Family of Missing Alberta Woman Organize Ground Search
Her family suspects she could have fallen victim to foul play because of her involvement with drugs at the time of her disappearance.Eva Potts said she has been having difficulty sleeping but is still hopeful her sister will be found alive. Although there is a high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women, Eva never expected her sister would be one of them.“I can’t imagine that anyone would hurt her. She’s not a violent person. If anything she’s really kind and she gives a lot,” said Eva.Potts has a five year-old son that she usually calls at least once a week, however no one, including her son, has heard from her since she was reported missing to the RCMP in March. Volunteers search the bush on the Paul First Nation in AlbertaThe group is searching down gravel roads and through dense bush and are expected to take at least a week to cover the entire reserve and surrounding area.In the RCMP’s missing person’s report Misty is described as:– 5′ 6″ tall– 120-130 lbs– dark brown, shoulder-length hair– freckles on her faceMisty Potts was last seen wearing a red jacket, coral-colored jeans, and thick black-rimmed glasses. She was last seen in Enoch Cree Nation on Saturday, March 14, 2015 and was believed to be travelling to Edmonton.Police are asking that if you have any information on the whereabouts of Misty Potts, please contact Mayerthorpe RCMP at 780-786-2291.bmorin@aptn.ca Volunteers head to the site of a search on the Paul First Nation in Alberta Monday. Photo: Brandi Morin, APTNBrandi MorinAPTN National NewsFamily and friends of a missing woman organized a ground search for her Monday on the Paul First Nation in Alberta.Misty Faith Potts, 37, of Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, Alberta was last seen March 14.Approximately 30 volunteers are searching the Paul First Nation near Alexis after the family received a number of tips and advice from a physic that her remains could be in the area.The psychic had given accurate information on where to find a previous missing Alexis band member that was later found dead.“I’ve been trying to stay optimistic and hopeful, but she would’ve contacted me or my mom,” said Misty’s sister, Eva Potts. “She can’t just disappear like this.”Misty PottsAccording to her sister, Potts held a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies and was very active in her community.However, her family said that after her brother Zachery died in 2011 her life started to go downhill. Misty Potts started hanging around a bad crowd and began using drugs.“She was going through some hard times but I thought that maybe one day she was going to come out of it and one day things were going to get better,” said her sister, Eva.Potts last saw her sister in February and recently hacked her Facebook account in hopes of finding clues to her whereabouts.Nothing unusual or suspicious came up.Her last Facebook message was to her niece who asked where she was, in which Misty replied, “I’m around, don’t worry.”
18,045 Views Dublin Zoo celebrates a very adorable new arrival Just look at her. Share Tweet Email8 Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article Thursday 16 Mar 2017, 5:37 PM 16 Comments DUBLIN ZOO HAS welcomed the birth of a new elephant calf.The herd’s matriarch Bernhardine, or Dina, gave birth to her third calf on Monday night and the 1-metre tall, 80kg female baby elephant is safe and healthy.The new arrival will join the nine-strong herd of Asian elephants at Dublin Zoo, and is the fifth calf to be born there in less than three years.The calf was finally born after a 22-month gestation period. Mar 16th 2017, 5:37 PM https://jrnl.ie/3292382 Image: Patrick Bolger Short URL By Sean Murray The calf is feeding exceptionally well and has settled into her surroundings seamlessly.“This is Dina’s third calf and so naturally, she has developed excellent maternal instincts over the years.”The birth of this latest calf forms part of an international breeding programme established to assist the survival of the Asian elephant. Source: Patrick BolgerA statement from Dublin Zoo said there are only between 30,000 and 60,000 of the animals left in the wild, with the largest population in India.Read: Over 100 animals die in Dublin Zoo in two years (including some critically endangered ones)Read: It took a 22-month pregnancy but Dublin Zoo has a new elephant calf Image: Patrick Bolger Source: Patrick BolgerGerry Creighton, operations manager at Dublin Zoo, said that they were all delighted with the arrival.“Both mum and calf are doing great,” he said.
