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No: 298, 13 October 2019, Press Release Regarding The Visit Of H.e. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, To Baku In The Context Of The 7th Summit Of The Cooperation Council Of The Turkic Speaking States
H.E. Minister Çavuşoğlu will visit Azerbaijan to accompany H.E. President Erdoğan who will attend the 7th Summit of the Cooperation Council of the Turkic Speaking States -Turkic Council- which will be held in Baku on 15 October 2019, and to participate in the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Turkic Council (CFM), which will be held prior to the Summit on 14 October 2019.
At the CFM, Ministers will address significant issues on the agenda of the Turkic World such as economy, transportation, energy and support for SMEs, and evaluate the steps to be taken in the period ahead with a view to further developing cooperation and solidarity among the member countries.
During his visit, Minister Çavuşoğlu will also have bilateral meetings with H.E. Elmar Memmedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan as well as with his other counterparts.
Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Nakhchivan Agreement, the founding document of the Turkic Council , and with the participation of Uzbekistan as a full member, the CFM and the 7th Summit have gained a historical character.
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Palestinians voice support for resistance groups
Thousands of demonstrators have staged massive rallies across the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank to celebrate what they see as Israel's defeat in its latest war on Palestinians.
On Friday, members and supporters of the Palestinian resistance group, Islamic, Jihad took to the streets in the besieged Palestinian coastal enclave, reaffirming their support for resistance movements.
A large number of supporters of the resistance group, Hamas, also held similar rallies after noon prayers in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The protesters chanted anti-Israeli slogans and called on the international community to take action with regard to Israel's acts of violence against Palestinians.
Reports say thousands of worshipers at al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem) chanted slogans for the freedom of al-Aqsa.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have held numerous marches over the past two months in support of the resistance fighters in the face of the Israeli aggression against Gaza.
Israel launched an aerial military campaign against Gaza in early July and later expanded its operation with a ground invasion.
At least 2,140 Palestinians, including around 570 children, were killed in the Israeli onslaught on Gaza. Some 11,000 others were wounded.
Most of the victims were civilians, including children, women and the elderly.
Tel Aviv says 68 Israelis were killed in the conflict, but Hamas puts the number at more than 150.
Palestinian resistance groups and Israeli officials on Tuesday reached an agreement on a permanent ceasefire for the besieged Gaza Strip.
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This week, women in street art, the worst waiter in history, art market bubble, a broken Picasso plate, reviewing Chipotle lit, the capitalist imagination, immigration stats, letters in words, and more.
Are there more women in street art and graffiti? Yes, still very low, but the numbers are increasingly slightly:
It has become increasingly obvious that street art is no longer the sole preserve of men. The current eruption of female artists is global: in America, Europe, Brazil, Colombia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Australia, Asia and beyond.
The photographer Martha Cooper — who has been snapping graffiti culture for decades — estimates that while until relatively recently 0.1 percent of street artists were women, now 1 percent are. A small but significant leap.
Here is the reality of the art market today, via Bloomberg's Katya Kazakina (emphasis mine):
Israel Lund's grainy, washed out yellow and gray painting was sold four times over 11 months, jumping more than 1,500 percent in price along the way.
… Fueled by a flood of new collectors, flipping art has intensified recently as works by untested artists resell for escalating prices. It's an early warning that a segment of the art market is showing characteristics of a financial bubble, advisers and collectors said.
"There always have been explosions in the art market and this is one of these boom moments," said Miami-based collector Mera Rubell, who with her husband Don started buying emerging art in 1964 on a $25-a-month budget. "It does feel like the 1980s with high prices and waiting lists. This kind of fast flipping and such exuberant price acceleration is something new."
The poetic story of a broken Picasso ceramic plate:
By the time I was born, in 1958, my father was no longer a poor student. He'd become the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and our home was saturated with objects. Art was his great love, followed by women. When I was seven, he ran off to the West Coast to marry someone new and to direct his own museum.
Was Edsel Ford Fong, who was the waiter at San Francisco's infamous Sam Wo Restaurant, the worst waiter in history?
Joe Franco recalls his first visit to Sam Wo in 1981 and, consequently, his first Edsel experience. "Sit down and shut up!" he was told upon entering. When he made the grave mistake of attempting to order sweet-and-sour pork and a diet coke, Edsel was not pleased:
"You [stupid]? No coke!! Tea Only!! No sweet and sour!! You see on menu?!! You get house special chow fun…No fork, chopstick only…What you want, fat man?"
Another customer, Lou Sideris, once tried to order the "fried shrimp," an item nearly double the price of anything else on the menu. "No! It's a rip-off!" yelled Edsel. Sideris and his friends would return many times over the years, each time attempting to order the shrimp, and each time being furiously denied by Edsel.
Sam Wolfson, writing for Vice's Noisey blog, suggests that Miley Cyrus's new tour, which isn't selling well for a pop star of her caliber, is proving that the "sex sells" logic may not be true all of the time:
"People are taught to look at things so black and white, especially in small towns. I'm excited to take this tour to places where [art] like this wouldn't be accepted, where kids wouldn't learn about this different kind of art," said Cyrus earlier in the year. Critics seem to agree she's been doing just that, with five star reviews raining down on the Bangerz tour. But one doubts whether the thousands of parents who took their kids to her O2 show will feel they left with an art lesson.
Miley can pretend she's in a Brooklyn gallery space rather than an all-ages show, if she wants to. But she can't pretend things are going well in terms of ticket sales. There were plenty of empty seats at the O2 and, unusually for an artist of her sway, she only played one night there. Things haven't picked up on the rest of the European tour, with tickets still available for many of her upcoming dates. In the US, sales for the tour also struggled, particularly after she was seen smoking weed on TV. Forbes believe it's unlikely she'd sold out "as many as half of her shows". Tickets on secondary ticketing sites were selling for less than face-value as touts just tried to make some of their money back.
The conventional history of computing leaves out some key thinkers, according to The Atlantic:
In the years leading up to World War II, a number of European thinkers were exploring markedly similar ideas about information storage and retrieval, and even imagining the possibility of a global network — a feature notably absent from the Memex. Yet their contributions have remained largely overlooked in the conventional, Anglo-American history of computing.
Chief among them was Paul Otlet, a Belgian bibliographer and entrepreneur who, in 1934, laid out a plan for a global network of "electric telescopes" that would allow anyone in the world to access to a vast library of books, articles, photographs, audio recordings, and films.
Maria Bustillos, writing for the LA Review of Books, reviews Jonathan Safran Foer's new Cultivating Thought: Author Series at … wait for it … Chipotle. It includes works by Toni Morrison, Sarah Silverman, Malcolm Gladwell, Sheri Fink, and others. Bustillos writes:
I approached these works in as hopeful a state as I could muster. It's reassuring, if only marginally so, to realize that in the alleged twilight of printed books, as conventional publishers are ground to powder beneath the heel of Amazon (and Google), that the irrepressibility of language, the empire of ideas, will almost certainly find a way — however weird and unlikely a way — to persist, and to spread.
… Chipotle anticipates that it will take about two minutes to read each of its new pieces (though I found some to be quite a bit meatier than others). This raises a further question: can Jonathan Safran Foer, or anyone, eat a Chipotle lunch in two minutes? Those burritos are the size of a person's head! I do not believe it would be at all advisable to eat one even in four minutes (cup, bag.) Also, the idea of a two-minute reading experience seems suspiciously like another of The Man's attempts to make employees feel guilty for doing anything but working every second of every day. The four-minute lunch! I can already see it coming. And don't imagine that you'll be able to get additional cups or bags to read during a lunch of humane and reasonable duration, because they will only contain more burritos and soda, thus getting us nowhere.
