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What follows is the Economic Warning portion of this week's Watch Report.
In this month's FOMC meeting, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged that there was soft economic data emerging — a potential warning sign of recession. Many investors expect a cut to interest rates next month to stave off a recession. Some economists expect two rate cuts this year, regardless of when they happen. One asset manager said he expected four rate cuts this year.
Recession and Trump's reelection chances
This month, Jeffrey Gundlach, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase all revised their expectations of recession forward to 2020. JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman said it might even start this year. That's a big shift from what these firms were saying last month, so I agree that we can expect the Fed to cut interest rates in order to stave off a recession. Gundlach, who has no faith in the Fed's predictive capability, believes that by the time the Fed has to cut rates, it will already be too late.
This, of course, will have major implications for President Trump's reelection chances. High profile managers like Scott Minerd and Kyle Bass both believe that the recession will be average or mild, respectively. Others, like Gundlach, have warned that this recession is going to present more difficult challenges.
If this recession poses the risks that Gundlach describes (below) then Trump's chances of reelection will be seriously threatened. If that's the case, then it's time to batten down the hatches for higher taxes and wealth redistribution based on what we saw during this week's Democratic debates and what's been proposed in the lead up.
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The problem with cutting interest rates this year to stave off a recession next year is that the Fed will have less to cut once a recession does hit, which increases the likelihood that the recession is more painful than "mild."
This week, Fed chair Jerome Powell acknowledged that's the case, saying, "Interest rates are lower than in the past and likely to remain so. The persistence of lower rates means that when the economy turns down, interest rates will more likely follow close to zero [which] poses new problems to central banks and calls for new ideas." (Bold for emphasis.)
In the past two recessions, the Fed has cut interest rates from 5.25 percent to basically zero percent during the 2008 recession, and cut from 6.5 percent prior to the 2001 recession. Today, the federal funds rate sits around 2.25 percent — that's before any cuts this year. That does not bode well for the Fed's ability to soften the severity of the next recession. The Fed has 50 percent less to cut, which means that a hard landing during the recession is more likely.
Earlier this year, Bridgewater's Greg Jensen warned of a period of poor economic conditions in the U.S. "We think that the secular conditions and cyclical conditions are combining to create this situation where you're going to have this long, protracted weakness in the developed world economies… So basically what we expect to see is weaker growth and a movement to [Quantitative Easing]… The struggle in Europe is probably going to click first."
That mirrors what billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller believes. He said earlier this year that, "The highest probability is we struggle [economically] going forward."
So who's right? Are we going to have a mild recession or will this be the beginning of a 'secular' — i.e., long term — period of persistently weak growth and economic malaise?
Right now, my money is on what Gundlach had to say earlier this month: "When the next recession comes, there's going to be a really big problem… with the national debt… [We're going to see] basically money printing, I think, to combat the next recession."
Gundlach describes that money printing will lead to increases in long term interest rates, which will actually make the recession worse. And maybe that's why Fed chair Jerome Powell is openly calling for "new ideas" to reverse the effects of the next recession.
In light of changes to this month's Recession Matrix (out later today for Warning subscribers), there's a solid argument to be made that the next recession is closer than previously thought, and that it may rival the duration of the 2008 recession at 18 months, followed by persistently low economic growth in the years following. We could be headed towards the Great Recession 2.0.
Consider that we may have about 12 months before this kicks off, followed by the 2020 election four months later — in other words, at the worst possible time. If you haven't considered kicking your preparedness into a higher gear, then now is the time. – S.C.
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Q. Which positions require Compensation approval?
- All M&P, XMP, and SUD jobs require classification.
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Approving M&P offers
Q. Why do I get these emails?
M&P job offers at or over max of range require Compensation approval.
Maintaining job standards
Q. Where are job standards used?
- They are used in Position Management by the recruiters. They provide a resource to let the recruiters know if they have chosen the correct job code.
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Chris Froome's new lighter Pinarello…
If you thought the normal Pinarello Dogma F8 was a special bike, then let us introduce you to the Pinarello Dogma F8Xlight, the super-lightweight climbing bike that Chris Froome and his closest Team Sky domestiques are riding in the mountains at the Tour de France.
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As an aero bike, mechanics often struggle to get the existing Dogma on UCI limit of 6.8kg, hence this new lighter special version.
… and new time trial helmet
Froome also had a new helmet for the stage 13 time trial. Having previously favoured the Kask Bambino, Team Sky's leader was seen using a new longer tailed Kask time trial helmet, the Bambino PRO EVO.
The world's first bike containing Graphene?
Okay, so this bike is not made from the revolutionary material graphene. It actually contains just one percent of the revolutionary new material, but the makers, Dassi, claim that this is enough to influence the material properties of the carbon fibre otherwise employed in the construction.
Kittel's new Custom Venge
While the rest of his Etixx-Quick Step riders are stuck with plain black Venges, Kittel has been treated to a custom paintjob for the Tour de France. With many of these custom bikes, the manufacturer provides a very profound explanation about the inspiration behind the design, but with this bike the explanation is that Kittel wanted something colourful that reminded him of explosions.
A beautiful new Bianchi
It was first spotted at the last Tour de Suisse, but now the new Bianchi Oltre XR4 CV has been officially launched. Bianchi says that the new aerodynamic bike will save 20 watts more compared to the older XR2. The bike has been developed in a wind tunnel, on the track and with pro riders, using F1 technology.
New Garmin 810 launched
And finally, last week saw the launch of Garmin's latest cycling computer the Garmin Edge 820. The new unit has been designed to sit just below the top of the range Garmin Edge 1000.
However, the primary aim of the features included in the Garmin Edge 820 is to help riders stay connected with family, friends, and other riders while out on the road. This is done through the new GroupTrack feature, which connects your computer to your smartphone and allows you to track up to 50 riders within a 10 mile radius.


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of the Hex River Valley
The Hex River Valley is a place of inestimable beauty. The floor of the valley is a rich carpet of meadow and vineyard, spotted every few thousand meters by a house with high,
curved gables and dark imbuia shutters and, more often than not, a lapa with a
thick thatched roof. On all four sides of the valley are distant peaks so blue
they seem to fade into the sky, except in winter when a thick layer of snow is
laid on top. The Hex
River itself runs swift
and icy and over the ages has sliced the Matroosberge into sharp points that
pierce the sky.
I lived in a house in the Valley, a great house with flagged stone floors
and a carved staircase and a proper hearth. My Oom Frans visited often, and he
was a great legend-seeker, as he used to say. After supper, we would sit at his
feet near the great fire and wait patiently while he filled his pipe and lit
it. When it was burning steadily, he would start his tale:
In his youth, before the great railway was built over the treacherous Matroosberg pass, before the winery fields were planted and when the town was little more
than a church and a market, said Oom Frans, there was a very well-know man who
owned a homestead in the elbow of the Matroosberge, where the mighty mountains
rise from the valley floor.
