself. The trailer looks intersting – Vegas appears like a diamond in the rough… a futuristic city of lights in the otherwise post-apocalyptic environment. The Capital Wasteland (Fallout 3) by comparison was the ruined remnants of Washington DC and didn't have much live within it – except the angry super mutant kind. Good music choice, too.


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If you want an outdoor vacation in a picturesque place, look to the country's best national parks. The U.S. features incredible tracts of land protected by national park status. They're usually packed with unique features and attractions that make preservation essential. They showcase the nation's natural splendor through their wildness and careful maintenance, ensuring future generations can enjoy them, too.
The mother of U.S. national parks, Yellowstone was the nation's first. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed its protection into law. The 2,219,790-acre park is famous for its geothermal areas and erupting geysers like Old Faithful. Yellowstone stretches into Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, encompassing multiple eco-systems like the South Central Rockies forests that are home to grizzly bears, black bears, gray wolves, elk, bison, lynx, and more. Camping is popular in Yellowstone, but there are also renowned lodges if glamping is more your speed.
Spanning 1,201,647 acres, Grand Canyon National Park is a majestic place to visit. Tourists flock the picturesque southern rim of the canyon to explore, but the rugged northern rim is also well worth checking out. When visiting the canyon, you can hike or even book a river rafting journey down the Colorado River, the waterway responsible for carving the canyon over thousands upon thousands of years. If you long for a Southwestern getaway, don't miss this park.
Located in northern California on 138,999.37 acres, Redwood National Park is world-famous for its coastal redwoods, the world's tallest trees. While the historic trees are the park's highlight, there are also tide pools, protected stretches of coastline, prairie lands, and meadows to behold. Aside from the stunning topography and flora, visitors keep a sharp eye out for migrating whales off the coast, and cougars, black bears, harbor seals, river otters, and coyote when hiking the park.
Beautiful Acadia National Park is home to nearly 50,000 acres of picturesque landscape. Located on the coast of Maine near Bar Harbor, the park is famous for its dramatic Atlantic coastline that offers unparalleled views of the ocean. The park also features mountain hiking, lakes, pristine forests, and intertidal habitats. Highlights of the park: Cadillac Mountain, Jordan Pond, Thunder Hole, Otter Cliff, Echo Lake Beach, and Precipice Trail.
Situated to the west of Alaska's capital city, Juneau, Glacier Bay National Park contains 3,223,383 acres of pristine wilderness landscapes. This famous park features tidewater glaciers, mountains, fjords, and temperate rainforests. When visiting, keep a lookout for its resident grizzly bears, eagles, and mountain goats. Additionally, whale populations often traverse the waters. You may want to visit Glacier Bay sooner rather than later as its glaciers continue to recede.
Like many of the country's parks, the Everglades are utterly unique in terms of typography and special features. Located in southern Florida, Everglades National Park encompasses over 1.5 million acres and is famous for its marine estuary and mangrove and rainforest landscapes. Visitors to the park can hike or explore many areas by boat. Take care, however, as this park is famously home to American crocodiles and Florida panthers.
Located on the main island, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park protects the Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes. Although parts of the park are closed due to eruptions and clouds of ash and gas, the site continues to attract visitors from all over the world thanks to its dramatic volcanic landscapes. If you can make your way to Hawaii, this World Heritage Site with its rare flora and fauna is a must-visit destination.
Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Shenandoah National Park encompasses 199,217 acres of picturesque forestlands. Particularly lovely in the fall, the park features miles of trails, including the Appalachian Trail. Highlights include views of the Shenandoah River cataracts, Hawksbill Mountain, and the Skyline Drive. The park contains various lodges and campgrounds popular with outdoor lovers from all over the country.
Voyageurs National Park is one of the country's most unique protected lands. The park spans more than 200,000 acres, but much of it is lakes near the U.S.-Canada border. Visitors love to visit this enchanting park .named for the fur traders who once made their living in the region. The park not only contains waterways that are popular for kayaking and canoeing but also preserves the history of Native American peoples like the Objibwe.