Twitter wisdom from @astradisastra:
This Pew Research helps us understand how the demographics of the United States are changing:
Page Six's anonymous report from the Kimye wedding is too good not to link to. And these passages are hilarious (emphasis mine):
At that same visit, when Kanye saw the $136,000 (100,000 Euro) audio system, described by one producer as the single best system in Europe, he said he didn't like the look of the speakers and wanted them to be invisible. He said that "You Italians don't understand my Minimalist style." So he had the entire system pulled out as the guests were arriving, and his wedding music came from an iPod until after dinner.
It's art!
Kanye returned one hour before the wedding and didn't like the all-white bar that was in front of the Gold Toilet Tower. He took a saw and started sawing it in half himself. Two men held the bar stable as he sawed, and sawed, into the bar, defacing the entire front, screaming at everyone around him. He said it looked like a bar from Texas. Then he ordered two pieces of raw wood to be nailed onto the front of the bar. Once the wood was in place, "Now," he said, "it's art." The Italian construction teams looked at this guy and couldn't believe what they were seeing.
And WTF moment:
And the most prominent wedding gift was a giant bottle of Chianti, which had been dipped in gold (probably great for the flavor of the wine), the cork replaced with a diamond, a gift from Jay Z (a no-show).
A history of the death penalty in the United States.
The Onion has a great take on gun violence in the US:
'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Do you want to see how fast the internet is changing and how much of a role China is playing? Check out these two charts of the top 10 websites by users from 2013 and 2014, courtesy Technology Review, and you can see how the Chinese companies pop up seemingly overnight on the latest chart:
And this is fascinating data. Here is a chart explaining the frequency (and word position) of letters in English language words:
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Thessalonica was formerly the metropolis of Macedonia; it is now called Salonichi, and is the best peopled, and one of the best towns for commerce, in the Levant. The apostle Paul, being diverted from his design of going into the provinces of Asia, properly so called, and directed after an extraordinary manner to preach the gospel in Macedonia (Acts 16:9, 10), in obedience to the call of God went from Troas to Samothracia, thence to Neapolis, and thence to Philippi, where he had good success in his ministry, but met with hard usage, being cast into prison with Silas his companion in travel and labour, from which being wonderfully delivered, they comforted the brethren there, and departed. Passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where the apostle planted a church that consisted of some believing Jews and many converted Gentiles, Acts 17:1-4. But a tumult being raised in the city by the unbelieving Jews, and the lewd and baser sort of the inhabitants, Paul and Silas, for their safety, were sent away by night unto Berea, and afterwards Paul was conducted to Athens, leaving Silas and Timotheus behind him, but sent directions that they should come to him with all speed. When they came, Timotheus was sent to Thessalonica, to enquire after their welfare and to establish them in the faith (1 Th. 3:2), and, returning to Paul while he tarried at Athens, was sent again, together with Silas, to visit the churches in Macedonia. So that Paul, being left at Athens alone (1 Th. 3:1), departed thence to Corinth, where he continued a year and a half, in which time Silas and Timotheus returned to him from Macedonia (Acts 18:5), and then he wrote this epistle to the church of Christ at Thessalonica, which, though it is placed after the other epistles of this apostle, is supposed to be first in time of all Paul's epistles, and to be written about A.D. 51. The main scope of it is to express the thankfulness of this apostle for the good success his preaching had among them, to establish them in the faith, and persuade them to a holy conversation.
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Nova Jerusalém
Nova Jerusalém is located in the disctrict of Fazenda Nova, city of Brejo da Madre de Deus, state of Pernambuco, Brazil
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Nova Jerusalém is located in Fazenda Nova, a district of Brejo da Madre de Deus, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, in Brazil.
From Recife (reached through Guararapes International Airport), either (i) sign up for an organized tour group to Nova Jerusalém, (ii) rent a car and drive to Brejo da Madre de Deus, or (iii) take a intercity bus to Brejo da Madre de Deus.
From Recife, the main route to Nova Jerusalém goes along the modern BR-232 interstate highway, through the cities of Gravatá and Caruaru. In Caruaru, take BR-104 in the direction of Campina Grande. At the Trevo do Cangaceiro de Pedra crossways, take state highway PE-145, which leads to Nova Jerusalém (22 kilometers).
Alternative routes: (i) BR-408, PE-90 and BR-104 (through Carpina, Surubim and Toritama); (ii) BR-408, PE-95 and BR-104 (through Carpina, Limoeiro, Passira, Riacho das Almas and Caruaru).
Apart from the international airport in Recife, a small local airport can be found in Caruaru.
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Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation
The main goal of this paper is to develop an empirical framework for evaluating the patient welfare benefits arising from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990; Hausman, 1996), this paper unpacks the separate choices made by physicians and patients in pharmaceutical decisionmaking and develops an estimable econometric model which reflects these choices. Our proposed estimator for patient welfare depends on (a) whether patients comply with the prescriptions they receive from physicians and (b) the motives of physicians in their prescription behavior. By focusing on compliance behavior, the proposed welfare measure reflects a specific economic choice made by patients. We review evidence that the rate of noncompliance ranges up to 70%, suggesting an important gulf between physician prescription behavior and realized patient welfare. Since physicians act as imperfect but interested agents for their patients, the welfare analysis based on compliance must account for the nonrandom selection of patients into drugs by their physicians. The key contribution of this paper resides in integrating the choices made by both physicians and patients into a unified theoretical framework and suggesting how the parameters of such a model can be estimated from data.
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Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance -- An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation, Paul Ellickson, Scott Stern, Manuel Trajtenberg. in Medical Care Output and Productivity, Cutler and Berndt. 2001


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Surgery-induced weight loss in obese patients significantly reduced serum urate (SUA) levels and xanthine oxidase (XO) activity, although decreased XO activity was not associated with a reduction in SUA, a prospective longitudinal study of obese patients has found.
Among 154 predominantly female patients included in the study, weight loss led to a modest 10% reduction in SUA levels from 5.52 mg/dL at baseline to 4.98 mg/dL at 6 months (P<0.001) after bariatric surgery, according to Pascal Richette, MD, PhD, Paris University, and colleagues writing in Arthritis Care & Research.
Urate levels were more significantly reduced by 18% from 7.08 mg/dL prior to surgery to 5.86 mg/dL at 6 months among patients who had hyperuricemia prior to bariatric surgery (P<0.001).
Circulating XO activity was also reduced in the same group of hyperuricemia patients from 42.5 U/L at baseline to 34.8 U/L at 6 months (P<0.001).
On the other hand, XO activity was not associated with urate levels either at baseline or at 6 months following bariatric surgery. Importantly, XO activity catalyzes the conversion of hypoxanthine to xanthine and then xanthine to uric acid.
Multiple linear regression analysis also revealed that reduced SUA levels were positively associated with a reduction in triglycerides (P=0.001) and body mass index (BMI) (P=0.05), but not XO activity or any of the other variables assessed in the current analysis.
"Gout is a frequent condition resulting from the deposition of monosodium urate crystals in and/or around joints following long-standing hyperuricemia and non-pharmacological treatments of hyperuricemia include dietary modification and weight loss," the researchers wrote.
"On multiple regression analysis, decreased BMI and triglyceride levels were the strongest predictors of change in SUA levels after bariatric surgery."
Data came from a series of patients with severe obesity involved in a bariatric surgery program. The mean age of patients was 41 years and their mean BMI was 47.8. The mean decrease in BMI at 6 months was 24% lower than baseline values (P<0.001); the mean loss in body weight was 25% lower than baseline values (P<0.0001), and the mean loss of fat mass was 29% lower than baseline values.
"Additionally, serum levels of total cholesterol triglycerides and insulin were significantly decreased after surgery (all P<0.001), whereas the high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level was slightly increased (P=0.02)," Richette and colleagues wrote.