This man's name was Meiring, and he owned a great deal of the most
fertile pasture in the valley. However, he was a fair and honest man and rented
his land at a good price for other farmers to feed their herds. However, as is
often the case, his fair and lovely daughter, Eliza Meiring, was also rather
self-centered. Such a beauty had Eliza that many men came as suitors to her
father's door. Her father, a good man, saw virtue in each one and counseled his
daughter well, but she was too haughty and found fault with every man her
father brought in. Except for one man, Schalk.
Little is known of Schalk, save his first name, but he should have been possessed of great wit and charm to woo Meiring's daughter as he had. In short,
they fell in love, but to satisfy her pride, Eliza decreed that she would not
marry him, unless he was to climb to the Matroosberge and pluck from there a
single blood-red disa. The disa is an exquisite flower, but it grows only in
the most inaccessible of inaccessible places: high up in the moist and mossy
shadows at the very peak of the Matroosberg mountain range.
Schalk, though daunted by this task, loved Eliza very much, so he set off
to conquer the Matroosberge and pluck a disa from the shadows, and in so doing,
conquer his love's heart. Schalk set off alone, and went into the Langhoek
kloof and climbed there, until he beheld those beautiful flowers of his love's
desire, where they glowed from a damp and lichen-covered cliff. But the
Matroosberge are a treacherous range, and as Schalk grabbed hold of a disa on
the cliffside, his balance failed him and he slipped, tumbling down the steep
ravines and breaking on the rocks below.
When they brought news to Eliza that Schalk, her love, and plummeted to
his death with disa in hand, she was stricken with grief and remorse. So great
was her sadness that her demand had caused the death of Schalk, that she went
quite insane. Her father, Meiring, had little choice but to keep his daughter
caged in her room and keep a close eye on her. Eliza would sit and stare,
wringing her hands, at the Matroosberge, in the direction of Langhoek kloof,
all day and all night, occasionally weeping, but for the most part in deathly
One midnight, a full moon, Eliza managed to work her window open, and
quietly slipped through. In her madness, she took up the path that Schalk had
taken, through the foothills and up into the Matroosberge, to Langhoek kloof. Somewhere on that
lonely and windy crag, Eliza Meiring sat and wept. But the crags of the
dangerous Matroosberge are not fit for sitting and weeping and come the light
of day, Eliza's broken body lay at the bottom of the ravine.
But Eliza Meiring is not all gone: her shadow still wanders by moonlight
along the ravines and cliffs of the Matroosberge, a pale ghost in a long white nightdress
with silver eyes and floating hair, wringing her hands and crying out for her
long lost love.
The fire had almost burned down at this point, and Oom Frans' words would
seem to linger in our ears for many minutes afterward, while we sat in the
whistling silence of the night wind. At last, he would knock his pipe against
his stool and stand slowly, and we would rush to the window and press our faces
against the glass to see if we could catch a glint of a white nightdress against
the deep blue of the distant Matroosberge.
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Your headline is THE most important part of your blog post. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It is the first and usually only chance you've got to get the attention of your prospective reader. If they don't read past your headline and click on your post then the rest of your post might as well not exist.
Here are some interesting statistics that demonstrate exactly what I mentioned above. According to Copyblogger, on average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest.
This is why so much emphasis is placed on the headline in all forms of marketing and advertising.
Your headline has only one purpose. To get the next line read. Then the next line needs to get you to read the following line. And so it goes on until you reach a call-to-action.
There is absolutely no point in spending a couple of hours writing a blog post and only allocating a couple of minutes to your headline. If your post doesn't get read. All your hard work will be wasted.
I want to help you to write better headlines that will increase the readership of your content.
Remember these headlines tips can work for email subject lines, tweets, Facebook posts, videos and many other situations where you want to grab someones attention.
Headline Shortcuts
If you've ever studied copywriting for any length of time you will understand the huge importance of a killer headline. I am about to present to you 7 ways to write a headline that will get your blog post read. But before I do. I just want to tell you something.
Writing headlines is an artform in itself. These formulas I'm about to give you are shortcuts.
If you want to write a truly effective, desire-driven headline for an advert or sales page I would highly recommend reading Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz. This book will give you a thorough lesson of identifying your market desire and all the other good stuff that goes into crafting the perfect headline.
Anyway. Let jump right into my 7 headline shortcuts.
7 Ways to Write a Headline that Will Get Your Blog Post Read
1. The Secret to _____________
This one get's used ALOT. People love to feel like you are letting them in on a secret. That they are obtaining some knowledge that others don't have. Modify this headline as needed.
The secret to Getting Published on Forbes
The secret to Gaining Twitter followers
2. 7 Ways to ____________
Lists are very popular. Give the reader 7 benefits. This demonstrate that you have some specific chunks of content for your reader.
7 Ways to Write a Killer Headline
7 Ways To Push Back Without Being Pushy
3. How to [Mundane Task] That [Rewarding Benefit]
People love to find out "how" to do things. Dig around and find of the benefits of your mundane task. Adding a benefit to the end can really enhance the headline and give the reader a reason to click your post.
How to Create a Website That Makes Money
How to Write a Headline That Will Get More People to Read Your Blog
4. How to [Desired Result] Without [Painful Objection]
Simply stating the desired result will get attention from a specific audience that want that result. If you then you create the image that your post will overcome their most painful objection by including the word 'Without' it will strengthen your claim.
How to Get More Twitter Followers Without Logging into Your Account
How to Become Successful Without Any Skills, Knowledge or Talent
5. [Do something] like [world-class example]
By comparing an activity to someone or something well know it will add instant credibility. Your reader will be able to associate with a more widely known example than something unknown.
Blog Like an A-Lister
Play Golf Like Tiger Woods
6. Now You Can Have [something desirable] [great circumstance]
Here's a classic headline. Offering a benefit/desire coupled with an ideal situation/circumstance can get your the reader clicking through to your post in no time.
Now You Can Have That Car of Your Dreams While Working Less
Now You Can Get More Leads All On Auto-pilot.
7. What You Need to Know About ____________
Another simple headline that implicates the reader is missing some information about a certain topic.
What You Need to Know About Generating Leads From Social Media
What You Need to Know About The 2013 London Marathon
That's all 7! I recommend playing around with the wording so you get it just right for the content you are writing. These formulas are only a guide.
When you are writing your content. List out a whole series of headlines. That way you can pick the best one. Or to go that step further. You can use several different headlines when posting your content on your social media site and measure which headline gets the most clicks.
Then you can edit your headline according to the one with the most clicks.
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Contactless Payment Technology Gains Traction in Russian Cards & Payments Market, Says Timetric in Its Latest Report Published at MarketPublishers.com
08 Jun 2016 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – Sanctions imposed against Russia by the USA government after the invasion of Crimea in 2014 underpinned the introduction of the National Payment Card System (NPCS) launched in early April 2014. Furthermore, in December 2015 the Mir national payment card was launched. Russia's government is considering the possibility to issue and promote Mir cards on a large scale during this year; 35 country's banks expressed an interest in issuing Mir cards, with 7 already issuing them during the pilot period.