Canyons, rock towers, and mesas are hallmarks of breathtaking Yosemite National Park. Situated on 147,237 acres, Yosemite boasts one of the country's tallest waterfalls—Yosemite Falls—as well as other world-famous features like Half Dome and El Capitan. When visiting this majestic setting, expect to see stands of giant sequoia, tracts of true wilderness, and postcard-worthy meadows. This California Park is located in the state's Central Sierra Nevada region and is home to miles of hiking trails for outdoor enthusiasts as well as the historic Ahwahnee Hotel.


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Amifostine in Treating Patients With Ovarian Epithelial Cancer Who Are Receiving Chemotherapy
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00004166
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 12, 2004
Last Update Posted : June 6, 2012
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Chemoprotective drugs such as amifostine may protect normal cells from the side effects of chemotherapy.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of amifostine in treating patients who have ovarian epithelial cancer and who are receiving chemotherapy.
|Condition or disease
|Ovarian Cancer Quality of Life
|Drug: amifostine trihydrate Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
|Phase 3
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine if patients with ovarian epithelial cancer receiving chemotherapy have significantly fewer neurologic events when treated with amifostine. II. Compare amifostine vs no chemoprotection in terms of overall incidence of neuropathy, incidence of neutropenia, infection, and other myelosuppressive events (e.g., leukopenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia), length of hospital stay due to infections, and quality of life in this patient population.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, parallel, controlled, double blind study. Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. Arm I: Patients receive amifostine IV over 10 minutes, 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy. Arm II: Patients receive a placebo IV over 10 minutes, 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Quality of life is assessed prior to courses 1, 4, and 8, and then every 3 months for 1 year. Patients are followed monthly for 6 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 60 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Primary Purpose:
|Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Amifostine as a Toxicity Protectant in Ovarian Cancer in Chemotherapy Treated Patients: A Pilot Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial
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|October 1999
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|January 2003
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|January 2003
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed, surgically staged ovarian epithelial cancer Planned treatment with paclitaxel/carboplatinum chemotherapy
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: GOG 0-2 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 3 mg/dL SGOT/SGPT no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2 mg/dL Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 3 months after study
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: See Disease Characteristics No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: At least 24 hours since prior antihypertensives
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00004166
|United States, Illinois
|Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
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|David A. Fishman, MD
|Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center
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|April 12, 2004 Key Record Dates
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|June 6, 2012
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stage I ovarian epithelial cancer
stage II ovarian epithelial cancer
stage III ovarian epithelial cancer
stage IV ovarian epithelial cancer
quality of life
Ovarian Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Radiation-Protective Agents
Protective Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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A nice presentation on how we, as an individual, can contribute towards building a better India. With very specific action points, this presentation is a call to start working on self as well as social refinement. It shows us how to 'be the change' we want to see in our society and nation. The last slides feature some living examples of ordinary people doing extra-ordinary work which makes them our 'real hero'. Rightly said in the presentation "Heroism is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost but the urge to serve others at whatever cost"


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Oil Plunges Below $40 a Barrel
Global oil benchmark, Brent crude, fell on Tuesday, reflecting growing concerns that a two-month rally might be fading, as supply looked set to keep rising and there appeared to be little immediate prospect of demand keeping pace.
It fell by $1.27, or 3.15 per cent, to $39 per barrel, while the United States' benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, fell by 3.35 per cent to $38.08 per barrel.
Brent, against which Nigeria's oil is priced, had on March 18 risen to $42.29, $4.29 higher than the country's benchmark of $38 per barrel for the 2016 budget.
Earlier, prices pared losses after Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen, delivered remarks on the US economy and monetary policy, according to CNBC.
Yellen, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, noted in prepared remarks that recent readings on the strength of the US economy since the beginning of the year had been mixed.
Oil price has risen more than 45 per cent since mid-February ahead of a meeting next month of the world's major producers to discuss an output freeze. But there is growing scepticism about the outcome of the meeting.
"Verbal intervention, which has obviously helped the market greatly over the past two months, combined with a production slowdown in the US, has probably taken (oil) as far as it can. Now the market really wants to see some action," a Senior Manager at Saxo Bank, Ole Hansen, was quoted to have said.