In patients with hyperuricemia, circulating XO activity was reduced by weight loss while a reduction in SUA levels was associated with a decrease in triglycerides and BMI but not XO activity, adipokines levels, inflammatory variables, or insulin resistance.
These findings suggest that the reduction in serum urate levels observed in this patient population might be mediated by a reduction in triglyceride levels.
Since the authors found no correlation between decreased XO activity and a reduction in serum urate levels, findings also suggest that XO activity plays only a marginal role in determining urate levels in obese patients who experience significant weight loss and support renal excretion as the main determinant of urate levels in this patient group.
Several limitations of the study include the observational design, its inability to conclusively determine whether weight loss was associated with an increase in renal excretion of uric acid, and the fact that over 80% of the study population was female which may limit the generalizability of the data to the gout population who are predominantly males.
"Our results strongly suggest that bariatric surgery leads to decreased XO activity, which confirms the link between XO activity and weight," Richette and colleagues concluded.
The authors disclose no relationships with industry.
Primary Source
Arthritis Care & Research
Source Reference: Richette P, et al "Weight loss, xanthine oxidase and serum urate levels: a prospective, longitudinal study of obese patients" Arthritis Care Res 2015; DOI: 10.1002/acr.22798.
Secondary Source
Arthritis Care & Research
Source Reference: Lim D-H, et al "Immunoglobulin G levels as a prognostic factor for autoimmune hepatitis combined with systemic lupus erythematosus" Arthritis Care Res 2015; DOI: 10.1002/acr.22800.


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Music lovers, put your skills to the test at this trivia night
Get ready for some Friday fun!
(SPOT.ph) If you happen to know even the most obscure musicals, song lyrics, and a bit of OPM, then it's time to put your skills to the test. Fill your Friday night with some fun trivia at GeekFight: Radio Ga Ga! happening tonight, January 6, 9 p.m., at Splice Resto Bar, Greenfield District, Mandaluyong City.
For this month, the categories include musicals, TV themes, video game music, covers and mashups and remixes, OPM, Internet fame, bands, lyrics, and everything else in between. This year, each team's score will be tracked across all the monthly games. While each game's winners will still determined by the highest scores in that game, the top-ranked teams by the end of the year will also receive prizes and recognition.
Each group may be composed of one to six people. Table reservations are required. Whether or not you're a player, door charge is P200, which comes with a free cocktail.
For reservations, contact 0917-624-6833. For more information, log on to GeekFight! Trivia Night's Facebook event page.


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Things You'll Need
- Milk
- Saucepan
- Vinegar
- Sieve
- Bicarbonate of soda
- Powdered paint
Ancient Egyptian paintings were brightly colored and enduring. Found in tombs and on papyrus, they were created from a paint called tempera. Tempera consists of a mixture of natural pigments held together with a binding agent and thinned with water, which helped the paint to stick the surface of the picture. Binding agents were made from egg yolks, egg whites, acacia gum, beeswax or a glue called casein. Casein is easy to prepare at home, making it the perfect base for recreated ancient Egyptian paint.
Heat the milk gently until just under boiling point.
Take the milk off the heat. Stir in 3 tsp. of vinegar to curdle the milk and separate it into curds and whey.
Strain the mixture through a sieve. Discard the whey and place the curds in a bowl.
Add a 1/4 tsp. of bicarbonate of soda to the curds to create sticky casein. Add powdered paint of choice and thin with water to the required consistency.
For an authentic look, create your paints in the colors most commonly used by the Egyptians: black, blue, brown, grey, green, orange, pink, red, white, and yellow. The ancient Egyptians made their paints from natural resources such as ochre, malachite, lapis lazuli, chalk and cinnabar. All of these minerals needed to be ground into a powder. To save time, use ready made powdered paint. Alternatively, add food coloring to your casein. Experiment with the intensity of colors by adding more or less of your pigment to the binding agent.
Supervise young children and ensure they don't ingest the paint.
Photo Credits
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Writter :Nusrat Nasurulluh
Given the obvious, anxious challenges that the country faces this December, a political climate of grim questions and gnawing growing concern, it could be a matter of opinion on how many citizens will realise that it was on this day, the 16th of December that Pakistan was dismembered. That was in the year 1971 -38 years ago. That this is the subject that surfaces inevitably.
It is a time for contemplation end reflection of what has happened In Pakistan in these 38 years. And it is a time for contemplation on whether any lessons have been learnt since the Fall of Dacca (now Dhaka). I suppose those Pakistanis who were old enough in August 1947 would recollect the times and the overall environment that prevailed, and how they lived through that experience.
Pakistan was born, at that time, (1947) and the Idealism, the euphoria. the sense of fulfilment and responsibility, the sense of purpose and destiny must have been integral to the citizens who saw the birth of Pakistan And there are those Pakistanis for whom the first major national experience (in a way) was the Fall of Dacca that took place on the 16th of December 1971, East Pakistan. became Bangladesh as we all know
Of course, the 38 years since then have been so eventful, and chaotic. turbulent and traumatic to say the least. and where the country stands today. is too obvious to be repeated here. The state of Pakistan and Its hapless citizens. is staring at us in the face, and another December of agonising uncertainty is unfolding. In these Thirty-eight years, there have been two more military dictators (Zeal Hag and Pervez Musharraf) raising the total to four.
Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan were the first two, before the fall of East Pakistan. In these 38 years, the country hanged one elected Prime Minister (Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto) and twice, elected prime ministers were disgraced and ousted. One of them, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated on 27th December 2007 during Musharraf's rule and the other, Nawaz Sharif was forced into exile in Saudi Arabia.
The overall story of our political governments and military rule creates a national profile that is truly disturbing and unpromising. It also mirrors the
Establishment's impatience with democratic rule What the Establishment implies is also too well-known to be explained. It should however, be mulled over.
The future of Pakistan the Islamic Republic is a question mark that is forever being discussed publicly, privately; sadly no more is it a matter to be talked about in low tones, whispers, and behind the curtains. Ironically the very civil and military men who have ruled over this country, and held power offices and taken the wide spectrum of decisions that mattered, are the very ones who are deeply disappointed with the way the country has fared.
Who then, is responsible? It cannot be the man in the street, surely. Even though the Fall of Dacca is a theme that the citizens know little about, as indeed is the knowledge of Pakistan's leaders and the independence movement, one does wonder this: What if there was no December 16, 1971 in our lives? That is, what if Pakistan had not lost East Pakistan, and the country had a leadership which could have kept , the two wings together? What kind of a Pakistan would we have today, had that been the scenario?
It is, at times, ferociously argued and repeatedly explained that many of the socio-political, economic factors that led to the break-up of the country go far back into time, into the early days of Pakistan. That, in fact, by the end of Ayub's rule, in 1968-69
it had become a hopeless case to try and hold the East and the West Pakistan together. I do not know.
The manner in which West Pakistan had treated, managed and exploited East Pakistan, and given to Bengalis a poor reputation was something that one could perceive living in Karachi. In my days, as a student in Karachi, until I finished my education at the Karachi University in 1968, the impression was that the people of East Pakistan were "not as good and efficient as those belonging to West Pakistan." This, however is a painful subject that one needs to look at sometime later.
It was, as a young Pakistani that I found that I always had a soft corner for the people of East Pakistan, and the fact that one of my best teachers was professor Dr Syed Ali Ashraf, Chairman of the English department, only helped to reinforce many times, this impression that has remained steadfast over a lifetime. That I have never been to former East Pakistan, or Bangladesh is strange, and willed so by Allah. So I neither regret nor consider it as a misfortune.