The uptake of various alternative payments amid consumers in Russia is gaining momentum at a fast pace owing to the availability of manifold payments options like Yandex.Money, PayPal, WebMoney and Moneta. Banks and payment service providers make their best to offer customers a great choice of payment options, whether at home, in-store or mobile. In 2015, Visa and Qiwi, a Russian payment service provider, together launched the Visa Qiwi Wallet, which apart from making payments can be also used to transfer and receive money worldwide.
Nowadays, the contactless payment technology is on the rise in Russia and is likely to keep on gaining prominence among the local consumers. The increasing popularity of contactless technology is driven by favourable initiatives taken by banks and payments providers in the country and the launch of new services by banks and other payment service providers.
New comprehensive research report "The Cards and Payments Industry in Russia: Emerging Trends and Opportunities to 2020" developed by Timetric provides a detailed comprehensive analysis of the Russian cards and payments industry performance. The study includes reliable statistics on the current scenario, historical evolution and future possible development of the Russian cards and payments industry. Information on the latest strategies utilised by various banks and other institutions, demographic and economic trends, infrastructural and business drivers having influence on the industry is provided in the repot along with a detailed analysis of the competitive landscape.
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Red Willow People
Imagine evening as a woman, wind as a friend, and every part of nature as an organ in the human body. You have now entered the landscape of Devreaux Baker's newest collection of poetry, Red Willow People. The colors are red, white, yellow and the green shade of clay. The light is supplied by lines from poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca. The smell is sage, cedar, and pinyon pine. These poems are the story of a region, specifically Taos and the Southwestern area of the United States. They are also the story of a people, all the different clans of the Navajo (Dine'). The collection captures the essence of both the region and the people while exploring the universal themes of transformation and rebirth.
"Change wants to work her mantra into each being's heart," Baker notes in the poem "The Nest," one of my favorite poems in the book. Baker describes trees as lungs, rocks as bones, and rivers as veins in the beginning of the poem. As the poem continues we see life examined through the lens of middle age, the change an individual body goes through, and at the same time the change nature goes through as Baker's neighbor cuts down 100-year-old trees so the leaves won't fall on his house.
These kinds of observations can be seen throughout many of the poems, full of the small and big mishandling that humans do to nature. Observations of birth and rebirth are also throughout many of the poems. At the end of "The Nest," Baker's calves and thighs become a nest for a little baby bird that the mother bird drops into her lap. It reminded me that even as we age and even through all the changes of this earth, there is constantly new life beginning again. And we can protect that life.
The books starts with the series of poems about the Spider Woman, a part of the Dine' creation story who also teaches the people about weaving. It ends with a poem about coming home, a journey that took many lifetimes... "about burning all the way back to ash and then it was about becoming water, that simple." That encapsulates this collection. Beautiful images of nature and the Southwestern landscape fuel the simple story of birth and rebirth. I always want to know what the relationship of the writer is with indigenous nations they are writing about, so I was curious about how Baker created her work which relied heavily on Dine' myth and culture. I believe it's literary territory that needs to be respected in a serious way, especially if you aren't from that group of people. I think she told her story honestly in Red Willow People and showed respect for a culture that clearly inspired her greatly.


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Powerbrands our UK nightwear licensee who enjoy success with Littlewoods are developing another 'onesie' using the character Mad Cow which is a perfect match for this character/product.
Withit Licensing Ltd, launch their new and existing brands on Booth H52 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. With lots of activity at the show there have already been several meetings and a busy few days lie ahead. This is the 10th consecutive year that Withit Licensing has exhibited its brands in Vegas showing its continued support and belief in its brands, thus increasing their global awareness.
C&A our partner for four years continues to go from strength to strength and are currently selling products with Cheeky and Miss Cheeky, Happy Bunny and Lost Sheep, reflecting our new and latest designs. The 4 different ranges of nightwear, each in two colourways are in-store at Germany, Spain, France and the Benelux, while stocks last!
Withit was started in 1991 as a family enterprise by Mr Dolph Zahid in Brighton, UK.


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November Is Adopt A Senior Pet Month
There is something to be said for maturity! Senior pets can be lovely additions to your family and they unfortunately have a challenge finding a new home. There are plenty of senior cats and dogs in the shelter at BARC, Houston's City Shelter waiting for you. Adoption fees are very reasonable with pets having all vaccinations, sterilization and any other health issues taken care of. Visit BARC's website to learn more about the animals for adoption.


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Vernee recently starts the official reservation of Vernee Apollo X, the tailored model designed to cater to users' needs.
As a new member of Vernee's high-end product line — Apollo Series, Apollo X is a product of Vernee's communication with its users, truly built for best user experience. This model also signifies Vernee's gratitude and devotion to its followers.
Carrying MTK Helio X20 and all new Cortex™-A72 framework, and backed by 16-core Mali-880 GPU, Apollo X scores over 100K in AnTuTu test. Whatever you are using it for, 3D heavy game or 4K video, it's fluid and fast. Meanwhile, the 3-cluster architecture can effectively lower power consumption and make your phone last longer.
Open any app with ease thanks to dual channel 4GB RAM clocking at 933Mhz. Multi-tasking is not a problem as well. With spacious internal storage of 64GB and expandable memory of 128GB, feel free to install apps you like, download your favorite music, and take more photos.
Apollo X is the first to run on Vernee's own operating system – VOS, the first Android OS truly designed for worldwide users. Pure, smooth and power-efficient, it requires almost no learning cost, naturally fits your habits and delivers super fluid user experience, and we will keep releasing updates of it.
Apollo X houses a SONY IMX258 camera with a 13MP sensor.
Dual ISP | 13MP Rear Camera | F/2.0 | 5MP Front Camera | PDAF | 0.1s Focus | Dual tone flash
To make the screen clearer and super responsive, Vernee chose the Sharp IGZO display (5.5-inch FHD).
Apollo X adopts the leading quick charging solution – Vcharge (9V2A, 18W) coupled with upgraded 3500mAh high density battery. The 360°readability fingerprint Touch ID provides 0.1s unlock experience.
Using a Type-C USB cable means you can plug the cable in on either sides. It can output lossless digital music together with Type-C compatible earphone. Meanwhile the universal 3.5mm jack is still retained. And OTG is newly added for data transfer.
Main Specs and features:
- CPU: MTK Helio X20 deca-core
- Display: 5.5 inch FHD(1920x1080p) SHARP IGZO
- Camera: 13.0MP SONY 258, PDAF
- Battery: 3500mAH
- OS: VOS (based on Android 6.0)
- Vcharge: 9V2A 18W quick charge
- 0.1s unlock fingerprint recognition
- Type-C
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WASHINGTON—The enormous "shock and awe" bombing campaign against Baghdad, now being carried out by the U.S. military to ensure there is no safe place left to hide in the capital city, will inevitably recall the Allied firebombing of Dresden during World War II. U.S. military planners don't want anything like this to happen, but there is always the possibility that things can get out of hand.