Nigeria's Exports Under US Duty-free Policy Declines to $300.48m
Nigeria's Exports to the United States Under Duty-free Policy Declined by 88 Percent to $300.48 million
Nigeria's total exports under the US duty-free declined by 88 percent from $2,502.86 million to $300.48 million in the first eight months of 2020.
In the latest African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) policy report established in 2000, crude oil export accounted for 99.8 percent of Nigeria's AGOA exports to the United States in 2019.
In 2019, oil and gas products worth $3.12 billion were exported to the US under the duty-free policy.
However, the plunged in global demand for Nigerian crude oil due to the COVID-19 lockdown weighed on the nation's oil exports and revenue generation.
The United States imported 5.53 million barrels of crude oil from Nigeria in the first quarter of 2020, down from 15.07 million barrels imported in the final quarter of 2019.
Speaking on the need to improve non-oil export to take advantage of the duty-free like other African nations Mr Olusegun Awolowo, the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, who spoke at a virtual event recently said despite efforts to sensitise Nigerian exporters on the need to take advantage of the duty-free trade opportunity, only a few Nigerian exporters are benefiting from it.
He said the record crash in global oil prices is an indication that a mono-product economy like Nigeria is not sustainable and that there is an urgent need to develop non-oil export.
"We cannot rely on crude oil export as both our major source of government revenue and foreign exchange generation. We must diversify our export base," Awolowo said.
Road Projects: Nigeria Owes Contractors More Than N390 Billion, Says Fashola
FG Owes Road Contractors N392 Billion for Road Projects
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has said the Federal Government owes companies handling the 711 road projects across the country a total sum of N392 billion.
This, he said was higher than the N276 billion allocated for road projects in the proposed 2021 budget.
The minister disclosed this on Wednesday while defending the 2021 budget of his ministry before the Senate Committee on works.
Fashola said, "With the situation on ground, a stop has come for new projects and the country needs to prioritise the existing ones in order to complete some of them."
According to him, a total of N6.62 trillion was needed to fund the 711 road projects but because of the limited available resources, there is a need to prioritise the important ones.
He said, "We do not have the resources that we need to fix our road infrastructure at once; the very reason we need to prioritise what want to do.
"The situation on ground requires us to cut our coat according to our cloth and not according to our size because no good will come out of more new road projects now."
Waltersmith's 5,000bpd Modular Refinery in Imo State to Commence Operations
5,000bpd Modular Refinery Built in Imo State to Start Operations
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said the 5,000 barrels per day Modular Refinery project built in Imo State is ready for operations.
Sarki Auwalu, the Director, DPR, disclosed this during a pre-commissioning visit to the project site in Ibigwe, Imo State.
In a statement released by Waltersmith, Auwalu was quoted as saying the purpose of his visit was to ensure that the refinery was ready to commence operations.
He said "We can confirm that the refinery is very much ready to commence operations. We have seen all the preparations.
"To us, the plant is alive. The commissioning is just symbolic. Everywhere is ready to start off. My overall assessment is excellent.
"We have been to other modular refineries but we have not seen anything like this – the space, the way it is arranged and the way it will work."
The 5,000 barrels per day modular refinery is scheduled for inauguration this month. The refinery has crude oil storage capacity of 60,000 barrels and it is expected to deliver more than 271 million litres per year of refined petroleum products.
Auwalu said, "The role we play is to enable businesses and create opportunities. When DPR issues you a licence, it enables you to invest and as a result of that opportunity we create, that business is enabled.
"Waltersmith is one of our success stories. We consider the project as ours. We have been tracking their growth and we are happy to see that our child is growing. It is our plan that they expand and they have the potential."
Speaking on the project, Abdulrasaq Isah, the Chairman, Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical Company, said the project is the first phase of a series of refinery projects that will lead to the delivery of up to 50,000 barrels per day in refining products.
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Why does Winston so excited by his conversation with O'Brien? Should he trust him?