As I write on a Monday night that is chilly by Karachi's winter profile, it does make me wonder of what my own life could have been like had I lived in East Pakistan, and had it been a part of this country. There are numerous related thoughts that come with this. Having become a journalist (with The Leader) in August 1968, I was able to experience somewhat deeper the end of Ayub's rule, and what followed. Also, the December 1970 general elections are regarded as the fairest in the history of the country.
Ironically, a year later, in December 1971, the country disintegrated. One wonders, given the nature of the public reaction that was visible in West Pakistan at the fall of Dacca, whether the long drawn people's uprising in East Pakistan
had created, to some extent, an attitude that Bangladesh was imminent. This is the thought that Climes to mind.
. And the villainous role that
neighbouring India played (and still does) in the December 1971 war was also 'ef !Holed in the Hamood ur Rehman Commission report in which it was quoted that the Director of the Indian Institute of Defence Studies Subramanion in a reference to The India-backed armed rebellion in East Pakistan said that what India must realize is: the fact that the break-up of Pakistan is in our national interest and we have an opportunity the like of which will never come again".
I am reminded here of the subject of thousands and Thousands stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh who remained loyal to Pakistan for a very long time, and I wonder whether it is one of the many forgotten sad themes in our lives. 38 years now, have their wounds healed? The report of the Justice Hamood ur Rehman
Commission is a 540-page document, which is a revealing inquiry into the 1971 war, as declassified by the Government of Pakistan.
The composition of the Commission was as follows: Justice Hamood ur. Rehman Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Anwar ul Haq, Chief Justice Lahore High Court. Member Justice Tufail ali, Abdul Rehman, Chief Justice of the High Court of Sindh and Belochistan member.
Subsequently, on the Commission's recommendations, Lieutenant General Altaf Qadir (Retd) was appointed as military advisor and M.A. Latif assistant registrar, Supreme Court of Pakistan, as a secretary to the Commission. One wonders why we do not discuss this report. Or the deeper significance of the 18th of December 1971 in our national life, or history. On what we can learn from it so that such a day is never ever repeated.
we request to every Pakistni must discuss last bold sentence in above Essay in Comments.
Note : Hamood Ur Rehman Commission report in original format also available on this website. If you want than also read.


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Dear White People, originally released in theaters in 2014, is hitting Netflix as a series in 2017 to continue schooling white people on how to be.
The series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes and, like the film, which centered around a group of college students battling a racist frat, "will follow a diverse group of students of color as they navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college where racial tensions are often swept under the rug," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
DWP director/writer Justin Simien is still involved in writing the series (and directing the premiere), with no word on whether some of the film cast (Tessa Thompson, Tyler James Williams, Teyonah Parris) will revise their roles.
Since the movie's release, Simien says he's talked to various college students facing the same real-life issues the series will address.
Image via Lionsgate.


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AS STANFORD CELEBRATES Sexuality Week this week, PULSE profiles Stanford Drag Troupe, a student group dedicated to exploring issues of gender and sexual orientation through the writing and performance of drag.
IT'S A TUESDAY night during Week 9, and I've arrived at Roble to a scene of cheerful chaos. "Thanks for coming," Lexi Neilan, wearing a fire-engine red wig, says as she lets me in. "We're just getting ready."
Ten or so performers, in various states of dressed- and made-up, are scattered across the foyer. Since the start of fall quarter, these students have been the creative and logistical forces behind the Stanford Drag Troupe (SDT). By providing a space for students to explore the art form, SDT allows its members—who come from diverse backgrounds and levels of drag experience—to take an unflinching look at gender identity and sexual orientation.
"[Drag is] basically a huge 'f— you' to gender roles and anyone who tells you that you have to act or present a certain way," said Lexi, one of the group's co-presidents. "I think I was confused about my sexual orientation or gender identity for a while, but experimenting with both masc drag and femme drag helped me to figure out who I am."
Initiated by students Ima Grullon and Lexi Neilan at the start of the year, SDT became an official student arts group during winter quarter.
The group does not have a Creative Director. Instead, performers developed their own personas and choreographies, preparing their acts in the months leading up to the group's inaugural show, Silicone Valley. As evocative as it is irreverent, the title seemingly pokes fun at tech culture in the Bay Area and at Stanford. "We wanted to show that hard work and creativity can manifest in ways other than a start-up," Lexi said.
The night of the show, Roble Theater is packed. There aren't any open seats visible when I arrive, so I hover uncertainly outside as performers and audience members mingle in the foyer. Thankfully, I'm saved by a performer who introduces himself as Beau and helps me find a spot to watch the show. "The sound guy's nice. He'll probably let you sit next to him," he says. "You'll be able to find him. He's covered in glitter."
As the performers take the stage in full costume and makeup, the crowd quiets down as Lexi takes the mic, introducing herself as her drag persona umami, and somewhat sternly reminds the audience to be respectful during the performance. "If you aren't," she adds with a smile, gesturing to another performer onstage who is dressed in police uniform, "We will have you removed."
As the show begins, troupe members reveal the result of months of creativity and practice—performing their acts with professionalism and enthusiasm. Performances featured lip-syncs to songs like "I'm Afraid to Talk to Men" and "Psycho Killer," as well as student-written spoken pieces such as "Am I Failing Hard Enough?" satirizing Stanford d.school thinking. The tone of the performances is consistently campy and sexy, regularly eliciting laughter and whooping from audience members. But the audience also feels deeply introspective reflections of performers on themselves and the campus culture around them.
The performers' energy was matched only by that of their audience. When the finale comes around, the entire cast returns for a choreography to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," finishing to a standing ovation. Perhaps it's the unapologetic yet self-deprecating humorous approach that SDT takes on self-expression and exploration that charms audience members. The balance that performers strike between critique and drama provokes the viewer but does not fail to entertain—and the group hopes its unique perspective will foster important conversation on campus.
"I have felt that there has been a lot of separation between the queer community at Stanford and those who don't know very much about LGBTQ+ history," Lexi said, "and I think that drag is the perfect way to unite people and have fun."
Check out Stanford Drag Troupe's latest show on Friday, May 4th from 8-9 pm in Toyon Lounge featuring Honey Mahogany from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5!
Photo compliments of the event Facebook page
The full names of SDT cast members (and their drag names, if applicable) are listed below:
Lexi Neilan aka umami
Ima Grullon
Christian Badillo aka BINCH
Steve Rathje aka Lady Dragbeth
Eva Grant aka Annie Depressant
Medora Rorick aka Beau
Colette Brannan aka Alex Hardon
Tabitha Walker aka Paul Tart
Brigitte Pawliw-Fry
By: Cindy Kuang
Photography by: Alessandra Diaz


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Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 15, June 1971
by Richard L.H. Waugh MELBOURNE, VICTORIA
Considerable research has confirmed that Albert John Nicholas who died at Hikutaia in 1888, was born in 1813 of a well-to-do English family of "Winterbourne Manor", Wiltshire. It is recorded that his parents and his sister Jane and others lived near Paramatta, N.S.W. after 1815 and that he went to New Zealand where he married twice and had a number of children most of whom were sent abroad to be educated. His daughter Lucy who subsequently lived in Australia was my Grandmother and the family story has proved extraordinarily interesting as well as historical.
Nicholas held the rank of Captain in the British Army and spent some time in N.S.W. prior to going to New Zealand and landing at Tauranga in 1838. He became a vague and shadowy figure - not much talked about in family circles, and he neither returned to England nor visited his relatives in N.S.W. though it is evident that he kept in touch, as he did with some of his Military Brother-Officers.
From the Reference Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, I received this information - "In 1839 Nicholas purchased a block of land on Uretara or Nicholas Island in Ohiwa Harbour, Bay of Plenty." I was also supplied with a list of vessels owned by him as published by the New Zealand Ship and Maritime Society:
Nimrod T 1842-5, Cutter of 19 tons register. Lost at Tolaga Bay, 1845.