So far while the images look like a city fire-bombed, journalists in Baghdad this morning say electricity is still on. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said there was no comparison between shock and awe and World War II terror bombing of cities like Rotterdam and London. In Europe at that time, Rumsfeld said, "dumb weapons were widely distributed across large areas," Shock and Awe is meant to create a "non-nuclear equivalent" of Hioroshima. Rumsfeld has said repeatedly that every effort is being made to avoid civilian areas.
Dresden was firebombed by the British Royal Air Force and U.S. planes near the end of the war, February 13-15, 1945. Not considered of any great strategic importance, Dresden was best known as a cultural and architectural center in German. Eighty-five percent of the city was destroyed.
The city was bombed, according to RAF notes, to show the advancing Red Army "what Bomber Command can do."
At the time of the bombing, Dresden was crammed with refugees fleeing the advancing Russian army. The RAF Bomber Command had been ordered to attack Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig, along with other cities in the eastern part of Germany, to "cause confusion in the evacuation from the East," according to RAF records. The evacuation referred to the fleeing refugees, who had little to do with the Nazi war effort but were viewed as legitimate targets because bombarding them and causing chaos might delay Hitler from reinforcing his eastern front. British and U.S. planes reportedly also strafed the fleeing refugees.
The firebombing involved first dropping massive bombs to expose the timbers of houses and then dumping incendiary devices called "fire sticks" on top of them to set them on fire. More bombs were dropped to prevent fire departments from reaching the flames. This eventually created a self-sustaining "fire storm" with temperatures over 2700 degrees Fahrenheit. The air above the bombed area became extremely hot and rose rapidly. Cold air then rushed in at ground level from the outside, and people were sucked into the fire.
The figures were staggering. According to one account, almost 4000 tons of bombs were dropped. Another account talks of 600,000 individual bombs being dropped. Out of 28,410 houses in the inner city of Dresden, based on one reckoning, 24,866 were destroyed. A 15-square-mile area of complete obliteration had included 14,000 homes, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 19 churches, 5 theaters, 50 banks and insurance companies, 31 department stores, 31 large hotels, and 62 administration buildings.
Perhaps the best known portrayal of the Dresden bombing is in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut had been captured in the Battle of the Bulge and was near Dresden when the firebombing occurred.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on March 25, 2003


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EXCLUSIVE: "It was time to make a change," an insider tells me about Robert Redford's decision to leave CAA for WME. Redford had spent 32 years as a client of Creative Artists Agency, originally signed by Michael Ovitz in 1980 away from the William Morris Agency. Now Redford is returning not to WMA but to WME (William Morris Endeavor). Which shows how everything in the Hollywood agency business often comes full circle. It was with CAA that the actor segued into a director and producer and entrepreneur and independent film icon through his Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute. Redford, who is 76, unveiled his latest directing effort at this year's Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival — the all-star drama The Company You Keep which Redford stars in and directed. Sony Pictures Classics will release it in the Spring of next year. ("It is so great to see Redford back doing this kind of role again," Sony Pictures Classics co-President Michael Barker told Deadline's Pete Hammond at the time.) Redford stars as a successful family man whose violent past as a member of the radical 1960s Weather Underground is exposed by a young news reporter played by Shia LaBeouf. At Toronto, Redford took a bow during enthusiastic applause for the film. It's the kind of material Redford, who won an Oscar for helming 1980′s Ordinary People, knows how to do very well. As an actor, Redford just wrapped a one-man tour de force in the drama All Is Lost written and directed by JC Chandor (Margin Call). In other recent news for Redford, Sundance Channel unveiled its 2013-2014 original scripted development slate which includes the drama project Valentines from producer Redford and writer Olaf Olafsson. And Redford recently announced that the Sundance London Film and Music Festival which ran for the first time this year, hosting the UK and European premieres of movies that debuted in Park City in January, is renewed for two more years.
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Hi! My name is Aziza Zaldarriaga Sadain but in my birth certificate, I actually had two first names, Aziza Amina. And so this blog is mostly named after my second name, Amina (Mina), and my love for paper which in Spanish is translated as, la papel (the paper). Hence Lapapelmina!
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The Acer AH101-D8EY Windows Mixed Reality 3D Headset and 2 Wireless Controller is available on line now for less than $500. It offers a dual screen 3D stereoscopic resolution of 1,440x1,440 pixels per eye and the images refresh 90 times per second. The two controllers include gyroscopes, magnetometers, and accelerometers for gesture recognition and there is B/W tracking camera. Windows 10 highly recommended!
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Mario Batali Money Quotation saying financiers control distribution of cash as megalomaniac dictators and pocket the spoils of economic insanity. Mario Batali said:
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Alexander Statement on the Passing of Colleen Welch
Posted on October 12, 2018
MARYVILLE, Tenn., October 12, 2018 – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on the passing of Colleen Welch, former dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing:
"Colleen Conway Welch was a bona fide nursing pioneer. Nationally, she was recognized for encouraging innovative ways to utilize nurses in better health care. In Tennessee, she opened health clinics and housing for mothers recovering from substance abuse disorders and their children. She was a powerful advocate for advanced practice nurses. Honey and I were close friends with Colleen and her late husband, Ted. As a result, Colleen must have attended more Republican fundraising dinners than any Nursing School Dean in history. We will miss her greatly and extend our condolences to her family."


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The Holden Racing Team is ready put the bite on its opposition – a SharkBite in fact – in its quest for its third straight Clipsal 500 victory.
The bite comes from the signing of a new-to-V8 Supercars major sponsor, the world-renowned SharkBite Plumbing Solutions, ahead of this weekend's season-opening classic on the streets of Adelaide.
HRT heads into the event as defending event champions, with James Courtney having taken back-to-back Clipsal 500 wins in 2014/15.
SharkBite Plumbing Solutions is a powerful brand in the portfolio of the Reliance Worldwide Corporation, an Australian-based company with operations in Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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"Reliance Worldwide Corporation is extremely proud and excited to announce the SharkBite partnership with the Holden Racing Team and the affiliation with V8 Supercars for the 2016 season," Reliance Worldwide Corporation Australian CEO Brad Reid said.
"The on and off-track opportunities to showcase our premier Australian-founded and manufactured brand alongside another Australian brand-leader like HRT will be tremendous. We look forward to an exciting year that kicks off this weekend at the Clipsal 500."
Holden Racing Team Managing Director Adrian Burgess welcomed SharkBite and Reliance Worldwide Corporation to the team and said he was pleased to partner with quality, non-traditional, non-automotive brands.