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram European leaders will consider calls for an interpretation of EU budget rules that gives more emphasis to economic growth, according to the draft of a document being circulated before a summit in Brussels this week.The document, which European Council President Herman Van Rompuy is drawing up in consultation with Italy, the next country to hold the rotating EU presidency, marks a major effort to reset the EU agenda away from the budget cuts and tax squeezes that characterized the initial reaction to the eurozone debt crisis.With much of Europe still struggling to return to sustainable growth and unemployment rates at record levels in many areas, pressure for a change of course and an easing in austerity was underlined by a surge in support for anti-EU parties in last month’s European Parliament election.The draft, which could still change before the summit this week, calls for bold steps to create growth and jobs and to support deeper reform by individual member states. However it does not call for a change to the EU Stability and Growth pact or the bloc’s ‘fiscal compact’ and contains few specifics.“Given the persistently high levels of public debt, growth-friendly and differentiated fiscal consolidation must be continued,” the document says.“Recovery remains fragile and uneven and efforts must continue and be enhanced in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to grow and create jobs,” it says.The proposals form part of a wider deal under which centre-left leaders agreed to support former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission in exchange for policy agreements on growth and jobs.Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, strengthened by a triumphant result in last month’s European election, has been one of the main movers in the process.His undersecretary in charge of European affairs, Sandro Gozi said there was broad agreement on Italy’s priorities.“We think there is an excellent basis for the next six months because I think there is very wide support for our priorities and our methods,” he told reporters.He also said Italy would secure a ‘heavyweight’ representative on the new European Commission which will be appointed later this year.Renzi, a longstanding critic of rigid EU deficit rules who has called for renewal in both Italy and Europe, was a rare exception among government leaders, winning 40.8 percent of the vote, the best result for any Italian leader since the 1950s.The draft also calls on the bloc as a whole to assume more responsibility for the southern Mediterranean migrant crisis faced mainly by Italy, Malta, Greece and Spain and step up measures to ensure energy security. Source: Reuters
Auditors hired by the state will visit Dillingham City School District this week to ask local teachers and administrators how the Alaska Department of Education is doing.Download AudioRoss Alexander is the performance review manager for the Alaska Division of Legislative Audit. He says the audit team is looking to have open-ended conversations about how state policies affect education at the local level.“You know, what things can the Department do to provide better outcomes for students? What policies and regulations are burdensome?” Alexander said. “Just get a general picture of education in that environment so our review team has a good perspective as they put together their report.”The review, which is being carried out by a firm called Public Works, comes out of a 2013 bill that says that each state department must be audited every 10 years.Last year the Legislative Audit Division looked at the Department of Health and Human Services. The year prior, a review of the Department of Corrections identified systemic problems impacting the quality of inmate health care.Alexander says this year’s review of the Department of Education will draw from school districts throughout the state, starting this week with Anchorage, Mat-Su, Dillingham, Sitka and Mt. Edgcumbe.“And then there will be an additional trip in February, we believe, where they will visit a number of other rural school districts in all different parts of the state,” Mt. Edgcumbe said. “We’re trying to get a broad perspective – different regions, different school district sizes… so it’s an evenly balanced report.”The audit also sent out surveys to every superintendent in the state.The legislative audit team spent Monday in Anchorage, Tuesday in the Mat-Su, will spend Wednesday in Dillingham, Thursday and Friday at Sitka and Mt. Edgcumbe.Over the next couple months, the DLA will schedule public hearings on the department of Education audit in Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks.Next year they’ll look at three – Agencies of the legislature, the Alaska Court System, and the Office of the Governor.