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Winston has dreamed of meeting O'Brien. Winston is speechless when O'Brien stops him in the open to speak with him. Winston fantasizes that O'Brien, an inner party member, thinks like he does. I think there are two sides to Winston here. His rational side knows that any thoughts of rebellion or "the brotherhood" are pure "folly". His emotional side wants to trust O'Brien and rebellion.
Winston is so excited about the conversation with Obrien because it was getting Winston one step closer to rebelling against the party. Which throughout the entire story is what eh strives to do. He is also so excited because of the dream he had 7 years prior. In the dreams he heard O'Brien talk to him and that gave him all the hope he had at the beginning. Also trustung Obrien can be seen as a good idea and a bad one. He pretty much has to trust OBrien because that's all he really has at the beginning. Until he meets Julia all he has is to go off of is a Dream about OBrien that he had seven years ago and when Obrien looked at him during the two minutes of hate video. He eventually does end up trusting Obrien and it does come back and retaliated on him but in the end it was what Winston wanted all along. He wanted to be cured all along. Which is what Obrien helped him achieve. So yes, OBrien does help Winston get better and stop wanting to rebel, but he is also the one who tortures Winston and turns him in.


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Ranked in the top two percent of unis worldwide, Western offers you a world-class education that will have you ready for life after uni. With a wide range of courses to help you thrive in the workplaces of tomorrow, Western is the perfect place to discover your UNLIMITED potential.
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The primary focus of our Industrial Design program is ensuring that our graduates are completely industry-ready, able to think strategically and provide innovative design solutions in a commercial context. The course promotes an awareness of the place of design in society and its effect on people, the environment and the economy, and provides students with the ability to work independently or collaboratively.
You will be required to undertake 10 weeks of industry placement, which encourages professional development and often leads to projects for the final year of the program and, in some instances, direct employment upon graduation. Additionally, our graduates are eligible for professional membership of the Design Institute of Australia – the professional body representing designers in Australia.
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In this major you will gain skills in programming fundamentals, 2D and 3D graphics, mobile applications and more.
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Pan Broccoli Rice and Chicken
Check out our neat and amazing recipe for our Pan Broccoli Rice and Chicken! If you're looking for some great chicken recipes, then you can look no further! Be sure to check out some of our other great chicken recipes, such as our Easy Chicken Alfredo, or even our Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole.
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Pan Broccoli Rice and Chicken
- 5 Tbsp. Butter
- 8 oz. White Mushrooms Sliced
- 1 lb. Chicken Breast cut into ½ inch cubes
- 4 Tbsp. Flour
- 2 Cups Milk
- 1 teas. Oregano
- 1 teas. Thyme
- 1 teas. Sage
- 1 teas. Salt
- 1 teas. Black Pepper
- 3 Cups Frozen Broccoli Florets
- 2 Cups Instant Rice
- 2 Cups Chicken Stock or Broth
- 1 Cup Colby Jack Cheese shredded
- In a large nonstick pan over medium heat melt ½ Tbsp. of Butter and Brown 4 oz. of Mushrooms, 6-8
- minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Repeat with an additional ½ Tbsp. of Butter and remaining Mushrooms, setting aside with first batch.
- Add the Chicken to the pan and cook stirring occasionally just until there is no pink visible on the outside
- of the Chicken cubes. Remove from the pan and set aside with the Mushrooms.
- Lower the heat to low and melt 4 Tbsp. of butter. Sprinkle with the 4 Tbsp. of Flour stirring constantly
- for 2 minutes.
- Slowly Whisk in the Milk. Increase heat to medium and bring to a simmer, continue whisking and add
- the Oregano, Thyme, Sage, Salt and Pepper. Cook until thickened.
- Add the Broccoli, Mushrooms and Chicken stirring to coat and return to a simmer.
- Add the Rice and Chicken Stock, stir to combine, return to simmer, cover and cook until rice is tender,
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- Sprinkle the top with Colby Jack and cover until the cheese is melted.
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The entertainer was announced as the first African Ambassador for Apple/Beats by Dre recently and the excitement of his new deal is still in the air.
D'Banj has released a video of the first time he saw the D'Banj Custom Beats by Dre headphones as well as a look into his work outside Nigeria and the team that worked with him to get on his new international venture with Beats by Dre.