Ngahuia T 1853 - Schooner, 17 tons.
William 1849 - Cutter, built at Mahurangi.Wrecked at Thames, 1865.
His chief occupation appeared to be trading, and he moved about considerably mostly conveying produce, such as flax, maize, potatoes and pigs. He is referred to in Elsdon Best's Tuhoe, Children of the Mist (1925 - P.520) and in James Cowan's "Captain Tapsell" (1935 — P.128).
Meanwhile he married a daughter of Te Waharoa, Chief of the settlement of Matamata where he lived for some years before moving to Waiharakeke. His first child "Lucy" (my grandmother) was born circa 1840, and that there were other children we know from the "Journal of an expedition from Auckland to Taranaki", (undertaken in the summer of 1849-50, by his Excellency the Governor-in-chief of New Zealand). Quote:- "Matamata 15/12/49. The first house we arrived at was that of a European a Mr. Nicholas,- who unfortunately was not at home.- His wife is a very good looking native and she has six beautiful half-caste children".
It appears that Nicholas was often involved in matters connected with the Native Land Court, and the Reference Library has supplied me with many details such as his evidence in 1871 as follows:- "My wife belonged to the Ngatihana [Ngatihaua – E], and I had a store at Matamata.
Then I moved to Waiharakeke and left there in 1857, the year my wife died".
? How many children had you? "Six".
? Are they with Ngatihana? "No with Pakehas".
? Were you the first to open the Waihou? "Yes, I was the first who brought produce down that river. The Ngatihana cautioned me not to let my men steal the pigs belonging to the Ngatimaru on the banks of the Waihou, running through the Aroha. I saw a cultivation on the south-west bank and often saw their pigs. Previous to my taking goods down the river the Ngatihana did not go that way lest they should be molested by the Ngatimaru. They were obliged to go overland or by the Piako".
There is evidence that Nicholas continued his nomadic life both in Auckland and trading round the coast after his wife died, but it is significant that he built his ship - the "Ngahuia" at the River Thames and that the "William" was wrecked there in 1865. In the early 60's he established a home at Hikutaia having married Ngahuia Ngakaho who was "given" to him by her tribe. (She had been married previously to A. McCaskill and had a son Tangi whose descendants are still in the district). Subsequently Nicholas and his wife had three daughters, two of whom returned to Hikutaia, after being sent away to be educated; Emily (Mrs. Charlie Alley) and Clara (Mrs. Alf Alley).
The third daughter Frances spent most of her life abroad, after she and her brothers were sent to Rarotonga to be educated by Rev. Chalmers. She undertook translations for the Seventh Day Adventists after which she was sent by the Movement to Kooranbong College near Newcastle N.S.W. and visited my grandmother who was her step-sister "Lucy". Later she married my Grandfather's brother Alexander Waugh who was subsequently associated with the founding of the Sanitarium Health Food Company. They had three children.
At this stage I must again refer to my Grandmother, "Lucy Symonds Nicholas". She had been sent to N.S.W. to the care of her brother's sister Jane, wife of Captain Wm. Richards, former Naval Officer and latterly master of "Winterbourne Station". There she was brought up and most likely educated at the Academy, Port Macquarie, during the 50's. Her middle name derived from her god-father Captain Symonds, an early New Zealand explorer, a friend of her father and after whom Symonds Street in Auckland is called. (His brother John Jermyn Symonds, was private Secretary to Governor Sir George Grey.) In 1859, when 19 years of age Lucy visited N.Z. for a brief period, and at that time her father had activities in the Napier area of Hawkes Bay but when she returned at a later date he had remarried and was living at Hikutaia with his wife and three daughters.
Lucy had many influential friends and it is known that she stayed at Government House in Auckland. At one time the family tried to suppress the fact that "dark" blood ran in her veins - quite foolishly, for in so doing they attempted to obliterate a story of adventure and romance which would rank well with any in the turbulent days of Australia and New Zealand. The year 1876 in New South Wales, she married W.A Harvey Waugh who during the 80's purchased Guy Fawkes Station comprising 42,000 acres which of course has since been subdivided.
My enquiries have taken me to the South Seas, for not only did my great grandfather leave his mark in New Zealand but his children rendered yeoman service to the people of Rarotonga. It has been said of Henry Nicholas (his half-caste son from Thames) that "he had but one single purpose - to place the interests of the people before his own". Henry organised the cotton industry and when that no longer became a paying proposition he became the driving force behind the fruit industry; he also installed the first printing press in Rarotonga. He died a poor man but rich in the memory of his people.
Nicholas remained a trader in New Zealand spending considerable time away from home but he resisted the efforts of his overseas family to visit them. Perhaps he had lived so long amongst the Maoris he was apprehensive about returning to his old way of life. A contemporary report from N.Z. describes him as a gentleman by birth who became a "Pakeha-Maori". He never failed to make provision for the education and well being of his children. He spent his last years at Hikutaia, his home being near the mouth of the creek, adjacent to the McCaskills.
The following notice appeared in the "Evening Star" (Thames) April 26th 1888 and in the New Zealand Herald (Auckland) on 21 st April, 1888.
DEATH - NICHOLAS. On April 20th at his residence Hikutaia, Albert John Nicholas aged 75 years. (N.S.W. papers please copy).
The "Evening Star" also carried the following: - The funeral of the late Albert John Nicholas will leave the bridge, Parawai, to-morrow 21st inst. at 3.30 p.m. William Twentyman, Undertaker.
And so we come to the close of the long and tempestuous life of one of New Zealand's early settlers and traders who turned aside from affluence in order to live the free and roving life he had chosen. I have corresponded with Mr. Donald Nicholas author of "Mr. Secretary Nicholas" — a biography of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593—1669) who was also born at Winterbourne Manor and later became Secretary of State to both Charles I and Charles II. It will be noted that the family property in N.S.W. was also called "Winterbourne".
I am indebted to the Reference Librarians and Historical Societies in New Zealand for assistance gratefully received.
NOTE: We have had some difficulty in establishing the site of the "Waiharakeke" referred to by Nicholas as there are several places so named. However our good friend Norton Watson sends us the following note - "The Waiharakeke on the Waihou near Gordon was a place of considerable importance to the Ngati-Haua for it was near enough to the Wairere track between Waharoa and Tauranga and also had access to the sea via the Waihou".
(This article has been abridged from the original one published by the Whakatane and District Historical Society in the Jubilee issue of their Journal, April 1967. We gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint it.)
Mr. London, who edits "Historical Review" (Whakatane) writes: - "the publication of Mr. Waugh's article in our Journal resulted in he and I finding that we were related. My mother was a "Waugh" but she and my grandmother left Scotland a generation after Dick Waugh's branch left for Australia He is very proud of "Lucy", whose photograph I enclose, and he will be most interested that you have traced some more of his relatives. Please send me an extra copy of your Journal so that I can pass one on to him". (We shall do so with pleasure and we have to thank the descendants of the pioneer Hikutaia families for their most helpful co-operation. Our earnest hope is that settlers who soon followed after these will also record their stories. Editor).


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Arcane Roots – 'Melancholia Hymns' (Album Review)
In order to create, you sometimes have to destroy. Ripping everything up and starting again can be cathartic, reinvigorating, exciting, terrifying, relieving, overwhelming, and/or everything above all at once. Forcing yourself to confront the truly blank page takes a hell of a lot of heart, and Arcane Roots certainly have that.