Payment banks, which got in-principle nod from the central bank, are expected to offer over 1,500 jobs with pay packages as high as Rs 1.50 crore when they launch their operations in the next 18 months, according to executive search firms.In August, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had approved 11 entities, including Reliance Industries, Vodafone m-pesa and Airtel M Commerce to open payment banks.These entities can accept cash deposits, permit remittances and roll out “simple financial products”. They can accept savings deposits of up to Rs 1 lakh from a customer. However, a payments bank is not allowed to lend to customers, like commercial banks.The payment banks will hire nearly 150 senior executives, 370 mid-level executives and over 1,000 junior-level staff in the coming months, The Economic Times reported, citing estimates made by Vito India, a headhunting firm.So far, some of these entities — Cholamandalam, Department of Posts, National Securities Depository, Tech Mahindra and Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma — haven’t hired the chief executives for their payment banks.The areas for which the payment banks recruit people include product, sales and distribution, merchant acquisition, strategic alliances, operations, and regulatory and compliance and they are expected to offer salaries between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 75 lakh for senior executives handling these functions.”Salary for CXOs (CEOs and other management-level executives) is in the range of Rs 1-1.5 crore while for a level below it is around Rs 70 lakh to Rs 1 crore,” said Kalyani Shastry, associate director at RGF Executive Search.However, the Birla group, which also got permission to start a payment bank, has already hired employees for its operations.”We have our people in place … we look for banking, consumer and technology-oriented people,” said Santrupt Misra, director of global HR & CEO, carbon black business, at the group.The entities are also scouting for talent outside the country, including Singapore and Silicon Valley, to rope in people with experience in disruptive products, said K Sudarshan, managing partner and co-founder of EMA Partners.
A Bangladeshi peacekeeper receiving UN medal at MINUSMA’s operational base in Bamako, Mali. Photo: UNBThe UN has recently awarded 139 Bangladeshis serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the UN medal for their efforts to support peace in the West African country.The medalists are members of a Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU), reports UNB.The medal ceremony was held at MINUSMA’s operational base in Bamako, Mali recently, said a press release on Saturday.The UN secretary-general’s deputy special representative Koen Davidse, MINUSMA police component deputy chief brigadier general Jean-Frederic Sellier, and many other guests, including a high-level delegation from Bangladesh, attended the colourful ceremony.Brigadier general Sellier said, “The decorated Bangladeshi police officers have performed their missions properly and with determination and professionalism. On behalf of MINUSMA, I congratulate you and thank you for the work accomplished.”The peacekeepers are from the fourth rotation of the Bangladeshi FPU, since the UN peacekeeping mission deployed in 2013.Bangladesh is the second largest contributor of military and police personnel to United Nations peacekeeping, with more than 7,000 currently serving around the world. Of them, more than 1,600 have been serving in Mali.
Map of ThakurgaoThe sweeping cold wave has claimed the lives of at least six children in Thakurgaon district over the last one week and affected many more, said acting civil surgeon Shahjahan Newaz.He said some 500 patients, mostly children, were admitted to Sadar hospital with cold-related diseases during the period, reports UNB.A moderate cold wave with mercury dipping at 5-8 degrees Celsius has been sweeping the district for the past seven days, according to the Met office.The number of patients, largely children, has started rising with the fall in mercury, forcing the hospital authorities to form two additional medical teams on Saturday to tackle the situation.Divisional director Amal Chandra Saha said physicians and nurses have been working round the clock to ensure proper treatment of the patients. “Two medical teams will be working till the patients’ growing pressure eases,” he said.Shahjahan said they have only 18 beds in the Child Ward of the hospital where a total of 163 children with different ailments, including diarrhoea, pneumonia and asthma are now being treated.Among the children, 79 have been suffering from diarrhoea while 36 from pneumonia, he added.”We’ve to keep patients on the hospital floors and corridors for lack of beds,” he added.