According to his management, Gold was the preferred colour for the headphones because 'Gold signifies success, achievement and triumph. Associated with abundance and prosperity, luxury and quality, prestige and sophistication, value and elegance, the color Gold implies affluence, material wealth and extravagance.'
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In the Absence of the Sacred
The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, author and social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerousto personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process. With In the Absence of the Sacred, he goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole.
In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world's loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorderand worse lies ahead. Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation.
Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the new world order"computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itselfand warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results.
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Welcome to the 48 Report, a full working database including 48 of our favorite 2019 Draft Prospects. The key, however, is that we focus specifically on their ability to translate as fantasy football players. All players in the database have been/will be scored by 3 writers, and this is their article; explaining their aggregate score, as well as the score of their writer.
All categories are scored on a 1-5 scale; with 5 being the highest score a prospect can receive. The highest aggregate average scores a player can receive is 25. Articles will be posted January-April, all the way up to the draft. Ratings will be adjusted after the combine, based on measurables and after the draft, because as we all know: landing spot matters.
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Mike Weber (5'10", 214) Running Back, Ohio State
14.3 Aggregate Score (3 Star Prospect)
Mike Weber is not the most exciting player in this class. He is fairly average across the board, but he performs well enough in all the necessary facets of the game. Earning an aggregate score of 14.3 from our rankers and not a single 4 in any category from any of us does not inspire a great deal of confidence in Weber. Draft capital will tell a lot about how the NFL views Weber and will truly determine whether or not he is worthy of a roster spot in fantasy.
College Production
Weber has had an interesting college career. He was very good during his redshirt freshman year in 2016, finishing the year with almost 1100 yards and 9 touchdowns on the ground. A big boost to these numbers came in the form of 23 receptions out of the backfield. About 2 catches a game isn't super special, but as a redshirt freshman, that is plenty to show capable hands. Weber regressed some as JK Dobbins burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2017. With his touches cut almost in half, the 6+ yards per carry efficiency remained, but the overall numbers dipped significantly. In 2018, he turned in a statline similar to his freshman year. However, with similar opportunity, you would hope for some improvement on those numbers. Weber is the lesser talent in the Ohio State backfield and that has become very clear as the touches shifted to Dobbins.
Speed & Agility: Aggregate Score: 3 (Personal Score: 3)
Weber looks fine behind a beefy Ohio State offensive line, but I don't expect him to experience the same success at the NFL level. I expect the combine numbers to be lackluster especially in the 40 and 3 cone drill. He doesn't show a whole lot of breakaway speed or great change of direction.
Receiving Ability: Aggregate Score: 3 (Personal Score: 3)
While Weber hauled in over 20 receptions in both his redshirt freshman and junior seasons, he was not efficient once the ball was in his hands. Averaging less yards per reception than yards per carry in both years is an interesting stat to say the least. On the plus side, Ohio State trusted him enough to get him involved in the passing game. However, he was not very productive with the targets he received.
Vision: Aggregate Score: 3 (Personal Score: 3)
This is another chance to mention a rock solid Ohio State offensive line. Weber is not bad in this category, but a lot of his efficiency can be explained by the play of the big boys up front. Not often able to make something out of nothing, but consistently able to take what is given to him.
Blocking: Aggregate Score: 2.6 (Personal Score: 3)
You may be sensing a theme here. Weber can block, yes, but he is just alright at it. Usually able to find his assignment and solid at chipping to help his linemen, he did struggle against unhindered blitzers as almost any running back will.
Strength: Aggregate Score: 2.6 (Personal Score: 3)
This is one my favorite aspects of Weber's game, when it shines through. He shows great contact balance when he runs angry and he finishes runs in a big way. The problem is this only seems to happen when he is involved in the game and can get fired up. I don't see many opportunities to get involved that heavily in the NFL.
Conclusion: 4th Round Flier
The problem I have with Weber is that he has nothing to hang his hat on. He is fine, solid, sometimes good at almost every aspect of the game, but he doesn't have game breaking speed or strength. He doesn't demand receiving work. He doesn't show the consistency you need to see from someone who doesn't have a high ceiling. I expect solid numbers at the combine which will keep him on NFL draft boards, but I don't expect a long career or much fantasy relevance.