"We are delighted to welcome on board a new partner to our team and to V8 Supercars – SharkBite Plumbing Solutions and Reliance Worldwide Corporation," Burgess said.
"RWC is a world leader in its field with its innovative plumbing fittings, while SharkBite is a global brand that works well with the premium qualities of HRT.
"A partnership such as this is a feather in our team's cap and demonstrates the synergies V8 Supercars can produce for non-traditional, non-automotive brands.
"We are excited about our partnership with RWC and SharkBite and we look forward to working closely with them and their customers."
The eye-catching SharkBite logo been added to Courtney and team-mate Garth Tander's HRT VF Commodores, which will be unloaded in pit lane at the Clipsal 500 circuit in Adelaide this morning.


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"This was the gut-dropping, body-numbing moment…. this was the moment that we can refer to as the moment…. where there is a before this moment… and an after this moment…. this is the moment that divides… that creates the before photos… where I look at myself and think, "Oh, that's the woman who she was before everything… Continue reading A New Conversation: Prenatal diagnosis, Genetics, Rare + the 20-week Anatomy Scan
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Why it is inappropriate, unethical and negligent to diagnose a baby in utero with a lethal form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
With the expansion of prenatal genetic testing, must come the expansion of dialogue as it relates to the ethical ramifications of prenatal diagnosis. I am not a medical professional, nor a genetic specialist. I am the parent of a child with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), a rare genetic condition. I am a woman and patient… Continue reading Why it is inappropriate, unethical and negligent to diagnose a baby in utero with a lethal form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
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This holiday will be filled with lights, glitter, colors, festivities, gathering, love and celebration... ... not without moments of worry, but with just a little less than ever before... ... a time to remember those who have passed, and to also remember just how far... we have come... This Christmas, I will feel just a… Continue reading Baby's 2nd Christmas: A Meaningful Milestone
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Born Fragile Yet Strong: The Story of Our Son, Niko Gian Francis Part 1
Today, we continue to celebrate the birth and life of our son, Nicola Gian Francis Watson. Niko was born on July 15, 2017. His story starts long ago, long before God planted a seed of desire in our hearts for another baby. Our souls met lifetimes ago and we knew we'd be here, at this… Continue reading Born Fragile Yet Strong: The Story of Our Son, Niko Gian Francis Part 1


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How-To Videos Convert Viewers Into Buyers
One of the fastest growing areas of website marketing is the 'how-to' video business sector. With the epidemic of layoffs, plant closings, and cost cutting, the growth of how-to-material covering everything from how to start a business, to how to improve a business, to how to survive bankruptcy, is assured. No matter what the subject matter, how-to-do-it-better is in demand, and it's big business.
The desire to be the best you can be is one of our innate needs, but the shear volume of demand seems to be the result of rapid and fundamental changes in technology, the economy, and society. This has led to a massive inferiority complex resulting from an, improve or perish, mentality delivered by a constant barrage of information, metrics, and analysis.
The Web is an ideal environment for using a video how-to-sales-strategy to increase site conversions but as always, the devil is in the details; you need to understand the underlying desire in order to make the strategy work. Whether your approach to sales is to sell-by-teaching or, what you sell is teaching, the fact is, the way you do it is what will make or break you.
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Whole Platform Solution to a Selection of LWC16 Benchmark Problems
We describe a solution, written using the Whole Platform, to a selection of benchmark problems proposed to evaluate and compare language workbenches. More specifically, we selected the problems best suited to highlight the composability feature of the Whole Platform. We think that the programming languages and consequently the end user applications are mainly designed to be standalone. Composition of program functionalities is supported only in some very limited and anticipated ways, and this severely restrict the availability of the knowledge embedded in a software product. This may seem natural and unavoidable, but it is not if you take as a reference the human mind. We believe that the outcome of software development should be additional knowledge incorporated in the language workbench and that every form of modularity, including applications, should be relegated as a mean to package and distribute knowledge from a system to another.
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When Even the Best of Guys Needs Help
This will be a short post, but I recall a commercial that reminded me of a particular retailer when I was in Hong Kong. A mass merchandiser drugstore similar to North Americas equivalent of Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall provided a very unique service which might help with guys who may feel that purchasing feminine hygiene products for his partner or a female family member is a daunting task. As mentioned in the subject of this entry, even the guys with the best intentions may be completely confused by all the choices of feminine hygiene products when standing in the aisle. Sometimes, it isn't even the guy who's embarrassed, but I've found that men in the feminine hygiene aisle seem to cause embarrassment or an aura of awkwardness even for the ladies. Even for the guys who are not afraid of wandering down the aisle and making the purchase, mistakes are bound to be made resulting in a very disgruntled female in your life (or worse, females)
In Hong Kong, at least one retailer has managed to provide somewhat of a solution for this. A household's female member could actually call ahead of the time to the store to make arrangements with a list of purchases to be made. Within a reasonable amount of the time (and the efficiency in Hong Kong is impeccable), the products are already packed and ready to go for pickup. If there are sensitive items as part of the shopping list, the retailer will usually put all the purchases in paper-like bag, or you can always request one at no extra charge. When purchases include things like feminine hygiene products, condoms or pharmaceutical items, they're pretty diligent about making sure that these purchases can't be viewed 'from the outside'. One might say this is "backwards thinking" and especially to be something promoted on my site, but let's face it, not every guy will ever feel comfortable or buy these items accurately. Therefore if there is a foolproof way of ensuring the right items are purchased, here it is!
The retailer has a bunch of funny and cute commercials, with a guy who's been asked to make purchases because his girlfriend's "best friend has arrived". He confidently says he can take care of it because he knows he can rely on this retailer to ensure the right products are purchased and that they are discretely handled when he arrives to pick them up. I know this might raise a few concerns are it's contrary to my hopes we can make feminine hygiene purchases just as if were buying fruit, but sometimes you can't change everything and everyone. At least this will provide a more reliable method of a girl to ask her male friend/family to get something for them if they're unable to go to the store themselves.
After this is all said and done, this service is available to all customers, not just female ones… however, for the sake of the topic of the blog, I rest my case. I'm sure a guy could ask his partner or female family member to pick something hemorrhoid cream or wart remover and it'd be perfectly valid to have these items prepacked and ready to leave the store! Other than this service, the next most discrete way at getting the right items is delivery services, which also seem to be rare in North America (or rather, at a reasonable price), but speed of getting these products would be a concern if the leak is already pooling up 🙄 I wonder if retailers here will begin providing such services or whether it would be as popular here as it is in Asia…
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Wild boar
Early this morning a beautiful clear sky announced a glorious morning. So we decided to go into the hide below the wild cherry trees and to see which animals would appear. As we ha been waiting for 1/2 an hour, a nearby growl surprised us announcing the arrival of big daddy of more than 100 kilos! What a thrill!
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NHS pension reform to go ahead
In a letter to the Chair of the NHS Staff Council, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said that he will go ahead with public sector pension reform.