Through their first album Left Fire, Arcane Roots became synonymous with air-guitar-inducing acrobatics and the kind of time changes that would make the world's physicists weep with despair. Second long-player Blood & Chemistry came complete with ear-fucking, ball-bursting riffs an order of magnitude heavier than before, and contrasted them with breathtakingly low-key sections from the outset, as on peerless opener Energy Is Never Lost, Just Redirected. Then came a four-year period of relative on-record inactivity punctuated by the safer (but still undeniably anthemic) Over & Over single and Heaven & Earth EP.
It's been four years since Blood & Chemistry began fucking ears and bursting balls – and in a fascinating move that marks Arcane Roots' first real rip-it-up-and-start-again moment, Melancholia Hymns barely does either. There are some big fuck-off guitars and even brief beatdowns (as on Matter, Curtains, and Arp); the stutteringly funky and epic Off The Floor; Solemn's stomping rock intensity; and the Karnivool-evoking Everything (All At Once), the latter hitting another level of metallic brutality. For the most part, though, Melancholia Hymns sees Arcane Roots give themselves plenty of space to stretch out and chill.
Serious rock/metal sections aside, this album tends to feel more like a game soundtrack than a collection of songs. Before Me, Indigo, Fireflies and Half The World are instantly recognisable as Arcane Roots' work due to Andrew Groves' unmistakable voice, but they owe more to contemporary electronica and scoring work than anything else. Still, given Arcane Roots' long-standing popularity among the math- and post-rock fraternity – and, in turn, that scene's long-standing love of electronic textures, ambience, and atmospherics – there's no doubt that even this unpredictable turn of events will ultimately be accepted, admired, and embraced.
Melancholia Hymns is still another nail in the coffin for genre boundaries and those who continue to cling to them. It also makes Arcane Roots' creative future look brighter than ever before. They've begun (deep breath…) to explore areas occupied by everyone from Bjork to Bon Iver, Tycho to Four Tet, and even Karnivool – and when you consider all they've not yet incorporated from those fresh palettes alongside the now-classic Blood & Chemistry-era sound, and then dig back into the techy Muse/Biffy love child that was Left Fire…(another deep breath) and bear in mind that until the singles from Melancholia Hymns popped up it sounded like Arcane Roots were aiming for a relatively more mainstream rock target…you get the idea.
Nothing is more boring than predictability in music – and Arcane Roots are officially one of the least predictable bands out there. Sing along with Melancholia Hymns, and rejoice.
LTK RATING: 100% (Essential Listening!)
What do you think of Arcane Roots and Melancholia Hymns? Leave a comment, follow me on Twitter, and let me know!
Melancholia Hymns drops September 15; pre-order it on iTunes here.


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Danielle Lloyd is going to great lengths to ensure her next baby is a girl
Glam mum-of-four Danielle Lloyd is keen for another baby to add to her growing brood and this time is going to great lengths to ensure her next child is a girl.
The former-WAG recently welcomed son Ronnie, with fiancé Michael O'Neil and has three boys from her marriage with Jamie O'Hara.
Danielle has 'had enough' of living in an all boy household and is contemplating flying abroad if the treatment to choose the gender of her child isn't available in the UK.
In an interview with Ok!, the 34-year-old spoke about her controversial decision, '"I would regret it if I got to 50 and didn't have a daughter, and I don't want to have any regrets, so I'm going to do it".
Danielle is currently mum to Archie 7, Harry 6, George 4 and little Ronnie who is nine-months-old.
She admitted how she's keen to get the ball rolling quickly as she wants her little ones to a similar age.
Danielle told the publication, "I wouldn't want to be pregnant at 40 and it's nice for the kids to be close in age".
"When you're in labour you think, never again, but just a few days later you're thinking about having more!"
"Having Ronnie has made me and Michael more of a unit, more complete as a family, and I think another baby, a little girl especially, would only cement that more."
What do you think of Danielle's decision? Would you do the same? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter!
Now read: 10 celebrities who became mums at a young age
Jacqueline Jossa and Dan Osborne had Ella when Jacqueline was 22. She is now pregnant with their second child just months after their wedding.
Jacqueline Jossa with daughter Ella
Stacey was just 18 when she had her first child Zachary and 23 when she had Leighton.
Stacey Solomon with son Zachary
Solange Knowles was 18 when her and her former husbund Daniel Smith welcomed Daniel Smith Junior.
Solange Knowles with Daniel Smith Junior
Victoria and David had their first child, Brooklyn when Victoria was 24. They now have three other children Harper, Romeo and Cruz.
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Jamie Lynn Spears was 17 when she gave birth to her daughter Maddie. This month she has welcomed her second daughter Ivey Jones Watson.
Jamie Lynn Spears with daughter Maddie
Britney Spears was 23 when she had her son Sean Federline and a year later welcomed another baby boy, Jamie Federline.
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The summary statistics of human genome sequences play a vital role in human population genetics studies, especially human demographic history analyses. Recent studies presented a new generalized growth model that extends the previous widely used exponential growth model by allowing the growth speed to be faster or slower than exponential as well. This EGGS software can efficiently compute 5 summary statistics given a generalized growth/decline model, including models that are composed of exponential and constant population size epochs:
- (1) the total number of segregating sites,
- (2) the time to the most recent common ancestor,
- (3) the site frequency spectrum,
- (4) the average pairwise difference between chromosomes per site,
- (5) the burden of private mutation.
Detailed explanation and example can be found in the software manual which can be downloaded below. The EGGS software package is implemented in C++. The executables for Linux and MAC OS platforms can be downloaded below.
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Calling all adventure seekers! One of Manali's lesser-known treks, and for that reason one of our favourites, White Peaks Adventures is one of the few trekking companies to offer the SaurKundi Pass Trek. Hike to the high altitude glacial lake in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, ensconced by the Pir Panjal range, Mt Deo Tibba, Mt Norbu and Mt Indrasan. You may cover less, but you see more when you travel by foot and on this five-day trek you will travel through the rapidly changing landscape of Himalayas, experiencing their dramatic scenery and everyday village life. From the lush valleys of Kullu to grassy meadows and snowy slopes, culminating in the high-altitude Saur Lake. As an easy to moderate level trek, SaurKundi Pass Trek is ideal for beginners looking to push themselves, or those comfortable with a moderate trekking level
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Region: Manali
Difficulty: Moderate
Maximum Altitude: 12,900 feet
Best time to visit: April to November
Duration: Five Nights/Six Days
Adventure Trek Itinerary
Day 01: Manali
Report to Naggar Nature Base Camp, Manali by 1100 hrs.
After your initial WPA's orientation and briefing of the trek, spend the day acclimatizing and preparing the following day's ascent.
Overnight at Naggar Nature Base Camp, Manali
Day 02: Naggar Nature Base Camp to Hora Thach
Travel by road to the historic village of Shegli where our trek begins. After a steep 500m ascent, the remainder of the day is easy trekking. Lunch and dinner at Hora Thach camp.
Overnight at Hora Thach Camp
Day 03: Hora Thach to Maylee Thach
Today's trek is the toughest, but most beautiful. Wake up early and have a hearty breakfast before beginning your 2500 feet ascent from your jungle camp, to the plains of Maylee Thach. Witness the sun setting over the snow-capped peaks. Dinner at camp.
Overnight at camp, Maylee Thach
Day 04: Summit Saurkundi Pass and return to Maylee Thach
Wake up early as today you will trek to the Saurkundi Pass. An early start is essential as after midday it becomes more difficult to cross the snow. From the height of Sarkundi Pass you will be able to spot several notable peaks. Return to Maylee Thach for an early dinner and rest.
Overnight at camp, Maylee Thach
Day 05: Maylee Thach to Thoti
A slow and steady descent will lead us back to Thoti, with a packed lunch along the way and dinner at camp.
Overnight at camp, Thoti
Day 06: Thoti to Manali
Today is the final day of our expedition and we will make the journey to Pangaon. From here, we will travel back to Manali by road.