(Phys.org)—A group of chemistry researchers working in a lab at Cambridge University have succeeded in causing a group of molecules to form themselves into trefoil knots. The team was working on combinatorial chemistry experiments, they note in their paper describing their achievement in the journal Science, when they noticed the spontaneous formation of knots. Explore further Citation: Chemistry researchers create self-tying knotted molecules in the lab (2012, November 9) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2012-11-chemistry-self-tying-molecules-lab.html More information: Discovery of an Organic Trefoil Knot, Science, 9 November 2012: Vol. 338 no. 6108 pp. 783-785. DOI: 10.1126/science.1227032ABSTRACTMolecular knots remain difficult to produce using the current synthetic methods of chemistry because of their topological complexity. We report here the near-quantitative self-assembly of a trefoil knot from a naphthalenediimide-based aqueous disulfide dynamic combinatorial library. The formation of the knot appears to be driven by the hydrophobic effect and leads to a structure in which the aromatic components are buried while the hydrophilic carboxylate groups remain exposed to the solvent. Moreover, the building block chirality constrains the topological conformation of the knot and results in its stereoselective synthesis. This work demonstrates that the hydrophobic effect provides a powerful strategy to direct the synthesis of entwined architectures. © 2012 Phys.org Journal information: Science
Tying molecules in knots As part of an experiment involving creating reaction mixtures, the team was linking naphthalene diimide (NDI) with hydrophilic alanines, which used cysteine residues as caps. Doing so resulted in the creation of a molecule that displayed both hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties. The caps allowed for reversible disulfide links. The team noted that as longer chains of the molecule were formed, its conflicting reaction to water properties resulted in molecules that twisted themselves together in a solution. When attempting to separate the molecules, researchers noted the presence of a third peak holding them together; repeating the experiment using a higher concentration of salt increased the size of the third peak causing the team to wonder if a knot had been formed. Upon closer inspection using a mass spectrometer, they found that the molecule had spontaneously formed itself into a trefoil knot – one that has three loops and resembles a clover and which cannot be undone without being physically broken apart.This is the first time a self-forming trefoil knot in a molecule has been caused to come about in the lab; previous attempts to cause such knots to arise have involved trying to force them to occur using a metal ion to serve as a template – allowing them to form on their own is quite naturally much more efficient. Such knots occur quite often in nature however, which has led researchers to believe they could be created in the lab. This new approach shows that not only can such knots be caused to come about on their own, but can be done so in large quantities.Now that a way has been found to cause spontaneous trefoil knots to come about, the researchers believe there are likely other molecules that can be created that do the same. The trick is in using ingredients that have opposing forces during their creation. A trefoil knot. Credit: Wikipedia. This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.
Qantas Frequent Flyer partnershipChristensen also used the event in Sydney this week to formally announce a new partnership with Qantas Frequent Flyer.Under the agreement, Qantas Frequent Flyer members have the opportunity to earn Qantas Points on all 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Crystal Experiences – by ocean, river and yacht expedition.Crystal will offer up to three Qantas Points per US$1 on all Crystal Experiences including Crystal Cruises, Crystal River Cruises and Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises itineraries.“Offering Qantas Points is a great way to reward our Crystal Society members for choosing to book with us,” saysChristensen. “Crystal has long been celebrated as the leader in luxury cruising, and this new partnership is a wonderful opportunity for Qantas customers to discover the hallmarks of the acclaimed Crystal Experience.”Qantas Loyalty Executive Manager Commercial, David Young, said: “Qantas Frequent Flyer members love to travel and the partnership with Crystal provides them with another way for them to make their whole trip more rewarding by earning points on their cruise booking as well as their flights.”Qantas’ David Young and Crystal’s Karen Christensen“It’s a fantastic partnership and I’m thrilled. We’ll be able to do a lot with that,” Christensen told LATTE.“It’s been in the pipeline for 12 months since when we started the initial discussion and I had very little doubt that it was the right partnership for us to work towards. It’s a powerful piece as a business partnership.”