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|MBA, University of Strathclyde
|PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
|MSc, University of Salford
|SrDip HonDip, Hong Kong Baptist College
- Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences
- Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences
Research Interests
- Development of Biosensors
- Erythropoiesis and Apoptosis
- Mitochondria as regulators of cell death
- Cancer Biochemistry
Representative Publications
- He H, Ong RCY, Chan KT, Ho HP, and Kong SK (2010) Practical considerations in acquiring biological signals from confocal microscope, published in Techniques in Confocal Microscopy. Academic Press, Chapter 2, pg.21-26.
- Lau IP, Ngan EK, Loo JF, Suen YK, Ho HP, Kong SK (2010) Aptamer-based bio-barcode assay for the detection of cytochrome-c released from apoptotic cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun,395:560-564.
- Ng SP, Wu CM, Wu SY, Ho HP, Kong SK (2010) Differential spectral phase interferometry for wide dynamic range surface plasmon resonance biosensing. Biosens Bioelectron.26:1593-8.
- He H, Chan KT, and Kong SK (2010) Role of nuclear tubule on the apoptosis of HeLa cells induced by femtosecond laser. Appl Phys Lett, 96:223701-3. (Highlighted by Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 2010 June 15; also highlighted by Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, 2010, July.)
- He H, Chan KT, Kong SK, Lee RKY (2008) All-optical human cell fusion by a fiber femtosecond laser. Appl Phys Lett, 93:163901-3 (Highlighted by 'Femtosecond Fusion' Nature Photonics 2008, 2:709).
- Lui JC, Kong SK (2007) Heat shock protein 70 inhibits the nuclear import of apoptosis-inducing factor to avoid DNA fragmentation in TF-1 cells during erythropoiesis. FEBS Lett,581, 109-117.
- Ho HP, Law WC, Wu SY, Lin Chinlon and Kong SK (2005) Real-time optical biosensor based on differential phase measurement of surface plasmon resonance. Biosenors Bioelectronics,20:2177-80.
- Suen YK, Fung KP, Choy YM, Lee CY, Chan CW, Kong SK (2000) Concanavalin A induced apoptosis in murine macrophage PU5-1.8 cells through clustering of mitochondria and release of cytochrome c. Apoptosis, 5:369-77.
- Lui PPY, Kong SK, Fung KP, Lee CY (1998) The rise of nuclear and cytosolic Ca2+ can be uncoupled in HeLa cells. Pflügers Arch (Eur J Physiol),436, 371-6.
- Kong SK et al (1996) Concanavalin A induced apoptosis in murine macrophages through Ca2+-independent pathway. Cell Death Different, 3:307-14.
Research Grants
- 011-2012, GRF, To develop an aptamer-based surface plasmon resonance biosensor to detect apoptosis for anticancer drug discovery, HKD 855,437.
- 2010-2012, HHSRF, A mechanistic study of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi(Huangqin) and rosiglitazone coadministration on the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. HKD 988,728.
- 2010-2011, GRF, High precision and high efficiency laser induced cell-cell fusion assisted by nanorods. HKD 642,400.
- 2010-2011, GRF, The oncogenic pathway of riboregulator H19: From microRNA to DNA methylation. HKD 1,100,000.
- 2010-2011, Funding from the CUHK Research Committee Group Research Scheme, Functional plasmonics for biosensing applications. HKD 500,000.
- 2009-2011, GRF, To develop a novel surface plasmon resonance biosensor for real-time DNA amplification and detection, HKD 488,109.
- 2009-2011, GRF, Suppression of caspase 3 by a novel non-coding RNA CUDR: A miRNA Perspective. HKD 1,080,520.
- 2009-2010, GRF, Femtosecond-laser-induced transfection of living cells with foreign DNA. HKD 462,219.
- 2008-2011, QEF, The development of student-Oriented Teaching and Learning resources in Science and a Science Enrichment Programme for Secondary 3-4 students. HKD 3,500,000.