The health secretary says in the letter to Christina McAnea: "All trade unions have now completed consulting their membership. It is clear that the majority of NHS staff have not rejected the proposals.
"I am now writing to advise you that I intend to move forward to implement the new scheme design and the other measures set out in the 9 March document in their entirety for the NHS."
Mr Lansley also mentions the resistance from the British Medical Association and Unite: "It is a matter of regret that two unions are still engaging in industrial action," he writes.
"It is difficult to see how these unions can participate in partnership working implementing the new scheme whilst they are going down the route of confrontation."
He continues by acknowledging that "there is much important work to do," stating: "We need to discuss contribution rate increases in years two and three and how this will feed through in tiered contribution rates."
Another issue is the increase in normal pension age: "I recognise trade unions are particularly concerned about the increase.
"The implications of this will be considered in the Review of Working Longer and the government has also committed to keep the link under review as recommended by Lord Hutton."
The NHS Trades Unions met on 27 & 28 June and agreed that: "We would acknowledge receipt of the letter from Andrew Lansley; we noted the Governments intention to implement the final proposals of 9 March; and that the NHS Trades Unions would continue to discuss all outstanding issues through the Governance Group."
At a meeting of the NHS Staff Council on the 28th June, the above statement was then communicated to NHS Employers and the Department of Health.
Paul Bromley, SoR representative on the Governance Group added: "work on all the outstanding issues would continue in earnest."
A ministerial statement has also been written to the House of Commons by the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander. A copy of this statement along with Andrew Lansley's letter are below.
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MONTE LAKE – Farm animals usually serve specific purposes. If they don't produce milk, lay eggs or make wool, then they are likely to be served for supper.
But Blue the Lamb from Harmony Farm escaped not only the slaughter house and a debilitating injury, he's become the farm celebrity and he's making the most of it.
The little lamb suffered an injury shortly after birth, but was recently fitted with a pair of wheels meant for paraplegic dogs. Owner Patricia Porter says the now 10-month-old lamb will be the farm's new mascot, or if he's lucky, new stud. She says the young sheep has survived this long because he keeps giving them hope.
"He just looks at me like he knows we're going to fix it," Porter says.
At only two weeks old, Porter and husband Gerry saw the lamb 'packing' or holding up a hind leg as he walked suggesting injury. Porter says she tried so hard with him because he was so young.
"He went to all kinds of different people. They all said they didn't think he had a break, that he just strained his leg," Porter says. "We took him for reiki treatments, we took him for acupuncture treatments, he had massage — he had all kinds of stuff."
Harmony Farm in Monte Lake is not certified organic but the treatment isn't entirely unusual. The Porters imprint early on young lambs to teach them from birth to not be afraid of humans. They believe this helps the sheep live a happier life, free from stress and makes their meat taste better.
Unfortunately, as soon as Blue was able to walk on his bad leg, his good hind leg gave way because of the added stress it was under.
By this time, the Porters really felt there was only one option left.
"(Veterinarians) said bonk him over the head and move along. We're pushing 400 head of sheep we can't (provide treatment) for every sheep that breaks his leg," Porter says.
Because of the stress of Blue's injury, plus the medications and painkillers he'd taken, Porter says he'd be inedible and, therefore, really no use to the farmers.
"Every time we seemed about ready to let go somebody comes into his life and says 'wait a minute why don't you try this,'" Porter says.
A retired vet who made a visit to Harmony Farm suggested all he needed was to take the weight off of his back legs for a while and he would probably walk again. He recommended a dog wheel chair.
"Wheels generally are $1,000 to $1,500. He's a sheep; we're a farm. $1,500 is not an option for a sheep," Porter says.
Then a Kamloops dog trainer intervened in his life again and donated a set of wheels, albeit with a few necessary adjustments. Blue is an uncastrated male and the harness needed to be fitted for his 'equipment.' Also, as he keeps growing, his harness will need to constantly be modified.
"Now, you need a fire extinguisher to keep up with him," Porter says. "He burns rubber."
But perhaps Blue's greatest accomplishment is not his increased mobility, but his increased libido. The day after receiving his wheels, he attempted to mate with several of the farm's ewes.
"Those wheels just gave him so much confidence."
To contact a reporter for this story, email Dana Reynolds at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 250-819-6089. To contact an editor, email email@example.com or call 250-718-2724.
— This story was corrected at 11:44 a.m., Dec. 9, 2015, to remove the term mutton.


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A collection of the group's favorite songs, with some original compositions.
Recorded live at the Thanksgiving Powwow of the Ute Reservation, Fort Duchesne, Utah, this album contains beautiful dance music. Lakota words, with English translations, provided on the insert. Extended play.
Singers (standing) Tom Teegarden, Butch Brown, Terrie Bad Hand, Howard Bad Hand; (kneeling) Pat Bad Hand, Richard Archuleta; (center) Erin Bad Hand (future Takoja Singer)
Special thanks to Verlon Gould and Phillip Martinez (not pictured).
Songs featured on this album
Grand Entry Song
Intertribal Song
Contest Song
Intertribal Song
Intertribal Song
Kay's Song
Intertriabl Song
Wild Horse Rider Song
Warriors Sneak Up Song
Lakota Chiefs Song
Red Leaf Warrior Song
Old Contest Song
Social Song
Julie's Song
Rio Grande del Norte: An Intimate Portrait
Native American Healing: A Lakota Ritual
Santana: War Chief of the Mescalero Apache
Sharing the Gift of Lakota Song
Mark Eagleheart ~ By My Own Light
Burton Jespersen ~ Any Road
Christine Autumn ~ Black Matter
Red Leaf Takoja ~ A Living Hoop
Red Leaf Takoja ~ Live at Fort Duchesne
Red Leaf Takoja ~ Live at Blue Lake Powwow
Red Leaf Takoja ~ Echoes of the Universe
Red Leaf Singers ~ Songs of the Warrior
Sacred Songs of Native American Healing:
Sung as in Ceremony
Sacred Songs of Native American Healing:
Songs To Learn By
Red Leaf Takoja ~ Song of the Heartbeat
Red Leaf Takoja ~ A Living Hoop:
Celebrating Life at the Denver March Powwow


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May 09, 2016 (LBO) – The United Kingdoms Labour party candidate Sadiq Khan was sworn in as London's first Muslim mayor last weekend.
Having won 1,310,143 votes, Khan received the largest personal mandate of any politician in UK history.
New mayor Khan said he will "put London first" as he looked to move on from the divisive campaign run by his rival Zac Goldsmith but added Muslims had been discouraged from seeking public office by the Tories' campaign.
The son of a London bus driver who grew up in the capital, he is the third person to become the mayor of London after fellow Labour politician Ken Livingstone and Conservative Boris Johnson.