Your White Peaks Adventure ends here.
The itinerary is a guideline and standard pattern which we provide you. This trekking can be modified according to your time and requirements. What we offer here is a combination of teahouse and camping trekking which can be modified as well. E-mail us for any customisation or special services required.
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By Josh Cook
This long-shot has finished in the money in half of his eight starts.
Make Music For Me (25-1), who is owned by Ellen and Peter Johnson, has just one career victory but it did come in March at Santa Anita. He was sixth, however, at April 10's Bluegrass Stakes. Though don't overlook his two seconds to Lookin At Lucky when he was a 2-year-old.
The horse, which is trained by Alexis Barba and ridden by Joel Rosario, has career earnings of $262,260. He will come out of the No. 9 post position.


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My office and the Laramie Fire Department always get lots of phone calls related to fireworks and their use. The primary question that we get is related to where can fireworks be used? The following is a list of property ownership and if fireworks can be used.
A) United States Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service lands:
No Fireworks allowed
B) United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management:
C) State of Wyoming administered lands:
D) State of Wyoming, Game and Fish administered lands:
E) Within the City of Laramie limits:
No Fireworks allowed
F) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lands:
No Fireworks or Possesion of Fireworks allowed
G) Privately owned land within Albany County:
Fireworks are allowed unless fire restrictions have been put in place by the Albany County Commissioners.
H) Town of Rock River, town limits:
No ordinances prohibiting use, Contact local officials
I) Check with local homeowner's association for pertinent regulations.
Please use all safety recommendations when using fireworks. This should include having some method of fire extinguishment available.
Information on current fire restrictions can be found on the Albany County Web Site under the Fire Warden.
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London, UK – 7 November, 2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces its line-up of presentations and demonstrations planned for the Embedded Technology (ET) Conference & Exhibition 2014, one of the world's largest tradeshows/conferences for embedded system designers and managers.
Who: Imagination, a global leader in multimedia, processor, communication and cloud technologies
What: Imagination experts will participate in a range of open sessions and workshops, delivering presentations focused on new PowerVR GPUs, the new 64-bit MIPS Warrior I6400 CPU, the MIPS Creator CI20 board, PowerVR video and vision technologies for next-generation 8k/4k products, and Ensigma RPUs for low-power, multi-standard connectivity.
In its booth C14, Imagination will demonstrate products and solutions featuring its entire range of technologies for SoC development. In addition to PowerVR GPUs for graphics and GPU compute, PowerVR video and vision processors, MIPS CPUs and Ensigma RPUs, this includes Codescape tools for MIPS, the FlowCloud device-to-cloud platform, HelloSoft VoIP and Rich Communications Suite (RCS) and Visualizer for SketchUp. Visitors will also learn more about projects from the open source prpl Foundation.
In addition, Imagination will showcase new MIPS development boards including:
· The new MIPS Creator CI20 board running operating systems such as Android, Debian Linux and Firefox
· The Newton and Newton2 platforms for wearable and IoT device development from Ingenic Semiconductor
· chipKIT™ WiFire from Digilent Inc. with PIC32 microcontroller (MCU), demonstrated with Imagination's innovative FlowCloud technology
· A mikroElektronika multimedia platform featuring a MIPS-based PIC32MX MCU from Microchip Technology
Imagination will also feature a security demonstration on its award-winning MIPS M-class CPU – the world's first MCU class CPU IP core that incorporates hardware virtualization. On an M5150 platform, Imagination's partner SELTECH Corp. will demonstrate its new FEXEROX hypervisor, showing how virtualization based security enables multiple operating systems to run separately and securely on one CPU.
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When: Wednesday, November 19 through Friday, November 21, 2014; exhibits open at 10:00am each day.
A schedule of Imagination's workshops and open sessions is available on the Imagination website here: https://www.imgtec.com/events/detail.asp?ID=20.
Where: Pacifico Yokohama Convention Centre, Yokohama, Japan
For more information about Embedded Technology Conference & Exhibition, visit https://www.embeddedtech.net/.
About Imagination Technologies
Imagination is a global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions of people across the globe. The company's broad range of silicon IP (intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile, consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique software IP, infrastructure technologies and system solutions enable its customers get to market quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms. Imagination's licensees include many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who are creating some of the world's most iconic products. See: www.imgtec.com.
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Parshwanath Laminated Photo Frame
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- Imported synthetic with ply laminated and termite proof frames are used with respective sizes.
- Durabality of frames is 10/12 years if maintained properly.
- Front side of Photo can be wiped with wet cloth and colours don't fed.
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- High quality chemical lamination of 8mm (for 16×20 to 20×30 size) and 12 mm(for 24×36 size)
- Superior quality MDF board is used with back covering by black finished paper.
- Hook to hang is provided for all sizes but stand is provided for sizes from 4×6 to 8×12.
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Parshvanatha was born on the tenth day of the dark half of the month of Paush to King Asvasena and Queen Vamadevi of Benaras (now Varanasi). He belonged to the Ikshvaku dynasty.[16][17] He assumed and began to practice the twelve basic vows of the adult Jain householder when he reached the age of eight.[18] Parshvanatha lived as formal prince of Benaras (now Varanasi) and at the age of thirty, he renounced the world to become a monk.[19] He meditated for eighty-four days before attaining Kevala Jnana under a Dhaataki tree near Benaras. His first disciples were his mother and wife.[21] After preaching for 70 years, he achieved moksha at the age of one hundred atop Shikharji,[7][15] which is known today as the Parasnath Hills after him. Parshvanatha was called purisādāṇīya (beloved of men), a name which shows that he must have been a genial personality.[16] He remains beloved among Jains. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parshvanatha
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Ok heres the problem, I have a new (less than a week old, medion akaya pc8585), it has windows 8, on it, so I set it doing a task, and told it to shutdown post this task completing.
Today I switch it on, and as soon as the pc starts, it goes to a screen with a tower on it, and the time, and wifi signal, the mouse/keyboard stop functioning, and I cannot get it to work at all, reboots have no effect, restoration to before the last critical update, have no effect. I cannot use the system as is now, I do not want to do a full restore, so I need assistance, because of the wonderful not being able to get to safe mode, I can't even as it to go to the last known good configuration, so now that it is impossible to do anything in windows, what other options are there?
The update that happended was a windows update, it was automated as the machine was on, so have no idea what updated, however I did do a system restore so these updates should not be on anymore, yet it still shows the same problem.


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Without doubt, he was an incredible player, which is why the Barry Sanders rookie card, as well as Barry Sanders football cards makes an excellent investment. The price for the 1989 #257 Barry Sanders Rookie Card with a grade of 9 sells anywhere from $120 to $300 depending on the seller but also condition of the card.
Value of Barry Sanders Rookie Cards
The price of a Barry Sanders rookie card is determined by a few factors. The condition of the card or cards is vital to its value. The better the condition the more the Barry Sanders rookie card is worth. Scarcity also a determining factor when figuring out how much a Barry Sanders rookie card is worth. Like condition, scarcity can make a big difference when it comes to pricing.
Best and Most Valuable Barry Sanders Rookie Card- 1989 Score #257 Barry Sanders. This is also his most expensive rookie card.
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Barry Sanders Bio-As a 1989 third overall draft pick by the Detroit Lions, just a few reasons Sanders is considered one of the best all-time NFL running backs includes setting the NFL record in 1997 for rushing a minimum of 100 yards in 14 consecutive games, leading the NFL in rushing yards four times, having a record 25 games rushing for 150 yards or more, and getting 15 career touchdown runs of 50 yards or greater, the most in the history of the NFL. Because of his outstanding work in the game, Sanders was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Along with that, he was named among the "Top 100 Greatest NFL Players by NFL Network. However, because he was inducted into the Pro Hall of Fame while still in his 30s, it makes him the only member of football to be given this honor. In comparison to other running backs, Sanders is considered small at just 5'8" but that did not stop him from stamping his name forever on NFL football. Anyone interested in purchasing the Sanders rookie card could look at local memorabilia stores although eBay tends to be one of the better places to buy.