- 2008-2011, GRF, Integrated wide dynamic range photonic biosensors and label-free DNA detection using surface-plasmon enhanced magneto-optical phase change. HKD 769,790.
- 2008-2010, GRF, A novel regulator of insulin release by HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) in porcine isolated pancreatic islets beta-cells. HKD 1,085,729.
- 2008, UGC Special Equipment Grant, Acquisition of fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) system, HKD 4,098,173.
- 2008, ITF (Tier 3), Phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensors for healthcare applications. HK$ 999,350.
- 2008-2010, GRF, Femtosecond-laser-induced fusion of living cells with liposomes for the delivery of foreign DNA. HKD 462,219.
- 2008-2010, GRF, Integrated wide dynamic range photonic biosensors and label-free DNA detection using surface-plasmon-enhanced magneto-optical phase change. HKD 769,790.
- 2007-2009, GRF, Electro-optically tunable surface plasmon resonance biosensor micro-arrays. HKD 557,700.
- 2006-2010, Funding from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust - CE Community, To set up food composition database for nutrition labeling. HKD 17,770,000.
- 2006-2008, RGC Earmarked Grants, Phase imaging of surface plasmon resonance and sensor surface engineering for multi-analyte biosensor chips. HKD 448,000.
- 2006-2008, RGC Earmarked Grants, Regulation of therapeutics induced apoptosis in human cancer cells by an apoptotic factor on chromosome 1q. HKD 884,957.
- 2006-2008, Funding from Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, Photonic biosensor microarrays diagnostics applications. HKD 724,000.
- 2006-2008, QEF, A science enrichment programme for secondary 3-4 students. HKD 2,000,000.
- 2004-2006, QEF, Case-based learning of high school science subjects to support learning to learn. HKD 2,820,000.
- 2005-2006, RGC Earmarked Grants, Riboregulator modulation of drug resistance in human cancer cells. HKD 939,968.
- 2003-2005, RGC Earmarked Grants, Bioassay-guided isolation, characterization, and mechanistic study of the bioactive components from Paeonia lactiflora, Sophora flavescens, Oldenlandia diffusa and Scutellaria barata for the anti-proliferative effect on human hepatoma cells in vitro and in vivo. HKD 716,000.
- 2003-2004, Funding from Greater China Technology Group Limited, Study of immunomodulatory activities of Herbsnsenses TM Cordyceps in healthy subjects: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over study. HKD 1,118,000.
- 2003-2005, RGC Earmarked Grants, Establishment of a SARS coronavirus protein/peptide library and an antibody library as common platforms for biological and medical applications. HKD 800,000.
- 2002-2005, Shanghai/Hong Kong/Anson Research Foundation,, Mechanistic study of anti-tumour effect of natural and synthetic saponins. HKD 1,325,000.
- 2001-2003, RGC Earmarked Grants, Functional analysis of a novel gene over-expressed in doxorubicin resistant human cancer cells. HKD 699,600.
- 1994-1996, RGC Earmarked Grants, Signal transduction in normal macrophages & macrophage cell lines. HKD 1,291,000.
- 1992-1994, RGC Earmarked Grants, Signal transduction in PU5-1.8 cells & normal macrophages. HKD 372,000. [This project was externally assessed and ranked "EXCELLENT" by the RGC panel.]
- Optical Sensing Devices with SPR Sensors Based on Differential Phase Interrogation and Measuring Method Using the Same. Filing Country/City: US, Preliminary US Class Code / Class Code: 356, Patent No.7365855 B2, Date of Patent: 29 April 2008.
- Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors and Methods for Detecting Samples Using the Same. Filing Country/City: US, Preliminary US Class Code / Class Code: 435, Patent No./ Application No.: 11/337,034, Filing Date: 19/Jan/2006.
- Method and Apparatus for Phase Sensitive Surface Plasmon Resonance, U.S. Provisional Patent Pending (03/2008).
Professional Activities
- Chartered Biologist, MSB, Society of Biology (UK)
- Member, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
- Member, Hong Kong Society of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
- Hong Kong-CUHK 2010 iGEM team member


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