Khan's victory offered some cheer for the Labour party after disappointing performance in elections across Britain in the wake of a row over anti-Semitism in the party failed to dispel questions over the veteran socialist's leadership.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was among the first to tweet his congratulations to "fellow affordable housing advocate, @SadiqKhan. Look forward to working together!"
Following Khan's victory on Friday night, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted the hashtag #YesWeKhan, telling the new mayor: "Can't wait to work with you to create a London that is fair for all".
Outgoing mayor Boris Johnson said: "Many congratulations to Sadiq on securing a huge mandate to do the best job in British politics. I wish him every possible success."
Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith also wished the new mayor "well".
Cameron, who is grappling with deep splits within his party ahead of the June 23 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, said the party's showing across the elections was "remarkable".


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Annual student art competition exhibition at ARC
May 9, 2017
The Kaneko Gallery recently put on its Annual Student Art Competition, which started April 24 and runs through May 10. Students around ARC submitted their work, and only a handful were selected to be displayed in the gallery show competition.
"I am pleased to announce that our annual student art competition is up and ready for viewing in the Kaneko Gallery," announced Patricia Wood, director of the Kaneko Gallery.
The opening ceremony for the competition took place on April 26, where an award commemoration was held to reward five artwork pieces. Refreshments were also served inside the gallery.
For the opening ceremony, the awards went to Jacob Day for first place, Max Marchol for second place, and Carolan Korten for third place. Other awards went to Trent Duaine Woolley for "Best of Show," and Rene Grajeda for "Photo Award".
There are 11 remaining awards that will go out, which will be awarded at the closing ceremony on May 10 at noon.
The following awards will be announced at the closing reception: the "President's Award," the "Dean's Award," "Three Sculpture Awards," "The Permanent Art Collection Purchase Award," "People's Choice Award" and "Two Kaneko Gallery Blick Art Card Award".
Art drawings, paintings, photography, sculptures, ceramics and so on were displayed and submitted by different students across the ARC campus.
The juror for this years student art competition was Shelly Willis, who served as the director of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission from 2012 until 2017, according to Wood.
In the past, Willis was the recipient of two City Manager Commendation awards for recognition of service, being the project manager for five public artworks.


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It's always odd — a little bit fun and a little bit frustrating — to go to a gig where you don't know the music the way the real fans do. I've done it twice in the last couple of weeks: first with Wilco and then with the Cowboy Junkies. They're both bands of great magnitude, but I had slightly different reactions to them.
I actually have a bunch of Wilco songs on my iPod, but they don't mean all that much to me. Watching their Hartford show, I was kicking myself. I really wanted to know the music as well as fans know it, because the live Wilco in a nice big room like the Bushnell's main hall is just a fabulous tidal wave, with the whole audience swimming around in it. Wilco puts on a great show — they are both tight and loose in all the right ways — and I know I missed out on a lot by not knowing the songs. Next time, I'll have done my homework.
The CJs were, as I say, a different story. They were at the Infinity in Norfolk Friday night and were part of the live concert series produced by CPTV (which is part of where I work) and aired in major markets all over the country. First things first: I'm increasingly convinced that Infinity is the best music venue of its size for about 75 miles in any direction. Great stage. Great acoustics. Very nice staff. (I mean, the ushers treat every guest like David Bowie just showed up.) If you've never caught an act there, go now. People who get all misty about the Iron Horse have never been to Infinity.
The Cowboy Junkies are, in their own way, every bit as amazing as Wilco and little bit easier for the unschooled to enjoy. In fact, it almost helped. Lead singer Margo Timmins announced, with a mixture of apology and defiance, that the first set would be a bald attempt to "sell" a package of four recent releases — albums the band regards as a four-part project. Long time fans would, she said, have to wait for the second set to hear all the stuff they love. With no such burden weighing on me, I liked the first set better. The new stuff seemed bolder and more urgent. And Timmins is riveting. To say she has a presence is kind of an understatement. The band is full of great musicians, especially multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bird.
And yet. And yet. The whole thing began to wear on me. The Junkies are famously morose. They take a fiendish pride in it.
There was a lot of on stage whining and kvetching about the additional demands imposed by the filming: the cameras, the lights. How could the Cowboy Junkies possibly be expected to work under these conditions? At a certain point I wanted to say: Be a pro, Ms. Timmins. You agreed to this. It will be very, very good exposure for you. Now suck it up and stop pretending the exigencies were foisted on you without your total consent.
(At one point she had a little fit on stage about a post-concert event — part of the filming schedule — that would interfere with her stated desire to sit in the bar with adoring fans and have them buy her drinks. Grow up.)
The whole alt country diva vibe started getting to me. The requisite vase of flowers on stage and the crew guy running out there three times per set with a fresh mug of hot tea that would be sipped from twice before being exchanged for another.
My mind drifted, trashily and inexplicably, to a line from a biopic about Jan and Dean. Jan informs the draft office that he's a music sensation and cannot be drafted, and a sergeant says matter-of-factly, "We took in Elvis, and he's a lot bigger star than you, boy."
This needs to be said, from time to time, to certain performers.


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As part of its "UberSHAAN" initiative, Global cab-hailing app company Uber on Friday urged ex-servicemen in India to avail entrepreneurship opportunities with the company as driver partners.
To recognise and provide post-retirement economic opportunities to ex-servicemen, Uber has partnered with Ministry of Defence to facilitate interested personnel join the Uber platform as driver entrepreneurs.
"UBERSHAAN programme is all about empowering these individuals to support their families and provide an opportunity for people to get to know India's veterans better," Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick told reporters here.
Kalanick also felicitated some drivers for their extraordinary service to the country.
UberSHAAN initiative was launched in partnership with Maruti and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in September this year for creating livelihood opportunities for one million people by 2018.
Under the initiative, the San Francisco-based giant will provide access to skill development and driver training to the unskilled. The company will also help trained drivers receive commercial licenses, vehicle financing and leasing solutions.
The announcement came after the company celebrated its third anniversary in India this year. For Uber, India is the largest market outside of the US and accounts for 12 per cent of all Uber trips globally.
Uber has also announced the launch of motor-bike taxis in Hyderabad from next month. Hyderabad will be the third city in India, after Bengaluru and Gurgram to get the two-wheeler taxi service called "uberMoto."
This year, the company launched Uber in two new cities — Lucknow and Ludhiana — and expanded "uberPOOL" to four new cities — Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.
It also launched its two-wheeler taxi service UberMoto in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Hyderabad.
Uber has set up Asia's first engineering centre in Bengaluru adding over 500 employees, making Uber India stronger than its competitors.—IANS
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Wayne Clough Extends Hours at Smithsonian Hot Spots to Help Revenue Flow
Now that Wayne Clough is running the mighty ship that is the Smithsonian Institution, and he's made a bunch of promises in the LA Times, he's pulling one of his first big moves to help weather the storm that is the rotten economy (see how well that analogy worked?!). Well, okay, maybe it's not the biggest of moves, but he's just announced that three of their top museums, the Air and Space, the Natural History and American History, will extend their hours to hopefully keep capitalizing on the continued bigger turnouts in DC. Though, of course, this comes with a warning, as we recently learned that more people doesn't always mean anyone's spending more while they're visiting, so we'll have to see if Clough's gambit pays offs. Here's some:
"While attendance is up, people aren't spending as much," Clough said. That left revenue from museum stores "about flat" over the first three months of 2009, he said. "In this day and age, about flat is pretty good."