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Snowy Metrópolis semi-silk scarf, by the Spanish painter Paula Varona, made entirely in Spain. The Metropolis building on Gran Vía in Madrid is one of the most representative buildings in Madrid, which appears in almost all postcards and photos. Icon of the city almost from its birth by its location and the elegance that it gives off, the Metropolis Building hides many secrets and curiosities. Its construction began in 1907 and it took four years to complete it, having been inaugurated on January 21st, 1911. It was necessary to demolish seven houses for its construction. Until 1921, it was the tallest building in Madrid. It is forty-five meters high and has six floors. Originally it was crowned by a bronze statue that represented to Ganímedes on a Fénix.
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Tollesbury Parents Association
Fondly known as the TPA, we are a group of parents who organise events with two aims. Initially to raise money for items that our school needs but also and very importantly for children and their families to have fun. During the past 12 months we have raised enough to purchase an interactive display screen for EYFS, funded a large part of the new outdoor play equipment, bought new lunch-box trolleys for KS1 and KS2, gifts for our Year 6 leavers and new children in EYFS. Looking forward we are currently fundraising for the nature garden and another Interactive board.
Events include Film Nights, Easter Egg Hunt, Mother's Day Stall, Father's Day Stall, Pancake Race, Penny Race, Christmas Fair and Summer Fair. We are always looking for new ideas and new helpers, and we look forward to welcoming you to Tollesbury School.
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Ige Olugbenga is an Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon. His current place of work is the yet to be commissioned Ondo Trauma Centre located along a place called Laje Road on the Ondo-Ore Road in Ondo Town.
For anybody who has visited the Mother and Child Hospital, Ondo, the job of locating the Trauma Centre could be simple. For a first time visitor however, more descriptions are necessary. Laje Road is the last major turning before the main gate of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo if one is coming in from Akure and the first major turning on the left on the reverse direction.
The road before now was not tarred. Now it is sparkling clean and glittering with fresh tar. There was also no Orange-roofed market on that junction until recently. The new market and the new road point to the direction of the massive work going on further down Laje road.
The major reason for the establishment of the Trauma Centre in the words of Dr. Ige is to reduce loss of lives and disabilities from road traffic accidents. This, one will no doubt agree, is a noble objective.
In a country where keeping records is not a national past time, all have but agreed fatality through road traffic accidents account for more deaths than HIV/AIDS if not malaria. Many will also agree that less attention has been paid to the issue of trauma through road traffic accident RTA than all other causative factors of human fatality in Nigeria.
The story coming out of Ondo is that a process to ensure that those involved in accident are promptly and appropriately attended to is well under way.
The Ondo State Governor, Dr Ige said, has come to accept that the only way to do the above is the way it has been done in other countries.
Elsewhere, the fact has since sunk in that to have a good result in caring for those involved in accident, the need to establish a trauma system arises. More than this, the system must have pre-hospital, the hospital and post-hospital (the rehabilitation) components.
The pre-hospital system is the ambulance service and the call centre which is the central command system of the pre-hospital unit of the trauma system.
In the words of Dr Ige "The Ondo Trauma Care System involves advanced life support ambulances on the highways located in stations specially constructed to allow these ambulances access to the highways and cover the length of the highways where they are located, such that when there is an accident, between 10 to 15minutes when the calls come in, these ambulances are at the accident scene."
Obviously, ambulances do not rescue accident victims! In the Ondo case, the ambulances come with paramedics, extricators or rescuers who can get to the scene of accident and professionally rescue victims from the wreckage of accident. The edge here is that the rescuers have been trained and they work with equipment that do not aggravate the degree of injury sustained but actually enhance victim's chances of survival.
In more concise terms, the Ondo Ambulance system is to get the right people to transport accident victims to the right place in a right manner at the right time, Ige said.
Apart from the ambulances stationed strategically, there are also toll-free numbers to the call centres where ambulances get the signal to go to accident sites to pick victims.
To complement the activities of the paramedics in the ambulances, the Ondo State government has trained hundreds of ordinary citizens in towns and villages along the major roads to be first respondents.
The process of recruiting first respondents is an ongoing one as many more citizens still have to be exposed to assist paramedics in safely extricating survivors of accidents.
Existing government hospitals are also not left out of the safe the trauma victim focus of the Mimiko government. The government has also upgraded the accident and emergency units of general hospitals in the state, so they can handle to a great extent some level of injuries.
The upgraded hospitals stand lower on the referral ladder than the Trauma Centre which is the apex of the Trauma care system.
Attending to trauma victims is one dimension of the Ondo State Trauma care system. It also doubles as a special surgery centre. It is a level one trauma centre in that it has all complement of surgical specialties in terms of requisite equipment and personnel to take on neuro-surgery, pediatric surgery, orthopedic surgery, facial surgery, ENT, maxillofacial, plastic surgery and neurology among others. With a well-equipped ICU and general surgery, accident victims brought to the hospital are promptly and appropriately attended to and "irrespective of the nature or severity of their injuries, they are given a genuine chance of survival," Ige said.
Within the first five months after it opened its doors to patients to test run the facility, about 400 major surgical operations across all surgical specialties have been done with mortality rate of less than 3% recorded! And this is irrespective of the severity of the injury.
The few who were unable to survive were those who had severe head injuries. The impact of the accident was seen to have caused irreversible damage to structures of the brain. In most other cases, the Trauma Centre has gotten to a point where most patient brought into it, no matter the severity of the injuries, have been given a chance to survive, by prompt and appropriate attention to the injuries. "We've been doing very well in keeping people alive after major accidents," Ige said.
The modest achievements are not by accident. They are as a result of deliberate planning and meticulous execution of the vision of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko, the medical doctor who sits atop the governance structure in Ondo State, Dayo Adeyanju, the health commissioner, himself a medical doctor, said.
Speaking further on the facility, Ige said: "The edifice was constructed to respond quickly to victims when they are brought here, from the access roads to the space where the patients are dropped to be received by the hospital personnel, quick and uncomplicated transfer of patient is ensured and enhanced. We have the resuscitation room which is also referred to as the crash room, where we have life support gadgets and the design of the place is such that we can quickly establish patent airway and ventilate the patient if need be. We can rapidly infuse fluids into the blood system if need be. We can also rapidly do imaging studies which includes x-rays and ultrasound inside that crash room, we have point of care machines that can conduct different tests inside the crash room and we can also do emergency surgeries if need be."
The above, the CMD said is a deviation from what is obtainable in most hospitals in Nigeria. "Elsewhere, where a patient is brought into the hospital and there is need for urgent interventions in terms of investigations and treatments, they will have to move the patient from one point to another, but here we do everything in the same room," Ige added.
Our record system is such that everything that a patient requires in terms of registration and data collection, the patient does not have to make any initial payment when it is an emergency, we just go ahead to treat them and they can pay later, things that we see that may cause patient being delayed from getting attention, we've made plans to avoid such delays. The time that is spent in trying to get information from a patient also contributes to increasing mortality, so we reversed that trend. It's after you've been attended to that the attendants come to you to get all the necessary information, not that you must get a card before they attend to you.
So the patient gets everything as soon as they are brought into the crash room, almost everything required for treatment to restore the patient back to the path of recovery is available in the crash room.
But the crash room is but one of the many facilities and departments already taking care of trauma victims in Ondo State. As is the word around, a trip to Ondo will do the rest. After all, is there anything wrong with internal medical tourism?