“Qantas truly does have a loyalty program point system. When you look at other airlines’ points systems it’s all to do with the airline and that airline’s seats, whereas Qantas isn’t solely about that, so people have more opportunity to spend their points,” she said.At this point in time, the alliance does not offer Qantas Frequent Flyers the opportunity to use their accrued points to offset the cost of a Crystal Cruise.Go back to the enewsletter Go back to the enewsletterCrystal has reported a solid start for bookings aboard the luxury cruise line’s first expedition vessel, Crystal Endeavor, a ship that is destined to call Australia home for a short period of time during its inaugural season in late 2020, offering sailings to Antarctica from Hobart and from across the ditch out of Christchurch.In Sydney this week, Crystal’s Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Australasia, Karen Christensen, said bookings for the 20,000-gross-tonne ship were already encouraging, two years out and for a ship whose keel-laying ceremony was conducted only weeks ago.Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises opened reservations for Crystal Endeavor to members of the luxury cruise line’s loyalty program, Crystal Society, on 8 August and to the general public two weeks later on 22 August.Bookings have been “phenomenal”, Christensen’s counterpart from Florida, Mark Spillane – Crystal Cruises’ Sales & Marketing Manager – told LATTE at a media soirée at the Sydney Opera House on Monday.“Endeavor has been very well received. The first two voyages alone are 53% sold and that includes the inaugural round-trip from Tokyo to go to the Russian Far East and the second voyage, also a round trip from Tokyo, but that’s all Japan, is selling very well,” Spillane said.Team Crystal: Mark Spillane, Karen Christensen, Kelly Moran and Kimberley TaylorThe 17-day Russian Far East maiden expedition itinerary leads in at US$23,149 per person twin share.Christensen said the interest in Japan was no surprise, with the destination experiencing the biggest growth in the past two years at Crystal “over everything else”.Christensen told LATTE she was “pleasantly surprised” by the number of sales already secured for Antarctica. That 22-day itinerary jumps to US$32,149 per person twin share, based on the 6 January 2021 departure.“In the past there’s a lot of discussion – should you go out of Ushuaia? Should you go out of Hobart, Christchurch? – but there’s an element of people that want to do close-to-home flights, which this is accommodating, and there are the people that have done Antarctica Peninsula and this is a different experience again. Endeavor is going to Mawson’s Hut and across the Ross Sea, so it’s a different area of Antarctica so we are attracting those people that perhaps have already done Antarctica previously.”Spillane added that Antarctica voyages have been very encouraging. “It’s a unique experience to go through Antarctica. Yes, some have done it before in this way, but when you bring a new ship [in to market] you never really know, but it’s been very well received.”Rendering – Crystal Endeavor, Crystal Penthouse Suite, BedroomCrystal has already released itineraries through until late January 2021 – a 22-day Antarctica sailing from Christchurch that returns to Hobart – however, details beyond mid-February 2021 are yet to be announced.When asked if Crystal Endeavor will make her way to the Arctic, likely for mid-2021, Christensen confirmed the 200-passenger ship “eventually will”. Which path she takes to reach the North Pole is also a closely guarded secret for now, however, Christensen and Spillane ruled out voyages to Cuba and the Galapagos en route.Christensen was hopeful Endeavor will return down under at the same time in late 2021, saying “I can’t see why it wouldn’t return.” During the event, she also said Crystal had options for additional expedition-class ships, and was optimistic a sister-ship would join Crystal Endeavor in the future.
Police on Tuesday informed residents in the Limassol district that destruction of ammunition was taking place at RAF Akrotiri until 4pm.The work will be completed on Thursday.The bases announced last week that routine explosive demolitions would be conducted at RAF Akrotiri between 9am and 4pm from May 8 to 10.“Please do not be concerned if explosions are heard in the local area. This occasionally happens when certain atmospheric conditions prevail,” a written statement had said.It added that British Forces Cyprus remains committed to restricting the impact of military training and activities to a minimum where possible and with due regard for the environment and habitat.You May LikeDailyHeathRemedies.com8 Poisonous Foods We Commonly EatDailyHeathRemedies.comUndoZincuta, Inc.All Natural Eczema, Psoriasis Skin Remedy. Since 1890.Zincuta, Inc.UndoLivinglyIf You Still Have Any of These Old Toys, Today’s Your Lucky DayLivinglyUndo Two of serial killer’s victims buried in PhilippinesUndoUK plays Brexit hardball with ‘stubborn’ EUUndoIran’s Revolutionary Guards publish purported exchange with British warshipUndoby Taboolaby Taboola