…Still, the Smithsonian has not been able to avoid cutting staff and trimming other budget priorities as its endowment and private revenue has shriveled. After topping $1 billion in late 2007, the Smithsonian endowment has declined to about $756 million because of stock market turmoil.


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Study of Tamoxifen in Well Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors and Hormone Receptor Positive Expression (HORMONET)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03870399
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : March 12, 2019
Last Update Posted : May 7, 2019
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|Drug: Tamoxifen
|Phase 2
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|Phase II Study of Hormone Therapy With Tamoxifen in Patients With Well Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors and Hormone Receptor Positive Expression
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|March 13, 2019
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|March 13, 2022
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|March 13, 2025
Experimental: Tamoxifen
The participants will receive tamoxifen 20mg orally once daily with a glass of water. Each cycle will be defined for 42 days (6 weeks).
Drug: Tamoxifen
The treatment to be used will be tamoxifen 20mg orally once daily.
- Disease control rate [ Time Frame: at 24 weeks after initiation of tamoxifen (at the end of cycle 6 - each cycle is 28 days) ]Defined by absence of radiological progression in conventional imaging examinations by RECIST 1.1. Isolated increase of biomarker (chromogranin A) or specific hormone will not be considered progression.
- Progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 5 years ]Defined by time from tamoxifen day 1 cycle 1 to death from any cause or radiological progression by RECIST 1.1, whichever occurs first. Patients alive and without progression at the time of study analysis will be censored for time-to-event analysis.
- Rate of Biochemical response [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 5 years ]Defined by at least 30 percent drop in the marker (chromogranin and / or specific hormone) at any time of treatment in relation to pre-treatment value
- Radiological response rate [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 5 years ]Assessed by RECIST criteria 1.1
- Disease control rate [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 5 years ]defined by absence of radiological progression by RECIST 1.1 criteria, according to the intensity of expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC) of HR and also according to primary site (pancreas, gastrointestinal or lung)
- Incidence of Treatment-related Adverse Events [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 5 years ]Frequency of adverse events of grades 2 or more by Common Adverse Event Toxicity Criteria (CTCAE) version 5.0
- PET-CT gallium-68 intake variation [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 3 years ]Evaluate possible variations in intensity of intake between PET-CT gallium-68 pre-treatment and 12 weeks after initiation of tamoxifen as a continuous variable for each capture lesion.
- PET-CT gallium-68 number variation [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 3 years ]Evaluate possible variations in number of sites with intake between PET-CT gallium-68 pre-treatment and 12 weeks after initiation of tamoxifen as a continuous variable for each capture lesion.
- CTC positivity rate [ Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 3 years ]Evaluate the percentage of CTC positivity in NET.
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- Age greater than or equal to 18 years
- Histological diagnosis of well differentiated NET (typical and atypical lung carcinoids, NET G1, NET G2 of all gastroenteropancreatic sites and pancreatic NET G3 according to WHO 2017 classification) 20 advanced / metastatic, inoperable, with no possibility of curative treatment
- Immunohistochemical expression ≥ 1 percent for estrogen and / or progesterone receptor
- Disease with radiological progression (at least 10 percent tumor volume growth) in the last 12 months before day 1 cycle 1.
- No possibility of established treatments due to lack of access, risk of toxicities or without clinical indication. Patients who meet criteria for watchful waiting (low-dose disease and non-functioning NET) may be included.
- Measurable disease
- ECOG performance scale 0 to 2.
Adequate organic function as defined by the following criteria:
- serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 times the upper limit of local laboratory normality (LSN-LL);
- Total serum bilirubin ≤ 2.0 x ULN-LL;
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500 / mm^3;
- Platelet count ≥ 80,000 / mm^3;
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g / dL;
- Estimated creatinine clearance by the MDRD equation ≥ 30ml / min
- Albumin ≥ 3.5 g / dL;
- Term of free and informed consent signed by the patient or legal representative.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients already on tamoxifen, but other prior treatment are allowed
- Patients with aggressive disease requiring cytotoxic therapy or locoregional therapies (eg hepatic embolization)
- A history of serious clinical or psychiatric illness that, by clinical judgment, may involve participation risk in this study
- Patients participating in other protocols with experimental drugs.
- Patients with oral food difficulties.
- Patients who underwent major recent surgery less than 4 weeks previously.
- Patients receiving chemotherapy or other oncologic therapy for less than 3 weeks.
- Patients who use oral anticoagulation
- Previous history of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in the last 12 months.
- Pregnant or lactating patients.
- Patients with postmenopausal vaginal bleeding with no defined etiology.
- Patients with breast cancer who need to use tamoxifen for this neoplasm
- Another synchronous neoplasm that requires systemic treatment
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
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Chow On This! Black Forest Foodie Facts
Unfortunately, the Black Forest Ham that we see everywhere in delis has no relation to the real thing. Nor is the sickeningly sweet cake with maraschino cherries really Black Forest Cake. To have the real thing, you must go to the Black Forest itself. And did you know that the Black Forest has more Michelin-starred chefs than any other German region? Deep, dark and as delicious as its famous cherry cake, the Black Forest serves up some of Germany's most beautiful scenery and fantastic food.
Black Forest Cake
From an interview with Claus Schafer, Confectioner at Café Schafer:
Baking a great Black Forest cake isn't rocket science, but it involves time, practice and fresh ingredients. Josef Keller invented Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte in 1905 and my father passed his original recipe onto me. It's important not to cut corners. I make the short pastry myself with a hint of marzipan. The chocolate sponge is better if it's home-made too; the bottom layer needs to be twice as thick as the others to support the Morello cherries.
I lightly whip the cream until soft and silky- beat it too hard and it'll turn out like cement. And here's the secret: the Kirsch (cherry brandy) is added to the cream, not the sponge, so the aroma isn't overly intense; After a couple of minutes when it's firmed up, I can spoon on the cherries without fear of the whole thing collapsing. Finishing touches are also important: carefully smoothing the edges, adding dark chocolate shavings and a dusting of icing sugar.
Yes, I've seen some Black Forest cake disasters in my time. The worst culprits are those mass-produced gateaux frozen at -45 degrees C, which lose their entire Kirsch aroma. Black Forest cake needs to be eaten on the same day. I make mine fresh every morning, just two or three at a time. Once you've tried the real thing, there's no going back.
(Lonely Planet Munich, Bavaria & The Black Forest, May 2008, p.184)